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This file describes changes in recent versions of SLURM. It primarily
documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.

* Changes in SLURM 2.5.0.pre4
=============================
 -- Added Prolog and Epilog Guide (web page). Based upon work by Jason Sollom,
    Cray Inc. and used by permission.
 -- Restore gang scheduling functionality. Preemptor was not being scheduled.
    Fix for bugzilla #3.
 -- Add "cpu_load" to node information. Populate CPULOAD in node information
    reported to Moab cluster manager.
 -- Preempt jobs only when insufficient idle resources exist to start job,
    regardless of the node weight.
 -- Added priority/multifactor2 plugin based upon ticket distribution system.
    Work by Janne Blomqvist, Aalto University.

* Changes in SLURM 2.5.0.pre3
=============================
 -- Add Google search to all web pages.
 -- Add sinfo -T option to print reservation information. Work by Bill Brophy,
    Bull.
 -- Force slurmd exit after 2 minute wait, even if threads are hung.
 -- Change node_req field in struct job_resources from 8 to 32 bits so we can
    run more than 256 jobs per node.
 -- sched/backfill: Improve accuracy of expected job start with respect to
    reservations.
 -- sinfo partition field size will be set the the length of the longest
    partition name by default.
 -- Make it so the parse_time will return a valid 0 if given epoch time and
    set errno == ESLURM_INVALID_TIME_VALUE on error instead.
 -- Correct srun --no-alloc logic when node count exceeds node list or task
    task count is not a multiple of the node count. Work by Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Completed integration with IBM Parallel Environment including POE and IBM's
    NRT switch library.

* Changes in SLURM 2.5.0.pre2
=============================
 -- When running with multiple slurmd daemons per node, enable specifying a
    range of ports on a single line of the node configuration in slurm.conf.
 -- Add reservation flag of Part_Nodes to allocate all nodes in a partition to
    a reservation and automatically change the reservation when nodes are
    added to or removed from the reservation. Based upon work by
    Bill Brophy, Bull.
 -- Add support for advanced reservation for specific cores rather than whole
    nodes. Current limiations: homogeneous cluster, nodes idle when reservation
    created, and no more than one reservation per node. Code is still under
    development. Work by Alejandro Lucero Palau, et. al, BSC.
 -- Add DebugFlag of Switch to log switch plugin details.
 -- Correct job node_cnt value in job completion plugin when job fails due to
    down node. Previously was too low by one.
 -- Add new srun option --cpu-freq to enable user control over the job's CPU
    frequency and thus it's power consumption. NOTE: cpu frequency is not
    currently preserved for jobs being suspended and later resumed. Work by
    Don Albert, Bull.

* Changes in SLURM 2.5.0.pre1
=============================
 -- Add new output to "scontrol show configuration" of LicensesUsed. Output is
    "name:used/total"
 -- Changed jobacct_gather plugin infrastructure to be cleaner and easier to
    maintain.
 -- Change license option count separator from "*" to ":" for consistency with
    the gres option (e.g. "--licenses=foo:2 --gres=gpu:2"). The "*" will still
    be accepted, but is no longer documented.
 -- Permit more than 100 jobs to be scheduled per node (new limit is 250
    jobs).
 -- Restructure of srun code to allow outside programs to utilize existing
    logic.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.4
========================
 -- BGQ - minor fix to make build work in emulated mode.
 -- BGQ - Fix if large block goes into error and the next highest priority jobs
    are planning on using the block.  Previously it would fail those jobs
    erroneously.
 -- BGQ - Fix issue when a cnode going to an error (not SoftwareError) state
    with a job running or trying to run on it.
 -- Execute slurm_spank_job_epilog when there is no system Epilog configured.
 -- Fix for srun --test-only to work correctly with timelimits
 -- BGQ - If a job goes away while still trying to free it up in the
    database, and the job is running on a small block make sure we free up
    the correct node count.
 -- BGQ - Logic added to make sure a job has finished on a block before it is
    purged from the system if its front-end node goes down.
 -- Modify strigger so that a filter option of "--user=0" is supported.
 -- Correct --mem-per-cpu logic for core or socket allocations with multiple
    threads per core.
 -- Fix for older < glibc 2.4 systems to use euidaccess() instead of eaccess().
 -- BlueGene - Do not alter a pending job's node count when changing it's
    partition.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.3
========================
 -- Accounting - Fix so complete 32 bit numbers can be put in for a priority.
 -- cgroups - fix if initial directory is non-existent SLURM creates it
    correctly.  Before the errno wasn't being checked correctly
 -- BGQ - fixed srun when only requesting a task count and not a node count
    to operate the same way salloc or sbatch did and assign a task per cpu
    by default instead of task per node.
 -- Fix salloc --gid to work correctly.  Reported by Brian Gilmer
 -- BGQ - fix smap to set the correct default MloaderImage
 -- BLUEGENE - updated documentation.
 -- Close the batch job's environment file when it contains no data to avoid
    leaking file descriptors.
 -- Fix sbcast's credential to last till the end of a job instead of the
    previous 20 minute time limit.  The previous behavior would fail for
    large files 20 minutes into the transfer.
 -- Return ESLURM_NODES_BUSY rather than ESLURM_NODE_NOT_AVAIL error on job
    submit when required nodes are up, but completing a job or in exclusive
    job allocation.
 -- Add HWLOC_FLAGS so linking to libslurm works correctly
 -- BGQ - If using backfill and a shared block is running at least one job
    and a job comes through backfill and can fit on the block without ending
    jobs don't set an end_time for the running jobs since they don't need to
    end to start the job.
 -- Initialize bind_verbose when using task/cgroup.
 -- BGQ - Fix for handling backfill much better when sharing blocks.
 -- BGQ - Fix for making small blocks on first pass if not sharing blocks.
 -- BLUEGENE - Remove force of default conn_type instead of leaving NAV
    when none are requested.  The Block allocator sets it up temporarily so
    this isn't needed.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix deadlock issue when dealing with bad hardware if using
    static blocks.
 -- Fix to mysql plugin during rollup to only query suspended table when jobs
    reported some suspended time.
 -- Fix compile with glibc 2.16 (Kacper Kowalik)
 -- BGQ - fix for deadlock where a block has error on it and all jobs
    running on it are preemptable by scheduling job.
 -- proctrack/cgroup: Exclude internal threads from "scontrol list pids".
    Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Memory leak fixed for select/linear when preempting jobs.
 -- Fix if updating begin time of a job to update the eligible time in
    accounting as well.
 -- BGQ - make it so you can signal steps when signaling the job allocation.
 -- BGQ - Remove extra overhead if a large block has many cnode failures.
 -- Priority/Multifactor - Fix issue with age factor when a job is estimated to
    start in the future but is able to run now.
 -- CRAY - update to work with ALPS 5.1
 -- BGQ - Handle issue of speed and mutexes when polling instead of using the
    realtime server.
 -- BGQ - Fix minor sorting issue with sview when sorting by midplanes.
 -- Accounting - Fix for handling per user max node/cpus limits on a QOS
    correctly for current job.
 -- Update documentation for -/+= when updating a reservation's
    users/accounts/flags
 -- Update pam module to work if using aliases on nodes instead of actual
    host names.
 -- Correction to task layout logic in select/cons_res for job with minimum
    and maximum node count.
 -- BGQ - Put final poll after realtime comes back into service to avoid
    having the realtime server go down over and over again while waiting
    for the poll to finish.
 -- task/cgroup/memory - ensure that ConstrainSwapSpace=no is correctly
    handled. Work by Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- CRAY - Fix for sacct -N option to work correctly
 -- CRAY - Update documentation to describe installation from rpm instead
    or previous piecemeal method.
 -- Fix sacct to work with QOS' that have previously been deleted.
 -- Added all available limits to the output of sacctmgr list qos

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.2
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - Correct potential deadlock issue when hardware goes bad and
    there are jobs running on that hardware.
 -- If job is submitted to more than one partition, it's partition pointer can
    be set to an invalid value. This can result in the count of CPUs allocated
    on a node being bad, resulting in over- or under-allocation of its CPUs.
    Patch by Carles Fenoy, BSC.
 -- Fix bug in task layout with select/cons_res plugin and --ntasks-per-node
    option. Patch by Martin Perry, Bull.
 -- BLUEGENE - remove race condition where if a block is removed while waiting
    for a job to finish on it the number of unused cpus wasn't updated
    correctly.
 -- BGQ - make sure we have a valid block when creating or finishing a step
    allocation.
 -- BLUEGENE - If a large block (> 1 midplane) is in error and underlying
    hardware is marked bad remove the larger block and create a block over
    just the bad hardware making the other hardware available to run on.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle job completion correctly if an admin removes a block
    where other blocks on an overlapping midplane are running jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - correctly remove running jobs when freeing a block.
 -- BGQ - correct logic to place multiple (< 1 midplane) steps inside a
    multi midplane block allocation.
 -- BGQ - Make it possible for a multi midplane allocation to run on more
    than 1 midplane but not the entire allocation.
 -- BGL - Fix for syncing users on block from Tim Wickberg
 -- Fix initialization of protocol_version for some messages to make sure it
    is always set when sending or receiving a message.
 -- Reset backfilled job counter only when explicitly cleared using scontrol.
    Patch from Alejandro Lucero Palau, BSC.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling blocks when a larger block will not free and
    while it is attempting to free underlying hardware is marked in error
    making small blocks overlapping with the freeing block.  This only
    applies to dynamic layout mode.
 -- Cray and BlueGene - Do not treat lack of usable front-end nodes when
    slurmctld deamon starts as a fatal error. Also preserve correct front-end
    node for jobs when there is more than one front-end node and the slurmctld
    daemon restarts.
 -- Correct parsing of srun/sbatch input/output/error file names so that only
    the name "none" is mapped to /dev/null and not any file name starting
    with "none" (e.g. "none.o").
 -- BGQ - added version string to the load of the runjob_mux plugin to verify
    the current plugin has been loaded when using runjob_mux_refresh_config
 -- CGROUPS - Use system mount/umount function calls instead of doing fork
    exec of mount/umount from Janne Blomqvist.
 -- BLUEGENE - correct start time setup when no jobs are blocking the way
    from Mark Nelson
 -- Fixed sacct --state=S query to return information about suspended jobs
    current or in the past.
 -- FRONTEND - Made error warning more apparent if a frontend node isn't
    configured correctly.
 -- BGQ - update documentation about runjob_mux_refresh_config which works
    correctly as of IBM driver V1R1M1 efix 008.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.1
========================
 -- Fix bug for job state change from 2.3 -> 2.4 job state can now be preserved
    correctly when transitioning.  This also applies for 2.4.0 -> 2.4.1, no
    state will be lost. (Thanks to Carles Fenoy)

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.0
========================
 -- Cray - Improve support for zero compute note resource allocations.
    Partition used can now be configured with no nodes nodes.
 -- BGQ - make it so srun -i<taskid> works correctly.
 -- Fix parse_uint32/16 to complain if a non-digit is given.
 -- Add SUBMITHOST to job state passed to Moab vial sched/wiki2. Patch by Jon
    Bringhurst (LANL).
 -- BGQ - Fix issue when running with AllowSubBlockAllocations=Yes without
    compiling with --enable-debug
 -- Modify scontrol to require "-dd" option to report batch job's script. Patch
    from Don Albert, Bull.
 -- Modify SchedulerParamters option to match documentation: "bf_res="
    changed to "bf_resolution=". Patch from Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Fix bug that clears job pending reason field. Patch fron Don Lipari, LLNL.
 -- In etc/init.d/slurm move check for scontrol after sourcing
    /etc/sysconfig/slurm. Patch from Andy Wettstein, University of Chicago.
 -- Fix in scheduling logic that can delay jobs with min/max node counts.
 -- BGQ - fix issue where if a step uses the entire allocation and then
    the next step in the allocation only uses part of the allocation it gets
    the correct cnodes.
 -- BGQ - Fix checking for IO on a block with new IBM driver V1R1M1 previous
    function didn't always work correctly.
 -- BGQ - Fix issue when a nodeboard goes down and you want to combine blocks
    to make a larger small block and are running with sub-blocks.
 -- BLUEGENE - Better logic for making small blocks around bad nodeboard/card.
 -- BGQ - When using an old IBM driver cnodes that go into error because of
    a job kill timeout aren't always reported to the system.  This is now
    handled by the runjob_mux plugin.
 -- BGQ - Added information on how to setup the runjob_mux to run as SlurmUser.
 -- Improve memory consumption on step layouts with high task count.
 -- BGQ - quiter debug when the real time server comes back but there are
    still messages we find when we poll but haven't given it back to the real
    time yet.
 -- BGQ - fix for if a request comes in smaller than the smallest block and
    we must use a small block instead of a shared midplane block.
 -- Fix issues on large jobs (>64k tasks) to have the correct counter type when
    packing the step layout structure.
 -- BGQ - fix issue where if a user was asking for tasks and ntasks-per-node
    but not node count the node count is correctly figured out.
 -- Move logic to always use the 1st alphanumeric node as the batch host for
    batch jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix race condition where if a nodeboard/card goes down at the
    same time a block is destroyed and that block just happens to be the
    smallest overlapping block over the bad hardware.
 -- Fix bug when querying accounting looking for a job node size.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix possible race condition if cleaning up a block and the
    removal of the job on the block failed.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix issue if a cable was in an error state make it so we can
    check if a block is still makable if the cable wasn't in error.
 -- Put nodes names in alphabetic order in node table.
 -- If preempted job should have a grace time and preempt mode is not cancel
    but job is going to be canceled because it is interactive or other reason
    it now receives the grace time.
 -- BGQ - Modified documents to explain new plugin_flags needed in bg.properties
    in order for the runjob_mux to run correctly.
 -- BGQ - change linking from libslurm.o to libslurmhelper.la to avoid warning.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.0.rc1
=============================
 -- Improve task binding logic by making fuller use of HWLOC library,
    especially with respect to Opteron 6000 series processors. Work contributed
    by Komoto Masahiro.
 -- Add new configuration parameter PriorityFlags, based upon work by
    Carles Fenoy (Barcelona Supercomputer Center).
 -- Modify the step completion RPC between slurmd and slurmstepd in order to
    eliminate a possible deadlock. Based on work by Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Change the owner of slurmctld and slurmdbd log files to the appropriate
    user. Without this change the files will be created by and owned by the
    user starting the daemons (likely user root).
 -- Reorganize the slurmstepd logic in order to better support NFS and
    Kerberos credentials via the AUKS plugin. Work by Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix bug in allocating GRES that are associated with specific CPUs. In some
    cases the code allocated first available GRES to job instead of allocating
    GRES accessible to the specific CPUs allocated to the job.
 -- spank: Add callbacks in slurmd: slurm_spank_slurmd_{init,exit}
    and job epilog/prolog: slurm_spank_job_{prolog,epilog}
 -- spank: Add spank_option_getopt() function to api
 -- Change resolution of switch wait time from minutes to seconds.
 -- Added CrpCPUMins to the output of sshare -l for those using hard limit
    accounting.  Work contributed by Mark Nelson.
 -- Added mpi/pmi2 plugin for complete support of pmi2 including acquiring
    additional resources for newly launched tasks. Contributed by Hongjia Cao,
    NUDT.
 -- BGQ - fixed issue where if a user asked for a specific node count and more
    tasks than possible without overcommit the request would be allowed on more
    nodes than requested.
 -- Add support for new SchedulerParameters of bf_max_job_user, maximum number
    of jobs to attempt backfilling per user. Work by Bjørn-Helge Mevik,
    University of Oslo.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed issue where MaxNodes limit on a partition only limited
    larger than midplane jobs.
 -- Added cpu_run_min to the output of sshare --long.  Work contributed by
    Mark Nelson.
 -- BGQ - allow regular users to resolve Rack-Midplane to AXYZ coords.
 -- Add sinfo output format option of "%R" for partition name without "*"
    appended for default partition.
 -- Cray - Add support for zero compute note resource allocation to run batch
    script on front-end node with no ALPS reservation. Useful for pre- or post-
    processing.
 -- Support for cyclic distribution of cpus in task/cgroup plugin from Martin
    Perry, Bull.
 -- GrpMEM limit for QOSes and associations added Patch from Bjørn-Helge Mevik,
    University of Oslo.
 -- Various performance improvements for up to 500% higher throughput depending
    upon configuration. Work supported by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Extreme Scale Systems Center.
 -- Added jobacct_gather/cgroup plugin.  It is not advised to use this in
    production as it isn't currently complete and doesn't provide an equivalent
    substitution for jobacct_gather/linux yet. Work by Martin Perry, Bull.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.0.pre4
=============================
 -- Add logic to cache GPU file information (bitmap index mapping to device
    file number) in the slurmd daemon and transfer that information to the
    slurmstepd whenever a job step is initiated. This is needed to set the
    appropriate CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment variable value when the
    devices are not in strict numeric order (e.g. some GPUs are skipped).
    Based upon work by Nicolas Bigaouette.
 -- BGQ - Remove ability to make a sub-block with a geometry with one or more
    of it's dimensions of length 3.  There is a limitation in the IBM I/O
    subsystem that is problematic with multiple sub-blocks with a dimension
    of length 3, so we will disallow them to be able to be created.  This
    mean you if you ask the system for an allocation of 12 c-nodes you will
    be given 16.  If this is ever fix in BGQ you can remove this patch.
 -- BLUEGENE - Better handling blocks that go into error state or deallocate
    while jobs are running on them.
 -- BGQ - fix for handling mix of steps running at same time some of which
    are full allocation jobs, and others that are smaller.
 -- BGQ - fix for core dump after running multiple sub-block jobs on static
    blocks.
 -- BGQ - fixed sync issue where if a job finishes in SLURM but not in mmcs
    for a long time after the SLURM job has been flushed from the system
    we don't have to worry about rebooting the block to sync the system.
 -- BGQ - In scontrol/sview node counts are now displayed with
    CnodeCount/CnodeErrCount so to point out there are cnodes in an error state
    on the block.  Draining the block and having it reboot when all jobs are
    gone will clear up the cnodes in Software Failure.
 -- Change default SchedulerParameters max_switch_wait field value from 60 to
    300 seconds.
 -- BGQ - catch errors from the kill option of the runjob client.
 -- BLUEGENE - make it so the epilog runs until slurmctld tells it the job is
    gone.  Previously it had a timelimit which has proven to not be the right
    thing.
 -- FRONTEND - fix issue where if a compute node was in a down state and
    an admin updates the node to idle/resume the compute nodes will go
    instantly to idle instead of idle* which means no response.
 -- Fix regression in 2.4.0.pre3 where number of submitted jobs limit wasn't
    being honored for QOS.
 -- Cray - Enable logging of BASIL communications with environment variables.
    Set XML_LOG to enable logging. Set XML_LOG_LOC to specify path to log file
    or "SLURM" to write to SlurmctldLogFile or unset for "slurm_basil_xml.log".
    Patch from Steve Tronfinoff, CSCS.
 -- FRONTEND - if a front end unexpectedly reboots kill all jobs but don't
    mark front end node down.
 -- FRONTEND - don't down a front end node if you have an epilog error
 -- BLUEGENE - if a job has an epilog error don't down the midplane it was
    running on.
 -- BGQ - added new DebugFlag (NoRealTime) for only printing debug from
    state change while the realtime server is running.
 -- Fix multi-cluster mode with sview starting on a non-bluegene cluster going
    to a bluegene cluster.
 -- BLUEGENE - ability to show Rack Midplane name of midplanes in sview and
    scontrol.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.0.pre3
=============================
 -- Let a job be submitted even if it exceeds a QOS limit. Job will be left
    in a pending state until the QOS limit or job parameters change. Patch by
    Phil Eckert, LLNL.
 -- Add sacct support for the option "--name". Work by Yuri D'Elia, Center for
    Biomedicine, EURAC Research, Italy.
 -- BGQ - handle preemption.
 -- Add an srun shepard process to cancel a job and/or step of the srun process
    is killed abnormally (e.g. SIGKILL).
 -- BGQ - handle deadlock issue when a nodeboard goes into an error state.
 -- BGQ - more thorough handling of blocks with multiple jobs running on them.
 -- Fix man2html process to compile in the build directory instead of the
    source dir.
 -- Behavior of srun --multi-prog modified so that any program arguments
    specified on the command line will be appended to the program arguments
    specified in the program configuration file.
 -- Add new command, sdiag, which reports a variety of job scheduling
    statistics. Based upon work by Alejandro Lucero Palau, BSC.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added DefaultConnType to the bluegene.conf file.  This makes it
    so you can specify any connection type you would like (TORUS or MESH) as
    the default in dynamic mode.  Previously it always defaulted to TORUS.
 -- Made squeue -n and -w options more consistent with salloc, sbatch, srun,
    and scancel. Patch by Don Lipari, LLNL.
 -- Have sacctmgr remove user records when no associations exist for that user.
 -- Several header file changes for clean build with NetBSD. Patches from
    Aleksej Saushev.
 -- Fix for possible deadlock in accounting logic: Avoid calling
    jobacct_gather_g_getinfo() until there is data to read from the socket.
 -- Fix race condition that could generate "job_cnt_comp underflow" errors on
    front-end architectures.
 -- BGQ - Fix issue where a system with missing cables could cause core dump.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.0.pre2
=============================
 -- CRAY - Add support for GPU memory allocation using SLURM GRES (Generic
    RESource) support. Work by Steve Trofinoff, CSCS.
 -- Add support for job allocations with multiple job constraint counts. For
    example: salloc -C "[rack1*2&rack2*4]" ... will allocate the job 2 nodes
    from rack1 and 4 nodes from rack2. Support for only a single constraint
    name been added to job step support.
 -- BGQ - Remove old method for marking cnodes down.
 -- BGQ - Remove BGP images from view in sview.
 -- BGQ - print out failed cnodes in scontrol show nodes.
 -- BGQ - Add srun option of "--runjob-opts" to pass options to the runjob
    command.
 -- FRONTEND - handle step launch failure better.
 -- BGQ - Added a mutex to protect the now changing ba_system pointers.
 -- BGQ - added new functionality for sub-block allocations - no preemption
    for this yet though.
 -- Add --name option to squeue to filter output by job name. Patch from Yuri
    D'Elia.
 -- BGQ - Added linking to runjob client libary which gives support to totalview
    to use srun instead of runjob.
 -- Add numeric range checks to scontrol update options. Patch from Phil
    Eckert, LLNL.
 -- Add ReconfigFlags configuration option to control actions of "scontrol
    reconfig". Patch from Don Albert, Bull.
 -- BGQ - handle reboots with multiple jobs running on a block.
 -- BGQ - Add message handler thread to forward signals to runjob process.

