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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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre11
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 -- 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
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 -- 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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre9
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 -- 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.
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 -- 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.
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 -- 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:
 -- 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
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre8
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 -- 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
 -- 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").
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre7
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 -- Fixed issue with sacctmgr if querying against non-existent cluster it
 -- 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.
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 -- SLURM commands (squeue, sinfo, etc...) can now go cross-cluster on like
    linux systems.  Cross-cluster for bluegene to linux and such should
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    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
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    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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre6
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 -- 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.
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 -- 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-for-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 use". 
 -- 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
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    (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
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    cross-cluster compatible, and given their nature to talk to actual compute
 -- 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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre5
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 -- Modify commands to accept time format with one or two digit hour value
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    (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
 -- 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.
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 -- Changed squeue to fail when passed invalid -o <output_format> or
    -S <sort_list> specifications.
* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre4
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 -- 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.
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 -- 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.
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 -- 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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre2
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 -- 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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.2.0.pre1
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 -- 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 2.1.14
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 -- 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.

* 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.
 -- 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.
 -- 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre9
=============================
 -- Added the "scontrol update SlurmctldDebug" as the preferred alternative to
    the "scontrol setdebug" command.
 -- BLUEGENE - made it so when removing a block in an error state the nodes in
    the block are set correctly in accounting as not in error.
 -- Fixed issue where if slurmdbd is not up qos' are set up correctly for
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    associations off of cache.
 -- scontrol, squeue, sview all display the correct node, cpu count along with
    correct corresponding nodelist on completing jobs.
 -- Patch (Mark Grondona) fixes serious security vulnerability in SLURM in
    the spank_job_env functionality.
 -- Improve spank_job_env interface and documentation
 -- Add ESPANK_NOT_LOCAL error code to spank_err_t
 -- Made the #define DECAY_INTERVAL used in the priority/multifactor plugin
    a slurm.conf variable (PriorityCalcPeriod)
 -- Added new macro SLURM_VERSION for use in autoconf scripts to determine
    current version of slurm installed on system when building against the api.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux that adds an entry into the error file when
    a job or step receives a TERM or KILL signal.
 -- Make it so env var SLURM_SRUN_COMM_HOST is overwritten if already in 
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    existence in the slurmd.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre8
=============================
 -- Rearranged the "scontrol show job" output into functional groupings
 -- Change the salloc/sbatch/srun -P option to -d (dependency)
 -- Removed the srun -d option; must use srun --slurmd-debug instead
 -- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated 
    when sending updates to slurmctlds.
 -- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to 
    fill in default association. 
 -- Accounting - Slurmctld and slurmdbd will now set uids of users which were 
    created after the start of the daemons on reconfig.  Slurmdbd will 
    attempt to set previously non-existant uids every hour.
 -- Patch from Aaron Knister and Mark Grondona, to parse correctly quoted 
    #SBATCH options in a batch script.
 -- job_desc_msg_t - in, out, err have been changed to std_in, std_out, 
    and std_err respectfully.  Needed for PySLURM, since Python sees (in) 
    as a keyword.
 -- Changed the type of addr to struct sockaddr_in in _message_socket_accept()
    in sattach.c, step_launch.c, and allocate_msg.c, and moved the function 
    into a common place for all the calls since the code was very similar.
 -- proctrack/lua support has been added see contribs/lua/protrack.lua
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 -- replaced local gtk m4 test with AM_PATH_GTK_2_0
 -- changed AC_CHECK_LIB to AC_SEARCH_LIBS to avoid extra libs in
    compile lines.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux to improve error message in slurmd/req.c
 -- Added support for split groups from (Matthiu Hautreux CEA)
 -- Patch from Mark Grondona to move blcr scripts into pkglibexecdir
 -- Patch from Doug Parisek to calculate a job's projected start time under the
    builtin scheduler.
 -- Removed most global variables out of src/common/jobacct_common.h
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre7
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 -- BLUEGENE - make 2.1 run correctly on a real bluegene cluster
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 -- sacctmgr - Display better debug for when an admin specifies a non-existant 
    parent account when changing parent accounts.
 -- Added a mechanism to the slurmd to defer the epilog from starting until
    after a running prolog has finished.
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 -- If a node reboots inbetween checking status the node is marked down unless 
    ReturnToService=2
 -- Added -R option to slurmctld to recover partition state also when 
    restarting or reconfiguring.
 
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre6
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 -- When getting information about nodes in hidden partitions, return a node
    name of NULL rather than returning no information about the node so that 
    node index information is still valid.
 -- When querying database for jobs in certain state and a time period is 
    given only jobs in that state during the period will be returned,
    previously if a time period was given in sacct jobs eligible to run or 
    running would be displayed, which is still the default if no states are 
    requested.
 -- One can now query jobs based on size (nodes and or cpus) (mysql plugin only)
 -- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that tests for a missing config file before
    any other processing in spank_init().  This now prevents fatal errors from
    being mistakenly treated as recoverable.
 -- --enable-debug no longer has to be stated at configure time to have 
    the slurmctld or slurmstepd dump core on a seg fault.
 -- Moved the errant slurm_job_node_ready() declaration from job_info.h to
    slurm.h and deleted job_info.h.
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 -- Added the slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node_id() 
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    slurm_job_cpus_allocated_on_node() API for working with the 
    job_resources_t structure.
 -- BLUEGENE - speed up start up for systems that have many blocks (100+)
    configured on the system.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre5
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 -- Add squeue option "--start" to report expected start time of pending jobs.
 -- Sched/backfill plugin modified to set expected start time of pending jobs.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of "max_job_bf=#" to control how far down
    the queue of pending jobs that SLURM searches in an attempt backfill 
    schedule them. The default value is 50 jobs.
 -- Fixed cause of squeue -o "%C" seg fault.
 -- Add -"-signal=<int>@<time>" option to salloc, sbatch and srun commands to
    notify programs before reaching the end of their time limit.
 -- Add scontrol option to update a running job's EndTime (also resets the 
    job's time limit).
 -- Add new job wait reason, ReqNodeNotAvail: Required node is not available 
    (down or drained).
 -- Log when slurmctld or slurmd are started with small core file limit.
 -- Permit job's owner to change features, processor count, minimum and 
    maximun node counts of pending jobs (the operation was previously 
    restricted to user root)
 -- Applied patch from Chuck Clouston for scontrol man page with clarifications
    and additional info
 -- Change slurm errno name from ESLURM_TOO_MANY_REQUESTED_NODES to 
    ESLURM_INVALID_NODE_COUNT to better reflect its meaning.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill which could result in invalid memory reference
    when trying to schedule jobs submitted with --exclude option.
 -- Fix for slurmctld deadlock at startup with PreemptMode=SUSPEND,GANG.
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 -- Added preemption plugins to RPM.
 -- Completely disable logging of sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui & Moab) 
    message traffic unless DebugFlag=Wiki is configured.
 -- Change scontrol show job info: ReqProcs (number of processors requested) 
    is replaced by NumProcs (number of processors requested or actually 
    allocated) and ReqNodes (number of nodes requested) is replaced by 
    NumNodes (number of nodes requested or actually allocated).
 -- Fixed issue when max nodes wasn't specified and was later set by limit 
    to not request that as the actual maximum.
 -- Move job preemption (for requeue, checkpoint and kill modes only) out of
    gang scheduling module. Make identification of preemptable jobs an argument
    to the select_g_job_test function rather than calling preempt plugin from
    the select plugin. Make output of srun --test-only option include a list
    of preempted job IDs. 
 -- Better record keeping for front end systems when registering.
 -- Enable memory allocation logic for jobs step (i.e. allocate resources
    within the job's memory allocation and enforce limits).
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 -- handle error state in sinfo
 -- sview and "scontrol show config" now report as SLURM_VERSION the version 
    of slurmctld rather than that of the command.
 -- Change SuspendTime configuration parameter from 16-bits to 32-bits.
