Version 23.0 LTS Releases

These are Long Term Support (LTS) versions of HTCondor. As usual, only bug fixes (and potentially, ports to new platforms) will be provided in future 23.0.y versions. New features will be added in the 23.x.y feature versions.

Warning

The configuration macros JOB_ROUTER_DEFAULTS, JOB_ROUTER_ENTRIES, JOB_ROUTER_ENTRIES_CMD, and JOB_ROUTER_ENTRIES_FILE are deprecated and will be removed for V24 of HTCondor. New configuration syntax for the job router is defined using JOB_ROUTER_ROUTE_NAMES and JOB_ROUTER_ROUTE_<name>. Note: The removal will occur during the lifetime of the HTCondor V23 feature series. (HTCONDOR-1968)

The details of each version are described below.

Version 23.0.2

Release Notes:

  • HTCondor version 23.0.2 released on November 20, 2023.

New Features:

  • None.

Bugs Fixed:

  • Fixed a bug when Hashicorp Vault is configured to issue data transfer tokens (which is not the default), job submission could hang and then fail. Reverted a change to condor_submit that disconnected the output stream of SEC_CREDENTIAL_STORER to the user’s console, which broke OIDC flow. (HTCONDOR-2078)

  • Fixed a bug that could result in job sandboxes not being cleaned up for batch grid jobs submitted to a remote cluster. (HTCONDOR-2073)

  • Improved cleanup of ssh-agent processes when submitting batch grid universe jobs to a remote cluster via ssh. (HTCONDOR-2118)

  • Fixed a bug where the condor_negotiator could fail to contact a condor_schedd that’s on the same private network. (HTCONDOR-2115)

  • Fixed CGROUP_MEMORY_LIMIT_POLICY = custom for cgroup v2 systems. (HTCONDOR-2133)

  • Implemented DISABLE_SWAP_FOR_JOB support for cgroup v2 systems. (HTCONDOR-2127)

  • Fixed a bug in the OAuth and Vault credmons where log files would not rotate according to the configuration. (HTCONDOR-2013)

  • Fixed a bug in the condor_schedd where it would not create a permanent User record when a queue super user submitted a job for a different owner. This bug would sometimes cause the condor_schedd to crash after a job for a new user was submitted. (HTCONDOR-2131)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause jobs to be created incorrectly when a using initialdir and max_idle or max_materialize in the same submit file. (HTCONDOR-2092)

  • Fixed bug in DAGMan where held jobs that were removed would cause a warning about the internal count of held job procs being incorrect. (HTCONDOR-2102)

  • Fixed a bug in condor_transfer_data where using the -addr flag would automatically apply the -all flag to transfer all job data back making the use of -addr with a Job ID constraint fail. (HTCONDOR-2105)

  • Fixed warnings about use of deprecated HTCondor python binding methods in the htcondor dag submit command. (HTCONDOR-2104)

  • Fixed several small bugs with Trust On First Use (TOFU) for SSL authentication. Added configuration parameter BOOTSTRAP_SSL_SERVER_TRUST_PROMPT_USER, which can be used to prevent tools from prompting the user about trusting the server’s SSL certificate. (HTCONDOR-2080)

  • Fixed bug in the condor_userlog tool where it would crash when reading logs with parallel universe jobs in it. (HTCONDOR-2099)

Version 23.0.1

Release Notes:

  • HTCondor version 23.0.1 released on October 31, 2023.

  • We added a HTCondor Python wheel for Python 3.12 on PyPI. (HTCONDOR-2117)

  • The HTCondor tarballs now contain apptainer version 1.2.4. (HTCONDOR-2111)

New Features:

  • None.

Bugs Fixed:

  • Fixed a bug introduced in HTCondor 10.6.0 that prevented USE_PID_NAMESPACES from working. (HTCONDOR-2088)

  • Fix a bug where HTCondor fails to install on Debian and Ubuntu platforms when the condor user is present and the /var/lib/condor directory is not. (HTCONDOR-2074)

  • Fixed a bug where execution times reported for ARC CE jobs were inflated by a factor of 60. (HTCONDOR-2068)

  • Fixed a bug in DAGMan where Service nodes that failed caused the DAGMan process to fail an assertion check and crash. (HTCONDOR-2051)

  • The job attributes CpusProvisioned, DiskProvisioned, and MemoryProvisioned are now updated for Condor-C and Job Router jobs. (HTCONDOR-2069)

  • Updated HTCondor Windows binaries that are statically linked to the curl library to use curl version 8.4.0. The update was due to a report of a vulnerability, CVE-2023-38545, which affects earlier versions of curl. (HTCONDOR-2084)

  • Fixed a bug on Windows where jobs would be inappropriately put on hold with an out of memory error if they returned an exit code with high bits set (HTCONDOR-2061)

  • Fixed a bug where jobs put on hold by the shadow were not writing their ad to the job epoch history file. (HTCONDOR-2060)

  • Fixed a rare race condition where condor_rm’ing a parallel universe job would not remove the job if the rm happened after the job was matched but before it fully started (HTCONDOR-2070)

Version 23.0.0

Release Notes:

  • HTCondor version 23.0.0 released on September 29, 2023.

New Features:

  • A condor_startd without any slot types defined will now default to a single partitionable slot rather than a number of static slots equal to the number of cores as it was in previous versions. The configuration template use FEATURE : StaticSlots was added for admins wanting the old behavior. (HTCONDOR-2026)

  • The TargetType attribute is no longer a required attribute in most Classads. It is still used for queries to the condor_collector and it remains in the Job ClassAd and the Machine ClassAd because of older versions of HTCondor require it to be present. (HTCONDOR-1997)

  • The -dry-run option of condor_submit will now print the output of a SEC_CREDENTIAL_STORER script. This can be useful when developing such a script. (HTCONDOR-2014)

  • Added ability to query epoch history records from the python bindings. (HTCONDOR-2036)

  • The default value of SEC_DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_METHODS will now be visible in condor_config_val. The default for SEC_*_AUTHENTICATION_METHODS will inherit from this value, and thus no READ and CLIENT will no longer automatically have CLAIMTOBE. (HTCONDOR-2047)

  • Added new tool condor_test_token, which will create a SciToken with configurable contents (including issuer) which will be accepted for a short period of time by the local HTCondor daemons. (HTCONDOR-1115)

Bugs Fixed:

  • Fixed a bug that would cause the condor_startd to crash in rare cases when jobs go on hold (HTCONDOR-2016)

  • Fixed a bug where if a user-level checkpoint could not be transferred from the starter to the AP, the job would go on hold. Now it will retry, or go back to idle. (HTCONDOR-2034)

  • Fixed a bug where the CommittedTime attribute was not set correctly for Docker Universe jobs doing user level check-pointing. (HTCONDOR-2014)

  • Fixed a bug where condor_preen was deleting files named ‘OfflineAds’ in the spool directory. (HTCONDOR-2019)

  • Fixed a bug where the blahpd would incorrectly believe that an LSF batch scheduler was not working. (HTCONDOR-2003)

  • Fixed the Execution Point’s detection of whether libvirt is working properly for the VM universe. (HTCONDOR-2009)

  • Fixed a bug where container universe did not work for late materialization jobs submitted to the condor_schedd (HTCONDOR-2031)

  • Fixed a bug where the condor_startd could crash if a new match is made at the end a drain request. (HTCONDOR-2032)