NEWS

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 0.2.12
=========================
 -- 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 preceeded with a `0'.
 -- New format for Elan hosts config file (/etc/elanhosts. See README)
 -- Various fixes for managing COMPLETING jobs.
 -- Support for passing options to squeue via environment variables 
    (see squeue(1))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 -- SlurmdTimeout of 0 means never set a non-responding node to DOWN.
 -- New srun option, -u,--unbuffered, for unbuffered stdout.
 -- Enhancements for sinfo
   - Non-responding nodes show "*" character appended instead of "NoResp+".
   - Node states show abbreviated variant by default
 -- Enhancements for scontrol.
   - Added "ping" command to show current state of SLURM controllers.
   - Job dump in scontrol shows user name as well as UID. 
   - Node state of DRAIN is appropriately mapped to DRAINING or DRAINED.
 -- Fix for bug where request for task count greater than partition limit
    was queued anyway.
 -- Fix for bugs in job end time handling.
 -- Modifications for error free builds on 64 bit architectures.
 -- Job cancel immediately deallocates nodes instead of waiting on srun.
 -- Attempt to create slurmd spool if it does not exist.
 -- Fixed signal handling bug in srun allocate mode.
 -- Earlier error detection in slurmd startup.
 -- "fatal: _shm_unlock: Numerical result out of range" bug fixed in slurmd.
 -- Config file parsing is now case insensitive.
 -- SLURM_NODELIST environment variable now set in allocate mode.

* Changes in SLURM 0.2.0-pre2
=============================

 -- Fix for reconfigure when public/private key path is changed.
 -- Shared memory fixes in slurmd. 
   - fix for infinite semaphore incrementation bug.
 -- Semaphore fixes in slurmctld.
 -- Slurmctld now remembers which nodes have registered after recover.
 -- Fixed reattach bug when tasks have exited.
 -- Change directory to /tmp in slurmd if daemonizing.
 -- Logfiles are reopened on reconfigure.

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