 -- Add environment variable support to sattach, salloc, sbatch and srun
    to permit user control over exit codes so application exit codes can be
    distiguished from those generated by SLURM. SLURM_EXIT_ERROR specifies the
    exit code when a SLURM error occurs. SLURM_EXIT_IMMEDIATE specifies the 
    exit code when the --immediate option is specified and resources are not
    available. Any other non-zero exit code would be that of the application
    run by SLURM.
 -- Added a Quality of Service (QOS) html page.
 -- In sched/wiki2, JOBWILLRUN command, add support for identification of 
    preemptable and preempted jobs (both new and old format of commands are
    supported).
 -- Remove contribs/python/hostlist files. Download the materials as needed
    directly from http://www.nsc.liu.se/~kent/python-hostlist.
 -- BLUEGENE - Preemption now works on bluegene systems
 -- For salloc, sbatch and srun commands, ignore _maximum_ values for
    --sockets-per-node, --cores-per-socket and --threads-per-core options.
    Remove --mincores, --minsockets, --minthreads options (map them to 
    minimum values of -sockets-per-node, --cores-per-socket and 
    --threads-per-core for now).
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre4
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 -- Move processing of node configuration information in slurm.conf and 
    topology information in topology.conf from slurmctld into common and load 
    that information into slurmd. Use it to set environment variables for jobs
    SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR and SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR_PATTERN describing the network
    topology for each task. Based upon patch from Mattheu Hautreux (CEA).
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 -- Correction in computing a job's TotalProcs value when ThreadsPerCore>1 and
    allocating by cores or sockets.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre3
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 -- Removed sched/gang plugin and moved the logic directly into the slurmctld
    daemon so that job preemption and gang scheduling can be used with the
    sched/backfill plugin. Added configuration parameter:
    PreemptMode=gang|off|suspend|cancel|requeue|checkpoint 
    to enable/disable gang scheduling and job preemption logic (both are 
    disabled by default).
    (NOTE: There are some problems with memory management which could prevent a
    job from starting when memory would be freed by a job being requeued or 
    otherwise removed, these are being worked on)
 -- Added PreemptType configuration parameter to identify preemptable jobs.
    Former users of SchedType=sched/gang should set SchedType=sched/backfill,
    PreemptType=preempt/partition_prio and PreemptMode=gang,suspend. See
    web and slurm.conf man page for other options.
    PreemptType=preempt/qos uses Quality Of Service information in database.
 -- In select/linear, optimize job placement across partitions.
 -- If the --partition option is used with the sinfo or squeue command then
    print information about even hidden partitions.
 -- Replaced misc cpu allocation members in job_info_t with select_job_res_t
    which will only be populated when requested (show_flags & SHOW_DETAIL)
 -- Added a --detail option to "scontrol show job" to display the cpu/mem
    allocation info on a node-by-node basis.
 -- Added logic to give correct request uid for individual steps that 
    were cancelled.
 -- Created a spank_get_item() option (S_JOB_ALLOC_MEM) that conveys the memory
    that the select/cons_res plugin has allocated to a job.
 -- BLUEGENE - blocks in error state are now handled correctly in accounting.
 -- Modify squeue to print job step information about a specific job ID using
    the following syntax: "squeue -j <job_id> -s".
 -- BLUEGENE - scontrol delete block and update block can now remove blocks 
    on dynamic laid out systems.
 -- BLUEGENE - Vastly improve Dynamic layout mode algorithm.
 -- Address some issues for SLURM support of Solaris.
 -- Applied patch from Doug Parisek (Doug.Parisek@bull.com) for speeding up 
    start of sview by delaying to creation of tooltips until requested.
 -- Changed GtkToolTips to GtkToolTip for newer versions of GTK.
 -- Applied patch from Rod Schultz (Rod.Schultz@Bull.com) that eliminates
    ambiguity in the documentation over use of the terms "CPU" and "socket".
 -- Modified get_resource_arg_range() to return full min/max values when input
    string is null.  This fixes the srun -B option to function as documented.
 -- If the job, node, partition, reservation or trigger state file is missing 
    or too small, automatically try using the previously saved state (file 
    name with ".old" suffix).
 -- Set a node's power_up/configuring state flag while PrologSlurmctld is
    running for a job allocated to that node.
 -- If PrologSlurmctld has a non-zero exit code, requeue the job or kill it.
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 -- Added sacct ability to use --format NAME%LENGTH similar to sacctmgr.
 -- Improve hostlist logic for multidimensional systems.
 -- The pam_slurm Pluggable Authentication Module for SLURM previously
    distributed separately has been moved within the main SLURM distribution
    and is packaged as a separate RPM.
 -- Added configuration parameter MaxTasksPerNode.
 -- Remove configuration parameter SrunIOTimeout.
 -- Added functionality for sacctmgr show problems.  Current problems include
    Accounts/Users with no associations, Accounts with no users or subaccounts
    attached in a cluster, and Users with No UID on the system.
 -- Added new option for sacctmgr list assoc and list cluster WOLimits.  This 
    gives a smaller default format without the limit information.  This may 
    be the new default for list assocations and list clusters.
 -- Users are now required to have an association with there default account.
    Sacctmgr will now complain when you try to modify a users default account
    which they are not associated anywhere.
 -- Fix select/linear bug resulting in run_job_cnt underflow message if a 
    suspended job is cancelled.
 -- Add test for fsync() error for state save files. Log and retry as needed.
 -- Log fatal errors from slurmd and slurmctld to syslog.
 -- Added error detection and cleanup for the case in which a compute node is 
    rebooted and restarts its slurmd before its "down" state is noticed.
 -- BLUEGENE systems only - remove vestigal start location from jobinfo.
 -- Add reservation flag of "OVERLAP" to permit a new reservation to use
    nodes already in another reservation.
 -- Fix so "scontrol update jobid=# nice=0" can clear previous nice value.
 -- BLUEGENE - env vars such as SLURM_NNODES, SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES, and
    SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE now reference cnode counts instead of midplane
    counts.  SLURM_NODELIST still references midplane names.
 -- Added qos support to salloc/sbatch/srun/squeue
 -- Added to scancel the ability to select jobs by account and qos
 -- Recycled the "-A" argument indicate "account" for all the commands that
    accept the --account argument (srun -A to allocate is no longer supported.)
 -- Change sbatch response from "sbatch: Submitted batch job #" written to 
    stderr to "Submitted batch job #" written to stdout.
 -- Made shutdown and cleanup a little safer for the mvapich and mpich1_p4
    plugins.
 -- QOS support added with limits, priority and preemption
    (no documentation yet).
 -- If a slurmd does not have a node listed in it's slurm.conf (slurm.conf's 
    should be kept the same on all nodes) an error message is printed in the 
    slurmctld log along with the message already being printed in the slurmd 
    log for easier debugging.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre2
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 -- Added support for smap to query off node name for display.
 -- Slurmdbd modified to set user ID and group ID to SlurmUser if started as 
    user root.
 -- Configuration parameter ControlMachine changed to  accept multiple comma-
    separated hostnames for support of some high-availability architectures.
 -- ALTERED API CALL slurm_get_job_steps 0 has been changed to NO_VAL for both
    job and step id to recieve all jobs/steps.  Please make adjustments to
    your code.
 -- salloc's --wait=<secs> option deprecated by --immediate=<secs> option to 
    match the srun command.
 -- Add new slurmctld list for node features with node bitmaps for simplified
    scheduling logic.
 -- Multiple features can be specified when creating a reservation. Use "&" 
    (AND) or "|" (OR) separators between the feature names.
 -- Changed internal node name caching so that front-end mode would work with
    multiple lines of node name definitions. 
 -- Add node state flag for power-up/configuring. Represented by "#" suffix
    on the node state name (e.g. "ALLOCATED#") for command output.
 -- Add CONFIGURING/CF job state flag for node power-up/configuring.
 -- Modify job step cancel logic for scancel and srun (on reciept of SIGTERM 
    or three SIGINT) to immediately send SIGKILL to spawned tasks.  Previous 
    logic would send SIGCONT, SIGTERM, wait KillWait seconds, SIGKILL.
