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This file describes changes in recent versions of SLURM. It primarily
documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.6
========================
 -- Fix displaying of account coordinators with sacctmgr.  Possiblity to show
    deleted accounts.  Only a cosmetic issue, since the accounts are already
    deleted, and have no associations.
 -- Prevent opaque ncurses WINDOW struct on OS X 10.6.
 -- Fix issue with accounting when using PrivateData=jobs... users would not be
    able to view there own jobs unless they were admin or coordinators which is
    obviously wrong.
 -- Fix bug in node stat if slurmctld is restarted while nodes are in the
    process of being powered up. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko.
 -- Change maximum batch script size from 128k to 4M.
 -- Get slurmd -f option working. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko.
 -- Fix for linking problem on OSX. Patches from Jon Bringhurst (LANL) and
    Tyler Strickland.
 -- Reset a job's priority to zero (suspended) when Moab requeues the job.
    Patch from Par Andersson, NSC.
 -- When enforcing accounting, fix polling for unknown uids for users after
    the slurmctld started.  Previously one would have to issue a reconfigure
    to the slurmctld to have it look for new uids.
 -- BLUEGENE - if a block goes into an error state.  Fix issue where accounting
    wasn't updated correctly when the block was resumed.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.5
========================
 -- Correct init.d/slurm status to have non-zero exit code if ANY Slurm
    damon that should be running on the node is not running. Patch from Rod
    Schulz, Bull.
 -- Improve accuracy of response to "srun --test-only jobid=#".
 -- Correct logic to properly support --ntasks-per-node option in the
    select/cons_res plugin. Patch from Rod Schulz, Bull.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res with respect to generic resource (gres)
    scheduling which prevented some jobs from starting as soon as possible.
 -- Fix memory leak in select/cons_res when backfill scheduling generic
    resources (gres).
 -- Fix for when configuring a node with more resources than in real life
    and using task/affinity.
 -- Fix so slurmctld will pack correctly 2.1 step information. (Only needed if
    a 2.1 client is talking to a 2.2 slurmctld.)
 -- Set powered down node's state to IDLE+POWER after slurmctld restart instead
    of leaving in UNKNOWN+POWER. Patch from Andrej Gritsenko.
 -- Fix bug where is srun's executable is not on it's current search path, but
    can be found in the user's default search path. Modify slurmstepd to find
    the executable. Patch from Andrej Gritsenko.
 -- Make sview display correct cpu count for steps.
 -- BLUEGENE - when running in overlap mode make sure to check the connection
    type so you can create overlapping blocks on the exact same nodes with
    different connection types (i.e. one torus, one mesh).
 -- Fix memory leak if MPI ports are reserved (for OpenMPI) and srun's
    --resv-ports option is used.
 -- Fix some anomalies in select/cons_res task layout when using the 
    --cpus-per-task option. Patch from Martin Perry, Bull.
 -- Improve backfill scheduling logic when job specifies --ntasks-per-node and
    --mem-per-cpu options on a heterogeneous cluster. Patch from Bjorn-Helge
    Mevik, University of Oslo.
 -- Fix issue when changing a users name in accounting, if using wckeys would
    execute correctly, but bad memcopy would core the DBD.  No information
    would be lost or corrupted, but you would need to restart the DBD.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.4
========================
 -- For batch jobs for which the Prolog fails, substitute the job ID for any
    "%j" in the job's output or error file specification.
 -- Add licenses field to the sview reservation information.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling extremely overloaded system on Dynamic system
    dealing with starting jobs on overlapping blocks.  Previous fallout
    was job would be requeued.  (happens very rarely)
 -- In accounting_storage/filetxt plugin, substitute spaces within job names,
    step names, and account names with an underscore to insure proper parsing.
 -- When building contribs/perlapi ignore both INSTALL_BASE and PERL_MM_OPT.
    Use PREFIX instead to avoid build errors from multiple installation
    specifications.
 -- Add job_submit/cnode plugin to support resource reservations of less than
    a full midplane on BlueGene computers. Treat cnodes as liceses which can
    be reserved and are consumed by jobs. This reservation mechanism for less
    than an entire midplane is still under development.
 -- Clear a job's "reason" field when a held job is released.
 -- When releasing a held job, calculate a new priority for it rather than
    just setting the priority to 1.
 -- Fix for sview started on a non-bluegene system to pick colors correctly
    when talking to a real bluegene system.
 -- Improve sched/backfill's expected start time calculation.
 -- Prevent abort of sacctmgr for dump command with invalid (or no) filename.
 -- Improve handling of job updates when using limits in accounting, and
    updating jobs as a non-admin user.
 -- Fix for "squeue --states=all" option. Bug would show no jobs.
 -- Schedule jobs with reservations before those without reservations.
 -- Fix squeue/scancel to query correctly against accounts of different case.
 -- Abort an srun command when it's associated job gets aborted due to a
    dependency that can not be satisfied.
 -- In jobcomp plugins, report start time of zeroif pending job is cancelled.
    Previously may report expected start time.
 -- Fixed sacctmgr man to state correct variables.
 -- Select nodes based upon their Weight when job allocation requests include
    a constraint field with a count (e.g. "srun --constraint=gpu*2 -N4 a.out").
 -- Add support for user names that are entirely numeric and do not treat them
    as UID values. Patch from Dennis Leepow.
 -- Patch to un/pack double values properly if negative value.  Patch from
    Dennis Leepow
 -- Do not reset a job's priority when requeued or suspended.
 -- Fix problemm that could let new jobs start on a node in DRAINED state.
 -- Fix cosmetic sacctmgr issue where if the user you are trying to add
    doesn't exist in the /etc/passwd file and the account you are trying
    to add them to doesn't exist it would print (null) instead of the bad
    account name.
 -- Fix associations/qos for when adding back a previously deleted object
    the object will be cleared of all old limits.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added back a lock when creating dynamic blocks to be more thread
    safe on larger systems with heavy load.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.3
========================
 -- Update srun, salloc, and sbatch man page description of --distribution
    option. Patches from Rod Schulz, Bull.
 -- Applied patch from Martin Perry to fix "Incorrect results for task/affinity
    block second distribution and cpus-per-task > 1" bug.
 -- Avoid setting a job's eligible time while held (priority == 0).
 -- Substantial performance improvement to backfill scheduling. Patch from
    Bjorn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo.
 -- Make timeout for communications to the slurmctld be based upon the
    MessageTimeout configuration parameter rather than always 3 seconds.
    Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Add new scontrol option of "show aliases" to report every NodeName that is
    associated with a given NodeHostName when running multiple slurmd daemons
    per compute node (typically used for testing purposes). Patch from
    Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix for handling job names with a "'" in the name within MySQL accounting.
    Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Modify condition under which salloc execution delayed until moved to the
    foreground. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
	Job control for interactive salloc sessions: only if ...
	a) input is from a terminal (stdin has valid termios attributes),
	b) controlling terminal exists (non-negative tpgid),
	c) salloc is not run in allocation-only (--no-shell) mode,
	d) salloc runs in its own process group (true in interactive
	   shells that support job control),
	e) salloc has been configured at compile-time to support background
	   execution and is not currently in the background process group.
 -- Abort salloc if no controlling terminal and --no-shell option is not used
    ("setsid salloc ..." is disabled). Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix to gang scheduling logic which could cause jobs to not be suspended
    or resumed when appropriate.
 -- Applied patch from Martin Perry to fix "Slurmd abort when using task
    affinity with plane distribution" bug.
 -- Applied patch from Yiannis Georgiou to fix "Problem with cpu binding to
    sockets option" behaviour. This change causes "--cpu_bind=sockets" to bind
    tasks only to the CPUs on each socket allocated to the job rather than all
    CPUs on each socket.
 -- Advance daily or weekly reservations immediately after termination to avoid
    having a job start that runs into the reservation when later advanced.
 -- Fix for enabling users to change there own default account, wckey, or QOS.
 -- BLUEGENE - If using OVERLAP mode fixed issue with multiple overlapping
    blocks in error mode.
 -- Fix for sacctmgr to display correctly default accounts.
 -- scancel -s SIGKILL will always sent the RPC to the slurmctld rather than
    the slurmd daemon(s). This insures that tasks in the process of getting
    spawned are killed.
 -- BLUEGENE - If using OVERLAP mode fixed issue with jobs getting denied
    at submit if the only option for their job was overlapping a block in
    error state.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.2
========================
 -- Correct logic to set correct job hold state (admin or user) when setting
    the job's priority using scontrol's "update jobid=..." rather than its
    "hold" or "holdu" commands.
 -- Modify squeue to report unset --mincores, --minthreads or --extra-node-info
    values as "*" rather than 65534. Patch from Rod Schulz, BULL.
 -- Report the StartTime of a job as "Unknown" rather than the year 2106 if its
    expected start time was too far in the future for the backfill scheduler
    to compute.
 -- Prevent a pending job reason field from inappropriately being set to
    "Priority".
 -- In sched/backfill with jobs having QOS_FLAG_NO_RESERVE set, then don't
    consider the job's time limit when attempting to backfill schedule. The job
    will just be preempted as needed at any time.
 -- Eliminated a bug in sbatch when no valid target clusters are specified.
 -- When explicitly sending a signal to a job with the scancel command and that
    job is in a pending state, then send the request directly to the slurmctld
    daemon and do not attempt to send the request to slurmd daemons, which are
    not running the job anyway.
 -- In slurmctld, properly set the up_node_bitmap when setting it's state to
    IDLE (in case the previous node state was DOWN).
 -- Fix smap to process block midplane names correctly when on a bluegene
    system.
 -- Fix smap to once again print out the Letter 'ID' for each line of a block/
    partition view.
 -- Corrected the NOTES section of the scancel man page
 -- Fix for accounting_storage/mysql plugin to correctly query cluster based
    transactions.
 -- Fix issue when updating database for clusters that were previously deleted
    before upgrade to 2.2 database.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle mesh torus check better in dynamic mode.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed race condition when freeing block, most likely only would
    happen in emulation.
 -- Fix for calculating used QOS limits correctly on a slurmctld reconfig.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for bad conn-type set when running small blocks in HTC mode.
 -- If salloc's --no-shell option is used, then do not attempt to preserve the
    terminal's state.
 -- Add new SLURM configure time parameter of --disable-salloc-background. If
    set, then salloc can only execute in the foreground. If started in the
    background, then a message will be printed and the job allocation halted
    until brought into the foreground.
    NOTE: THIS IS A CHANGE IN DEFAULT SALLOC BEHAVIOR FROM V2.2.1, BUT IS
    CONSISTENT WITH V2.1 AND EARLIER.
 -- Added the Multi-Cluster Operation web page.
 -- Removed remnant code for enforcing max sockets/cores/threads in the
    cons_res plugin (see last item in 2.1.0-pre5).  This was responsible
    for a bug reported by Rod Schultz.
 -- BLUEGENE - Set correct env vars for HTC mode on a P system to get correct
    block.
 -- Correct RunTime reported by "scontrol show job" for pending jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.1
========================
 -- Fix setting derived exit code correctly for jobs that happen to have the
    same jobid.
 -- Better checking for time overflow when rolling up in accounting.
 -- Add scancel --reservation option to cancel all jobs associated with a
    specific reservation.
 -- Treat reservation with no nodes like one that starts later (let jobs of any
    size get queued and do not block any pending jobs).
 -- Fix bug in gang scheduling logic that would temporarily resume to many jobs
    after a job completed.
 -- Change srun message about job step being deferred due to SlurmctldProlog
    running to be more clear and only print when --verbose option is used.
 -- Made it so you could remove the hold on jobs with sview by setting the
    priority to infinite.
 -- BLUEGENE - better checking small blocks in dynamic mode whether a full
    midplane job could run or not.
 -- Decrease the maximum sleep time between srun job step creation retry
    attempts from 60 seconds to 29 seconds. This should eliminate a possible
    synchronization problem with gang scheduling that could result in job
    step creation requests only occuring when a job is suspended.
 -- Fix to prevent changing a held job's state from HELD to DEPENDENCY
    until the job is released. Patch from Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Fixed sprio -M to reflect PriorityWeight values from remote cluster.
 -- Fix bug in sview when trying to update arbitrary field on more than one
    job. Formerly would display information about one job, but update next
    selected job.
 -- Made it so QOS with UsageFactor set to 0 would make it so jobs running
    under that QOS wouldn't add time to fairshare or association/qos
    limits.
 -- Fixed issue where QOS priority wasn't re-normalized until a slurmctld
    restart when a QOS priority was changed.
 -- Fix sprio to use calculated numbers from slurmctld instead of
    calulating it own numbers.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed race condition with preemption where if the wind blows the
    right way the slurmctld could lock up when preempting jobs to run others.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed epilog to wait until MMCS job is totally complete before
    finishing.
 -- BLUEGENE - more robust checking for states when freeing blocks.
 -- Added correct files to the slurm.spec file for correct perl api rpm
    creation.
 -- Added flag "NoReserve" to a QOS to make it so all jobs are created equal
    within a QOS.  So if larger, higher priority jobs are unable to run they
    don't prevent smaller jobs from running even if running the smaller
    jobs delay the start of the larger, higher priority jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - Check preemptees one by one to preempt lower priority jobs first
    instead of first fit.
 -- In select/cons_res, correct handling of the option
    SelectTypeParameters=CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE.
 -- Fix for checking QOS to override partition limits, previously if not using
    QOS some limits would be overlooked.
 -- Fix bug which would terminate a job step if any of the nodes allocated to
    it were removed from the job's allocation. Now only the tasks on those
    nodes are terminated.
 -- Fixed issue when using a storage_accounting plugin directly without the
    slurmDBD updates weren't always sent correctly to the slurmctld, appears to
    OS dependent, reported by Fredrik Tegenfeldt.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0
========================
 -- Change format of Duration field in "scontrol show reservation" output from
    an integer number of minutes to "[days-]hours:minutes:seconds".
 -- Add support for changing the reservation of pending or running jobs.
 -- On Cray systems only, salloc sends SIGKILL to spawned process group when
    job allocation is revoked. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix for sacctmgr to work correctly when modifying user associations where
    all the associations contain a partition.
 -- Minor mods to salloc signal handling logic: forwards more signals and
    releases allocation on real-time signals. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Add salloc logic to preserve tty attributes after abnormal exit. Patch
    from Mark Grondona, LLNL.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for issue in dynamic mode when trying to create a block
    overlapping a block with no job running on it but in configuring state.
 -- BLUEGENE - Speedup by skipping blocks that are deallocating for other jobs
    when starting overlapping jobs in dynamic mode.
 -- Fix for sacct --state to work correctly when not specifying a start time.
 -- Fix upgrade process in accounting from 2.1 for clusters named "cluster".
 -- Export more jobacct_common symbols needed for the slurm api on some systems.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc4
============================
 -- Correction in logic to spread out over time highly parallel messages to
    minimize lost messages. Effects slurmd epilog complete messages and PMI
    key-pair transmissions. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fixed issue where if a system has unset messages to the dbd in 2.1 and
    upgrades to 2.2.  Messages are now processed correctly now.
 -- Fixed issue where assoc_mgr cache wasn't always loaded correctly if the
    slurmdbd wasn't running when the slurmctld was started.
 -- Make sure on a pthread create in step launch that the error code is looked
    at. Improves fault-tolerance of slurmd.
 -- Fix setting up default acct/wckey when upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2.
 -- Fix issue with associations attached to a specific partition with no other
    association, and requesting a different partition.
 -- Added perlapi to the slurmdb to the slurm.spec.
 -- In sched/backfill, correct handling of CompleteWait parameter to avoid
    backfill scheduling while a job is completing. Patch from Gerrit Renker,
    CSCS.
 -- Send message back to user when trying to launch job on computing lacking
    that user ID. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix it so 1 midplane clusters will run small block jobs.
 -- Add Command and WorkDir to the output of "scontrol show job" for job
    allocations created using srun (not just sbatch).
 -- Fixed sacctmgr to not add blank defaultqos' when doing a cluster dump.
 -- Correct processing of memory and disk space specifications in the salloc,
    sbatch, and srun commands to work properly with a suffix of "MB", "GB",
    etc. and not only with a single letter (e.g. "M", "G", etc.).
 -- Prevent nodes with suspended jobs from being powered down by SLURM.
 -- Normalized the way pidfile are created by the slurm daemons.
 -- Fixed modifying the root association to no read in it's last value
    when clearing a limit being set.
 -- Revert some resent signal handling logic from salloc so that SIGHUP sent
    after the job allocation will properly release the allocation and cause
    salloc to exit.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for recreating a block in a ready state.
 -- Fix debug flags for incorrect logic when dealing with DEBUG_FLAG_WIKI.
 -- Report reservation's Nodes as a hostlist expression of all nodes rather
    than using "ALL".
 -- Fix reporting of nodes in BlueGene reservation (was reporting CPU count
    rather than cnode count in scontrol output for NodeCnt field).

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc3
============================
 -- Modify sacctmgr command to accept plural versions of options (e.g. "Users"
    in addition to "User"). Patch from Don Albert, BULL.
 -- BLUEGENE - make it so reset of boot counter happens only on state change
    and not when a new job comes along.
 -- Modify srun and salloc signal handling so they can be interrupted while
    waiting for an allocation. This was broken in version 2.2.0.rc2.
 -- Fix NULL pointer reference in sview. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix file descriptor leak in slurmstepd on spank_task_post_fork() failure.
    Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix bug in preserving job state information when upgrading from SLURM
    version 2.1. Bug introduced in version 2.2.0-pre10. Patch from Par
    Andersson, NSC.
 -- Fix bug where if using the slurmdbd if a job wasn't able to start right
    away some accounting information may be lost.
 -- BLUEGENE - when a prolog failure happens the offending block is put in
    an error state.
 -- Changed the last column heading of the sshare output from "FS Usage" to
    "FairShare" and added more detail to the sshare man page.
 -- Fix bug in enforcement of reservation by account name. Used wrong index
    into an array. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Modify job_submit/lua plugin to treat any non-zero return code from the
    job_submit and job_modify functions as an error and the user request should
    be aborted.
 -- Fix bug which would permit pending job to be started on completing node
    when job preemption is configured.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc2
============================
 -- Fix memory leak in job step allocation logic. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- If a preempted job was submitted with the --no-requeue option then cancel
    rather than requeue it.
 -- Fix for problems when adding a user for the first time to a new cluster
    with a 2.1 sacctmgr without specifying a default account.
 -- Resend TERMINATE_JOB message only to nodes that the job still has not
    terminated on. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Treat time limit specification of "0:300" as a request for 300 seconds
    (5 minutes) instead of one minute.
 -- Modify sched/backfill plugin logic to continue working its way down the
    queue of jobs rather than restarting at the top if there are no changes in
    job, node, or partition state between runs. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Improve scalability of select/cons_res logic. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux,
    CEA.
 -- Fix for possible deadlock in the slurmstepd when cancelling a job that is
    also writing a large amount of data to stderr.
 -- Fix in select/cons_res to eliminate "mem underflow" error when the
    slurmctld is reconfigured while a job is in completing state.
 -- Send a message to the a user's job when it's real or virual memory limit
    is exceeded. :
 -- Apply rlimits right before execing the users task so to lower the risk of
    the task exiting because the slurmstepd ran over a limit (log file size,
    etc.)
 -- Add scontrol command of "uhold <job_id>" so that an administrator can hold
    a job and let the job's owner release it. The scontrol command of
    "hold <job_id>" when executed by a SLURM administrator can only be released
    by a SLURM administrator and not the job owner.
 -- Change atoi to slurm_atoul in mysql plugin, needed for running on 32-bit
    systems in some cases.
 -- If a batch job is found to be missing from a node, make its termination
    state be NODE_FAIL rather than CANCELLED.
 -- Fatal error put back if running a bluegene or cray plugin from a controller
    not of that type.
 -- Make sure jobacct_gather plugin is not shutdown before messing with the
    proccess list.
 -- Modify signal handling in srun and salloc commands to avoid deadlock if the
    malloc function is interupted and called again. The malloc function is
    thread safe, but not reentrant, which is a problem when signal handling if
    the malloc function itself has a lock. Problem fixed by moving signal
    handling in those commands to a new pthread.
 -- In srun set job abort flag on completion to handle the case when a user
    cancels a job while the node is not responding but slurmctld has not yet
    the node down. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Streamline the PMI logic if no duplicate keys are included in the key-pairs
    managed. Substantially improves performance for large numbers of tasks.
    Adds support for SLURM_PMI_KVS_NO_DUP_KEYS environment variable. Patch
    from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix issues with sview dealing with older versions of sview and saving
    defaults.
 -- Remove references to --mincores, --minsockets, and --minthreads from the
    salloc, sbatch and srun man pages. These options are defunct, Patch from
    Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Made openssl not be required to build RPMs, it is not required anymore
    since munge is the default crypto plugin.
 -- sacctmgr now has smarts to figure out if a qos is a default qos when
    modifing a user/acct or removing a qos.
 -- For reservations on BlueGene systems, set and report c-node counts rather
    than midplane counts.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc1
============================
 -- Add show_flags parameter to the slurm_load_block_info() function.
 -- perlapi has been brought up to speed courtesy of Hongjia Coa. (make sure to
    run 'make clean' if building in a different dir than source)
 -- Fixed regression in pre12 in crypto/munge when running with
    --enable-multiple-slurmd which would cause the slurmd's to core.
 -- Fixed regression where cpu count wasn't figured out correctly for steps.
 -- Fixed issue when using old mysql that can't handle a '.' in the table
    name.
 -- Mysql plugin works correctly without the SlurmDBD
 -- Added ability to query batch step with sstat.  Currently no accounting data
    is stored for the batch step, but the internals are inplace if we decide to
    do that in the future.
 -- Fixed some backwards compatibility issues with 2.2 talking to 2.1.
 -- Fixed regression where modifying associations didn't get sent to the
    slurmctld.
 -- Made sshare sort things the same way saccmgr list assoc does
    (alphabetically)
 -- Fixed issue with default accounts being set up correctly.
 -- Changed sortting in the slurmctld so sshare output is similar to that of
    sacctmgr list assoc.
 -- Modify reservation logic so that daily and weekly reservations maintain
    the same time when daylight savings time starts or ends in the interim.
 -- Edit to make reservations handle updates to associations.
 -- Added the derived exit code to the slurmctld job record and the derived
    exit code and string to the job record in the SLURM db.
 -- Added slurm-sjobexit RPM for SLURM job exit code management tools.
 -- Added ability to use sstat/sacct against the batch step.
 -- Added OnlyDefaults option to sacctmgr list associations.
 -- Modified the fairshare priority formula to F = 2**(-Ue/S)
 -- Modify the PMI functions key-pair exchange function to support a 32-bit
    counter for larger job sizes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- In sched/builtin - Make the estimated job start time logic faster (borrowed
    new logic from sched/backfill and added pthread) and more accurate.
 -- In select/cons_res fix bug that could result in a job being allocated zero
    CPUs on some nodes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set expected start time of a job too
    far in the future.
 -- Added ability to enforce new limits given to associations/qos on
    pending jobs.
 -- Increase max message size for the slurmdbd from 1000000 to 16*1024*1024
 -- Increase number of active threads in the slurmdbd from 50 to 100
 -- Fixed small bug in src/common/slurmdb_defs.c reported by Bjorn-Helge Mevik
 -- Fixed sacctmgr's ability to query associations against qos again.
 -- Fixed sview show config on non-bluegene systems.
 -- Fixed bug in selecting jobs based on sacct -N option
 -- Fix bug that prevented job Epilog from running more than once on a node if
    a job was requeued and started no job steps.
 -- Fixed issue where node index wasn't stored correcting when using DBD.
 -- Enable srun's use of the --nodes option with --exclusive (previously the
    --nodes option was ignored).
 -- Added UsageThreshold and Flags to the QOS object.
 -- Patch to improve threadsafeness in the mysql plugins.
 -- Add support for fair-share scheduling to be based upon resource use at
    the level of bank accounts and ignore use of individual users. Patch by
    Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre12
==============================
 -- Log if Prolog or Epilog run for longer than MessageTimeout / 2.
 -- Log the RPC number associated with messages from slurmctld that timeout.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res logic when job allocation includes --overcommit
    and --ntasks-per-node options and the node has fewer CPUs than the count
    specified by --ntasks-per-node.
 -- Fix bug in gang scheduling and job preemption logic so that preempted jobs
    get resumed properly after a slurmctld hot-start.
 -- Fix bug in select/linear handling of gang scheduled jobs that could result
    in run_job_cnt underflow error message.
 -- Fix bug in gang scheduling logic to properly support partitions added
    using the scontrol command.
 -- Fix a segmentation fault in sview where the 'excluded_partitions' field
    was set to NULL, caused by the absence of ~/.slurm/sviewrc.
 -- Rewrote some calls to is_user_any_coord() in src/plugins/accounting_storage
    modules to make use of is_user_any_coord()'s return value.
 -- Add configure option of --with=dimensions=#.
 -- Modify srun ping logic so that srun would only be considered not responsive
    if three ping messages were not responded to. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Preserve a node's ReasonTime field after scontrol reconfig command. Patch
    from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Added the authority for users with AdminLevel's defined in the SLURM db
    (Operators and Admins) and account coordinators to invoke commands that
    affect jobs, reservations, nodes, etc.
 -- Fix for slurmd restart on completing node with no tasks to get the correct
    state, completing. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Prevent scontrol setting a node's Reason="". Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Add new functions hostlist_ranged_string_malloc, 
    hostlist_ranged_string_xmalloc, hostlist_deranged_string_malloc, and
    hostlist_deranged_string_xmalloc which will allocate memory as needed.
 -- Make the slurm commands support both the --cluster and --clusters option.
    Previously, some commands support one of those options, but not the other.
 -- Fix bug when resizing a job that has steps running on some of those nodes.
    Avoid killing the job step on remaining nodes. Patch from Rod Schultz
    (BULL). Also fix bug related to tracking the CPUs allocated to job steps
    on each node after releasing some nodes from the job's allocation.
 -- Applied patch from Rod Schultz / Matthieu Hautreux to keep the Node-to-Host
    cache from becoming corrupted when a hostname cannot be resolved.
 -- Export more symbols in libslurm for job and node state information
    translation (numbers to strings). Patch from Hongia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Add logic to retry sending RESPONSE_LAUNCH_TASKS messages from slurmd to
    srun. Patch from Hongia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Modify bit_unfmt_hexmask() and bit_unfmt_binmask() functions to clear the
    bitmap input before setting the bits indicated in the input string.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of bf_window to control how far into the
    future that the backfill scheduler will look when considering jobs to start.
    The default value is one day. See "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Fix bug that can result in duplicate job termination records in accounting
    for job termination when slurmctld restarts or reconfigures.
 -- Modify plugin and library logic as needed to support use of the function
    slurm_job_step_stat() from user commands.
 -- Fix race condition in which PrologSlurmctld failure could cause slurmctld
    to abort.
 -- Fix bug preventing users in secondary user groups from being granted access
    to partitions configured with AllowGroups.
 -- Added support for a default account and wckey per cluster within accounting.
 -- Modified select/cons_res plugin so that if MaxMemPerCPU is configured and a
    job specifies it's memory requirement, then more CPUs than requested will
    automatically be allocated to a job to honor the MaxMemPerCPU parameter.
 -- Added the derived_ec (exit_code) member to job_info_t.  exit_code captures
    the exit code of the job script (or salloc) while derived_ec contains the
    highest exit code of all the job steps.
 -- Added SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE and SLURM_JOB_DERIVED_EC variables to the
    EpilogSlurmctld environment
 -- More work done on the accounting_storage/pgsql plugin, still beta.
    Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Major updates to sview from Dan Rusak (Bull), including:
    - Persistent option selections for each tab page
    - Clean up topology in grids
    - Leverage AllowGroups and Hidden options
    - Cascade full-info popups for ease of selection
 -- Add locks around the MySQL calls for proper operation if the non-thread
    safe version of the MySQL library is used.
 -- Remove libslurm.a, libpmi.a and libslurmdb.a from SLURM RPM. These static
    libraries are not generally usable.
 -- Fixed bug in sacctmgr when zeroing raw usage reported by Gerrit Renker.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre11
==============================
 -- Permit a regular user to change the partition of a pending job.
 -- Major re-write of the job_submit/lua plugin to pass pointers to available
    partitions and use lua metatables to reference the job and partition fields.
 -- Add support for serveral new trigger types: SlurmDBD failure/restart,
    Database failure/restart, Slurmctld failure/restart.
 -- Add support for SLURM_CLUSTERS environment variable in the sbatch, sinfo,
    squeue commands.
 -- Modify the sinfo and squeue commands to report state of multiple clusters
    if the --clusters option is used.
 -- Added printf __attribute__ qualifiers to info, debug, ... to help prevent
    bad/incorrect parameters being sent to them.  Original patch from
    Eygene Ryabinkin (Russian Research Centre).
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld job completion logic when nodes allocated to a
    completing job are re-booted. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- In slurmctld's node record data structure, rename "hilbert_integer" to
    "node_rank".
 -- Add topology/node_rank plugin to sort nodes based upon rank loaded from
    BASIL on Cray computers.
 -- Fix memory leak in the auth/munge and crypto/munge plugins in the case of
    some failure modes.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre10
==============================
 -- Fix issue when EnforcePartLimits=yes in slurm.conf all jobs where no nodecnt
    was specified the job would be seen to have maxnodes=0 which would not
    allow jobs to run.
 -- Fix issue where if not suspending a job the gang scheduler does the correct
    kill procedure.
 -- Fixed some issues when dealing with jobs from a 2.1 system so they live
    after an upgrade.
 -- In srun, log if --cpu_bind options are specified, but not supported by the
    current system configuration.
 -- Various Patchs from Hongjia Cao dealing with bugs found in sacctmgr and
    the slurmdbd.
 -- Fix bug in changing the nodes allocated to a running job and some node
    names specified are invalid, avoid invalid memory reference.
 -- Fixed filename substitution of %h and %n based on patch from Ralph Bean
 -- Added better job sorting logic when preempting jobs with qos.
 -- Log the IP address and port number for some communication errors.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res when --cpus_per_task option is used, could
    oversubscribe resources.
 -- In srun, do not implicitly set the job's maximum node count based upon a
    required hostlist.
 -- Avoid running the HealthCheckProgram on non-responding nodes rather than
    DOWN nodes.
 -- Fix bug in handling of poll() functions on OS X (SLURM was ignoring POLLIN
    if POLLHUP flag was set at the same time).
 -- Pulled Cray logic out of common/node_select.c into it's own
    select/cray plugin cons_res is the default.  To use linear add 'Linear' to
    SelectTypeParameters.
 -- Fixed bug where resizing jobs didn't correctly set used limits correctly.
 -- Change sched/backfill default time interval to 30 seconds and defer attempt
    to backfill schedule if slurmctld has more than 5 active RPCs. General
    improvements in logic scalability.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of default_sched_depth=# to control how
    many jobs on queue should be tested for attempted scheduling when a job
    completes or other routine events. Default value is 100 jobs. The full job
    queue is tested on a less frequent basis. This option can dramatically
    improve performance on systems with thousands of queued jobs.
 -- Gres/gpu now sets the CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment to control which
    GPU devices should be used for each job or job step and CUDA version 3.1+
    is used. NOTE: SLURM's generic resource support is still under development.
 -- Modify select/cons_res to pack jobs onto allocated nodes differently and
    minimize system fragmentation. For example on nodes with 8 CPUs each, a
    job needing 10 CPUs will now ideally be allocated 8 CPUs on one node and
    2 CPUs on another node. Previously the job would have ideally been
    allocated 5 CPUs on each node, fragmenting the unused resources more.
 -- Modified the behavior of update_job() in job_mgr.c to return when the first
    error is encountered instead of continuing with more job updates.
 -- Removed all references to the following slurm.conf parameters, all of which
    have been removed or replaced since version 2.0 or earlier: HashBase,
    HeartbeatInterval, JobAcctFrequency, JobAcctLogFile (instead use
    AccountingStorageLoc), JobAcctType, KillTree, MaxMemPerTask, and
    MpichGmDirectSupport.
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld restart logic that improperly reported jobs had
    invalid features: "Job 65537 has invalid feature list: fat".
 -- BLUEGENE - Removed thread pool for destroying blocks.  It turns out the
    memory leak we were concerned about for creating and destroying threads
    in a plugin doesn't exist anymore.  This increases throughput dramatically,
    allowing multiple jobs to start at the same time.
 -- BLUEGENE - Removed thread pool for starting and stopping jobs.  For similar
    reasons as noted above.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle blocks that never deallocate.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre9
=============================
 -- sbatch can now submit jobs to multiple clusters and run on the earliest
    available.
 -- Fix bug introduced in pre8 that prevented job dependencies and job
    triggers from working without the --enable-debug configure option.
 -- Replaced slurm_addr with slurm_addr_t
 -- Replaced slurm_fd with slurm_fd_t
 -- Skeleton code added for BlueGeneQ.
 -- Jobs can now be submitted to multiple partitions (job queues) and use the
    one permitting earliest start time.
 -- Change slurmdb_coord_table back to acct_coord_table to keep consistant
    with < 2.1.
 -- Introduced locking system similar to that in the slurmctld for the
    assoc_mgr.
 -- Added ability to change a users name in accounting.
 -- Restore squeue support for "%G" format (group id) accidentally removed in
    2.2.0.pre7.
 -- Added preempt_mode option to QOS.
 -- Added a grouping=individual for sreport size reports.
 -- Added remove_qos logic to jobs running under a QOS that was removed.
 -- scancel now exits with a 1 if any job is non-existant when canceling.
 -- Better handling of select plugins that don't exist on various systems for
    cross cluster communication.  Slurmctld, slurmd, and slurmstepd now only
    load the default select plugin as well.
 -- Better error handling when loading plugins.
 -- Prevent scontrol from aborting if getlogin() returns NULL.
 -- Prevent scontrol segfault when there are hidden nodes.
 -- Prevent srun segfault after task launch failure.
 -- Added job_submit/lua plugin.
 -- Fixed sinfo on a bluegene system to print correctly the output for:
    sinfo -e -o "%9P %6m %.4c %.22F %f"
 -- Add scontrol commands "hold" and "release" to simplify setting a job's
    priority to 0 or 1. Also tests that the job is in pending state.
 -- Increase maximum node list size (for incoming RPC) from 1024 bytes to 64k.
 -- In the backup slurmctld, purge triggers before recovering trigger state to
    avoid duplicate entries.
 -- Fix bug in sacct processing of --fields= option.
 -- Fix bug in checkpoint/blcr for jobs spanning multiple nodes introduced when
    changing some variable names in version 2.2.0.pre5.
 -- Removed the vestigal set_max_cluster_usage() function from the Priority
    Plugin API.
 -- Modify the output of "scontrol show job" for the field ReqS:C:T=. Fields
    not specified by the user will be reported as "*" instead of 65534.
 -- Added DefaultQOS option for an association.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added -B option to the slurmctld to clear created blocks from
    the system on start.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option to scontrol & sview to recreate existing blocks.
 -- Fixed flags for returning messages to use the correct munge key when going
    cross-cluster.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option to scontrol & sview to resume blocks in an error
    state instead of just freeing them.
 -- sview patched to allow multiple row selection of jobs, patch from Dan Rusak
 -- Lower default slurmctld server thread count from 1024 to 256. Some systems
    process threads on a last-in first-out basis and the high thread count was
    causing unexpectedly high delays for some RPCs.
 -- Added to sacctmgr the ability for admins to reset the raw usage of a user
    or account
 -- Improved the efficiency of a few lines in sacctmgr

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre8
=============================
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Backfill" for sched/backfill detailed logging.
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Gang" for detailed logging of gang scheduling
    activities.
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Priority" for detailed logging of priority
    multifactor activities.
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Reservation" for detailed logging of advanced
    reservations.
 -- Add run time to mail message upon job termination and queue time for mail
    message upon job begin.
 -- Add email notification option for job requeue.
 -- Generate a fatal error if the srun --relative option is used when not
    within an existing job allocation.
 -- Modify the meaning of InactiveLimit slightly. It will now cancel the job
    allocation created using the salloc or srun command if those commands
    cease responding for the InactiveLimit regardless of any running job steps.
    This parameter will no longer effect jobs spawned using sbatch.
 -- Remove AccountingStoragePass and JobCompPass from configuration RPC and
    scontrol show config command output. The use of SlurmDBD is still strongly
    recommended as SLURM will have limited database functionality or protection
    otherwise.
 -- Add sbatch options of --export and SBATCH_EXPORT to control which
    environment variables (if any) get propagated to the spawned job. This is
    particularly important for jobs that are submitted on one cluster and run
    on a different cluster.
 -- Fix bug in select/linear when used with gang scheduling and there are
    preempted jobs at the time slurmctld restarts that can result in over-
    subscribing resources.
 -- Added keeping track of the qos a job is running with in accounting.
 -- Fix for handling correctly jobs that resize, and also reporting correct
    stats on a job after it finishes.
 -- Modify gang scheduler so with SelectTypeParameter=CR_CPUS and task
    affinity is enabled, keep track of the individual CPUs allocated to jobs
    rather than just the count of CPUs allocated (which could overcommit
    specific CPUs for running jobs).
 -- Modify select/linear plugin data structures to eliminate underflow errors
    for the exclusive_cnt and tot_job_cnt variables (previously happened when
    slurmctld reconfigured while the job was in completing state).
 -- Change slurmd's working directory (and location of core files) to match
    that of the slurmctld daemon: the same directory used for log files,
    SlurmdLogFile (if specified with an absolute pathname) otherwise the
    directory used to save state, SlurmdSpoolDir.
 -- Add sattach support for the --pty option.
 -- Modify slurmctld communications logic to accept incoming messages on more
    than one port for improved scalability.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of "defer" to avoid trying to schedule a
    job at submission time, but to attempt scheduling many jobs at once for
    improved performance under heavy load.
 -- Correct logic controlling slurmctld thread limit eliminating check of
    RLIMIT_STACK.
 -- Make slurmctld's trigger logic more robust in the event that job records
    get purged before their trigger can be processed (e.g. MinJobAge=1).
 -- Add support for users to hold/release their own jobs (submit the job with
    srun/sbatch --hold/-H option or use "scontrol update jobid=# priority=0"
    to hold and "scontrol update jobid=# priority=1" to release).
 -- Added ability for sacct to query jobs by qos and a range of timelimits.
 -- Added ability for sstat to query pids of steps running.
 -- Support time specification in UTS format with a prefix of "uts" (e.g.
    "sbatch --begin=uts458389988 my.script").

