Release notes

This page contains the releases notes of Slurm-web with details about the new features, modifications and bug fixes coming with all releases.

This page is rendered based on the content of CHANGELOG.md in Slurm-web source code.

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agent: Return RacksDB infrastructure name in /info endpoint in complement of the cluster name.
gateway: Return RacksDB infrastructure name of every clusters in /clusters endpoint.
frontend:
- Request RacksDB with the infrastructure name provided by the gateway (#348).
- Display time limit of running jobs in job details page (#352).
conf: Add racksdb > infrastructure parameter for the agent.
show-conf: Introduce slurm-web-show-conf utility to dump current configuration settings of gateway and agent components with their origin, which can either be configuration definition file or site override (#349).
docs: Add manpage for slurm-web-show-conf command.

docs: Update configuration reference documentation.
conf:
- Convert [cache] > password agent parameter from string to password type.
- Convert [ldap] > bind_password gateway parameter from string to password type.
pkgs: Add requirement on RFL.settings >= 1.1.0.

agent:
- Fix retrieval of terminated jobs only available in accounting service with an option to ignore 404 for specific slurmrestd requests.
- Fix compatibility issue with Requests >= 2.32.2 (#350).
- Return HTTP/404 not found with meaningful error message when requesting unexisting node.
frontend: Update dependencies to fix CVE-2024-45812 and CVE-2024-45811 (vite), CVE-2024-47068 (rollup).

gateway: Support custom LDAP user primary group attribute and group object classes (#342).
agent: Retrieve Slurm version from slurmrestd REST API and return value in response of stats endpoint.
frontend: Display Slurm version in clusters list (#314).
ldap-check: Support custom LDAP user primary group attribute and group object classes (#342).
conf:
- Add ldap > user_primary_group_attribute parameter for the gateway.
- Add ldap > group_object_classes parameter for the gateway.
- Add cache > version parameter for the agent.
docs:
- Add link to related github issue for slurmrestd TCP/IP socket limitation in architecture page.
- Add warning about the pure documentation purpose of complete examples of gateway/agent configuration files.
- Explain [slurmrestd] > version agent setting is more intended for developers and should not be changed.
- Mention Slurm accounting is required in quickstart guide (#341).

agent: Check Slurm version returned from slurmrestd against hard-coded minimal version and log error if not greater or equal.
frontend: Add intermediate cluster list width to 80% on large screens, before going down to 60% on even larger screens.
pkgs: Add requirement on RFL.core and RFL.authentication >= 1.0.3.
docs:
- Update configuration reference documentation.
- Update screenshots with latest UI changes.

backend: handle rfl.settings.errors.SettingsSiteLoaderError when loading gateway and agent site configuration (#317).
gateway: Response with HTTP/501 and JSON error when requesting users with authentication disabled.
agent:
- Translate HTTP/404 from slurmrestd into JSON error agent that can be interpreted by frontend and emit clear error message in logs (#321).
- Detect responses from slurmrestd not formatted in JSON, translated into JSON error for frontend and emit clear error message in logs (#333).
- Detect absence of warnings key in slurmrestd responses and emit warning log instead of crashing (#316).
genjwt: fix portability to Python < 3.8 in debug message.
ldap-check: fix usage of user_name_attribute configuration parameter (#340).
frontend:
- Support node names without digits in expand/fold logic (#328).
- Update dependencies to fix CVE-2024-39338 (axios), CVE-2024-6783 (vue-template-compiler) and CVE-2024-4067 (micromatch).
- Display empty list of users/account with light gray cross instead of dot in reservations page (#336).
- Hide users disclosure from jobs filters panel when authentication is disabled (#330).
docs:
- Mention requirement of SLURMRESTD_SECURITY=disable_user_check environment variable in slurmrestd service drop-in configuration override (#320).
- Fix protocols section in architecture page to mention Slurm internal authentication mechanism (with sackd) and clarify that munge is not involved between Slurm-web agent and slurmrestd.

frontend:
- Display job priority in job details page (#300).
- Display requested resources in jobs list (#297).
gateway:
- Retrieve list of clusters permissions and stats in parallel with asynchronous requests (#304).
- Add possibility to hide the list of denied clusters on which users do not have any permission (#296).
agent: Add cpus and node_count fields as provided by slurmrestd in jobs list responses.
docs: Add full gateway and agent configuration files examples.
conf:
- Add ldap>`user_name_attribute` parameter for the gateway.
- Add ui>`hide_denied` parameter for the gateway.

frontend:
- Use server icon instead of cpu chip icon to represent nodes in clusters list and clusters pop over menu.
- Merge account column with user column in jobs list, the account is now displayed between parenthesis.
docs: Update configuration reference documentation.
pkgs:
- Add requirement on RFL >= 1.0.2.
- Add requirement on aiohttp.

frontend:
- Support expansion and folding of nodesets with multiple digits and arbitrary suffixes (#302).
- Handle jobs cancelled state with specific badge color (#295).
gateway: Add possibility to configure custom LDAP user name attribute in alternative to uid (#305).
conf: Add documentation precisions and examples in agent and gateway configuration definitions.
docs:
- Typo in slurmrestd service name in quick start guide.
- Use consistent URL format for curl commands on slurmrestd Unix sockets.
- Fix agent and gateway configuration file extension in configuration files reference documentation.
- Fix some agent and gateway configuration file extension typos in quickstart guide.
- Invert initial setup and JWT signing key sections in quickstart to satisfy slurm-web-gen-jwt-key configuration requirement.