HTCondor 8.7.2 released!

June 22, 2017

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.7.2. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.6.4 stable release. Enhancements in the release include: Improved condor_schedd performance by turning off file checks by default; condor_annex -status finds VM instances that have not joined the pool; Able to update an annex’s lease without adding new instances; condor_annex now keeps a command log; condor_q produces an expanded multi-line summary; Automatically retry and/or resume http file transfers when appropriate; Reduced load on the condor_collector by optimizing queries; A python based condor_top tool. Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.7.2 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.