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre7
=============================
 -- Fixed issue with sacctmgr if querying against non-existent cluster it
    works the same way as 2.1.
 -- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources (gres).
    -Modified select/linear and select/cons_res plugins to allocate resources
     at the level of a job without oversubcription.
    -Get sched/backfill operating with gres allocations.
    -Get gres configuration changes (reconfiguration) working.
    -Have job steps allocate resources.
    -Modified job step credential to include the job's and step's gres
     allocation details.
    -Integrate with HWLOC library to identify GPUs and NICs configured on each
     node.
 -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like
    linux systems.  Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such should
    work fine, even sview.
 -- Added the ability to configure PreemptMode on a per-partition basis.
 -- Change slurmctld's default thread limit count to 1024, but adjust that down
    as needed based upon the process's resource limits.
 -- Removed the non-functional "SystemCPU" and "TotalCPU" reporting fields from
    sstat and updated man page
 -- Correct location of apbasil command on Cray XT systems.
 -- Fixed bug in MinCPU and AveCPU calculations in sstat command
 -- Send message to srun when the Prolog takes too long (MessageTimeout) to
    complete.
 -- Change timeout for socket connect() to be half of configured MessageTimeout.
 -- Added high-throughput computing web page with configuration guidance.
 -- Use more srun sockets to process incoming PMI (MPICH2) connections for
    better scalability.
 -- Added DebugFlags for the select/bluegene plugin: DEBUG_FLAG_BG_PICK,
    DEBUG_FLAG_BG_WIRES, DEBUG_FLAG_BG_ALGO, and DEBUG_FLAG_BG_ALGO_DEEP.
 -- Remove vestigial job record field "kill_on_step_done" (internal to the
    slurmctld daemon only).
 -- For MPICH2 jobs: Clear PMI state between job steps.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre6
=============================
 -- sview - added ability to see database configuration.
 -- sview - added ability to add/remove visible tabs.
 -- sview - change way grid highlighting takes place on selected objects.
 -- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources.
    -Added node configuration parameter of Gres=.
    -Added ability to view/modify a node's gres using scontrol, sinfo and sview.
    -Added salloc, sbatch and srun --gres option.
    -Added ability to view a job or job step's gres using scontrol, squeue and
     sview.
    -Added new configuration parameter GresPlugins to define plugins used to
     manage generic resources.
    -Added framework for gres plugins.
    -Added DebugFlags option of "gres" for detailed debugging of gres actions.
 -- Slurmd modified to log slow slurmstepd startup and note possible file system
    problem.
 -- sview - There is now a .slurm/sviewrc created when running sview.
    Defaults are put in there as to how sview looks when first launched.
    You can set these by Ctrl-S or Options->Set Default Settings.
 -- Add scontrol "wait_job <job_id>" option to wait for nodes to boot as needed.
    Useful for batch jobs (in Prolog, PrologSlurmctld or the script) if powering
    down idle nodes.
 -- Added salloc and sbatch option --wait-all-nodes. If set non-zero, job
    initiation will be delayed until all allocated nodes have booted. Salloc
    will log the delay with the messages "Waiting for nodes to boot" and "Nodes
    are ready for job".
 -- The Priority/mulitfactor plugin now takes into consideration size of job
    in cpus as well as size in nodes when looking at the job size factor.
    Previously only nodes were considered.
 -- When using the SlurmDBD messages waiting to be sent will be combined
    and sent in one message.
 -- Remove srun's --core option. Move the logic to an optional SPANK plugin
    (currently in the contribs directory, but plan to distribute through
    http://code.google.com/p/slurm-spank-plugins/).
 -- Patch for adding CR_CORE_DEFAULT_DIST_BLOCK as a select option to layout
    jobs using block layout across cores within each node instead of cyclic
    which was previously the default.
 -- Accounting - When removing associations if jobs are running, those jobs
    must be killed before proceeding.  Before the jobs were killed
    automatically thus causing user confusion on what is most likely an
    admin's mistake.
 -- sview - color column keeps reference color when highlighting.
 -- Configuration parameter MaxJobCount changed from 16-bit to 32-bit field.
    The default MaxJobCount was changed from 5,000 to 10,000.
 -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like
    linux systems.  Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such does not
    currently work.  You can submit jobs with sbatch.  Salloc and srun are not
    cross-cluster compatible, and given their nature to talk to actual compute
    nodes these will likely never be.
 -- salloc modified to forward SIGTERM to the spawned program.
 -- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab support) - Add GRES and WCKEY fields to MODIFYJOBS
    and GETJOBS commands. Add GRES field to GETNODES command.
 -- In struct job_descriptor and struct job_info: rename min_sockets to
    sockets_per_node, min_cores to cores_per_socket, and min_threads to
    threads_per_core (the values are not minimum, but represent the target
    values).
 -- Fixed bug in clearing a partition's DisableRootJobs value reported by
    Hongjia Cao.
 -- Purge (or ignore) terminated jobs in a more timely fashion based upon the
    MinJobAge configuration parameter. Small values for MinJobAge should improve
    responsiveness for high job throughput.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre5
=============================
 -- Modify commands to accept time format with one or two digit hour value
    (e.g. 8:00 or 08:00 or 8:00:00 or 08:00:00).
 -- Modify time parsing logic to accept "minute", "hour", "day", and "week" in
    addition to the currently accepted "minutes", "hours", etc.
 -- Add slurmd option of "-C" to print actual hardware configuration and exit.
 -- Pass EnforcePartLimits configuration parameter from slurmctld for user
    commands to see the correct value instead of always "NO".
 -- Modify partition data structures to replace the default_part,
    disable_root_jobs, hidden and root_only fields with a single field called
    "flags" populated with the flags PART_FLAG_DEFAULT, PART_FLAG_NO_ROOT
    PART_FLAG_HIDDEN and/or PART_FLAG_ROOT_ONLY. This is a more flexible
    solution besides making for smaller data structures.
 -- Add node state flag of JOB_RESIZING. This will only exist when a job's
    accounting record is being written immediately before or after it changes
    size. This permits job accounting records to be written for a job at each
    size.
 -- Make calls to jobcomp and accounting_storage plugins before and after a job
    changes size (with the job state being JOB_RESIZING). All plugins write a
    record for the job at each size with intermediate job states being
    JOB_RESIZING.
 -- When changing a job size using scontrol, generate a script that can be
    executed by the user to reset SLURM environment variables.
 -- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res to use resources released by job
    resizing.
 -- Added to contribs foundation for Perl extension for slurmdb library.
 -- Add new configuration parameter JobSubmitPlugins which provides a mechanism
    to set default job parameters or perform other site-configurable actions at
    job submit time.
 -- Better postgres support for accounting, still beta.
 -- Speed up job start when using the slurmdbd.
 -- Forward step failure reason back to slurmd before in some cases it would
    just be SLURM_FAILURE returned.
 -- Changed squeue to fail when passed invalid -o <output_format> or
    -S <sort_list> specifications.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre4
=============================
 -- Add support for a PropagatePrioProcess configuration parameter value of 2
    to restrict spawned task nice values to that of the slurmd daemon plus 1.
    This insures that the slurmd daemon always have a higher scheduling
    priority than spawned tasks.
 -- Add support in slurmctld, slurmd and slurmdbd for option of "-n <value>" to
    reset the daemon's nice value.
 -- Fixed slurm_load_slurmd_status and slurm_pid2jobid to work correctly when
    multiple slurmds are in use.
 -- Altered srun to set max_nodes to min_nodes if not set when doing an
    allocation to mimic that which salloc and sbatch do.  If running a step if
    the max isn't set it remains unset.
 -- Applied patch from David Egolf (David.Egolf@Bull.com). Added the ability
    to purge/archive accounting data on a day or hour basis, previously
    it was only available on a monthly basis.
 -- Add support for maximum node count in job step request.
 -- Fix bug in CPU count logic for job step allocation (used count of CPUS per
    node rather than CPUs allocated to the job).
 -- Add new configuration parameters GroupUpdateForce and GroupUpdateTime.
    See "man slurm.conf" for details about how these control when slurmctld
    updates its information of which users are in the groups allowed to use
    partitions.
 -- Added sacctmgr list events which will list events that have happened on
    clusters in accounting.
 -- Permit a running job to shrink in size using a command of
    "scontrol update JobId=# NumNodes=#" or
    "scontrol update JobId=# NodeList=<names>". Subsequent job steps must
    explicitly specify an appropriate node count to work properly.
 -- Added resize_time field to job record noting the time of the latest job
    size change (to be used for accounting purposes).
 -- sview/smap now hides hidden partitions and their jobs by default, with an
    option to display them.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre3
=============================
 -- Refine support for TotalView partial attach. Add parameter to configure
    program of "--enable-partial-attach".
 -- In select/cons_res, the count of CPUs on required nodes was formerly
    ignored in enforcing the maximum CPU limit. Also enforce maximum CPU
    limit when the topology/tree plugin is configured (previously ignored).
 -- In select/cons_res, allocate cores for a job using a best-fit approach.
 -- In select/cons_res, for jobs that can run on a single node, use a best-fit
    packing approach.
 -- Add support for new partition states of DRAIN and INACTIVE and new partition
    option of "Alternate" (alternate partition to use for jobs submitted to 
    partitions that are currently in a state of DRAIN or INACTIVE).
 -- Add group membership cache. This can substantially speed up slurmctld
    startup or reconfiguration if many partitions have AllowGroups configured.
 -- Added slurmdb api for accessing slurm DB information.
 -- In select/linear: Modify data structures for better performance and to 
    avoid underflow error messages when slurmctld restarts while jobs are
    in completing state.
 -- Added hash for slurm.conf so when nodes check in to the controller it can
    verify the slurm.conf is the same as the one it is running.  If not an
    error message is displayed.  To silence this message add NO_CONF_HASH
    to DebugFlags in your slurm.conf.
 -- Added error code ESLURM_CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY and prevent circular job
    dependencies (e.g. job 12 dependent upon job 11 AND job 11 is dependent
    upon job 12).
 -- Add BootTime and SlurmdStartTime to available node information.
 -- Fixed moab_2_slurmdb to work correctly under new database schema.
 -- Slurmd will drain a compute node when the SlurmdSpoolDir is full.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre2
=============================
 -- Add support for spank_get_item() to get S_STEP_ALLOC_CORES and 
    S_STEP_ALLOC_MEM. Support will remain for S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES and 
    S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM. 
 -- Kill individual job steps that exceed their memory limit rather than 
    killing an entire job if one step exceeds its memory limit.
 -- Added configuration parameter VSizeFactor to enforce virtual memory limits 
    for jobs and job steps as a percentage of their real memory allocation.
 -- Add scontrol ability to update job step's time limits.
 -- Add scontrol ability to update job's NumCPUs count.
 -- Add --time-min options to salloc, sbatch and srun. The scontrol command 
    has been modified to display and modify the new field. sched/backfill
    plugin has been changed to alter time limits of jobs with the 
    --time-min option if doing so permits earlier job initiation.
 -- Add support for TotalView symbol MPIR_partial_attach_ok with srun support
    to release processes which TotalView does not attach to.
 -- Add new option for SelectTypeParameters of CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE. This 
    option will allocate one task per core by default. Without this option, 
    by default one task will be allocated per thread on nodes with more than 
    one ThreadsPerCore configured.
 -- Avoid accounting separately for a current pid corresponds to a Light Weight
    Process (Thread POSIX) appearing in the /proc directory. Only account for
    the original process (pid==tgid) to avoid accounting for memory use more 
    than once.
 -- Add proctrack/cgroup plugin which uses Linux control groups (aka cgroup)
    to track processes on Linux systems having this feature enabled (kernel
    >= 2.6.24).
 -- Add logging of license transations including job_id.
 -- Add configuration parameters SlurmSchedLogFile and SlurmSchedLogLevel to
    support writing scheduling events to a separate log file.
 -- Added contribs/web_apps/chart_stats.cgi, a web app that invokes sreport to
    retrieve from the accounting storage db a user's request for job usage or
    machine utilization statistics and charts the results to a browser.
 -- Massive change to the schema in the storage_accounting/mysql plugin.  When
    starting the slurmdbd the process of conversion may take a few minutes.
    You might also see some errors such as 'error: mysql_query failed: 1206
    The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size'.  If you get this,
    do not worry, it is because your setting of innodb_buffer_pool_size in
    your my.cnf file is not set or set too low.  A decent value there should
    be 64M or higher depending on the system you are running on.  See
    RELEASE_NOTES for more information.  But setting this and then
    restarting the mysqld and slurmdbd will put things right.  After this
    change we have noticed 50-75% increase in performance with sreport and
    sacct.
 -- Fix for MaxCPUs to honor partitions of 1 node that have more than the
    maxcpus for a job.
 -- Add support for "scontrol notify <message>" to work for batch jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre1
=============================
 -- Added RunTime field to scontrol show job report
 -- Added SLURM_VERSION_NUMBER and removed SLURM_API_VERSION from 
    slurm/slurm.h.
 -- Added support to handle communication with SLURM 2.1 clusters.  Job's
    should not be lost in the future when upgrading to higher versions of 
    SLURM.
 -- Added withdeleted options for listing clusters, users, and accounts
 -- Remove PLPA task affinity functions due to that package being deprecated.
 -- Preserve current partition state information and node Feature and Weight 
    information rather than use contents of slurm.conf file after slurmctld 
    restart with -R option or SIGHUP. Replace information with contents of 
    slurm.conf after slurmctld restart without -R or "scontrol reconfigure".
    See RELEASE_NOTES file fore more details.
 -- Modify SLURM's PMI library (for MPICH2) to properly execute an executable
    program stand-alone (single MPI task launched without srun).
 -- Made GrpCPUs and MaxCPUs limits work for select/cons_res.
 -- Moved all SQL dependant plugins into a seperate rpm slurm-sql.  This
    should be needed only where a connection to a database is needed (i.e.
    where the slurmdbd is running)
 -- Add command line option "no_sys_info" to PAM module to supress system 
    logging of "access granted for user ...", access denied and other errors
    will still be logged.
 -- sinfo -R now has the user and timestamp in separate fields from the reason.
 -- Much functionality has been added to account_storage/pgsql.  The plugin
    is still in a very beta state.  It is still highly advised to use the
    mysql plugin, but if you feel like living on the edge or just really
    like postgres over mysql for some reason here you go. (Work done
    primarily by Hongjia Cao, NUDT.)

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.17
=========================
 -- Correct format of --begin reported in salloc, sbatch and srun --help
    message.
 -- Correct logic for regular users to increase nice value of their own jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.16
=========================
 -- Fixed minor warnings from gcc-4.5
 -- Fixed initialization of accounting_stroage_enforce in the slurmctld.
 -- Fixed bug where if GrpNodes was lowered while pending jobs existed and where
    above the limit the slurmctld would seg fault.
 -- Fixed minor memory leak when unpack error happens on an
    association_shares_object_t.
 -- Set Lft and Rgt correctly when adding association.  Fix for regression
    caused in 2.1.15, cosmetic fix only.
 -- Replaced optarg which was undefined in some spots to make sure ENV vars are
    set up correctly.
 -- When removing an account from a cluster with sacctmgr you no longer get
    a list of previously deleted associations.
 -- Fix to make jobcomp/(pg/my)sql correctly work when the database name is
    different than the default.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.15
=========================
 -- Fix bug in which backup slurmctld can purge job scripts (and kill batch
    jobs) when it assumes primary control, particularly when this happens
    multiple times in a short time interval.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 add IWD (Initial Working Directory) to the
    information reported about jobs.
 -- Fix bug in calculating a daily or weekly reservation start time when the
    reservation is updated. Patch from Per Lundqvist (National Supercomputer
    Centre, Linköping University, Sweden).
 -- Fix bug in how job step memory limits are calculated when the --relative
    option is used.
 -- Restore operation of srun -X option to forward SIGINT to spawned tasks
    without killing them.
 -- Fixed a bug in calculating the root account's raw usage reported by Par
    Andersson
 -- Fixed a bug in sshare displaying account hierarchy reported by Per
    Lundqvist.
 -- In select/linear plugin, when a node allocated to a running job is removed
    from a partition, only log the event once. Fixes problem reported by Per
    Lundqvist.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.14
=========================
 -- Fixed coding mistakes in _slurm_rpc_resv_show() and job_alloc_info() found
    while reviewing the code.
 -- Fix select/cons_res logic to prevent allocating resources while jobs
    previously allocated resources on the node are still completing.
 -- Fixed typo in job_mgr.c dealing with qos instead of associations.
 -- Make sure associations and qos' are initiated when added.
 -- Fixed wrong initialization for wckeys in the association manager.
 -- Added wiki.conf configuration parameter of HidePartitionNodes. See 
    "man wiki.conf" for more information.
 -- Add "JobAggregationTime=#" field SchedulerParameter configuration parameter
    output.
 -- Modify init.d/slurm and slurmdbd scripts to prevent the possible
    inadvertent inclusion of "." in LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
    To fail, the script would need to be executed by user root or SlurmUser
    without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable set and there would
    have to be a maliciously altered library in the working directory.
    Thanks to Raphael Geissert for identifying the problem. This addresses
    security vulnerability CVE-2010-3380.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.13
=========================
 -- Fix race condition which can set a node state to IDLE on slurmctld startup
    even if it has running jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.12
=========================
 -- Fixes for building on OS X 10.5.
 -- Fixed a few '-' without a '\' in front of them in the man pages.
 -- Fixed issues in client tools where a requeued job did get displayed
    correctly.
 -- Update typos in doc/html/accounting.shtml doc/html/resource_limits.shtml
    doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5 and doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
 -- Fixed a bug in exitcode:signal display in sacct
 -- Fix bug when request comes in for consumable resources and the -c option
    is used in conjunction with -O
 -- Fixed squeue -o "%h" output formatting
 -- Change select/linear message "error: job xxx: best_fit topology failure"
    to debug type.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for sinfo -R to group all midplanes together in a single
    line for midplanes in an error state instead of 1 line for each midplane.
 -- Fix srun to work correctly with --uid when getting an allocation
    and creating a step, also fix salloc to assume identity at the correct
    time as well.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with jobs being refused when running dynamic mode
    and every job on the system happens to be the same size.
 -- Removed bad #define _SLURMD_H from slurmd/get_mach_stat.h.  Didn't appear
    to cause any problems being there, just incorrect syntax.
 -- Validate the job ID when salloc or srun receive an SRUN_JOB_COMPLETE RPC to
    avoid killing the wrong job if the original command exits and the port gets
    re-used by another command right away.
 -- Fix to node in correct state in accounting when updating it to drain from
    scontrol/sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - Removed incorrect unlocking on error cases when starting jobs.
 -- Improve logging of invalid sinfo and squeue print options.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added check to libsched_if to allow root to run even outside of
    SLURM.  This is needed when running certain blocks outside of SLURM in HTC
    mode.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.11-2
===========================
 -- BLUEGENE - make it so libsched_if.so is named correctly on 'L' it is
    libsched_if64.so and on 'P' it is libsched_if.so

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.11
=========================
 -- BLUEGENE - fix sinfo to not get duplicate entries when running command
    sinfo -e -o "%9P %6m %.4c %.22F %f"
 -- Fix bug that caused segv when deleting a partition with pending jobs.
 -- Better error message for when trying to modify an account's name with
    sacctmgr.
 -- Added back removal of #include "src/common/slurm_xlator.h" from
    select/cons_res.
 -- Fix incorrect logic in global_accounting in regression tests for
    setting QOS.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where removing a small block in dynamic mode,
    and other blocks also in that midplane needed to be removed and were in
    and error state.  They all weren't removed correctly in accounting.
 -- Prevent scontrol segv with "scontrol show node <name>" command with nodes
    in a hidden partition.
 -- Fixed sizing of popup grids in sview.
 -- Fixed sacct when querying against a jobid the start time is not set.
 -- Fix configure to get correct version of pkg-config if both 32bit and 64bit
    libs are installed.
 -- Fix issue with sshare not sorting correctly the tree of associations.
 -- Update documentation for sreport.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix regression in 2.1.10 on assigning multiple jobs to one block.
 -- Minor memory leak fixed when killing job error happens.
 -- Fix sacctmgr list assoc when talking to a 2.2 slurmdbd.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.10
=========================
 -- Fix memory leak in sched/builtin plugin.
 -- Fixed sbatch to work correctly when no nodes are specified, but
    --ntasks-per-node is.
 -- Make sure account and wckey for a job are lower case before inserting into
    accounting.
 -- Added note to squeue documentation about --jobs option displaying jobs
    even if they are on hidden partitions.
 -- Fix srun to work correctly with --uid when getting an allocation
    and creating a step.
 -- Fix for when removing a limit from a users association inside the
    fairshare tree the parents limit is now inherited automatically in
    the slurmctld.  Previously the slurmctld would have to be restarted.
    This problem only exists when setting a users association limit to -1.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux (CEA) dealing with possible overflows that
    could come up with the select/cons_res plugin with uint32_t's being treated
    as uint16_t's.
 -- Correct logic for creating a reservation with a Duration=Infinite (used to
    set reservation end time in the past).
 -- Correct logic for creating a reservation that properly handles the OVERLAP
    and IGNORE_JOBS flags (flags were ignored under some conditions).
 -- Fixed a fair-share calculation bug in the priority/multifactor plugin.
 -- Make sure a user entry in the database that was previously deleted is
    restored clean when added back, i.e. remove admin privileges previously
    given.
 -- BLUEGENE - Future start time is set correctly when eligible time for a job
    is in the future, but the job can physically run earlier.
 -- Updated Documentation for sacctmgr for Wall and CPUMin options stating when
    the limit is reached running jobs will be killed.
 -- Fix deadlock issue in the slurmctld when lowering limits in accounting to
    lower than that of pending jobs.
 -- Fix bug in salloc, sbatch and srun that could under some conditions process
    the --threads-per-core, --cores-per-socket and --sockets-per-node options
    improperly.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res with memory management plus job preemption with
    job removal (e.g. requeue) which under some conditions failed to preempt
    jobs.
 -- Fix deadlock potential when using qos and associations in the slurmctld.
 -- Update documentation to state --ntasks-per-* is for a maximum value
    instead of an absolute.
 -- Get ReturnToService=2 working for front-end configurations (e.g. Cray or
    BlueGene).
 -- Do not make a non-responding node available for use after running
    "scontrol update nodename=<name> state=resume". Wait for node to respond
    before use.
 -- Added slurm_xlator.h to jobacct_gather plugins so they resolve symbols
    correctly when linking to the slurm api.
 -- You can now update a jobs QOS from scontrol.  Previously you could only do
    this from sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed bug where if running in non-dynamic mode sometimes the
    start time returned for a job when using test-only would not be correct.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.9
========================
 -- In select/linear - Fix logic to prevent over-subscribing memory with shared
    nodes (Shared=YES or Shared=FORCE).
 -- Fix for handling -N and --ntasks-per-node without specifying -n with
    salloc and sbatch.
 -- Fix jobacct_gather/linux if not polling on tasks to give tasks time to
    start before doing initial gather.
 -- When changing priority with the multifactor plugin we make sure we update
    the last_job_update variable.
 -- Fixed sview for gtk < 2.10 to display correct debug level at first.
 -- Fixed sview to not select too fast when using a mouse right click.
 -- Fixed sacct to display correct timelimits for jobs from accounting.
 -- Fixed sacct when running as root by default query all users as documented.
 -- In proctrack/linuxproc, skip over files in /proc that are not really user
    processes (e.g. "/proc/bus").
 -- Fix documentation bug for slurmdbd.conf
 -- Fix slurmctld to update qos preempt list without restart.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res that in some cases would prevent a preempting job
    from using of resources already allocated to a preemptable running job.
 -- Fix for sreport in interactive mode to honor parsable/2 options.
 -- Fixed minor bugs in sacct and sstat commands
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue if the slurmd becomes unresponsive and you have
    blocks in an error state accounting is correct when the slurmd comes
    back up.
 -- Corrected documentation for -n option in srun/salloc/sbatch
 -- BLUEGENE - when running a willrun test along with preemption the bluegene
    plugin now does the correct thing.
 -- Fix possible memory corruption issue which can cause slurmctld to abort.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed small memory leak when setting up env.
 -- Fixed deadlock if using accounting and cluster changes size in the
    database.  This can happen if you mistakenly have multiple primary
    slurmctld's running for a single cluster, which should rarely if ever
    happen.
 -- Fixed sacct -c option.
 -- Critical bug fix in sched/backfill plugin that caused memory corruption.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.8
========================
 -- Update BUILD_NOTES for AIX and bgp systems on how to get sview to
    build correctly.
 -- Update man page for scontrol when nodes are in the "MIXED" state.
 -- Better error messages for sacctmgr.
 -- Fix bug in allocation of CPUs with select/cons_res and --cpus-per-task
    option.
 -- Fix bug in dependency support for afterok and afternotok options to insure
    that the job's exit status gets checked for dependent jobs prior to puring
    completed job records.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set an incorrect expected start time
    for a job.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for systems that have midplanes defined in the database
    that don't exist.
 -- Accounting, fixed bug where if removing an object a rollback wasn't
    possible.
 -- Fix possible scontrol stack corruption when listing jobs with very a long
    job or working directory name (over 511 characters).
 -- Insure that SPANK environment variables set by salloc or sbatch get
    propagated to the Prolog on all nodes by setting SLURM_SPANK_* environment
    variables for srun's use.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Add support for the MODIFYJOB command to alter a job's
    comment field
 -- When a cluster first registers with the SlurmDBD only send nodes in an
    non-usable state.  Before all nodes were sent.
 -- Alter sacct to be able to query jobs by association id.
 -- Edit documentation for scontrol stating ExitCode as something not alterable.
 -- Update documentation about ReturnToService and silently rebooting nodes.
 -- When combining --ntasks-per-node and --exclusive in an allocation request
    the correct thing, giving the allocation the entire node but only
    ntasks-per-node, happens.
 -- Fix accounting transaction logs when deleting associations to put the
    ids instead of the lfts which could change over time.
 -- Fix support for salloc, sbatch and srun's --hint option to avoid allocating
    a job more sockets per node or more cores per socket than desired. Also
    when --hint=compute_bound or --hint=memory_bound then avoid allocating more
    than one task per hyperthread (a change in behavior, but almost certainly
    a preferable mode of operation).

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.7
========================
 -- Modify srun, salloc and sbatch parsing for the --signal option to accept
    either a signal name in addition to the previously supported signal
    numbers (e.g. "--signal=USR2@200").
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed sinfo --long --Node output for cpus on a single cnode.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Fix another logic bug in support of Moab being able to
    identify preemptable jobs.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - For BlueGene systems only: Fix bug preventing Moab from
    being able to correctly change the node count of pending jobs.
 -- In select/cons_res - Fix bug preventing job preemption with a configuration
    of Shared=FORCE:1 and PreemptMode=GANG,SUSPEND.
 -- In the TaskProlog, add support for an "unset" option to clear environment
    variables for the user application. Also add support for embedded white-
    space in the environment variables exported to the user application
    (everything after the equal sign to the end of the line is included without
    alteration).
 -- Do not install /etc/init.d/slurm or /etc/init.d/slurmdbd on AIX systems.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed check for small blocks if a node card of a midplane is
    in an error state other jobs can still run on the midplane on other
    nodecards.
 -- BLUEGENE - Check to make sure job killing is in the active job table in
    DB2 when killing the job.
 -- Correct logic to support ResvOverRun configuration parameter.
 -- Get --acctg-freq option working for srun and salloc commands.
 -- Fix sinfo display of drained nodes correctly with the summarize flag.
 -- Fix minor memory leaks in slurmd and slurmstepd.
 -- Better error messages for failed step launch.
 -- Modify srun to insure compatability of the --relative option with the node
    count requested.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.6-2
==========================
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Fix logic in support of Moab being able to identify
    preemptable jobs.
 -- Applied fixes to a debug4 message in priority_multifactor.c sent in by
    Per Lundqvist
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where incorrect nodecards could be picked when
    looking at combining small blocks to make a larger small block.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.6
========================
 -- For newly submitted jobs, report expected start time in squeue --start as
    "N/A" rather than current time.
 -- Correct sched/backfill logic so that it runs in a more timely fashion.
 -- Fixed issue if running on accounting cache and priority/multifactor to
    initialize the root association when the database comes back up.
 -- Emulated BLUEGENE - fixed issue where blocks weren't always created
    correctly when loading from state.  This does not apply to a real
    bluegene system, only emulated.
 -- Fixed bug when job is completing and its cpu_cnt would be calculated
    incorrectly, possibly resulting in an underflow being logged.
 -- Fixed bug where if there are pending jobs in a partition which was
    updated to have no nodes in it the slurmctld would dump core.
 -- Fixed smap and sview to display partitions with no nodes in them.
 -- Improve configure script's logic to detect LUA libraries.
 -- Fix bug that could cause slurmctld to abort if select/cons_res is used AND a
    job is submitted using the --no-kill option AND one of the job's nodes goes
    DOWN AND slurmctld restarts while that job is still running.
 -- In jobcomp plugins, job time limit was sometimes recorded improperly if not
    set by user (recorded huge number rather than partition's time limit).

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.5
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed display of draining nodes for sinfo -R.
 -- Fixes to scontrol and sview when setting a job to an impossible start time.
 -- Added -h to srun for help.
 -- Fix for sacctmgr man page to remove erroneous 'with' statements.
 -- Fix for unpacking jobs with accounting statistics, previously it appears
    only steps were unpacked correctly, for the most case sacct would only
    display this information making this fix a very minor one.
 -- Changed scontrol and sview output for jobs with unknown end times from
    'NONE' to 'Unknown'.
 -- Fixed mysql plugin to reset classification when adding a
    previously deleted cluster.
 -- Permit a batch script to reset umask and have that propagate to tasks
    spawed by subsequent srun. Previously the umask in effect when sbatch was
    executed was propagated to tasks spawed by srun.
 -- Modify slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() and 
    slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() functions to not write explanation of 
    failures to stderr. Only return -1 and set errno.
 -- Correction in configurator.html script. Prolog and Epilog were reversed.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed race condition where if a nodecard has an error on an
    un-booted block when a job comes to use it before the state checking
    thread notices it which could cause the slurmctld to lock up on a
    non-dynamic system.
 -- In select/cons_res with FastSchedule=0 and Procs=# defined for the node, 
    but no specific socket/core/thread count configured, avoid fatal error if 
    the number of cores on a node is less than the number of Procs configured.
 -- Added ability for the perlapi to utilize opaque data types returned from
    the C api.
 -- BLUEGENE - made the perlapi get correct values for cpus per node,
    Previously it would give the number of cpus per cnode instead of midplane.
 -- BLEUGENE - Fixed issue where if a block being selected for a job to use
    and during the process a hardware failure happens, previously the block
    would still be allowed to be used which would fail or requeue the job
    depending on the configuration.
 -- For SPANK job environment, avoid duplicate "SPANK_" prefix for environment
    set by sbatch jobs.
 -- Make squeue select jobs on hidden partitions when requesting more than one.
 -- Avoid automatically cancelling job steps when all of the tasks on some node
    have gracefully terminated.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.4
========================
 -- Fix for purge script in accounting to use correct options.
 -- If SelectType=select/linear and SelectTypeParameters=CR_Memory fix bug that
    would fail to release memory reserved for a job if "scontrol reconfigure" 
    is executed while the job is in completing state.
 -- Fix bug in handling event trigger for job time limit while job is still 
    in pending state.
 -- Fixed display of Ave/MaxCPU in sacct for jobs. Steps were printed
    correctly.
 -- When node current features differs from slurm.conf, log the node names
    using a hostlist expression rather than listing individual node names.
 -- Improve ability of srun to abort job step for some task launch failures.
 -- Fix mvapich plugin logic to release the created job allocation on 
    initialization failure (previously the failures would cancel job step, 
    but retain job allocation).
 -- Fix bug in srun for task count so large that it overflows int data type.
 -- Fix important bug in select/cons_res handling of ntasks-per-core parameter
    that was uncovered by a bug fixed in v2.1.3. Bug produced fatal error for
    slurmctld: "cons_res: cpus computation error".
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res handling of partitions configured with 
    Shared=YES. Prior logic failed to support running multiple jobs per node.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-2
==========================
 -- Modified spec file to obsolete pam_slurm when installing
    the slurm-pam_slurm rpm.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-1
==========================
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix issues on static/overlap systems where if a midplane
    was drained you would not be able to create new blocks on it.
 -- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab): Add excluded host list to job information
    using new keyword "EXCLUDE_HOSTLIST".
 -- Correct slurmd reporting of incorrect socket/core/thread counts.  
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab): Do not extend a job's end time for suspend/resume
    or startup delay due to node boot time. A job's end time will always be
    its start time plus time limit.
 -- Added build-time option (to configure program) of --with-pam_dir to 
    specify the directory into which PAM modules get installed, although it
    should pick the proper directory by default. "make install" and "rpmbuild"
    should now put the pam_slurm.so file in the proper directory.
 -- Modify PAM module to link against SLURM API shared library and use exported
    slurm_hostlist functions.
 -- Do not block new jobs with --immediate option while another job is in the
    process of being requeued (which can take a long time for some node failure
    modes).
 -- For topology/tree, log invalid hostnames in a single hostlist expression
    rather than one per line.
 -- A job step's default time limit will be UNLIMITED rather than partition's 
    default time limit. The step will automatically be cancelled as part of the
    job termination logic when the job's time limit is reached.
 -- sacct - fixed bug when checking jobs against a reservation
 -- In select/cons_res, fix support for job allocation with --ntasks_per_node
    option. Previously could allocate too few CPUs on some nodes.  
 -- Adjustment made to init message to the slurmdbd to allow backwards
    compatibility with future 2.2 release. YOU NEED TO UPGRADE SLURMDBD
    BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.
 -- Fix accounting when comment of down/drained node has double quotes in it.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.2
========================
 -- Added nodelist to sview for jobs on non-bluegene systems
 -- Correction in value of batch job environment variable SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE
    under some conditions.
 -- When a node silently fails which is already drained/down the reason
    for draining for the node is not changed.
 -- Srun will ignore SLURM_NNODES environment variable and use the count of 
    currently allocated nodes if that count changes during the job's lifetime 
    (e.g. job allocation uses the --no-kill option and a node goes DOWN, job 
    step would previously always fail).
 -- Made it so sacctmgr can't add blank user or account.  The MySQL plugin
    will also reject such requests.
 -- Revert libpmi.so version for compatibility with SLURM version 2.0 and
    earlier to avoid forcing applications using a specific libpmi.so version to
    rebuild unnecessarily (revert from libpmi.so.21.0.0 to libpmi.so.0.0.0).
 -- Restore support for a pending job's constraints (required node features) 
    when slurmctld is restarted (internal structure needed to be rebuilt).
 -- Removed checkpoint_blcr.so from the plugin rpm in the slurm.spec since
    it is also in the blcr rpm.
 -- Fixed issue in sview where you were unable to edit the count
    of jobs to share resources.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where tasks on steps weren't being displayed
    correctly with scontrol and sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed wiki2 plugin to report correct task count for pending 
    jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added /etc/ld.so.conf.d/slurm.conf to point to the
    directory holding libsched_if64.so when building rpms.
 -- Adjust get_wckeys call in slurmdbd to allow operators to list wckeys.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.1
========================
 -- Fix for case sensitive databases when a slurmctld has a mixed case
    clustername to lower case the string to easy compares.
 -- Fix squeue if job is completing and failed to print remaining
    nodes instead of failed message.
 -- Fix sview core when searching for partitions by state.
 -- Fixed setting the start time when querying in sacct to the
    beginning of the day if not set previously.
 -- Defined slurm_free_reservation_info_msg and slurm_free_topo_info_msg
    in common/slurm_protocol_defs.h
 -- Avoid generating error when a job step includes a memory specification and 
    memory is not configured as a consumable resource.
 -- Patch for small memory leak in src/common/plugstack.c
 -- Fix sview search on node state.
 -- Fix bug in which improperly formed job dependency specification can cause
    slurmctld to abort.
 -- Fixed issue where slurmctld wouldn't always get a message to send cluster
    information when registering for the first time with the slurmdbd.
 -- Add slurm_*_trigger.3 man pages for event trigger APIs.
 -- Fix bug in job preemption logic that would free allocated memory twice.
 -- Fix spelling issues (from Gennaro Oliva)
 -- Fix issue when changing parents of an account in accounting all childern
    weren't always sent to their respected slurmctlds until a restart.
 -- Restore support for srun/salloc/sbatch option --hint=nomultithread to 
    bind tasks to cores rather than threads (broken in slurm v2.1.0-pre5).
 -- Fix issue where a 2.0 sacct could not talk correctly to a 2.1 slurmdbd.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix issue where no partitions have any nodes assigned them to
    alert user no blocks can be created.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix smap to put BGP images when using -Dc on a Blue Gene/P 
    system.
 -- Set SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR environment variable for srun and salloc commands to
    match behavior of sbatch command.
 -- Report WorkDir from "scontrol show job" command for jobs launched using
    salloc and srun.
 -- Update correctly the wckey when changing it on a pending job.
 -- Set wckeyid correctly in accounting when cancelling a pending job.
 -- BLUEGENE - critical fix where jobs would be killed incorrectly.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for sview putting multiple ionodes on to nodelists when
    viewing the jobs tab.
 