* Changes in SLURM 2.4.0.pre1
=============================
 -- BGQ - use the ba_geo_tables to figure out the blocks instead of the old
    algorithm.  The improves timing in the worst cases and simplifies the code
    greatly.
 -- BLUEGENE - Change to output tools labels from BP to Midplane
    (i.e. BP List -> MidplaneList).
 -- BLUEGENE - read MPs and BPs from the bluegene.conf
 -- Modify srun's SIGINT handling logic timer (two SIGINTs within one second) to
    be based microsecond rather than second timer.
 -- Modify advance reservation to accept multiple specific block sizes rather
    than a single node count.
 -- Permit administrator to change a job's QOS to any value without validating
    the job's owner has permission to use that QOS. Based upon patch by Phil
    Eckert (LLNL).
 -- Add trigger flag for a permanent trigger. The trigger will NOT be purged
    after an event occurs, but only when explicitly deleted.
 -- Interpret a reservation with Nodes=ALL and a Partition specification as
    reserving all nodes within the specified partition rather than all nodes
    on the system. Based upon patch by Phil Eckert (LLNL).
 -- Add the ability to reboot all compute nodes after they become idle. The
    RebootProgram configuration parameter must be set and an authorized user
    must execute the command "scontrol reboot_nodes". Patch from Andriy
    Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Modify slurmdbd.conf parsing to accept DebugLevel strings (quiet, fatal,
    info, etc.) in addition to numeric values. The parsing of slurm.conf was
    modified in the same fashion for SlurmctldDebug and SlurmdDebug values.
    The output of sview and "scontrol show config" was also modified to report
    those values as strings rather than numeric values.
 -- Changed default value of StateSaveLocation configuration parameter from
    /tmp to /var/spool.
 -- Prevent associations from being deleted if it has any jobs in running,
    pending or suspended state. Previous code prevented this only for running
    jobs.
 -- If a job can not run due to QOS or association limits, then do not cancel
    the job, but leave it pending in a system held state (priority = 1). The
    job will run when its limits or the QOS/association limits change. Based
    upon a patch by Phil Ekcert (LLNL).
 -- BGQ - Added logic to keep track of cnodes in an error state inside of a
    booted block.
 -- Added the ability to update a node's NodeAddr and NodeHostName with
    scontrol. Also enable setting a node's state to "future" using scontrol.
 -- Add a node state flag of CLOUD and save/restore NodeAddr and NodeHostName
    information for nodes with a flag of CLOUD.
 -- Cray: Add support for job reservations with node IDs that are not in
    numeric order. Fix for Bugzilla #5.
 -- BGQ - Fix issue with smap -R
 -- Fix association limit support for jobs queued for multiple partitions.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix issue for sub-midplane systems to create a full system
    block correctly.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option to the bluegene.conf to tell you are running on
    a sub midplane system.
 -- Added the UserID of the user issuing the RPC to the job_submit/lua
    functions.
 -- Fixed issue where if a job ended with ESLURMD_UID_NOT_FOUND and
    ESLURMD_GID_NOT_FOUND where slurm would be a little over zealous
    in treating missing a GID or UID as a fatal error.
 -- If job time limit exceeds partition maximum, but job's minimum time limit
    does not, set job's time limit to partition maximum at allocation time.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.6
========================
 -- Fix DefMemPerCPU for partition definitions.
 -- Fix to create a reservation with licenses and no nodes.
 -- Fix issue with assoc_mgr if a bad state file is given and the database
    isn't up at the time the slurmctld starts, not running the
    priority/multifactor plugin, and then the database is started up later.
 -- Gres: If a gres has a count of one and an associated file then when doing
    a reconfiguration, the node's bitmap was not cleared resulting in an
    underflow upon job termination or removal from scheduling matrix by the
    backfill scheduler.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.5
========================
 -- Improve support for overlapping advanced reservations. Patch from
    Bill Brophy, Bull.
 -- Modify Makefiles for support of Debian hardening flags. Patch from
    Simon Ruderich.
 -- CRAY: Fix support for configuration with SlurmdTimeout=0 (never mark
    node that is DOWN in ALPS as DOWN in SLURM).
 -- Fixed the setting of SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR for jobs submitted by Moab (BZ#1467).
    Patch by Don Lipari, LLNL.
 -- Correction to init.d/slurmdbd exit code for status option. Patch by Bill
    Brophy, Bull.
 -- When the optional max_time is not specified for --switches=count, the site
    max (SchedulerParameters=max_switch_wait=seconds) is used for the job.
    Based on patch from Rod Schultz.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res plugin when used with topology/tree and a node
    range count in job allocation request.
 -- Fixed moab_2_slurmdb.pl script to correctly work for end records.
 -- Add support for new SchedulerParameters of max_depend_depth defining the
    maximum number of jobs to test for circular dependencies (i.e. job A waits
    for job B to start and job B waits for job A to start). Default value is
    10 jobs.
 -- Fix potential race condition if MinJobAge is very low (i.e. 1) and using
    slurmdbd accounting and running large amounts of jobs (>50 sec).  Job
    information could be corrupted before it had a chance to reach the DBD.
 -- Fix state restore of job limit set from admin value for min_cpus.
 -- Fix clearing of limit values if an admin removes the limit for max cpus
    and time limit where it was previously set by an admin.
 -- Fix issue where log message is more than 256 chars and then has a format.
 -- Fix sched/wiki2 to support job account name, gres, partition name, wckey,
    or working directory that contains "#" (a job record separator). Also fix
    for wckey or working directory that contains a double quote '\"'.
 -- CRAY - fix for handling memory requests from user for an allocation.
 -- Add support for switches parameter to the job_submit/lua plugin. Work by
    Par Andersson, NSC.
 -- Fix to job preemption logic to preempt multiple jobs at the same time.
 -- Fix minor issue where uid and gid were switched in sview for submitting
    batch jobs.
 -- Fix possible illegal memory reference in slurmctld for job step with
    relative option. Work by Matthieu Hautreux (CEA).
 -- Reset priority of system held jobs when dependency is satisfied. Work by
    Don Lipari, LLNL.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.4
========================
 -- Set DEFAULT flag in partition structure when slurmctld reads the
    configuration file. Patch from Rémi Palancher.
 -- Fix for possible deadlock in accounting logic: Avoid calling
    jobacct_gather_g_getinfo() until there is data to read from the socket.
 -- Fix typo in accounting when using reservations. Patch from Alejandro
    Lucero Palau.
 -- Fix to the multifactor priority plugin to calculate effective usage earlier
    to give a correct priority on the first decay cycle after a restart of the
    slurmctld. Patch from Martin Perry, Bull.
 -- Permit user root to run a job step for any job as any user. Patch from
    Didier Gazen, Laboratoire d'Aerologie.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for not allowing jobs if all midplanes are drained and all
    blocks are in an error state.
 -- Avoid slurmctld abort due to bad pointer when setting an advanced
    reservation MAINT flag if it contains no nodes (only licenses).
 -- Fix bug when requeued batch job is scheduled to run on a different node
    zero, but attemts job launch on old node zero.
 -- Fix bug in step task distribution when nodes are not configured in numeric
    order. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix for srun allocating running within existing allocation with --exclude
    option and --nnodes count small enough to remove more nodes. Patch from
    Phil Eckert, LLNL.
 -- Work around to handle certain combinations of glibc/kernel
    (i.e. glibc-2.14/Linux-3.1) to correctly open the pty of the slurmstepd
    as the job user. Patch from Mark Grondona, LLNL.
 -- Modify linking to include "-ldl" only when needed. Patch from Aleksej
    Saushev.
 -- Fix smap regression to display nodes that are drained or down correctly.
 -- Several bug fixes and performance improvements with related to batch
    scripts containing very large numbers of arguments. Patches from Par
    Andersson, NSC.
 -- Fixed extremely hard to reproduce threading issue in assoc_mgr.
 -- Correct "scontrol show daemons" output if there is more than one
    ControlMachine configured.
 -- Add node read lock where needed in slurmctld/agent code.
 -- Added test for LUA library named "liblua5.1.so.0" in addition to
    "liblua5.1.so" as needed by Debian. Patch by Remi Palancher.
 -- Added partition default_time field to job_submit LUA plugin. Patch by
    Remi Palancher.
 -- Fix bug in cray/srun wrapper stdin/out/err file handling.
 -- In cray/srun wrapper, only include aprun "-q" option when srun "--quiet"
    option is used.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix issue where if a small block was in error it could hold up
    the queue when trying to place a larger than midplane job.
 -- CRAY - ignore all interactive nodes and jobs on interactive nodes.
 -- Add new job state reason of "FrontEndDown" which applies only to Cray and
    IBM BlueGene systems.
 -- Cray - Enable configure option of "--enable-salloc-background" to permit
    the srun and salloc commands to be executed in the background. This does
    NOT remove the ALPS limitation that only one job reservation can be created
    for each Linux session ID.
 -- Cray - For srun wrapper when creating a job allocation, set the default job
    name to the executable file's name.
 -- Add support for Cray ALPS 5.0.0
 -- FRONTEND - if a front end unexpectedly reboots kill all jobs but don't
    mark front end node down.
 -- FRONTEND - don't down a front end node if you have an epilog error.
 -- Cray - fix for if a frontend slurmd was started after the slurmctld had
    already pinged it on startup the unresponding flag would be removed from
    the frontend node.
 -- Cray - Fix issue on smap not displaying grid correctly.
 -- Fixed minor memory leak in sview.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.3
========================
 -- Fix task/cgroup plugin error when used with GRES. Patch by Alexander
    Bersenev (Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia).
 -- Permit pending job exceeding a partition limit to run if its QOS flag is
    modified to permit the partition limit to be exceeded. Patch from Bill
    Brophy, Bull.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed preemption issue.
 -- sacct search for jobs using filtering was ignoring wckey filter.
 -- Fixed issue with QOS preemption when adding new QOS.
 -- Fixed issue with comment field being used in a job finishing before it
    starts in accounting.
 -- Add slashes in front of derived exit code when modifying a job.
 -- Handle numeric suffix of "T" for terabyte units. Patch from John Thiltges,
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
 -- Prevent resetting a held job's priority when updating other job parameters.
    Patch from Alejandro Lucero Palau, BSC.
 -- Improve logic to import a user's environment. Needed with --get-user-env
    option used with Moab. Patch from Mark Grondona, LLNL.
 -- Fix bug in sview layout if node count less than configured grid_x_width.
 -- Modify PAM module to prefer to use SLURM library with same major release
    number that it was built with.
 -- Permit gres count configuration of zero.
 -- Fix race condition where sbcast command can result in deadlock of slurmd
    daemon. Patch by Don Albert, Bull.
 -- Fix bug in srun --multi-prog configuration file to avoid printing duplicate
    record error when "*" is used at the end of the file for the task ID.
 -- Let operators see reservation data even if "PrivateData=reservations" flag
    is set in slurm.conf. Patch from Don Albert, Bull.
 -- Added new sbatch option "--export-file" as needed for latest version of
    Moab. Patch from Phil Eckert, LLNL.
 -- Fix for sacct printing CPUTime(RAW) where the the is greater than a 32 bit
    number.
 -- Fix bug in --switch option with topology resulting in bad switch count use.
    Patch from Alejandro Lucero Palau (Barcelona Supercomputer Center).
 -- Fix PrivateFlags bug when using Priority Multifactor plugin.  If using sprio
    all jobs would be returned even if the flag was set.
    Patch from Bill Brophy, Bull.
 -- Fix for possible invalid memory reference in slurmctld in job dependency
    logic. Patch from Carles Fenoy (Barcelona Supercomputer Center).