 -- Created a spank_get_item() option (S_JOB_ALLOC_CORES) that conveys the cpus
    that the select/cons_res plugin has allocated to a job.
 -- Improve sview performance (outrageously) on very large machines.
 -- Add support for licenses in resource reservation.
 -- BLUEGENE - Jobs waiting for a block to boot will now be in Configuring
    state. 
 -- bit_fmt now does not return brackets surrounding any set of data.
* Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre1
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 -- Slurmd notifies slurmctld of node boot time to better clean up after node
    reboots.
 -- Slurmd sends node registration information repeatedly until successful
    transmit.
 -- Change job_state in job structure to dedicate 8-bits to state flags. 
    Added macros to get state information (IS_JOB_RUNNING(job_ptr), etc.)
 -- Added macros to get node state information (IS_NODE_DOWN(node_ptr), etc).
 -- Added support for Solaris. Patch from David Hoppner.
 -- Rename "slurm-aix-federation-<version>.rpm" to just 
    "slurm-aix-<version>.rpm" (federation switch plugin may not be present).
 -- Eliminated the redundant squeue output format and sort options of 
    "%o" and "%b". Use "%D" and "%S" formats respectively. Also eliminated 
    "%X" and "%Y" and "%Z" formats. Use "%z" instead.
 -- Added mechanism for SPANK plugins to set environment variables for
    Prolog, Epilog, PrologSLurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld programs using
    the functions spank_get_job_env, spank_set_job_env, and 
    spank_unset_job_env. See "man spank" for more information.
 -- Completed the work to begun in 2.0.0 to standardize on using '-Q' as the
    --quiet flag for all the commands.
 -- BLUEGENE - sinfo and sview now display correct cpu counts for partitions
 -- Cleaned up the cons_res plugin.  It now uses a ptr to a part_record
    instead of having to do strcmp's to find the correct one.
 -- Pushed most all the plugin specific info in src/common/node_select.c 
    into the respected plugin.
 -- BLUEGENE - closed some corner cases where a block could had been removed 
    while a job was waiting for it to become ready because an underlying 
    part of the block was put into an error state.
 -- Modify sbcast logic to prevent a user from moving files to nodes they
    have not been allocated (this would be possible in previous versions
    only by hacking the sbcast code).
 -- Add contribs/sjstat script (Perl tool to report job state information).
    Put into new RPM: sjstat.
 -- Add sched/wiki2 (Moab) JOBMODIFY command support for VARIABLELIST option
    to set supplemental environment variables for pending batch jobs.
 -- BLUEGENE - add support for scontrol show blocks.
 -- Added support for job step time limits.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.10
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* Changes in SLURM 2.0.9
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 -- When running the mysql plugin natively MUNGE errors are now eliminated 
    when sending updates to slurmctlds.
 -- Check to make sure we have a default account before looking to 
    fill in default association. 
 -- Fix to make it so sched/wiki2 can modify a job's partition or hostlist of 
    non-pending jobs.
 -- Applied slurmctld prolog bug fix from Dennis Leepow to backfill.c
 -- fixed quite a few typos (needed for debian packages)
 -- make it so slurmctld will core dump without --enable-debug set
 -- Fix issue when doing a rollup on reservations before a cluster has been 
    added. 
 -- MySQL plugin - When doing archiving end time is now decreased by 1 
    which should be more correct.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue where --no-rotate didn't work correctly on job
 -- BLUEGENE - made the buffer longer when submitting jobs to get the entire 
    line.  Previously the line could be shortened prematurely.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix to make sure we don't erroneously set a connection type
    to SMALL.
 -- Type cast a negative uint64_t to int64_t to avoid confusion when doing 
    arithmetic with it in accounting dealing with over commit time.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.8
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 -- BLUEGENE - added dub2 of stderr to put error messages sent from underlying 
    libraries of the bridge api to the bridgeapi.log
 -- Fixed issue with sacctmgr when modifing a user and specifying 'where'
    after giving the user name also.
 -- -L, --allclusters now works with sacct
 -- Modified job table to use 32bit u/gids for those with ids greater 
    than 16 bits.
 -- Made minor changes for slurm to compile cleanly under gcc 4.4.1
 -- Fixed issue with task/affinity when an allocation would run multiple sruns 
    with the --exclusive flag in an allocation with more than 1 node.  
    Previously when the first node was filled up no tasks would ever run 
    on the other nodes.
 -- Fixed sview and sacct to display correct run time and suspend time when 
    job has been suspended.
 -- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that fixes the validation of the
    PluginDir to support the colon separated list of directories as documented.
 -- BLUEGENE - squeue -o %R now prints more readable info for small blocks
 -- sacct - fixed garbage being printed out on uninitialized variable.
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 -- Fix for mysql plugin when used without slurmdbd to register the 
    slurmctld properly.
 -- Fix for mysql plugin putting correct hostnames in for running steps.

* Changes in SLURM 2.0.7
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 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res when nodes are configured in more than one 
    partition and those partitions have different priorities and sched/gang
    is not configured. CPUs were previously over-allocated.
 -- Fix core of smap when specifying -i option with invalid argument.
 -- Fix issue when using srun --test-only to not put an entry of test 
    job into accounting.
 -- For OpenMPI use of SLURM reserved ports. If any of the tasks fails to 
    acquire a reserved port and has an exit code of 108 then srun will 
    kill all remaining tasks and respawn the tasks. Previous code waited 
    for tasks to exit.
 -- MySQL plugin - When doing archiving we now get a correct end time.  
    Previously it would grab an extra day to archive.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle initial state correctly, previously was setting initial 
    state to IDLE if UNKNOWN which would make it not set a registration 
    message to accounting, which could lead to nodes not being listed as up 
    when they really were.
 -- Fixed buffer size issue with scontrol show hostlist.
 -- Fixed issue with copy in smap -Dc previously command wouldn't work.
 -- BLUEGENE - Update documentation about small blocks in the bluegene.conf 
    file.
 -- In sched/wiki plugin (for Maui) fix possible message truncation on very 
    large cluster.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for handling undocumented Deallocating to Configuring to 
    Free block transition state.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for overlap mode loading blocks when midplane is in an
    error state.
 -- Add range check for SuspendTime configuration parameter.
 -- Moved unzipped python-hostname tarball out and the tarball in.
 -- BLUEGENE - Patched memory leak when running state test.
 -- BLUEGENE - fixed slow down generated by slow call rm_get_BG 
    and polling thread.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.6
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 -- Fixed seg fault when "scontrol listpids" is invoked for a specific job step
    on a node on which a stepd is not running.
 -- Fix bug in sched/backfill which could result in invalid memory reference 
    when trying to schedule jobs submitted with --exclude option.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.5
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 -- BLUEGENE - Added support for emulating systems with a X-dimension of 4.
 -- BLUEGENE - When a nodecard goes down on a non-Dynamic system SLURM will 
    now only drain blocks under 1 midplane, if no such block exists then SLURM 
    will drain the entire midplane and not mark any block in error state.  
    Previously SLURM would drain every overlapping block of the nodecard 
    making it possible for a large block to make other blocks not work since 
    they overlap some other part of the block that really isn't bad.
 -- BLUEGENE - Handle L3 errors on boot better.
 -- Don't revoke a pending batch launch request from the slurmctld if the
    job is immediately suspended (a normal event with gang scheduling).
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed issue with restart of slurmctld would allow error block 
    nodes to be considered for building new blocks when testing if a job would 
    run.  This is a visual bug only, jobs would never run on new block, but 
    the block would appear in slurm tools.
 -- Better responsiveness when starting new allocations when running with the 
    slurmdbd.
 -- Fixed race condition when reconfiguring the slurmctld and using the 
    consumable resources plugin which would cause the controller to core.
 -- Fixed race condition that sometimes caused jobs to stay in completing
    state longer than necessary after being terminated.
 -- Fixed issue where if a parent account has a qos added and then a child
    account has the qos removed the users still get the qos.
