[slurm-announce] Slurm version 20.02.0 is now available

[Tim Wickberg]

After 9 months of development and testing we are pleased to announce the 
availability of Slurm version 20.02.0!

Downloads are available from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php.

Highlights of the 20.02 release include:

- A "configless" method of deploying Slurm within the cluster, in which 
the slurmd and user commands can use DNS SRV records to locate the 
slurmctld host and automatically download the relevant configuration files.

- A new "auth/jwt" authentication mechanism using JWT, which can help 
integrate untrusted external systems into the cluster.

- A new "slurmrestd" command/daemon which translates a new Slurm REST 
API into the underlying libslurm calls.

- Packaging fixes for RHEL8 distributions.

- Significant performance improvements to the backfill scheduler, as 
well as to string construction and processing.

Thank you to all customers, partners, and community members who 
contributed to this release.

As with past releases, the documentation available at 
https://slurm.schedmd.com has been updated to the 20.02 release. Past 
versions are available in the archive. This release also marks the end 
of support for the 18.08 release. The 19.05 release will remain 
supported up until the 20.11 release in November, but will not see as 
frequent updates, and bug-fixes will be targeted for the 20.02 
maintenance releases going forward.

-- 
Tim Wickberg
Chief Technology Officer, SchedMD
Commercial Slurm Development and Support