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.2
========================
 -- Add configure option of "--without-rpath" which builds SLURM tools without
    the rpath option, which will work if Munge and BlueGene libraries are in
    the default library search path and make system updates easier.
 -- Fixed issue where if a job ended with ESLURMD_UID_NOT_FOUND and
    ESLURMD_GID_NOT_FOUND where slurm would be a little over zealous
    in treating missing a GID or UID as a fatal error.
 -- Backfill scheduling - Add SchedulerParameters configuration parameter of
    "bf_res" to control the resolution in the backfill scheduler's data about
    when jobs begin and end. Default value is 60 seconds (used to be 1 second).
 -- Cray - Remove the "family" specification from the GPU reservation request.
 -- Updated set_oomadj.c, replacing deprecated oom_adj reference with
    oom_score_adj
 -- Fix resource allocation bug, generic resources allocation was ignoring the
    job's ntasks_per_node and cpus_per_task parameters. Patch from Carles
    Fenoy, BSC.
 -- Avoid orphan job step if slurmctld is down when a job step completes.
 -- Fix Lua link order, patch from Pär Andersson, NSC.
 -- Set SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK=1 when user specifies --cpus-per-task=1.
 -- Fix for fatal error managing GRES. Patch by Carles Fenoy, BSC.
 -- Fixed race condition when using the DBD in accounting where if a job
    wasn't started at the time the eligible message was sent but started
    before the db_index was returned information like start time would be lost.
 -- Fix issue in accounting where normalized shares could be updated
    incorrectly when getting fairshare from the parent.
 -- Fixed if not enforcing associations  but want QOS support for a default
    qos on the cluster to fill that in correctly.
 -- Fix in select/cons_res for "fatal: cons_res: sync loop not progressing"
    with some configurations and job option combinations.
 -- BLUEGNE - Fixed issue with handling HTC modes and rebooting.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.1
========================
 -- Do not remove the backup slurmctld's pid file when it assumes control, only
    when it actually shuts down. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions
    Limited).
 -- Avoid clearing a job's reason from JobHeldAdmin or JobHeldUser when it is
    otherwise updated using scontrol or sview commands. Patch based upon work
    by Phil Eckert (LLNL).
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for if changing the defined blocks in the bluegene.conf and
    jobs happen to be running on blocks not in the new config.
 -- Many cosmetic modifications to eliminate warning message from GCC version
    4.6 compiler.
 -- Fix for sview reservation tab when finding correct reservation.
 -- Fix for handling QOS limits per user on a reconfig of the slurmctld.
 -- Do not treat the absence of a gres.conf file as a fatal error on systems
    configured with GRES, but set GRES counts to zero.
 -- BLUEGENE - Update correctly the state in the reason of a block if an
    admin sets the state to error.
 -- BLUEGENE - handle reason of blocks in error more correctly between
    restarts of the slurmctld.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix minor potential memory leak when setting block error reason.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix if running in Static/Overlap mode and full system block
    is in an error state, won't deny jobs.
 -- Fix for accounting where your cluster isn't numbered in counting order
    (i.e. 1-9,0 instead of 0-9).  The bug would cause 'sacct -N nodename' to
    not give correct results on these systems.
 -- Fix to GRES allocation logic when resources are associated with specific
    CPUs on a node. Patch from Steve Trofinoff, CSCS.
 -- Fix bugs in sched/backfill with respect to QOS reservation support and job
    time limits. Patch from Alejandro Lucero Palau (Barcelona Supercomputer
    Center).
 -- BGQ - fix to set up corner correctly for sub block jobs.
 -- Major re-write of the CPU Management User and Administrator Guide (web
    page) by Martin Perry, Bull.
 -- BLUEGENE - If removing blocks from system that once existed cleanup of old
    block happens correctly now.
 -- Prevent slurmctld crashing with configuration of MaxMemPerCPU=0.
 -- Prevent job hold by operator or account coordinator of his own job from
    being an Administrator Hold rather than User Hold by default.
 -- Cray - Fix for srun.pl parsing to avoid adding spaces between option and
    argument (e.g. "-N2" parsed properly without changing to "-N 2").
 -- Major updates to cgroup support by Mark Grondona (LLNL) and Matthieu
    Hautreux (CEA) and Sam Lang. Fixes timing problems with respect to the
    task_epilog. Allows cgroup mount point to be configurable. Added new
    configuration parameters MaxRAMPercent and MaxSwapPercent. Allow cgroup
    configuration parameters that are precentages to be floating point.
 -- Fixed issue where sview wasn't displaying correct nice value for jobs.
 -- Fixed issue where sview wasn't displaying correct min memory per node/cpu
    value for jobs.
 -- Disable some SelectTypeParameters for select/linear that aren't compatible.
 -- Move slurm_select_init to proper place to avoid loading multiple select
    plugins in the slurmd.
 -- BGQ - Include runjob_plugin.so in the bluegene rpm.
 -- Report correct job "Reason" if needed nodes are DOWN, DRAINED, or
    NOT_RESPONDING, "Resources" rather than "PartitionNodeLimit".
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issues with running on a sub-midplane system.
 -- Added some missing calls to allow older versions of SLURM to talk to newer.
 -- BGQ - allow steps to be ran.
 -- Do not attempt to run HeathCheckProgram on powered down nodes. Patch from
    Ramiro Alba, Centre Tecnològic de Tranferència de Calor, Spain.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0-2
==========================
 -- Fix for memory issue inside sview.
 -- Fix issue where if a job was pending and the slurmctld was restarted a
    variable wasn't initialized in the job structure making it so that job
    wouldn't run.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - make sure we only set the jobinfo_select start_loc on a job
    when we are on a small block, not a regular one.
 -- BGQ - fix issue where not copying the correct amount of memory.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix clean start if jobs were running when the slurmctld was
    shutdown and then the system size changed.  This would probably only happen
    if you were emulating a system.
 -- Fix sview for calling a cray system from a non-cray system to get the
    correct geometry of the system.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix to correctly import pervious version of block state file.
 -- BLUEGENE - handle loading better when doing a clean start with static
    blocks.
 -- Add sinfo format and sort option "%n" for NodeHostName and "%o" for
    NodeAddr.
 -- If a job is deferred due to partition limits, then re-test those limits
    after a partition is modified. Patch from Don Lipari.
 -- Fix bug which would crash slurmcld if job's owner (not root) tries to clear
    a job's licenses by setting value to "".
 -- Cosmetic fix for printing out debug info in the priority plugin.
 -- In sview when switching from a bluegene machine to a regular linux cluster
    and vice versa the node->base partition lists will be displayed if setup
    in your .slurm/sviewrc file.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for creating full system static block on a BGQ system.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix deadlock issue if toggling between Dynamic and Static block
    allocation with jobs running on blocks that don't exist in the static
    setup.
 -- BLUEGENE - Modify code to only give HTC states to BGP systems and not
    allow them on Q systems.
 -- BLUEGENE - Make it possible for an admin to define multiple dimension
    conn_types in a block definition.
 -- BGQ - Alter tools to output multiple dimensional conn_type.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.rc2
============================
 -- With sched/wiki or sched/wiki2 (Maui or Moab scheduler), insure that a
    requeued job's priority is reset to zero.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix to run steps correctly in a BGL/P emulated system.
 -- Fixed issue where if there was a network issue between the slurmctld and
    the DBD where both remained up but were disconnected the slurmctld would
    get registered again with the DBD.
 -- Fixed issue where if the DBD connection from the ctld goes away because of
    a POLLERR the dbd_fail callback is called.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix to smap command-line mode display.
 -- Change in GRES behavior for job steps: A job step's default generic
    resource allocation will be set to that of the job. If a job step's --gres
    value is set to "none" then none of the generic resources which have been
    allocated to the job will be allocated to the job step.
 -- Add srun environment value of SLURM_STEP_GRES to set default --gres value
    for a job step.
 -- Require SchedulerTimeSlice configuration parameter to be at least 5 seconds
    to avoid thrashing slurmd daemon.
 -- Cray - Fix to make nodes state in accounting consistent with state set by
    ALPS.
 -- Cray - A node DOWN to ALPS will be marked DOWN to SLURM only after reaching
    SlurmdTimeout. In the interim, the node state will be NO_RESPOND. This
    change makes behavior makes SLURM handling of the node DOWN state more
    consistent with ALPS. This change effects only Cray systems.
 -- Cray - Fix to work with 4.0.* instead of just 4.0.0
 -- Cray - Modify srun/aprun wrapper to map --exclusive to -F exclusive and
    --share to -F share. Note this does not consider the partition's Shared
    configuration, so it is an imperfect mapping of options.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added notice in the print config to tell if you are emulated
    or not.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix job step scalability issue with large task count.
 -- BGQ - Improved c-node selection when asked for a sub-block job that
    cannot fit into the available shape.
 -- BLUEGENE - Modify "scontrol show step" to show  I/O nodes (BGL and BGP) or
    c-nodes (BGQ) allocated to each step. Change field name from "Nodes=" to
    "BP_List=".
 -- Code cleanup on step request to get the correct select_jobinfo.
 -- Memory leak fixed for rolling up accounting with down clusters.
 -- BGQ - fix issue where if first job step is the entire block and then the
    next parallel step is ran on a sub block, SLURM won't over subscribe cnodes.
 -- Treat duplicate switch name in topology.conf as fatal error. Patch from Rod
    Schultz, Bull
 -- Minor update to documentation describing the AllowGroups option for a
    partition in the slurm.conf.
 -- Fix problem with _job_create() when not using qos's.  It makes
    _job_create() consistent with similar logic in select_nodes().
 -- GrpCPURunMins in a QOS flushed out.
 -- Fix for squeue -t "CONFIGURING" to actually work.
 -- CRAY - Add cray.conf parameter of SyncTimeout, maximum time to defer job
    scheduling if SLURM node or job state are out of synchronization with ALPS.
 -- If salloc was run as interactive, with job control, reset the foreground
    process group of the terminal to the process group of the parent pid before
    exiting. Patch from Don Albert, Bull.
 -- BGQ - set up the corner of a sub block correctly based on a relative
    position in the block instead of absolute.
 -- BGQ - make sure the recently added select_jobinfo of a step launch request
    isn't sent to the slurmd where environment variables would be overwritten
    incorrectly.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.rc1
============================
 -- NOTE THERE HAVE BEEN NEW FIELDS ADDED TO THE JOB AND PARTITION STATE SAVE
    FILES AND RPCS. PENDING AND RUNNING JOBS WILL BE LOST WHEN UPGRADING FROM
    EARLIER VERSION 2.3 PRE-RELEASES AND RPCS WILL NOT WORK WITH EARLIER
    VERSIONS.
 -- select/cray: Add support for Accelerator information including model and
    memory options.
 -- Cray systems: Add support to suspend/resume salloc command to insure that
    aprun does not get initiated when the job is suspended. Processes suspended
    and resumed are determined by using process group ID and parent process ID,
    so some processes may be missed. Since salloc runs as a normal user, it's
    ability to identify processes associated with a job is limited.
 -- Cray systems: Modify smap and sview to display all nodes even if multiple
    nodes exist at each coordinate.
 -- Improve efficiency of select/linear plugin with topology/tree plugin
    configured, Patch by Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- For front-end architectures on which job steps are run (emulated Cray and
    BlueGene systems only), fix bug that would free memory still in use.
 -- Add squeue support to display a job's license information. Patch by Andy
    Roosen (University of Deleware).
 -- Add flag to the select APIs for job suspend/resume indicating if the action
    is for gang scheduling or an explicit job suspend/resume by the user. Only
    an explicit job suspend/resume will reset the job's priority and make
    resources exclusively held by the job available to other jobs.
 -- Fix possible invalid memory reference in sched/backfill. Patch by Andriy
    Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Add select_jobinfo to the task launch RPC. Based upon patch by Andriy
    Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Add DefMemPerCPU/Node and MaxMemPerCPU/Node to partition configuration.
    This improves flexibility when gang scheduling only specific partitions.
 -- Added new enums to print out when a job is held by a QOS instead of an
    association limit.
 -- Enhancements to sched/backfill performance with select/cons_res plugin.
    Patch from Bjørn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo.
 -- Correct job run time reported by smap for suspended jobs.
 -- Improve job preemption logic to avoid preempting more jobs than needed.
 -- Add contribs/arrayrun tool providing support for job arrays. Contributed by
    Bjørn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo. NOTE: Not currently packaged as RPM
    and manual file editing is required.
 -- When suspending a job, wait 2 seconds instead of 1 second between sending
    SIGTSTP and SIGSTOP. Some MPI implementation were not stopping within the
    1 second delay.
 -- Add support for managing devices based upon Linux cgroup container. Based
    upon patch by Yiannis Georgiou, Bull.
 -- Fix memory buffering bug if a AllowGroups parameter of a partition has 100
    or more users. Patch by Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Fix bug in generic resource tracking of gres associated with specific CPUs.
    Resources were being over-allocated.
 -- On systems with front-end nodes (IBM BlueGene and Cray) limit batch jobs to
    only one CPU of these shared resources.
 -- Set SLURM_MEM_PER_CPU or SLURM_MEM_PER_NODE environment variables for both
    interactive (salloc) and batch jobs if the job has a memory limit. For Cray
    systems also set CRAY_AUTO_APRUN_OPTIONS environment variable with the
    memory limit.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res task distribution logic when tasks-per-node=0.
    Patch from Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Restore node configuration information (CPUs, memory, etc.) for powered
    down when slurmctld daemon restarts rather than waiting for the node to be
    restored to service and getting the information from the node (NOTE: Only
    relevent if FastSchedule=0).
 -- For Cray systems with the srun2aprun wrapper, rebuild the srun man page
    identifying the srun optioins which are valid on that system.
 -- BlueGene: Permit users to specify a separate connection type for each
    dimension (e.g. "--conn-type=torus,mesh,torus").
 -- Add the ability for a user to limit the number of leaf switches in a job's
    allocation using the --switch option of salloc, sbatch and srun. There is
    also a new SchedulerParameters value of max_switch_wait, which a SLURM
    administrator can used to set a maximum job delay and prevent a user job
    from blocking lower priority jobs for too long. Based on work by Rod
    Schultz, Bull.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.pre6
=============================
 -- NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A NEW FIELD ADDED TO THE CONFIGURATION RESPONSE RPC
    AS SHOWN BY "SCONTROL SHOW CONFIG". THIS FUNCTION WILL ONLY WORK WHEN THE
    SERVER AND CLIENT ARE BOTH RUNNING SLURM VERSION 2.3.0.pre6
 -- Modify job expansion logic to support licenses, generic resources, and
    currently running job steps.
 -- Added an rpath if using the --with-munge option of configure.
 -- Add support for multiple sets of DEFAULT node, partition, and frontend
    specifications in slurm.conf so that default values can be changed mulitple
    times as the configuration file is read.
 -- BLUEGENE - Improved logic to place small blocks in free space before freeing
    larger blocks.
 -- Add optional argument to srun's --kill-on-bad-exit so that user can set
    its value to zero and override a SLURM configuration parameter of
    KillOnBadExit.
 -- Fix bug in GraceTime support for preempted jobs that prevented proper
    operation when more than one job was being preempted. Based on patch from
    Bill Brophy, Bull.
 -- Fix for running sview from a non-bluegene cluster to a bluegene cluster.
    Regression from pre5.
 -- If job's TMPDIR environment is not set or is not usable, reset to "/tmp".
    Patch from Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Remove logic for defunct RPC: DBD_GET_JOBS.
 -- Propagate DebugFlag changes by scontrol to the plugins.
 -- Improve accuracy of REQUEST_JOB_WILL_RUN start time with respect to higher
    priority pending jobs.
 -- Add -R/--reservation option to squeue command as a job filter.
 -- Add scancel support for --clusters option.
 -- Note that scontrol and sprio can only support a single cluster at one time.
 -- Add support to salloc for a new environment variable SALLOC_KILL_CMD.
 -- Add scontrol ability to increment or decrement a job or step time limit.
 -- Add support for SLURM_TIME_FORMAT environment variable to control time
    stamp output format. Work by Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix error handling in mvapich plugin that could cause srun to enter an
    infinite loop under rare circumstances.
 -- Add support for multiple task plugins. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko (Massive
    Solutions Limited).
 -- Addition of per-user node/cpu limits for QOS's. Patch from Aaron Knister,
    UMBC.
 -- Fix logic for multiple job resize operations.
 -- BLUEGENE - many fixes to make things work correctly on a L/P system.
 -- Fix bug in layout of job step with --nodelist option plus node count. Old
    code could allocate too few nodes.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.pre5
=============================
 -- NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A NEW FIELD ADDED TO THE JOB STATE FILE. UPGRADES FROM
    VERSION 2.3.0-PRE4 WILL RESULT IN LOST JOBS UNLESS THE "orig_dependency"
    FIELD IS REMOVED FROM JOB STATE SAVE/RESTORE LOGIC. ON CRAY SYSTEMS A NEW
    "confirm_cookie" FIELD WAS ADDED AND HAS THE SAME EFFECT OF DISABLING JOB
    STATE RESTORE.
 -- BLUEGENE - Improve speed of start up when removing blocks at the beginning.
 -- Correct init.d/slurm status to have non-zero exit code if ANY Slurm
    damon that should be running on the node is not running. Patch from Rod
    Schulz, Bull.
 -- Improve accuracy of response to "srun --test-only jobid=#".
 -- Fix bug in front-end configurations which reports job_cnt_comp underflow
    errors after slurmctld restarts.
 -- Eliminate "error from _trigger_slurmctld_event in backup.c" due to lack of
    event triggers.
 -- Fix logic in BackupController to properly recover front-end node state and
    avoid purging active jobs.
 -- Added man pages to html pages and the new cpu_management.html page.
    Submitted by Martin Perry / Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Job dependency information will only show the currently active dependencies
    rather than the original dependencies. From Dan Rusak, Bull.
 -- Add RPCs to get the SPANK environment variables from the slurmctld daemon.
    Patch from Andrej N. Gritsenko.
 -- Updated plugins/task/cgroup/task_cgroup_cpuset.c to support newer
    HWLOC_API_VERSION.
 -- Do not build select/bluegene plugin if C++ compiler is not installed.
 -- Add new configure option --with-srun2aprun to build an srun command
    which is a wrapper over Cray's aprun command and supports many srun
    options. Without this option, the srun command will advise the user
    to use the aprun command.
 -- Change container ID supported by proctrack plugin from 32-bit to 64-bit.
 -- Added contribs/cray/libalps_test_programs.tar.gz with tools to validate
    SLURM's logic used to support Cray systems.
 -- Create RPM for srun command that is a wrapper for the Cray/ALPS aprun
    command. Dependent upon .rpmmacros parameter of "%_with_srun2aprun".
 -- Add configuration parameter MaxStepCount to limit effect of bad batch
    scripts.
 -- Moving to github
 -- Fix for handling a 2.3 system talking to a 2.2 slurmctld.
 -- Add contribs/lua/job_submit.license.lua script. Update job_submit and Lua
    related documentation.
 -- Test if _make_batch_script() is called with a NULL script.
 -- Increase hostlist support from 24k to 64k nodes.
 -- Renamed the Accounting Storage database's "DerivedExitString" job field to
    "Comment".  Provided backward compatible support for "DerivedExitString" in
    the sacctmgr tool.
 -- Added the ability to save the job's comment field to the Accounting
    Storage db (to the formerly named, "DerivedExitString" job field).  This
    behavior is enabled by a new slurm.conf parameter:
    AccountingStoreJobComment.
 -- Test if _make_batch_script() is called with a NULL script.
 -- Increase hostlist support from 24k to 64k nodes.
 -- Fix srun to handle signals correctly when waiting for a step creation.
 -- Preserve the last job ID across slurmctld daemon restarts even if the job
    state file can not be fully recovered.
 -- Made the hostlist functions be able to arbitrarily handle any size
    dimension no matter what the size of the cluster is in dimensions.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.pre4
=============================
 -- Add GraceTime to Partition and QOS data structures. Preempted jobs will be
    given this time interval before termination. Work by Bill Brophy, Bull.
 -- Add the ability for scontrol and sview to modify slurmctld DebugFlags
    values.
 -- Various Cray-specific patches:
    - Fix a bug in distinguishing XT from XE.
    - Avoids problems with empty nodenames on Cray.
    - Check whether ALPS is hanging on to nodes, which happens if ALPS has not
      yet cleaned up the node partition.
    - Stops select/cray from clobbering node_ptr->reason.
    - Perform 'safe' release of ALPS reservations using inventory and apkill.
    - Compile-time sanity check for the apbasil and apkill files.
    - Changes error handling in do_basil_release() (called by
      select_g_job_fini()).
    - Warn that salloc --no-shell option is not supported on Cray systems.
 -- Add a reservation flag of "License_Only". If set, then jobs using the
    reservation may use the licenses associated with it plus any compute nodes.
    Otherwise the job is limited to the compute nodes associated with the
    reservation.
 -- Change slurm.conf node configuration parameter from "Procs" to "CPUs".
    Both parameters will be supported for now.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for when user requests only midplane names with no count at
    job submission time to process the node count correctly.
 -- Fix job step resource allocation problem when both node and tasks counts
    are specified. New logic selects nodes with larger CPU counts as needed.
 -- BGQ - make it so srun wraps runjob (still under construction, but works
    for most cases)
 -- Permit a job's QOS and Comment field to both change in a single RPC. This
    was previously disabled since Moab stored the QOS within the Comment field.
 -- Add support for jobs to expand in size. Submit additional batch job with
    the option "--dependency=expand:<jobid>". See web page "faq.html#job_size"
    for details. Restrictions to be removed in the future.
 -- Added --with-alps-emulation to configure, and also an optional cray.conf
    to setup alps location and database information.
 -- Modify PMI data types from 16-bits to 32-bits in order to support MPICH2
    jobs with more than 65,536 tasks. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Set slurmd's soft process CPU limit equal to it's hard limit and notify the
    user if the limit is not infinite.
 -- Added proctrack/cgroup and task/cgroup plugins from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix slurmctld restart logic that could leave nodes in UNKNOWN state for a
    longer time than necessary after restart.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.pre3
=============================
 -- BGQ - Appears to work correctly in emulation mode, no sub blocks just yet.
 -- Minor typos fixed
 -- Various bug fixes for Cray systems.
 -- Fix bug that when setting a compute node to idle state, it was failing to
    set the systems up_node_bitmap.
 -- BLUEGENE - code reorder
 -- BLUEGENE - Now only one select plugin for all Bluegene systems.
 -- Modify srun to set the SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable when srun is
    used to create a new job allocation. Not set when srun is used to create a
    job step within an existing job allocation.
 -- Modify init.d/slurm script to start multiple slurmd daemons per compute
    node if so configured. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Change license data structure counters from uint16_t to uint32_t to support
    larger license counts.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.pre2
=============================
 -- Log a job's requeue or cancellation due to preemption to that job's stderr:
    "*** JOB 65547 CANCELLED AT 2011-01-21T12:59:33 DUE TO PREEMPTION ***".
 -- Added new job termination state of JOB_PREEMPTED, "PR" or "PREEMPTED" to
    indicate job termination was due to preemption.
 -- Optimize advanced reservations resource selection for computer topology.
    The logic has been added to select/linear and select/cons_res, but will
    not be enabled until the other select plugins are modified.
 -- Remove checkpoint/xlch plugin.
 -- Disable deletion of partitions that have unfinished jobs (pending,
    running or suspended states). Patch from Martin Perry, BULL.
 -- In sview, disable the sorting of node records by name at startup for
    clusters over 1000 nodes. Users can enable this by selecting the "Name"
    tab. This change dramatically improves scalability of sview.
 -- Report error when trying to change a node's state from scontrol for Cray
    systems.
 -- Do not attempt to read the batch script for non-batch jobs. This patch
    eliminates some inappropriate error messages.
 -- Preserve NodeHostName when reordering nodes due to system topology.
 -- On Cray/ALPS systems  do node inventory before scheduling jobs.
 -- Disable some salloc options on Cray systems.
 -- Disable scontrol's wait_job command on Cray systems.
 -- Disable srun command on native Cray/ALPS systems.
 -- Updated configure option "--enable-cray-emulation" (still under
    development) to emulate a cray XT/XE system, and auto-detect a real
    Cray XT/XE systems (removed no longer needed --enable-cray configure
    option).  Building on native Cray systems requires the
    cray-MySQL-devel-enterprise rpm and expat XML parser library/headers.

