The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.8 and HTCondor 8.9.6. These releases contain important fixes for security issues. Affected users should update as soon as possible. More details on the security issues are in the Vulnerability Reports:

• HTCONDOR-2020-01
• HTCONDOR-2020-02
• HTCONDOR-2020-03
• HTCONDOR-2020-04

HTCondor binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is re-releasing the HTCondor 8.9.5 deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu. An error caused the Python bindings to be placed in the wrong directory, rendering them nonfunctional.

The article "A cost effective ExaFLOP hour in the Clouds for IceCube" discusses how an existing HTCondor pool was augmented with resources dynamically acquired from AWS, Azure, Google, Open Science Grid, and on-prem resources to perform science for the IceCube project. The objective, on top of (obviously) the science output, was to demonstrate how much compute can someone integrate during a regular working day, using only the two most cost effective SKUs for each Cloud provider.

A recently posted article at Amazon explains how the Univ of Manchester dynamically grows the size of their HTCondor pool with resources from AWS by using the HTCondor Annex tool.

We invite HTCondor users, administrators, and developers to HTCondor Week 2020, our annual HTCondor user conference, May 19-20, 2020. This will be a free, online event.

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.