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0
========================
 -- Improve sview layout of blocks in use.
 -- A user can now change the dimensions of the grid in sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - improved startup speed further for large numbers of defined
    blocks
 -- Fix to _get_job_min_nodes() in wiki2/get_jobs.c suggested by Michal Novotny
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed issues when updating a pending job when a node 
    count was incorrect for the asked for connection type.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed issue when combining blocks that are in ready states to
    make a larger block from those or make multiple smaller blocks by
    splitting the larger block.  Previously this would only work with block
    in a free state.
 -- Fix bug in wiki(2) plugins where if HostFormat=2 and the task list is
    greater than 64 we don't truncate.  Previously this would mess up Moab
    by sending a truncated task list when doing a get jobs.
 -- Added update slurmctld debug level to sview when in admin mode.
 -- Added logic to make sure if enforcing a memory limit when using the
    jobacct_gather plugin a user can no longer turn off the logic to enforce
    the limit.
 -- Replaced many calls to getpwuid() with reentrant uid_to_string()
 -- The slurmstepd will now refresh it's log file handle on a reconfig,
    previously if a log was rolled any output from the stepd was lost.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre9
=============================
 -- Added the "scontrol update SlurmctldDebug" as the preferred alternative to
    the "scontrol setdebug" command.
 -- BLUEGENE - made it so when removing a block in an error state the nodes in
    the block are set correctly in accounting as not in error.
 -- Fixed issue where if slurmdbd is not up qos' are set up correctly for
    associations off of cache.
 -- scontrol, squeue, sview all display the correct node, cpu count along with
    correct corresponding nodelist on completing jobs.
 -- Patch (Mark Grondona) fixes serious security vulnerability in SLURM in
    the spank_job_env functionality.
 -- Improve spank_job_env interface and documentation
 -- Add ESPANK_NOT_LOCAL error code to spank_err_t
 -- Made the #define DECAY_INTERVAL used in the priority/multifactor plugin
    a slurm.conf variable (PriorityCalcPeriod)
 -- Added new macro SLURM_VERSION for use in autoconf scripts to determine
    current version of slurm installed on system when building against the api.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux that adds an entry into the error file when
    a job or step receives a TERM or KILL signal.
 -- Make it so env var SLURM_SRUN_COMM_HOST is overwritten if already in 
    existence in the slurmd.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Rearranged the "scontrol show job" output into functional groupings
 -- Change the salloc/sbatch/srun -P option to -d (dependency)
 -- Removed the srun -d option; must use srun --slurmd-debug instead
 -- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated 
    when sending updates to slurmctlds.
 -- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to 
    fill in default association. 
 -- Accounting - Slurmctld and slurmdbd will now set uids of users which were 
    created after the start of the daemons on reconfig.  Slurmdbd will 
    attempt to set previously non-existant uids every hour.
 -- Patch from Aaron Knister and Mark Grondona, to parse correctly quoted 
    #SBATCH options in a batch script.
 -- job_desc_msg_t - in, out, err have been changed to std_in, std_out, 
    and std_err respectfully.  Needed for PySLURM, since Python sees (in) 
    as a keyword.
 -- Changed the type of addr to struct sockaddr_in in _message_socket_accept()
    in sattach.c, step_launch.c, and allocate_msg.c, and moved the function 
    into a common place for all the calls since the code was very similar.
 -- proctrack/lua support has been added see contribs/lua/protrack.lua
 -- replaced local gtk m4 test with AM_PATH_GTK_2_0
 -- changed AC_CHECK_LIB to AC_SEARCH_LIBS to avoid extra libs in
    compile lines.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux to improve error message in slurmd/req.c
 -- Added support for split groups from (Matthiu Hautreux CEA)
 -- Patch from Mark Grondona to move blcr scripts into pkglibexecdir
 -- Patch from Doug Parisek to calculate a job's projected start time under the
    builtin scheduler.
 -- Removed most global variables out of src/common/jobacct_common.h

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre7
=============================
 -- BLUEGENE - make 2.1 run correctly on a real bluegene cluster
 -- sacctmgr - Display better debug for when an admin specifies a non-existant 
    parent account when changing parent accounts.
 -- Added a mechanism to the slurmd to defer the epilog from starting until
    after a running prolog has finished.
 -- If a node reboots inbetween checking status the node is marked down unless 
    ReturnToService=2
 -- Added -R option to slurmctld to recover partition state also when 
    restarting or reconfiguring.
 
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre6
=============================
 -- When getting information about nodes in hidden partitions, return a node
    name of NULL rather than returning no information about the node so that 
    node index information is still valid.
 -- When querying database for jobs in certain state and a time period is 
    given only jobs in that state during the period will be returned,
    previously if a time period was given in sacct jobs eligible to run or 
    running would be displayed, which is still the default if no states are 
    requested.
 -- One can now query jobs based on size (nodes and or cpus) (mysql plugin only)
 -- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that tests for a missing config file before
    any other processing in spank_init().  This now prevents fatal errors from
    being mistakenly treated as recoverable.
 -- --enable-debug no longer has to be stated at configure time to have 
    the slurmctld or slurmstepd dump core on a seg fault.
 -- Moved the errant slurm_job_node_ready() declaration from job_info.h to
    slurm.h and deleted job_info.h.
 -- Added the slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() 
    slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() API for working with the 
    job_resources_t structure.
 -- BLUEGENE - speed up start up for systems that have many blocks (100+)
    configured on the system.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Add squeue option "--start" to report expected start time of pending jobs.
 -- Sched/backfill plugin modified to set expected start time of pending jobs.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of "max_job_bf=#" to control how far down
    the queue of pending jobs that SLURM searches in an attempt backfill 
    schedule them. The default value is 50 jobs.
 -- Fixed cause of squeue -o "%C" seg fault.
 -- Add -"-signal=<int>@<time>" option to salloc, sbatch and srun commands to
    notify programs before reaching the end of their time limit.
 -- Add scontrol option to update a running job's EndTime (also resets the 
    job's time limit).
 -- Add new job wait reason, ReqNodeNotAvail: Required node is not available 
    (down or drained).
 -- Log when slurmctld or slurmd are started with small core file limit.
 -- Permit job's owner to change features, processor count, minimum and 
    maximun node counts of pending jobs (the operation was previously 
    restricted to user root)
 -- Applied patch from Chuck Clouston for scontrol man page with clarifications
    and additional info
 -- Change slurm errno name from ESLURM_TOO_MANY_REQUESTED_NODES to 
    ESLURM_INVALID_NODE_COUNT to better reflect its meaning.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill which could result in invalid memory reference
    when trying to schedule jobs submitted with --exclude option.
 -- Fix for slurmctld deadlock at startup with PreemptMode=SUSPEND,GANG.
 -- Added preemption plugins to RPM.
 -- Completely disable logging of sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui & Moab) 
    message traffic unless DebugFlag=Wiki is configured.
 -- Change scontrol show job info: ReqProcs (number of processors requested) 
    is replaced by NumProcs (number of processors requested or actually 
    allocated) and ReqNodes (number of nodes requested) is replaced by 
    NumNodes (number of nodes requested or actually allocated).
 -- Fixed issue when max nodes wasn't specified and was later set by limit 
    to not request that as the actual maximum.
 -- Move job preemption (for requeue, checkpoint and kill modes only) out of
    gang scheduling module. Make identification of preemptable jobs an argument
    to the select_g_job_test function rather than calling preempt plugin from
    the select plugin. Make output of srun --test-only option include a list
    of preempted job IDs. 
 -- Better record keeping for front end systems when registering.
 -- Enable memory allocation logic for jobs step (i.e. allocate resources
    within the job's memory allocation and enforce limits).
 -- handle error state in sinfo
 -- sview and "scontrol show config" now report as SLURM_VERSION the version 
    of slurmctld rather than that of the command.
 -- Change SuspendTime configuration parameter from 16-bits to 32-bits.
 -- Add environment variable support to sattach, salloc, sbatch and srun
    to permit user control over exit codes so application exit codes can be
    distiguished from those generated by SLURM. SLURM_EXIT_ERROR specifies the
    exit code when a SLURM error occurs. SLURM_EXIT_IMMEDIATE specifies the 
    exit code when the --immediate option is specified and resources are not
    available. Any other non-zero exit code would be that of the application
    run by SLURM.
 -- Added a Quality of Service (QOS) html page.
 -- In sched/wiki2, JOBWILLRUN command, add support for identification of 
    preemptable and preempted jobs (both new and old format of commands are
    supported).
 -- Remove contribs/python/hostlist files. Download the materials as needed
    directly from http://www.nsc.liu.se/~kent/python-hostlist.
 -- BLUEGENE - Preemption now works on bluegene systems
 -- For salloc, sbatch and srun commands, ignore _maximum_ values for
    --sockets-per-node, --cores-per-socket and --threads-per-core options.
    Remove --mincores, --minsockets, --minthreads options (map them to 
    minimum values of -sockets-per-node, --cores-per-socket and 
    --threads-per-core for now).

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Move processing of node configuration information in slurm.conf and 
    topology information in topology.conf from slurmctld into common and load 
    that information into slurmd. Use it to set environment variables for jobs
    SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR and SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR_PATTERN describing the network
    topology for each task. Based upon patch from Mattheu Hautreux (CEA).
 -- Correction in computing a job's TotalProcs value when ThreadsPerCore>1 and
    allocating by cores or sockets.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Removed sched/gang plugin and moved the logic directly into the slurmctld
    daemon so that job preemption and gang scheduling can be used with the
    sched/backfill plugin. Added configuration parameter:
    PreemptMode=gang|off|suspend|cancel|requeue|checkpoint 
    to enable/disable gang scheduling and job preemption logic (both are 
    disabled by default).
    (NOTE: There are some problems with memory management which could prevent a
    job from starting when memory would be freed by a job being requeued or 
    otherwise removed, these are being worked on)
 -- Added PreemptType configuration parameter to identify preemptable jobs.
    Former users of SchedType=sched/gang should set SchedType=sched/backfill,
    PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio and PreemptMode=gang,suspend. See
    web and slurm.conf man page for other options.
    PreemptType=preempt/qos uses Quality Of Service information in database.
 -- In select/linear, optimize job placement across partitions.
 -- If the --partition option is used with the sinfo or squeue command then
    print information about even hidden partitions.
 -- Replaced misc cpu allocation members in job_info_t with select_job_res_t
    which will only be populated when requested (show_flags & SHOW_DETAIL)
 -- Added a --detail option to "scontrol show job" to display the cpu/mem
    allocation info on a node-by-node basis.
 -- Added logic to give correct request uid for individual steps that 
    were cancelled.
 -- Created a spank_get_item() option (S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM) that conveys the memory
    that the select/cons_res plugin has allocated to a job.
 -- BLUEGENE - blocks in error state are now handled correctly in accounting.
 -- Modify squeue to print job step information about a specific job ID using
    the following syntax: "squeue -j <job_id> -s".
 -- BLUEGENE - scontrol delete block and update block can now remove blocks 
    on dynamic laid out systems.
 -- BLUEGENE - Vastly improve Dynamic layout mode algorithm.
 -- Address some issues for SLURM support of Solaris.
 -- Applied patch from Doug Parisek (Doug.Parisek@bull.com) for speeding up 
    start of sview by delaying to creation of tooltips until requested.
 -- Changed GtkToolTips to GtkToolTip for newer versions of GTK.
 -- Applied patch from Rod Schultz (Rod.Schultz@Bull.com) that eliminates
    ambiguity in the documentation over use of the terms "CPU" and "socket".
 -- Modified get_resource_arg_range() to return full min/max values when input
    string is null.  This fixes the srun -B option to function as documented.
 -- If the job, node, partition, reservation or trigger state file is missing 
    or too small, automatically try using the previously saved state (file 
    name with ".old" suffix).
 -- Set a node's power_up/configuring state flag while PrologSlurmctld is
    running for a job allocated to that node.
 -- If PrologSlurmctld has a non-zero exit code, requeue the job or kill it.
 -- Added sacct ability to use --format NAME%LENGTH similar to sacctmgr.
 -- Improve hostlist logic for multidimensional systems.
 -- The pam_slurm Pluggable Authentication Module for SLURM previously
    distributed separately has been moved within the main SLURM distribution
    and is packaged as a separate RPM.
 -- Added configuration parameter MaxTasksPerNode.
 -- Remove configuration parameter SrunIOTimeout.
 -- Added functionality for sacctmgr show problems.  Current problems include
    Accounts/Users with no associations, Accounts with no users or subaccounts
    attached in a cluster, and Users with No UID on the system.
 -- Added new option for sacctmgr list assoc and list cluster WOLimits.  This 
    gives a smaller default format without the limit information.  This may 
    be the new default for list assocations and list clusters.
 -- Users are now required to have an association with there default account.
    Sacctmgr will now complain when you try to modify a users default account
    which they are not associated anywhere.
 -- Fix select/linear bug resulting in run_job_cnt underflow message if a 
    suspended job is cancelled.
 -- Add test for fsync() error for state save files. Log and retry as needed.
 -- Log fatal errors from slurmd and slurmctld to syslog.
 -- Added error detection and cleanup for the case in which a compute node is 
    rebooted and restarts its slurmd before its "down" state is noticed.
 -- BLUEGENE systems only - remove vestigal start location from jobinfo.
 -- Add reservation flag of "OVERLAP" to permit a new reservation to use
    nodes already in another reservation.
 -- Fix so "scontrol update jobid=# nice=0" can clear previous nice value.
 -- BLUEGENE - env vars such as SLURM_NNODES, SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES, and
    SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE now reference cnode counts instead of midplane
    counts.  SLURM_NODELIST still references midplane names.
 -- Added qos support to salloc/sbatch/srun/squeue
 -- Added to scancel the ability to select jobs by account and qos
 -- Recycled the "-A" argument indicate "account" for all the commands that
    accept the --account argument (srun -A to allocate is no longer supported.)
 -- Change sbatch response from "sbatch: Submitted batch job #" written to 
    stderr to "Submitted batch job #" written to stdout.
 -- Made shutdown and cleanup a little safer for the mvapich and mpich1_p4
    plugins.
 -- QOS support added with limits, priority and preemption
    (no documentation yet).
 -- If a slurmd does not have a node listed in it's slurm.conf (slurm.conf's 
    should be kept the same on all nodes) an error message is printed in the 
    slurmctld log along with the message already being printed in the slurmd 
    log for easier debugging.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Added support for smap to query off node name for display.
 -- Slurmdbd modified to set user ID and group ID to SlurmUser if started as 
    user root.
 -- Configuration parameter ControlMachine changed to  accept multiple comma-
    separated hostnames for support of some high-availability architectures.
 -- ALTERED API CALL slurm_get_job_steps 0 has been changed to NO_VAL for both
    job and step id to recieve all jobs/steps.  Please make adjustments to
    your code.
 -- salloc's --wait=<secs> option deprecated by --immediate=<secs> option to 
    match the srun command.
 -- Add new slurmctld list for node features with node bitmaps for simplified
    scheduling logic.
 -- Multiple features can be specified when creating a reservation. Use "&" 
    (AND) or "|" (OR) separators between the feature names.
 -- Changed internal node name caching so that front-end mode would work with
    multiple lines of node name definitions. 
 -- Add node state flag for power-up/configuring. Represented by "#" suffix
    on the node state name (e.g. "ALLOCATED#") for command output.
 -- Add CONFIGURING/CF job state flag for node power-up/configuring.
 -- Modify job step cancel logic for scancel and srun (on reciept of SIGTERM 
    or three SIGINT) to immediately send SIGKILL to spawned tasks.  Previous 
    logic would send SIGCONT, SIGTERM, wait KillWait seconds, SIGKILL.
 -- Created a spank_get_item() option (S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES) that conveys the cpus
    that the select/cons_res plugin has allocated to a job.
 -- Improve sview performance (outrageously) on very large machines.
 -- Add support for licenses in resource reservation.
 -- BLUEGENE - Jobs waiting for a block to boot will now be in Configuring
    state. 
 -- bit_fmt now does not return brackets surrounding any set of data.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre1
=============================
 -- Slurmd notifies slurmctld of node boot time to better clean up after node
    reboots.
 -- Slurmd sends node registration information repeatedly until successful
    transmit.
 -- Change job_state in job structure to dedicate 8-bits to state flags. 
    Added macros to get state information (IS_JOB_RUNNING(job_ptr), etc.)
 -- Added macros to get node state information (IS_NODE_DOWN(node_ptr), etc).
 -- Added support for Solaris. Patch from David Hoppner.
 -- Rename "slurm-aix-federation-<version>.rpm" to just 
    "slurm-aix-<version>.rpm" (federation switch plugin may not be present).
 -- Eliminated the redundant squeue output format and sort options of 
    "%o" and "%b". Use "%D" and "%S" formats respectively. Also eliminated 
    "%X" and "%Y" and "%Z" formats. Use "%z" instead.
 -- Added mechanism for SPANK plugins to set environment variables for
    Prolog, Epilog, PrologSLurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld programs using
    the functions spank_get_job_env, spank_set_job_env, and 
    spank_unset_job_env. See "man spank" for more information.
 -- Completed the work to begun in 2.0.0 to standardize on using '-Q' as the
    --quiet flag for all the commands.
 -- BLUEGENE - sinfo and sview now display correct cpu counts for partitions
 -- Cleaned up the cons_res plugin.  It now uses a ptr to a part_record
    instead of having to do strcmp's to find the correct one.
 -- Pushed most all the plugin specific info in src/common/node_select.c 
    into the respected plugin.
 -- BLUEGENE - closed some corner cases where a block could had been removed 
    while a job was waiting for it to become ready because an underlying 
    part of the block was put into an error state.
 -- Modify sbcast logic to prevent a user from moving files to nodes they
    have not been allocated (this would be possible in previous versions
    only by hacking the sbcast code).
 -- Add contribs/sjstat script (Perl tool to report job state information).
    Put into new RPM: sjstat.
 -- Add sched/wiki2 (Moab) JOBMODIFY command support for VARIABLELIST option
    to set supplemental environment variables for pending batch jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - add support for scontrol show blocks.
 -- Added support for job step time limits.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.10
=========================

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.9
========================
 -- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated 
    when sending updates to slurmctlds.
 -- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to 
    fill in default association. 
 -- Fix to make it so sched/wiki2 can modify a job's partition or hostlist of 
    non-pending jobs.
 -- Applied slurmctld prolog bug fix from Dennis Leepow to backfill.c
 -- fixed quite a few typos (needed for debian packages)
 -- make it so slurmctld will core dump without --enable-debug set
 -- Fix issue when doing a rollup on reservations before a cluster has been 
    added. 
 -- MySQL plugin - When doing archiving end time is now decreased by 1 
    which should be more correct.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where --no-rotate didn't work correctly on job
    submissions.
 -- BLUEGENE - made the buffer longer when submitting jobs to get the entire 
    line.  Previously the line could be shortened prematurely.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix to make sure we don't erroneously set a connection type
    to SMALL.
 -- Type cast a negative uint64_t to int64_t to avoid confusion when doing 
    arithmetic with it in accounting dealing with over commit time.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.8
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - added dub2 of stderr to put error messages sent from underlying 
    libraries of the bridge api to the bridgeapi.log
 -- Fixed issue with sacctmgr when modifing a user and specifying 'where'
    after giving the user name also.
 -- -L, --allclusters now works with sacct
 -- Modified job table to use 32bit u/gids for those with ids greater 
    than 16 bits.
 -- Made minor changes for slurm to compile cleanly under gcc 4.4.1
 -- Fixed issue with task/affinity when an allocation would run multiple sruns 
    with the --exclusive flag in an allocation with more than 1 node.  
    Previously when the first node was filled up no tasks would ever run 
    on the other nodes.
 -- Fixed sview and sacct to display correct run time and suspend time when 
    job has been suspended.
 -- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that fixes the validation of the
    PluginDir to support the colon separated list of directories as documented.
 -- BLUEGENE - squeue -o %R now prints more readable info for small blocks
 -- sacct - fixed garbage being printed out on uninitialized variable.
 -- Fix for mysql plugin when used without slurmdbd to register the 
    slurmctld properly.
 -- Fix for mysql plugin putting correct hostnames in for running steps.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.7
========================
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res when nodes are configured in more than one 
    partition and those partitions have different priorities and sched/gang
    is not configured. CPUs were previously over-allocated.
 -- Fix core of smap when specifying -i option with invalid argument.
 -- Fix issue when using srun --test-only to not put an entry of test 
    job into accounting.
 -- For OpenMPI use of SLURM reserved ports. If any of the tasks fails to 
    acquire a reserved port and has an exit code of 108 then srun will 
    kill all remaining tasks and respawn the tasks. Previous code waited 
    for tasks to exit.
 -- MySQL plugin - When doing archiving we now get a correct end time.  
    Previously it would grab an extra day to archive.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle initial state correctly, previously was setting initial 
    state to IDLE if UNKNOWN which would make it not set a registration 
    message to accounting, which could lead to nodes not being listed as up 
    when they really were.
 -- Fixed buffer size issue with scontrol show hostlist.
 -- Fixed issue with copy in smap -Dc previously command wouldn't work.
 -- BLUEGENE - Update documentation about small blocks in the bluegene.conf 
    file.
 -- In sched/wiki plugin (for Maui) fix possible message truncation on very 
    large cluster.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling undocumented Deallocating to Configuring to 
    Free block transition state.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for overlap mode loading blocks when midplane is in an
    error state.
 -- Add range check for SuspendTime configuration parameter.
 -- Moved unzipped python-hostname tarball out and the tarball in.
 -- BLUEGENE - Patched memory leak when running state test.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed slow down generated by slow call rm_get_BG 
    and polling thread.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.6
========================
 -- Fixed seg fault when "scontrol listpids" is invoked for a specific job step
    on a node on which a stepd is not running.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill which could result in invalid memory reference 
    when trying to schedule jobs submitted with --exclude option.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.5
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - Added support for emulating systems with a X-dimension of 4.
 -- BLUEGENE - When a nodecard goes down on a non-Dynamic system SLURM will 
    now only drain blocks under 1 midplane, if no such block exists then SLURM 
    will drain the entire midplane and not mark any block in error state.  
    Previously SLURM would drain every overlapping block of the nodecard 
    making it possible for a large block to make other blocks not work since 
    they overlap some other part of the block that really isn't bad.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle L3 errors on boot better.
 -- Don't revoke a pending batch launch request from the slurmctld if the
    job is immediately suspended (a normal event with gang scheduling).
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with restart of slurmctld would allow error block 
    nodes to be considered for building new blocks when testing if a job would 
    run.  This is a visual bug only, jobs would never run on new block, but 
    the block would appear in slurm tools.
 -- Better responsiveness when starting new allocations when running with the 
    slurmdbd.
 -- Fixed race condition when reconfiguring the slurmctld and using the 
    consumable resources plugin which would cause the controller to core.
 -- Fixed race condition that sometimes caused jobs to stay in completing
    state longer than necessary after being terminated.
 -- Fixed issue where if a parent account has a qos added and then a child
    account has the qos removed the users still get the qos.
 -- BLUEGENE - New blocks in dynamic mode will only be made in the system
    when the block is actually needed for a job, not when testing.
 -- BLUEGENE - Don't remove larger block used for small block until job starts.
 -- Add new squeue output format and sort option of "%L" to print a job's time 
    left (time limit minus time used).
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed draining state count for sinfo/sview.
 -- Fix for sview to not core when viewing nodes allocated to a partition 
    and the all jobs finish.
 -- Fix cons_res to not core dump when finishing a job running on a 
    defunct partition.
 -- Don't require a node to have --ntasks-per-node CPUs for use when the 
    --overcommit option is also used.
 -- Increase the maximum number of tasks which can be launched by a job step
    per node from 64 to 128. 
 -- sview - make right click on popup window title show sorted list.
 -- scontrol now displays correct units for job min memory and min tmp disk.
 -- better support for salloc/sbatch arbitrary layout for setting correct 
    SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE
 -- Env var SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE is now set correctly depending on the 
    FastSchedule configuration parameter.
 -- Correction to topology/3d_torus plugin calculation when coordinate value 
    exceeds "9" (i.e. a hex value).
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Strip single and double quotes out of a node's reason 
    string to avoid confusing Moab's parser.
 -- Modified scancel to cancel any pending jobs before cancelling any other
 -- Updated sview config info
 -- Fix a couple of bugs with respect to scheduling with overlapping 
    reservations (one with a flag of "Maintenance").
 -- Fix bug when updating a pending job's nice value after explicitly setting
    it's priority.
 -- We no longer add blank QOS'
 -- Fix task affinity for systems running fastschedule!=0 and they have less 
    resources configured than in existence.
 -- Slurm.pm loads without warning now on AIX systems
 -- modified pmi code to do strncpy's on the correct len
 -- Fix for filling in a qos structure to return SLURM_SUCCESS on success.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added SLURM_BG_NUM_NODES with cnode count of allocation, 
    SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES represents midplane counts until 2.1.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added fix for if a block is in error state and the midplane 
    containing the block is also set to drain/down.  This previously 
    prevented dynamic creation of new blocks when this state was present.
 -- Fixed bug where a users association limits were not enforced, only 
    parent limits were being enforced.
 -- For OpenMPI use of SLURM reserved ports, reserve a count of ports equal to 
    the maximum task count on any node plus one (the plus one is a correction).
 -- Do not reset SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE when srun --preserve-env option is used
    (needed by OpenMPI).
 -- Fix possible assert failure in task/affinity if a node is configured with
    more resources than physically exist.
 -- Sview can now resize columns.
 -- Avoid clearing a drained node's reason field when state is changed from
    down (i.e. returned to service). Note the drain state flag stays set.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.4
========================
 -- Permit node suspend/resume logic to be enabled through "scontrol reconfig"
    given appropriate changes to slurm configuration file.
 -- Check for return codes on functions with warn_unused_result set.
 -- Fix memory leak in getting step information (as used by squeue -s).
 -- Better logging for when job's request bad output file locations.
 -- Fix issue where if user specified non-existant file to write to slurmstepd
    will regain privileges before sending batch script ended to the controller.
 -- Fix bug when using the priority_multifactor plugin with no associations 
    yet.
 -- BLUEGENE - we no longer check for the images to sync state.  This was 
    needed long ago when rebooting blocks wasn't a possibility and should 
    had been removed when that functionality was available.
 -- Added message about no connection with the database for sacctmgr.
 -- On BlueGene, let srun or salloc exit on SIGINT if slurmctld dies while
    booting its block.
 -- In select/cons_res fix bug that could result in invalid memory pointer
    if node configurations in slurm.conf contains 8 or more distinct 
    socket/core/thread counts.
 -- Modify select/cons_res to recognize updated memory size upon node startup
    if FastSchedule=0.
 -- Fixed bug if not enforcing associations, but running with them and the 
    priority/multifactor, the slurmctld will not core dump on processing usage.
 -- QOS will not be reset to the default when added back a previously deleted
    association.
 -- Do not set a job's virtual memory limit based upon the job's specified
    memory limit (which should be a real memory limit, not virtual).
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for sinfo/sview for displaying proper node count for nodes 
    in draining state.
 -- Fix for sview when viewing a certain part of a group (like 1 job) so it 
    doesn't core when the part is gone.
 -- BLUEGENE - Changed order of SYNC's to be on the front of the list to
    avoid having a job terminated with a TERM before the SYNC of the 
    job happens.
 -- Validate configured PluginDir value is a valid directory before trying to
    use it.
 -- Fix to resolve agent_queue_request symbol from some checkpoint plugins.
 -- Fix possible execve error for sbatch script read from stdin.
 -- Modify handling of user ID/name and group ID/name in the slurm.conf file
    to properly handle user names that contain all digits. Return error code 
    from uid_from_string() and gid_from_string() functions rather than a uid of
    -1, which might be a valid uid or gid on some systems.
 -- Fix in re-calcuation of job priorities due to DOWN or DRAINED nodes.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.3
========================
 -- Add reservation creation/update flag of Ignore_Jobs to enable the creation
    of a reservation that overlaps jobs expected to still be running when
    the reservation starts. This would be especially useful to reserve all 
    nodes for system maintenence without adjusting time limits of running
    jobs before creating the reservation. Without this flag, nodes allocated
    jobs expected to running when the reservation begins can not be placed 
    into a reservation.
 -- In task/affinity plugin, add layer of abstraction to logic translating
    block masks to physical machine masks. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix for setting the node_bitmap in a job to NULL if the job does not 
    start correctly when expected to start.
 -- Fixed bug in srun --pty logic. Output from the task was split up 
    arbitrarily into stdout and stderr streams, and sometimes was printed 
    out of order.
 -- If job requests minimum and maximum node count range with select/cons_res,
    try to satisfy the higher value (formerly only allocated the minimum).
 -- Fix for checking for a non-existant job when querying steps.
 -- For job steps with the --exclusive option, base initial wait time in 
    partly upon the process ID for better performance with many job steps 
    started at the same time. Maintain exponential back-off as needed.
 -- Fix for correct step ordering in sview.
 -- Support optional argument to srun and salloc --immediate option. Specify
    timeout value in seconds for job or step to be allocated resources.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.2
========================
 -- Fix, don't remove job details when a job is cancelled while pending.
 -- Do correct type for mktime so garbage isn't returned on 64bit systems 
    for accounting archival.
 -- Better checking in sacctmgr to avoid infinite loops.
 -- Fix minor memory leak in fake_slurm_step_layout_create()
 -- Fix node weight (scheduling priority) calculation for powered down
    nodes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix node suspend/resume rate calculations. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Change calculations using ResumeRate and SuspendRate to provide higher
    resolution.
 -- Log the IP address for incoming messages having an invalid protocol 
    version number.
 -- Fix for sacct to show jobs that start the same second as the sacct
    command is issued.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for -n option to work on correct cpu counts for each 
    midplane instead of treating -n as a c-node count.
 -- salloc now sets SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE if --ntasks-per-node option is set.
 -- Fix select/linear to properly set a job's count of allocated processors
    (all processors on the allocated nodes).
 -- Fix select/cons_res to allocate proper CPU count when --ntasks-per-node
    option is used without a task count in the job request.
 -- Insure that no node is allocated to a job for which the CPU count is less
    than --ntasks-per-node * --cpus-per-task.
 -- Correct AllocProcs reported by "scontrol show node" when ThreadsPerCore
    is greater than 1 and select/cons_res is used.
 -- Fix scontrol show config for accounting information when values are 
    not set in the slurm.conf.
 -- Added a set of SBATCH_CPU_BIND* and SBATCH_MEM_BIND* env variables to keep
    jobsteps launched from within a batch script from inheriting the CPU and
    memory affinity that was applied to the batch script. Patch from Matthieu
    Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Ignore the extra processors on a node above configured size if either 
    sched/gang or select/cons_res is configured.
 -- Fix bug in tracking memory allocated on a node for select/cons_res plugin.
 -- Fixed a race condition when writing labelled output with a file per task
    or per node, which potentially closed a file before all data was written.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix, for if a job comes in spanning both less than and 
    over 1 midplane in size we check the connection type appropriately.
 -- Make sched/backfill properly schedule jobs with constraints having node 
    counts. NOTE: Backfill of jobs with constraings having exclusive OR 
    operators are not fully supported.  
 -- If srun is cancelled by SIGINT, set the job state to cancelled, not 
    failed.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix, for if you are setting an subbp into an error mode 
    where the subbp stated isn't the first ionode in a nodecard.
 -- Fix for backfill to not core when checking shared nodes.
 -- Fix for scontrol to not core when hitting just return in interactive mode.
 -- Improve sched/backfill logic with respect to shared nodes (multiple jobs
    per node).
 -- In sched/wiki (Maui interface) add job info fields QOS, RCLASS, DMEM and
    TASKSPERNODE. Patch from Bjorn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.1
========================
 -- Fix, truncate time of start and end for job steps in sacct.
 -- Initialize all messages to slurmdbd. Previously uninitialized string could
    cause slurmctld to fail with invalid memory reference.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix, for when trying to finish a torus on a block already 
    visited.  Even though this may be possible electrically this isn't valid
    in the under lying infrastructure.
 -- Fix, in mysql plugins change mediumints to int to support full 32bit 
    numbers.
 -- Add sinfo node state filtering support for NO_RESPOND, POWER_SAVE, FAIL, 
    MAINT, DRAINED and DRAINING states. The state filter of DRAIN still maps
    to any node in either DRAINED or DRAINING state.
 -- Fix reservation logic when job requests specific nodes that are already
    in some reservation the job can not use.
 -- Fix recomputation of a job's end time when allocated nodes which are
    being powered up. The end time would be set in the past if the job's
    time limit was INFINITE, resulting in it being prematurely terminated.
 -- Permit regular user to change the time limit of his pending jobs up to
    the partition's limit.
 -- Fix "-Q" (quiet) option for salloc and sbatch which was previously 
    ignored.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for finding odd shaped blocks in dynamic mode.
 -- Fix logic supporting SuspendRate and ResumeRate configuration parameters.
    Previous logic was changing state of one too many nodes per minute.
 -- Save new reservation state file on shutdown (even if no changes).
 -- Fix, when partitions are deleted the sched and select plugins are notified.
 -- Fix for slurmdbd to create wckeyid's when they don't exist
 -- Fix linking problem that prevented checkpoint/aix from working.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0
========================
 -- Fix for bluegene systems to be able to create 32 node blocks with only 
    16 psets defined in dynamic layout mode.
 -- Improve srun_cr handling of child srun forking. Patch from Hongjia Cao, 
    NUDT.
 -- Configuration parameter ResumeDelay replaced by SuspendTimeout and 
    ResumeTimeout.
 -- BLUEGENE - sview/sinfo now displays correct cnode numbers for drained nodes
    or blocks in error state.
 -- Fix some batch job launch bugs when powering up suspended nodes.
 -- Added option '-T' for sacct to truncate time of start and end and set
    default of --starttime to Midnight of current day.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0-rc2
============================
 -- Change fanout logic to start on calling node instead of first node in 
    message nodelist.
 -- Fix bug so that smap builds properly on Sun Constellation system.
 -- Filter white-space out from node feature specification.
 -- Fixed issue with duration not being honored when updating start time in 
    reservations.
 -- Fix bug in sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 plugins for reporting job resource
    allocation properly when node names are configured out of sort order 
    with more than one numeric suffix (e.g. "tux10-1" is configured after 
    "tux5-1").
 -- Avoid re-use of job_id (if specified at submit time) when the existing
    job is in completing state (possible race condition with Moab).
 -- Added SLURM_DISTRIBUTION to env for salloc.
 -- Add support for "scontrol takeover" command for backup controller to 
    assume control immediately. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- If srun is unable to communicate with the slurmd tasks are now marked as 
    failed with the controller.
 -- Fixed issues with requeued jobs not being accounted for correctly in 
    the accounting.
 -- Clear node's POWER_SAVE flag if configuration changes to one lacking a
    ResumeProgram.
 -- Extend a job's time limit as appropriate due to delays powering up nodes.
 -- If sbatch is used to launch a job step within an existing allocation (as
    used by LSF) and the required node is powered down, print the message
    "Job step creation temporarily disabled, retrying", sleep, and retry.
 -- Configuration parameter ResumeDelay added to control how much time must 
    after a node has been suspended before resume it (e.g. powering it back 
    up).
 -- Fix CPU binding for batch program. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix for front end systems non-responding nodes now show up correctly in
    sinfo.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0-rc1
============================
 -- Fix bug in preservation of advanced reservations when slurmctld restarts.
 -- Updated perlapi to match correctly with slurm.h structures
 -- Do not install the srun command on BlueGene systems (mpirun must be used to
    launch tasks).
 -- Corrections to scheduling logic for topology/tree in configurations where 
    nodes are configured in multiple leaf switches.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux for backup mysql deamon support.
 -- Changed DbdBackup to DbdBackupHost for slurmdbd.conf file
 -- Add support for spank_strerror() function and improve error handling in
    general for SPANK plugins.
 -- Added configuration parameter SrunIOTimeout to optionally ping srun's tasks
    for better fault tolerance (e.g. killed and restarteed SLURM daemons on 
    compute node).
 -- Add slurmctld and slurmd binding to appropriate communications address
    based upon NodeAddr, ControllerAddr and BackupAddr configuration 
    parameters. Based upon patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
    NOTE: Fails when SlurmDBD is configured with some configurations.
    NOTE: You must define BIND_SPECIFIC_ADDR to enable this option.
 -- Avoid using powered down nodes when scheduling work if possible. 
    Fix possible invalid memory reference in power save logic.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre13
==============================
 -- Added new partition option AllocNodes which controls the hosts from 
    which jobs can be submitted to this partition. From Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Better support the --contiguous option for job allocations.
 -- Add new scontrol option: show topology (reports contents of topology.conf 
    file via RPC if topology/tree plugin is configured).
 -- Add advanced reservation display to smap command.
 -- Replaced remaining references to SLURM_JOBID with SLURM_JOB_ID - except
    when needed for backwards compatibility.
 -- Fix logic to properly excise a DOWN node from the allocation of a job
    with the --no-kill option.
 -- The MySQL and PgSQL plugins for accounting storage and job completion are
    now only built if the underlying database libraries exists (previously
    the plugins were built to produce a fatal error when used).
 -- BLUEGENE - scontrol show config will now display bluegene.conf information.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre12
==============================
 -- Added support for hard time limit by associations with added configuration 
    option PriorityUsageResetPeriod. This specifies the interval at which to 
    clear the record of time used. This is currently only available with the 
    priority/multifactor plugin.
 -- Added SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR to sbatch's output environment variables.
 -- Backup slurmdbd support implemented.
 -- Update to checkpoint/xlch logic from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Added configuration parameter AccountingStorageBackupHost.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre11
==============================
 -- Fix slurm.spec file for RPM build.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre10
==============================
 -- Critical bug fix in task/affinity when the CoresPerSocket is greater
    than the ThreadsPerCore (invalid memory reference).
 -- Add DebugFlag parameter of "Wiki" to log sched/wiki and wiki2 
    communications in greater detail.
 -- Add "-d <slurmstepd_path>" as an option to the slurmd daemon to
    specifying a non-stardard slurmstepd file, used  for testing purposes.
 -- Minor cleanup to crypto/munge plugin.
    - Restrict uid allowed to decode job credentials in crypto/munge
    - Get slurm user id early in crypto/munge
    - Remove buggy error code handling in crypto/munge
 -- Added sprio command - works only with the priority/multifactor plugin
 -- Add real topology plugin infrastructure (it was initially added 
    directly into slurmctld code). To specify topology information,
    set TopologyType=topology/tree and add configuration information
    to a new file called topology.conf. See "man topology.conf" or
    topology.html web page for details.
 -- Set "/proc/self/oom_adj" for slurmd and slurmstepd daemons based upon
    the values of SLURMD_OOM_ADJ and SLURMSTEPD_OOM_ADJ environment 
    variables. This can be used to prevent daemons being killed when
    a node's memory is exhausted. Based upon patch by Hongjia  Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix several bugs in task/affinity: cpuset logic was broken and 
    --cpus-per-task option not properly handled.
 -- Ensure slurmctld adopts SlurmUser GID as well as UID on startup.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre9
=============================
 -- OpenMPI users only: Add srun logic to automatically recreate and 
    re-launch a job step if the step fails with a reserved port conflict.
 -- Added TopologyPlugin configuration parameter.
 -- Added switch topology data structure to slurmctld (for use by select 
    plugin) add load it based upon new slurm.conf parameters: SwitchName, 
    Nodes, Switches and LinkSpeed.
 -- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res plugins to optimize resource
    allocation with respect to network topology.
 -- Added  support for new configuration parameter EpilogSlurmctld (executed 
    by slurmctld daemon).
 -- Added checkpoint/blcr plugin, SLURM now support job checkpoint/restart 
    using BLCR. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT, China.
 -- Made a variety of new environment variables available to PrologSlurmctld
    and EpilogSlurmctld. See the "Prolog and Epilog Scripts" section of the 
    slurm.conf man page for details.
 -- NOTE: Cold-start (without preserving state) required for upgrade from 
    version 1.4.0-pre8.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre8
=============================
 -- In order to create a new partition using the scontrol command, use
    the "create" option rather than "update" (which will only operate
    upon partitions that already exist).
 -- Added environment variable SLURM_RESTART_COUNT to batch jobs to
    indicated the count of job restarts made.
 -- Added sacctmgr command "show config".
 -- Added the scancel option --nodelist to cancel any jobs running on a
    given list of nodes.
 -- Add partition-specific DefaultTime (default time limit for jobs, 
    if not specified use MaxTime for the partition. Patch from Par
    Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
 -- Add support for the scontrol command to be able change the Weight
    associated with nodes. Patch from Krishnakumar Ravi[KK] (HP).
 -- Add DebugFlag configuration option of "CPU_Bind" for detailed CPU
    binding information to be logged.
 -- Fix some significant bugs in task binding logic (possible infinite loops
    and memory corruption).
 -- Add new node state flag of NODE_STATE_MAINT indicating the node is in
    a reservation of type MAINT.
 -- Modified task/affinity plugin to automatically bind tasks to sockets,
    cores, or threads as appropriated based upon resource allocation and
    task count. User can override with srun's --cpu_bind option. 
 -- Fix bug in backfill logic for select/cons_res plugin, resulted in 
    error "cons_res:_rm_job_from_res: node_state mis-count".
 -- Add logic go bind a batch job to the resources allocated to that job.
 -- Add configuration parameter MpiParams for (future) OpenMPI port 
    management. Add resv_port_cnt and resv_ports fields to the job step 
    data structures. Add environment variable SLURM_STEP_RESV_PORTS to
    show what ports are reserved for a job step.
 -- Add support for SchedulerParameters=interval=<sec> to control the time
    interval between executions of the backfill scheduler logic.
 -- Preserve record of last job ID in use even when doing a cold-start unless
    there is no job state file or there is a change in its format (which only 
    happens when there is a change in SLURM's major or minor version number: 
    v1.3 -> v1.4).
 -- Added new configuration parameter KillOnBadExit to kill a job step as soon
    as any task of a job step exits with a non-zero exit code. Patch based
    on work from Eric Lin, Bull.
 -- Add spank plugin calls for use by salloc and sbatch command, see 
    "man spank" for details.
 -- NOTE: Cold-start (without preserving state) required for upgrade from 
    version 1.4.0-pre7.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Bug fix for preemption with select/cons_res when there are no idle nodes.
 -- Bug fix for use of srun options --exclusive and --cpus-per-task together
    for job step resource allocation (tracking of cpus in use was bad).
 -- Added the srun option --preserve-env to pass the current values of 
    environment variables SLURM_NNODES and SLURM_NPROCS through to the 
    executable, rather than computing them from commandline parameters.
 -- For select/cons_res or sched/gang only: Validate a job's resource 
    allocation socket and core count on each allocated node. If the node's
    configuration has been changed, then abort the job.
 -- For select/cons_res or sched/gang only: Disable updating a node's 
    processor count if FastSchedule=0. Administrators must set a valid
    processor count although the memory and disk space configuration can
    be loaded from the compute node when it starts.
 -- Add configure option "--disable-iso8601" to disable SLURM use of ISO 8601
    time format at the time of SLURM build. Default output for all commands
    is now ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss).
 -- Add support for scontrol to explicity power a node up or down using the
    configured SuspendProg and ResumeProg programs.
 -- Fix book select/cons_res logic for tracking the number of allocated
    CPUs on a node when a partition's Shared value is YES or FORCE.
 -- Added configure options "--enable-cray-xt" and "--with-apbasil=PATH" for
    eventual support of Cray-XT systems.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Fix job preemption when sched/gang and select/linear are configured with
    non-sharing partitions.
 -- In select/cons_res insure that required nodes have available resources.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Correction in setting of SLURM_CPU_BIND environment variable.
 -- Rebuild slurmctld's job select_jobinfo->node_bitmap on restart/reconfigure
    of the daemon rather than restoring the bitmap since the nodes in a system
    can change (be added or removed).
 -- Add configuration option "--with-cpusetdir=PATH" for non-standard 
    locations.
 -- Get new multi-core data structures working on BlueGene systems.
 -- Modify PMI_Get_clique_ranks() to return an array of integers rather 
    than a char * to satisfy PMI standard. Correct logic in 
    PMI_Get_clique_size() for when srun --overcommit option is used.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res, allocated a job all of the processors on a 
    node when the --exclusive option is specified as a job submit option.
 -- Add NUMA cpu_bind support to the task affinity plugin. Binds tasks to
    a set of CPUs that belong NUMA locality domain with the appropriate
    --cpu-bind option (ldoms, rank_ldom, map_ldom, and mask_ldom), see
    "man srun" for more information.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre4
=============================
 -- For task/affinity, force jobs to use a particular task binding by setting
    the TaskPluginParam configuration parameter rather than slurmd's
    SLURM_ENFORCED_CPU_BIND environment variable.
 -- Enable full preemption of jobs by partition with select/cons_res 
    (cons_res_preempt.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Add configuration parameter DebugFlags to provide detailed logging for
    specific subsystems (steps and triggers so far).
 -- srun's --no-kill option is passed to slurmctld so that a job step is 
    killed even if the node where srun executes goes down (unless the 
    --no-kill option is used, previous termination logic would fail if 
    srun was not responding).
 -- Transfer a job step's core bitmap from the slurmctld to the slurmd
    within the job step credential.
 -- Add cpu_bind, cpu_bind_type, mem_bind and mem_bind_type to job allocation
    request and job_details structure in slurmctld. Add support to --cpu_bind
    and --mem_bind options from salloc and sbatch commands.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Internal changes: CPUs per node changed from 32-bit to 16-bit size.
    Node count fields changed from 16-bit to 32-bit size in some structures.
 -- Remove select plugin functions select_p_get_extra_jobinfo(),
    select_p_step_begin() and select_p_step_fini().
 -- Remove the following slurmctld job structure fields: num_cpu_groups,
    cpus_per_node, cpu_count_reps, alloc_lps_cnt, alloc_lps, and used_lps.
    Use equivalent fields in new "select_job" structure, which is filled
    in by the select plugins.
 -- Modify mem_per_task in job step request from 16-bit to 32-bit size.
    Use new "select_job" structure for the job step's memory management.
 -- Add core_bitmap_job to slurmctld's job step structure to identify
    which specific cores are allocated to the step.
 -- Add new configuration option OverTimeLimit to permit jobs to exceed 
    their (soft) time limit by a configurable amount. Backfill scheduling
    will be based upon the soft time limit.
 -- Remove select_g_get_job_cores(). That data is now within the slurmctld's
    job structure.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Remove srun's --ctrl-comm-ifhn-addr option (for PMI/MPICH2). It is no
    longer needed.
 -- Modify power save mode so that nodes can be powered off when idle. See
    https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/power_save.html or 
    "man slurm.conf" (SuspendProgram and related parameters) for more 
    information.
 -- Added configuration parameter PrologSlurmctld, which can be used to boot
    nodes into a particular state for each job. See "man slurm.conf" for 
    details.
 -- Add configuration parameter CompleteTime to control how long to wait for 
    a job's completion before allocating already released resources to pending
    jobs. This can be used to reduce fragmentation of resources. See
    "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Make default CryptoType=crypto/munge. OpenSSL is now completely optional.
 -- Make default AuthType=auth/munge rather than auth/none.
 -- Change output format of "sinfo -R" from "%35R %N" to "%50R %N".