* Changes in SLURM 2.3.0.pre1
=============================
 -- Added that when a slurmctld closes the connection to the database it's
    registered host and port are removed.
 -- Added flag to slurmdbd.conf TrackSlurmctldDown where if set will mark idle
    resources as down on a cluster when a slurmctld disconnects or is no
    longer reachable.
 -- Added support for more than one front-end node to run slurmd on
    architectures where the slurmd does not execute on the compute nodes
    (e.g. BlueGene). New configuration parameters FrontendNode and FrontendAddr
    added. See "man slurm.conf" for more information.
 -- With the scontrol show job command when using the --details option, show
    a batch job's script.
 -- Add ability to create reservations or partitions and submit batch jobs
    using sview. Also add the ability to delete reservations and partitions.
 -- Added new configuration parameter MaxJobId. Once reached, restart job ID
    values at FirstJobId.
 -- When restarting slurmctld with priority/basic, increment all job priorities
    so the highest job priority becomes TOP_PRIORITY.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.8
========================
 -- Prevent background salloc disconnecting terminal at termination. Patch by
    Don Albert, Bull.
 -- Fixed issue where preempt mode is skipped when creating a QOS. Patch by
    Bill Brophy, Bull.
 -- Fixed documention (html) for PriorityUsageResetPeriod to match that in the
    man pages. Patch by Nancy Kritkausky, Bull.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.7
========================
 -- Eliminate zombie process created if salloc exits with stopped child
    process. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- With default configuration on non-Cray systems, enable salloc to be
    spawned as a background process. Based upon work by Don Albert (Bull) and
    Gerrit Renker (CSCS).
 -- Fixed Regression from 2.2.4 in accounting where an inherited limit
    would not be set correctly in the added child association.
 -- Fixed issue with accounting when asking for jobs with a hostlist.
 -- Avoid clearing a node's Arch, OS, BootTime and SlurmdStartTime when
    "scontrol reconfig" is run. Patch from Martin Perry, Bull.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.6
========================
 -- Fix displaying of account coordinators with sacctmgr.  Possiblity to show
    deleted accounts.  Only a cosmetic issue, since the accounts are already
    deleted, and have no associations.
 -- Prevent opaque ncurses WINDOW struct on OS X 10.6.
 -- Fix issue with accounting when using PrivateData=jobs... users would not be
    able to view there own jobs unless they were admin or coordinators which is
    obviously wrong.
 -- Fix bug in node stat if slurmctld is restarted while nodes are in the
    process of being powered up. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko.
 -- Change maximum batch script size from 128k to 4M.
 -- Get slurmd -f option working. Patch from Andriy Grytsenko.
 -- Fix for linking problem on OSX. Patches from Jon Bringhurst (LANL) and
    Tyler Strickland.
 -- Reset a job's priority to zero (suspended) when Moab requeues the job.
    Patch from Par Andersson, NSC.
 -- When enforcing accounting, fix polling for unknown uids for users after
    the slurmctld started.  Previously one would have to issue a reconfigure
    to the slurmctld to have it look for new uids.
 -- BLUEGENE - if a block goes into an error state.  Fix issue where accounting
    wasn't updated correctly when the block was resumed.
 -- Synchronize power-save module better with scheduler. Patch from
    Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Avoid SEGV in association logic with user=NULL. Patch from
    Andriy Grytsenko (Massive Solutions Limited).
 -- Fixed issue in accounting where it was possible for a new
    association/wckey to be set incorrectly as a default the new object
    was added after an original default object already existed.  Before
    the slurmctld would need to be restarted to fix the issue.
 -- Updated the Normalized Usage section in priority_multifactor.shtml.
 -- Disable use of SQUEUE_FORMAT env var if squeue -l, -o, or -s option is
    used. Patch from Aaron Knister (UMBC).

