after the job allocation will properly release the allocation and cause
    salloc to exit.

help to eliminate the creation of srun core files.

It should never have been added.

Normalized the way pidfile are created by the slurm daemons.  With extra documentation for better understanding of when to call the create_pidfile function.

    sbatch, and srun commands to work properly with a suffix of "MB", "GB",
    etc. and not only with a single letter (e.g. "M", "G", etc.).

    allocations created using srun (not just sbatch).

    that user ID. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.

    backfill scheduling while a job is completing. Patch from Gerrit Renker,
    CSCS.

Fix issue with associations attached to a specific partition with no other association, and requesting a different partition.

Fixed issue where assoc_mgr cache wasn't always loaded correctly if the slurmdbd wasn't running when the slurmctld was started.