This file describes changes in recent versions of Slurm. It primarily documents those changes that are of interest to users and administrators. * Changes in Slurm 17.02.0pre2 ============================== -- Add new RPC (REQUEST_EVENT_LOG) so that slurmd and slurmstepd can log events through the slurmctld daemon. -- Remove sbatch --bb option. That option was never supported. -- Automically cleanup task/cgroup cpuset and devices cgroups after steps are done. -- Add federation read/write locks. -- Limit job purge run time to 1 second at a time. -- The database index for jobs is now 64 bit. If you happen to be close to 4 billion jobs in your database you will want to update your slurmctld at the same time as your slurmdbd to prevent roll over of this variable as it is 32 bit previous versions of Slurm. -- Optionally lock slurmstepd in memory for performance reasons and to avoid possible SIGBUS if the daemon is paged out at the time of a Slurm upgrade (changing plugins). Controlled via new LaunchParameters options of slurmstepd_memlock and slurmstepd_memlock_all. -- Add event trigger on burst buffer errors (see strigger man page, --burst_buffer option). -- Add job AdminComment field which can only be set by a Slurm administrator. -- Add salloc, sbatch and srun option of --delay-boot=