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.5
========================
 -- Correct init.d/slurm status to have non-zero exit code if ANY Slurm
    damon that should be running on the node is not running. Patch from Rod
    Schulz, Bull.
 -- Improve accuracy of response to "srun --test-only jobid=#".
 -- Correct logic to properly support --ntasks-per-node option in the
    select/cons_res plugin. Patch from Rod Schulz, Bull.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res with respect to generic resource (gres)
    scheduling which prevented some jobs from starting as soon as possible.
 -- Fix memory leak in select/cons_res when backfill scheduling generic
    resources (gres).
 -- Fix for when configuring a node with more resources than in real life
    and using task/affinity.
 -- Fix so slurmctld will pack correctly 2.1 step information. (Only needed if
    a 2.1 client is talking to a 2.2 slurmctld.)
 -- Set powered down node's state to IDLE+POWER after slurmctld restart instead
    of leaving in UNKNOWN+POWER. Patch from Andrej Gritsenko.
 -- Fix bug where is srun's executable is not on it's current search path, but
    can be found in the user's default search path. Modify slurmstepd to find
    the executable. Patch from Andrej Gritsenko.
 -- Make sview display correct cpu count for steps.
 -- BLUEGENE - when running in overlap mode make sure to check the connection
    type so you can create overlapping blocks on the exact same nodes with
    different connection types (i.e. one torus, one mesh).
 -- Fix memory leak if MPI ports are reserved (for OpenMPI) and srun's
    --resv-ports option is used.
 -- Fix some anomalies in select/cons_res task layout when using the
    --cpus-per-task option. Patch from Martin Perry, Bull.
 -- Improve backfill scheduling logic when job specifies --ntasks-per-node and
    --mem-per-cpu options on a heterogeneous cluster. Patch from Bjorn-Helge
    Mevik, University of Oslo.
 -- Print warning message if srun specifies --cpus-per-task larger than used
    to create job allocation.
 -- Fix issue when changing a users name in accounting, if using wckeys would
    execute correctly, but bad memcopy would core the DBD.  No information
    would be lost or corrupted, but you would need to restart the DBD.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.4
========================
 -- For batch jobs for which the Prolog fails, substitute the job ID for any
    "%j" in the job's output or error file specification.
 -- Add licenses field to the sview reservation information.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling extremely overloaded system on Dynamic system
    dealing with starting jobs on overlapping blocks.  Previous fallout
    was job would be requeued.  (happens very rarely)
 -- In accounting_storage/filetxt plugin, substitute spaces within job names,
    step names, and account names with an underscore to insure proper parsing.
 -- When building contribs/perlapi ignore both INSTALL_BASE and PERL_MM_OPT.
    Use PREFIX instead to avoid build errors from multiple installation
    specifications.
 -- Add job_submit/cnode plugin to support resource reservations of less than
    a full midplane on BlueGene computers. Treat cnodes as liceses which can
    be reserved and are consumed by jobs. This reservation mechanism for less
    than an entire midplane is still under development.
 -- Clear a job's "reason" field when a held job is released.
 -- When releasing a held job, calculate a new priority for it rather than
    just setting the priority to 1.
 -- Fix for sview started on a non-bluegene system to pick colors correctly
    when talking to a real bluegene system.
 -- Improve sched/backfill's expected start time calculation.
 -- Prevent abort of sacctmgr for dump command with invalid (or no) filename.
 -- Improve handling of job updates when using limits in accounting, and
    updating jobs as a non-admin user.
 -- Fix for "squeue --states=all" option. Bug would show no jobs.
 -- Schedule jobs with reservations before those without reservations.
 -- Fix squeue/scancel to query correctly against accounts of different case.
 -- Abort an srun command when it's associated job gets aborted due to a
    dependency that can not be satisfied.
 -- In jobcomp plugins, report start time of zeroif pending job is cancelled.
    Previously may report expected start time.
 -- Fixed sacctmgr man to state correct variables.
 -- Select nodes based upon their Weight when job allocation requests include
    a constraint field with a count (e.g. "srun --constraint=gpu*2 -N4 a.out").
 -- Add support for user names that are entirely numeric and do not treat them
    as UID values. Patch from Dennis Leepow.
 -- Patch to un/pack double values properly if negative value.  Patch from
    Dennis Leepow
 -- Do not reset a job's priority when requeued or suspended.
 -- Fix problemm that could let new jobs start on a node in DRAINED state.
 -- Fix cosmetic sacctmgr issue where if the user you are trying to add
    doesn't exist in the /etc/passwd file and the account you are trying
    to add them to doesn't exist it would print (null) instead of the bad
    account name.
 -- Fix associations/qos for when adding back a previously deleted object
    the object will be cleared of all old limits.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added back a lock when creating dynamic blocks to be more thread
    safe on larger systems with heavy load.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.3
========================
 -- Update srun, salloc, and sbatch man page description of --distribution
    option. Patches from Rod Schulz, Bull.
 -- Applied patch from Martin Perry to fix "Incorrect results for task/affinity
    block second distribution and cpus-per-task > 1" bug.
 -- Avoid setting a job's eligible time while held (priority == 0).
 -- Substantial performance improvement to backfill scheduling. Patch from
    Bjorn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo.
 -- Make timeout for communications to the slurmctld be based upon the
    MessageTimeout configuration parameter rather than always 3 seconds.
    Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Add new scontrol option of "show aliases" to report every NodeName that is
    associated with a given NodeHostName when running multiple slurmd daemons
    per compute node (typically used for testing purposes). Patch from
    Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix for handling job names with a "'" in the name within MySQL accounting.
    Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Modify condition under which salloc execution delayed until moved to the
    foreground. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
	Job control for interactive salloc sessions: only if ...
	a) input is from a terminal (stdin has valid termios attributes),
	b) controlling terminal exists (non-negative tpgid),
	c) salloc is not run in allocation-only (--no-shell) mode,
	d) salloc runs in its own process group (true in interactive
	   shells that support job control),
	e) salloc has been configured at compile-time to support background
	   execution and is not currently in the background process group.
 -- Abort salloc if no controlling terminal and --no-shell option is not used
    ("setsid salloc ..." is disabled). Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix to gang scheduling logic which could cause jobs to not be suspended
    or resumed when appropriate.
 -- Applied patch from Martin Perry to fix "Slurmd abort when using task
    affinity with plane distribution" bug.
 -- Applied patch from Yiannis Georgiou to fix "Problem with cpu binding to
    sockets option" behaviour. This change causes "--cpu_bind=sockets" to bind
    tasks only to the CPUs on each socket allocated to the job rather than all
    CPUs on each socket.
 -- Advance daily or weekly reservations immediately after termination to avoid
    having a job start that runs into the reservation when later advanced.
 -- Fix for enabling users to change there own default account, wckey, or QOS.
 -- BLUEGENE - If using OVERLAP mode fixed issue with multiple overlapping
    blocks in error mode.
 -- Fix for sacctmgr to display correctly default accounts.
 -- scancel -s SIGKILL will always sent the RPC to the slurmctld rather than
    the slurmd daemon(s). This insures that tasks in the process of getting
    spawned are killed.
 -- BLUEGENE - If using OVERLAP mode fixed issue with jobs getting denied
    at submit if the only option for their job was overlapping a block in
    error state.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.2
========================
 -- Correct logic to set correct job hold state (admin or user) when setting
    the job's priority using scontrol's "update jobid=..." rather than its
    "hold" or "holdu" commands.
 -- Modify squeue to report unset --mincores, --minthreads or --extra-node-info
    values as "*" rather than 65534. Patch from Rod Schulz, BULL.
 -- Report the StartTime of a job as "Unknown" rather than the year 2106 if its
    expected start time was too far in the future for the backfill scheduler
    to compute.
 -- Prevent a pending job reason field from inappropriately being set to
    "Priority".
 -- In sched/backfill with jobs having QOS_FLAG_NO_RESERVE set, then don't
    consider the job's time limit when attempting to backfill schedule. The job
    will just be preempted as needed at any time.
 -- Eliminated a bug in sbatch when no valid target clusters are specified.
 -- When explicitly sending a signal to a job with the scancel command and that
    job is in a pending state, then send the request directly to the slurmctld
    daemon and do not attempt to send the request to slurmd daemons, which are
    not running the job anyway.
 -- In slurmctld, properly set the up_node_bitmap when setting it's state to
    IDLE (in case the previous node state was DOWN).
 -- Fix smap to process block midplane names correctly when on a bluegene
    system.
 -- Fix smap to once again print out the Letter 'ID' for each line of a block/
    partition view.
 -- Corrected the NOTES section of the scancel man page
 -- Fix for accounting_storage/mysql plugin to correctly query cluster based
    transactions.
 -- Fix issue when updating database for clusters that were previously deleted
    before upgrade to 2.2 database.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle mesh torus check better in dynamic mode.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed race condition when freeing block, most likely only would
    happen in emulation.
 -- Fix for calculating used QOS limits correctly on a slurmctld reconfig.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for bad conn-type set when running small blocks in HTC mode.
 -- If salloc's --no-shell option is used, then do not attempt to preserve the
    terminal's state.
 -- Add new SLURM configure time parameter of --disable-salloc-background. If
    set, then salloc can only execute in the foreground. If started in the
    background, then a message will be printed and the job allocation halted
    until brought into the foreground.
    NOTE: THIS IS A CHANGE IN DEFAULT SALLOC BEHAVIOR FROM V2.2.1, BUT IS
    CONSISTENT WITH V2.1 AND EARLIER.
 -- Added the Multi-Cluster Operation web page.
 -- Removed remnant code for enforcing max sockets/cores/threads in the
    cons_res plugin (see last item in 2.1.0-pre5).  This was responsible
    for a bug reported by Rod Schultz.
 -- BLUEGENE - Set correct env vars for HTC mode on a P system to get correct
    block.
 -- Correct RunTime reported by "scontrol show job" for pending jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.1
========================
 -- Fix setting derived exit code correctly for jobs that happen to have the
    same jobid.
 -- Better checking for time overflow when rolling up in accounting.
 -- Add scancel --reservation option to cancel all jobs associated with a
    specific reservation.
 -- Treat reservation with no nodes like one that starts later (let jobs of any
    size get queued and do not block any pending jobs).
 -- Fix bug in gang scheduling logic that would temporarily resume to many jobs
    after a job completed.
 -- Change srun message about job step being deferred due to SlurmctldProlog
    running to be more clear and only print when --verbose option is used.
 -- Made it so you could remove the hold on jobs with sview by setting the
    priority to infinite.
 -- BLUEGENE - better checking small blocks in dynamic mode whether a full
    midplane job could run or not.
 -- Decrease the maximum sleep time between srun job step creation retry
    attempts from 60 seconds to 29 seconds. This should eliminate a possible
    synchronization problem with gang scheduling that could result in job
    step creation requests only occuring when a job is suspended.
 -- Fix to prevent changing a held job's state from HELD to DEPENDENCY
    until the job is released. Patch from Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Fixed sprio -M to reflect PriorityWeight values from remote cluster.
 -- Fix bug in sview when trying to update arbitrary field on more than one
    job. Formerly would display information about one job, but update next
    selected job.
 -- Made it so QOS with UsageFactor set to 0 would make it so jobs running
    under that QOS wouldn't add time to fairshare or association/qos
    limits.
 -- Fixed issue where QOS priority wasn't re-normalized until a slurmctld
    restart when a QOS priority was changed.
 -- Fix sprio to use calculated numbers from slurmctld instead of
    calulating it own numbers.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed race condition with preemption where if the wind blows the
    right way the slurmctld could lock up when preempting jobs to run others.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed epilog to wait until MMCS job is totally complete before
    finishing.
 -- BLUEGENE - more robust checking for states when freeing blocks.
 -- Added correct files to the slurm.spec file for correct perl api rpm
    creation.
 -- Added flag "NoReserve" to a QOS to make it so all jobs are created equal
    within a QOS.  So if larger, higher priority jobs are unable to run they
    don't prevent smaller jobs from running even if running the smaller
    jobs delay the start of the larger, higher priority jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - Check preemptees one by one to preempt lower priority jobs first
    instead of first fit.
 -- In select/cons_res, correct handling of the option
    SelectTypeParameters=CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE.
 -- Fix for checking QOS to override partition limits, previously if not using
    QOS some limits would be overlooked.
 -- Fix bug which would terminate a job step if any of the nodes allocated to
    it were removed from the job's allocation. Now only the tasks on those
    nodes are terminated.
 -- Fixed issue when using a storage_accounting plugin directly without the
    slurmDBD updates weren't always sent correctly to the slurmctld, appears to
    OS dependent, reported by Fredrik Tegenfeldt.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0
========================
 -- Change format of Duration field in "scontrol show reservation" output from
    an integer number of minutes to "[days-]hours:minutes:seconds".
 -- Add support for changing the reservation of pending or running jobs.
 -- On Cray systems only, salloc sends SIGKILL to spawned process group when
    job allocation is revoked. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix for sacctmgr to work correctly when modifying user associations where
    all the associations contain a partition.
 -- Minor mods to salloc signal handling logic: forwards more signals and
    releases allocation on real-time signals. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Add salloc logic to preserve tty attributes after abnormal exit. Patch
    from Mark Grondona, LLNL.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for issue in dynamic mode when trying to create a block
    overlapping a block with no job running on it but in configuring state.
 -- BLUEGENE - Speedup by skipping blocks that are deallocating for other jobs
    when starting overlapping jobs in dynamic mode.
 -- Fix for sacct --state to work correctly when not specifying a start time.
 -- Fix upgrade process in accounting from 2.1 for clusters named "cluster".
 -- Export more jobacct_common symbols needed for the slurm api on some systems.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc4
============================
 -- Correction in logic to spread out over time highly parallel messages to
    minimize lost messages. Effects slurmd epilog complete messages and PMI
    key-pair transmissions. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fixed issue where if a system has unset messages to the dbd in 2.1 and
    upgrades to 2.2.  Messages are now processed correctly now.
 -- Fixed issue where assoc_mgr cache wasn't always loaded correctly if the
    slurmdbd wasn't running when the slurmctld was started.
 -- Make sure on a pthread create in step launch that the error code is looked
    at. Improves fault-tolerance of slurmd.
 -- Fix setting up default acct/wckey when upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2.
 -- Fix issue with associations attached to a specific partition with no other
    association, and requesting a different partition.
 -- Added perlapi to the slurmdb to the slurm.spec.
 -- In sched/backfill, correct handling of CompleteWait parameter to avoid
    backfill scheduling while a job is completing. Patch from Gerrit Renker,
    CSCS.
 -- Send message back to user when trying to launch job on computing lacking
    that user ID. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix it so 1 midplane clusters will run small block jobs.
 -- Add Command and WorkDir to the output of "scontrol show job" for job
    allocations created using srun (not just sbatch).
 -- Fixed sacctmgr to not add blank defaultqos' when doing a cluster dump.
 -- Correct processing of memory and disk space specifications in the salloc,
    sbatch, and srun commands to work properly with a suffix of "MB", "GB",
    etc. and not only with a single letter (e.g. "M", "G", etc.).
 -- Prevent nodes with suspended jobs from being powered down by SLURM.
 -- Normalized the way pidfile are created by the slurm daemons.
 -- Fixed modifying the root association to no read in it's last value
    when clearing a limit being set.
 -- Revert some resent signal handling logic from salloc so that SIGHUP sent
    after the job allocation will properly release the allocation and cause
    salloc to exit.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for recreating a block in a ready state.
 -- Fix debug flags for incorrect logic when dealing with DEBUG_FLAG_WIKI.
 -- Report reservation's Nodes as a hostlist expression of all nodes rather
    than using "ALL".
 -- Fix reporting of nodes in BlueGene reservation (was reporting CPU count
    rather than cnode count in scontrol output for NodeCnt field).

