[slurm-users] Slurm versions 20.11.1 is now available

[Malte Thoma]

Am 11.12.20 um 14:11 schrieb Michael Di Domenico:
>>   -- Disable MySQL automatic reconnection.
> 
> can you expand on this?  seems an 'odd' thing to disable.

same thoughts here :-)








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> 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'.
>>
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