[slurm-users] Slurm versions 20.11.1 is now available

[Michael Di Domenico]

>  -- Disable MySQL automatic reconnection.

can you expand on this?  seems an 'odd' thing to disable.


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 4:44 PM Tim Wickberg <tim at schedmd.com> wrote:
>
> We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 20.11.1.
>
> This includes a number of fixes made in the month since 20.11 was
> initially released, including critical fixes to nss_slurm and the Perl
> API when used with the newer configless mode of operation.
>
> 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 20.11.1
> > ==========================
> >  -- Fix spelling of "overcomited" to "overcomitted" in sreport's cluster
> >     utilization report.
> >  -- Silence debug message about shutting down backup controllers if none are
> >     configured.
> >  -- Don't create interactive srun until PrologSlurmctld is done.
> >  -- Fix fd symlink path resolution.
> >  -- Fix slurmctld segfault on subnode reservation restore after node
> >     configuration change.
> >  -- Fix resource allocation response message environment allocation size.
> >  -- Ensure that details->env_sup is NULL terminated.
> >  -- select/cray_aries - Correctly remove jobs/steps from blades using NPC.
> >  -- cons_tres - Avoid max_node_gres when entire node is allocated with
> >     --ntasks-per-gpu.
> >  -- Allow NULL arg to data_get_type().
> >  -- In sreport have usage for a reservation contain all jobs that ran in the
> >     reservation instead of just the ones that ran in the time specified. This
> >     matches the report for the reservation is not truncated for a time period.
> >  -- Fix issue with sending wrong batch step id to a < 20.11 slurmd.
> >  -- Add a job's alloc_node to lua for job modification and completion.
> >  -- Fix regression getting a slurmdbd connection through the perl API.
> >  -- Stop the extern step terminate monitor right after proctrack_g_wait().
> >  -- Fix removing the normalized priority of assocs.
> >  -- slurmrestd/v0.0.36 - Use correct name for partition field:
> >     "min nodes per job" -> "min_nodes_per_job".
> >  -- slurmrestd/v0.0.36 - Add node comment field.
> >  -- Fix regression marking cloud nodes as "unexpectedly rebooted" after
> >     multiple boots.
> >  -- Fix slurmctld segfault in _slurm_rpc_job_step_create().
> >  -- slurmrestd/v0.0.36 - Filter node states against NODE_STATE_BASE to avoid
> >     the extended states all being reported as "invalid".
> >  -- Fix race that can prevent the prolog for a requeued job from running.
> >  -- cli_filter - add "type" to readily distinguish between the CLI command in
> >     use.
> >  -- smail - reduce sleep before seff to 5 seconds.
> >  -- Ensure SPANK prolog and epilog run without an explicit PlugStackConfig.
> >  -- Disable MySQL automatic reconnection.
> >  -- Fix allowing "b" after memory unit suffixes.
> >  -- Fix slurmctld segfault with reservations without licenses.
> >  -- Due to internal restructuring ahead of the 20.11 release, applications
> >     calling libslurm MUST call slurm_init(NULL) before any API calls.
> >     Otherwise the API call is likely to fail due to libslurm's internal
> >     configuration not being available.
> >  -- slurm.spec - allow custom paths for PMIx and UCX install locations.
> >  -- Use rpath if enabled when testing for Mellanox's UCX libraries.
> >  -- slurmrestd/dbv0.0.36 - Change user query for associations to optional.
> >  -- slurmrestd/dbv0.0.36 - Change account query for associations to optional.
> >  -- mpi/pmix - change the error handler error message to be more useful.
> >  -- Add missing connection in acct_storage_p_{clear_stats, reconfig, shutdown}.
> >  -- Perl API - fix issue when running in configless mode.
> >  -- nss_slurm - avoid deadlock when stray sockets are found.
> >  -- Display correct value for ScronParameters in 'scontrol show config'.
>