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@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Correction in calculation of a job's memory used for use in enforcement
     of a job's memory limit.
  -- Correct logic for processing batch job's memory limit enforcement.
+ -- Fix bug that was setting a job's requeue value on any update of the 
+    job using the "scontrol update" command. The invalid value of an 
+    updated job prevents it's recovery when slurmctld restarts.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.3.0
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