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre1
=============================
 -- Save/restore a job's task_distribution option on slurmctld retart.
    NOTE: SLURM must be cold-started on converstion from version 1.3.x.
 -- Remove task_mem from job step credential (only job_mem is used now).
 -- Remove --task-mem and --job-mem options from salloc, sbatch and srun
    (use --mem-per-cpu or --mem instead).
 -- Remove DefMemPerTask from slurm.conf (use DefMemPerCPU or DefMemPerNode
    instead).
 -- Modify slurm_step_launch API call. Move launch host from function argument
    to element in the data structure slurm_step_launch_params_t, which is
    used as a function argument.
 -- Add state_reason_string to job state with optional details about why
    a job is pending.
 -- Make "scontrol show node" output match scontrol input for some fields
    ("Cores" changed to "CoresPerSocket", etc.).
 -- Add support for a new node state "FUTURE" in slurm.conf. These node records
    are created in SLURM tables for future use without a reboot of the SLURM
    daemons, but are not reported by any SLURM commands or APIs.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.17
=========================
 -- Fix bug in configure script that can clear user specified LIBS.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.16
=========================
 -- Fix memory leak in forward logic of tree message passing.
 -- Fix job exit code recorded for srun job allocation.
 -- Bluegene - Bug fix for too many parameters being passed to a debug statement
 -- Bluegene - Bug fix for systems running more than 8 in the X dim running
    Dynamic mode.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.15
=========================
 -- Fix bug in squeue command with sort on job name ("-S j" option) for jobs
    that lack a name. Previously generated an invalid memory reference.
 -- Permit the TaskProlog to write to the job's standard output by writing
    a line containing the prefix "print " to it's standard output.
 -- Fix for making the slurmdbd agent thread start up correctly when 
    stopped and then started again.
 -- Add squeue option to report jobs by account (-U or --account). Patch from
    Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
 -- Add -DNUMA_VERSION1_COMPATIBILITY to Makefile CFLAGS for proper behavior
    when building with NUMA version 2 APIs.
 -- BLUEGENE - slurm works on a BGP system.
 -- BLUEGENE - slurm handles HTC blocks
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option DenyPassthrough in the bluegene.conf.  Can be set
    to any combination of X,Y,Z to not allow passthroughs when running in 
    dynamic layout mode.
 -- Fix bug in logic to remove a job's dependency, could result in abort.
 -- Add new error message to sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui and Moab) for
    STARTJOB request: "TASKLIST includes non-responsive nodes".
 -- Fix bug in select/linear when used with sched/gang that can result in a 
    job's required or excluded node specification being ignored.
 -- Add logic to handle message connect timeouts (timed-out.patch from 
    Chuck Clouston, Bull).
 -- BLUEGENE - CFLAGS=-m64 is no longer required in configure
 -- Update python-hostlist code from Kent Engström (NSC) to v1.5
    - Add hostgrep utility to search for lines matching a hostlist.
    - Make each "-" on the command line count as one hostlist argument.
      If multiple hostslists are given on stdin they are combined to a
      union hostlist before being used in the way requested by the
      options.
 -- When using -j option in sacct no user restriction will applied unless
    specified with the -u option.
 -- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, change logging of wiki message traffic
    from debug() to debug2(). Only seen if SlurmctldDebug is configured to
    6 or higher.
 -- Significant speed up for association based reports in sreport
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for checking if job can run with downed nodes.  Previously 
    sbatch etc would tell you node configuration not available now jobs are 
    accepted but held until nodes are back up.
 -- Fix in accounting so if any nodes are removed from the system when they 
    were previously down will be recorded correctly.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), add flag to note if job is restartable and
    prevent deadlock of job requeue fails.
 -- Modify squeue to return non-zero exit code on failure. Patch from
    Par Andersson (NSC).
 -- Correct logic in select/cons_res to allocate a job the maximum node
    count from a range rather than minimum (e.g. "sbatch -N1-4 my.sh").
 -- In accounting_storage/filetxt and accounting_storage/pgsql fix 
    possible invalid memory reference when a job lacks a name.
 -- Give srun command an exit code of 1 if the prolog fails.
 -- BLUEGENE - allows for checking nodecard states in the system instead 
    of midplane state so as to not down an entire midplane if you don't 
    have to.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix creation of MESH blocks 
 -- BLUEGENE - on job cancellation we call jm_cancel_job and then wait until
    the system cleans up the job.  Before we would send a SIGKILL right 
    at the beginning. 
 -- BLUEGENE - if a user specifies a node count that can not be met the job 
    will be refused instead of before the plugin would search for the next 
    larger size that could be created.  This prevents users asking for 
    things that can't be created, and then getting something back they might 
    not be expecting.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.14
=========================
 -- SECURITY BUG: Fix in sbcast logic that permits users to write files based
    upon supplimental groups of the slurmd daemon. Similar logic for event
    triggers if slurmctld is run as user root (not typical).

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.13
=========================
 -- Added ability for slurmdbd to archive and purge step and/or job records.
 -- Added DefaultQOS as an option to slurmdbd.conf for when clusters are 
    added the default will be set to this if none is given in the sacctmgr line.
 -- Added configure option --enable-sun-const for Sun Constellation system with
    3D torus interconnect. Supports proper smap and sview displays for 3-D
    topology. Node names are automatically put into Hilbert curve order given
    a one-line nodelist definition in slurm.conf (e.g. NodeNames=sun[000x533]). 
 -- Fixed bug in parsing time for sacct and sreport to pick the correct year if
    none is specified.
 -- Provide better scheduling with overlapping partitions (when a job can not
    be scheduled due to insufficient resources, reserve specific the nodes
    associated with that partition rather than blocking all partitions with
    any overlapping nodes).
 -- Correct logic to log in a job's stderr that it was "CANCELLED DUE TO 
    NODE FAILURE" rather than just "CANCELLED".
 -- Fix to crypto/openssl plugin that could result in job launch requests
    being spoofed through the use of an improperly formed credential. This bug 
    could permit a user to launch tasks on compute nodes not allocated for 
    their use, but will NOT permit them to run tasks as another user. For more 
    information see http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.12
=========================
 -- Added support for Workload Characteristic Key (WCKey) in accounting.  The
    WCkey is something that can be used in accounting to group associations
    together across clusters or within clusters that are not related.  Use 
    the --wckey option in srun, sbatch or salloc or set the SLURM_WCKEY env
    var to have this set. Use sreport with the wckey option to view reports.
    THIS CHANGES THE RPC LEVEL IN THE SLURMDBD.  YOU MUST UPGRADE YOUR SLURMDBD
    BEFORE YOU UPGRADE THE REST OF YOUR CLUSTERS.  THE NEW SLURMDBD WILL TALK 
    TO OLDER VERSIONS OF SLURM FINE.
 -- Added configuration parameter BatchStartTimeout to control how long to 
    allow for a batch job prolog and environment loading (for Moab) to run.
    Previously if job startup took too long, a batch job could be cancelled
    before fully starting with a SlurmctldLog message of "Master node lost 
    JobId=#, killing it".  See "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- For a job step, add support for srun's --nodelist and --exclusive options
    to be used together.
 -- On slurmstepd failure, set node state to DRAIN rather than DOWN.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res that would incorrectly satify a tasks's
    --cpus-per-task specification by allocating the task CPUs on more than
    one node.
 -- Add support for hostlist expressions containing up to two numeric 
    expressions (e.g. "rack[0-15]_blade[0-41]").
 -- Fix bug in slurmd message forwarding which left file open in the case of
    some communication failures.
 -- Correction to sinfo node state information on BlueGene systems. DRAIN
    state was replaced with ALLOC or IDLE under some situations.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), strip quotes embedded within job names from the
    name reported.
 -- Fix bug in jobcomp/script that could cause the slurmctld daemon to exit
    upon reconfiguration ("scontrol reconfig" or SIGHUP).
 -- Fix to sinfo, don't print a node's memory size or tmp_disk space with 
    suffix of "K" or "M" (thousands or millions of megabytes).
 -- Improve efficiency of scheduling jobs into partitions which do not overlap.
 -- Fixed sreport user top report to only display the limit specified 
    instead of all users.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.11
=========================
 -- Bluegene/P support added (minimally tested, but builds correctly).
 -- Fix infinite loop when using accounting_storage/mysql plugin either from
    the slurmctld or slurmdbd daemon.
 -- Added more thread safety for assoc_mgr in the controller.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), permit clearing of a job's dependencies with the 
    JOB_MODIFY option "DEPEND=0".
 -- Do not set a running or pending job's EndTime when changing it's time 
    limit.
 -- Fix bug in use of "include" parameter within the plugstack.conf file.
 -- Fix bug in the parsing of negative numeric values in configuration files.
 -- Propagate --cpus-per-task parameter from salloc or sbatch input line to
    the SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK environment variable in the spawned shell for 
    srun to use.
 -- Add support for srun --cpus_per_task=0. This can be used to spawn tasks
    without allocating resouces for the job step from the job's allocation
    when running multiple job steps with the --exclusive option.
 -- Remove registration messages from saved messages when bringing down cluster.
    Without causes deadlock if wrong cluster name is given.
 -- Correction to build for srun debugger (export symbols).
 -- sacct will now display more properly allocations made with salloc with only 
    one step.
 -- Altered sacctmgr, sreport to look at complete option before applying. 
    Before we would only look at the first determined significant characters.
 -- BLUGENE - in overlap mode marking a block to error state will now end
    jobs on overlapping blocks and free them.
 -- Give a batch job 20 minutes to start before considering it missing and 
    killing it (long delay could result from slurmd being paged out). Changed
    the log message from "Master node lost JobId=%u, killing it" to "Batch 
    JobId=%u missing from master node, killing it".
 -- Avoid "Invalid node id" error when a job step within an existing job 
    allocation specifies a node count which is less than the node count
    allocated in order to satisfy the task count specification (e.g. 
    "srun -n16 -N1 hostname" on allocation of 16 one-CPU nodes).
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab) disable changing a job's name after it has begun
    execution.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.10
=========================
 -- Fix several bugs in the hostlist functions:
    - Fix hostset_insert_range() to do proper accounting of hl->nhosts (count).
    - Avoid assertion failure when callinsg hostset_create(NULL).
    - Fix return type of hostlist and hostset string functions from size_t to
      ssize_t.
    - Add check for NULL return from hostlist_create().
    - Rewrite of hostrange_hn_within(), avoids reporting "tst0" in the hostlist
      "tst".
 -- Modify squeue to accept "--nodes=<hostlist>" rather than 
    "--node=<node_name>" and report all jobs with any allocated nodes from set
    of nodes specified. From Par Anderson, National Supercomputer Centre, 
    Sweden.
 -- Fix bug preventing use of TotalView debugger with TaskProlog configured or 
    or srun's --task-prolog option.
 -- Improve reliability of batch job requeue logic in the event that the slurmd
    daemon is temporarily non-responsive (for longer than the configured
    MessageTimeout value but less than the SlurmdTimeout value).
 -- In sched/wiki2 (Moab) report a job's MAXNODES (maximum number of permitted
    nodes).
 -- Fixed SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE to live up more to it's name on an allocation. 
    Will now contain the number of tasks per node instead of the number of CPUs
    per node.  This is only for a resource allocation. Job steps already have 
    the environment variable set correctly.
 -- Configuration parameter PropagateResourceLimits has new option of "NONE".
 -- User's --propagate options take precidence over PropagateResourceLimits
    configuration parameter in both srun and sbatch commands.
 -- When Moab is in use (salloc or sbatch is executed with the --get-user-env
    option to be more specific), load the user's default resource limits rather
    than propagating the Moab daemon's limits.
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld restart logic for recovery of batch jobs that are
    initiated as a job step rather than an independent job (used for LSF).
 -- Fix bug that can cause slurmctld restart to fail, bug introduced in SLURM
    version 1.3.9. From Eygene Ryabinkin, Kurchatov Institute, Russia.
 -- Permit slurmd configuration parameters to be set to new values from 
    previously unset values.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.9
========================
 -- Fix jobs being cancelled by ctrl-C to have correct cancelled state in 
    accounting.
 -- Slurmdbd will only cache user data, made for faster start up
 -- Improved support for job steps in FRONT_END systems
 -- Added support to dump and load association information in the controller
    on start up if slurmdbd is unresponsive
 -- BLUEGENE - Added support for sched/backfill plugin
 -- sched/backfill modified to initiate multiple jobs per cycle.
 -- Increase buffer size in srun to hold task list expressions. Critical 
    for jobs with 16k tasks or more.
 -- Added support for eligible jobs and downed nodes to be sent to accounting
    from the controller the first time accounting is turned on.
 -- Correct srun logic to support --tasks-per-node option without task count.
 -- Logic in place to handle multiple versions of RPCs within the slurmdbd. 
    THE SLURMDBD MUST BE UPGRADED TO THIS VERSION BEFORE UPGRADING THE 
    SLURMCTLD OR THEY WILL NOT TALK.  
    Older versions of the slurmctld will continue to talk to the new slurmdbd.
 -- Add support for new job dependency type: singleton. Only one job from a 
    given user with a given name will execute with this dependency type.
    From Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Updated contribs/python/hostlist to version 1.3: See "CHANGES" file in
    that directory for details. From Kent Engström, NSC.
 -- Add SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable for jobs submitted using sbatch.
    In order to prevent the job steps from all having the same name as the 
    batch job that spawned them, the SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable is
    ignored when setting the name of a job step from within an existing 
    resource allocation.
 -- For use with sched/wiki2 (Moab only), set salloc's default shell based 
    upon the user who the job runs as rather than the user submitting the job 
    (user root).
 -- Fix to sched/backfill when job specifies no time limit and the partition
    time limit is INFINITE.
 -- Validate a job's constraints (node features) at job submit or modification 
    time. Major re-write of resource allocation logic to support more complex
    job feature requests.
 -- For sched/backfill, correct logic to support job constraint specification
    (e.g. node features).
 -- Correct power save logic to avoid trying to wake DOWN node. From Matthieu
    Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Cancel a job step when one of it's nodes goes DOWN based upon the job 
    step's --no-kill option, by default the step is killed (previously the 
    job step remained running even without the --no-kill option).
 -- Fix bug in logic to remove whitespace from plugstack.conf.
 -- Add new configuration parameter SallocDefaultCommand to control what 
    shell that salloc launches by default.
 -- When enforcing PrivateData configuration parameter, failures return 
    "Access/permission denied" rather than "Invalid user id".
 -- From sbatch and srun, if the --dependency option is specified then set 
    the environment variable SLURM_JOB_DEPENDENCY to the same value.
 -- In plugin jobcomp/filetxt, use ISO8601 formats for time by default (e.g. 
    YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS rather than MM/DD-HH:MM:SS). This restores the default
    behavior from Slurm version 1.2. Change the value of USE_ISO8601 in
    src/plusings/jobcomp/filetxt/jobcomp_filetxt.c to revert the behavior.
 -- Add support for configuration option of ReturnToService=2, which will 
    return a DOWN to use if the node was previous set DOWN for any reason.
 -- Removed Gold accounting plugin.  This plugin was to be used for accounting 
    but has seen not been maintained and is no longer needed.  If using this
    please contact slurm-dev@llnl.gov.
 -- When not enforcing associations and running accounting if a user 
    submits a job to an account that does not have an association on the 
    cluster the account will be changed to the default account to help 
    avoid trash in the accounting system.  If the users default account 
    does not have an association on the cluster the requested account 
    will be used.
 -- Add configuration parameter "--have-front-end" to define HAVE_FRONT_END 
    in config.h and run slurmd only on a front end (suitable only for SLURM
    development and testing).

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.8
========================
 -- Added PrivateData flags for Users, Usage, and Accounts to Accounting. 
    If using slurmdbd, set in the slurmdbd.conf file. Otherwise set in the 
    slurm.conf file.  See "man slurm.conf" or "man slurmdbd.conf" for details.
 -- Reduce frequency of resending job kill RPCs. Helpful in the event of 
    network problems or down nodes.
 -- Fix memory leak caused under heavy load when running with select/cons_res
    plus sched/backfill.
 -- For salloc, if no local command is specified, execute the user's default
    shell.
 -- BLUEGENE - patch to make sure when starting a job blocks required to be
    freed are checked to make sure no job is running on them.  If one is found
    we will requeue the new job.  No job will be lost.
 -- BLUEGENE - Set MPI environment variables from salloc.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix threading issue for overlap mode
 -- Reject batch scripts containing DOS linebreaks.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added wait for block boot to salloc

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.7
========================
 -- Add jobid/stepid to MESSAGE_TASK_EXIT to address race condition when 
    a job step is cancelled, another is started immediately (before the 
    first one completely terminates) and ports are reused. 
    NOTE: This change requires that SLURM be updated on all nodes of the
    cluster at the same time. There will be no impact upon currently running
    jobs (they will ignore the jobid/stepid at the end of the message).
 -- Added Python module to process hostslists as used by SLURM. See
    contribs/python/hostlist. Supplied by Kent Engstrom, National
    Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
 -- Report task termination due to signal (restored functionality present
    in slurm v1.2).
 -- Remove sbatch test for script size being no larger than 64k bytes.
    The current limit is 4GB.
 -- Disable FastSchedule=0 use with SchedulerType=sched/gang. Node 
    configuration must be specified in slurm.conf for gang scheduling now.
 -- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui or Moab scheduler) disable the ability
    of a non-root user to change a job's comment field (used by Maui/Moab for
    storing scheduler state information).
 -- For sched/wiki (Maui) add pending job's future start time to the state
    info reported to Maui.
 -- Improve reliability of job requeue logic on node failure.
 -- Add logic to ping non-responsive nodes even if SlurmdTimeout=0. This permits
    the node to be returned to use when it starts responding rather than 
    remaining in a non-usable state.
 -- Honor HealthCheckInterval values that are smaller than SlurmdTimeout.
 -- For non-responding nodes, log them all on a single line with a hostlist 
    expression rather than one line per node. Frequency of log messages is 
    dependent upon SlurmctldDebug value from 300 seconds at SlurmctldDebug<=3
    to 1 second at SlurmctldDebug>=5.
 -- If a DOWN node is resumed, set its state to IDLE & NOT_RESPONDING and 
    ping the node immediately to clear the NOT_RESPONDING flag.
 -- Log that a job's time limit is reached, but don't sent SIGXCPU.
 -- Fixed gid to be set in slurmstepd when run by root
 -- Changed getpwent to getpwent_r in the slurmctld and slurmd
 -- Increase timeout on most slurmdbd communications to 60 secs (time for
    substantial database updates).
 -- Treat srun option of --begin= with a value of now without a numeric
    component as a failure (e.g. "--begin=now+hours").
 -- Eliminate a memory leak associated with notifying srun of allocated
    nodes having failed.
 -- Add scontrol shutdown option of "slurmctld" to just shutdown the 
    slurmctld daemon and leave the slurmd daemons running.
 -- Do not require JobCredentialPrivateKey or JobCredentialPublicCertificate
    in slurm.conf if using CryptoType=crypto/munge.
 -- Remove SPANK support from sbatch. 

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.6
========================
 -- Add new function to get information for a single job rather than always
    getting information for all jobs. Improved performance of some commands. 
    NOTE: This new RPC means that the slurmctld daemons should be updated
    before or at the same time as the compute nodes in order to process it.
 -- In salloc, sbatch, and srun replace --task-mem options with --mem-per-cpu
    (--task-mem will continue to be accepted for now, but is not documented).
    Replace DefMemPerTask and MaxMemPerTask with DefMemPerCPU, DefMemPerNode,
    MaxMemPerCPU and MaxMemPerNode in slurm.conf (old options still accepted
    for now, but mapped to "PerCPU" parameters and not documented). Allocate
    a job's memory memory at the same time that processors are allocated based
    upon the --mem or --mem-per-cpu option rather than when job steps are
    initiated.
 -- Altered QOS in accounting to be a list of admin defined states, an
    account or user can have multiple QOS's now.  They need to be defined using
    'sacctmgr add qos'.  They are no longer an enum.  If none are defined
    Normal will be the QOS for everything.  Right now this is only for use 
    with MOAB.  Does nothing outside of that.
 -- Added spank_get_item support for field S_STEP_CPUS_PER_TASK.
 -- Make corrections in spank_get_item for field S_JOB_NCPUS, previously 
    reported task count rather than CPU count.
 -- Convert configuration parameter PrivateData from on/off flag to have
    separate flags for job, partition, and node data. See "man slurm.conf"
    for details.
 -- Fix bug, failed to load DisableRootJobs configuration parameter.
 -- Altered sacctmgr to always return a non-zero exit code on error and send 
    error messages to stderr.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.5
========================
 -- Fix processing of auth/munge authtentication key for messages originating 
    in slurmdbd and sent to slurmctld. 
 -- If srun is allocating resources (not within sbatch or salloc) and MaxWait
    is configured to a non-zero value then wait indefinitely for the resource
    allocation rather than aborting the request after MaxWait time.
 -- For Moab only: add logic to reap defunct "su" processes that are spawned by
    slurmd to load user's environment variables.
 -- Added more support for "dumping" account information to a flat file and 
    read in again to protect data incase something bad happens to the database.
 -- Sacct will now report account names for job steps.
 -- For AIX: Remove MP_POERESTART_ENV environment variable, disabling 
    poerestart command. User must explicitly set MP_POERESTART_ENV before 
    executing poerestart.
 -- Put back notification that a job has been allocated resources when it was
    pending.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.4
========================
 -- Some updates to man page formatting from Gennaro Oliva, ICAR.
 -- Smarter loading of plugins (doesn't stat every file in the plugin dir)
 -- In sched/backfill avoid trying to schedule jobs on DOWN or DRAINED nodes.
 -- forward exit_code from step completion to slurmdbd
 -- Add retry logic to socket connect() call from client which can fail 
    when the slurmctld is under heavy load.
 -- Fixed bug when adding associations to add correctly.
 -- Added support for associations for user root.
 -- For Moab, sbatch --get-user-env option processed by slurmd daemon
    rather than the sbatch command itself to permit faster response
    for Moab.
 -- IMPORTANT FIX: This only effects use of select/cons_res when allocating
    resources by core or socket, not by CPU (default for SelectTypeParameter). 
    We are not saving a pending job's task distribution, so after restarting
    slurmctld, select/cons_res was over-allocating resources based upon an 
    invalid task distribution value. Since we can't save the value without 
    changing the state save file format, we'll just set it to the default 
    value for now and save it in Slurm v1.4. This may result in a slight 
    variation on how sockets and cores are allocated to jobs, but at least 
    resources will not be over-allocated.
 -- Correct logic in accumulating resources by node weight when more than 
    one job can run per node (select/cons_res or partition shared=yes|force).
 -- slurm.spec file updated to avoid creating empty RPMs. RPM now *must* be
    built with correct specification of which packages to build or not build.
    See the top of the slurm.spec file for information about how to control
    package building specification.
 -- Set SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE for jobs allocated using the srun command.
    It was already set for salloc and sbatch commands.
 -- Fix to handle suspended jobs that were cancelled in accounting
 -- BLUEGENE - fix to only include bps given in a name from the bluegene.conf 
    file.
 -- For select/cons_res: Fix record-keeping for core allocations when more 
    than one partition uses a node or there is more than one socket per node.
 -- In output for "scontrol show job" change "StartTime" header to "EligibleTime"
    for pending jobs to accurately describe what is reported.
 -- Add more slurmdbd.conf parameters: ArchiveScript, ArchiveAge, JobPurge, and
    StepPurge (not fully implemented yet).
 -- Add slurm.conf parameter EnforcePartLimits to reject jobs which exceed a
    partition's size and/or time limits rather than leaving them queued for a
    later change in the partition's limits. NOTE: Not reported by
    "scontrol show config" to avoid changing RPCs. It will be reported in 
    SLURM version 1.4.
 -- Added idea of coordinator to accounting.  A coordinator can add associations
    between exsisting users to the account or any sub-account they are 
    coordinator to.  They can also add/remove other coordinators to those 
    accounts.
 -- Add support for Hostname and NodeHostname in slurm.conf being fully 
    qualified domain names (by Vijay Ramasubramanian, University of Maryland). 
    For more information see "man slurm.conf".

