PMIx/PRRTE release candidates available for test

[Ralph Castain]

Hello all

I have posted updated release candidates for PMIx v5.0.10 and PRRTE v3.0.13:

PMIx v5.0.10rc2: https://github.com/openpmix/openpmix/releases/tag/v5.0.10rc2

PRRTE v3.0.13rc2: https://github.com/openpmix/prrte/releases/tag/v3.0.13rc2

There are some important changes to both of these release candidates, so please at least smoketest them in your environment if you can.

Ralph

PMIx v5.0.10rc2

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Second release candidate for the PMIx v5.0.10 release.

***NOTE***

The v5.0 release series may be going dormant after this release.

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***IMPORTANT***

This release includes three critical changes:

* a fix for a bug that apparently went undetected for a long time. The bug prevented selection of the loopback interface on a node for use by the PMIx messaging system, even when no remote connections were allowed. This prevented PMIx from working in an environment where only loopback devices were available.

* re-enabling of the compression support. An undetected typo caused PMIx to disable compression even when the supporting libz (or libzng) libraries were present

* repair of the indirect debugger connection procedure. Hardening of the authentication procedure inadvertently prevented tools fork'd by PMIx itself from connecting back to the server.

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Detailed changes include:

 - PR #3744: Multiple commits

    - Extend debugger CI tests

    - Update VERSION and NEWS

 - PR #3742: Fix indirect debugger launch

 - PR #3740: Multiple commits

    - Add refresh test

    - Fix refresh cache request

 - PR #3737: Multiple commits

    - Fix cmd line option checker

    - Fix bitmap mask literal size

    - Cleanup ready-for-debug announcement

 - PR #3730: Multiple commits

    - Protect against equal signs in option check

    - Check if we fork'd the tool ourselves

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 - PR #3723: Roll rc1

 - PR #3720: Multiple commits

    - Fix compression components

    - Use the correct value for the number of info to unpack

    - Remove stale/unused tests

    - bitmap num_set boundary condition bugfix

    - preg/compress parsing bugfix

    - Port bug fixes to zlibng component

    - Flush namespace sinks' residuals before destroying them

    - Put the sink cleanup in the sink destructor

    - Replace sprintf with snprintf

 - PR #3719: Enable use of loopback interface

 

PRRTE v3.0.13rc2

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Second release candidate for the PRRTE v3.0.13 release.

***NOTE***

The v3.0 release series may be going dormant after this release.

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***IMPORTANT***

This release includes the following critical changes:

* repair of the indirect debugger connection procedure. The prterun launcher was using the incorrect proc name to retrieve its parent's processID

* repair of the LSF mapper when LSF affinity has been specified

* a number of fixes to various mapper components and printing of binding ranges

* an improved mechanism for automatically detecting the presence of heterogeneous nodes

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Detailed changes include:

- PR #2342: Update VERSION and NEWS

- PR #2341: Slight mod to the indirect debugger example

- PR #2339: Correct the nprocs check to support moving to next node

- PR #2336: Allow setting default cpus/rank

- PR #2334: Retrieve PMIX_PARENT_ID with wildcard rank

- PR #2330: Centralize quickmatch to ensure consistency

- PR #2328: Multiple commits

   - Correctly set the number of procs for rankfile apps

   - Do not override user-specified num procs

   - Some cleanup on hostfile parsing

   - Remove LSF references in rank_file mapper

   - Update ras to allow rank/seq files to define allocation

   - Add the rmaps/lsf component

- PR #2321: Fix typo in examples Makefile

- PR #2320: Fix prte_info to output correct version

- PR #2318: Multiple commits

   - Correct ordering of macro variables

   - Fix printing of binding ranges

 

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- PR #2314: Roll rc1

- PR #2312: Mark uncached daemons as reported

- PR #2309: Multiple commits

   - Inherit env directives if requested

   - Extend inheritance to app level

   - Extend testbuild launchers support

   - Fix the colocation algorithm

   - Fix precedence ordering on envar operations

   - Bugfix: inconsistently setting PMIX_JOB_RECOVERABLE

   - Clarify help messages

   - Do not assign DVM's bookmark to the application job

   - Error out when asymmetric topologies cannot support ppr requests

   - Let seq and rankfile mappers compute their own num-procs

   - Fix relative node processing

   - Replace sprintf with snprintf

   - Add launching-apps section to docs

   - Improve hetero node detection a bit

   - Tweak the forwarding of signals

   - Cleanup and improve autohandling of hetero nodes

   - Fix prun tool