 -- BLUEGENE - New blocks in dynamic mode will only be made in the system
    when the block is actually needed for a job, not when testing.
 -- BLUEGENE - Don't remove larger block used for small block until job starts.
 -- Add new squeue output format and sort option of "%L" to print a job's time 
    left (time limit minus time used).
 -- BLUEGENE - Fixed draining state count for sinfo/sview.
 -- Fix for sview to not core when viewing nodes allocated to a partition 
    and the all jobs finish.
 -- Fix cons_res to not core dump when finishing a job running on a 
    defunct partition.
 -- Don't require a node to have --ntasks-per-node CPUs for use when the 
    --overcommit option is also used.
 -- Increase the maximum number of tasks which can be launched by a job step
    per node from 64 to 128. 
 -- sview - make right click on popup window title show sorted list.
 -- scontrol now displays correct units for job min memory and min tmp disk.
 -- better support for salloc/sbatch arbitrary layout for setting correct 
    SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE
 -- Env var SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE is now set correctly depending on the 
    FastSchedule configuration parameter.
 -- Correction to topology/3d_torus plugin calculation when coordinate value 
    exceeds "9" (i.e. a hex value).
 -- In sched/wiki2 - Strip single and double quotes out of a node's reason 
    string to avoid confusing Moab's parser.
 -- Modified scancel to cancel any pending jobs before cancelling any other
 -- Updated sview config info
 -- Fix a couple of bugs with respect to scheduling with overlapping 
    reservations (one with a flag of "Maintenance").
 -- Fix bug when updating a pending job's nice value after explicitly setting
    it's priority.
 -- Fix task affinity for systems running fastschedule!=0 and they have less 
    resources configured than in existence.
 -- Slurm.pm loads without warning now on AIX systems
 -- modified pmi code to do strncpy's on the correct len
 -- Fix for filling in a qos structure to return SLURM_SUCCESS on success.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added SLURM_BG_NUM_NODES with cnode count of allocation, 
    SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES represents midplane counts until 2.1.
 -- BLUEGENE - Added fix for if a block is in error state and the midplane 
    containing the block is also set to drain/down.  This previously 
    prevented dynamic creation of new blocks when this state was present.
 -- Fixed bug where a users association limits were not enforced, only 
    parent limits were being enforced.
 -- For OpenMPI use of SLURM reserved ports, reserve a count of ports equal to 
    the maximum task count on any node plus one (the plus one is a correction).
 -- Do not reset SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE when srun --preserve-env option is used
    (needed by OpenMPI).
 -- Fix possible assert failure in task/affinity if a node is configured with
    more resources than physically exist.
 -- Sview can now resize columns.
 -- Avoid clearing a drained node's reason field when state is changed from
    down (i.e. returned to service). Note the drain state flag stays set.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.4
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 -- Permit node suspend/resume logic to be enabled through "scontrol reconfig"
    given appropriate changes to slurm configuration file.
 -- Check for return codes on functions with warn_unused_result set.
 -- Fix memory leak in getting step information (as used by squeue -s).
 -- Better logging for when job's request bad output file locations.
 -- Fix issue where if user specified non-existant file to write to slurmstepd
    will regain privileges before sending batch script ended to the controller.
 -- Fix bug when using the priority_multifactor plugin with no associations 
    yet.
 -- BLUEGENE - we no longer check for the images to sync state.  This was 
    needed long ago when rebooting blocks wasn't a possibility and should 
    had been removed when that functionality was available.
 -- Added message about no connection with the database for sacctmgr.
 -- On BlueGene, let srun or salloc exit on SIGINT if slurmctld dies while
    booting its block.
 -- In select/cons_res fix bug that could result in invalid memory pointer
    if node configurations in slurm.conf contains 8 or more distinct 
    socket/core/thread counts.
 -- Modify select/cons_res to recognize updated memory size upon node startup
    if FastSchedule=0.
 -- Fixed bug if not enforcing associations, but running with them and the 
    priority/multifactor, the slurmctld will not core dump on processing usage.
 -- QOS will not be reset to the default when added back a previously deleted
    association.
 -- Do not set a job's virtual memory limit based upon the job's specified
    memory limit (which should be a real memory limit, not virtual).
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for sinfo/sview for displaying proper node count for nodes 
    in draining state.
 -- Fix for sview when viewing a certain part of a group (like 1 job) so it 
    doesn't core when the part is gone.
 -- BLUEGENE - Changed order of SYNC's to be on the front of the list to
    avoid having a job terminated with a TERM before the SYNC of the 
    job happens.
 -- Validate configured PluginDir value is a valid directory before trying to
    use it.
 -- Fix to resolve agent_queue_request symbol from some checkpoint plugins.
 -- Fix possible execve error for sbatch script read from stdin.
 -- Modify handling of user ID/name and group ID/name in the slurm.conf file
    to properly handle user names that contain all digits. Return error code 
    from uid_from_string() and gid_from_string() functions rather than a uid of
    -1, which might be a valid uid or gid on some systems.
 -- Fix in re-calcuation of job priorities due to DOWN or DRAINED nodes.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.3
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 -- Add reservation creation/update flag of Ignore_Jobs to enable the creation
    of a reservation that overlaps jobs expected to still be running when
    the reservation starts. This would be especially useful to reserve all 
    nodes for system maintenence without adjusting time limits of running
    jobs before creating the reservation. Without this flag, nodes allocated
    jobs expected to running when the reservation begins can not be placed 
    into a reservation.
 -- In task/affinity plugin, add layer of abstraction to logic translating
    block masks to physical machine masks. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix for setting the node_bitmap in a job to NULL if the job does not 
    start correctly when expected to start.
 -- Fixed bug in srun --pty logic. Output from the task was split up 
    arbitrarily into stdout and stderr streams, and sometimes was printed 
    out of order.
 -- If job requests minimum and maximum node count range with select/cons_res,
    try to satisfy the higher value (formerly only allocated the minimum).
 -- Fix for checking for a non-existant job when querying steps.
 -- For job steps with the --exclusive option, base initial wait time in 
    partly upon the process ID for better performance with many job steps 
    started at the same time. Maintain exponential back-off as needed.
 -- Fix for correct step ordering in sview.
 -- Support optional argument to srun and salloc --immediate option. Specify
    timeout value in seconds for job or step to be allocated resources.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.2
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 -- Fix, don't remove job details when a job is cancelled while pending.
 -- Do correct type for mktime so garbage isn't returned on 64bit systems 
    for accounting archival.
 -- Better checking in sacctmgr to avoid infinite loops.
 -- Fix minor memory leak in fake_slurm_step_layout_create()
 -- Fix node weight (scheduling priority) calculation for powered down
    nodes. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix node suspend/resume rate calculations. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Change calculations using ResumeRate and SuspendRate to provide higher
    resolution.
 -- Log the IP address for incoming messages having an invalid protocol 
    version number.
 -- Fix for sacct to show jobs that start the same second as the sacct
    command is issued.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix for -n option to work on correct cpu counts for each 
    midplane instead of treating -n as a c-node count.
 -- salloc now sets SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE if --ntasks-per-node option is set.
 -- Fix select/linear to properly set a job's count of allocated processors
    (all processors on the allocated nodes).
 -- Fix select/cons_res to allocate proper CPU count when --ntasks-per-node
    option is used without a task count in the job request.
 -- Insure that no node is allocated to a job for which the CPU count is less
    than --ntasks-per-node * --cpus-per-task.
 -- Correct AllocProcs reported by "scontrol show node" when ThreadsPerCore
    is greater than 1 and select/cons_res is used.
 -- Fix scontrol show config for accounting information when values are 
    not set in the slurm.conf.
 -- Added a set of SBATCH_CPU_BIND* and SBATCH_MEM_BIND* env variables to keep
    jobsteps launched from within a batch script from inheriting the CPU and
    memory affinity that was applied to the batch script. Patch from Matthieu
    Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Ignore the extra processors on a node above configured size if either 
    sched/gang or select/cons_res is configured.
