Download HTCondor 8.7.7/8.6.10

The HTCondor Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has released a new stable version and a new development version of its workload management system HTCondor. The version numbers are pinned to 8.6.10 and 8.7.7 respectively, and the package is under the Apache 2.0 License issued. 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. The announcement of this release looks like this:

HTCondor 8.7.7 released!

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.7.7. This development series release contains new features that are under development. This release contains all of the bug fixes from the 8.6.10 stable release.

Enhancements in the release include:

• condor_ssh_to_job now works with Docker Universe jobs;
• A 32-bit condor_shadow is available for Enterprise Linux 7 systems;
• Tracks and reports custom resources, eg GPUs, in the job ad and user log;
• condor_q -unmatchable reports jobs that will not match any slots;
• Several updates to the parallel universe;
• Spaces are now allowed in input, output, and error paths in submit files;
• In DAG files, spaces are now allowed in submit file paths.

Further details can be found in the Development Version History and the Stable Version History. HTCondor 8.7.7 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.

HTCondor 8.6.10 released!

The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.6.10. A stable series release contains significant bug fixes.

Highlights of this release are:

• Fixed a problem where condor_preen would crash on an active submit node;
• Improved systemd configuration to clean up processes if the master crashes;
• Fixed several other minor problems.

More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History. HTCondor 8.6.10 binaries and source code are available from our Downloads page.