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

* Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre11
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- Bug fixes from testing .16.

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.16
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 -- 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
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 -- Added error checking to a bunch of Bridge API calls and more 
    gracefully handle failure modes.

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

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.13
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 -- 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
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 -- changed as many rm_get_partition() to rm_get_partitions_info as we could 
    for time saving.
 
* Changes in SLURM 0.4.10
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 -- redesign for BGL external wiring.
 -- smap display bug fix for smaller systems.

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

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

* Changes in SLURM 0.4.7
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 -- 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.