 -- Fix bug in tracking memory allocated on a node for select/cons_res plugin.
 -- Fixed a race condition when writing labelled output with a file per task
    or per node, which potentially closed a file before all data was written.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix, for if a job comes in spanning both less than and 
    over 1 midplane in size we check the connection type appropriately.
 -- Make sched/backfill properly schedule jobs with constraints having node 
    counts. NOTE: Backfill of jobs with constraings having exclusive OR 
    operators are not fully supported.  
 -- If srun is cancelled by SIGINT, set the job state to cancelled, not 
    failed.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix, for if you are setting an subbp into an error mode 
    where the subbp stated isn't the first ionode in a nodecard.
 -- Fix for backfill to not core when checking shared nodes.
 -- Fix for scontrol to not core when hitting just return in interactive mode.
 -- Improve sched/backfill logic with respect to shared nodes (multiple jobs
    per node).
 -- In sched/wiki (Maui interface) add job info fields QOS, RCLASS, DMEM and
    TASKSPERNODE. Patch from Bjorn-Helge Mevik, University of Oslo.
* Changes in SLURM 2.0.1
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 -- Fix, truncate time of start and end for job steps in sacct.
 -- Initialize all messages to slurmdbd. Previously uninitialized string could
    cause slurmctld to fail with invalid memory reference.
 -- BLUEGENE - Fix, for when trying to finish a torus on a block already 
    visited.  Even though this may be possible electrically this isn't valid
    in the under lying infrastructure.
 -- Fix, in mysql plugins change mediumints to int to support full 32bit 
    numbers.
 -- Add sinfo node state filtering support for NO_RESPOND, POWER_SAVE, FAIL, 
    MAINT, DRAINED and DRAINING states. The state filter of DRAIN still maps
    to any node in either DRAINED or DRAINING state.
 -- Fix reservation logic when job requests specific nodes that are already
    in some reservation the job can not use.
 -- Fix recomputation of a job's end time when allocated nodes which are
    being powered up. The end time would be set in the past if the job's
    time limit was INFINITE, resulting in it being prematurely terminated.
 -- Permit regular user to change the time limit of his pending jobs up to
    the partition's limit.
 -- Fix "-Q" (quiet) option for salloc and sbatch which was previously 
    ignored.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for finding odd shaped blocks in dynamic mode.
 -- Fix logic supporting SuspendRate and ResumeRate configuration parameters.
    Previous logic was changing state of one too many nodes per minute.
 -- Save new reservation state file on shutdown (even if no changes).
 -- Fix, when partitions are deleted the sched and select plugins are notified.
 -- Fix for slurmdbd to create wckeyid's when they don't exist
 -- Fix linking problem that prevented checkpoint/aix from working.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0
 -- Fix for bluegene systems to be able to create 32 node blocks with only 
    16 psets defined in dynamic layout mode.
 -- Improve srun_cr handling of child srun forking. Patch from Hongjia Cao, 
    NUDT.
 -- Configuration parameter ResumeDelay replaced by SuspendTimeout and 
    ResumeTimeout.
 -- BLUEGENE - sview/sinfo now displays correct cnode numbers for drained nodes
    or blocks in error state.
 -- Fix some batch job launch bugs when powering up suspended nodes.
 -- Added option '-T' for sacct to truncate time of start and end and set
    default of --starttime to Midnight of current day.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0-rc2
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 -- Change fanout logic to start on calling node instead of first node in 
    message nodelist.
 -- Fix bug so that smap builds properly on Sun Constellation system.
 -- Filter white-space out from node feature specification.
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 -- Fixed issue with duration not being honored when updating start time in 
    reservations.
 -- Fix bug in sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 plugins for reporting job resource
    allocation properly when node names are configured out of sort order 
    with more than one numeric suffix (e.g. "tux10-1" is configured after 
    "tux5-1").
 -- Avoid re-use of job_id (if specified at submit time) when the existing
    job is in completing state (possible race condition with Moab).
 -- Added SLURM_DISTRIBUTION to env for salloc.
 -- Add support for "scontrol takeover" command for backup controller to 
    assume control immediately. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- If srun is unable to communicate with the slurmd tasks are now marked as 
    failed with the controller.
 -- Fixed issues with requeued jobs not being accounted for correctly in 
    the accounting.
 -- Clear node's POWER_SAVE flag if configuration changes to one lacking a
    ResumeProgram.
 -- Extend a job's time limit as appropriate due to delays powering up nodes.
 -- If sbatch is used to launch a job step within an existing allocation (as
    used by LSF) and the required node is powered down, print the message
    "Job step creation temporarily disabled, retrying", sleep, and retry.
 -- Configuration parameter ResumeDelay added to control how much time must 
    after a node has been suspended before resume it (e.g. powering it back 
    up).
 -- Fix CPU binding for batch program. Patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Fix for front end systems non-responding nodes now show up correctly in
    sinfo.
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* Changes in SLURM 2.0.0-rc1
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 -- Fix bug in preservation of advanced reservations when slurmctld restarts.
 -- Updated perlapi to match correctly with slurm.h structures
 -- Do not install the srun command on BlueGene systems (mpirun must be used to
 -- Corrections to scheduling logic for topology/tree in configurations where 
    nodes are configured in multiple leaf switches.
 -- Patch from Matthieu Hautreux for backup mysql deamon support.
 -- Changed DbdBackup to DbdBackupHost for slurmdbd.conf file
 -- Add support for spank_strerror() function and improve error handling in
    general for SPANK plugins.
 -- Added configuration parameter SrunIOTimeout to optionally ping srun's tasks
    for better fault tolerance (e.g. killed and restarteed SLURM daemons on 
    compute node).
 -- Add slurmctld and slurmd binding to appropriate communications address
    based upon NodeAddr, ControllerAddr and BackupAddr configuration 
    parameters. Based upon patch from Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
    NOTE: Fails when SlurmDBD is configured with some configurations.
    NOTE: You must define BIND_SPECIFIC_ADDR to enable this option.
 -- Avoid using powered down nodes when scheduling work if possible. 
    Fix possible invalid memory reference in power save logic.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre13
==============================
 -- Added new partition option AllocNodes which controls the hosts from 
    which jobs can be submitted to this partition. From Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Better support the --contiguous option for job allocations.
 -- Add new scontrol option: show topology (reports contents of topology.conf 
    file via RPC if topology/tree plugin is configured).
 -- Add advanced reservation display to smap command.
 -- Replaced remaining references to SLURM_JOBID with SLURM_JOB_ID - except
    when needed for backwards compatibility.
 -- Fix logic to properly excise a DOWN node from the allocation of a job
    with the --no-kill option.
 -- The MySQL and PgSQL plugins for accounting storage and job completion are
    now only built if the underlying database libraries exists (previously
    the plugins were built to produce a fatal error when used).
 -- BLUEGENE - scontrol show config will now display bluegene.conf information.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre12
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 -- Added support for hard time limit by associations with added configuration 
    option PriorityUsageResetPeriod. This specifies the interval at which to 
    clear the record of time used. This is currently only available with the 
    priority/multifactor plugin.
 -- Added SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR to sbatch's output environment variables.
 -- Backup slurmdbd support implemented.
 -- Update to checkpoint/xlch logic from Hongjia Cao, NUDT.
 -- Added configuration parameter AccountingStorageBackupHost.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre11
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 -- Fix slurm.spec file for RPM build.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre10
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 -- Critical bug fix in task/affinity when the CoresPerSocket is greater
    than the ThreadsPerCore (invalid memory reference).
 -- Add DebugFlag parameter of "Wiki" to log sched/wiki and wiki2 
    communications in greater detail.
 -- Add "-d <slurmstepd_path>" as an option to the slurmd daemon to
    specifying a non-stardard slurmstepd file, used  for testing purposes.
 -- Minor cleanup to crypto/munge plugin.
