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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
 
 * Changes in Slurm 14.03.0pre7
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+ -- Handle the case in which errno is not reset to 0 after calling
+    getgrent_r(), which causes the controller to core dump.
 
 * Changes in Slurm 14.03.0pre6
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