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.3
========================
 -- Add mpi_openmpi plugin to the main SLURM RPM.
 -- Prevent invalid memory reference when using srun's --cpu_bind=cores option
    (slurm-1.3.2-1.cea1.patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA).
 -- Task affinity plugin modified to support a particular cpu bind type: cores,
    sockets, threads, or none. Accomplished by setting an environment variable
    SLURM_ENFORCE_CPU_TYPE (slurm-1.3.2-1.cea2.patch from Matthieu Hautreux, 
    CEA).
 -- For BlueGene only, log "Prolog failure" once per job not once per node.
 -- Reopen slurmctld log file after reconfigure or SIGHUP is received.
 -- In TaskPlugin=task/affinity, fix possible infinite loop for slurmd.
 -- Accounting rollup works for mysql plugin.  Automatic rollup when using 
    slurmdbd.
 -- Copied job stat logic out of sacct into sstat in the future sacct -stat 
    will be deprecated.
 -- Correct sbatch processing of --nice option with negative values.
 -- Add squeue formatted print option %Q to print a job's integer priority.
 -- In sched/backfill, fix bug that was changing a pending job's shared value
    to zero (possibly changing a pending job's resource requirements from a 
    processor on some node to the full node).

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.2
========================
 -- Get --ntasks-per-node option working for sbatch command.
 -- BLUEGENE: Added logic to give back a best block on overlapped mode 
    in test_only mode
 -- BLUEGENE: Updated debug info and man pages for better help with the 
    numpsets option and to fail correctly with bad image request for building
    blocks.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 properly support Slurm license consumption
    (job state reported as "Hold" when required licenses are not available).
 -- In sched/wiki2 JobWillRun command, don't return an error code if the job(s)
    can not be started at that time. Just return an error message (from 
    Doug Wightman, CRI).
 -- Fix bug if sched/wiki or sched/wiki2 are configured and no job comment is 
    set.
 -- scontrol modified to report partition partition's "DisableRootJobs" value.
 -- Fix bug in setting host address for PMI communications (mpich2 only).
 -- Fix for memory size accounting on some architectures.
 -- In sbatch and salloc, change --dependency's one letter option from "-d"
    to "-P" (continue to accept "-d", but change the documentation).
 -- Only check that task_epilog and task_prolog are runable by the job's
    user, not as root.
 -- In sbatch, if specifying an alternate directory (--workdir/-D), then
    input, output and error files are in that directory rather than the 
    directory from which the command is executed
 -- NOTE: Fully operational with Moab version 5.2.3+. Change SUBMITCMD in
    moab.cfg to be the location of sbatch rather than srun. Also set 
    HostFormat=2 in SLURM's wiki.conf for improved performance.
 -- NOTE: We needed to change an RPC from version 1.3.1. You must upgrade 
    all nodes in a cluster from v1.3.1 to v1.3.2 at the same time.
 -- Postgres plugin will work from job accounting, not for association 
    management yet.
 -- For srun/sbatch --get-user-env option (Moab use only) look for "env"
    command in both /bin and /usr/sbin (for Suse Linux).
 -- Fix bug in processing job feature requests with node counts (could fail
    to schedule job if some nodes have not associated features).
 -- Added nodecnt and gid to jobcomp/script
 -- Insure that nodes select in "srun --will-run" command or the equivalent in
    sched/wiki2 are in the job's partition.
 -- BLUGENE - changed partition Min|MaxNodes to represent c-node counts
    instead of base partitions
 -- In sched/gang only, prevent possible invalid memory reference when 
    slurmctld is reconfigured, e.g. "scontrol reconfig".
 -- In select/linear only, prevent invalid memory reference in log message when
    nodes are added to slurm.conf and then "scontrol reconfig" is executed. 

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.1
========================
 -- Correct logic for processing batch job's memory limit enforcement.
 -- Fix bug that was setting a job's requeue value on any update of the 
    job using the "scontrol update" command. The invalid value of an 
    updated job prevents it's recovery when slurmctld restarts.
 -- Add support for cluster-wide consumable resources. See "Licenses"
    parameter in slurm.conf man page and "--licenses" option in salloc, 
    sbatch and srun man pages.
 -- Major changes in select/cons_res to support FastSchedule=2 with more
    resources configured than actually exist (useful for testing purposes).
 -- Modify srun --test-only response to include expected initiation time 
    for a job as well as the nodes to be allocated and processor count
    (for use by Moab).
 -- Correct sched/backfill to properly honor job dependencies.
 -- Correct select/cons_res logic to allocate CPUs properly if there is
    more than one thread per core (previously failed to allocate all cores).
 -- Correct select/linear logic in shared job count (was off by 1).
 -- Add support for job preeption based upon partition priority (in sched/gang,
    preempt.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Added much better logic for mysql accounting.  
 -- Finished all basic functionality for sacctmgr.
 -- Added load file logic to sacctmgr for setting up a cluster in one step.
 -- NOTE: We needed to change an RPC from version 1.3.0. You must upgrade 
    all nodes in a cluster from v1.3.0 to v1.3.1 at the same time.
 -- NOTE: Work is currently underway to improve placement of jobs for gang
    scheduling and preemption.
 -- NOTE: Work is underway to provide additional tools for reporting 
    accounting information.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0
========================
 -- In sched/wiki2, add processor count to JOBWILLRUN response.
 -- Add event trigger for node entering DRAINED state.
 -- Build properly without OpenSSL installed (OpenSSL is recommended, but not 
    required).
 -- Added slurmdbd, and modified accounting_storage plugin to talk to it. 
    Allowing multiple slurm systems to securly store and gather information
    not only about jobs, but the system also. See accounting web page for more
    information.    

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre11
==============================
 -- Restructure the sbcast RPC to take advantage of larger buffers available
    in Slurm v1.3 RPCs.
 -- Fix several memory leaks.
 -- In scontrol, show job's Requeue value, permit change of Requeue and Comment
    values.
 -- In slurmctld job record, add QOS (quality of service) value for accounting
    purposes with Maui and Moab.
 -- Log to a job's stderr when it is being cancelled explicitly or upon reaching
    it's time limit.
 -- Only permit a job's account to be changed while that job is PENDING.
 -- Fix race condition in job suspend/resume (slurmd.sus_res.patch from HP).

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre10
==============================
 -- Add support for node-specific "arch" (architecture) and "os" (operating 
    system) fields. These fields are set based upon values reported by the
    slurmd daemon on each compute node using SLURM_ARCH and SLURM_OS environment 
    variables (if set, the uname function otherwise) and are intended to support
    changes in real time changes in operating system. These values are reported
    by "scontrol show node" plus the sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 plugins for Maui
    and Moab respectively.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2: add HostFormat and HidePartitionJobs to 
    "scontrol show config" SCHEDULER_CONF output.
 -- In sched/wiki2: accept hostname expression as input for GETNODES command.
 -- Add JobRequeue configuration parameter and --requeue option to the sbatch
    command.
 -- Add HealthCheckInterval and HealthCheckProgram configuration parameters.
 -- Add SlurmDbdAddr, SlurmDbdAuthInfo and SlurmDbdPort configuration parameters.
 -- Modify select/linear to achieve better load leveling with gang scheduler.
 -- Develop the sched/gang plugin to support select/linear and
    select/cons_res. If sched/gang is enabled and Shared=FORCE is configured
    for a partition, this plugin will gang-schedule or "timeslice" jobs that
    share common resources within the partition. Note that resources that are
    shared across partitions are not gang-scheduled.
 -- Add EpilogMsgTime configuration parameter. See "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Increase default MaxJobCount configuration parameter from 2000 to 5000. 
 -- Move all database common files from src/common to new lib in src/database.
 -- Move sacct to src/accounting added sacctmgr for scontrol like operations 
    to accounting infrastructure.
 -- Basic functions of sacctmgr in place to make for administration of 
    accounting.
 -- Moved clusteracct_storage plugin to accounting_storage plugin,
    jobacct_storage is still it's own plugin for now.
 -- Added template for slurm php extention.
 -- Add infrastructure to support allocation of cluster-wide licenses to jobs.
    Full support will be added some time after version 1.3.0 is released.
 -- In sched/wiki2 with select/bluegene, add support for WILLRUN command
    to accept multiple jobs with start time specifications.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre9
=============================
 -- Add spank support to sbatch. Note that spank_local_user() will be called 
    with step_layout=NULL and gid=SLURM_BATCH_SCRIPT and spank_fini() will 
    be called immediately afterwards.
 -- Made configure use mysql_config to find location of mysql database install
    Removed bluegene specific information from the general database tables.
 -- Re-write sched/backfill to utilize new will-run logic in the select 
    plugins. It now supports select/cons_res and all job options (required
    nodes, excluded nodes, contiguous, etc.).
 -- Modify scheduling logic to better support overlapping partitions.
 -- Add --task-mem option and remove --job-mem option from srun, salloc, and 
    sbatch commands. Enforce step memory limit, if specified and there is
    no job memory limit specified (--mem). Also see DefMemPerTask and
    MaxMemPerTask in "man slurm.conf". Enforcement is dependent upon job
    accounting being enabled with non-zero value for JoabAcctGatherFrequency.
 -- Change default node tmp_disk size to zero (for diskless nodes).

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Modify how strings are packed in the RPCs, Maximum string size 
    increased from 64KB (16-bit size field) to 4GB (32-bit size field).
 -- Fix bug that prevented time value of "INFINITE" from being processed.
 -- Added new srun/sbatch option "--open-mode" to control how output/error 
    files are opened ("t" for truncate, "a" for append).
 -- Added checkpoint/xlch plugin for use with XLCH (Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
 -- Added srun option --checkpoint-path for use with XLCH (Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
 -- Added new srun/salloc/sbatch option "--acctg-freq" for user control over 
    accounting data collection polling interval.
 -- In sched/wiki2 add support for hostlist expression use in GETNODES command
    with HostFormat=2 in the wiki.conf file.
 -- Added new scontrol option "setdebug" that can change the slurmctld daemons
    debug level at any time (Hongjia Cao, NUDT).
 -- Track total total suspend time for jobs and steps for accounting purposes.
 -- Add version information to partition state file.
 -- Added 'will-run' functionality to all of the select plugins (bluegene,
    linear, and cons_res) to return node list and time job can start based 
    on other jobs running.
 -- Major restructuring of node selection logic. select/linear now supports
    partition max_share parameter and tries to match like size jobs on the 
    same nodes to improve gang scheduling performance. Also supports treating 
    memory as consumable resource for job preemption and  gang scheduling if 
    SelectTypeParameter=CR_Memory in slurm.conf.
 -- BLUEGENE: Reorganized bluegene plugin for maintainability sake.
 -- Major restructuring of data structures in select/cons_res.
 -- Support job, node and partition names of arbitrary size.
 -- Fix bug that caused slurmd to hang when using select/linear with
    task/affinity.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Fix a bug in the processing of srun's --exclusive option for a job step.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Add support for configurable number of jobs to share resources using the 
    partition Shared parameter in slurm.conf (e.g. "Shared=FORCE:3" for two 
    jobs to share the resources). From Chris Holmes, HP.
 -- Made salloc use api instead of local code for message handling.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Add select_g_reconfigure() function to node changes in slurmctld configuration
    that can impact node scheduling.
 -- scontrol to set/get partition's MaxTime and job's Timelimit in minutes plus
    new formats: min:sec, hr:min:sec, days-hr:min:sec, days-hr, etc.
 -- scontrol "notify" command added to send message to stdout of srun for 
    specified job id.
 -- For BlueGene, make alpha part of node location specification be case insensitive.
 -- Report scheduler-plugin specific configuration information with the 
    "scontrol show configuration" command on the SCHEDULER_CONF line. This
    information is not found in the "slurm.conf" file, but a scheduler plugin 
    specific configuration (e.g. "wiki.conf").
 -- sview partition information reported now includes partition priority.
 -- Expand job dependency specification to support concurrent execution, 
    testing of job exit status and multiple job IDs.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Job step launch in srun is now done from the slurm api's all further
    modifications to job launch should be done there.
 -- Add new partition configuration parameter Priority. Add job count to 
    Shared parameter.
 -- Add new configuration parameters DefMemPerTask, MaxMemPerTask, and 
    SchedulerTimeSlice.
 -- In sched/wiki2, return REJMESSAGE with details on why a job was 
    requeued (e.g. what node failed).

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Remove slaunch command
 -- Added srun option "--checkpoint=time" for job step to automatically be 
    checkpointed on a period basis.
 -- Change behavior of "scancel -s KILL <jobid>" to send SIGKILL to all job
    steps rather than cancelling the job. This now matches the behavior of
    all other signals. "scancel <jobid>" still cancels the job and all steps.
 -- Add support for new job step options --exclusive and --immediate. Permit
    job steps to be queued when resources are not available within an existing 
    job allocation to dedicate the resources to the job step. Useful for
    executing simultaneous job steps. Provides resource management both at 
    the level of jobs and job steps.
 -- Add support for feature count in job constraints, for example
    srun --nodes=16 --constraint=graphics*4 ...
    Based upon work by Kumar Krishna (HP, India).
 -- Add multi-core options to salloc and sbatch commands (sbatch.patch and
    cleanup.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- In select/cons_res properly release resources allocated to job being 
    suspended (rmbreak.patch, from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Removed database and jobacct plugin replaced with jobacct_storage 
    and jobacct_gather for easier hooks for further expansion of the
    jobacct plugin.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Added new srun option --pty to start job with pseudo terminal attached 
    to task 0 (all other tasks have I/O discarded)
 -- Disable user specifying jobid when sched/wiki2 configured (needed for 
    Moab releases until early 2007).
 -- Report command, args and working directory for batch jobs with 
    "scontrol show job".

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.0-pre1
=============================
 -- !!! SRUN CHANGES !!!
    The srun options -A/--allocate, -b/--batch, and -a/--attach have been
    removed!  That functionality is now available in the separate commands
    salloc, sbatch, and sattach, respectively.
 -- Add new node state FAILING plus trigger for when node enters that state.
 -- Add new configuration parameter "PrivateData". This can be used to 
    prevent a user from seeing jobs or job steps belonging to other users.
 -- Added configuration parameters for node power save mode: ResumeProgram
    ResumeRate, SuspendExcNodes, SuspendExcParts, SuspendProgram and 
    SuspendRate.
 -- Slurmctld maintains the IP address (rather than hostname) for srun 
    communications. This fixes some possible network routing issues.
 -- Added global database plugin.  Job accounting and Job completion are the 
    first to use it.  Follow documentation to add more to the plugin.
 -- Removed no-longer-needed jobacct/common/common_slurmctld.c since that is
    replaced by the database plugin.
 -- Added new configuration parameter: CryptoType.
    Moved existing digital signature logic into new plugin: crypto/openssl.
    Added new support for crypto/munge (available with GPL license).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.36
=========================
 -- For spank_get_item(S_JOB_ARGV) for batch job with script input via STDIN,
    set argc value to 1 (rather than 2, argv[0] still set to path of generated
    script).
 -- sacct will now display more properly allocations made with salloc with only 
    one step.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.35
=========================
 -- Permit SPANK plugins to dynamically register options at runtime base upon
    configuration or other runtime checks.
 -- Add "include" keywork to SPANK plugstack.conf file to optionally include
    other configuration files or directories of configuration files.
 -- Srun to wait indefinitely for resource allocation to be made. Used to
    abort after two minutes.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.34
=========================
 -- Permit the cancellation of a job that is in the process of being 
    requeued.
 -- Ignore the show_flag when getting job, step, node or partition information
    for user root.
 -- Convert some functions to thread-safe versions: getpwnam, getpwuid, 
    getgrnam, and getgrgid to similar functions with "_r" suffix. While no
    failures have been observed, a race condition would in the worst case
    permit a user access to a partition not normally allowed due to the
    AllowGroup specification or the wrong user identified in an accounting
    record. The job would NOT be run as the wrong user.
 -- For PMI only (MPICH2/MVAPICH2) base address to send messages to (the srun)
    upon the address from which slurmd gets the task launch request rather then
    "hostname" where srun executes.
 -- Make test for StateSaveLocation directory more comprehensive.
 -- For jobcomp/script plugin, PROCS environment variable is now the actual
    count of allocated processors rather than the count of processes to 
    be started.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.33
=========================
 -- Cancelled or Failed jobs will now report their job and step id on exit
 -- Add SPANK items available to get: SLURM_VERSION, SLURM_VERSION_MAJOR,
    SLURM_VERISON_MINOR and SLURM_VERSION_MICRO.
 -- Fixed handling of SIGPIPE in srun. Abort job.
 -- Fix bug introduced to MVAPICH plugin preventing use of TotalView debugger.
 -- Modify slurmctld to get srun/salloc network address based upon the incoming
    message rather than hostname set by the user command (backport of logic in
    SLURM v1.3).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.32
=========================
 -- LSF only: Enable scancel of job in RootOnly partition by the job's owner.
 -- Add support for sbatch --distribution and --network options.
 -- Correct pending job's wait reason to "Priority" rather than "Resources" if
    required resources are being held in reserve for a higher priority job.
 -- In sched/wiki2 (Moab) report a node's state as "Drained" rather than 
    "Draining" if it has no allocated work (An undocumented Moab wiki option, 
    see CRI ticket #2394).
 -- Log to job's output when it is cancelled or reaches it's time limit (ported
    from existing code in slurm v1.3).
 -- Add support in salloc and sbatch commands for --network option.
 -- Add support for user environment variables that include '\n' (e.g. 
    bash functions).
 -- Partial rewrite of mpi/mvapich plugin for improved scalability.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.31
=========================
 -- For Moab only: If GetEnvTimeout=0 in slurm.conf then do not run "su" to get
    the user's environment, only use the cache file.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), treat the lack of a wiki.conf file or the lack 
    of a configured AuthKey as a fatal error (lacks effective security).
 -- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui or Moab) report a node's state as 
    Busy rather than Running when allocated if SelectType=select/linear. Moab
    was trying to schedule job's on nodes that were already allocated to jobs
    that were hidden from it via the HidePartitionJobs in Slurm's wiki.conf.
 -- In select/cons_res improve the resource selection when a job has specified
    a processor count along with a maximum node count.
 -- For an srun command with --ntasks-per-node option and *no* --ntasks count,
    spawn a task count equal to the number of nodes selected multiplied by the 
    --ntasks-per-node value.
 -- In jobcomp/script: Set TZ if set in slurmctld's environment.
 -- In srun with --verbose option properly format CPU allocation information 
    logged for clusters with 1000+ nodes and 10+ CPUs per node.
 -- Process a job's --mail_type=end option on any type of job termination, not
    just normal completion (e.g. all failure modes too).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.30
=========================
 -- Fix for gold not to print out 720 error messages since they are
    potentally harmful.
 -- In sched/wiki2 (Moab), permit changes to a pending job's required features:
    CMD=CHANGEJOB ARG=<jobid> RFEATURES=<features>
 -- Fix for not aborting when node selection doesn't load, fatal error instead
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 DO NOT report a job's state as "Hold" if it's
    dependencies have not been satisfied. This reverses a changed made in SLURM
    version 1.2.29 (which was requested by Cluster Resources, but places jobs 
    in a HELD state indefinitely).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.29
=========================
 -- Modified global configuration option "DisableRootJobs" from number (0 or 1)
    to boolean (YES or NO) to match partition parameter.
 -- Set "DisableRootJobs" for a partition to match the global parameters value 
    for newly created partitions.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 report a node's updated features if changed
    after startup using "scontrol update ..." command.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 report a job's state as "Hold" if it's 
    dependencies have not been satisfied.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 do not process incoming requests until
    slurm configuration is completely loaded.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 do not report a job's node count after it 
    has completed (slurm decrements the allocated node count when the nodes
    transition from completing to idle state).
 -- If job prolog or epilog fail, log the program's exit code.
 -- In jobacct/gold map job names containing any non-alphanumeric characters 
    to '_' to avoid MySQL parsing problems.
 -- In jobacct/linux correct parsing if command name contains spaces.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 report make job info TASK count reflect the 
    actual task allocation (not requested tasks) even after job terminates.
    Useful for accounting purposes only.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.28
=========================
 -- Added configuration option "DisableRootJobs" for parameter 
    "PartitionName".  See "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Fix for faking a large system to correctly handle node_id in the task
    afffinity plugin for ia64 systems.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.27
=========================
 -- Record job eligible time in accounting database (for jobacct/gold only).
 -- Prevent user root from executing a job step within a job allocation 
    belonging to another user.
 -- Fixed limiting issue for strings larger than 4096 in xstrfmtcat
 -- Fix bug in how Slurm reports job state to Maui/Moab when a job is requeued
    due to a node failure, but we can't terminate the job's spawned processes.
    Job was being reported as PENDING when it was really still COMPLETING.
 -- Added patch from Jerry Smith for qstat -a output
 -- Fixed looking at the correct perl path for Slurm.pm in torque wrappers.
 -- Enhance job requeue on node failure to be more robust.
 -- Added configuration parameter "DisableRootJobs". See "man slurm.conf" 
    for details.
 -- Fixed issue with account = NULL in Gold job accounting plugin

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.26
=========================
 -- Correct number of sockets/cores/threads reported by slurmd (from
    Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden).
 -- Update libpmi linking so that libslurm is not required for PMI use
    (from Steven McDougal, SiCortex).
 -- In srun and sbatch, do not check the PATH env var if an absolute pathname 
    of the program is specified (previously reported an error if no PATH).
 -- Correct output of "sinfo -o %C" (CPU counts by node state).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.25
=========================
 -- Bug fix for setting exit code in accounting for batch script.
 -- Add salloc option, --no-shell (for LSF).
 -- Added new options for sacct output
 -- mvapich: Ensure MPIRUN_ID is unique for all job steps within a job.
    (Fixes crashes when running multiple job steps within a job on one node)
 -- Prevent "scontrol show job" from failing with buffer overflow when a job 
    has a very long Comment field.
 -- Make certain that a job step is purged when a job has been completed.
    Previous versions could have the job step persist if an allocated node
    went DOWN and the slurmctld restarted.
 -- Fix bug in sbcast that can cause communication problems for large files.
 -- Add sbcast option -t/--timeout and SBCAST_TIMEOUT environment variable 
    to control message timeout.
 -- Add threaded agent to manage a queue of Gold update requests for 
    performance reasons.
 -- Add salloc options --chdir and --get-user-env (for Moab).
 -- Modify scontrol update to support job comment changes.
 -- Do not clear a DRAINED node's reason field when slurmctld restarts.
 -- Do not cancel a pending job if Moab or Maui try to start it on unusable nodes.
    Leave the job queued.
 -- Add --requeue option to srun and sbatch (these undocumented options have no
    effect in slurm v1.2, but are legitimate options in slurm v1.3).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.24
=========================
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, support non-zero UPDATE_TIME specification
    for GETNODES and GETJOBS commands.
 -- Bug fix for sending accounting information multiple times for same 
    info.  patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- BLUEGENE - try FILE pointer rotation logic to avoid core dump on 
    bridge log rotate
 -- Spread out in time the EPILOG_COMPLETE messages from slurmd to slurmctld
    to avoid message congestions and retransmission.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.23
=========================
 -- Fix for libpmi to not export unneeded variables like xstr*
 -- BLUEGENE - added per partition dynamic block creation
 -- fix infinite loop bug in sview when there were multiple partitions
 -- Send message to srun command when a job is requeued due to node failure.
    Note this will be overwritten in the output file unless JobFileAppend
    is set in slurm.conf. In slurm version 1.3, srun's --open-mode=append
    option will offer this control for each job.
 -- Change a node's default TmpDisk from 1MB to 0MB and change job's default 
    disk space requirement from 1MB to 0MB.
 -- In sched/wiki (Maui scheduler) specify a QOS (quality of service) by 
    specifying an account of the form "qos-name".
 -- In select/linear, fix bug in scheduling required nodes that already have
    a job running on them (req.load.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- For use with Moab only: change timeout for srun/sbatch --get-user-env 
    option to 2 secs, don't get DISPLAY environment variables, but explicitly 
    set ENVIRONMENT=BATCH and HOSTNAME to the execution host of the batch script.
 -- Add configuration parameter GetEnvTimeout for use with Moab. See
    "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Modify salloc and sbatch to accept both "--tasks" and "--ntasks" as 
    equivalent options for compatibility with srun.
 -- If a partition's node list contains space separators, replace them with 
    commas for easier parsing.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed bug in geometry specs when creating a block.
 -- Add support for Moab and Maui to start jobs with select/cons_res plugin
    and jobs requiring more than one CPU per task.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.22
=========================
 -- In sched/wiki2, add support for MODIFYJOB option "MINSTARTTIME=<time>"
    to modify a job's earliest start time.
 -- In sbcast, fix bug with large files and causing sbcast to die.
 -- In sched/wiki2, add support for COMMENT= option in STARTJOB and CANCELJOB
    commands.
 -- Avoid printing negative job run time in squeue due to clock skew.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, add support for wiki.conf option
    HidePartitionJobs (see man pages for details).
 -- Update to srun/sbatch --get-user-env option logic (needed by Moab).
 -- In slurmctld (for Moab) added job->details->reserved_resources field
    to report resources that were kept in reserve for job while it was 
    pending.
 -- In sched/wiki (for Maui scheduler) report a pending job's node feature 
    requirements (from Miguel Roa, BSC).
 -- Permit a user to change a pending job's TasksPerNode specification 
    using scontrol (from Miguel Roa, BSC).
 -- Add support for node UP/DOWN event logging in jobacct/gold plugin
    WARNING: using the jobacct/gold plugin slows the system startup set the
    MessageTimeout variable in the slurm.conf to around 20+.
 -- Added check at start of slurmctld to look for /tmp/slurm_gold_first if
    there, and using the gold plugin slurm will make record of all nodes in
    downed or drained state.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.21
=========================
 -- Fixed torque wrappers to look in the correct spot for the perl api
 -- Do not treat user resetting his time limit to the current value as
    an error.
 -- Set correct executable names for Totalview when --multi-prog option 
    is used and more than one node is allocated to the job step.
 -- When a batch job gets requeued, record in accounting logs that 
    the job was cancelled, the requeued job's submit time will be 
    set to the time of its requeue so it looks like a different job.
 -- Prevent communication problems if the slurmd/slurmstepd have a 
    different JobAcct plugin configured than slurmctld.
 -- Adding Gold plugin for job accounting
 -- In sched/wiki2, add support for MODIFYJOB option "JOBNAME=<name>"
    to modify a job's name.
 -- Add configuration check for sys/syslog.h and include it as needed.
 -- Add --propagate option to sbatch for control over limit propagation.
 -- Added Gold interface to the jobacct plugin.  To configure in the config
    file specify...  
    JobAcctType=jobacct/gold
    JobAcctLogFile=CLUSTER_NAME:GOLD_AUTH_KEY_FILE:GOLDD_HOST:GOLDD_PORT7112
 -- In slurmctld job record, set begin_time to time when all of a job's
    dependencies are met.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.20
=========================
 -- In switch/federation, fix small memory leak effecting slurmd.
 -- Add PMI_FANOUT_OFF_HOST environment variable to control how message 
    forwarding is done for PMI (MPICH2). See "man srun" for details.
 -- From sbatch set SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE when --ntasks-per-node option is 
    specified.
 -- BLUEGENE: Documented the prefix should always be lower case and the 3
    digit suffix should be uppercase if any letters are used as digits. 
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, add support for --cpus-per-task option.
    From Miguel Ros, BSC.
 -- In sched/wiki2, prevent invalid memory pointer (and likely seg fault) 
    for job associated with a partition that has since been deleted.
 -- In sched/wiki2 plus select/cons_res, prevent invalid memory pointer 
    (and likely seg fault) when a job is requeued.
 -- In sched/wiki, add support for job suspend, resume, and modify.
 -- In sched/wiki, add suppport for processor allocation (not just node allocation)
    with layout control.
 -- Prevent re-sending job termination RPC to a node that has already completed 
    the job. Only send it to specific nodes which have not reported completion.
 -- Support larger environment variables 64K instead of BUFSIZ (8k on some 
    systems).
 -- If a job is being requeued, job step create requests will print a 
    warning and repeatedly retry rather than aborting.
 -- Add optional mode value to srun and sbatch --get-user-env option.
 -- Print error message and retry job submit commands when MaxJobCount 
    is reached. From Don Albert, Bull.
 -- Treat invalid begin time specification as a fatal error in sbatch and 
    srun. From Don Albert, Bull.
 -- Validate begin time specification to avoid hours >24, minutes >59, etc.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.19
=========================
*** NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGE IN RPM BUILD BELOW ****
 -- slurm.spec file (used to build RPMs) was updated in order to support Mock, a
    chroot build environment. See https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/mock/
    for more information. The following RPMs are no longer build by default:
    aix-federation, auth_none, authd, bluegene, sgijob, and switch-elan. Change 
    the RPMs built using the following options in ~/rpmmacros: "%_with_authd 1", 
    "%_without_munge 1", etc. See the slurm.spec file for more details.
 -- Print warning if non-privileged user requests negative "--nice" value on
    job submission (srun, salloc, and sbatch commands).
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, add support for srun's --ntasks-per-node 
    option.
 -- In select/bluegene with Groups defined for Images, fix possible memory 
    corruption. Other configurations are not affected. 
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix bug that prevented user specification of linux-image, 
    mloader-image, and ramdisk-image on job submission.
 -- BLUEGENE - filter Groups specified for image not just by submitting 
    user's current group, but all groups the user has access to.
 -- BLUEGENE - Add salloc options to specify images to be loaded (--blrts-image, 
    --linux-image, --mloader-image, and --ramdisk-image).
 -- BLUEGENE - In bluegene.conf, permit Groups to be comma separated in addition 
    to colon separators previously supported.
 -- sbatch will accept batch script containing "#SLURM" options and advise
    changed to "#SBATCH".
 -- If srun --output or --error specification contains a task number rather 
    than a file name, send stdout/err from specified task to srun's stdout/err
    rather than to a file by the same name as the task's number.
 -- For srun --multi-prog option, verify configuration file before attempting 
    to launch tasks, report clear explanation of any configuration file errors.
 -- For sched/wiki2, add optional timeout option to srun's --get-user-env
    parameter, change default timeout for "su - <user> env" from 3 to 8 seconds.
    On timeout, attempt to load env from file at StateSaveLocation/env_cache/<user>.
    The format of this file is the same as output of "env" command. If there
    is no env cache file, then abort the request.
 -- squeue modified for completing job to remove nodes that have already 
    completed the job before applying node filter logic.
 -- squeue formatted output option added for job comment, "%q" (the obvious 
    choices for letters are already in use).
 -- Added configure option --enable-load-env-no-login for use with Moab. If
    set then the user job runs with the environment built without a login
    ("su <user> env" rather than "su - <user> env").
 -- Fix output of "srun -o %C" (allocated CPU count) for running jobs. This was
    broken in 1.2.18 for handling requeue of Moab jobs.
 -- Added logic to mpiexec wrapper to read in the MPIEXEC_TIMEOUT var
 -- Updated qstat wrapper to display information for partitions (-Q) option
 -- NOTE: SLURM should now work directly with Globus using the PBS GRAM.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.18
=========================
 -- BLUEGENE - bug fix for smap stating passthroughs are used when they aren't
 -- Fixed bug in sview to be able to edit partitions correctly
 -- Fixed bug so in slurm.conf files where SlurmdPort isn't defined things
    work correctly.
 -- In sched/wiki2 and sched/wiki add support for batch job being requeued
    in Slurm either when nodes fail or upon request.
 -- In sched/wiki2 and sched/wiki with FastSchedule=2 configured and nodes 
    configured with more CPUs than actually exist, return a value of TASKS 
    equal to the number of configured CPUs that are allocated to a job rather 
    than the number of physical CPUs allocated.
 -- For sched/wiki2, timeout "srun --get-user-env ..." command after 3 seconds 
    if unable to perform pseudo-login and get user environment variables.
 -- Add contribs/time_login.c program to test how long pseudo-login takes
    for specific users or all users. This can identify users for which Moab 
    job submissions are unable to set the proper environment variables.
 -- Fix problem in parallel make of Slurm.
 -- Fixed bug in consumable resources when CR_Core_Memory is enabled
 -- Add delay in slurmctld for "scontrol shutdown" RPC to get propagated 
    to slurmd daemons.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.17
=========================
 -- In select/cons_res properly release resources allocated to job being 
    suspended (rmbreak.patch, from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Fix AIX linking problem for PMI (mpich2) support.
 -- Improve PMI logic for greater scalability (up to 16k tasks run).
 -- Add srun support for SLURM_THREADS and PMI_FANOUT environment variables.
 -- Fix support in squeue for output format with left justification of 
    reason (%r) and reason/node_list (%R) output.
 -- Automatically requeue a batch job when a node allocated to it fails
    or the prolog fails (unless --no-requeue or --no-kill option used).
 -- In sched/wiki, enable use of wiki.conf parameter ExcludePartitions to
    directly schedule selected partitions without Maui control.
 -- In sched/backfill, if a job requires specific nodes, schedule other jobs
    ahead of it rather than completely stopping backfill scheduling for that
    partition.
 -- BLUEGENE - corrected logic making block allocation work in a circular 
    fashion instead of linear.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.16
=========================
 -- Add --overcommit option to the salloc command.
 -- Run task epilog from job's working directory rather than directory
    where slurmd daemon started from.
 -- Log errors running task prolog or task epilog to srun's output.
 -- In sched/wiki2, fix bug processing condensed hostlist expressions.
 -- Release contribs/mpich1.slurm.patch without GPL license. 
 -- Fix bug in mvapich plugin for read/write calls that return EAGAIN.
 -- Don't start MVAPICH timeout logic until we know that srun is starting 
    an MVAPICH program.
 -- Fix to srun only allocating number of nodes needed for requested task
    count when combining allocation and step creation in srun.
 -- Execute task-prolog within proctrack container to insure that all 
    child processes get terminated.
 -- Fixed job accounting to work with sgi_job proctrack plugin.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.15
=========================
 -- In sched/wiki2, fix bug processing hostlist expressions where hosts
    lack a numeric suffix.
 -- Fix bug in srun. When user did not specify time limit, it defaulted to 
    INFINITE rather than partition's limit.
 -- In select/cons_res with SelectTypeParameters=CR_Socket_Memory, fix bug in 
    memory allocation tracking, mem.patch from Chris Holmes, HP.
 -- Add --overcommit option to the sbatch command.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.14
=========================
 -- Fix a couple of bugs in MPICH/MX support (from Asier Roa, BSC).
 -- Fix perl api for AIX
 -- Add wiki.conf parameter ExcludePartitions for selected partitions to 
    be directly schedule by Slurm without Moab control
 -- Optimize load leveling for shared nodes (alloc.patch, contributed 
    by Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Added PMI_TIME environment variable for user to control how PMI 
    communications are spread out in time. See "man srun" for details.
 -- Added PMI timing information to srun debug mode to aid in tuning.
    Use "srun -vv ..." to see the information.
 -- Added checkpoint/ompi (OpenMPI) plugin (still under development).
 -- Fix bug in load leveling logic added to v1.2.13 which can cause an 
    infinite loop and hang slurmctld when sharing nodes between jobs.
 -- Added support for sbatch to read in #PBS options from a script

