[slurm-users] Slurm version 17.11.8 available

[Tim Wickberg]

We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 17.11.8.

This includes over 30 fixes made since 17.11.7 was released at the end 
of May. This includes a change to the slurmd.service file used with 
systemd, this fix prevents systemd from destroying the cgroup 
hierarchies slurmd/slurmstepd have created whenever 'systemctl 
daemon-reload' is called (e.g., by yum/rpm).

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

- Tim

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

> * Changes in Slurm 17.11.8
> ==========================
>  -- Fix incomplete RESPONSE_[RESOURCE|JOB_PACK]_ALLOCATION building path.
>  -- Do not allocate nodes that were marked down due to the node not responding
>     by ResumeTimeout.
>  -- task/cray plugin - search for "mems" cgroup information in the file
>     "cpuset.mems" then fall back to the file "mems".
>  -- Fix ipmi profile debug uninitialized variable.
>  -- Improve detection of Lua package on older RHEL distributions.
>  -- PMIx: fixed the direct connect inline msg sending.
>  -- MYSQL: Fix issue not handling all fields when loading an archive dump.
>  -- Allow a job_submit plugin to change the admin_comment field during
>     job_submit_plugin_modify().
>  -- job_submit/lua - fix access into reservation table.
>  -- MySQL - Prevent deadlock caused by archive logic locking reads.
>  -- Don't enforce MaxQueryTimeRange when requesting specific jobs.
>  -- Modify --test-only logic to properly support jobs submitted to more than
>     one partition.
>  -- Prevent slurmctld from abort when attempting to set non-existing
>     qos as def_qos_id.
>  -- Add new job dependency type of "afterburstbuffer". The pending job will be
>     delayed until the first job completes execution and it's burst buffer
>     stage-out is completed.
>  -- Reorder proctrack/task plugin load in the slurmstepd to match that of slurmd
>     and avoid race condition calling task before proctrack can introduce.
>  -- Prevent reboot of a busy KNL node when requesting inactive features.
>  -- Revert to previous behavior when requesting memory per cpu/node introduced
>     in 17.11.7.
>  -- Fix to reinitialize previously adjusted job members to their original value
>     when validating the job memory in multi-partition requests.
>  -- Fix _step_signal() from always returning SLURM_SUCCESS.
>  -- Combine active and available node feature change logs on one line rather
>     than one line per node for performance reasons.
>  -- Prevent occasionally leaking freezer cgroups.
>  -- Fix potential segfault when closing the mpi/pmi2 plugin.
>  -- Fix issues with --exclusive=[user|mcs] to work correctly
>     with preemption or when job requests a specific list of hosts.
>  -- Make code compile with hdf5 1.10.2+
>  -- mpi/pmix: Fixed the collectives canceling.
>  -- SlurmDBD: improve error message handling on archive load failure.
>  -- Fix incorrect locking when deleting reservations.
>  -- Fix incorrect locking when setting up the power save module.
>  -- Fix setting format output length for squeue when showing array jobs.
>  -- Add xstrstr function.
>  -- Fix printing out of --hint options in sbatch, salloc --help.
>  -- Prevent possible divide by zero in _validate_time_limit().
>  -- Add Delegate=yes to the slurmd.service file to prevent systemd from
>     interfering with the jobs' cgroup hierarchies.