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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 1.2.0-pre4
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* Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre3
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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 1.1.14
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 - 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.

* 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 
   notifcation 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- Improve error handling in hierarchical communications logic.

* Changes in SLURM 1.1.3
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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
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 -- 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 1.0.16
=========================
 -- 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).

* 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.