[HTCondor-users] HTCondor 25.01 and 25.1.0 Released

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 25.0.1
and 25.1.0. After a year of development, this is the first release of a
new LTS version. It includes all the enhancements and bug fixes from
the 24.x feature versions. The HTCcondor 25.1.0 is the starting point
for new features versions and is equivalent to the new 25.0.1 LTS version.

Improvements from the HTCondor 24.x feature series
- New and improved Python bindings: classad2 and htcondor2
 - Python code must be migrated to the new bindings
- New condor_dag_checker tool finds syntax and logic errors before run
- Add the ability to enforce memory and CPU limits on local universe jobs
- Add job attributes to track why and how often a job is vacated
- New job attribute to report number of input files transferred by protocol
- New condor_q -hold-codes produces a summary of held jobs
- condor_status -lvm reports current disk usage by slots on the EPs
- Add new 'halt' and 'resume' verbs to "htcondor dag"
- htcondor ap status now reports the AP's RecentDaemonCoreDutyCycle
- Can limit the number of times that a job can be released
- condor_watch_q now displays when file transfer is happening
- Add ability to use authentication when fetching Docker images
- HTCondor marks slots as broken when the slot resources cannot be released
- HTCondor now advertises NVIDIA driver version
- Improved validation and cleanup of EXECUTE directories
- New primary_unix_group submit command that sets the job's primary group
- Add Singularity launcher to distinguish runtime failure from job failure
- Container Universe jobs can now mount a writable directory under scratch
- New job attributes FirstJobMatchDate and InitialWaitDuration

More details about the new features can be found in the Upgrade Section:
https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/25.0/version-history/upgrading-from-24-0-to-25-0-versions.html

For the most recent changes, please consult the 25.0 version history at:
https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/25.0/version-history/lts-versions-25-0.html

For a full list changes over the last year, please consult the 24.x 
version history at:
https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/25.0/version-history/feature-versions-24-x.html

Downloads Page:
https://htcondor.org/htcondor/download/

Thank you for your interest in HTCondor!

- The HTCondor Team