[HTCondor-world] HTCondor 8.6.0 Released


Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:23:31 -0600
From: Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [HTCondor-world] HTCondor 8.6.0 Released
The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.6.0.
After a year of development, this is the first release of the new stable
series.

Highlights of this release are:
- condor_q shows shows only the current user's jobs by default
- condor_q summarizes related jobs (batches) on a single line by default
- Users can define their own job batch name at job submission time
- Immutable/protected job attributes make SUBMIT_REQUIREMENTS more useful
- The shared port daemon is enabled by default
- Jobs run in cgroups by default
- HTCondor can now use IPv6 addresses (Prefers IPv4 when both present)
- DAGMan: Able to easily define SCRIPT, VARs, etc., for all nodes in a DAG
- DAGMan: Revamped priority implementation
- DAGMan: New splice connection feature
- New slurm grid type in the grid universe for submitting to Slurm
- Numerous improvements to Docker support
- Several enhancements in the python bindings

More details about the new features can be found in the Upgrade Section:
http://htcondor.org/manual/v8.6.0/10_2Upgrading_from.html

A few bugs were fixed during our stabilization effort.

More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History:
http://htcondor.org/manual/v8.6.0/10_3Stable_Release.html

Downloads Page:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/downloads/

Thank you for your interest in HTCondor!

- The HTCondor Team
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