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.

The CREAM working group has recently announced official support for the CREAM-CE will cease in December 2020. We are soliciting feedback on the HTCondor and Open Science Grid (OSG) transition plan. Please see this post to the htcondor-users email list for more information, and please email any concerns to htcondor-admin@cs.wisc.edu and/or help@opensciencegrid.org.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.1. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Fixed excessive CPU consumption with GPU monitoring; GPU monitoring is off by default; enable with "use feature: GPUsMonitor"; HTCondor now works with the new CUDA version 10 libraries; Fixed a bug where sometimes jobs would not start on a Windows execute node; Fixed a bug that could cause DAGman to go into an infinite loop on exit; The JobRouter doesn't forward the USER attribute between two UID Domains; Made Collector.locateAll() more efficient in the Python bindings; Improved efficiency of the negotiation code in the condor_schedd. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.1 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.0. After a year and a half of development, this is the first release of the new stable series. Highlights of this release are: Automatically add AWS resources to your pool using HTCondor Annex; The Python bindings now include submit functionality; Added the ability to run a job immediately by replacing a running job; A new mini(ht)condor package makes single node installations easy; HTCondor now tracks and reports GPU utilization; Several performance enhancements in the collector; The grid universe can create and manage VM instances in Microsoft Azure; The MUNGE security method is now supported on all Linux platforms. More details about the new features can be found in the Upgrade Section. A few bugs and memory leaks were fixed during our stabilization effort. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.0 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.