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc3
============================
 -- Modify sacctmgr command to accept plural versions of options (e.g. "Users"
    in addition to "User"). Patch from Don Albert, BULL.
 -- BLUEGENE - make it so reset of boot counter happens only on state change
    and not when a new job comes along.
 -- Modify srun and salloc signal handling so they can be interrupted while
    waiting for an allocation. This was broken in version 2.2.0.rc2.
 -- Fix NULL pointer reference in sview. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix file descriptor leak in slurmstepd on spank_task_post_fork() failure.
    Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Fix bug in preserving job state information when upgrading from SLURM
    version 2.1. Bug introduced in version 2.2.0-pre10. Patch from Par
    Andersson, NSC.
 -- Fix bug where if using the slurmdbd if a job wasn't able to start right
    away some accounting information may be lost.
 -- BLUEGENE - when a prolog failure happens the offending block is put in
    an error state.
 -- Changed the last column heading of the sshare output from "FS Usage" to
    "FairShare" and added more detail to the sshare man page.
 -- Fix bug in enforcement of reservation by account name. Used wrong index
    into an array. Patch from Gerrit Renker, CSCS.
 -- Modify job_submit/lua plugin to treat any non-zero return code from the
    job_submit and job_modify functions as an error and the user request should
    be aborted.
 -- Fix bug which would permit pending job to be started on completing node
    when job preemption is configured.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc2
============================
 -- Fix memory leak in job step allocation logic. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- If a preempted job was submitted with the --no-requeue option then cancel
    rather than requeue it.
 -- Fix for problems when adding a user for the first time to a new cluster
    with a 2.1 sacctmgr without specifying a default account.
 -- Resend TERMINATE_JOB message only to nodes that the job still has not
    terminated on. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Treat time limit specification of "0:300" as a request for 300 seconds
    (5 minutes) instead of one minute.
 -- Modify sched/backfill plugin logic to continue working its way down the
    queue of jobs rather than restarting at the top if there are no changes in
    job, node, or partition state between runs. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Improve scalability of select/cons_res logic. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux,
    CEA.
 -- Fix for possible deadlock in the slurmstepd when cancelling a job that is
    also writing a large amount of data to stderr.
 -- Fix in select/cons_res to eliminate "mem underflow" error when the
    slurmctld is reconfigured while a job is in completing state.
 -- Send a message to the a user's job when it's real or virual memory limit
    is exceeded. :
 -- Apply rlimits right before execing the users task so to lower the risk of
    the task exiting because the slurmstepd ran over a limit (log file size,
    etc.)
 -- Add scontrol command of "uhold <job_id>" so that an administrator can hold
    a job and let the job's owner release it. The scontrol command of
    "hold <job_id>" when executed by a SLURM administrator can only be released
    by a SLURM administrator and not the job owner.
 -- Change atoi to slurm_atoul in mysql plugin, needed for running on 32-bit
    systems in some cases.
 -- If a batch job is found to be missing from a node, make its termination
    state be NODE_FAIL rather than CANCELLED.
 -- Fatal error put back if running a bluegene or cray plugin from a controller
    not of that type.
 -- Make sure jobacct_gather plugin is not shutdown before messing with the
    proccess list.
 -- Modify signal handling in srun and salloc commands to avoid deadlock if the
    malloc function is interupted and called again. The malloc function is
    thread safe, but not reentrant, which is a problem when signal handling if
    the malloc function itself has a lock. Problem fixed by moving signal
    handling in those commands to a new pthread.
 -- In srun set job abort flag on completion to handle the case when a user
    cancels a job while the node is not responding but slurmctld has not yet
    the node down. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Streamline the PMI logic if no duplicate keys are included in the key-pairs
    managed. Substantially improves performance for large numbers of tasks.
    Adds support for SLURM_PMI_KVS_NO_DUP_KEYS environment variable. Patch
    from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix issues with sview dealing with older versions of sview and saving
    defaults.
 -- Remove references to --mincores, --minsockets, and --minthreads from the
    salloc, sbatch and srun man pages. These options are defunct, Patch from
    Rod Schultz, Bull.
 -- Made openssl not be required to build RPMs, it is not required anymore
    since munge is the default crypto plugin.
 -- sacctmgr now has smarts to figure out if a qos is a default qos when
    modifing a user/acct or removing a qos.
 -- For reservations on BlueGene systems, set and report c-node counts rather
    than midplane counts.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.rc1
============================
 -- Add show_flags parameter to the slurm_load_block_info() function.
 -- perlapi has been brought up to speed courtesy of Hongjia Coa. (make sure to
    run 'make clean' if building in a different dir than source)
 -- Fixed regression in pre12 in crypto/munge when running with
    --enable-multiple-slurmd which would cause the slurmd's to core.
 -- Fixed regression where cpu count wasn't figured out correctly for steps.
 -- Fixed issue when using old mysql that can't handle a '.' in the table
    name.
 -- Mysql plugin works correctly without the SlurmDBD
 -- Added ability to query batch step with sstat.  Currently no accounting data
    is stored for the batch step, but the internals are inplace if we decide to
    do that in the future.
 -- Fixed some backwards compatibility issues with 2.2 talking to 2.1.
 -- Fixed regression where modifying associations didn't get sent to the
    slurmctld.
 -- Made sshare sort things the same way saccmgr list assoc does
    (alphabetically)
 -- Fixed issue with default accounts being set up correctly.
 -- Changed sortting in the slurmctld so sshare output is similar to that of
    sacctmgr list assoc.
 -- Modify reservation logic so that daily and weekly reservations maintain
    the same time when daylight savings time starts or ends in the interim.
 -- Edit to make reservations handle updates to associations.
 -- Added the derived exit code to the slurmctld job record and the derived
    exit code and string to the job record in the SLURM db.
 -- Added slurm-sjobexit RPM for SLURM job exit code management tools.
 -- Added ability to use sstat/sacct against the batch step.
 -- Added OnlyDefaults option to sacctmgr list associations.
 -- Modified the fairshare priority formula to F = 2**(-Ue/S)
 -- Modify the PMI functions key-pair exchange function to support a 32-bit
    counter for larger job sizes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- In sched/builtin - Make the estimated job start time logic faster (borrowed
    new logic from sched/backfill and added pthread) and more accurate.
 -- In select/cons_res fix bug that could result in a job being allocated zero
    CPUs on some nodes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set expected start time of a job too
    far in the future.
 -- Added ability to enforce new limits given to associations/qos on
    pending jobs.
 -- Increase max message size for the slurmdbd from 1000000 to 16*1024*1024
 -- Increase number of active threads in the slurmdbd from 50 to 100
 -- Fixed small bug in src/common/slurmdb_defs.c reported by Bjorn-Helge Mevik
 -- Fixed sacctmgr's ability to query associations against qos again.
 -- Fixed sview show config on non-bluegene systems.
 -- Fixed bug in selecting jobs based on sacct -N option
 -- Fix bug that prevented job Epilog from running more than once on a node if
    a job was requeued and started no job steps.
 -- Fixed issue where node index wasn't stored correcting when using DBD.
 -- Enable srun's use of the --nodes option with --exclusive (previously the
    --nodes option was ignored).
 -- Added UsageThreshold and Flags to the QOS object.
 -- Patch to improve threadsafeness in the mysql plugins.
 -- Add support for fair-share scheduling to be based upon resource use at
    the level of bank accounts and ignore use of individual users. Patch by
    Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre12
==============================
 -- Log if Prolog or Epilog run for longer than MessageTimeout / 2.
 -- Log the RPC number associated with messages from slurmctld that timeout.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res logic when job allocation includes --overcommit
    and --ntasks-per-node options and the node has fewer CPUs than the count
    specified by --ntasks-per-node.
 -- Fix bug in gang scheduling and job preemption logic so that preempted jobs
    get resumed properly after a slurmctld hot-start.
 -- Fix bug in select/linear handling of gang scheduled jobs that could result
    in run_job_cnt underflow error message.
 -- Fix bug in gang scheduling logic to properly support partitions added
    using the scontrol command.
 -- Fix a segmentation fault in sview where the 'excluded_partitions' field
    was set to NULL, caused by the absence of ~/.slurm/sviewrc.
 -- Rewrote some calls to is_user_any_coord() in src/plugins/accounting_storage
    modules to make use of is_user_any_coord()'s return value.
 -- Add configure option of --with=dimensions=#.
 -- Modify srun ping logic so that srun would only be considered not responsive
    if three ping messages were not responded to. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Preserve a node's ReasonTime field after scontrol reconfig command. Patch
    from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Added the authority for users with AdminLevel's defined in the SLURM db
    (Operators and Admins) and account coordinators to invoke commands that
    affect jobs, reservations, nodes, etc.
 -- Fix for slurmd restart on completing node with no tasks to get the correct
    state, completing. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Prevent scontrol setting a node's Reason="". Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Add new functions hostlist_ranged_string_malloc,
    hostlist_ranged_string_xmalloc, hostlist_deranged_string_malloc, and
    hostlist_deranged_string_xmalloc which will allocate memory as needed.
 -- Make the slurm commands support both the --cluster and --clusters option.
    Previously, some commands support one of those options, but not the other.
 -- Fix bug when resizing a job that has steps running on some of those nodes.
    Avoid killing the job step on remaining nodes. Patch from Rod Schultz
    (BULL). Also fix bug related to tracking the CPUs allocated to job steps
    on each node after releasing some nodes from the job's allocation.
 -- Applied patch from Rod Schultz / Matthieu Hautreux to keep the Node-to-Host
    cache from becoming corrupted when a hostname cannot be resolved.
 -- Export more symbols in libslurm for job and node state information
    translation (numbers to strings). Patch from Hongia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Add logic to retry sending RESPONSE_LAUNCH_TASKS messages from slurmd to
    srun. Patch from Hongia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Modify bit_unfmt_hexmask() and bit_unfmt_binmask() functions to clear the
    bitmap input before setting the bits indicated in the input string.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of bf_window to control how far into the
    future that the backfill scheduler will look when considering jobs to start.
    The default value is one day. See "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Fix bug that can result in duplicate job termination records in accounting
    for job termination when slurmctld restarts or reconfigures.
 -- Modify plugin and library logic as needed to support use of the function
    slurm_job_step_stat() from user commands.
 -- Fix race condition in which PrologSlurmctld failure could cause slurmctld
    to abort.
 -- Fix bug preventing users in secondary user groups from being granted access
    to partitions configured with AllowGroups.
 -- Added support for a default account and wckey per cluster within accounting.
 -- Modified select/cons_res plugin so that if MaxMemPerCPU is configured and a
    job specifies it's memory requirement, then more CPUs than requested will
    automatically be allocated to a job to honor the MaxMemPerCPU parameter.
 -- Added the derived_ec (exit_code) member to job_info_t.  exit_code captures
    the exit code of the job script (or salloc) while derived_ec contains the
    highest exit code of all the job steps.
 -- Added SLURM_JOB_EXIT_CODE and SLURM_JOB_DERIVED_EC variables to the
    EpilogSlurmctld environment
 -- More work done on the accounting_storage/pgsql plugin, still beta.
    Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- Major updates to sview from Dan Rusak (Bull), including:
    - Persistent option selections for each tab page
    - Clean up topology in grids
    - Leverage AllowGroups and Hidden options
    - Cascade full-info popups for ease of selection
 -- Add locks around the MySQL calls for proper operation if the non-thread
    safe version of the MySQL library is used.
 -- Remove libslurm.a, libpmi.a and libslurmdb.a from SLURM RPM. These static
    libraries are not generally usable.
 -- Fixed bug in sacctmgr when zeroing raw usage reported by Gerrit Renker.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre11
==============================
 -- Permit a regular user to change the partition of a pending job.
 -- Major re-write of the job_submit/lua plugin to pass pointers to available
    partitions and use lua metatables to reference the job and partition fields.
 -- Add support for serveral new trigger types: SlurmDBD failure/restart,
    Database failure/restart, Slurmctld failure/restart.
 -- Add support for SLURM_CLUSTERS environment variable in the sbatch, sinfo,
    squeue commands.
 -- Modify the sinfo and squeue commands to report state of multiple clusters
    if the --clusters option is used.
 -- Added printf __attribute__ qualifiers to info, debug, ... to help prevent
    bad/incorrect parameters being sent to them.  Original patch from
    Eygene Ryabinkin (Russian Research Centre).
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld job completion logic when nodes allocated to a
    completing job are re-booted. Patch from Hongjia Cao (NUDT).
 -- In slurmctld's node record data structure, rename "hilbert_integer" to
    "node_rank".
 -- Add topology/node_rank plugin to sort nodes based upon rank loaded from
    BASIL on Cray computers.
 -- Fix memory leak in the auth/munge and crypto/munge plugins in the case of
    some failure modes.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre10
==============================
 -- Fix issue when EnforcePartLimits=yes in slurm.conf all jobs where no nodecnt
    was specified the job would be seen to have maxnodes=0 which would not
    allow jobs to run.
 -- Fix issue where if not suspending a job the gang scheduler does the correct
    kill procedure.
 -- Fixed some issues when dealing with jobs from a 2.1 system so they live
    after an upgrade.
 -- In srun, log if --cpu_bind options are specified, but not supported by the
    current system configuration.
 -- Various Patchs from Hongjia Cao dealing with bugs found in sacctmgr and
    the slurmdbd.
 -- Fix bug in changing the nodes allocated to a running job and some node
    names specified are invalid, avoid invalid memory reference.
 -- Fixed filename substitution of %h and %n based on patch from Ralph Bean
 -- Added better job sorting logic when preempting jobs with qos.
 -- Log the IP address and port number for some communication errors.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res when --cpus_per_task option is used, could
    oversubscribe resources.
 -- In srun, do not implicitly set the job's maximum node count based upon a
    required hostlist.
 -- Avoid running the HealthCheckProgram on non-responding nodes rather than
    DOWN nodes.
 -- Fix bug in handling of poll() functions on OS X (SLURM was ignoring POLLIN
    if POLLHUP flag was set at the same time).
 -- Pulled Cray logic out of common/node_select.c into it's own
    select/cray plugin cons_res is the default.  To use linear add 'Linear' to
    SelectTypeParameters.
 -- Fixed bug where resizing jobs didn't correctly set used limits correctly.
 -- Change sched/backfill default time interval to 30 seconds and defer attempt
    to backfill schedule if slurmctld has more than 5 active RPCs. General
    improvements in logic scalability.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of default_sched_depth=# to control how
    many jobs on queue should be tested for attempted scheduling when a job
    completes or other routine events. Default value is 100 jobs. The full job
    queue is tested on a less frequent basis. This option can dramatically
    improve performance on systems with thousands of queued jobs.
 -- Gres/gpu now sets the CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment to control which
    GPU devices should be used for each job or job step and CUDA version 3.1+
    is used. NOTE: SLURM's generic resource support is still under development.
 -- Modify select/cons_res to pack jobs onto allocated nodes differently and
    minimize system fragmentation. For example on nodes with 8 CPUs each, a
    job needing 10 CPUs will now ideally be allocated 8 CPUs on one node and
    2 CPUs on another node. Previously the job would have ideally been
    allocated 5 CPUs on each node, fragmenting the unused resources more.
 -- Modified the behavior of update_job() in job_mgr.c to return when the first
    error is encountered instead of continuing with more job updates.
 -- Removed all references to the following slurm.conf parameters, all of which
    have been removed or replaced since version 2.0 or earlier: HashBase,
    HeartbeatInterval, JobAcctFrequency, JobAcctLogFile (instead use
    AccountingStorageLoc), JobAcctType, KillTree, MaxMemPerTask, and
    MpichGmDirectSupport.
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld restart logic that improperly reported jobs had
    invalid features: "Job 65537 has invalid feature list: fat".
 -- BLUEGENE - Removed thread pool for destroying blocks.  It turns out the
    memory leak we were concerned about for creating and destroying threads
    in a plugin doesn't exist anymore.  This increases throughput dramatically,
    allowing multiple jobs to start at the same time.
 -- BLUEGENE - Removed thread pool for starting and stopping jobs.  For similar
    reasons as noted above.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle blocks that never deallocate.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre9
=============================
 -- sbatch can now submit jobs to multiple clusters and run on the earliest
    available.
 -- Fix bug introduced in pre8 that prevented job dependencies and job
    triggers from working without the --enable-debug configure option.
 -- Replaced slurm_addr with slurm_addr_t
 -- Replaced slurm_fd with slurm_fd_t
 -- Skeleton code added for BlueGeneQ.
 -- Jobs can now be submitted to multiple partitions (job queues) and use the
    one permitting earliest start time.
 -- Change slurmdb_coord_table back to acct_coord_table to keep consistant
    with < 2.1.
 -- Introduced locking system similar to that in the slurmctld for the
    assoc_mgr.
 -- Added ability to change a users name in accounting.
 -- Restore squeue support for "%G" format (group id) accidentally removed in
    2.2.0.pre7.
 -- Added preempt_mode option to QOS.
 -- Added a grouping=individual for sreport size reports.
 -- Added remove_qos logic to jobs running under a QOS that was removed.
 -- scancel now exits with a 1 if any job is non-existant when canceling.
 -- Better handling of select plugins that don't exist on various systems for
    cross cluster communication.  Slurmctld, slurmd, and slurmstepd now only
    load the default select plugin as well.
 -- Better error handling when loading plugins.
 -- Prevent scontrol from aborting if getlogin() returns NULL.
 -- Prevent scontrol segfault when there are hidden nodes.
 -- Prevent srun segfault after task launch failure.
 -- Added job_submit/lua plugin.
 -- Fixed sinfo on a bluegene system to print correctly the output for:
    sinfo -e -o "%9P %6m %.4c %.22F %f"
 -- Add scontrol commands "hold" and "release" to simplify setting a job's
    priority to 0 or 1. Also tests that the job is in pending state.
 -- Increase maximum node list size (for incoming RPC) from 1024 bytes to 64k.
 -- In the backup slurmctld, purge triggers before recovering trigger state to
    avoid duplicate entries.
 -- Fix bug in sacct processing of --fields= option.
 -- Fix bug in checkpoint/blcr for jobs spanning multiple nodes introduced when
    changing some variable names in version 2.2.0.pre5.
 -- Removed the vestigal set_max_cluster_usage() function from the Priority
    Plugin API.
 -- Modify the output of "scontrol show job" for the field ReqS:C:T=. Fields
    not specified by the user will be reported as "*" instead of 65534.
 -- Added DefaultQOS option for an association.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added -B option to the slurmctld to clear created blocks from
    the system on start.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option to scontrol & sview to recreate existing blocks.
 -- Fixed flags for returning messages to use the correct munge key when going
    cross-cluster.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option to scontrol & sview to resume blocks in an error
    state instead of just freeing them.
 -- sview patched to allow multiple row selection of jobs, patch from Dan Rusak
 -- Lower default slurmctld server thread count from 1024 to 256. Some systems
    process threads on a last-in first-out basis and the high thread count was
    causing unexpectedly high delays for some RPCs.
 -- Added to sacctmgr the ability for admins to reset the raw usage of a user
    or account
 -- Improved the efficiency of a few lines in sacctmgr

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre8
=============================
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Backfill" for sched/backfill detailed logging.
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Gang" for detailed logging of gang scheduling
    activities.
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Priority" for detailed logging of priority
    multifactor activities.
 -- Add DebugFlags parameter of "Reservation" for detailed logging of advanced
    reservations.
 -- Add run time to mail message upon job termination and queue time for mail
    message upon job begin.
 -- Add email notification option for job requeue.
 -- Generate a fatal error if the srun --relative option is used when not
    within an existing job allocation.
 -- Modify the meaning of InactiveLimit slightly. It will now cancel the job
    allocation created using the salloc or srun command if those commands
    cease responding for the InactiveLimit regardless of any running job steps.
    This parameter will no longer effect jobs spawned using sbatch.
 -- Remove AccountingStoragePass and JobCompPass from configuration RPC and
    scontrol show config command output. The use of SlurmDBD is still strongly
    recommended as SLURM will have limited database functionality or protection
    otherwise.
 -- Add sbatch options of --export and SBATCH_EXPORT to control which
    environment variables (if any) get propagated to the spawned job. This is
    particularly important for jobs that are submitted on one cluster and run
    on a different cluster.
 -- Fix bug in select/linear when used with gang scheduling and there are
    preempted jobs at the time slurmctld restarts that can result in over-
    subscribing resources.
 -- Added keeping track of the qos a job is running with in accounting.
 -- Fix for handling correctly jobs that resize, and also reporting correct
    stats on a job after it finishes.
 -- Modify gang scheduler so with SelectTypeParameter=CR_CPUS and task
    affinity is enabled, keep track of the individual CPUs allocated to jobs
    rather than just the count of CPUs allocated (which could overcommit
    specific CPUs for running jobs).
 -- Modify select/linear plugin data structures to eliminate underflow errors
    for the exclusive_cnt and tot_job_cnt variables (previously happened when
    slurmctld reconfigured while the job was in completing state).
 -- Change slurmd's working directory (and location of core files) to match
    that of the slurmctld daemon: the same directory used for log files,
    SlurmdLogFile (if specified with an absolute pathname) otherwise the
    directory used to save state, SlurmdSpoolDir.
 -- Add sattach support for the --pty option.
 -- Modify slurmctld communications logic to accept incoming messages on more
    than one port for improved scalability.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of "defer" to avoid trying to schedule a
    job at submission time, but to attempt scheduling many jobs at once for
    improved performance under heavy load.
 -- Correct logic controlling slurmctld thread limit eliminating check of
    RLIMIT_STACK.
 -- Make slurmctld's trigger logic more robust in the event that job records
    get purged before their trigger can be processed (e.g. MinJobAge=1).
 -- Add support for users to hold/release their own jobs (submit the job with
    srun/sbatch --hold/-H option or use "scontrol update jobid=# priority=0"
    to hold and "scontrol update jobid=# priority=1" to release).
 -- Added ability for sacct to query jobs by qos and a range of timelimits.
 -- Added ability for sstat to query pids of steps running.
 -- Support time specification in UTS format with a prefix of "uts" (e.g.
    "sbatch --begin=uts458389988 my.script").

