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9.3 Stable Release Series 7.8
This is a stable release series of Condor.
As usual, only bug fixes (and potentially, ports to new platforms)
will be provided in future 7.8.x releases.
New features will be added in the 7.9.x development series.
The details of each version are described below.
Version 7.8.0
Release Notes:
- Condor version 7.8.0 not yet released.
New Features:
- (Added in 7.7.6.) Added the -_condor_relocatable argument
for standalone checkpointing. This allows checkpointed programs to restart
without attempting to change to their original directory.
(Ticket #2877).
- (Added in 7.7.5.) Added the -absent flag to condor_status,
which displays absent ads.
(Ticket #2690).
- (Added in 7.7.5.) Implement absent ads, which help track pool membership
in a persistent way.
(Ticket #2608).
Configuration Variable and ClassAd Attribute Additions and Changes:
- The job ClassAd attribute RemotePool is now saved in
LastRemotePool when the job finishes running.
Bugs Fixed:
- (Fixed in 7.7.6.) Fix -absent, -vm, and -java
flags to condor_status so that they work with the -long option.
(Ticket #2943).
- Support glob() on Scientific Linux 6 and others using the new
Linux system call fstatat(), but only when not using remote system calls.
(Ticket #2945).
- Fixed potential startd crash introduced in v7.7.5 when claiming
a partitionable slot that was in the Owner state.
(Ticket #2936).
- When ClassAd function stringListMember() is called with an empty
string as the second argument, it now evaluates to False.
Previously, it incorrectly evaluated to Undefined.
(Ticket #2953).
- Format tags %v and %V for the -format option now properly
print all ClassAd value types. Previously, True and False
were printed as integers, and new ClassAd types like lists and nested
ads couldn't be printed.
(Ticket #2960).
- Restored RCS keyword strings CondorVersion and CondorPlatform to
the Condor binaries. These strings are found and printed by the
ident program on unix. They were missing in Condor versions 7.7.3
and later.
(Ticket #2932).
- condor_job_router failed to route spooled source jobs.
(Ticket #2955).
- Fixed a bug on Debian 6 and RHEL 6 that could cause standard
universe jobs to never checkpoint. This would happen if the job
triggered a call to NSCD (Name Service Caching Daemon) but NSCD
wasn't running.
Calls to NSCD can be triggered by a lookup of a user account or
resolving a machine hostname to an IP address.
Now, NSCD is never consulted by a standard universe
job (this was already the behavior on other platforms).
(Ticket #2973).
Known Bugs:
Additions and Changes to the Manual:
condor-admin@cs.wisc.edu