We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 18.08.7.
This includes over 20 fixes since 18.08.6 was released last month,
include one for a regression that caused issues with 'sacct -J' not
returning results correctly.
Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php .
- Tim
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Tim Wickberg
Chief Technology Officer, SchedMD LLC
Commercial Slurm Development and Support
* Changes in Slurm 18.08.7
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-- Set debug statement to debug2 to avoid benign error messages.
-- Add SchedulerParameters option of bf_hetjob_immediate to attempt to start
a heterogeneous job as soon as all of its components are determined able to
do so.
-- Fix underflow causing decay thread to exit.
-- Fix main scheduler not considering hetjobs when building the job queue.
-- Fix regression for sacct to display old jobs without a start time.
-- Fix setting correct number of gres topology bits.
-- Update hetjobs pending state reason when appropriate.
-- Fix accounting_storage/filetxt's understanding of TRES.
-- Set Accrue time when not enforcing limits.
-- Fix srun segfault when requesting a hetjob with test_exec or bcast options.
-- Hide multipart priorities log message behind Priority debug flag.
-- sched/backfill - Make hetjobs sensitive to bf_max_job_start.
-- Fix slurmctld segfault due to job's partition pointer NULL dereference.
-- Fix issue with OR'ed job dependencies.
-- Add new job's bit_flags of INVALID_DEPEND to prevent rebuilding a job's
dependency string when it has at least one invalid and purged dependency.
-- Promote federation unsynced siblings log message from debug to info.
-- burst_buffer/cray - fix slurmctld SIGABRT due to illegal read/writes.
-- burst_buffer/cray - fix memory leak due to unfreed job script content.
-- node_features/knl_cray - fix script_argv use-after-free.
-- burst_buffer/cray - fix script_argv use-after-free.
-- Fix invalid reads of size 1 due to non null-terminated string reads.
-- Add extra debug2 logs to identify why BadConstraints reason is set.
