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* Changes in Slurm 18.08.5
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-- Backfill - If a job has a time_limit guess the end time of a job better
if OverTimeLimit is Unlimited.
-- Fix "sacctmgr show events event=cluster"
-- Fix sacctmgr show runawayjobs from sibling cluster
-- Avoid bit offset of -1 in call to bit_nclear().
-- Insure that "hbm" is a configured GresType on knl systems.
-- Fix NodeFeaturesPlugins=node_features/knl_generic to allow other gres
other than knl.
-- cons_res: Prevent overflow on multiply.
-- Better debug for bad values in gres.conf.
-- Fix double accounting of energy at end of job.
-- Read gres.conf for cloud nodes on slurmctld.
-- Don't assume the first node of a job is the batch host when purging jobs
from a node.
-- Better debugging when a job doesn't have a job_resrcs ptr.
-- Store ave watts in energy plugins.
-- Add XCC plugin for reading Lenovo Power.
-- Fix minor memory leak when scheduling rebootable nodes.
-- Fix debug2 prefix for sched log.
-- Fix printing correct SLURM_JOB_ACCOUNT_PACK_GROUP_* in env for a Het Job.
-- sbatch - search current working directory first for job script.
-- Make it so held jobs reset the AccrueTime and do not count against any
AccrueTime limits.
-- Add SchedulerParameters option of bf_hetjob_prio=[min|avg|max] to alter the
job sorting algorithm for scheduling heterogeneous jobs.
-- Fix initialization of assoc_mgr_locks and slurmctld_locks lock structures.
-- Fix segfault with job arrays using X11 forwarding.
-- Revert regression caused by e0ee1c7054 which caused negative values and
values starting with a decimal to be invalid for PriorityWeightTRES and
TRESBillingWeight.
-- Fix possibility to update a job's reservation to none.
-- Suppress connection errors to primary slurmdbd when backup dbd is active.
-- Suppress connection errors to primary db when backup db kicks in
-- Add missing fields for sacct --completion when using jobcomp/filetxt.
-- Fix incorrect values set for UserCPU, SystemCPU, and TotalCPU sacct fields
when JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/cgroup.
-- Fixed srun from double printing invalid option msg twice.
-- Remove unused -b flag from getopt call in sbatch.
-- Disable reporting of node TRES in sreport.
-- Re-enabling features combined by OR within parenthesis for non-knl setups.
-- Prevent sending duplicate requests to reboot a node before ResumeTimeout.
-- Down nodes that don't reboot by ResumeTimeout.
-- Update seff to reflect API change from rss_max to tres_usage_in_max.
-- Add missing TRES constants from perl API.
-- Fix issue where sacct would return incorrect array tasks when querying
specific tasks.
-- Add missing variables to slurmdb_stats_t in the perlapi.
-- Fix nodes not getting reboot RPC when job requires reboot of nodes.
-- Fix failing update the partition list of a job.
-- Use slurm.conf gres ids instead of gres.conf names to get a gres type name.
-- Add mitigation for a potential heap overflow on 32-bit systems in xmalloc.
CVE-2019-6438.
* Changes in Slurm 17.11.13
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-- Add mitigation for a potential heap overflow on 32-bit systems in xmalloc.
CVE-2019-6438.
