Release of Slurm-web v4.2.0

[rezib]

Added

• Add --log-component option on every commands to prefix all log entries with a component name.
• Introduce slurm-web-connect-check utility to test access to slurmrestd service with agent configuration parameters.
• frontend:
  • Add possibility to sort jobs by quantity of resources (Sort jobs by resources #453).
  • Add priority in jobs list (Display priority in jobs list #452).
  • Disable racks and rows labels in RacksDB infrastructure graphical representations by default (Fix access to restricted endpoints with anonymous token or no token #461). These labels can be restored with [ui] > racksdb_{rows,racks}_labels gateway parameters.
• gateway: Add RACKSDB_{ROWS,RACKS}_LABELS in configuration file generated for frontend component.
• conf:
  • Introduce [ui] > racksdb_{rows,racks}_labels gateway parameters.
  • Introduce [slurmrestd] > auth, jwt_mode, jwt_user, jwt_lifespan, jwt_key and jwt_token agent parameters.
• agent:
• Support JWT authentication on slurmrestd in static and auto modes.
• Support access to slurmrestd on TCP/IP socket (Support connection to slurmrestd on TCP/IP socket #313).
• docs:
  • Mention --log-component option in manpages.
  • Add manpage for slurm-web-connect-check utility.
  • Add Slurmrestd Access page with guides to setup Slurm and agent in all supported configurations.
  • Mention support of JWT authentication and TCP/IP sockets between agent and Slurm slurmrestd in Protocols section of Architecture page and Quickstart guide.
• lib: Add comment in agent native and uWSGI services units to explain possibility to drop privileges of slurm user in favor of more restricted slurm-web user with slurmrestd JWT authentication.

Changed

• conf: Deprecate [slurmrestd] > socket parameter in favor of uri designed to support TCP/IP socket.
• frontend: Replace view job link by a window icon in jobs list.
• lib: Rename sysusers configuration file slurm-web-gateway.conf to slurm-web.conf in order to make it generic for both gateway and agent.
• pkgs:
  • Add dependency on importlib_metadata external library on Python < 3.8.
  • Bump minimal version of RFL.log to v1.4.0.
  • Bump minimal version of RFL.settings to v1.4.0.
  • Bump minimal version of RFL.authentication to v1.4.0.
• docs: Update configuration reference documentation.

Fixed

• Fix DeprecationWarning with setuptools pkg_resources being used as an API.
• Fix handling of generic Python exceptions in registered error handler with Flask < 1.1.0 to return JSON description of this exception (Wrong handling of generic exceptions in Flask < 1.1.0 (el8) #497).
• gateway: Add support of strings in RacksDB/agent version parts comparison logic.
• frontend:
  • Missing bearer token in RacksDB infrastructure diagram request (RacksDB Bearer token error #471).
  • Responsive layout in jobs view by removing some columns on smaller screens.
  • Do not display canceled request errors (Canceled requests display errors #507).
  • Update dependencies to fix CVE-2025-24964 (vitest), CVE-2025-27152 (axios) CVE-2025-30208, CVE-2025-31125, CVE-2025-31486, CVE-2025-32395 (vite) and GHSA-67mh-4wv8-2f99 (esbuild).

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This discussion was created from the release v4.2.0.