The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.4. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Python 3 bindings - see version history for details (requires EPEL on EL7); Can configure DAGMan to dramatically reduce memory usage on some DAGs; Improved scalability when using the python bindings to qedit jobs; Fixed infrequent schedd crashes when removing scheduler universe jobs; The condor_master creates run and lock directories when systemd doesn't; The condor daemon obituary email now contains the last 200 lines of log. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.2. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.3 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: The HTTP/HTTPS file transfer plugin will timeout and retry transfers; A new multi-file box.com file transfer plugin to download files; The manual has been moved to Read the Docs; Configuration options for job-log time-stamps (UTC, ISO 8601, sub-second); Several improvements to SSL authentication; New TOKEN authentication method enables fine-grained authorization control. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.3. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Fixed a bug where jobs were killed instead of peacefully shutting down; Fixed a bug where a restarted schedd wouldn't connect to its running jobs; Improved file transfer performance when sending multiple files; Fix a bug that prevented interactive submit from working with Singularity; Orphaned Docker containers are now cleaned up on execute nodes; Restored a deprecated Python interface that is used to read the event log. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.3 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.1. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.2 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: An efficient curl plugin that supports uploads and authentication tokens; HTCondor automatically supports GPU jobs in Docker and Singularity; File transfer times are now recorded in the user job log and the job ad. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.1 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.2. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Fixed problems with condor_ssh_to_job and Singularity jobs; Fixed a problem that could cause condor_annex to crash; Fixed a problem where the job queue would very rarely be corrupted; condor_userprio can report concurrency limits again; Fixed the GPU discovery and monitoring code to map GPUs in the same way; Made the CHIRP_DELAYED_UPDATE_PREFIX configuration knob work again; Fixed restarting HTCondor from the Service Control Manager on Windows; Fixed a problem where local universe jobs could not use condor_submit; Restored a deprecated Python interface that is used to read the event log; Fixed a problem where condor_shadow reuse could confuse DAGMan. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.0. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.1 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: Absent any configuration, HTCondor denies authorization to all users; All HTCondor daemons under a condor_master share a security session; Scheduler Universe jobs are prioritized by job priority. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.0 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.