Download HTCondor 8.7.10 / 8.6.13

The HTCondor Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison released new stable and development versions of its workload management system HTCondor a few days ago. The version numbers have ended up at 8.7.10 and 8.6.13. HTCondor focuses on the management of compute-intensive tasks and can distribute them over several connected nodes. The user sends his task to HTCondor, after which it handles the process based on set policies and the availability of connected resources, and finally sends the results back to the user. HTCondor can, for example, control a dedicated Beowulf cluster, but also regular desktops that have nothing to do for a while. During the day SC16 Google, Fermilab and the HTCondor Team have a 160k-core cloud-based elastic compute cluster demonstrated† The abbreviated announcements of these releases are as follows:

HTCondor 8.7.10 released!

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.7.10. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.6.13 stable release.

Enhancements in the release include:

• Can now interactively submit Docker jobs;
• The administrator can now add arguments to the Singularity command line;
• The MUNGE security method is now supported on all Linux platforms;
• The grid universe can create and manage VM instances in Microsoft Azure;
• Added a single-node package to facilitate using a personal HTCondor.

Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.7.10 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

HTCondor 8.6.13 released!

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.6.13. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes.

Highlights of this release are:

• Made the Python ‘in’ operator case-insensitive for ClassAd attributes;
• Python bindings are now built for the Debian and Ubuntu platforms;
• Fixed a memory leak in the Python bindings;
• Fixed a bug where absolute paths failed for output/error files on Windows;
• Fixed a bug using Condor-C to run Condor-C jobs;
• Fixed a bug where Singularity could not be used if Docker was not present.

More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.6.13 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.