Releases¶

HTCondor-CE 6 is distributed via RPM and are available from the following Yum repositories:

Known Issues¶

Known bugs affecting HTCondor-CEs can be found in Jira

Updating to HTCondor-CE 6¶

Finding relevant configuration changes

When updating HTCondor-CE RPMs, .rpmnew and .rpmsave files may be created containing new defaults that you should merge or new defaults that have replaced your customzations, respectively. To find these files for HTCondor-CE, run the following command:

root@host # find /etc/condor-ce/ -name '*.rpmnew' -name '*.rpmsave'

HTCondor-CE 6 is a major release that aligns its security model with HTCondor 9.0's improved security model. As such, upgrades from older versions of HTCondor-CE may require manual intervention.

HTCondor-CE 6 Version History¶

This section contains release notes for each version of HTCondor-CE 6. Full HTCondor-CE version history can be found on GitHub.

6.0.1¶

This release includes the following new features:

Add grid CA and host certificate/key locations to default SSL search paths
Verifies that HTCondor-CE can access the local HTCondor's SPOOL directory
Can use condor_ce_trace without SciToken to test batch system integration
condor_ce_upgrade_check checks compatibility with HTCondor 23.0
Adds deprecation warnings for old job router configuration syntax

6.0.0¶

This release includes the following new features:

Align HTCondor-CE security configuration with HTCondor defaults
Add example configuration on how to ban users
Add condor_ce_transform_ads command
Improve essential directory checking and creation at startup

Getting Help¶

If you have any questions about the release process or run into issues with an upgrade, please contact us for assistance.