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.

4.0.0 - 2024-11-28

Added

  • Support Slurm 24.11 and Slurm REST API v0.0.40 (#366 → #400).

  • agent:

    • Return RacksDB infrastructure name and a boolean to indicate if metrics feature is enabled in /info endpoint, in addition to the cluster name.

    • Add optional /metrics endpoint with various Slurm metrics in OpenMetrics format designed to be scraped by Prometheus or compatible (#274).

    • Add possibility to query metrics from Prometheus database with /v<version>/metrics/<metric> endpoint.

    • Add possibility to filter jobs which are allocated a specific node with node query parameter on /v<version>/jobs endpoint.

  • gateway:

    • Return RacksDB infrastructure name and boolean metrics feature flag of every clusters in /clusters endpoint.

    • Return optional markdown login service message as rendered HTML page with /messages/login endpoint.

    • Proxy metrics requests to agent through /api/agents/<cluster>/metrics/<metric> endpoint.

  • frontend:

    • Request RacksDB with the infrastructure name provided by the gateway (#348).

    • Display time limit of running jobs in job details page (#352).

    • Display service message below login form if defined (#253).

    • Add dependency on charts.js and luxon adapter to draw charts with timeseries metrics.

    • Display charts of resources (nodes/cores) status and jobs queue in dashboard page based on metrics from Prometheus (#275).

    • Display list of jobs which have resources allocated on the node in node details page (#292).

    • Display hash near all jobs fields in job details page to generate link to highlight specific field (#251).

    • Represent terminated jobs with colored bullet in job status badge, using respectively green for completed (ie. successful) jobs, red for failed jobs and dark orange for timeout jobs (#354).

  • conf:

    • Add racksdb > infrastructure parameter for the agent.

    • Add metrics > enabled parameter for the agent.

    • Add metrics > restrict parameter for the agent.

    • Add metrics > host parameter for the agent.

    • Add metrics > job parameter for the agent.

    • Add ui > templates, message_template, message_login parameters for the gateway.

    • Select alloc_cpus and alloc_idle_cpus nodes fields on slurmrestd /slurm/*/nodes and /slurm/*/node/<node> endpoints.

    • Select nodes jobs field on slurmrestd /slurm/*/jobs endpoint.

    • Introduce service message template.

  • 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.

    • Add metrics feature configuration documentation page.

    • Mention metrics optional feature in quickstart guide.

    • Mention metrics export and charts feature in overview page.

    • Mention possible Prometheus integration in architecture page.

    • Mention login service message feature in overview page.

    • Mention jobs badges to visualize job status in overview page.

    • Add page to document Service Messages configuration.

    • Mention support of Fedora 41.

  • pkgs:

    • Introduce gateway Python extra package.

    • Add requirement on markdown external library for gateway extra package.

    • Add dependency on prometheus-client for the agent.

    • Add direct dependency on ClusterShell for the agent.

Changed

  • agent: Bump minimal required Slurm version from 23.02.0 to 23.11.0.

  • gateway: Change error message when unable to parse agent info fields.

  • docs:

    • Update configuration reference documentation.

    • Update dashboard screenshot in overview page with example of resource chart.

    • Replace mention of Slurm REST API version v0.0.39 by v0.0.40.

    • Mention requirement of Slurm >= 23.11 and dropped support of Slurm 23.02.

  • conf:

    • Convert [cache] > password agent parameter from string to password type.

    • Convert [ldap] > bind_password gateway parameter from string to password type.

    • Bump [slurmrestd] > version default value from 0.0.39 to 0.0.40 in agent configuration for compatibility with Slurm 24.11.

  • pkgs:

    • Add requirement on RFL.core >= 1.1.0.

    • Add requirement on RFL.settings >= 1.1.1.

Fixed

  • 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.

  • gateway:

    • Catch generic requests.exceptions.RequestException when retrieving information from agents to avoid AttributeError with more specific exceptions on old versions on Requests library (#391).

    • Catch JSONDecodeError from simpleson external library and json standard library module not managed by Requests < 2.27.

  • frontend:

    • Notifications not visible when browser is not at the top (#367).

    • Update dependencies to fix CVE-2024-45812 and CVE-2024-45811 (vite), CVE-2024-47068 (rollup), CVE-2024-21538 (cross-spawn).

Removed

  • Support of Slurm 23.02 and Slurm REST API v0.0.39.

  • conf:

    • Remove unused required from default selected jobs field on slurmrestd /slurm/*/jobs endpoint.

    • Remove unused state_reason from default selected job field on slurmrestd /slurm/*/job/<id> endpoint.

  • docs: Remove mention of Fedora 39 support.

3.2.0 - 2024-09-05

Added

  • 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).

Changed

  • 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.

Fixed

  • 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.

3.1.0 - 2024-07-03

Added

  • 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.

Changed

  • 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.

Fixed

  • 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.

3.0.0 - 2024-05-13