The HTCondor Team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor version 8.1.4. This development release contains all the bug fixes from the stable release version 8.0.6. Major new features include: added grid universe support for Google Compute Engine; support for defining custom resources that easily manage GPUs; a new tool that does GPU discovery; improved scalability when using the shared port service; Python 3 support; enhanced resilience due to the prompt detection of network failures. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.1.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

HTCondor Week attendees are interested in hearing about your efforts during our annual meeting, April 28-30. Please consider presenting. Details for adding your talk to the schedule are given in this page of Information for HTCondor Week Speakers.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.0.6. This new version contains a port of HTCondor for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta on the x86_64 architecture that includes support for the standard universe. It also contains bug fixes for: transferring files larger then 4 GiB on Windows and 32-bit platforms; using a minimum of 1024-bit keys on proxy certificates generated by HTCondor; accepting DAG input files larger then 2 GiB; the Windows MSI installer setting up a proper configuration for the VM universe; honoring CPU affinity on Windows platforms; issues with a failing condor_schedd daemon, when HTCondor is compiled with gcc 4.8+, the default compiler on recent Fedora releases. A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.0.6 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

HTCondor Week 2014, our annual HTCondor user conference, is scheduled for April 28-April 30, 2014. We will again host HTCondor Week at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin.

In a change from previous years, technical talks will begin on Monday. See the web site for current details.

At HTCondor Week, you can look forward to:

• Technical talks on usage and deployment from developers and your fellow users
• Talks and tutorials on new HTCondor features
• Talks on future plans for HTCondor
• Introductory tutorials on using and administrating HTCondor
• The opportunity to meet with HTCondor developers and other users

Information on registration and scheduling will be available soon.

The HTCondor Team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor version 8.1.3. This development release contains all the bug fixes from the stable release version 8.0.5. Major new features include: the parsing of configuration has changed such that comments are permitted within multi-line definitions; the condor_sos tool helps administrators manage overloaded daemons by causing commands to be handled with a higher priority; a new Python binding reads event logs. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.1.3 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.0.5. This new version contains bug fixes for: a heavily loaded condor_schedd daemon crashing when starting a local universe job, a condor_schedd daemon failing to start due to illegal values in the job queue or accounting recovery logs, interactive jobs not running when using cgroups, permissions errors preventing java universe jobs from running, and VMware vm universe jobs removing useful devices. A complete list of bugs fixed can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.0.5 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

We add our congratulations to James Drews of the University of Wisconsin - Madison for the discovery of J1859+03, a new radio pulsar, within data from the Arecibo Observatory PALFA survey. James backfills the Computer Aided Engineering HTCondor pool with the Einstein@Home boinc client.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.1.2. This development release contains all the bug fixes from the stable release version 8.0.4. Major new features include: partitionable slots can now be split into dynamic slots at negotiation time using new consumption policies; new condor_chirp commands permit updates to job ClassAd attributes to occur in a delayed fashion, reducing the overhead of making the update; there are many Python binding improvements including a new Negotiator class; condor_ssh_to_job now works for grid universe jobs on amazon EC2 resources; new command line options for condor_config_val and condor_history allow them to query remote machines; increased the scalability of the condor_shared_port daemon, condor_queue, and condor_status by increasing concurrency. A complete list of bugs fixed and features can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.1.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.