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre7
=============================
 -- Fixed issue with sacctmgr if querying against non-existent cluster it
    works the same way as 2.1.
 -- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources (gres).
    -Modified select/linear and select/cons_res plugins to allocate resources
     at the level of a job without oversubcription.
    -Get sched/backfill operating with gres allocations.
    -Get gres configuration changes (reconfiguration) working.
    -Have job steps allocate resources.
    -Modified job step credential to include the job's and step's gres
     allocation details.
    -Integrate with HWLOC library to identify GPUs and NICs configured on each
     node.
 -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like
    linux systems.  Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such should
    work fine, even sview.
 -- Added the ability to configure PreemptMode on a per-partition basis.
 -- Change slurmctld's default thread limit count to 1024, but adjust that down
    as needed based upon the process's resource limits.
 -- Removed the non-functional "SystemCPU" and "TotalCPU" reporting fields from
    sstat and updated man page
 -- Correct location of apbasil command on Cray XT systems.
 -- Fixed bug in MinCPU and AveCPU calculations in sstat command
 -- Send message to srun when the Prolog takes too long (MessageTimeout) to
    complete.
 -- Change timeout for socket connect() to be half of configured MessageTimeout.
 -- Added high-throughput computing web page with configuration guidance.
 -- Use more srun sockets to process incoming PMI (MPICH2) connections for
    better scalability.
 -- Added DebugFlags for the select/bluegene plugin: DEBUG_FLAG_BG_PICK,
    DEBUG_FLAG_BG_WIRES, DEBUG_FLAG_BG_ALGO, and DEBUG_FLAG_BG_ALGO_DEEP.
 -- Remove vestigial job record field "kill_on_step_done" (internal to the
    slurmctld daemon only).
 -- For MPICH2 jobs: Clear PMI state between job steps.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre6
=============================
 -- sview - added ability to see database configuration.
 -- sview - added ability to add/remove visible tabs.
 -- sview - change way grid highlighting takes place on selected objects.
 -- Added infrastructure to support allocation of generic node resources.
    -Added node configuration parameter of Gres=.
    -Added ability to view/modify a node's gres using scontrol, sinfo and sview.
    -Added salloc, sbatch and srun --gres option.
    -Added ability to view a job or job step's gres using scontrol, squeue and
     sview.
    -Added new configuration parameter GresPlugins to define plugins used to
     manage generic resources.
    -Added framework for gres plugins.
    -Added DebugFlags option of "gres" for detailed debugging of gres actions.
 -- Slurmd modified to log slow slurmstepd startup and note possible file system
    problem.
 -- sview - There is now a .slurm/sviewrc created when running sview.
    Defaults are put in there as to how sview looks when first launched.
    You can set these by Ctrl-S or Options->Set Default Settings.
 -- Add scontrol "wait_job <job_id>" option to wait for nodes to boot as needed.
    Useful for batch jobs (in Prolog, PrologSlurmctld or the script) if powering
    down idle nodes.
 -- Added salloc and sbatch option --wait-all-nodes. If set non-zero, job
    initiation will be delayed until all allocated nodes have booted. Salloc
    will log the delay with the messages "Waiting for nodes to boot" and "Nodes
    are ready for job".
 -- The Priority/mulitfactor plugin now takes into consideration size of job
    in cpus as well as size in nodes when looking at the job size factor.
    Previously only nodes were considered.
 -- When using the SlurmDBD messages waiting to be sent will be combined
    and sent in one message.
 -- Remove srun's --core option. Move the logic to an optional SPANK plugin
    (currently in the contribs directory, but plan to distribute through
    http://code.google.com/p/slurm-spank-plugins/).
 -- Patch for adding CR_CORE_DEFAULT_DIST_BLOCK as a select option to layout
    jobs using block layout across cores within each node instead of cyclic
    which was previously the default.
 -- Accounting - When removing associations if jobs are running, those jobs
    must be killed before proceeding.  Before the jobs were killed
    automatically thus causing user confusion on what is most likely an
    admin's mistake.
 -- sview - color column keeps reference color when highlighting.
 -- Configuration parameter MaxJobCount changed from 16-bit to 32-bit field.
    The default MaxJobCount was changed from 5,000 to 10,000.
 -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like
    linux systems.  Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such does not
    currently work.  You can submit jobs with sbatch.  Salloc and srun are not
    cross-cluster compatible, and given their nature to talk to actual compute
    nodes these will likely never be.
 -- salloc modified to forward SIGTERM to the spawned program.
 -- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab support) - Add GRES and WCKEY fields to MODIFYJOBS
    and GETJOBS commands. Add GRES field to GETNODES command.
 -- In struct job_descriptor and struct job_info: rename min_sockets to
    sockets_per_node, min_cores to cores_per_socket, and min_threads to
    threads_per_core (the values are not minimum, but represent the target
    values).
 -- Fixed bug in clearing a partition's DisableRootJobs value reported by
    Hongjia Cao.
 -- Purge (or ignore) terminated jobs in a more timely fashion based upon the
    MinJobAge configuration parameter. Small values for MinJobAge should improve
    responsiveness for high job throughput.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre5
=============================
 -- Modify commands to accept time format with one or two digit hour value
    (e.g. 8:00 or 08:00 or 8:00:00 or 08:00:00).
 -- Modify time parsing logic to accept "minute", "hour", "day", and "week" in
    addition to the currently accepted "minutes", "hours", etc.
 -- Add slurmd option of "-C" to print actual hardware configuration and exit.
 -- Pass EnforcePartLimits configuration parameter from slurmctld for user
    commands to see the correct value instead of always "NO".
 -- Modify partition data structures to replace the default_part,
    disable_root_jobs, hidden and root_only fields with a single field called
    "flags" populated with the flags PART_FLAG_DEFAULT, PART_FLAG_NO_ROOT
    PART_FLAG_HIDDEN and/or PART_FLAG_ROOT_ONLY. This is a more flexible
    solution besides making for smaller data structures.
 -- Add node state flag of JOB_RESIZING. This will only exist when a job's
    accounting record is being written immediately before or after it changes
    size. This permits job accounting records to be written for a job at each
    size.
 -- Make calls to jobcomp and accounting_storage plugins before and after a job
    changes size (with the job state being JOB_RESIZING). All plugins write a
    record for the job at each size with intermediate job states being
    JOB_RESIZING.
 -- When changing a job size using scontrol, generate a script that can be
    executed by the user to reset SLURM environment variables.
 -- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res to use resources released by job
    resizing.
 -- Added to contribs foundation for Perl extension for slurmdb library.
 -- Add new configuration parameter JobSubmitPlugins which provides a mechanism
    to set default job parameters or perform other site-configurable actions at
    job submit time.
 -- Better postgres support for accounting, still beta.
 -- Speed up job start when using the slurmdbd.
 -- Forward step failure reason back to slurmd before in some cases it would
    just be SLURM_FAILURE returned.
 -- Changed squeue to fail when passed invalid -o <output_format> or
    -S <sort_list> specifications.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre4
=============================
 -- Add support for a PropagatePrioProcess configuration parameter value of 2
    to restrict spawned task nice values to that of the slurmd daemon plus 1.
    This insures that the slurmd daemon always have a higher scheduling
    priority than spawned tasks.
 -- Add support in slurmctld, slurmd and slurmdbd for option of "-n <value>" to
    reset the daemon's nice value.
 -- Fixed slurm_load_slurmd_status and slurm_pid2jobid to work correctly when
    multiple slurmds are in use.
 -- Altered srun to set max_nodes to min_nodes if not set when doing an
    allocation to mimic that which salloc and sbatch do.  If running a step if
    the max isn't set it remains unset.
 -- Applied patch from David Egolf (David.Egolf@Bull.com). Added the ability
    to purge/archive accounting data on a day or hour basis, previously
    it was only available on a monthly basis.
 -- Add support for maximum node count in job step request.
 -- Fix bug in CPU count logic for job step allocation (used count of CPUS per
    node rather than CPUs allocated to the job).
 -- Add new configuration parameters GroupUpdateForce and GroupUpdateTime.
    See "man slurm.conf" for details about how these control when slurmctld
    updates its information of which users are in the groups allowed to use
    partitions.
 -- Added sacctmgr list events which will list events that have happened on
    clusters in accounting.
 -- Permit a running job to shrink in size using a command of
    "scontrol update JobId=# NumNodes=#" or
    "scontrol update JobId=# NodeList=<names>". Subsequent job steps must
    explicitly specify an appropriate node count to work properly.
 -- Added resize_time field to job record noting the time of the latest job
    size change (to be used for accounting purposes).
 -- sview/smap now hides hidden partitions and their jobs by default, with an
    option to display them.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre3
=============================
 -- Refine support for TotalView partial attach. Add parameter to configure
    program of "--enable-partial-attach".
 -- In select/cons_res, the count of CPUs on required nodes was formerly
    ignored in enforcing the maximum CPU limit. Also enforce maximum CPU
    limit when the topology/tree plugin is configured (previously ignored).
 -- In select/cons_res, allocate cores for a job using a best-fit approach.
 -- In select/cons_res, for jobs that can run on a single node, use a best-fit
    packing approach.
 -- Add support for new partition states of DRAIN and INACTIVE and new partition
    option of "Alternate" (alternate partition to use for jobs submitted to
    partitions that are currently in a state of DRAIN or INACTIVE).
 -- Add group membership cache. This can substantially speed up slurmctld
    startup or reconfiguration if many partitions have AllowGroups configured.
 -- Added slurmdb api for accessing slurm DB information.
 -- In select/linear: Modify data structures for better performance and to
    avoid underflow error messages when slurmctld restarts while jobs are
    in completing state.
 -- Added hash for slurm.conf so when nodes check in to the controller it can
    verify the slurm.conf is the same as the one it is running.  If not an
    error message is displayed.  To silence this message add NO_CONF_HASH
    to DebugFlags in your slurm.conf.
 -- Added error code ESLURM_CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY and prevent circular job
    dependencies (e.g. job 12 dependent upon job 11 AND job 11 is dependent
    upon job 12).
 -- Add BootTime and SlurmdStartTime to available node information.
 -- Fixed moab_2_slurmdb to work correctly under new database schema.
 -- Slurmd will drain a compute node when the SlurmdSpoolDir is full.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre2
=============================
 -- Add support for spank_get_item() to get S_STEP_ALLOC_CORES and
    S_STEP_ALLOC_MEM. Support will remain for S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES and
    S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM.
 -- Kill individual job steps that exceed their memory limit rather than
    killing an entire job if one step exceeds its memory limit.
 -- Added configuration parameter VSizeFactor to enforce virtual memory limits
    for jobs and job steps as a percentage of their real memory allocation.
 -- Add scontrol ability to update job step's time limits.
 -- Add scontrol ability to update job's NumCPUs count.
 -- Add --time-min options to salloc, sbatch and srun. The scontrol command
    has been modified to display and modify the new field. sched/backfill
    plugin has been changed to alter time limits of jobs with the
    --time-min option if doing so permits earlier job initiation.
 -- Add support for TotalView symbol MPIR_partial_attach_ok with srun support
    to release processes which TotalView does not attach to.
 -- Add new option for SelectTypeParameters of CR_ONE_TASK_PER_CORE. This
    option will allocate one task per core by default. Without this option,
    by default one task will be allocated per thread on nodes with more than
    one ThreadsPerCore configured.
 -- Avoid accounting separately for a current pid corresponds to a Light Weight
    Process (Thread POSIX) appearing in the /proc directory. Only account for
    the original process (pid==tgid) to avoid accounting for memory use more
    than once.
 -- Add proctrack/cgroup plugin which uses Linux control groups (aka cgroup)
    to track processes on Linux systems having this feature enabled (kernel
    >= 2.6.24).
 -- Add logging of license transations including job_id.
 -- Add configuration parameters SlurmSchedLogFile and SlurmSchedLogLevel to
    support writing scheduling events to a separate log file.
 -- Added contribs/web_apps/chart_stats.cgi, a web app that invokes sreport to
    retrieve from the accounting storage db a user's request for job usage or
    machine utilization statistics and charts the results to a browser.
 -- Massive change to the schema in the storage_accounting/mysql plugin.  When
    starting the slurmdbd the process of conversion may take a few minutes.
    You might also see some errors such as 'error: mysql_query failed: 1206
    The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size'.  If you get this,
    do not worry, it is because your setting of innodb_buffer_pool_size in
    your my.cnf file is not set or set too low.  A decent value there should
    be 64M or higher depending on the system you are running on.  See
    RELEASE_NOTES for more information.  But setting this and then
    restarting the mysqld and slurmdbd will put things right.  After this
    change we have noticed 50-75% increase in performance with sreport and
    sacct.
 -- Fix for MaxCPUs to honor partitions of 1 node that have more than the
    maxcpus for a job.
 -- Add support for "scontrol notify <message>" to work for batch jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre1
=============================
 -- Added RunTime field to scontrol show job report
 -- Added SLURM_VERSION_NUMBER and removed SLURM_API_VERSION from
    slurm/slurm.h.
 -- Added support to handle communication with SLURM 2.1 clusters.  Job's
    should not be lost in the future when upgrading to higher versions of
    SLURM.
 -- Added withdeleted options for listing clusters, users, and accounts
 -- Remove PLPA task affinity functions due to that package being deprecated.
 -- Preserve current partition state information and node Feature and Weight
    information rather than use contents of slurm.conf file after slurmctld
    restart with -R option or SIGHUP. Replace information with contents of
    slurm.conf after slurmctld restart without -R or "scontrol reconfigure".
    See RELEASE_NOTES file fore more details.
 -- Modify SLURM's PMI library (for MPICH2) to properly execute an executable
    program stand-alone (single MPI task launched without srun).
 -- Made GrpCPUs and MaxCPUs limits work for select/cons_res.
 -- Moved all SQL dependant plugins into a seperate rpm slurm-sql.  This
    should be needed only where a connection to a database is needed (i.e.
    where the slurmdbd is running)
 -- Add command line option "no_sys_info" to PAM module to supress system
    logging of "access granted for user ...", access denied and other errors
    will still be logged.
 -- sinfo -R now has the user and timestamp in separate fields from the reason.
 -- Much functionality has been added to account_storage/pgsql.  The plugin
    is still in a very beta state.  It is still highly advised to use the
    mysql plugin, but if you feel like living on the edge or just really
    like postgres over mysql for some reason here you go. (Work done
    primarily by Hongjia Cao, NUDT.)

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.17
=========================
 -- Correct format of --begin reported in salloc, sbatch and srun --help
    message.
 -- Correct logic for regular users to increase nice value of their own jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.16
=========================
 -- Fixed minor warnings from gcc-4.5
 -- Fixed initialization of accounting_stroage_enforce in the slurmctld.
 -- Fixed bug where if GrpNodes was lowered while pending jobs existed and where
    above the limit the slurmctld would seg fault.
 -- Fixed minor memory leak when unpack error happens on an
    association_shares_object_t.
 -- Set Lft and Rgt correctly when adding association.  Fix for regression
    caused in 2.1.15, cosmetic fix only.
 -- Replaced optarg which was undefined in some spots to make sure ENV vars are
    set up correctly.
 -- When removing an account from a cluster with sacctmgr you no longer get
    a list of previously deleted associations.
 -- Fix to make jobcomp/(pg/my)sql correctly work when the database name is
    different than the default.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.15
=========================
 -- Fix bug in which backup slurmctld can purge job scripts (and kill batch
    jobs) when it assumes primary control, particularly when this happens
    multiple times in a short time interval.
 -- In sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 add IWD (Initial Working Directory) to the
    information reported about jobs.
 -- Fix bug in calculating a daily or weekly reservation start time when the
    reservation is updated. Patch from Per Lundqvist (National Supercomputer
    Centre, Linköping University, Sweden).
 -- Fix bug in how job step memory limits are calculated when the --relative
    option is used.
 -- Restore operation of srun -X option to forward SIGINT to spawned tasks
    without killing them.
 -- Fixed a bug in calculating the root account's raw usage reported by Par
    Andersson
 -- Fixed a bug in sshare displaying account hierarchy reported by Per
    Lundqvist.
 -- In select/linear plugin, when a node allocated to a running job is removed
    from a partition, only log the event once. Fixes problem reported by Per
    Lundqvist.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.14
=========================
 -- Fixed coding mistakes in _slurm_rpc_resv_show() and job_alloc_info() found
    while reviewing the code.
 -- Fix select/cons_res logic to prevent allocating resources while jobs
    previously allocated resources on the node are still completing.
 -- Fixed typo in job_mgr.c dealing with qos instead of associations.
 -- Make sure associations and qos' are initiated when added.
 -- Fixed wrong initialization for wckeys in the association manager.
 -- Added wiki.conf configuration parameter of HidePartitionNodes. See
    "man wiki.conf" for more information.
 -- Add "JobAggregationTime=#" field SchedulerParameter configuration parameter
    output.
 -- Modify init.d/slurm and slurmdbd scripts to prevent the possible
    inadvertent inclusion of "." in LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
    To fail, the script would need to be executed by user root or SlurmUser
    without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable set and there would
    have to be a maliciously altered library in the working directory.
    Thanks to Raphael Geissert for identifying the problem. This addresses
    security vulnerability CVE-2010-3380.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.13
=========================
 -- Fix race condition which can set a node state to IDLE on slurmctld startup
    even if it has running jobs.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.12
=========================
 -- Fixes for building on OS X 10.5.
 -- Fixed a few '-' without a '\' in front of them in the man pages.
 -- Fixed issues in client tools where a requeued job did get displayed
    correctly.
 -- Update typos in doc/html/accounting.shtml doc/html/resource_limits.shtml
    doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5 and doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
 -- Fixed a bug in exitcode:signal display in sacct
 -- Fix bug when request comes in for consumable resources and the -c option
    is used in conjunction with -O
 -- Fixed squeue -o "%h" output formatting
 -- Change select/linear message "error: job xxx: best_fit topology failure"
    to debug type.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for sinfo -R to group all midplanes together in a single
    line for midplanes in an error state instead of 1 line for each midplane.
 -- Fix srun to work correctly with --uid when getting an allocation
    and creating a step, also fix salloc to assume identity at the correct
    time as well.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with jobs being refused when running dynamic mode
    and every job on the system happens to be the same size.
 -- Removed bad #define _SLURMD_H from slurmd/get_mach_stat.h.  Didn't appear
    to cause any problems being there, just incorrect syntax.
 -- Validate the job ID when salloc or srun receive an SRUN_JOB_COMPLETE RPC to
    avoid killing the wrong job if the original command exits and the port gets
    re-used by another command right away.
 -- Fix to node in correct state in accounting when updating it to drain from
    scontrol/sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - Removed incorrect unlocking on error cases when starting jobs.
 -- Improve logging of invalid sinfo and squeue print options.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added check to libsched_if to allow root to run even outside of
    SLURM.  This is needed when running certain blocks outside of SLURM in HTC
    mode.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.11-2
===========================
 -- BLUEGENE - make it so libsched_if.so is named correctly on 'L' it is
    libsched_if64.so and on 'P' it is libsched_if.so