    - Restrict uid allowed to decode job credentials in crypto/munge
    - Get slurm user id early in crypto/munge
    - Remove buggy error code handling in crypto/munge
 -- Added sprio command - works only with the priority/multifactor plugin
 -- Add real topology plugin infrastructure (it was initially added 
    directly into slurmctld code). To specify topology information,
    set TopologyType=topology/tree and add configuration information
    to a new file called topology.conf. See "man topology.conf" or
    topology.html web page for details.
 -- Set "/proc/self/oom_adj" for slurmd and slurmstepd daemons based upon
    the values of SLURMD_OOM_ADJ and SLURMSTEPD_OOM_ADJ environment 
    variables. This can be used to prevent daemons being killed when
    a node's memory is exhausted. Based upon patch by Hongjia  Cao, NUDT.
 -- Fix several bugs in task/affinity: cpuset logic was broken and 
    --cpus-per-task option not properly handled.
 -- Ensure slurmctld adopts SlurmUser GID as well as UID on startup.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre9
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 -- OpenMPI users only: Add srun logic to automatically recreate and 
    re-launch a job step if the step fails with a reserved port conflict.
 -- Added TopologyPlugin configuration parameter.
 -- Added switch topology data structure to slurmctld (for use by select 
    plugin) add load it based upon new slurm.conf parameters: SwitchName, 
    Nodes, Switches and LinkSpeed.
 -- Modify select/linear and select/cons_res plugins to optimize resource
    allocation with respect to network topology.
 -- Added  support for new configuration parameter EpilogSlurmctld (executed 
    by slurmctld daemon).
 -- Added checkpoint/blcr plugin, SLURM now support job checkpoint/restart 
    using BLCR. Patch from Hongjia Cao, NUDT, China.
 -- Made a variety of new environment variables available to PrologSlurmctld
    and EpilogSlurmctld. See the "Prolog and Epilog Scripts" section of the 
    slurm.conf man page for details.
 -- NOTE: Cold-start (without preserving state) required for upgrade from 
    version 1.4.0-pre8.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre8
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 -- In order to create a new partition using the scontrol command, use
    the "create" option rather than "update" (which will only operate
    upon partitions that already exist).
 -- Added environment variable SLURM_RESTART_COUNT to batch jobs to
    indicated the count of job restarts made.
 -- Added sacctmgr command "show config".
 -- Added the scancel option --nodelist to cancel any jobs running on a
    given list of nodes.
 -- Add partition-specific DefaultTime (default time limit for jobs, 
    if not specified use MaxTime for the partition. Patch from Par
    Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
 -- Add support for the scontrol command to be able change the Weight
    associated with nodes. Patch from Krishnakumar Ravi[KK] (HP).
 -- Add DebugFlag configuration option of "CPU_Bind" for detailed CPU
    binding information to be logged.
 -- Fix some significant bugs in task binding logic (possible infinite loops
    and memory corruption).
 -- Add new node state flag of NODE_STATE_MAINT indicating the node is in
    a reservation of type MAINT.
 -- Modified task/affinity plugin to automatically bind tasks to sockets,
    cores, or threads as appropriated based upon resource allocation and
    task count. User can override with srun's --cpu_bind option. 
 -- Fix bug in backfill logic for select/cons_res plugin, resulted in 
    error "cons_res:_rm_job_from_res: node_state mis-count".
 -- Add logic go bind a batch job to the resources allocated to that job.
 -- Add configuration parameter MpiParams for (future) OpenMPI port 
    management. Add resv_port_cnt and resv_ports fields to the job step 
    data structures. Add environment variable SLURM_STEP_RESV_PORTS to
    show what ports are reserved for a job step.
 -- Add support for SchedulerParameters=interval=<sec> to control the time
    interval between executions of the backfill scheduler logic.
 -- Preserve record of last job ID in use even when doing a cold-start unless
    there is no job state file or there is a change in its format (which only 
    happens when there is a change in SLURM's major or minor version number: 
    v1.3 -> v1.4).
 -- Added new configuration parameter KillOnBadExit to kill a job step as soon
    as any task of a job step exits with a non-zero exit code. Patch based
    on work from Eric Lin, Bull.
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 -- Add spank plugin calls for use by salloc and sbatch command, see 
    "man spank" for details.
 -- NOTE: Cold-start (without preserving state) required for upgrade from 
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    version 1.4.0-pre7.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre7
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 -- Bug fix for preemption with select/cons_res when there are no idle nodes.
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 -- Bug fix for use of srun options --exclusive and --cpus-per-task together
    for job step resource allocation (tracking of cpus in use was bad).
 -- Added the srun option --preserve-env to pass the current values of 
    environment variables SLURM_NNODES and SLURM_NPROCS through to the 
    executable, rather than computing them from commandline parameters.
 -- For select/cons_res or sched/gang only: Validate a job's resource 
    allocation socket and core count on each allocated node. If the node's
    configuration has been changed, then abort the job.
 -- For select/cons_res or sched/gang only: Disable updating a node's 
    processor count if FastSchedule=0. Administrators must set a valid
    processor count although the memory and disk space configuration can
    be loaded from the compute node when it starts.
 -- Add configure option "--disable-iso8601" to disable SLURM use of ISO 8601
    time format at the time of SLURM build. Default output for all commands
    is now ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss).
 -- Add support for scontrol to explicity power a node up or down using the
    configured SuspendProg and ResumeProg programs.
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 -- Fix book select/cons_res logic for tracking the number of allocated
    CPUs on a node when a partition's Shared value is YES or FORCE.
 -- Added configure options "--enable-cray-xt" and "--with-apbasil=PATH" for
    eventual support of Cray-XT systems.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre6
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 -- Fix job preemption when sched/gang and select/linear are configured with
    non-sharing partitions.
 -- In select/cons_res insure that required nodes have available resources.
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* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre5
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 -- Correction in setting of SLURM_CPU_BIND environment variable.
 -- Rebuild slurmctld's job select_jobinfo->node_bitmap on restart/reconfigure
    of the daemon rather than restoring the bitmap since the nodes in a system
    can change (be added or removed).
 -- Add configuration option "--with-cpusetdir=PATH" for non-standard 
    locations.
 -- Get new multi-core data structures working on BlueGene systems.
 -- Modify PMI_Get_clique_ranks() to return an array of integers rather 
    than a char * to satisfy PMI standard. Correct logic in 
    PMI_Get_clique_size() for when srun --overcommit option is used.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res, allocated a job all of the processors on a 
    node when the --exclusive option is specified as a job submit option.
 -- Add NUMA cpu_bind support to the task affinity plugin. Binds tasks to
    a set of CPUs that belong NUMA locality domain with the appropriate
    --cpu-bind option (ldoms, rank_ldom, map_ldom, and mask_ldom), see
    "man srun" for more information.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre4
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 -- For task/affinity, force jobs to use a particular task binding by setting
    the TaskPluginParam configuration parameter rather than slurmd's
    SLURM_ENFORCED_CPU_BIND environment variable.
 -- Enable full preemption of jobs by partition with select/cons_res 
    (cons_res_preempt.patch from Chris Holmes, HP).
 -- Add configuration parameter DebugFlags to provide detailed logging for
    specific subsystems (steps and triggers so far).
 -- srun's --no-kill option is passed to slurmctld so that a job step is 
    killed even if the node where srun executes goes down (unless the 
    --no-kill option is used, previous termination logic would fail if 
    srun was not responding).
 -- Transfer a job step's core bitmap from the slurmctld to the slurmd
    within the job step credential.
 -- Add cpu_bind, cpu_bind_type, mem_bind and mem_bind_type to job allocation
    request and job_details structure in slurmctld. Add support to --cpu_bind
    and --mem_bind options from salloc and sbatch commands.
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre3
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 -- Internal changes: CPUs per node changed from 32-bit to 16-bit size.
    Node count fields changed from 16-bit to 32-bit size in some structures.
 -- Remove select plugin functions select_p_get_extra_jobinfo(),
    select_p_step_begin() and select_p_step_fini().
 -- Remove the following slurmctld job structure fields: num_cpu_groups,
    cpus_per_node, cpu_count_reps, alloc_lps_cnt, alloc_lps, and used_lps.
