The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor-CE 4.1.0. HTCondor-CE is a grid gateway that forwards resource provisioning requests to your local cluster. HTCondor-CE was originally developed by the Open Science Grid (OSG). The Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC) now distributes and supports HTCondor-CE for use outside of the OSG. Highlights of this release are: Added the ability to configure the environment of routed jobs; Simplified APEL configuration; Fixed the ability to specify certificate locations for SSL authentication; Refined the APEL record filter to ignore jobs that have not yet started; Fixed an issue where "condor_ce_q" required authentication; Re-enabled the ability for local users to submit jobs to the CE queue; Fixed an issue where some jobs were capped at 72 mins instead of 72 hrs; Improved BDII provider error handling. A complete list of new features and fixed bugs can be found in the version history. HTCondor-CE 4.1.0 binaries are available from our YUM Repository.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor-CE 3.4.0. HTCondor-CE is a grid gateway that forwards resource provisioning requests to your local cluster. HTCondor-CE was originally developed by the Open Science Grid (OSG). The Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC) now distributes and supports HTCondor-CE for use outside of the OSG. Highlights of this release are: Added the ability to configure the environment of routed jobs; Simplified APEL configuration; Refined the APEL record filter to ignore jobs that have not yet started; Improved BDII provider error handling. A complete list of new features and fixed bugs can be found in the version history. HTCondor-CE 3.4.0 binaries are available from our YUM Repository.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.5. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.7 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: Added a new mode that skips jobs whose outputs are newer than their inputs; Added command line tool to help debug ClassAd expressions; Added port forwarding to Docker containers; You may now change some DAGMan throttles while the DAG is running; Added support for session tokens for pre-signed S3 URLs; Improved the speed of the negotiator when custom resources are defined; Fixed interactive submission of Docker jobs; Fixed a bug where jobs would not be killed when getting an OOM notification. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.5 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.7. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Updated condor_annex to work with upcoming AWS Lambda function changes; Added the ability to specify the order that job routes are applied; Fixed a bug that could cause remote condor submits to fail; Fixed condor_wait to work when the job event log is on AFS; Fixed RPM packaging to be able to install condor-all on CentOS 8; Period ('.') is allowed again in DAGMan node names. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.7 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

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The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.4. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.6 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: Amazon S3 file transfers using pre-signed URLs; Further reductions in DAGMan memory usage; Added -idle option to condor_q to display information about idle jobs; Support for SciTokens authentication; A tool, condor_evicted_files, to examine the SPOOL of an idle job. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.4 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.