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.11
=========================
 -- BLUEGENE - fix sinfo to not get duplicate entries when running command
    sinfo -e -o "%9P %6m %.4c %.22F %f"
 -- Fix bug that caused segv when deleting a partition with pending jobs.
 -- Better error message for when trying to modify an account's name with
    sacctmgr.
 -- Added back removal of #include "src/common/slurm_xlator.h" from
    select/cons_res.
 -- Fix incorrect logic in global_accounting in regression tests for
    setting QOS.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where removing a small block in dynamic mode,
    and other blocks also in that midplane needed to be removed and were in
    and error state.  They all weren't removed correctly in accounting.
 -- Prevent scontrol segv with "scontrol show node <name>" command with nodes
    in a hidden partition.
 -- Fixed sizing of popup grids in sview.
 -- Fixed sacct when querying against a jobid the start time is not set.
 -- Fix configure to get correct version of pkg-config if both 32bit and 64bit
    libs are installed.
 -- Fix issue with sshare not sorting correctly the tree of associations.
 -- Update documentation for sreport.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix regression in 2.1.10 on assigning multiple jobs to one block.
 -- Minor memory leak fixed when killing job error happens.
 -- Fix sacctmgr list assoc when talking to a 2.2 slurmdbd.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.10
=========================
 -- Fix memory leak in sched/builtin plugin.
 -- Fixed sbatch to work correctly when no nodes are specified, but
    --ntasks-per-node is.
 -- Make sure account and wckey for a job are lower case before inserting into
    accounting.
 -- Added note to squeue documentation about --jobs option displaying jobs
    even if they are on hidden partitions.
 -- Fix srun to work correctly with --uid when getting an allocation
    and creating a step.
 -- Fix for when removing a limit from a users association inside the
    fairshare tree the parents limit is now inherited automatically in
    the slurmctld.  Previously the slurmctld would have to be restarted.
    This problem only exists when setting a users association limit to -1.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux (CEA) dealing with possible overflows that
    could come up with the select/cons_res plugin with uint32_t's being treated
    as uint16_t's.
 -- Correct logic for creating a reservation with a Duration=Infinite (used to
    set reservation end time in the past).
 -- Correct logic for creating a reservation that properly handles the OVERLAP
    and IGNORE_JOBS flags (flags were ignored under some conditions).
 -- Fixed a fair-share calculation bug in the priority/multifactor plugin.
 -- Make sure a user entry in the database that was previously deleted is
    restored clean when added back, i.e. remove admin privileges previously
    given.
 -- BLUEGENE - Future start time is set correctly when eligible time for a job
    is in the future, but the job can physically run earlier.
 -- Updated Documentation for sacctmgr for Wall and CPUMin options stating when
    the limit is reached running jobs will be killed.
 -- Fix deadlock issue in the slurmctld when lowering limits in accounting to
    lower than that of pending jobs.
 -- Fix bug in salloc, sbatch and srun that could under some conditions process
    the --threads-per-core, --cores-per-socket and --sockets-per-node options
    improperly.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res with memory management plus job preemption with
    job removal (e.g. requeue) which under some conditions failed to preempt
    jobs.
 -- Fix deadlock potential when using qos and associations in the slurmctld.
 -- Update documentation to state --ntasks-per-* is for a maximum value
    instead of an absolute.
 -- Get ReturnToService=2 working for front-end configurations (e.g. Cray or
    BlueGene).
 -- Do not make a non-responding node available for use after running
    "scontrol update nodename=<name> state=resume". Wait for node to respond
    before use.
 -- Added slurm_xlator.h to jobacct_gather plugins so they resolve symbols
    correctly when linking to the slurm api.
 -- You can now update a jobs QOS from scontrol.  Previously you could only do
    this from sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed bug where if running in non-dynamic mode sometimes the
    start time returned for a job when using test-only would not be correct.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.9
========================
 -- In select/linear - Fix logic to prevent over-subscribing memory with shared
    nodes (Shared=YES or Shared=FORCE).
 -- Fix for handling -N and --ntasks-per-node without specifying -n with
    salloc and sbatch.
 -- Fix jobacct_gather/linux if not polling on tasks to give tasks time to
    start before doing initial gather.
 -- When changing priority with the multifactor plugin we make sure we update
    the last_job_update variable.
 -- Fixed sview for gtk < 2.10 to display correct debug level at first.
 -- Fixed sview to not select too fast when using a mouse right click.
 -- Fixed sacct to display correct timelimits for jobs from accounting.
 -- Fixed sacct when running as root by default query all users as documented.
 -- In proctrack/linuxproc, skip over files in /proc that are not really user
    processes (e.g. "/proc/bus").
 -- Fix documentation bug for slurmdbd.conf
 -- Fix slurmctld to update qos preempt list without restart.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res that in some cases would prevent a preempting job
    from using of resources already allocated to a preemptable running job.
 -- Fix for sreport in interactive mode to honor parsable/2 options.
 -- Fixed minor bugs in sacct and sstat commands
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue if the slurmd becomes unresponsive and you have
    blocks in an error state accounting is correct when the slurmd comes
    back up.
 -- Corrected documentation for -n option in srun/salloc/sbatch
 -- BLUEGENE - when running a willrun test along with preemption the bluegene
    plugin now does the correct thing.
 -- Fix possible memory corruption issue which can cause slurmctld to abort.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed small memory leak when setting up env.
 -- Fixed deadlock if using accounting and cluster changes size in the
    database.  This can happen if you mistakenly have multiple primary
    slurmctld's running for a single cluster, which should rarely if ever
    happen.
 -- Fixed sacct -c option.
 -- Critical bug fix in sched/backfill plugin that caused memory corruption.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.8
========================
 -- Update BUILD_NOTES for AIX and bgp systems on how to get sview to
    build correctly.
 -- Update man page for scontrol when nodes are in the "MIXED" state.
 -- Better error messages for sacctmgr.
 -- Fix bug in allocation of CPUs with select/cons_res and --cpus-per-task
    option.
 -- Fix bug in dependency support for afterok and afternotok options to insure
    that the job's exit status gets checked for dependent jobs prior to puring
    completed job records.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill that could set an incorrect expected start time
    for a job.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for systems that have midplanes defined in the database
    that don't exist.
 -- Accounting, fixed bug where if removing an object a rollback wasn't
    possible.
 -- Fix possible scontrol stack corruption when listing jobs with very a long
    job or working directory name (over 511 characters).
 -- Insure that SPANK environment variables set by salloc or sbatch get
    propagated to the Prolog on all nodes by setting SLURM_SPANK_* environment
    variables for srun's use.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Add support for the MODIFYJOB command to alter a job's
    comment field
 -- When a cluster first registers with the SlurmDBD only send nodes in an
    non-usable state.  Before all nodes were sent.
 -- Alter sacct to be able to query jobs by association id.
 -- Edit documentation for scontrol stating ExitCode as something not alterable.
 -- Update documentation about ReturnToService and silently rebooting nodes.
 -- When combining --ntasks-per-node and --exclusive in an allocation request
    the correct thing, giving the allocation the entire node but only
    ntasks-per-node, happens.
 -- Fix accounting transaction logs when deleting associations to put the
    ids instead of the lfts which could change over time.
 -- Fix support for salloc, sbatch and srun's --hint option to avoid allocating
    a job more sockets per node or more cores per socket than desired. Also
    when --hint=compute_bound or --hint=memory_bound then avoid allocating more
    than one task per hyperthread (a change in behavior, but almost certainly
    a preferable mode of operation).

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.7
========================
 -- Modify srun, salloc and sbatch parsing for the --signal option to accept
    either a signal name in addition to the previously supported signal
    numbers (e.g. "--signal=USR2@200").
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed sinfo --long --Node output for cpus on a single cnode.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Fix another logic bug in support of Moab being able to
    identify preemptable jobs.
 -- In sched/wiki2 - For BlueGene systems only: Fix bug preventing Moab from
    being able to correctly change the node count of pending jobs.
 -- In select/cons_res - Fix bug preventing job preemption with a configuration
    of Shared=FORCE:1 and PreemptMode=GANG,SUSPEND.
 -- In the TaskProlog, add support for an "unset" option to clear environment
    variables for the user application. Also add support for embedded white-
    space in the environment variables exported to the user application
    (everything after the equal sign to the end of the line is included without
    alteration).
 -- Do not install /etc/init.d/slurm or /etc/init.d/slurmdbd on AIX systems.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed check for small blocks if a node card of a midplane is
    in an error state other jobs can still run on the midplane on other
    nodecards.
 -- BLUEGENE - Check to make sure job killing is in the active job table in
    DB2 when killing the job.
 -- Correct logic to support ResvOverRun configuration parameter.
 -- Get --acctg-freq option working for srun and salloc commands.
 -- Fix sinfo display of drained nodes correctly with the summarize flag.
 -- Fix minor memory leaks in slurmd and slurmstepd.
 -- Better error messages for failed step launch.
 -- Modify srun to insure compatability of the --relative option with the node
    count requested.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.6-2
==========================
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Fix logic in support of Moab being able to identify
    preemptable jobs.
 -- Applied fixes to a debug4 message in priority_multifactor.c sent in by
    Per Lundqvist
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where incorrect nodecards could be picked when
    looking at combining small blocks to make a larger small block.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.6
========================
 -- For newly submitted jobs, report expected start time in squeue --start as
    "N/A" rather than current time.
 -- Correct sched/backfill logic so that it runs in a more timely fashion.
 -- Fixed issue if running on accounting cache and priority/multifactor to
    initialize the root association when the database comes back up.
 -- Emulated BLUEGENE - fixed issue where blocks weren't always created
    correctly when loading from state.  This does not apply to a real
    bluegene system, only emulated.
 -- Fixed bug when job is completing and its cpu_cnt would be calculated
    incorrectly, possibly resulting in an underflow being logged.
 -- Fixed bug where if there are pending jobs in a partition which was
    updated to have no nodes in it the slurmctld would dump core.
 -- Fixed smap and sview to display partitions with no nodes in them.
 -- Improve configure script's logic to detect LUA libraries.
 -- Fix bug that could cause slurmctld to abort if select/cons_res is used AND a
    job is submitted using the --no-kill option AND one of the job's nodes goes
    DOWN AND slurmctld restarts while that job is still running.
 -- In jobcomp plugins, job time limit was sometimes recorded improperly if not
    set by user (recorded huge number rather than partition's time limit).

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.5
========================
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed display of draining nodes for sinfo -R.
 -- Fixes to scontrol and sview when setting a job to an impossible start time.
 -- Added -h to srun for help.
 -- Fix for sacctmgr man page to remove erroneous 'with' statements.
 -- Fix for unpacking jobs with accounting statistics, previously it appears
    only steps were unpacked correctly, for the most case sacct would only
    display this information making this fix a very minor one.
 -- Changed scontrol and sview output for jobs with unknown end times from
    'NONE' to 'Unknown'.
 -- Fixed mysql plugin to reset classification when adding a
    previously deleted cluster.
 -- Permit a batch script to reset umask and have that propagate to tasks
    spawed by subsequent srun. Previously the umask in effect when sbatch was
    executed was propagated to tasks spawed by srun.
 -- Modify slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() and
    slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() functions to not write explanation of
    failures to stderr. Only return -1 and set errno.
 -- Correction in configurator.html script. Prolog and Epilog were reversed.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed race condition where if a nodecard has an error on an
    un-booted block when a job comes to use it before the state checking
    thread notices it which could cause the slurmctld to lock up on a
    non-dynamic system.
 -- In select/cons_res with FastSchedule=0 and Procs=# defined for the node,
    but no specific socket/core/thread count configured, avoid fatal error if
    the number of cores on a node is less than the number of Procs configured.
 -- Added ability for the perlapi to utilize opaque data types returned from
    the C api.
 -- BLUEGENE - made the perlapi get correct values for cpus per node,
    Previously it would give the number of cpus per cnode instead of midplane.
 -- BLEUGENE - Fixed issue where if a block being selected for a job to use
    and during the process a hardware failure happens, previously the block
    would still be allowed to be used which would fail or requeue the job
    depending on the configuration.
 -- For SPANK job environment, avoid duplicate "SPANK_" prefix for environment
    set by sbatch jobs.
 -- Make squeue select jobs on hidden partitions when requesting more than one.
 -- Avoid automatically cancelling job steps when all of the tasks on some node
    have gracefully terminated.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.4
========================
 -- Fix for purge script in accounting to use correct options.
 -- If SelectType=select/linear and SelectTypeParameters=CR_Memory fix bug that
    would fail to release memory reserved for a job if "scontrol reconfigure"
    is executed while the job is in completing state.
 -- Fix bug in handling event trigger for job time limit while job is still
    in pending state.
 -- Fixed display of Ave/MaxCPU in sacct for jobs. Steps were printed
    correctly.
 -- When node current features differs from slurm.conf, log the node names
    using a hostlist expression rather than listing individual node names.
 -- Improve ability of srun to abort job step for some task launch failures.
 -- Fix mvapich plugin logic to release the created job allocation on
    initialization failure (previously the failures would cancel job step,
    but retain job allocation).
 -- Fix bug in srun for task count so large that it overflows int data type.
 -- Fix important bug in select/cons_res handling of ntasks-per-core parameter
    that was uncovered by a bug fixed in v2.1.3. Bug produced fatal error for
    slurmctld: "cons_res: cpus computation error".
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res handling of partitions configured with
    Shared=YES. Prior logic failed to support running multiple jobs per node.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-2
==========================
 -- Modified spec file to obsolete pam_slurm when installing
    the slurm-pam_slurm rpm.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.3-1
==========================
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix issues on static/overlap systems where if a midplane
    was drained you would not be able to create new blocks on it.
 -- In sched/wiki2 (for Moab): Add excluded host list to job information
    using new keyword "EXCLUDE_HOSTLIST".
 -- Correct slurmd reporting of incorrect socket/core/thread counts.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab): Do not extend a job's end time for suspend/resume
    or startup delay due to node boot time. A job's end time will always be
    its start time plus time limit.
 -- Added build-time option (to configure program) of --with-pam_dir to
    specify the directory into which PAM modules get installed, although it
    should pick the proper directory by default. "make install" and "rpmbuild"
    should now put the pam_slurm.so file in the proper directory.
 -- Modify PAM module to link against SLURM API shared library and use exported
    slurm_hostlist functions.
 -- Do not block new jobs with --immediate option while another job is in the
    process of being requeued (which can take a long time for some node failure
    modes).
 -- For topology/tree, log invalid hostnames in a single hostlist expression
    rather than one per line.
 -- A job step's default time limit will be UNLIMITED rather than partition's
    default time limit. The step will automatically be cancelled as part of the
    job termination logic when the job's time limit is reached.
 -- sacct - fixed bug when checking jobs against a reservation
 -- In select/cons_res, fix support for job allocation with --ntasks_per_node
    option. Previously could allocate too few CPUs on some nodes.
 -- Adjustment made to init message to the slurmdbd to allow backwards
    compatibility with future 2.2 release. YOU NEED TO UPGRADE SLURMDBD
    BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.
 -- Fix accounting when comment of down/drained node has double quotes in it.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.2
========================
 -- Added nodelist to sview for jobs on non-bluegene systems
 -- Correction in value of batch job environment variable SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE
    under some conditions.
 -- When a node silently fails which is already drained/down the reason
    for draining for the node is not changed.
 -- Srun will ignore SLURM_NNODES environment variable and use the count of
    currently allocated nodes if that count changes during the job's lifetime
    (e.g. job allocation uses the --no-kill option and a node goes DOWN, job
    step would previously always fail).
 -- Made it so sacctmgr can't add blank user or account.  The MySQL plugin
    will also reject such requests.
 -- Revert libpmi.so version for compatibility with SLURM version 2.0 and
    earlier to avoid forcing applications using a specific libpmi.so version to
    rebuild unnecessarily (revert from libpmi.so.21.0.0 to libpmi.so.0.0.0).
 -- Restore support for a pending job's constraints (required node features)
    when slurmctld is restarted (internal structure needed to be rebuilt).
 -- Removed checkpoint_blcr.so from the plugin rpm in the slurm.spec since
    it is also in the blcr rpm.
 -- Fixed issue in sview where you were unable to edit the count
    of jobs to share resources.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where tasks on steps weren't being displayed
    correctly with scontrol and sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed wiki2 plugin to report correct task count for pending
    jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added /etc/ld.so.conf.d/slurm.conf to point to the
    directory holding libsched_if64.so when building rpms.
 -- Adjust get_wckeys call in slurmdbd to allow operators to list wckeys.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.1
========================
 -- Fix for case sensitive databases when a slurmctld has a mixed case
    clustername to lower case the string to easy compares.
 -- Fix squeue if job is completing and failed to print remaining
    nodes instead of failed message.
 -- Fix sview core when searching for partitions by state.
 -- Fixed setting the start time when querying in sacct to the
    beginning of the day if not set previously.
 -- Defined slurm_free_reservation_info_msg and slurm_free_topo_info_msg
    in common/slurm_protocol_defs.h
 -- Avoid generating error when a job step includes a memory specification and
    memory is not configured as a consumable resource.
 -- Patch for small memory leak in src/common/plugstack.c
 -- Fix sview search on node state.
 -- Fix bug in which improperly formed job dependency specification can cause
    slurmctld to abort.
 -- Fixed issue where slurmctld wouldn't always get a message to send cluster
    information when registering for the first time with the slurmdbd.
 -- Add slurm_*_trigger.3 man pages for event trigger APIs.
 -- Fix bug in job preemption logic that would free allocated memory twice.
 -- Fix spelling issues (from Gennaro Oliva)
 -- Fix issue when changing parents of an account in accounting all childern
    weren't always sent to their respected slurmctlds until a restart.
 -- Restore support for srun/salloc/sbatch option --hint=nomultithread to
    bind tasks to cores rather than threads (broken in slurm v2.1.0-pre5).
 -- Fix issue where a 2.0 sacct could not talk correctly to a 2.1 slurmdbd.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix issue where no partitions have any nodes assigned them to
    alert user no blocks can be created.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix smap to put BGP images when using -Dc on a Blue Gene/P
    system.
 -- Set SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR environment variable for srun and salloc commands to
    match behavior of sbatch command.
 -- Report WorkDir from "scontrol show job" command for jobs launched using
    salloc and srun.
 -- Update correctly the wckey when changing it on a pending job.
 -- Set wckeyid correctly in accounting when cancelling a pending job.
 -- BLUEGENE - critical fix where jobs would be killed incorrectly.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for sview putting multiple ionodes on to nodelists when
    viewing the jobs tab.

* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0
========================
 -- Improve sview layout of blocks in use.
 -- A user can now change the dimensions of the grid in sview.
 -- BLUEGENE - improved startup speed further for large numbers of defined
    blocks
 -- Fix to _get_job_min_nodes() in wiki2/get_jobs.c suggested by Michal Novotny
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed issues when updating a pending job when a node
    count was incorrect for the asked for connection type.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed issue when combining blocks that are in ready states to
    make a larger block from those or make multiple smaller blocks by
    splitting the larger block.  Previously this would only work with block
    in a free state.
 -- Fix bug in wiki(2) plugins where if HostFormat=2 and the task list is
    greater than 64 we don't truncate.  Previously this would mess up Moab
    by sending a truncated task list when doing a get jobs.
 -- Added update slurmctld debug level to sview when in admin mode.
 -- Added logic to make sure if enforcing a memory limit when using the
    jobacct_gather plugin a user can no longer turn off the logic to enforce
    the limit.
 -- Replaced many calls to getpwuid() with reentrant uid_to_string()
 -- The slurmstepd will now refresh it's log file handle on a reconfig,
    previously if a log was rolled any output from the stepd was lost.