NEWS

 -- Bluegene - before assigning a job to a block the plugin will check the bps
    to make sure they aren't in error state.
 -- Change time format in job completion logging (JobCompType=jobcomp/filetxt)
    from "MM/DD HH:MM:SS" to "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS", conforming with the ISO8601 
    standard format.
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre6
=============================
 -- Added logic to "stat" a running job with sacct option -S use -j to specify
    job.step 
 -- removed jobacct/bluegene (no real need for this) meaning, I don't think 
    there is a way to gather the data yet.
 -- Added support for mapping "%h" in configured SlurmdLog to the hostname.
 -- Add PropagatePrioProcess to control propagation of a user's nice value 
    to spawned tasks (based upon work by Daniel Christians, HP).
 
* Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre5
=============================
 -- Added step completion RPC logic
 -- Vastly changed sacct and the jobacct plugin.  Read documentation for full
    details.
 -- Added jobacct plugin for AIX and BlueGene, they currently don't work, 
    but infrastructure is in place.
 -- Add support for srun option --ctrl-comm-ifhn to set PMI communications
    address (Hongjia Cao, National University of Defense Technology).
 -- Moved safe_read/write to slurm_protocol_defs.h removing multiple copies.
 -- Remove vestigial functions slurm_allocate_resources_and_run() and 
    slurm_free_resource_allocation_and_run_response_msg().
 -- Added support for different executable files and arguments by task based
    upon a configuration file. See srun's --multi-prog option (based upon 
    work by Hongjia Cao, National University of Defense Technology).
 -- moved the way forward logic waited for fanout logic mostly eliminating 
    problems with scalability issues.
 -- changed -l option in sacct to display different params see sacct/sacct.h
    for details.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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