    Use equivalent fields in new "select_job" structure, which is filled
    in by the select plugins.
 -- Modify mem_per_task in job step request from 16-bit to 32-bit size.
    Use new "select_job" structure for the job step's memory management.
 -- Add core_bitmap_job to slurmctld's job step structure to identify
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    which specific cores are allocated to the step.
 -- Add new configuration option OverTimeLimit to permit jobs to exceed 
    their (soft) time limit by a configurable amount. Backfill scheduling
    will be based upon the soft time limit.
 -- Remove select_g_get_job_cores(). That data is now within the slurmctld's
    job structure.

* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre2
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 -- Remove srun's --ctrl-comm-ifhn-addr option (for PMI/MPICH2). It is no
    longer needed.
 -- Modify power save mode so that nodes can be powered off when idle. See
    https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/power_save.html or 
    "man slurm.conf" (SuspendProgram and related parameters) for more 
    information.
 -- Added configuration parameter PrologSlurmctld, which can be used to boot
    nodes into a particular state for each job. See "man slurm.conf" for 
    details.
 -- Add configuration parameter CompleteTime to control how long to wait for 
    a job's completion before allocating already released resources to pending
    jobs. This can be used to reduce fragmentation of resources. See
    "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- Make default CryptoType=crypto/munge. OpenSSL is now completely optional.
 -- Make default AuthType=auth/munge rather than auth/none.
 -- Change output format of "sinfo -R" from "%35R %N" to "%50R %N".
* Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre1
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 -- Save/restore a job's task_distribution option on slurmctld retart.
    NOTE: SLURM must be cold-started on converstion from version 1.3.x.
 -- Remove task_mem from job step credential (only job_mem is used now).
 -- Remove --task-mem and --job-mem options from salloc, sbatch and srun
    (use --mem-per-cpu or --mem instead).
 -- Remove DefMemPerTask from slurm.conf (use DefMemPerCPU or DefMemPerNode
    instead).
 -- Modify slurm_step_launch API call. Move launch host from function argument
    to element in the data structure slurm_step_launch_params_t, which is
    used as a function argument.
 -- Add state_reason_string to job state with optional details about why
    a job is pending.
 -- Make "scontrol show node" output match scontrol input for some fields
    ("Cores" changed to "CoresPerSocket", etc.).
 -- Add support for a new node state "FUTURE" in slurm.conf. These node records
    are created in SLURM tables for future use without a reboot of the SLURM
    daemons, but are not reported by any SLURM commands or APIs.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.17
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 -- Fix bug in configure script that can clear user specified LIBS.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.16
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 -- Fix memory leak in forward logic of tree message passing.
 -- Fix job exit code recorded for srun job allocation.
 -- Bluegene - Bug fix for too many parameters being passed to a debug statement
 -- Bluegene - Bug fix for systems running more than 8 in the X dim running
 -- Fix bug in squeue command with sort on job name ("-S j" option) for jobs
    that lack a name. Previously generated an invalid memory reference.
 -- Permit the TaskProlog to write to the job's standard output by writing
    a line containing the prefix "print " to it's standard output.
 -- Fix for making the slurmdbd agent thread start up correctly when 
    stopped and then started again.
 -- Add squeue option to report jobs by account (-U or --account). Patch from
    Par Andersson, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
 -- Add -DNUMA_VERSION1_COMPATIBILITY to Makefile CFLAGS for proper behavior
    when building with NUMA version 2 APIs.
 -- BLUEGENE - slurm works on a BGP system.
 -- BLUEGENE - slurm handles HTC blocks
 -- BLUEGENE - Added option DenyPassthrough in the bluegene.conf.  Can be set
    to any combination of X,Y,Z to not allow passthroughs when running in 
    dynamic layout mode.
 -- Fix bug in logic to remove a job's dependency, could result in abort.
 -- Add new error message to sched/wiki and sched/wiki2 (Maui and Moab) for
    STARTJOB request: "TASKLIST includes non-responsive nodes".
 -- Fix bug in select/linear when used with sched/gang that can result in a 
    job's required or excluded node specification being ignored.
 -- Add logic to handle message connect timeouts (timed-out.patch from 
    Chuck Clouston, Bull).
 -- BLUEGENE - CFLAGS=-m64 is no longer required in configure
 -- Update python-hostlist code from Kent Engström (NSC) to v1.5
    - Add hostgrep utility to search for lines matching a hostlist.
    - Make each "-" on the command line count as one hostlist argument.
      If multiple hostslists are given on stdin they are combined to a
      union hostlist before being used in the way requested by the
      options.
 -- When using -j option in sacct no user restriction will applied unless
 -- For sched/wiki and sched/wiki2, change logging of wiki message traffic
    from debug() to debug2(). Only seen if SlurmctldDebug is configured to
    6 or higher.
 -- Significant speed up for association based reports in sreport
 -- BLUEGENE - fix for checking if job can run with downed nodes.  Previously 
    sbatch etc would tell you node configuration not available now jobs are 
    accepted but held until nodes are back up.
 -- Fix in accounting so if any nodes are removed from the system when they 
    were previously down will be recorded correctly.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), add flag to note if job is restartable and
    prevent deadlock of job requeue fails.
 -- Modify squeue to return non-zero exit code on failure. Patch from
    Par Andersson (NSC).
 -- Correct logic in select/cons_res to allocate a job the maximum node
    count from a range rather than minimum (e.g. "sbatch -N1-4 my.sh").
 -- In accounting_storage/filetxt and accounting_storage/pgsql fix 
    possible invalid memory reference when a job lacks a name.
 -- Give srun command an exit code of 1 if the prolog fails.
 -- BLUEGENE - allows for checking nodecard states in the system instead 
    of midplane state so as to not down an entire midplane if you don't 
    have to.
 -- BLUEGENE - fix creation of MESH blocks 
 -- BLUEGENE - on job cancellation we call jm_cancel_job and then wait until
    the system cleans up the job.  Before we would send a SIGKILL right 
    at the beginning. 
 -- BLUEGENE - if a user specifies a node count that can not be met the job 
    will be refused instead of before the plugin would search for the next 
    larger size that could be created.  This prevents users asking for 
    things that can't be created, and then getting something back they might 
    not be expecting.

* Changes in SLURM 1.3.14
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 -- SECURITY BUG: Fix in sbcast logic that permits users to write files based
    upon supplimental groups of the slurmd daemon. Similar logic for event
    triggers if slurmctld is run as user root (not typical).
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.13
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 -- Added ability for slurmdbd to archive and purge step and/or job records.
 -- Added DefaultQOS as an option to slurmdbd.conf for when clusters are 
    added the default will be set to this if none is given in the sacctmgr line.
 -- Added configure option --enable-sun-const for Sun Constellation system with
    3D torus interconnect. Supports proper smap and sview displays for 3-D
    topology. Node names are automatically put into Hilbert curve order given
    a one-line nodelist definition in slurm.conf (e.g. NodeNames=sun[000x533]). 
 -- Fixed bug in parsing time for sacct and sreport to pick the correct year if
    none is specified.
 -- Provide better scheduling with overlapping partitions (when a job can not
    be scheduled due to insufficient resources, reserve specific the nodes
    associated with that partition rather than blocking all partitions with
    any overlapping nodes).
 -- Correct logic to log in a job's stderr that it was "CANCELLED DUE TO 
    NODE FAILURE" rather than just "CANCELLED".
 -- Fix to crypto/openssl plugin that could result in job launch requests
    being spoofed through the use of an improperly formed credential. This bug 
    could permit a user to launch tasks on compute nodes not allocated for 
    their use, but will NOT permit them to run tasks as another user. For more 
    information see http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.12
=========================
 -- Added support for Workload Characteristic Key (WCKey) in accounting.  The
    WCkey is something that can be used in accounting to group associations
    together across clusters or within clusters that are not related.  Use 
    the --wckey option in srun, sbatch or salloc or set the SLURM_WCKEY env
    var to have this set. Use sreport with the wckey option to view reports.
