[slurm-users] Slurm version 17.11.0rc3 available

[Tim Wickberg]

We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 
17.11.0-0rc3 (release candidate 3).

The release candidate series reflects the end of feature development for 
each release, the finalization of the RPC layer, and will - except for 
bug fixes developed during the RC time frame - will be functionally 
identical to the 17.11.0 release when made available.

Please install and test this to help find any issues during the rc stage 
before the 17.11.0 release at the end of November.

Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php

> * Changes in Slurm 17.11.0rc3
> ==============================
>  -- Fix extern step to wait until launched before allowing job to start.
>  -- Add missing locks around figuring out TRES when clean starting the
>     slurmctld.
>  -- Cray modulefile: avoid removing /usr/bin from path on module unload.
>  -- Make reoccurring reservations show up in the database.
>  -- Adjust related resources (cpus, tasks, gres, mem, etc.) when updating
>     NumNodes with scontrol.
>  -- Don't initialize MPI plugins for batch or extern steps.`
>  -- slurm.spec - do not install a slurm.conf file under /etc/ld.so.conf.d.
>  -- X11 forwarding - fix keepalive message generation code.
>  -- If heterogeneous job step is unable to acquire MPI reserved ports then
>     avoid referencing NULL pointer. Retry assigning ports ONLY for
>     non-heterogeneous job steps.
>  -- If any acct_gather_*_init fails fatal instead of error and keep going.
>  -- launch/slurm plugin - Avoid using global variable for heterogeneous job
>     steps, which could corrupt memory.