3.6.0a1

This is a preview release of upcoming changes for 3.6.0.

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.

3.5.3

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.

3.5.2

Note: If you have non-native GPU (N-series) pools with compute nodes entering start task failed states, then you will most likely need to upgrade to this release.

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3.5.1

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.

3.5.0

Notable new features in 3.5.0

• Batch Pool, RemoteFS, and container monitoring through Prometheus and Grafana
• JSON output with --raw option for supported commands
• Microsoft Azure Batch published Marketplace image support for native container pools and native auto-conversion support
• Stepped increments of compute nodes in scenario-based autoscale evaluations
• Fallback registry support for increased resiliency in provisioning Batch Shipyard system images during compute node provisioning
• XFS filesystem support for RemoteFS storage cluster devices
• Support for fs cluster expand for mdadm-based devices
• aad auth for storage credentials
• product_iterables task factory support
• default_working_dir option for containers
• Increased performance of some commands that involve multiple entities
• Support to enable SSH user access to Docker daemon without sudo
• Boot diagnostics and serial console support enabled for all RemoteFS and monitoring VMs
• Host OS support for CentOS-HPC 7.4 and CentOS 7.5 (including GPU support)
• Support for mounting Azure Storage blob containers on native container pools
• CUDA 9.2 support of NC-series VMs
• GlusterFS 4.1 support
• Microsoft Azure Distributed Linear Learner recipe

Breaking changes

• Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 7.3 host OS support dropped
• install.sh defaults to installing in a virtual environment
• account_key and aad auth for batch are now mutually exclusive

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.

3.5.0b3

This is a preview release of upcoming changes for 3.5.0.

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3.5.0b2

This is a preview release of upcoming changes for 3.5.0.

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3.5.0b1

This is a preview release of upcoming changes for 3.5.0.

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3.4.0

Notable new features in 3.4.0:

• Support access restrictions on remote access port (SSH/RDP)
• Add NCv3 VM size support and CUDA 9.1 on ND/NCv2/NCv3
• Ability to upload Batch compute node service logs for diagnostics
• Enhanced arbitrary certificate support
• NFS /etc/exports fine-tuning support
• Job-level default task exit conditions
• Task dependency support on Task factory generated tasks

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.

3.3.0

Notable new features in 3.3.0:

• Ability to specify default task exit condition options
• New commands to help out with management of running Docker containers including pool nodes prune, pool nodes ps, pool nodes zap.
• Ability to enable Azure Hybrid Use Benefit on Windows container pools
• Enhance fidelity of list operations

Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.