    THIS CHANGES THE RPC LEVEL IN THE SLURMDBD.  YOU MUST UPGRADE YOUR SLURMDBD
    BEFORE YOU UPGRADE THE REST OF YOUR CLUSTERS.  THE NEW SLURMDBD WILL TALK 
    TO OLDER VERSIONS OF SLURM FINE.
 -- Added configuration parameter BatchStartTimeout to control how long to 
    allow for a batch job prolog and environment loading (for Moab) to run.
    Previously if job startup took too long, a batch job could be cancelled
    before fully starting with a SlurmctldLog message of "Master node lost 
    JobId=#, killing it".  See "man slurm.conf" for details.
 -- For a job step, add support for srun's --nodelist and --exclusive options
    to be used together.
 -- On slurmstepd failure, set node state to DRAIN rather than DOWN.
 -- Fix bug in select/cons_res that would incorrectly satify a tasks's
    --cpus-per-task specification by allocating the task CPUs on more than
    one node.
 -- Add support for hostlist expressions containing up to two numeric 
    expressions (e.g. "rack[0-15]_blade[0-41]").
 -- Fix bug in slurmd message forwarding which left file open in the case of
    some communication failures.
 -- Correction to sinfo node state information on BlueGene systems. DRAIN
    state was replaced with ALLOC or IDLE under some situations.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), strip quotes embedded within job names from the
    name reported.
 -- Fix bug in jobcomp/script that could cause the slurmctld daemon to exit
    upon reconfiguration ("scontrol reconfig" or SIGHUP).
 -- Fix to sinfo, don't print a node's memory size or tmp_disk space with 
    suffix of "K" or "M" (thousands or millions of megabytes).
 -- Improve efficiency of scheduling jobs into partitions which do not overlap.
 -- Fixed sreport user top report to only display the limit specified 
    instead of all users.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.11
=========================
 -- Bluegene/P support added (minimally tested, but builds correctly).
 -- Fix infinite loop when using accounting_storage/mysql plugin either from
    the slurmctld or slurmdbd daemon.
 -- Added more thread safety for assoc_mgr in the controller.
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab), permit clearing of a job's dependencies with the 
    JOB_MODIFY option "DEPEND=0".
 -- Do not set a running or pending job's EndTime when changing it's time 
    limit.
 -- Fix bug in use of "include" parameter within the plugstack.conf file.
 -- Fix bug in the parsing of negative numeric values in configuration files.
 -- Propagate --cpus-per-task parameter from salloc or sbatch input line to
    the SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK environment variable in the spawned shell for 
    srun to use.
 -- Add support for srun --cpus_per_task=0. This can be used to spawn tasks
    without allocating resouces for the job step from the job's allocation
    when running multiple job steps with the --exclusive option.
 -- Remove registration messages from saved messages when bringing down cluster.
    Without causes deadlock if wrong cluster name is given.
 -- Correction to build for srun debugger (export symbols).
 -- sacct will now display more properly allocations made with salloc with only 
    one step.
 -- Altered sacctmgr, sreport to look at complete option before applying. 
    Before we would only look at the first determined significant characters.
 -- BLUGENE - in overlap mode marking a block to error state will now end
    jobs on overlapping blocks and free them.
 -- Give a batch job 20 minutes to start before considering it missing and 
    killing it (long delay could result from slurmd being paged out). Changed
    the log message from "Master node lost JobId=%u, killing it" to "Batch 
    JobId=%u missing from master node, killing it".
 -- Avoid "Invalid node id" error when a job step within an existing job 
    allocation specifies a node count which is less than the node count
    allocated in order to satisfy the task count specification (e.g. 
    "srun -n16 -N1 hostname" on allocation of 16 one-CPU nodes).
 -- For sched/wiki2 (Moab) disable changing a job's name after it has begun
    execution.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.10
=========================
 -- Fix several bugs in the hostlist functions:
    - Fix hostset_insert_range() to do proper accounting of hl->nhosts (count).
    - Avoid assertion failure when callinsg hostset_create(NULL).
    - Fix return type of hostlist and hostset string functions from size_t to
      ssize_t.
    - Add check for NULL return from hostlist_create().
    - Rewrite of hostrange_hn_within(), avoids reporting "tst0" in the hostlist
 -- Modify squeue to accept "--nodes=<hostlist>" rather than 
    "--node=<node_name>" and report all jobs with any allocated nodes from set
    of nodes specified. From Par Anderson, National Supercomputer Centre, 
    Sweden.
 -- Fix bug preventing use of TotalView debugger with TaskProlog configured or 
    or srun's --task-prolog option.
 -- Improve reliability of batch job requeue logic in the event that the slurmd
    daemon is temporarily non-responsive (for longer than the configured
    MessageTimeout value but less than the SlurmdTimeout value).
 -- In sched/wiki2 (Moab) report a job's MAXNODES (maximum number of permitted
    nodes).
 -- Fixed SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE to live up more to it's name on an allocation. 
    Will now contain the number of tasks per node instead of the number of CPUs
    per node.  This is only for a resource allocation. Job steps already have 
    the environment variable set correctly.
 -- Configuration parameter PropagateResourceLimits has new option of "NONE".
 -- User's --propagate options take precidence over PropagateResourceLimits
    configuration parameter in both srun and sbatch commands.
 -- When Moab is in use (salloc or sbatch is executed with the --get-user-env
    option to be more specific), load the user's default resource limits rather
    than propagating the Moab daemon's limits.
 -- Fix bug in slurmctld restart logic for recovery of batch jobs that are
    initiated as a job step rather than an independent job (used for LSF).
 -- Fix bug that can cause slurmctld restart to fail, bug introduced in SLURM
    version 1.3.9. From Eygene Ryabinkin, Kurchatov Institute, Russia.
 -- Permit slurmd configuration parameters to be set to new values from 
    previously unset values.
* Changes in SLURM 1.3.9
========================
 -- Fix jobs being cancelled by ctrl-C to have correct cancelled state in 
    accounting.
 -- Slurmdbd will only cache user data, made for faster start up
 -- Improved support for job steps in FRONT_END systems
 -- Added support to dump and load association information in the controller
    on start up if slurmdbd is unresponsive
 -- BLUEGENE - Added support for sched/backfill plugin
 -- sched/backfill modified to initiate multiple jobs per cycle.
 -- Increase buffer size in srun to hold task list expressions. Critical 
    for jobs with 16k tasks or more.
 -- Added support for eligible jobs and downed nodes to be sent to accounting
    from the controller the first time accounting is turned on.
 -- Correct srun logic to support --tasks-per-node option without task count.
 -- Logic in place to handle multiple versions of RPCs within the slurmdbd. 
    THE SLURMDBD MUST BE UPGRADED TO THIS VERSION BEFORE UPGRADING THE 
    SLURMCTLD OR THEY WILL NOT TALK.  
    Older versions of the slurmctld will continue to talk to the new slurmdbd.
 -- Add support for new job dependency type: singleton. Only one job from a 
    given user with a given name will execute with this dependency type.
    From Matthieu Hautreux, CEA.
 -- Updated contribs/python/hostlist to version 1.3: See "CHANGES" file in
    that directory for details. From Kent Engström, NSC.
 -- Add SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable for jobs submitted using sbatch.
    In order to prevent the job steps from all having the same name as the 
    batch job that spawned them, the SLURM_JOB_NAME environment variable is
    ignored when setting the name of a job step from within an existing 
    resource allocation.
 -- For use with sched/wiki2 (Moab only), set salloc's default shell based 
    upon the user who the job runs as rather than the user submitting the job 
    (user root).
 -- Fix to sched/backfill when job specifies no time limit and the partition
    time limit is INFINITE.
 -- Validate a job's constraints (node features) at job submit or modification 
    time. Major re-write of resource allocation logic to support more complex
    job feature requests.
 -- For sched/backfill, correct logic to support job constraint specification
    (e.g. node features).
 -- Correct power save logic to avoid trying to wake DOWN node. From Matthieu
    Hautreux, CEA.
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