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.13
=========================
 -- Add slurm.conf parameter JobFileAppend.
 -- Fix for segv in "scontrol listpids" on nodes not in SLURM config.
 -- Add support for SCANCEL_CTLD env var.
 -- In mpi/mvapich plugin, add startup timeout logic. Time based upon 
    SLURM_MVAPICH_TIMEOUT (value in seconds).
 -- Fixed pick_step_node logic to only pick the number of nodes requested
    from the user when excluding nodes, to avoid an error message.
 -- Disable salloc, sbatch and srun -I/--immediate options with 
    Moab scheduler.
 -- Added "contribs" directory with a Perl API and Torque wrappers for Torque 
    to SLURM migration.  This directory should be used to put anything that 
    is outside of SLURM proper such as a different API. Perl APIs contributed 
    by Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- In sched/wiki2: add support for tasklist with node name expressions 
    and task counts (e.g. TASKLIST=tux[1-4]*2:tux[12-14]*4").
 -- In select/cons_res with sched/wiki2: fix bug in task layout logic.
 -- Removed all curses info from the bluegene plugin putting it into smap
    where it belongs.  
 -- Add support for job time limit specification formats: min, min:sec, 
    hour:min:sec, and days-hour:min:sec (formerly only supported minutes).
    Applies to salloc, sbatch, and srun commands.
 -- Improve scheduling support for exclusive constraint list, nodes can 
    now be in more than one constraint specific exclusively for a job
    (e.g. "srun -C [rack1|rack2|rack3|rowB] srun")
 -- Create separate MPICH/MX plugin (split out from MPICH/GM plugin)
 -- Increase default MessageTimeout (in slurm.conf) from 5 to 10 secs.
 -- Fix bug in batch job requeue if node zero of allocation fails to respond 
    to task launch request.
 -- Improve load leveling logic to more evenly distribute the workload 
    (best_load.patch, contributed by Chris Holmes, HP).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.12
=========================
 -- Increase maximum message size from 1MB to 16MB (from Ernest Artiaga, BSC). 
 -- In PMI_Abort(), log the event and abort the entire job step.
 -- Add support for additional PMI functions: PMI_Get_clique_ranks and 
    PMI_Get_clique_size (from Chuck Clouston, Bull).
 -- Report an error when a hostlist comes in appearing to be a box but not 
    formatted in XYZxXYZ format.
 -- Add support for partition configuration "Shared=exclusive". This is 
    equivalent to "srun --exclusive" when select/cons_res is configured.
 -- In sched/wiki2, report the reason for a node being unavailable for the 
    GETNODES command using the CAT="<reason>" field.
 -- In sched/wiki2 with select/linear, duplicate hostnames in HOSTLIST, one
    per allocated processor.
 -- Fix bug in scancel with specific signal and job lacks active steps.
 -- In sched/wiki2, add support for NOTIFYJOB ARG=<jobid> MSG=<message>.
    This sends a message to an active srun command.
 -- salloc will now set SLURM_NPROCS to improve srun's behavior under salloc.
 -- In sched/wiki2 and select/cons_res: insure that Slurm's CPU allocation
    is identical to Moab's (from Ernest Artiaga and Asier Roa, BSC).
 -- Added "scontrol show slurmd" command to status local slurmd daemon.
 -- Set node DOWN if prolog fails on node zero of batch job launch.
 -- Properly handle "srun --cpus-per-task" within a job allocation when 
    SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE environment varable is not set.
 -- Fixed return of slurm_send_rc_msg if msg->conn_fd is < 0 set errno ENOTCONN
    and return SLURM_ERROR instead of return ENOTCONN
 -- Added read before we send anything down a socket to make sure the socket
    is still there.
 -- Add slurm.conf variables UnkillableStepProgram and UnkillableStepTimeout.
 -- Enable nice file propagation from sbatch command.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.11
=========================
 -- Updated "etc/mpich1.slurm.patch" for direct srun launch of MPICH1_P4
    tasks. See the "README" portion of the patch for details.
 -- Added new scontrol command "show hostlist <hostnames>" to translate a list 
    of hostnames into a hostlist expression (e.g. "tux1,tux2" -> "tux[1-2]")
    and "show hostnames <list>", returns a list of of nodes (one node per line)
    from SLURM hostlist expression or from SLURM_NODELIST environment variable 
    if no hostlist specified.
 -- Add the sbatch option "--wrap".
 -- Add the sbatch option "--get-user-env".
 -- Added support for mpich-mx (use the mpichgm plugin).
 -- Make job's stdout and stderr file access rights be based upon user's umask
    at job submit time.
 -- Add support for additional PMI functions: PMI_Parse_option,
    PMI_Args_to_keyval, PMI_Free_keyvals and PMI_Get_options (from Puenlap Lee
    and Nancy Kritkausky, Bull).
 -- Make default value of SchedulerPort (configuration parameter) be 7321.
 -- Use SLURM_UMASK environment variable (if set) at job submit time as umask 
    for spawned job.
 -- Correct some format issues in the man pages (from Gennero Oliva, ICAR).
 -- Added support for parallel make across an existing SLURM allocation
    based upon GNU make-3.81. Patch is in "etc/make.slurm.patch".
 -- Added '-b' option to sbatch for easy MOAB trasition to sbatch instead of
    srun.  Option does nothing in sbatch.
 -- Changed wiki2's handling of a node state in Completing to return 'busy' 
    instead of 'running' which matches slurm version 1.1

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.10
=========================
 -- Fix race condititon in jobacct/linux with use of proctrack/pgid and a
    realloc issue inside proctrack/linux
 -- Added MPICH1_P4 plugin for direct launch of mpich1/p4 tasks using srun
    and a patched version of the mpi library. See "etc/mpich1.slurm.patch".
    NOTE: This is still under development and not ready for production use.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.9
========================
 -- Add new sinfo field to sort by "%E" sorts by the time associated with a 
    node's state (from Prashanth Tamraparni, HP).
 -- In sched/wiki: fix logic for restarting backup slurmctld.
 -- Preload SLURM plugins early in the slurmstepd operation to avoid
    multiple dlopens after forking (and to avoid a glibc bug
    that leaves dlopen locks in a bad state after a fork).
 -- Added MPICH1_P4 patch to launch tasks using srun rather than rsh and
    automatically generate mpirun's machinefile based upon the job's 
    allocation.    See "etc/mpich1.slurm.patch".
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for overlap mode to mark all other base partitions as used
    when creating a new block from the file to insure we only use the base 
    partitions we are asking for.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.8
========================
 -- Added mpi/mpich1_shmem plugin.
 -- Fix in proctrack/sgi_job plugin that could cause slurmstepd to seg_fault
    preventing timely clean-up of batch jobs in some cases.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.7
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - code to make it so you can make a 36x36x36 system.  
    The wiring should be correct for a system with x-dim of 1,2,4,5,8,13
    in emulation mode.  It will work with any real system no matter the size.
 -- Major re-write of jobcomp/script plugin: fix memory leak and 
    general code clean-up.
 -- Add ability to change MaxNodes and ExcNodeList for pending job 
    using scontrol.
 -- Purge zombie processes spawned via event triggers.
 -- Add support for power saving mode (experimental code to reduce voltage
    and frequency on nodes that stay in the IDLE state, for more information 
    see http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/power_save.html). None of this
    code is enabled by default.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.6
========================
 -- Fix MPIRUN_PORT env variable in mvapich plugin
 -- Disable setting triggers by other than user SlurmUser unless SlurmUser
    is root for improved security.
 -- Add event trigger for IDLE nodes.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.5
========================
 -- Fix nodelist truncation in "scontrol show jobs" output
 -- In mpi/mpichgm, fix potential problem formatting GMPI_PORT, from
    Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Report job's account, from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
 -- Add sbatch option "--ntasks-per-node".

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.4
========================
 -- In select/cons_res - fix for function argument type mis-match in getting
    CPU count for a job, from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Report job's tasks_per_node requirement.
 -- In forward logic fix to check if the forwarding node recieves a connection
    but doesn't ever get the message from the sender (network issue or
    something) also check to make sure if we get something back we make sure
    we account for everything we sent out before we call it good.
 -- Another fix to make sure steps with requested nodes have correct cpus
    accounted for and a fix to make sure the user can't allocate more 
    cpus than the have requested.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.3
========================
 -- Cpuset logic added to  task/affinity, from Don Albert (Bull) and
    Moe Jette (LLNL).  The /dev/cpuset file system must be mounted and 
    set "TaskPluginParam=cpusets" in slurm.conf to enable.
 -- In sched/wiki2, fix possible overflow in job's nodelist, from 
    Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
 -- Defer creation of new job steps until a suspended job is resumed.
 -- In select/linear - fix for potential stack corruption bug.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.2
========================
 -- Added new command "strigger" for event trigger management, a new 
    capability. See "man strigger" for details.
 -- srun --get-user-env now sends su's stderr to /dev/null
 -- Fix in node_scheduling logic with multiple node_sets, from 
    Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
 -- In select/cons_res, fix for function argument type mis-match in getting 
    CPU count for a job.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.1
========================
 -- MPICHGM support bug fixes from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.
 -- Support longer hostlist strings, from Ernest Artiaga, BSC.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0
========================
 -- Srun to use env vars for SLURM_PROLOG, SLURM_EPILOG, SLURM_TASK_PROLOG, 
    and SLURM_TASK_EPILOG. patch.1.2.0-pre11.070201.envproepilog from 
    Dan Palermo, HP.
 -- Documenation update. patch.1.2.0-pre11.070201.mchtml from Dan Palermo, HP.
 -- Set SLURM_DIST_CYCLIC = 1 (needed for HP MPI, slurm.hp.env.patch).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre15
==============================
 -- Fix for another spot where the backup controller calls switch/federation
    code before switch/federation is initialized.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre14
==============================
 -- In sched/wiki2, clear required nodes list when a job is requeued.
    Note that the required node list is set to every node used when 
    a job is started via sched/wiki2.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added display of deallocating blocks to smap and other tools. 
 -- Make slurmctld's working directory be same as SlurmctldLogFile (if any),
    otherwise StateSaveDir (which is likely a shared directory, possibly 
    making core file identification more difficult).
 -- Fix bug in switch/federation that results in the backup controller
    aborting if it receives an epilog-complete message.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre13
==============================
 -- Fix for --get-user-env.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre12
==============================
 -- BLUEGENE - Added correct node info for sinfo and sview for viewing
    allocated nodes in a partition.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added state save on slurmctld shutdown of blocks in an error 
    state on real systems and total block config on emulation systems.
 -- Major update to Slurm's PMI internal logic for better scalability.
    Communications now supported directly between application tasks via 
    Slurm's PMI library. Srun sends single message to one task on each node
    and that tasks forwards key-pairs to other tasks on that nodes. The old 
    code sent key-pairs directly to each task. 
    NOTE: PMI applications must re-link with this new library.
 -- For multi-core support: Fix task distribution bug and add automated 
    tests, patch.1.2.0-pre11.070111.plane from Dan Palermo (HP).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre11
==============================
 -- Add multi-core options to slurm_step_launch API.
 -- Add man pages for slurm_step_launch() and related functions.
 -- Jobacct plugin only looks at the proctrack list instead of the entire
    list of processes running on the node. Cutting down a lot of unnecessary
    file opens in linux and cutting down the time to query the procs by
    more than half.
 -- Multi-core bug fix, mask re-use with multiple job steps,
    patch.1.2.0-pre10.061214.affinity_stepid from Dan Palermo (HP).
 -- Modify jobacct/linux plugin to completely eliminate open /proc files.
 -- Added slurm_sched_plugin_reconfig() function to re-read config files.
 -- BLUEGENE - --reboot option to srun, salloc, and sbatch actually works.
 -- Modified step context and step launch APIs.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre10
==============================
 -- Fix for sinfo node state counts by state (%A and %F output options).
 -- Add ability to change a node's features via "scontrol update". NOTE: 
    Update slurm.conf also to preserve changes over slurmctld restart or 
    reconfig.
    NOTE: Job and node state information can not be preserved from earlier 
          versions.
 -- Added new slurm.conf parameter TaskPluginParam.
 -- Fix for job requeue and credential revoke logic from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Fix for incorrectly generated masks for task/affinity plugin,
    patch.1.2.0-pre9.061207.bitfmthex from Dan Palermo (HP).
 -- Make mask_cpu options of srun and slaunch commands not requeue prefix
    of "0x". patch.1.2.0-pre9.061208.srun_maskparse from Dan Palermo (HP).
 -- Add -c support to the -B automatic mask generation for multi-core 
    support, patch.1.2.0-pre9.061208.mcore_cpuspertask from Dan Palermo (HP).
 -- Fix bug in MASK_CPU calculation, 
    patch.1.2.0-pre9.061211.avail_cpuspertask from Dan Palermo (HP).
 -- BLUEGENE - Added --reboot option to srun, salloc, and sbatch commands.
 -- Add "scontrol listpids [JOBID[.STEPID]]" support.
 -- Multi-core support patches, fixed SEGV and clean up output for large 
    task counts, patch.1.2.0-pre9.061212.cpubind_verbose from Dan Palermo (HP).
 -- Make sure jobacct plugin files are closed before exec of user tasks to 
    prevent problems with job checkpoint/restart (based on work by 
    Hongjia Cao, NUDT).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre9
=============================
 -- Fix for select/cons_res state preservation over slurmctld restart,
    patch.1.2.0-pre7.061130.cr_state from Dan Palermo.
 -- Validate product of socket*core*thread count on node registration rather 
    than individual values. Correct values will need to be specified in slurm.conf 
    with FastSchedule=1 for correct multi-core scheduling behavior.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Modity job state "reason" field to report why a job failed (previously 
    previously reported only reason waiting to run). Requires cold-start of 
    slurmctld (-c option).
 -- For sched/wiki2 job state request, return REJMESSAGE= with reason for 
    a job's failure.
 -- New FastSchedule configuration parameter option "2" means to base 
    scheduling decisions upon the node's configuration as specified in 
    slurm.conf and ignore the node's actual hardware configuration. This 
    can be useful for testing. 
 -- Add sinfo output format option "%C" for CPUs (active/idle/other/total).
    Based upon work by Anne-Marie Wunderlin (BULL).
 -- Assorted multi-core bug fixes (patch1.2.0-pre7.061128.mcorefixes).
 -- Report SelectTypeParameters from "scontrol show config".
 -- Build sched/wiki plugin for Maui Scheduler (based upon new sched/wiki2 
    code for Moab Scheduler).
 -- BLUEGENE - changed way of keeping track of smaller partitions using 
    ionode range instead of quarter nodecard notation. 
    (i.e. bgl000[0-3] instead of bgl000.0.0)
 -- Patch from Hongjia Cao (EINPROGRESS error message change)
 -- Fix for correct requid for jobacct plugin
 -- Added subsec timing display for sacct

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre7
=============================
 -- BLUEGENE - added configurable images for bluegene block creation.
 -- Plug a bunch of memory leaks.
 -- Support processors, core, and physical IDs that are not in numeric 
    order (in slurmd to gathering node state information, based on patch
    by Don Albert, Bull).
 -- Fixed bug with aix not looking in the correct dir for the proctrack
    include files
 -- Removed global_srun.* from common merged it into srun proper
 -- Added bluegene section to troubleshooting guide (web page). 
 -- NOTE: Requires cold-start when moving from 1.2.0-pre6, save state 
    info for jobs changed.
 -- BLUEGENE - Changed logic for wiring bgl blocks to be more maintainable.
    (Haven't tested on large system yet, works on 2 base partition system)
 -- Do not read the select/cons_res state save file if slurmctld is 
    cold-started (with the "-c" option).

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Maintain actually job step run time with suspend/resume use.
 -- Allow slurm.conf options to appear multiple times.  SLURM will use the
    last instance of any particular option.
 -- Add version number to node state save file. Will not recover node 
    state information on restart from older version.
 -- Add logic to save/restore multi-core state information.
 -- Updated multi-core logic to use types uint16_t and uint32_t instead 
    of just type int.
 -- Race condition for forwarding logic fix from Hongjia Cao
 -- Add support for Portable Linux Processor Affinity (PLPA, see
    http://www.open-mpi.org/software/plpa).
 -- When a job epilog completes on all non-DOWN nodes, immediately purge
    it's job steps that lack switch windows. Needed for LSF operation. 
    Based upon slurm.hp.node_fail.patch.
 -- Modify srun to ignore entries on --nodelist for job step creation 
    if their count exceeds the task count. Based on slurm.hp.srun.patch.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Patch from HP patch.1.2.0.pre4.061017.crcore_hints, supports cores as 
    consumable resource.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Added node_inx to job_step_info_t to get the node indecies for mapping out
    steps in a job by nodes.
 -- sview grid added
 -- BLUEGENE node_inx added to blocks for reference.
 -- Automatic CPU_MASK generation for task launch, new srun option -B.
 -- Automatic logical to physical processor identification and mapping.
 -- Added new srun options to --cpu_bind: sockets, cores, and threads
 -- Updated select/cons_res to operate as socket granularity.
 -- New srun task distribution options to -m: plane
 -- Multi-core support in sinfo, squeue, and scontrol.
 -- Memory can be treated as a consumable resource.
 -- New srun options --ntasks-per-[node|socket|core].

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Remove configuration parameter ShedulerAuth (defunct).
 -- Add NextJobId to "scontrol show config" output.
 -- Add new slurm.conf parameter MailProg.
 -- New forwarding logic.  New recieve_msg functions depending on what you
    are expecting to get back.  No srun_node_id anymore passed around in
    a slurm_msg_t
 -- Remove sched/wiki plugin (use sched/wiki2 for now)
 -- Disable pthread_create() for PMI_send when TotalView is running for 
    better performance.
 -- Fixed certain tests in test suite to not run with bluegene or front-end 
    systems
 -- Removed addresses from slurm_step_layout_t
 -- Added new job field, "comment". Set by srun, salloc and sbatch. See 
    with "scontrol show job". Used in sched/wiki2.
 -- Report a job's exit status in "scontrol show job".
 -- In sched/wiki2: add support for JOBREQUEUE command.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Added function slurm_init_slurm_msg to be used to init any slurm_msg_t
    you no longer need do any other type of initialization to the type.

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Fixed task dist to work with hostfile and warn about asking for more tasks 
    than you have nodes for in arbitray mode.
 -- Added "account" field to job and step accounting information and sacct output.
 -- Moved task layout to slurmctld instead of srun.  Job step create returns
    step_layout structure with hostnames and addresses that corrisponds 
    to those nodes. 
 -- Changed api slurm_lookup_allocation params, 
    resource_allocation_response_msg_t changed to job_alloc_info_response_msg_t
    this structure is being renamed so contents are the same.
 -- alter resource_allocation_response_msg_t see slurm.h.in
 -- remove old_job_alloc_msg_t and function slurm_confirm_alloc	
 -- Slurm configuration files now support an "Include" directive to
    include other files inline.
 -- BLUEGENE New --enable-bluegene-emulation configure parameter to allow 
    running system in bluegene emulation mode.  Only
    really useful for developers.
 -- New added new tool sview GUI for displaying slurm info.
 -- fixed bug in step layout to lay out tasks correctly

* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre1
=============================
 -- Fix bug that could run a job's prolog more than once
 -- Permit batch jobs to be requeued, scontrol requeue <jobid>
 -- Send overcommit flag from srun in RPCs and have slurmd set SLURM_OVERCOMMIT
    flag at batch job launch time.
 -- Added new configuration parameter MessageTimeout (replaces #define in 
    the code)
 -- Added support for OSX build.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.37
=========================
 - In sched/wiki2: Add NAME to job record.
 - Changed -w (--nodelist) option to only read in number of nodes specified
   by -N option unless nprocs was set and in Arbitrary layout mode.
 - Added some loops around pthread creates incase they fail and also fixed an
   issue in srun to fail job has failed instead of waiting around for threads
   that will never end.
 - Added fork handlers in the slurmstepd
 - In sched/wiki2: fix logic for restarting backup slurmctld.
 - In sched/wiki2: if job has no time limit specified, return the partition's 
   time limit (which is the default for the job) rather than 365 days.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.36
=========================
 - Permit node state specification of DRAIN in slurm.conf.
 - In jobcomp/script - fix bug that prevented UID and JOBID environment 
   variables from being set.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.35
=========================
 - In sched/wiki2: Add support for CMD=SIGNALJOB to accept option
   of VALUE=SIGXXX in addition to VALUE=# and VALUE=XXX options.
 - In sched/wiki2: Add support for CMD=MODIFYJOB to accept option of
   DEPEND=afterany:<jobid>, specify jobid=0 to clear. 
 - Correct logic for job allocation with task count (srun -n ...) AND
   FastSchedule=0 AND low CPUs count in Slurm's node configuration.
 - Add new and undocumented scancel option, --ctld, to route signal 
   requests through slurmctld rather than directly to slurmd daemons.
   Useful for testing purposes.
 - Fixed issue with hostfile support not working in a job step.
 - Set supplemental groups for SlurmUser in slurmctld daemon, from
   Anne Marie Wunderlin, Bull.
 - In jobcomp/script: Add ACCOUNT and PROCS (count) to environment 
   variables set. Fix bug that prevented UID and JOBID from being 
   overwritten.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.34
=========================
 - Insure that slurm_signal_job_step() is defined in srun for mvapich
   and mpichgm error conditions.
 - Modify /etc/init.d/slurm restart command to wait for daemon to terminate
   before starting a new one
 - Permit job steps to be started on draining nodes that have already 
   been allocated to that job.
 - Prevent backup slurmctld from purging pending batch job scripts when a 
   SIGHUP is received.
 - BLUEGENE - check to make sure set_block_user works when the block
   is in a ready state.
 - Fix to slurmstepd to not use local variables in a pthread create.
 - In sched/wiki2 - add wiki.conf parameter HostFormat specifying 
   format of hostlists exchanged between Slurm and Moab (experimental).
 - mpi/mvapich: Support Adam Moody's fast MPI initialization protocol 
   (MVAPICH protocol version 8).

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.33
=========================
 - sched/wiki2 - Do not wait for job completion before permitting 
   additional jobs to be scheduled.
 - Add srun SLURM_EXCLUSIVE environment variable support, from 
   Gilles Civario (Bull).
 - sched/wiki2 - Report job's node sharing options.
 - sched/wiki2 - If SchedulerPort is in use, retry opening it indefinitely.
 - sched/wiki2 - Add support for changing the size of a pending job.
 - BLUEGENE - Fix to correctly look at downed/drained nodes with picking 
   a block to run a job and not confuse it with another running job.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.32
=========================
 - If a job's stdout/err file names are unusable (bad path), use the 
   default names.
 - sched/wiki2 - Fix logic to be compatible with select/cons_res plugin
   for allocating individual processors within nodes.
 - Fix job end time calculation when changed from an initial value of 
   INFINITE.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.31
=========================
 - Correctly identify a user's login shell when running "srun -b --uid"
   as root.  Use the --uid field for the /etc/passwd lookup instead of
   getuid().

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.30
=========================
 - Fix to make sure users don't include and exclude the same node in 
   their srun line.
 - mpi/mvapich: Forcibly terminate job 60s after first MPI_Abort() 
   to avoid waiting indefinitely for hung processes.
 - proctrack/sgi_job: Fix segv when destroying an active job container 
   with processes still running.
 - Abort a job's stdout/err to srun if not processed within 5 minutes
   (prevents node hanging in completing state if the srun is stopped).

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.29
=========================
 - Fix bug which could leave orphan process put into background from 
   batch script.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.28
=========================
 - BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with nodes that return to service outside of an
   admin state is now updated in the bluegene plugin.
 - Fix for --get-user-env parsing of non-printing characters in users' logins.
 - Restore "squeue -n localhost" support.
 - Report lack of PATH env var as verbose message, not error in srun.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.27
=========================
 - Fix possible race condition for two simultaneous "scontrol show config" 
   calls resulting in slurm_xfree() Error: from read_config.c:642 
 - BLUEGENE - Put back logic to make a block fail a boot 3 times before 
   cancelling a users job.
 - Fix problem using srun --exclude option for a job step.
 - Fix problem generating slurmd error "Unrecognized request: 0" with 
   some compilers.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.26
=========================
 - In sched/wiki2, fixes for support of job features.
 - In sched/wiki2, add "FLAGS=INTERACTIVE;" to GETJOBS response for 
   non-batch (not srun --batch) jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.25
=========================
 - switch/elan: Fix for "Failed to initialise stats structure" from
   libelan when ELAN_STATKEY > MAX_INT.
 - Tune PMI support logic for better scalability and performance.
 - Fix for running a task on each node of an allocation if not specified.
 - In sched/wiki2, set TASKLIST for running jobs.
 - In sched/wiki2, set STARTDATE for pending jobs with deferred start.
 - Added srun --get-user-env option (for Moab scheduler).

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.24
=========================
 - In sched/wiki2, add support for direct "srun --dependency=" use.
 - mpi/mvapich: Add support for MVAPICH protocol version 6.
 - In sched/wiki2, change "JOBMODIFY" command to "MODIFYJOB".
 - In sched/wiki2, change "JOBREQUEUE" command to "REQUEUEJOB".
 - For sched/wiki2, permit normal user to specify arbitrary job id.
 - In sched/wiki2, set buffer pointer to NULL after free() to avoid 
   possible memory corruption.
 - In sched/wiki2, report a job's exit code on completion.
 - For AIX, fix mail for job event notification.
 - Add documentation for propagation options in man srun and slurm.conf.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.23
=========================
 - Fix bug in non-blocking connect() code affecting AIX.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.22
=========================
 - Add squeue option to print a job step's task count (-o %A).
 - Initialize forward_struct to avoid trying to free a bad pointer,
   patch from Anton Blanchard (SAMBA).
 - In sched/wiki2, fix fatal race condition on slurmctld startup.
 - Fix for displaying launching verbose messages for each node under the
   tree instead of just the head one.
 - Fix job suspend bug, job accounting plugin would SEGV when given a 
   bad job ID.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.21
=========================
 - BLUEGENE - Wait on a fini to make sure all threads are finished before
   cleaning up.
 - BLUEGENE - replacements to not destroy lists but just empty it to avoid
   losing the pointer to the list in the block allocator.
 - BLUEGENE - added --enable-bluegene-emulation configure option to 1.1
 - In sched/wiki2, enclose a job's COMMENT value in double quotes.
 - In sched/wiki2, support newly defined SIGNALJOB command.
 - In sched/wiki2, maintain open event socket, don't open and close 
   for each event.
 - In sched/wiki2, fix for scalability problem starting large jobs.
 - Fix logic to execute a batch job step (under an existing resource
   allocation) as needed by LSF.
 - Patches from Hongjia Cao (pmi finialize issues and type declaration)
 - Delete pending job if it's associated partition is deleted.
 - fix for handling batch steps completing correctly and setting the 
   return code.
 - Altered ncurses check to make sure programs can link before saying we 
   have a working curses lib and header.
 - Fixed an init issue with forward_struct_init not being set correctly in
   a few locations in the slurmd.
 - Fix for user to use the NodeHostname (when specified in the slurm.conf file)
   to start jobs on.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.20
=========================
 - Added new SPANK plugin hook slurm_spank_local_user_init() called
   from srun after node allocation.
 - Fixed bug with hostfile support not working on a direct srun

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.19
=========================
 - BLUEGENE - make sure the order of blocks read in from the bluegene.conf
   are created in that order (static mode).
 - Fix logic in connect(), slurmctld fail-over was broken in v1.1.18.
 - Fix logic to calculate the correct timeout for fan out.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.18
=========================
 - In sched/wiki2, add support for EHost and EHostBackup configuration 
   parameters in wiki.conf file
 - In sched/wiki2, fix memory management bug for JOBWILLRUN command.
 - In sched/wiki2, consider job Busy while in Completing state for 
   KillWait+10 seconds (used to be 30 seconds).
 - BLUEGENE - Fixes to allow full block creation on the system and not to add
   passthrough nodes to the allocation when creating a block. 
 - BLUEGENE - Fix deadlock issue with starting and failing jobs at the same
   time
 - Make connect() non-blocking and poll() with timeout to avoid huge 
   waits under some conditions.
 - Set "ENVIRONMENT=BATCH" environment variable for "srun --batch" jobs only.
 - Add logic to save/restore select/cons_res state information.
 - BLUEGENE - make all sprintf's into snprintf's
 - Fix for "srun -A" segfault on a node failure.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.17
=========================
 - BLUEGENE - fix to make dynamic partitioning not go create block where
    there are nodes that are down or draining.
 - Fix srun's default node count with an existing allocation when neither
   SLURM_NNODES nor -N are set.
 - Stop srun from setting SLURM_DISTRIBUTION under job steps when a
   specific was not explicitly requested by the user.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.16
=========================
 - BLUEGENE - fix to make prolog run 5 minutes longer to make sure we have
   enough time to free the overlapping blocks when starting a new job on a 
   block.
 - BLUEGENE - edit to the libsched_if.so to read env and look at 
   MPIRUN_PARTITION to see if we are in slurm or running mpirun natively.
 - Plugins are now dlopened RTLD_LAZY instead of RTLD_NOW.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.15
=========================
 - BLUEGENE - fix to be able to create static partitions
 - Fixed fanout timeout logic.
 - Fix for slurmctld timeout on outgoing message (Hongjia Cao, NUDT.edu.cn).

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.14
=========================
 - In sched/wiki2: report job/node id and state only if no changes since 
   time specified in request.
 - In sched/wiki2: include a job's exit code in job state information.
 - In sched/wiki2: add event notification logic on job submit and completion.
 - In sched/wiki2: add support for JOBWILLRUN command type.
 - In sched/wiki2: for job info, include required HOSTLIST if applicable.
 - In sched/wiki2: for job info, replace PARTITIONMASK with RCLASS (report
   partition name associated with a job, but no task count)
 - In sched/wiki2: for job and node info, report all data if TS==0, 
   volitile data if TS<=update_time, state only if TS>update_time
 - In sched/wiki2: add support for CMD=JOBSIGNAL ARG=jobid SIGNAL=name or #
 - In sched/wiki2: add support for CMD=JOBMODIFY ARG=jobid [BANK=name]
   [TIMELIMIT=minutes] [PARTITION=name]
 - In sched/wiki2: add support for CMD=INITIALIZE ARG=[USEHOSTEXP=T|F]
   [EPORT=#]; RESPONSE=EPORT=# USEHOSTEXP=T
 - In sched/wiki2: fix memory leak.
 - Fix sinfo node state filtering when asking for idle nodes that are also 
   draining. 
 - Add Fortran extension to slurm_get_rem_time() API.
 - Fix bug when changing the time limit of a running job that has previously 
   been suspended (formerly failed to account for suspend time in setting 
   termination time).
 - fix for step allocation to be able to specify only a few nodes in a 
   step and ask for more that specified.
 - patch from Hongjia Cao for forwarding logic
 - BLUEGENE - able to allocate specific nodes without locking up.
 - BLUEGENE - better tracking of blocks that are created dynamically, 
   less hitting the db2.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.13
=========================
 - Fix hang in sched/wiki2 if Moab stops responding responding when 
   response is outgoing. 
 - BLUEGENE - fix to make sure the block is good to go when picking it
 - BLUEGENE - add libsched_if.so so mpirun doesn't try to create a block
   by itself.
 - Enable specification of srun --jobid=# option with --batch (for user root).
 - Verify that job actually starts when requested by sched/wiki2.
 - Add new wiki.conf parameters: EPort and JobAggregationTime for event 
   notification logic (see wiki.conf man page for details)

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.12
=========================
 - Sched/wiki2 to report a job's account as COMMENT response to GETJOBS
    request.
 - Add srun option "--comment" (maps to job account until slurm v1.2, 
   needed for Moab scheduler functionality).
 - fixed some timeout issues in the controller hopefully stopping all the 
   issues with excessive timeouts.
 - unit conversion (i.e. 1024 => 1k) only happens on bgl systems for node 
   count.
 - Sched/wiki2 to report a job's COMPETETIME and SUSPENDTIME in GETJOBS 
   response.
 - Added support for Mellanox's version of mvapich-0.9.7.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.11
=========================
 - Update file headers adding permission to link with OpenSSL.
 - Enable sched/wiki2 message authentication.
 - Fix libpmi compilation issue.
 - Remove "gcc-c++ python" from slurm.spec BuildRequires.  It breaks
   the AIX build, so we'll have to find another way to deal with that.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.10
=========================
 -- task distribution fix for steps that are smaller than job allocation.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix to only send a success when block was created when trying
    to allocate the block.
 -- fix so if slurm_send_recv_node_msg fails on the send the auth_cred returned
    by the resp is NULL.
 -- Fix switch/federation plugin so backup controller can assume control 
    repeatedly without leaking or corrupting memory.
 -- Add new error code (for Maui/Moab scheduler): ESLURM_JOB_HELD
 -- Tweak slurmctld's node ping logic to better handle failed nodes with 
    hierarchical communications fail-over logic.
 -- Add support for sched/wiki specific configuration file "wiki.conf".
 -- Added sched/wiki2 plugin (new experimental wiki plugin).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.9
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - fix to handle a NO_VAL sent in as num procs in the job 
    description.
 -- Fix bug in slurmstepd code for parsing --multi-prog command script.
    Parser was failing for commands with no arguments.
 -- Fix bug to check unsigned ints correctly in bitstring.c
 -- Alter node count covert to kilo to only convert number divisible by 
    1024 or 512

