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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 0.2.4
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- Fix bug where reconfigure request to slurmctld killed the daemon.
* Changes in SLURM 0.2.0
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-- 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
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-- 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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