Several Slurm enhancements planned for the next major release will not be available for a December release. The major organizations performing SLurm development have decided that the best course of action is to delay the next major release until March 2014. This will provide sufficient time to complete the development planned for the December release, plus some additional work.
Organizations compelled to upgrade before March can make use of version 13.12/14.03 pre-releases. Waiting for the 14.03 release is advised for mission critical applications. As with any pre-releases, upgrades from a pre-release of version 13.12/14.03 to version 14.03 may result in loss of jobs and other state information. We regret any inconveneience this delay may cause.
