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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     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.
  -- 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