Base Command Manager / Bright Cluster Manager Release Notes

Release notes for Bright 8.0-13

== General ==

- Improvements

* New disablePostfixConfiguration flag to node-installer to prevent postfix files from being written
* Added support for AWS C5 and I3 instance types in Cluster extension. To enable the support on clusters already extended to AWS please contact support for instructions
* Jupyter and Jupyterhub are now available for Power8

- Fixed Issues

* An issue with yum install/upgrade of OpenStack packages due to the rename of uwsgi-plugin-python package in the epel repository
* Monitoring device state can get out of date resulting in no monitoring being picked up
* Support UGE 8.6.x
* pdsh -v crash when cmdaemon is down

== cmdaemon ==

- New Features

* Added raw value to string conversion routes for pythoncm

- Fixed Issues

* CMDaemon deadlock during restart
* Rare crash in monitoring entity cache
* CMDaemon does not start slurmd when Slurm configuration is frozen
* Ensure Ceph global metrics are kept up to date
* Possible cmdaemon crash while creating certificates if the filesystem has wrong permissions
* New command line flag to exernal-user-cert script to allow overwriting of existing certificates
* In some cases, cmdaemon crash when accessing a file with the read file API
* An issue with checking all cert.pem paths when ExtraUserCertificatePath is specified
* Provisioning sometimes hangs on /tftpboot in HA setup
* Fixed mutex in session event handling that can lead to crashes
* Incorrect UGE and OGS drain status
* An issue with drain actions
* Slurm queue parameter TRESBillingWeights was handled incorrectly
* An issue with running cm-user-init python script from within cmdaemon
* An issue with adding/removing grid engine login hosts to admin host list

== cm-beegfs-setup ==

- New Features

* Add SLES12 support for cm-beegfs-setup.

== cm-openstack-setup ==

- Improvements

* Increased the requirement for minimum amount of memory for controller nodes from 4GiB to 8GiB

- Fixed Issues

* In some cases, an issue with OpenStack deployment failing to add sec group rules, which affects the ability to start vnodes

== cm-scale ==

- Fixed Issues

* Support for exclusive nodes request by grid engine jobs
* cm-scale did not undrain stopped LSF nodes when needed
* cm-scale will no longer require enabling grid engine's scheduling information collection

== cmsh ==

- Fixed Issues

* In some cases, cmsh crash in jobs modes in list command
* An issue with cmsh device --role and --overlay selectors

== cod ==

- Fixed Issues

* COD-OS: An issue with compute nodes having IP addresses not corresponding to their hostname numbers
* COD-OS: Improved "image install" command to retry on download failure

== monitoring ==

- Fixed Issues

* Fuzzy offset can break sampling of the range for negative indexes
* Rare crash while initializing new measurables
* Monitoring tasks can sometimes be started twice
* In some cases, job information does not correctly handle the time zones

== user portal ==

- Improvements

* Slurm job status is now immediately updated in the user portal after an operation is performed