SGE 8.1.1 is available from <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/downloads/SGE/releases/8.1.1/>. It is a large superset of the freely available Grid Engine features and fixes from other sources, e.g. >700 changes since 6.2u5 (Sun's last release).
RPMs are available for Red Hat-ish systems, an SRPM that builds on Fedora, with binaries for older Debian/Ubuntu (currently no .deb) and Cygwin. It also builds on current Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenSuSE. The Cygwin port is currently only useful for clients -- contributions welcome if you're interested in Cygwin. Please contribute bug reports, patches, and suggestions for enhancement via mail or the web interface <https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE#mail>. Significant changes: * Bug fixes * Many man and other documentation fixes * Various build fixes; including correct linking of libdrmaa.so * Fix various messages * Fix ownership of pty created with "-pty y" per submit(1) * Fix setting of non-"explicit" binding parameters with JSV * Fix qevent crash when printing usage * Avoid qsub crash when user information is unavailable [#772] * Fix problems with qmon and optimized compiles due to invalid C * Fix effective units for memory reporting on Darwin * Delay closing descriptors for interactive sessions * Avoid sensitivity of internal floating-point handling to numeric locale [#1394] * Allow full wildcard patterns for wc_pe_name type in parallel environment requests, not just "*" [#1410] * Pass the user environment with MS Windows display_win_gui=true jobs [#1380] * Treat -pty the same as qsh for qlogin and command-less qrsh * Fix handling of newlines in qrsh commands, exposed by qmake update [#1420], and preserve "\n" in environment values * Avoid breaking some NSS modules, resulting in failed passwd lookup * Fix suspension of parallel jobs [#577] * Improve portability of qstatus(1) * Fix signature of drmaa_run_bulk_jobs [#362] * Treat -pty for qlogin/qrlogin as for qsh * Fix some cases with shell_start_mode=unix_behaviour * Use correct KRB5CCNAME when deleting Kerberos credentials [#64] (though GSS security is not currently useful) * Fix spurious deletion of the job script with multiple PE array jobs on a node * Security * Don't pass any user environment to remote startup daemons -- better fix for half of CVE-2012-0208 * Enhancements * SGE_BINDING is set in the environment for all types of binding * New jobstats(1) provides historical job summary * Berkeleydb spools can optionally be opened "private" to allow operation on NFS3 filesystems. Currently no installer support, but see bootstrap(5) and the health warning * Environment variable SGE_DRMAA_ALLOW_JOB_ERROR_STATE allows DRMAA jobs to enter the error state [#1374]; see drmaa_submit(3) * Define SGE_JOBEXIT_STAT environment variable in epilog; see submit(1) * The user from which mail is sent can be configured in sge_conf(5) * Topology items are now static load values; see load_parameters(5) * qstat now prints array job dependency info * Default to support for qsort_args in sge_pe(5) * Include an example of logrotate usage * Install an "smp" PE * Distribute/document sge_share_mon(1) to print share tree [#1373] * Improve install template defaults [#1362] * GPU load sensor (dist/util/resources/loadsensors/gpu-loadsensor.c) * Allow building Kerberos/GSSAPI security modules against Heimdal (but GSS is still not properly usable) * Support arm and mipsel on GNU/Linux, completing the set of official Debian Linux-based ports * Support for OpenBSD (untested) * Preliminary support for Cygwin: everything builds, clients work (lightly tested), daemons need fixing * Add ja_task_id to expandable variables in ckpt_command and similar methods * distinst supports installation with install(1) for use with -local * Incompatible changes * The CA directory is now /var/lib/sgeCA instead of /var/sgeCA [#293] but installation will offer to move it [fixme] * Drop (any pretence at) support for Cray/Unicos, NEC SX, Darwin 6 * The spool format for parallel job tasks has changed from any previous version built with qsort_args (as above), which will make live upgrades from such a version fail on nodes running parallel jobs * Other changes * Extensive internal changes to improve robustness, e.g. of string-handling against buffer overruns -- somewhat error-prone and may have caused regressions; more required * Install script allows rsh et al to be omitted from binary distribution in favour of ssh _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
