Son of Grid Engine Changelog

What's new in Son of Grid Engine 8.1.6

Nov 9, 2013
  • This release fixes various bugs.

New in Son of Grid Engine 8.1.5 (Oct 4, 2013)

  • This release mainly fixes MS Windows build problems.

New in Son of Grid Engine 8.1.4 (Sep 6, 2013)

  • Bug fixes and some enhancements, now with over 1000 patches since Oracle pulled the plug.

New in Son of Grid Engine 8.1.3 (Mar 1, 2013)

  • 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)