We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm release candidate 25.05.0rc1. To highlight some new features coming in 25.05: - Support for defining multiple topology configurations, and varying them by partition. - Support for tracking and allocating hierarchical resources. - Dynamic nodes can be dynamically added to the topology. - topology/block - Allow for gaps in the block layout. - Support for encrypting all network communication with TLS. - jobcomp/kafka - Optionally send job info at job start as well as job end. - Support an OR operator in --license requests. - switch/hpe_slingshot - Support for > 252 ranks per node. - switch/hpe_slingshot - Support mTLS authentication to the fabric manager. - sacctmgr - Add support for dumping and loading QOSes. - srun - Add new --wait-for-children option to keep the step running until all launched processes have been launched (cgroup/v2 only). - slurmrestd - Add new endpoint for creating reservations. This is the first release candidate of the upcoming 25.05 release series, and represents the end of development for this release, and a finalization of the RPC and state file formats. If any issues are identified with this release candidate, please report them through https://bugs.schedmd.com against the 25.05.x version and we will address them before the first production 25.05.0 release is made. Please note that the release candidates are not intended for production use. A preview of the updated documentation can be found at https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-master/ . Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/download-slurm/. The changelog for 25.05.0rc1 can be found here: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/master/CHANGELOG/slurm-25.05.md#change... -- Marshall Garey Release Management, Support, and Development SchedMD LLC - Commercial Slurm Development and Support