Son of Grid Engine 8.1.3 is available, not before time, from <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/downloads/SGE/releases/8.1.3/>. The changes are mainly bug fixes, plus support for packaging as a Debian add-on and a few enhancements pulled in by dependencies. Building on MS Windows is now tested and documented (see source/README.windows).
Building the included Debian source package is a much better bet than using the current official packaging in Debian and derivatives (which is now being worked on). Possibly worth noting, and arguably a bug fix, rather than an enhancement: Reporting of virtual memory usage, which has been complained about, is now more realistic on recent Linux (using PSS+swap). Binaries are available for Red Hat-ish x86_64 systems, and for MS Windows. Please report bugs, patches, and suggestions for enhancement <https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE#mail>. (Some enhancements and fixes are already available in the repository/snapshots.) Release notes (significant changes amongst 100+ patches): Version 8.1.3 ------------- * Bug fixes * Man and other doc fixes [including #354, #1285, #1436, #1444] * Use correct schema with qstat -xml * Correct qstat -pri -xml output [#359] * Correct more bad XML [#314] * Fixes for building on Solaris and Interix * Minor fixes [#350, #351, #369, #593, #794, #1413, #1436] * Assorted code improvements from better checking, particularly format errors in diagnostic output * Avoid qmaster crash with old client [#1441] * Report dynamic limits correctly in qquota * Fix JRE path on some GNU/Linux architectures * Avoid possible crashes sending mail [#1443] * Correct fix for "invalid pe job range" [#1402] * Print "r" checkpoint flag in qstat [#1445] * Pass TERM to jobs from submission environment, not execd's * Fix idle-nodes script * Fix sge_qquota parsing [#486] * Enhancements * Document Interix building explicitly * qstat reports array task maximum concurrency [#1338] * qstatus removes [] suffix for non-array jobs if -t was requested * Read /etc/default/{sgeexecd,sgemaster} to allow customizing rc scripts * Location of daemon pid files can be specified with SGE_QMASTER_PIDFILE, SGE_EXECD_PIDFILE * Debian packaging (as an add-on, installing into /opt/sge) * Expand $sge_root and $sge_cell in the definitions of prolog and similar methods * Check in init script that shepherd will load [#1412] * Add lx-armhf architecture * On Linux and NetBSD, report jobs' virtual memory usage as accurately as possible [#62, #1301] * Add -nobincheck installation option to avoid checking binaries [#45] * Add some build hooks, useful for Debian particularly. * Potentially incompatible changes * qacct prints units [#174] (might affect parsing the output) * Correct spelling of "comunication_error" in qstat XML error output * Fix problems submitting to ARs [#788] (printing times now doesn't use a days field in qstat etc.) * Java version >= 1.5 required * Lower default MAX_DYN_EC somewhat to avoid warning on typical Linux configurations * Other changes * Don't install the ckpt directory (contents obsolete) _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