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.8
========================
 -- Added bug fixes (fault-tolerance and memory leaks) from Hongjia Cao 
    <hjcao@nudt.edu.cn>
 -- Gixed some potential BLUEGENE issues with the bridge log file not having
    a mutex around the fclose and fopen.
 -- BLUEGENE - srun -n procs now regristers correctly
 -- Fixed problem with reattach double allocating step_layout->tids
 -- BLUEGENE - fix race condition where job is finished before it starts.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.7
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed issue with doing an allocation for nodes since asking 
    for 32,128, or 512 all mean 1 to the controller. 
 -- Add "Include" directive to slurm.conf files.  If "Include" is found
    at the beginning of a line followed by whitespace and then
    the full path to a file, that file is included inline with the current
    slurm.conf file.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.6
========================
 -- Improved task layout for relative positions
 -- Fixed heterogeous cpu overcommit issue
 -- Fix bug where srun would hang if it ran on one node and that 
    node's slurmd died
 -- Fix bug where srun task layout would be bad when min-max node range is 
    specified (e.g. "srun -N1-4 ...")
 -- Made slurmctld_conf.node_prefix only be set on Bluegene systems.
 -- Fixed a race condition in the controller to make it so a plugin thread
    wouldn't be able to access the slurmctld_conf structure before it was 
    filled.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.5
========================
 -- Ignore partition's MaxNodes for SlurmUser and root.
 -- Fix possible memory corruption with use of PMI_KVS_Create call.
 -- Fix race condition when multiple PMI_KVS_Barrier calls.
 -- Fix logic in which slurmctld outgoing RPC requests could get delayed.
 -- Fix logic for laying out steps without a hostlist.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.4
========================
 -- Improve error handling in hierarchical communications logic.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.3
========================
 -- Fix big-endian bug in the bitstring code which plagued AIX.
 -- Fix bug in handling srun's --multi-prog option, could go off end of buffer.
 -- Added support for job step completion (and switch window release) on 
    subset of allocated nodes.
 -- BLUEGENE - removed configure option --with-bg-link bridge is linked with 
    dlopen now no longer needing fake database so files on frontend node.
 -- BLUEGENE - implemented use of rm_get_partition_info instead of 
    ...partitions_info which has made a much better design improving stability.
 -- Streamline PMI communications and increase timeouts for highly parallel 
    jobs. Improves scalability of PMI.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.2
========================
 -- Fix bug in jobcomp/filetxt plugin to report proper NodeCnt when a job 
    fails due to a node failure.
 -- Fix Bluegene configure to work with the new 64bit libs.
 -- Fix bug in controller that causes it to segfault when hit with a malformed
    message.
 -- For "srun --attach=X" to other users job, report an error and exit (it 
    previously just hung).
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for doing correct small block logic on user error. 
 -- BLUEGENE - Added support in slurmd to create a fake libdb2.so if it
    doesn't exist so smap won't seg fault
 -- BLUEGENE - "scontrol show job" reports "MaxProcs=None" and "Start=None"
    if values are not specified at job submit time
 -- Add retry logic for PMI communications, may be needed for highly parallel
    jobs.
 -- Fix bug in slurmd where variable is used in logging message after freed
    (slurmstepd rank info).
 -- Fix bug in scontrol show daemons if NodeName=localhost will work now to
    display slurmd as place where it is running.  
 -- Patch from HP for init nodes before init_bitmaps
 -- ctrl-c killed sruns will result in job state as cancelled instead of 
    completed.
 -- BLUEGENE - added configure option --with-bg-link to choose dynamic linking
    or static linking with the bridgeapi.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.1
========================
 -- Fix bug in packing job suspend/resume RPC.
 -- If a user breaks out of srun before the allocation takes place, mark the 
    job as CANCELLED rather than COMPLETED and change its start and end time 
    to that time.
 -- Fix bug in PMI support that prevented use of second PMI_Barrier call.
    This fix is needed for MVAPICH2 use.
 -- Add "-V" options to slurmctld and slurmd to print version number and exit.
 -- Fix scalability bug in sbcast.
 -- Fix bug in cons_res allocation strategy.
 -- Fix bug in forwarding with mpi
 -- Fix bug sacct forwarding with stat option
 -- Added nodeid to sacct stat information
 -- cleaned up way slurm_send_recv_node_msg works no more clearing errno
 -- Fix error handling bug in the networking code that causes the slurmd to
    xassert if the server is not running when the slurmd tries to register.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0
========================
 -- Fix bug that could temporarily make nodes DOWN when they are really 
    responding. 
 -- Fix bug preventing backup slurmctld from responding to PING RPCs.
 -- Set "CFLAGS=-DISO8601" before configuration to get ISO8601 format 
    times for all SLURM commands. NOTE: This may break Moab, Maui, and/or 
    LSF schedulers.
 -- Fix for srun -n and -O options when paired with -b.
 -- Added logic for fanout to failover to forward list if main node is 
    unreachable 
 -- sacct also now keeps track of submitted, started and ending times of jobs
 -- reinit config file mutex at beginning of slurmstepd to avoid fork issues
  
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Fix bug in enforcement of partition's MaxNodes limit.
 -- BLUEGENE - added support for srun -w option also fixed the geometry option
    for srun.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Accounting works for aix systems, use jobacct/aix
 -- Support large (over 2GB) files on 32-bit linux systems
 -- changed all writes to safe_write in srun
 -- added $float to globals.example in the testsuite
 -- Set job's num_proc correctly for jobs that do not have exclusive use 
    of it's allocated nodes.
 -- Change in support for test suite: 'testsuite/expect/globals.example'
    is now 'testsuite/expect/globals' and you can override variable 
    settings with a new file 'testsuite/expect/globals.local'.
 -- Job suspend now sends SIGTSTP, sleep(1), sends SIGSTOP for better
    MPI support.
 -- Plug a bunch of memory leaks in various places.
 -- Bluegene - before assigning a job to a block the plugin will check the bps
    to make sure they aren't in error state.
 -- Change time format in job completion logging (JobCompType=jobcomp/filetxt)
    from "MM/DD HH:MM:SS" to "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS", conforming with the ISO8601 
    standard format.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Added logic to "stat" a running job with sacct option -S use -j to specify
    job.step 
 -- removed jobacct/bluegene (no real need for this) meaning, I don't think 
    there is a way to gather the data yet.
 -- Added support for mapping "%h" in configured SlurmdLog to the hostname.
 -- Add PropagatePrioProcess to control propagation of a user's nice value 
    to spawned tasks (based upon work by Daniel Christians, HP).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Added step completion RPC logic
 -- Vastly changed sacct and the jobacct plugin.  Read documentation for full
    details.
 -- Added jobacct plugin for AIX and BlueGene, they currently don't work, 
    but infrastructure is in place.
 -- Add support for srun option --ctrl-comm-ifhn to set PMI communications
    address (Hongjia Cao, National University of Defense Technology).
 -- Moved safe_read/write to slurm_protocol_defs.h removing multiple copies.
 -- Remove vestigial functions slurm_allocate_resources_and_run() and 
    slurm_free_resource_allocation_and_run_response_msg().
 -- Added support for different executable files and arguments by task based
    upon a configuration file. See srun's --multi-prog option (based upon 
    work by Hongjia Cao, National University of Defense Technology).
 -- moved the way forward logic waited for fanout logic mostly eliminating 
    problems with scalability issues.
 -- changed -l option in sacct to display different params see sacct/sacct.h
    for details.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Bluegene specific - Added support to set bluegene block state to 
    free/error via scontrol update BlockName 
 -- Add needed symbol to select/bluegene in order to load plugin.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Added framework for XCPU job launch support.
 -- New general configuration file parser and slurm.conf handling code.
    Allows long lines to be continued on the next line by ending with a "\".
    Whitespace is allowed between the key and "=", and between the "=" and
    value.
    WARNING: A NodeName may now occur only once in a slurm.conf file.
             If you want to temporarily make nodes DOWN in the slurm.conf,
             use the new DownNodes keyword (see "man slurm.conf").
 -- Gracefully handle request to submit batch job from within an existing 
    batch job.
 -- Warn user attempting to create a job allocation from within an existing job
    allocation.
 -- Add web page description for proctrack plugin.
 -- Add new function slurm_get_rem_time() for job's time limit.
 -- JobAcct plugin renamed from "log" to "linux" in preparation for support of 
    new system types. 
    WARNING: "JobAcctType=jobacct/log" is no longer supported.
 -- Removed vestigal 'bg' names from bluegene plugin and smap
 -- InactiveLimit parameter is not enforced for RootOnly partitions.
 -- Update select/cons_res web page (Susanne Balle, HP, 
    cons_res_doc_patch_3_29_06).
 -- Build a "slurmd.test" along with slurmd. slurmd.test has the path to 
    slurmstepd set allowing it to run unmodified out of the builddir for 
    testing (Mark Grondona).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Added "bcast" command to transmit copies of a file to compute nodes
    with message fanout.
 -- Bluegene specific - Added support for overlapping partitions and 
    dynamic partitioning. 
 -- Bluegene specific - Added support for nodecard sized blocks.
 -- Added logic to accept 1k for 1024 and so on for --nodes option of srun. 
    This logic is through display tools such as smap, sinfo, scontrol, and 
    squeue.
 -- Added bluegene.conf man page.
 -- Added support for memory affinity, see srun --mem_bind option.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre1
=============================
 -- New --enable-multiple-slurmd configure parameter to allow running
    more than one copy of slurmd on a node at the same time.  Only
    really useful for developers.
 -- New communication is now branched on all processes to slurmd's from 
    slurmctld and srun launch command.  This is done with a tree type 
    algorithm.  Spawn and batch mode work the same as before.  New slurm.conf
    variable TreeWidth=50 is default.  This is the number of threads per 
    stop on the tree.  
 -- Configuration parameter HeartBeatInterval is depracated. Now used half
    of SlurmdTimeout and SlurmctldTimeout for communications to slurmd and
    slurmctld daemons repsectively.
 -- Add hash tables for select/cons_res plugin (Susanne Balle, HP, 
    patch_02222006).
 -- Remove some use of cr_enabled flag in slurmctld job record, use 
    new flag "test_only" in select_g_job_test() instead.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.17
=========================
 -- Set correct user groups for task epilogs.
 -- Add more debugging for tracking slow slurmd job initiations
    (slurm.hp.replaydebug.patch).

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.16
=========================
 -- For "srun --attach=X" to other users job, report an error and exit (it
    previously just hung).
 -- Make sure that "scancel -s KILL" terminates the job just like "scancel" 
    including deletion of all job steps (Chris Holmes, HP, slurm,patch).
 -- Recognize ISO-8859 input to srun as a script (for non-English scripts).
 -- switch/elan: Fix bug in propagation of ELAN_STATKEY environment variable.
 -- Fix bug in slurmstepd IO code that can result in it spinning if a
    certain error occurs.
 -- Remove nodes from srun's required node list if their count exceeds 
    the number of requested tasks.
 -- sched/backfill to schedule around jobs that are hung in a completing 
    state.
 -- Avoid possibly re-running the epilog for a job on slurmctld restart or 
    reconfig by saving and restoring a hostlist of nodes still completing 
    the job.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.15
=========================
 -- In srun, reset stdin to blocking mode (if it was originally blocking before
    we set it to O_NONBLOCK) on exit to avoid trouble with things like running
    srun under a bash shell in an emacs *shell* buffer.
 -- Fix srun race condition that occasionally causes segfaults at shutdown
 -- Fix obscure locking issues in log.c code.
 -- Explicitly close IO related sockets.  If an srun gets "stuck", possibly
    because of unkillable tasks in its job step, it will not hold many TCP
    sockets in the CLOSE_WAIT state.
 -- Increase the SLURM protocol timeout from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
    (In 1.2 there will be a slurm.conf parameter for this, rather than having
    it hardcoded.)

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.14
=========================
 -- Fix for bad xfree() call in auth/munge which can raise an assert().
 -- Fix installed fork handlers for the conf mutex for slurmd and slurmstepd.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.13
=========================
 -- Fix for AllowGroups option to work when the /etc/group file doesn't 
    contain all users in group by adding the uids of the names in /etc/passwd
    that have a gid of that which we are looking for.
 -- Fix bug in InactiveLimit support that can potentially purge active jobs.
    NOTE: This is highly unlikely except on very large AIX clusters.
 -- Fix bug for reiniting the config_lock around the control_file in 
    slurm_protocol_api.c logic has changed in 1.1 so no need to merge
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.12
=========================
 -- Report node state of DRAIN rather than DOWN if DOWN with DRAIN flag set.
 -- Initialize job->mail_type to 0 (NONE) for job submission.
 -- Fix for stalled task stdout/stderr when buffered I/O is used, and
    a single line exceeds 4096 bytes.
 -- Memory leak fixes for maui plugin (hjcao@nudt.edu.cn)
 -- Fix for spinning srun when the terminal to which srun is talking
    goes away.
 -- Don't set avail_node_bitmap for DRAINED nodes on slurmctld reconfig
    (can schedule a job on drained node after reconfig).
 

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.11
=========================
 -- Fix for slurmstepd hang when launching a task. (Needed to install
    list library's atfork handlers).
 -- Fix memory leak on AIX (and possibly other architectures) due to
    missing pthread_attr_destroy() calls.
 -- Fix rare task standard I/O setup bug.  When the bug hit, stdin, stdout,
    or stderr could be an invalid file descriptor.
 -- General slurmstepd file descriptor cleanup.
 -- Fix memory leak in job accounting logic (Andy Riebs, HP, memory_leak.patch).

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.10
=========================
 -- Fix for job accounting logic submitted from Andy Riebs to handle issues
    with suspending jobs and such. patch file named requeue.patch
 -- Make select/cons_res interoperate with mpi/lam plugin for task counts.
 -- Fix race condition where srun could seg-fault due to use of logging functions
    within pthread after calling log_fini.
 -- Code changes for clean build with gcc 2.96 (gcc_2_96.patch, Takao Hatazaki, HP).
 -- Add CacheGroups configuration support in configurator.html (configurator.patch,
    Takao Hatazaki, HP).
 -- Fix bug preventing use of mpich-gm plugin (mpichgm.patch, Takao Hatazaki, HP).

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.9
========================
 -- Fix job accounting logic to open new log file on slurmctld reconfig.
    (Andy Riebs, slurm.hp.logfile.patch).
 -- Fix bug which allows a user to run a batch script on a node not allocated
    by the slurmctld.
 -- Fix poe MP_HOSTFILE handling bug on AIX.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.8
========================
 -- Fix to communication between slurmd and slurmstepd to allow for partial
    reads and writes on their communication pipes.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.7
========================
 -- Change in how AuthType=auth/dummy is handled for security testing.
 -- Fix for bluegene systems to allow full system partitions to stay booted 
    when other jobs are submitted to the queue.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.6
========================
 -- Prevent slurmstepd from crashing when srun attaches to batch job.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.5
========================
 -- Restructure logic for scheduling BlueGene small block jobs. Added
    "test_only" flag to select_p_job_test() in select plugin.
 -- Correct squeue "NODELIST" output for BlueGene small block jobs.
 -- Fix possible deadlock situations on BlueGene plugin on errors.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.4
========================
 -- Release job allocation if step creation fails (especially for BlueGene).
 -- Fix bug select/bluegene warm start with changed bglblock layout.
 -- Fix bug for queuing full-system BlueGene jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.3
========================
 -- Fix bug that could refuse to queue batch jobs for BlueGene system.
 -- Add BlueGene plugin mutex lock for reconfig.
 -- Ignore BlueGene bgljobs in ERROR state (don't try to kill).
 -- Fix job accounting for batch jobs (Andy Riebs, HP, 
    slurm.hp.jobacct_divby0a.patch).
 -- Added proctrack/linuxproc.so to the main RPM.
 -- Added mutex around bridge api file to avoid locking up the api.
 -- BlueGene mod: Terminate slurm_prolog and slurm_epilog immediately if 
    SLURM_JOBID environment variable is invalid.
 -- Federation driver: allow selection of a sepecific switch interface
    (sni0, sni1, etc.) with -euidevice/MP_EUIDEVICE.
 -- Return an error for "scontrol reconfig" if there is already one in
    progress
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.0.2
========================
 -- Correctly report DRAINED node state as type OTHER for "sinfo --summarize".
 -- Fixes in sacct use of malloc (Andy Riebs, HP, sacct_malloc.patch).
 -- Smap mods: eliminate screen flicker, fix window resize, report more clear
    message if window too small (Dan Palermo, HP, patch.1.0.0.1.060126.smap).
 -- Sacct mods for inconsistent records (race condition) and replace --debug
    option with --verbose (Andy Riebs, HP, slurm.hp.sacct_exp_vvv.patch).
 -- scancel of a job step will now send a job-step-completed message
    to the controller after verifying that the step has completed on all nodes.
 -- Fix task layout bug in srun.
 -- Added times to node "Reason" field when set down for insufficient 
    resources or if not responding.
 -- Validate operation with Elan switch and heterogeneous nodes.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.1
========================
 -- Assorted updates and clarifications in documentation.
 -- Detect which munge installation to use 32/64 bit.

* Changes in SLURM 1.0.0
========================
 -- Fix sinfo filtering bug, especially "sinfo -R" output.
 -- Fix node state change bug, resuming down or drained nodes.
 -- Fix "scontrol show config" to display JobCredentialPrivateKey instead
    of JobCredPrivateKey and JobCredentialPublicCertificate instead of
    JobCredPublicKey.  They now match the options in the slurm.conf.
 -- Fix bug in job accounting for very long node list records (Andy Riebs,
    HP, sacct_buf.patch).
 -- BLUEGENE SPECIFIC - added load function to smap to load an already 
    exsistant bluegene.conf file.
 -- Fix bug in sacct: If user requests specific job or job step ID,
    only the last one with that ID will be reported. If multiple 
    nodes fail, the job has its state recorded as "JOB_TERMINATED...nf"
    (Andy Riebs, HP, slurm.hp.sacct_dup.patch).
 -- Fix some inconsistencies in sacct's help message (Andy Riebs, HP, 
    slurm.hp.sacct_help.patch).
 -- Validate input to sacct command and allows embedded spaces in 
    arguments (Andy Riebs, HP, slurm.hp.sacct_validate.patch).

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre8
=============================
 -- BGL specific -- bug fix for smap configure function down configuration
 -- Add support for job suspend/resume.
 -- Add slurmd cache for group IDs (Takao Hatazaki, HP).
 -- Fix bug in processing of "#SLURM" batch script option parsing.

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Fix issue with NODE_STATE_COMPLETING, could start job on node before
    epilog completed.
 -- Added some infrastructure for job suspend/resume (scontrol, api, and 
    slurmctld stub).
 -- Set job's num_procs to the actual processor count allocated to the job.
 -- Fix bug in HAVE_FRONT_END support for cluster emulation.

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Added support for task affinity for binding tasks to CPUs (Daniel
    Palermo, HP).
 -- Integrate task affinity support with configuration, add validation 
    test.

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Enhanced performance and debugging for slurmctld reconfiguration.
 -- Add "scontrol update Jobid=# Nice=#" support.
 -- Basic slurmctld and tool functionality validated to 16k nodes.
 -- squeue and smap now display correct info for jobs in bluegene enviornment.
 -- Fix setting of SLURM_NODELIST for batch jobs.
 -- Add SubmitTime to job information available for display.
 -- API function slurm_confirm_allocation() has been marked OBSOLETE
    and will go away in some future version of SLURM.  Use
    slurm_allocation_lookup() instead.
 -- New API calls slurm_signal_job and slurm_signal_job_step to send
    signals directly to the slurmds without triggering the shutdown sequence.
 -- remove "uid" from old_job_alloc_msg_t, no longer needed.
 -- Several bug fixes in maui scheduler plugin from Dave Jackon 
    (Cluster Resources).

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Remove BNR libary functions and add those for PMI (KVS and basic
    MPI-1 functions only for now)
 -- Added Hostfile support for POE and srun.  MP_HOSTFILE env var to set
    location of hostfile.  Tasks will run from list order in the file.  
 -- Removes the slurmd's use of SysV shared memory.  Instead the slurmd
    communicates with the slurmstepd processes through the slurmstepd's
    new named unix domain socket.  The "stepd_api" is used to talk to the
    slurmstepd (src/slurmd/common/stepd_api.[ch]).
 -- Bluegene specific - bluegene block allocator will find most any 
    partition size now.  Added support to start at any point in smap 
    to request a partition instead of always starting at 000.
 -- Bluegene specific - Support to smap to down or bring up nodes in 
    configure mode.  Added commands include allup, alldown, 
    up [range], down [range]
 -- Time format in sinfo/squeue/smap/sacct changed from D:HH:MM:SS to 
    D-HH:MM:SS per POSIX standards document.
 -- Treat scontrol update request without any requested changes as an 
    error condition.
 -- Bluegene plugin renamed with BG instead of BGL.  partition_allocator moved 
    into bluegene plugin and renamed block_allocator.  Format for bluegene.conf
    file changed also.  Read bluegene html page.  Code is backwards compatable
    smap will generate in new form
 -- Add srun option --nice to give user some control over job priority.

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Restructure node states: DRAINING and DRAINED states are replaced 
    with a DRAIN flag. COMPLETING state is changed to a COMPLETING flag. 
 -- Test suite moved into testsuite/expect from separate repository.
 -- Added new document describing slurm APIs (doc/html/api.html).
 -- Permit nodes to be in multiple partitions simultaneously.

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre2
=============================
 -- New stdio protocol.  Now srun has just a single TCP stream to each node
    of a job-step.  srun and slurmd comminicate over the TCP stream using a
    simple messaging protocol.
 -- Added task plugin and use task prolog/epilog(s).
 -- New slurmd_step functionality added.  Fork exec instead of using shared
    memory.  Not completely tested.
 -- BGL small partition logic in place in plugin and smap.  Scheduler needs  
    to be rewritten to handle multiple partitions on a single node. No 
    documentation written on process yet.
 -- If running select/bluegene plugin without access to BGL DB2, then 
    full-system bglblock is of system size defined in bluegene.conf.

* Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre1
=============================
 -- Support defered initiation of job (e.g. srun --begin=11:30 ...).
 -- Add support for srun --cpus-per-task through task allocation in 
    slurmctld.
 -- fixed partition_allocator to work without curses
 -- made change to srun to start message thread before other threads 
    to make sure localtime doesn't interfere.   
 -- Added new RPCs for slurmctld REQUEST_TERMINATE_JOB or TASKS, 
    REQUEST_KILL_JOB/TASKS changed to REQUEST_SIGNAL_JOB/TASKS.
 -- Add support for e-mail notification on job state changes.
 -- Some infrastructure added for task launch controls (slurm.conf:
    TaskProlog, TaskEpilog, TaskPlugin; srun --task-prolog, --task-epilog).

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.11
=========================
 -- Fix bug in sinfo partition sorting order.
 -- Fix bugs in srun use of #SLURM options in batch script.
 -- Use full Elan credential space rather than re-using credentials as soon 
    as job step completes (helps with fault-tolerance).

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.10
=========================
 -- Fix for slurmd job termination logic (could hang in COMPLETING state).
 -- Sacct bug fixes: Report correct user name for job step, show "uid.gid"
    as fifth field of job step record (Andy Riebs, slurm.hp.sacct_uid.patch).
 -- Add job_id to maui scheduler plugin start job status message.
 -- Fix for srun's handling of null characters in stdout or stderr.
 -- Update job accounting for larger systems (Andy Riebs, uptodate.patch).
 -- Fixes for proctrack/linuxproc and mpich-gm support (Takao Hatazaki, HP).
 -- Fix bug in switch/elan for large task count job having irregular task 
    distribution across nodes.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.9
========================
 -- Fix bug in mpi plugin to set the ID correctly
 -- Accounting bug causing segv fixed (Andy Riebs, 14oct.jobacct.patch)
 -- Fix for failed launch of a debugged job (e.g. bad executable name).
 -- Wiki plugin fix for tracking allocated nodes (Ernest Artiaga, BSC).
 -- Fix memory leaks in slurmctld and federation plugin.
 -- Fix sefault in federation plugin function fed_libstate_clear().
 -- Align job accounting data (Andy Riebs, slurm.hp.unal_jobacct.patch)
 -- Restore switch state in backup controller restarts

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.8
========================
 -- Invalid AllowGroup value in slurm.conf to not cause seg fault.
 -- Fix bug that would cause slurmctld to seg-fault with select/cons_res
    and batch job containing more than one step.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.7
========================
 -- Make proctrack/linuxproc thread safe, could cause slurmd seg fault.
 -- Propagate umask from srun to spawned tasks.
 -- Fix problem in switch/elan error handling that could hang a slurmd 
    step manager process.
 -- Build on AIX with -bmaxdata:0x70000000 for memory limit more than 256MB.
 -- Restore srun's return code support.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.6
========================
 -- Fix for bad socket close() in the spawn-io code.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.5
========================
 -- Sacct to report on job steps that never actually started.
 -- Added proctrack/rms to elan rpm.
 -- Restructure slurmctld/agent.c logic to insure timely reaping of 
    terminating pthreads.
 -- Srun not to hang if job fails before task launches not all completed.
 -- Fix for consumable resources properly scheduling nodes that have more 
    nodes than configured (Susanne Balle, HP, cons_res_patch.10.14.2005)

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.4
========================
 -- Bluegene plugin drains an entire bglblock on repeated boot failures
    only if it has not identified a specific node as being bad.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.3
========================
 -- Fix slurmctld mem leaks (step name and hostlist struct).
 -- Bluegene plugin sets end time for job terminated due to removed 
    bglblock.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.2
========================
 -- Fix sinfo and squeue formatting to properly handle slurm nodes, 
    jobs, and other names containing "%".

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.1
========================
 -- Fixed smap -Db to display slurm partitions correctly (take 2).
 -- Add srun fork() retry logic for very heavily loaded system.
 -- Fix possible srun hang on task launch failure.
 -- Add support for mvapich v0.9.4, 0.9.5 and gen2.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0
========================
 -- Add documentation for ProctrackType=proctrack/rms.
 -- Make proctrack/rms be the default for switch/elan.
 -- Do not preceed SIGKILL or SIGTERM to job step with (non-requested) SIGCONT.
 -- Fixed smap -Db to display slurm partitions correctly.  
 -- Explicitly disallow ProctrackType=proctrack/linuxproc with 
    SwitchType=switch/elan. They will not work properly together.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Remove debugging xassert in switch/federation that were accidentally
    committed
 -- Make slurmd step manager retry slurm_container_destroy() indefinitely
    instead of giving up after 30 seconds.  If something prevents a job
    step's processes from being killed, the job will be stuck in the
    completing until the container destroy succeeds.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Disable localtime_r() calls from forked processes (semaphore set 
    in another pthread can deadlock calls to localtime_r made from 
    the forked process, this will be properly fixed in the next 
    major release of SLURM).
 -- Added SLURM_LOCALID environment variable for spawned tasks
    (Dan Palermo, HP).
 -- Modify switch logic to restore state based exclusively upon
    recovered job steps (not state save file).
 -- Gracefully refuse job if there are too many job steps in slurmd.
 -- Fix race condition in job completion that can leave nodes in 
    COMPLETING state after job is COMPLETED.
 -- Added frees for BGL BrigeAPI strdups that were to this point unknown.
 -- smap scrolls correctly for BGL systems.
 -- slurm_pid2jobid() API call will now return the jobid for a step
    manager slurmd process.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Added logic to return scheduled nodes to Maui scheduler (David
    Jackson, Cluster Resources)
 -- Fix bug in handling job request with maximum node count.
 -- Fix node selection scheduling bug with heterogeneous nodes and
    srun --cpus-per-task option
 -- Generate error file to note prolog failures.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Modify sfree (BGL command) so that --all option no longer requires
    an argument.
 -- Modify smap so it shows all nodes and partitions by default (even 
    nodes that the user can't access, otherwise there are holes in 
    its maps).
 -- Added module to parse time string (src/common/parse_time.c) for 
    future use.
 -- Fix BlueGene hostlist processing for non-rectangular prisms and
    add string length checking.
 -- Modify orphan batch job time calculation for BGL to account for 
    slowness when booting many bglblocks at the same time.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Added etc/slurm.epilog.clean to kill processes initiated outside of 
    slurm when a user's last job on a node terminates.
 -- Added config.xml and configurator.html files for use by OSCAR.
 -- Increased maximum job step count from 64 to 130 for BGL systems only.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Add code so job request for shared nodes gets explicitly requested 
    nodes, but lightly loaded nodes otherwise.
 -- Add job step name field.
 -- Add job step network specification field.
 -- Add proctrack/rms plugin
 -- Change the proctrack API to send a slurmd_job_t pointer to both
    slurm_container_create() and slurm_container_add().  One of those
    functions MUST set job->cont_id.
 -- Remove vestigial node_use (virtual or coprocessor) field from job
    request RPC.
 -- Fix mpich-gm bugs, thanks to Takao Hatazaki (HP).
 -- Fix code for clean build with gcc 2.96, Takao Hatazaki (HP).
 -- Add node update state of "RESUME" to return DRAINED, DRAINING, or 
    DOWN node to service (IDLE or ALLOCATED state).
 -- smap keeps trying to connect to slurmctld in iterative mode rather 
    than just aborting on failure.
 -- Add squeue option --node to filter by node name.
 -- Modify squeue --user option to accept not only user names, but also
    user IDs.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Removed "make rpm" target.

* Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre1
=============================
 -- Added bgl/partition_allocator/smap changes from 0.5.7.
 -- Added configurable resource limit propagation  (Daniel Christians, HP).
 -- Added mpi plugin specify at start of srun.
 -- Changed SlurmUser ID from 16-bit to 32-bit.
 -- Added MpiDefault slurm.conf parameter.
 -- Remove KillTree configuration parameter (replace with
    "ProctrackType=proctrack/linuxproc")
 -- Remove MpichGmDirectSupport configuration parameter (replace with
    "MpiDefault=mpich-gm")
 -- Make default plugin be "none" for mpi.
 -- Added mpi/none plugin and made it the default.
 -- Replace extern program_invocation_short_name with program_invocation_name
    due to short name being truncated to 16 bytes on some systems.
 -- Added support for Elan clusters with different CPU counts on nodes
    (Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Added Consumable Resources web page (Susanne Balle, HP).
 -- "Session manager" slurmd process has been eliminated.
 -- switch/federation fixes migrated from 0.5.*
 -- srun pthreads really set detached, fixes scaling problem
 -- srun spawns message handler process so it can now be stopped (via 
    Ctrl-Z or TotalView) without inducing failures.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.7
========================
 -- added infrastructure for (eventual) support of AIX checkpointing
    of slurm batch and interactive poe jobs
 -- added wiring for BGL to do wiring for physical location first and then
    logical.
 -- only one thread used to query database before polling thread is there.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.6
========================
 -- fix for BGL hostnames and full system partition finding

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.5
========================
 -- Increase SLURM_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MSEC_STATIC to 15000
 -- Fix for premature timeout in _slurm_send_timeout
 -- Fix for federation overlapping calls to non-thread-safe _get_adapters

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.4
========================
 -- Added support for no reboot for VN to CO on BGL
 -- Fix for if a job starts after it finishes on BGL

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.3
========================
 -- federation patch so the slurm controller has sane window status at
    start-up regardless of the window status reported in the slurmd
    registration.
 -- federation driver exits with fatal() if the federation driver can not
    find all of the adapters listed in the federation.conf

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.2
========================
 -- Extra federation driver sanity checks

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.1
========================
 -- Fix federation driver bad free(), other minor fed fixes
 -- Allow slurm to parse very long lines in the slurm.conf

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0
========================
 -- Fix race condition in job accouting plugin, could hang slurmd
 -- Report SlurmUser id over 16 bits as an error (fix on v0.6)

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre19
==============================
 -- Fix memory management bug in federation driver

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre18
==============================
 -- elan switch plugin memory leak plugged
 -- added g_slurmctld_jobacct_fini() to release all memory (useful 
    to confirm no memory leaks)
 -- Fix slurmd bug introduced in pre17

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre17
==============================
 -- slurmd calls the proctrack destroy function at job step completion
 -- federation driver tries harder to clean up switch windows
 -- BGL wiring changes

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre16
==============================
 -- Check slurm.conf values for under/overflows (some are 16 bit values).
 -- Federation driver clears windows at job step completion
 -- Modify code for clean build with gcc v4.0
 -- New SLURM_NETWORK environmant variable used by slurm_ll_api

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre15
==============================
 -- Added "network" field to "scontrol show job" output. 
 -- Federation fix for unfreed windows when multiple adapters on
    one node use the same LID

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre14
==============================
 -- RDMA works on fed plugin.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre13
==============================
 -- Major mods to support checkpoint on AIX.
 -- Job accounting documenation expanded, added tuning options, minor bug fixes
 -- BGL wiring will now work on <= 4 node X-dim partitions and also 8 node 
    X-dim partitions.
 -- ENV variables set for spawning jobs. 
 -- jobacct patch from HP to not erroneously lock a mutex in the 
    jobacct_log plugin.
 -- switch/federation supports multiple adapters per task.  sn_all behaviour
    is now correct, and it also supports sn_single.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre12
==============================
 -- Minor build changes to support RPM creation on AIX

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre11
==============================
 -- Slurmd tests for initialized session manager (user's) slurmd pid before 
    killing it to avoid killing system daemon (race condition).
 -- srun --output or --error file names of "none" mapped to /dev/null for 
    batch jobs rather than a file actually named "none".
 -- BGL: don't try to read bglblock state until they are all created to 
    avoid having BGL Bridge API seg fault.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre10
==============================
 -- Fix bug that was resetting BGL job geometry on unrelated field update.
 -- squeue and sinfo print timestamp in interate mode by default.
 -- added scrolling windows in smap
 -- introduced new variable to start polling thread in the bluegene plugin.
 -- Latest accounting patches from Riebs/HP, retry communications.
 -- Added srun option --kill-on-bad-exit from Holmes/HP.
 -- Support large (64-bit address) log files where possible.
 -- Fix problem of signals being delivered twice to tasks.  Note that as
    part of the fix the slurmd session manger no longer calls setsid to
    create a new session.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre9
=============================
 -- If a job and node are in COMPLETING state and slurmd stops responding for
    SlurmdTimeout, then set the node DOWN and the job COMPLETED.
 -- Add logic to switch/elan to track contexts allocated to active job steps 
    rather than just using a cyclic counter and hoping to avoid collisions. 
 -- Plug memory leak in freeing job info retrieved using API.
 -- Bluegene Plugin handles long deallocating states from driver 202.
 -- Fix bug in bitfmt2int() which can go off allocated memory.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre8
=============================
 -- BlueGene srun --geometry was not getting propogated properly.
 -- Fix race condition with multiple simultaneous epilogs.
 -- Modify slurmd to resend job completion RPC to slurmctld in the 
    case where slurmctld is not responding.
 -- Updated sacct: handle cancelled jobs correctly, add user/group
    output, add ntasks ans synonym for nprocs, display error field 
    by default, display ncpus instead of nprocs
 -- Parallelization of queing jobs up to 32 at once.  Variable 
    MAX_AGENT_COUNT used in bgl_job_run.c to specify.
 -- bgl_job_run.c fixed threading issue with uid_to_string use.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Preserve next_job_id across restarts.
 -- Add support for really long job names (256 bytes).
 -- Add configuration parameter SchedulerRootFilter to control what 
    entity manages prioritization of jobs in RootOnly partition 
    (internal scheduler plugin or external entity).
 -- Added support for job accounting.
 -- Added support for consumable resource based node scheduling.
 -- Permit batch job to be launched to re-existing allocation.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Load bluegene.conf and federation.conf based upon SLURM_CONF env 
    var (if set).
 -- Fix slurmd shutdown signal synchronization bug (not consistently 
    terminating).
 -- Add doc/html/ibm.html document. Update bluegene.html.
 -- Add sfree to bluegene plugin. 
 -- Remove geometry[SYSTEM_DIMENSIONS] from opaque node_select data 
    type if SYSTEM_DIMENSIONS==0 (not ASCI-C compliant).
 -- Modify smap to test for valid libdb2.so before issuing any BGL 
    Bridge API calls.
 -- Modify spec file for optional inclusion of select_bluegene and 
    sched_wiki plugin libraries.
 -- Initialize job->network in data structure, could cause job 
    submit/update to fail depending upon what is left on stack.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Expand buffer to hold node_select info in job termination log.
 -- Modify slurmctld node hashing function to reduce collisions.
 -- Treat bglblock vanishing as fatal error for job, prolog and epilog 
    exit immediately.
 -- bug fix for following multiple X-dim partitions

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Fix bug in slurmd that could double KillWait time on job timeout.
 -- Fix bug in srun's error code reporting to slurmctld, could DOWN 
    a node if job run as root has non-zero error code.
 -- Remove a node's partition info when removed from existing partition.
 -- Use proctrack plugin to call all processes in a job step before 
    calling interconnect_postfini() to insure no processes escape from 
    job and prevent switch windows from being released.
 -- Added mail.html web page telling how to get on slurm mailing lists.
 -- Added another directory to search for DB2 files on BGL system.
 -- Added overview man page slurm.1.
 -- Added new configure option "--with-db2-dir=PATH" for BGL.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Merge of SLURM v0.4-branch into v0.5/HEAD.

