Changelog v2.6.0

Signed-off-by: Luca Carrogu <[email protected]>

Author: lukeseawalker

CHANGELOG.rst

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 **ENHANCEMENTS**
-* Support two new Lustre Features, Scratch 2 and Persistent filesystems
-  * This adds two parameters ``deployment_type`` and ``per_unit_storage_throughput`` to the ``fsx`` section.
-  * New storage sizes ``storage_capacity``, 1,200 GiB, 2,400 GiB and multiples of 2,400 are supported with ``SCRATCH_2``
-  * In transit encryption is available via ``kms_key_id`` parameter when ``deployment_type = PERSISTENT_1``.
-  * A new parameter, ``per_unit_storage_throughput`` is available when ``deployment_type = PERSISTENT_1``.
+
+* Add support for Amazon Linux 2
+* Add support for NICE DCV on Ubuntu 18.04
+* Install and setup Amazon Time Sync on all OSs
+* Compile Slurm with mysql accounting plugin on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04
+* Add support for FSx Lustre on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04
+* Add `--keep-logs` flag for `pcluster delete` command. When set, a cluster's CloudWatch logs will not be deleted
+* Add retry on throttling from CloudFormation API, happening when several compute nodes are being bootstrapped
+  concurrently
+* Use sanity check logic to handle errors from getting latest Amazon Linux AMI id used for the dryrun calls
+* Display detailed substack failures when `pcluster create` fails due to a substack error
+* Create additional EFS mount target in the AZ of compute subnet, if needed
+* Add warning message in CLI logs when DCV port is open to 0.0.0.0/0
+* Add validator for FSx Lustre Weekly Maintenance Start Time parameter
+* Add validator to the KMS key provided for EBS, FSx, and EFS
+* Add validator for S3 external resource
+* Support two new FSx Lustre features, Scratch 2 and Persistent filesystems
+
+  * Add two new parameters ``deployment_type`` and ``per_unit_storage_throughput`` to the ``fsx`` section
+  * Add new storage sizes ``storage_capacity``, 1,200 GiB, 2,400 GiB and multiples of 2,400 are supported with ``SCRATCH_2``
+  * In transit encryption is available via ``fsx_kms_key_id`` parameter when ``deployment_type = PERSISTENT_1``
+  * New parameter ``per_unit_storage_throughput`` is available when ``deployment_type = PERSISTENT_1``
+
 
 **CHANGES**
 
+* Upgrade EFA installer to version 1.8.3:
+
+  * Kernel module: efa-1.5.1 (updated from efa-1.4.1)
+  * RDMA core: rdma-core-25.0 (distributed only) (no change)
+  * Libfabric: libfabric-aws-1.9.0amzn1.1 (updated from libfabric-aws-1.8.1amzn1.3)
+  * Open MPI: openmpi40-aws-4.0.2 (no change)
+* Add SHA256 checksum verification to verify integrity of NICE DCV packages
+* Upgrade Slurm to version 19.05.5
+* Install Python 2.7.17 on CentOS 6 and set it as default through pyenv
+* Install Ganglia from repository on Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 6 and CentOS 7
+* Disable StrictHostKeyChecking for SSH client when target host is inside cluster VPC for all OSs except CentOS 6
+* Pin Intel Python 2 and Intel Python 3 to version 2019.4
+* Automatically disable ptrace protection on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 compute nodes when EFA is enabled.
+  This is required in order to use local memory for interprocess communications in Libfabric provider
+  as mentioned here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/efa-start.html#efa-start-ptrace
+* Packer version >= 1.4.0 is required for AMI creation
 * Use version 5.2 of PyYAML for python 3 versions of 3.4 or earlier.
 * Increase the total time allowed to build Docker images from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. This is done to better deal
   with slow networking in China regions.
 
+**BUG FIXES**
+
+* Fix issue with slurmd daemon not being restarted correctly when a compute node is rebooted
+* Fix errors causing Torque not able to locate jobs, setting server_name to fqdn on master node
+* Fix Torque issue that was limiting the max number of running jobs to the max size of the cluster
+* Fix OS validation depending on the scheduler
+
 2.5.1
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