flux-core v0.7.0

Published: Mar 31, 2017 by flux-framework

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Release Notes

Fixes

• Improve reliability of module unloading (#1017)
• Update autotools for make dist to support newer arches (#1016)
• Fix corner cases in resource-hwloc module (#1012)
• Ensure destructors are called during broker shutdown (#1005)
• flux-logger(1) and flux_log(3) can return error (#1000)
• Fix balancing of Caliper hooks in RPC calls (#991)
• Fix missed errors in subscribe/unsubscribe on local connector (#994)
• sanitize log entries before they enter circular buffer (#959)
• Do not send wreck.state.complete event before job archival (#955)
• Update embedded libev to 4.24 (#944)
• Propagate argument quoting properly in flux-start and flux-broker (#931)
• Fixes and improvements in liboptparse (#922, #927, #929)
• Tighten up PMI implementation for OpenMPI (#926)

New Features

• Allow user other than instance owner to connect to an instance (#980)
• Systemd support, default run directory and URI for system instance (#992, #995)
• New --bootstrap option to flux-start (#990)
• New KVS_NO_MERGE flag in kvs commit and fence operations (#982)
• Add broker.pid to broker attributes (#954)
• flux start only execs broker if --size is not specified (#951)
• Add pkg-config package for Flux PMI (#921)

Cleanup

• Remove live module (#1003)
• Remove flux-up and flux-topo (#960)
• Transition away from deprecated czmq classes (#1013)
• Re-architect and improve many internal and cmd rpc functions (#1002, #1009)
• Other major and minor cleanup (#919, #928, #941, #940, #942, #954, #969, #976, #981, #978, #986, #990, #1001, #1008)
• Remove cmb. prefix from broker services (#947)

Testing

• Expand and improve unit and system tests for greater code coverage (#937, #942, #979, #985, #991, #1004, #1011, #1013, #1014)
• Fix documentation spellcheck (#1015)
• Add dependency on “all” to top-level make check (#970)
• Add flake8/pylint checks (#816)

Documentation

• Improve flux_reactor_create documentation (#970)
• Update flux_msg_cmp(3) and flux_recv(3) to match flux_match changes (#946)
• Update flux-submit(1) and flux-wreckrun(1) manpages (#945)