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre2
=============================
 -- Fix bug in srun to clean-up upon failure of an allocated node
    (srun -A would generate a segmentation fault, Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- If slurmd's node name is mapped to NULL (due to bad configuration)
    terminate slurmd with a fatal error and don't crash slurmctld.
 -- Add SLURMD_DEBUG env var for use with AIX/POE in spawn_task RPC.
 -- Always pack job's "features" for access by prolog/epilog

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre1
=============================
 -- Add network option to srun and job creation API for specification 
    of communication protocol over IBM Federation switch.
 -- Add new slurm.conf parameter ProctrackType (process tracking) and 
    associated plugin in the slurmd module.
 -- Send node's switch state with job epilog completion RPC and 
    node registration (only when slurmd starts, not on periodic 
    registrtions).
 -- Add federation switch plugin.
 -- Add new configuration keyword, SchedulerRootFilter, to control 
    external scheduler control of RoolOnly partition (Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Modify logic to set process group ID for spawned processes (last 
    patch from slurm v0.3.11).
 -- "srun -A" modified to return exit code of last command executed
    (Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Add support for different slurm.conf files controlled via SLURM_CONF
    env var (Brian O'Sullivan, pathscale)
 -- Fix bug if srun given --uid without --gid option (Chris Holmes, HP).

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.24
=========================
 -- DRAIN nodes with switches on base partitions are in ERROR, MISSING, 
    or DOWN states.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.23
========================= 
 -- Modified bluegene plugin to only sync bglblocks to jobs on initial 
    startup, not on reconfig. Fixes race condition.
 -- Modified bluegene plugin to work with 141 driver. Enabling it to 
    only have to reboot when switching from coproc -> virtual and back.
 -- added support for a full system partition to make sure every other 
    partition is free and vice-verse.
 -- smap resizing issue fixed.
 -- change prolog not to add time when a partition is in deallocating 
    state.
 -- NOTE: This version of SLURM requires BGL driver 141/2005.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.22
=========================
 -- Modified bluegene plugin to not do anything if the bluegene.conf file 
    is altered.
 -- added checking for lists before trying to create iterator on the list.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.21
=========================
 -- Fix in race condition with time in Status Thread of BGL
 -- Fix no leading zeros in smap output.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.20
=========================
 -- Smap output is more user friendly with -c option

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.19
=========================
 -- Added new RPCs for getting bglblock state info remotely and cache data 
    within the plugin (permits removal of DB2 access from BGL FEN and 
    dramatically increases smap responsivenss, also changed prolog/epilog
    operation)
 -- Move smap executable to main slurm RPM (from separate RPM).
 -- smap uses RPC instead of DB2 to get info about bgl partitions.
 -- Status function added to bluegene_agent thread.  Keeps current state
    of BGL partitions updating every second.  will handle multiple attempts 
    at booting if booting a partition fails. 

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.18
=========================
 -- Added error checking of rm_remove_partition calls.
 -- job_term() was terminating a job in real time rather than 
    queueing the request. This would result in slurmctld hanging 
    for many seconds when a job termination was required.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.17
========================
 -- Bug fixes from testing .16.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.16
========================
 -- Added error checking to a bunch of Bridge API calls and more 
    gracefully handle failure modes.
 -- Made smap more robust for more jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.15
========================
 -- Added error checking to a bunch of Bridge API calls and more 
    gracefully handle failure modes.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.14
========================
 -- job state is kept on warm start of slurm

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.13
========================
 -- epilog fix for bgl plugin

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.12
========================
 -- bug shot for new api calls.
 -- added BridgeAPILogFile as an option for bluegene.conf file
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.11
========================
 -- changed as many rm_get_partition() to rm_get_partitions_info as we could 
    for time saving.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.10
========================
 -- redesign for BGL external wiring.
 -- smap display bug fix for smaller systems.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.9
========================
 -- setpnum works now, have to include this in bluegene.conf

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.8
========================
 -- Changed the prolog and the epilog to use the env var MPIRUN_PARTITION
    instead of BGL_PARTITION_ID

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.7
========================
 -- Remove some BGL specific headers that IBM now distributes, NOTE
    BGL driver 080 or greater required.
 -- Change autogen.sh to deal with problems running autoconf on one
    system and configure on another with different software versions.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.6
========================
 -- smap now works on non-BGL systems.
 -- took tv.h out of partition_allocator so it would work withn driver 080 
    from IBM.
 -- updated slurmd signal handling to prevent possible user killing of daemon.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.5
========================
 -- Change sinfo default time limit field to have 10 bytes (up from 9).
 -- Fix bug in bluegene partition selection (sorting bug).
 -- Don't display any completed jobs in smap.
 -- Add NodeCnt to filetxt job completion plugin.
 -- Minor restructuring of how MMCS is polled for DOWN nodes and switches.
 -- Fix squeue output format for "%s" (node select data).
 -- Queue job requesting more resources than exist in a partition if 
    that partition's state is DOWN (rather than just abort it).
 -- Add prolog/epilog for bluegene to code base (moved from mpirun in CVS)
 -- Add prolog, epilog and bluegene.conf.example to bluegene RPM
 -- In smap, Admin can get the Rack/midplane id from an XYZ input and vice versa.
 -- Add smap line-oriented output capability.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.4
========================
 -- Fix race condition in slurmd seting pgid of spawned tasks for 
    process tracking.
 -- Fix scontrol reconfig does nothing to running jobs nor crash the system
 -- Fix sort of bgl_list only happens once in select_bluegene.c instead of every
    time a new job is inserted.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.3
========================
 -- Turn off some RPM build checks (bug in RPM, see slurm.spec.in)
 -- starting slurmctrld will destroy all RMP*** partitions everytime.  
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.2
========================
 -- Fix memory leak in BlueGene plugin.
 -- Srun's --test-only option takes precedence over --batch option.
 -- Add sleep(1) after setting bglblock owner due to apparent race condition 
    in the BGL API.
 -- Slurm was timing out and killing batch jobs if the node registered when 
    a job prolog was still running.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.1
========================
 -- BlueGene plugin kills jobs running in defunct bglblock on restart.
 -- Smap displays pending jobs now, in addition to running and completing jobs.
 -- Remove node "use=" from bluegene.conf file, create both coprocessor and 
    virtual bglblocks for now (later create just one and use API to change 
    it when such an API is available).
 -- Add "ChangeNumpsets" parameter to bluegene.conf to use script to 
    update the numpsets parameter for newly created bglblocks (to be 
    removed once the API functions).
 -- Add all patches from slurm v0.3.11 (through 2/7/2005)
   - Added srun option --disable-status,-X to disable srun status feature
     and instead forward SIGINT immediately to job upon receipt of Ctrl-C.
   - Fix for bogus slurmd error message "Unable to put task N into pgrp..."
   - Fix case where slurmd may erroneously detect shared memory entry
     as "stale" and delete entry for unkillable or slow-to-exit job.
   - (qsnet) Fix for running slurmd on node without and elan3 adapter.
   - Fix for reported problem: slurm/538: user tasks block writing to stdio

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0
========================
 -- Minor tweak to init.d/slurm for BlueGene systems.
 -- Added smap RPM package (to install binary built on BlueGene 
    service node on front-end nodes).
 -- Added wait between bglblock destroy and creation of new blocks
    so that MMCS can complete the operation.
 -- Fix bug in synchronizing bglblock owners on slurmctld restart.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre11
==============================
 -- Add new srun option "--test-only" for testing slurm_job_will_run API.
 -- Fix bugs in slurm_job_will_run() processing.
 -- Change slurm_job_will_run() to not return a message, just an error code.
 -- Sync partition owners with running jobs on slurmctld restart.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre10
==============================
 -- Specify number of I/O nodes associated with BlueGene partition.
 -- Do not launch a job's tasks if the job is cancelled while its
    prolog is running (which can be slow on BlueGene).
 -- Add new error code, ESLURM_BATCH_ONLY for attepts to launch 
    job steps on front-end system (e.g. Blue Gene).
 -- Updates to html documents.
 -- Assorted fixes in smap, partition creation mode.
 -- Add proper support for "srun -n" option on BGL recognizing 
    processor count in both virual and coprocessor modes.
 -- Make default node_use on Blue Gene be coprocessor, as documented.
 -- Add SIGKILL to BlueGene jobs as part of cleanup.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre9
=============================
 -- Change in /etc/init.d/slurm for RedHat and Suze compatability

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Add logic to create and destroy Bluegene Blocks automatically as needed.
 -- Update smap man page to include Bluegene configuration commands.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre7
=============================
 -- Port all patches from slurm v0.3 up through v0.3.10:
   - Remove calls in auth/munge plugin deprecated by munge-0.4.
   - Allow single task id to be selected with --input, --output, and --error.
   - Create shared memory segment for Elan statistics when using the
     switch/elan plugin.
   - More fixes necessary for TotalView.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Add new job reason value "JobHeld" for jobs with priority==0
 -- Move startup script from "/etc/rc.d/init.d/slurm" to "/etc/init.d/slurm"
 -- Modify prolog/epilog logic in slurmd to accomodate very long run times, 
    on BGL these scripts wait for events that can take a very long time 
    (tens of seconds).
 -- This code base was used for BGLb acceptance test with pre-defined 
    BGL blocks.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre5
=============================
 -- select/bluegene plugin confirms db.properties file in $sysconfdir
    and copies it to StateSaveLocation (slurmctld's working directory)
 -- select/bluegene plugin confirms environment variable required for 
    DB2 interaction are set (execute "db2profile" script before slurmctld)
 -- slurmd to always give jobs KillWait time between SIGTERM and SIGKILL
    at termination
 -- set job's start_time and end_time = now rather than leaving zero if 
    they fail to execute
 -- modify srun to forward SIGTERM
 -- enable select/bluegene testing for DOWN nodes and switches
 -- select/bluegene plugin to delete orphan jobs, free BGLblocks and 
    set owner as jobs terminate/start

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre4
=============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/512: Let job steps run on DRAINING nodes
   - slurm/513: Gracefully deal with UIDs missing from passwd file
 -- Add support for MPICH-GM (from takao.hatazaki@hp.com)
 -- Add support for NodeHostname in node configuration
 -- Make "scontrol show daemons" function properly on front-end system 
    (e.g. Blue Gene)
 -- Fix srun bug when --input, --output and --error are all "none"
 -- Don't schedule jobs for user root if partition is DOWN
 -- Modify select/bluegene to honor job's required node list
 -- Modify user name logic to explicitly set UID=0 to "root", 
    Suse Linux was not handling multiple users with UID=0 well.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre3
=============================
 -- Send SIGTERM to batch script before SIGKILL for mpirun cleanup on 
    Blue Gene/L
 -- Create new allocation as needed for debugger in case old allocation 
    has been purged
 -- Add Blue Gene User Guide to html documents
 -- Fix srun bug that could cause seg fault with --no-shell option if not 
    running under a debugger
 -- Propogate job's task count (if set) for batch job via SLURM_NPROCS.
 -- Add new job parameters for Blue Gene: geometry, rotate, mode (virtual
    or co-processor), communications type (mesh or torus), and partition ID.
 -- Exercise a bunch of new switch plugin functions for Federation 
    switch support.
 -- Fix bug in scheduling jobs when a processor count is specified
    and FastSchedule=0 and the cluster is heterogeneous.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre2
=============================
 -- NOTE: "startclean" when transitioning from version 0.4.0-pre1, JOBS ARE LOST
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/477: Signal of batch job script (scancel -b) fixed
   - slurm/481: Permit clearing of AllowGroups field for a partition
   - slurm/482: Adjust Elan base context number to match RMS range
   - slurm/489: Job completion logger was writing NULL to text file
 -- Preserve job's requested processor count info after job is initiated 
    (for viewing by squeue and scontrol)
 -- srun cancels created job if job step creation fails
 -- Added a lots of Blue Gene/L support logic: slurmd executes on a single 
    node to front-end the 512-CPU base-partitions (Blue Gene/L's nodes)
 -- Add node selection plugin infrastructure, relocate existing logic 
    to select/linear, add configuration parameter SelectType
 -- Modify node hashing algorithm for better performance on Blue Gene/L
 -- Add ability to specify node ranges for 3-D rectangular prism

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre1
=============================
 -- NOTE: "startclean" when transitioning from version 0.3, JOBS ARE LOST
 -- Added support for job account information (arbitrary string)
 -- Added support for job dependencies (start job X after job Y completes)
 -- Added support for configuration parameter CheckpointType
 -- Added new job state "CANCELLED"
 -- Don't strip binaries, breaks parallel debuggers
 -- Fix bug in Munge authentication retry logic
 -- Change srun handling of interupts to work properly with TotalView
 -- Added "reason" field to job info showing why a job is waiting to run

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.7
========================
 -- Fixes required for TotalView operability under RHEL3.0
    (Reported by Dong Ahn <dahn@llnl.gov>)
   - Do not create detached threads when running under parallel debugger.
   - Handle EINTR from sigwait().

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.6
========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/459: Properly support partition's "Shared=force" configuration.
 -- Resync node state to DRAINED or DRAINING on restart in case job 
    and node state recovered are out of sync.
 -- Added jobcomp/script plugin (execute script on job completion, 
    from Nathan Huff, North Dakota State University).
 -- Added new error code ESLURM_FRAGMENTED for immediate resource 
    allocation requests which are refused due to completing job (formerly 
    returned ESLURM_NOT_TOP_PRIORITY)
 -- Modified job completion logging plugin calling sequence.
 -- Added much of the infrastructure required for system checkpoint
    (APIs, RPCs, and NULL plugin)

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.5
========================
 -- Fix "SLURM_RLIMIT_* not found in environment" error message when
    distributing large rlimit to jobs.
 -- Add support for slurm_spawn() and associated APIs (needed for IBM 
    SP systems).
 -- Fix bug in update of node state to DRAINING/DRAINED when update 
    request occurs prior to initial node registration.
 -- Fix bug in purging of batch jobs (active batch jobs were being 
    improperly purged starting in version 0.3.0).
 -- When updating a node state to DRAINING/DRAINED a Reason must be 
    provided. The user name and a timestamp will automatically be 
    appended to that Reason.

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.4
========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/404: Explicitly set pthread stack size to 1MB for srun
 -- Allow srun to respond to ctrl-c and kill queued job while waiting
    for allocation from controller.

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.3 
========================
 -- Fix slurmctld handling of heterogeneous processor count on elan 
    switch (was setting DRAINED nodes in state DRAINING).
 -- Fix sinfo -R, --list-reasons to list all relevant node states.
 -- Fix slurmctld to honor srun's node configuration specifications 
    with FastSchedule==0 configuration.
 -- Added srun option --debugger-test to confirm that slurm's debugger 
    infrastructure is operational.
 -- Removed debugging hacks for srun.wrapper.c. Temporarily use 
    RPM's debugedit utility if available for similar effect.

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.2
========================
 -- The srun command wakes immeditely upon resource allocation (via new RPC)
    rather than polling.
 -- SLURM daemons log current version number at startup.
 -- If slurmd can't respond to ping (e.g. paging is keeping it from 
    responding in a timely fashion) then send a registration RPC
    to slurmctld.
 -- Fix slurmd -M option to call mlockall() after daemonizing.
 -- Add "slurm_" prefix to slurm's hostlist_ function man pages.
 -- More AIX support added.
 -- Change get info calls from using show_all to more general show_flags
    with #define for SHOW_ALL flag. 

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.1
========================
 -- Set SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE env var for batch jobs (and LAM/MPI).
 -- Fix for slurmd spinning when stdin buffers full (gnats:434)
 -- Change some slurmctld malloc sizes to reduce demand for realloc calls, 
    improves performance and eliminates realloc failure on RH EL3 under 
    extremely heavy workload apparently due to memory fragmentation.
 -- Fix scheduling logic for heterogeneous processor count.
 -- Modify security_2_2 test to function with release 0.3
 -- Fix broken rpm build when libslurm not already installed.
 -- New slurmd option -M to mlock() slurmd process into memory.
 -- New srun option --no-shell causes srun to exit instead of spawning 
    shell when using --allocate, -A.
 -- Modify  srun --uid=user and --gid=group options to maintain invoking 
    user's credentials until after nodes have been allocated to requested 
    user/group (allows root to run jobs and allocate nodes for other users 
    in a RootOnly partition).
 -- Fix node processing if state change requested via scontrol prior to 
    initial node registration.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0
========================
 -- Support for AIX added (a few bugs do remain).
 -- Fix memory leak in slurmctld, slurm_cred_create().
 -- On ELF systems, export BNR_* functions from SLURM API. 
 -- Add support for "hidden" partitions (applies to their 
    nodes, jobs, and job steps as well). APIs and commands 
    modified to optionally display hidden partitions.
 -- Modify partition's group_allow test to be based upon the user 
    of the allocation rather than the user making the allocation 
    request (user root for LCRM batch jobs).
 -- Restructure plugin directory structure.
 -- New --core=type option in srun for lightweight corefile support.
    (requires liblwcf).
 -- Let user root and SlurmUser exceed any partition limits.
 -- Srun treats "--time=0" as a request for an infinite time limit.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre10
================================
 -- Fix bugs in support of slurmctld "-f" option (specify different 
    slurm.conf pathname).
 -- Remove slurmd "-f" option.
 -- Several documenation changes for slurm administrators.
 -- On ELF systems, export only slurm_* functions from slurm API and 
    ensure plugins use only slurm_ prefixed functions (created aliases
    where necessary).
 -- New srun option -Q, --quiet to suppress informational messages.
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld's building of nodelist for job (failed if 
    more than one numeric field in node name).
 -- Change "scontrol completing" and "sinfo" to use job's node bitmap
    to identify nodes associated with that particular job that are 
    still processing job completion. This will work properly for 
    shared nodes.
 -- Set SLURM_DISTRIBUTION environment varible for user tasks.
 -- Fix for file descriptor leak in slurmd.
 -- Propagate stacksize limit to jobs along with other resource limits
    that were previously ignored.

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre9
===============================
 -- Restructure how slurmctld state saves are performed for better 
    scalability.
 -- New sinfo option "--list-reason" or "-R". Displays down or drained 
    nodes along with their REASON field.

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre8
===============================
 -- Queue outgoing message traffic rather than immediately spawning 
    pthreads (under heavy load this resulted in hundreds of pthreads 
    using more memory than was available).
 -- Restructure slurmctld message agent for higher throughput.
 -- Add new sinfo options --responding and --dead (i.e. non-responding)
    for filtering node states.
 -- Fix bug in sinfo to properly process specified state filter including
    "*" suffix for non-responding nodes.
 -- Create StateSaveLocation directory if changes via slurmctld reconfig

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre7
===============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/381: Hold jobs requesting more resources than partition limit.
   - slurm/387: Jobs lost and nodes DOWN on slurmctld restart.
 -- Add support for getting node's real memory size on AIX.
 -- Sinfo sort partitions in slurm.conf order, new sort option ("#P").
 -- Document how to gracefully change plugin values.
 -- Slurmctld does not attempt to recover jobs when the switch plugin
    value changes (decision reached when any job's switch state recovery
    fails).
 -- Node does not transition from COMPLETING to DOWN state due to
    not responding. Wait for tasks to complete or admin to set DOWN.
 -- Always chmod SlurmdSpoolDir to 755 (a umask of 007 was resulting 
    in batch jobs failing).
 -- Return errors when trying to change configuration parameters
    AuthType, SchedulerType, and SwitchType via "scontrol reconfig"
    or SIGHUP. Document how to safely change these parameters.
 -- Plugin-specific error number definitions and descriptive strings 
    moved from common into plugin modules.
 -- Documentation for writing scheduler, switch, and job completion 
    logging plugins added.
 -- Added job and node state descriptions to the squeue and sinfo man pages.
 -- Backup slurmctld to generate core file on SIGABRT.
 -- Backup slurmctld to re-read slurm.conf on SIGHUP.
 -- Added -q,--quit-on-interrupt option to srun.
 -- Elan switch plugin now starts neterr resolver thread on all Elan3
    systems (QsNet and QsNetII).
 -- Added some missing read locks for references for slurmctld's 
    configuration data structure
 -- Modify processing of queued slurmctld message traffic to get better
    throughput (resulted in job inactivity limit being reached improperly 
    when hundreds of jobs running simultaneously)

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre6
===============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/372: job state descriptions added to squeue man page
 -- Switch plugin added. Add "SwitchType=switch/elan" to slurm.conf for 
    systems with Quadrics Elan3 or Elan4 switches.
 -- Don't treat DOWN nodes with too few CPUs as a fatal error on Elan
 -- Major re-write of html documents
 -- Updates to node pinging for large numbers of unresponsive nodes 
 -- Explicitly set default action for SIGTERM (action on Thunder was 
    to ignore SIGTERM)
 -- Sinfo "--exact" option only applies to fields actually displayed
 -- Partition processor count not correctly computed for heterogeneous 
    clusters with FastSchedule=0 configuration
 -- Only return DOWN nodes to service if the reason for them being in 
    that state is non-responsiveness and "ReturnToService=1" configuration
 -- Partition processor count now correctly computed for heterogeneous 
    clusters with FastSchedule configured off
 -- New macros and function to export SLURM version number

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre5
===============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/346: Support multiple colon-separated PluginDir values
 -- Fix node state transition: DOWN to DRAINED (instead of DRAINING)
 -- Fix a couple of minor slurmctld memory leaks

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre4
===============================
 -- Fix bug where early launch failures (such as invalid UID/GID) resulted
    in jobs not terminating properly.
 -- Initial support for BNR committed (not yet functional).
 -- QsNet: SLURM now uses /etc/elanhosts exclusively for converting 
    hostnames to ElanIDs.

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre3
===============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/328: Slurmd was restarting with a new shared memory segment and 
     losing track of jobs
   - slurm/329: Job processing may be left running when one task dies
   - slurm/333: Slurmd fails to launch a job and deletes a step, due to 
     a race condition in shared memory management
   - slurm/334: Slurmd was getting a segv due to a race condition in shared 
     memory management
   - slurm/342: Properly handle nodes being removed from configuration 
     even when there are partitions, nodes, or job steps still associated 
     with them
 -- Srun properly terminates jobs/steps upon node failure (used to hang 
    waiting for I/O completion)
 -- Job time limits enforced even if InactiveLimit configured as zero
 -- Support the sending of an arbitrary signal to a batch script (but not 
    the processses in its job steps) 
 -- Re-read slurm configuration file whenever changed, needed by users 
    of SLURM APIs
 -- Scancel was generating a assert failure
 -- Slurmctld sends a launch response message upon scheduling of a queued
    job (for immediate srun response)
 -- Maui scheduler plugin added
 -- Backfill scheduler plugin added
 -- Batch scripts can now have arguments that are propogated
 -- MPICH support added (via patch, not in SLURM CVS)
 -- New SLURM environment variables added SLMR_CPUS_ON_NODE and 
    SLURM_LAUNCH_NODE_IPADDR, these provide support needed for LAM/MPI
    (version 7.0.4+)
 -- The TMPDIR directory is created as needed before job launch
 -- Do not create duplicate SLURM environment variables with the same name
 -- Insure proper enforcement of node sharing by job
 -- Treat lack of SpoolDir or StateSaveDir as a fatal error
 -- Quickstart.html guide expanded
 -- Increase maximum jobs steps per node from 16 to 64
 -- Delete correct shared memory segment on slurmd -c (clean start)

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre2
===============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/326: Properly clean-up jobs terminating on non-responding nodes
 -- Move all configuration data structure into common/read_config, scontrol
    now always shows default values if not specified in slurm.conf file
 -- Remove the unused "Prioritize" configuration parameter

* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre1
===============================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/252: "jobs left orphaned when using TotalView:" SLURM controller 
     now pings srun and kills defunct jobs.
   - slurm/253: "srun fails to accept new IO connection." 
   - slurm/317: "Lack of default partition in config file causes errors." 
   - slurm/319: Socket errors on multiple simultaneous job launches fixed
   - slurm/321: slurmd shared memory synchronization error.
 -- Removed slurm_tv_clean daemon which has been obsoleted by slurm/252 fix.
 -- New scontrol command ``delete'' and RPC added to delete a partition
 -- Squeue can now print and sort by group id/name
 -- Scancel has new option -q,--quiet to not report an error if a job 
    is already complete 
 -- Add the excluded node list to job information reported.
 -- RPC version mis-match now properly handled
 -- New job completion plugin interface added for logging completed jobs.
 -- Fixed lost digit in scontrol job priority specification.
 -- Remove restriction in the number of consecutive node sets (no longer
    needed after DPCS upgrade)
 -- Incomplete state save write now properly handled.
 -- Modified slurmd setrlimit error for greater clarity.
 -- Slurmctld performs load-leveling across shared nodes.
 -- New user function added slurm_get_end_time for user jobs.
 -- Always compile srun with stabs debug section when TotalView support 
    is requested.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.21
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/253: Try using different port if connect() fails (was rarely 
     failing when an existing defunct connection was in TIME_WAIT state)
   - slurm/300: Possibly killing wrong job on slurmd restart
   - slurm/312: Freeing non-allocated memory and killing slurmd
 -- Assorted changes to support RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and IA64
 -- Initial Elan4 and libelanctrl support (--with-elan).
 -- Slurmctld was sometimes inappropriately setting a job's priority 
    to 1 when a node was down (even if up nodes could be used for the 
    job when a running job completes)
 -- Convert all user commands from use of popt library to getopt_long()
 -- If TotalView support is requested, srun exports "totalview_jobid"
    variable for `%J' expansion in TV bulk launch string.
 -- Fix several locking bugs in slurmd IO layer.
 -- Throttle back repetitious error messages in slurmd to avoid filling
    log files.
 

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.20
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/298: Elan initialization error (Invalid vp 2147483674).
   - slurm/299: srun fails to exit with multiple ^C's.
 -- Temporarily prevent DPCS from allocating jobs with more than eight 
    sets of consecutive nodes. This was likely causing user applications 
    to fail with libelan errors. This will be removed after DPCS is updated.
 -- Fix bug in popt use, was failing in some versions of Linux.
 -- Resend KILL_JOB messages as needed to clear COMPLETING jobs.
 -- Install dummy SIGCHLD handler in slurmd to fix problem on NPTL systems
    where slurmd was not notified of terminated tasks.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.19
=========================
 -- Memory corruption bug fixed, it was causing slurmctld to seg-fault

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.18
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/287: slurm protocol timeouts when using TotalView.
   - slurm/291: srun fails using ``-n 1'' under multi-node allocation.
   - slurm/294: srun IO buffer reports ENOSPC.
 -- Memory corruption bug fixed, it was causing slurmctld to seg-fault
 -- Non-responding nodes now go from DRAINING to DRAINED state when 
    jobs complete
 -- Do not schedule pending jobs while any job is actively COMPLETING 
    unless the submitted job specifically identifies its nodes (like DPCS)
 -- Reset priority of jobs with priority==1 when a non-responding node 
    starts to respond again
 -- Ignore jobs with priority==1 when establishing new baseline upon 
    slurmctld restart
 -- Make slurmctld/message retry be timer based rather than queue based 
    for better scalability
 -- Slurmctld logging is more concise, using hostlists more
 -- srun --no-allocate used special job_id range to avoid conflicts 
    or premature job termination (purging by slurmctld)
 -- New --jobid=id option in srun to initiate job step under an existing 
    allocation.
 -- Support in srun for TotalView bulk launch.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.17
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/279: Hold jobs that can't execute due to DOWN or DRAINED 
     nodes and release when nodes are returned to service.
   - slurm/285: "srun killed due to SIGPIPE"
 -- Support for running job steps on nodes relative to current 
    allocation via srun -r, --relative=n option.
 -- SIGKILL no longer broadcasted to job via srun on task failure unless
    --no-allocate option is used.
 -- Re-enabled "chkconfig --add" in default RPMs.
 -- Backup controller setting proper PID into slurmctld.pid file.
 -- Backup controller restores QSW state each time it assumes control
 -- Backup controller purges old job records before assuming control
    to avoid resurrecting defunct jobs.
 -- Kill jobs on non-responding DRAINING nodes and make their state
    DRAINED.
 -- Save state upon completion of a job's last EPILOG_COMPLETION to 
    reduce possibility of inconsistent job and node records when the 
    controller is transitioning between primary and backup. 
 -- Change logging level of detailed communication errors to not print 
    them unless detailed debugging is requested.
 -- Increase number of concurrent controller server threads from 20 
    to 50 and restructure code to handle backlogs more efficiently.
 -- Partition state at controller startup is based upon slurm.conf 
    rather than previously saved state. Additional improvements to 
    avoid inconsistent job/node/partition states at restart. Job state 
    information is used to arbitrate conflicts.
 -- Orphaned file descriptors eliminated.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.16
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/265: Early termination of srun could cause job to remain in queue.
   - slurm/268: Slurmctld could deadlock if there was a delay in the 
     termination of a large node-count job. An EPILOG_COMPLETE RPC was 
     added so that slurmd could notify slurmctld whenever the job 
     termination was completed.
   - slurm/270: Segfault in sinfo if a configured node lacked a partition.
   - slurm/278: Exit code in scontrol did not indicate failure.
 -- Fixed bug in slurmd that caused the daemon to occaisionally kill itself.
 -- Fixed bug in srun when running with --no-allocate and >1 process per node.
 -- Small fixes and updates for srun manual.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.15
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/265: Job was orphaned when allocation response message could 
     not be sent. Job is now killed on allocation response message transmit 
     failure and socket error details are logged.
   - Fix for slurm/267: "Job epilog may run multiple times."
 -- Squeue job TIMELIMIT format changed from "h:mm" to "d:h:mm:ss".
 -- DPCS initiated jobs have steps execute properly without explicit 
    specification of node count.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.14
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - slurm/194: "srun doesn't handle most options when run under an allocation."
   - slurm/244: "REQ: squeue shows requested size of pending jobs."
 -- SLURM_NODELIST environment variable now exported to all jobs, not
    only batch jobs.
 -- Nodelist displayed in squeue for completing jobs is now restricted to 
    completing nodes.
 -- Node "reason" field properly displayed in sinfo even with filtering. 
 -- ``slurm_tv_clean'' daemon now supports a log file.
 -- Batch jobs are now re-queued on launch failure.
 -- Controller confirms job scripts for batch jobs are still running on 
    node zero at node registration.
 -- Default RPMs no longer stop/start SLURM daemons on upgrade or install.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.13
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - Fixed bug in slurmctld where "drained" nodes would go back into
     the "idle" state under some conditions (slurm/228).
   - Added possible fix for slurm/229: "slurmd occasionally fails
     to reap all children."
 -- Fixed memory leak in auth_munge plugin.
 -- Added fix to slurmctld to allow arbitrarily large job specifications
    to be saved and recovered in the state file.
 -- Allow "updates" in the configuration file of previously defined
    node state and reason. 
 -- On "forceful termination" of a running job step, srun now exits
    unconditionally, instead of waiting for all I/O.
 -- Slurmctld now uses pidfile to kill old daemon when a new one is started.
 -- Addition of new daemon "slurm_tv_clean" used to clean up jobs orphaned
    due to use of the TotalView parallel debugger.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.12
=========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - Fix for "waitpid: No child processes" when using TotalView (slurm/217).
   - Implemented temporary workaround for slurm/223: "Munge decode failed: 
     Munged communication error." 
   - Temporary fix for slurm/222: "elan3_create(0): Invalid argument."
 -- Fixed memory leaks in slurmctld (mostly due to reconfigure).
 -- More squeue/sinfo interface changes (see squeue(1), sinfo(1)).
 -- Sinfo now accepts list of node states to -t,--state option.
 -- Node "reason" field now available via sinfo command (see sinfo(1)).
 -- Wrapper source for srun (srun.wrapper.c) now installed and available
    for TotalView support.
 -- Improved retry login in user commands for periods when slurmctld
    primary is down and backup has not yet taken over.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.11
=========================
 -- Changes in srun:
   - Fixed bug in signal handling that occaisonally resulted in orphaned 
     jobs when using Ctrl-C.
   - Return non-zero exit code when remote tasks are killed by a signal.
   - SIGALRM is now blocked by default.
 -- Added ``reason'' string for down, drained, or draining nodes. 
 -- Added -V,--version option to squeue and sinfo.
 -- Improved some error messages from user utilities.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.10
=========================
 -- New slurm.conf configuration parameters:
   - WaitTime:    Default for srun -w,--wait parameter.
   - MaxJobCount: Maximum number of jobs SLURM can handle at one time.
   - MinJobAge:   Minimum time since completing before job is purged from 
                  slurmctld memory.
 -- Block user defined signals USR1 and USR2 in slurmd session manager.
 -- More squeue cleanup.
 -- Support for passing options to sinfo via environment variables.
 -- Added option to scontrol to find intersection of completing jobs and nodes.
 -- Added fix in auth_munge to prevent "Munged communication error" message.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.9
========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - Argument to srun `-n' option was taken as octal if preceded with a `0'.
 -- New format for Elan hosts config file (/etc/elanhosts. See README)
 -- Various fixes for managing COMPLETING jobs.
 -- Support for passing options to squeue via environment variables 
    (see squeue(1))

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.8
=========================
 -- Fix for bug in slurmd that could make debug messages appear in job output.
 -- Fix for bug in slurmctld retry count computation.
 -- Srun now times out slow launch threads.
 -- "Time Used" output in squeue now includes seconds.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.7
=========================
 -- Fix for bug in Elan module that results in slurmd hang.
 -- Added completing job state to default list of states to print with squeue.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.6
=========================
 -- More fixes for handling cleanup of slow terminating jobs.
 -- Fixed bug in srun that might leave nodes allocated after a Ctrl-C.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.5
=========================
 -- Various fixes for cleanup of slow terminating or unkillable jobs.
 -- Fixed some small memory leaks in communications code.
 -- Added hack for synchronized exit of jobs on large node count.
 -- Long lists of nodes are no longer truncated in sinfo.
 -- Print more descriptive error message when tasks exit with nonzero status.
 -- Fixed bug in srun where unsuccessful launch attempts weren't detected.
 -- Elan network error resolver thread now runs from elan module in slurmd.
 -- Slurmctld uses consecutive Elan context and program description numbers
    instead of choosing them randomly.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.4
==========================
 -- Fix for file descriptor leak in slurmctld.
 -- auth_munge plugin now prints credential info on decode failure.
 -- Minor changes to scancel interface.
 -- Filename format option "%J" now works again for srun --output and --error.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.3
==========================
 -- Fix bug in srun when using per-task files for stderr.
 -- Better error reporting on failure to open per-task input/output files.
 -- Update auth_munge plugin for munge 0.1.
 -- Minor changes to squeue interface.
 -- New srun option `--hold' to submit job in "held" state.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.2
==========================
 -- Fixes for reported problems:
   - Execution of script allocate mode fails in some cases. (gnats:161)
   - Errors using per-task input files with Elan support. (gnats:162)
   - srun doesn't handle all environment variables properly. (gnats:164)
 -- Parallel job is now terminated if a task is killed by a signal.
 -- Exit status of srun is set based on exit codes of tasks.
 -- Redesign of sinfo interface and options.
 -- Shutdown of slurmctld no longer propagates shutdown to all nodes.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.1
===========================
 -- Fix bug where reconfigure request to slurmctld killed the daemon.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.0
============================

 -- SlurmdTimeout of 0 means never set a non-responding node to DOWN.
 -- New srun option, -u,--unbuffered, for unbuffered stdout.
 -- Enhancements for sinfo
   - Non-responding nodes show "*" character appended instead of "NoResp+".
   - Node states show abbreviated variant by default
 -- Enhancements for scontrol.
   - Added "ping" command to show current state of SLURM controllers.
   - Job dump in scontrol shows user name as well as UID. 
   - Node state of DRAIN is appropriately mapped to DRAINING or DRAINED.
 -- Fix for bug where request for task count greater than partition limit
    was queued anyway.
 -- Fix for bugs in job end time handling.
 -- Modifications for error free builds on 64 bit architectures.
 -- Job cancel immediately deallocates nodes instead of waiting on srun.
 -- Attempt to create slurmd spool if it does not exist.
 -- Fixed signal handling bug in srun allocate mode.
 -- Earlier error detection in slurmd startup.
 -- "fatal: _shm_unlock: Numerical result out of range" bug fixed in slurmd.
 -- Config file parsing is now case insensitive.
 -- SLURM_NODELIST environment variable now set in allocate mode.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.0-pre2
=============================
  
 -- Fix for reconfigure when public/private key path is changed.
 -- Shared memory fixes in slurmd. 
   - fix for infinite semaphore incrementation bug.
 -- Semaphore fixes in slurmctld.
 -- Slurmctld now remembers which nodes have registered after recover.
 -- Fixed reattach bug when tasks have exited.
 -- Change directory to /tmp in slurmd if daemonizing.
 -- Logfiles are reopened on reconfigure.
 
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