The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.9.3. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.8.5 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: TOKEN and SSL authentication methods are now enabled by default; The job and global event logs use ISO 8601 formatted dates by default; Added Google Drive multifile transfer plugin; Added upload capability to Box multifile transfer plugin; Added Python bindings to submit a DAG; Python 'JobEventLog' can be pickled to facilitate intermittent readers; 2x matchmaking speed for partitionable slots with simple START expressions; Improved the performance of the condor_schedd under heavy load; Reduced the memory footprint of condor_dagman; Initial implementation to record the circumstances of a job's termination. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.9.3 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.8.5. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Fixed two performance problems on Windows; Fixed Java universe on Debian and Ubuntu systems; Added two knobs to improve performance on large scale pools; Fixed a bug where requesting zero GPUs would require a machine with GPUs; HTCondor can now recognize nVidia Volta and Turing GPUs. More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.8.5 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

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.