diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7bf99dc19e2a50a2ed4da52e5c5aa7b98e00e530..ffa5ff658030d53fa38f601dbd5de02992291d61 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and administrators.
  -- Change the global eio_shutdown_time to a field in eio handle.
  -- Advanced reservation fixes for heterogeneous systems, especially when
     reserving cores.
+ -- If --hint=nomultithread is used in a job allocation make sure any srun's
+    ran inside the allocation can read the environment correctly.
 
 * Changes in Slurm 14.03.7
 ==========================
diff --git a/src/common/slurm_resource_info.c b/src/common/slurm_resource_info.c
index 346c77fe9c791143f49f0f32ae98aca7601e0ae0..8afc7e1d4a35f2206af55179b8a41bb114ede40e 100644
--- a/src/common/slurm_resource_info.c
+++ b/src/common/slurm_resource_info.c
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ int slurm_verify_cpu_bind(const char *arg, char **cpu_bind,
 		} else if ((strcasecmp(tok, "v") == 0) ||
 			   (strcasecmp(tok, "verbose") == 0)) {
 		        *flags |= CPU_BIND_VERBOSE;
+		} else if ((strcasecmp(tok, "one_thread") == 0)) {
+		        *flags |= CPU_BIND_ONE_THREAD_PER_CORE;
 		} else if ((strcasecmp(tok, "no") == 0) ||
 			   (strcasecmp(tok, "none") == 0)) {
 			_clear_then_set((int *)flags, bind_bits, CPU_BIND_NONE);