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Security/Bug fix releases 14.0.2, 13.3.2
by General announcements about Qlustar 05 Jul '25

05 Jul '25

The Qlustar releases 14.0.2 and 13.3.2 are ready including a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0703251 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0703252 The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included: For Qlustar 14 only: - QluMan 14.0.4 * Add '# GPUs' HW property and /etc/qlustar/options.d/gpu-count * NewHostsWidget: Catch error looking up owner of Mac addresses * Improve AD Import Users dialog * Redesign prometheus label logic depending on host role/functionality * Fix bug where LDAP UIDs where multiply added to internal search indices * LDAP: Handle LDAP connection failing on start * LDAP ConfigWidget: Add tooltips and units for password policy settings * Set 'sudo_provider = none' in generated ssd.conf to prevent slapd errors * qluman-cli: Save user certificate in original PWD if save path is relative * Copy config files listed by image modules to compute nodes on boot rather than having them pulled into images during the build phase. * Implement binary support for file transfer to execd. Allows binary files in root-fs customizations. - core module * Activate ACL support for ZFS based /var and /scratch * Add lshw - container module * Add Nvidia CDI support for containerd/kubernetes - nvidia module * Add nvidia fabric manager to support NVSwitch systems * Add nvidia datacenter GPU manager * Add nvidia-bug-report.sh * Add firmware link so that firmware is always found by the kernel module - Kubernetes module * Update to 1.32.5 * Add helm * Add nvidia-device-plugin to support Nvidia GPU workloads - Slurm module * Add correct path for slurm dynamic loading of libpmix For Qlustar 13 and 14: - core module * Add systemd oomscore dropins to replace old mechanism for lowering oomscore of important system processes

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Qlustar 12 is EOL
by General announcements about Qlustar 16 May '25

16 May '25

With the latest security release, Qlustar 12 has reached its EOL and will receive no further updates. Please upgrade to Qlustar 13 as soon as possible in case your cluster is still running Qlustar 12. See https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/13/ClusterOS/release-notes.html#_update_in… for instructions.

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Security/Bug fix releases 14.0.1, 13.3.1, 12.0.3.12
by General announcements about Qlustar 16 May '25

16 May '25

The Qlustar releases 14.0.1, 13.3.1 and 12.0.3.12 are ready including a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0515251 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0515252 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0515253 The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included: For Qlustar 14 only: - QluMan 14.0.3 * Fix AttributeError in HostnameWidget save method * RemoteManagement: - Implement clone button - Save changes in redfish CheckBox

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Qlustar 14 is out with fully revamped monitoring
by General announcements about Qlustar 05 May '25

05 May '25

The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Qlustar 14 for download [1]. It updates Qlustar's core platform to current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The AlmaLinux [2] edge platform remains based on 8.10. The highlight of this release is the new state-of-the-art Qlustar Monitoring stack. It is now based on Grafana [3] and Prometheus [4]. Both of them are tightly integrated with the other Qlustar components and can be controlled with a powerful new configuration interface [5] of the QluMan GUI. This release also includes the following individual major HPC core stack component updates: - Spack version 0.23.1 [6] - Slurm version 24.11.3 [7] - RDMA-Core version 55.0 [8] - HWloc version 2.11.2 [9] - UCX version 1.18.1 [10] Please consult the release notes [11] for more details. [1] https://qlustar.com/download/ [2] https://almalinux.org/ [3] https://grafana.com/grafana/ [4] https://prometheus.io/ [5] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/14/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/Config-Classes.h… [6] https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [7] https://www.schedmd.com/slurm/ [8] https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core [9] https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ [10] https://openucx.org/ [11] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/14/ClusterOS/release-notes.html

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Qlustar HPC Core Stack 25.03
by General announcements about Qlustar 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the availability of the HPC Core Stack 25.03 for Qlustar 13. It was published together with the latest security bug fix update and can be installed by updating the Qlustar 13 chroots on the cluster. The HPC CORE STACK [1] was introduced with the release of Qlustar 13 as a new component definition within Qlustar. It is related to the introduction of Spack. This release includes the following individual major HPC core stack component updates: - Spack version 0.23.1 [2] - Slurm version 24.11.3 [3] - RDMA-Core version 55.0 [4] - HWloc version 2.11.2 [5] - UCX version 1.18.1 [6] The new version of Spack allows easy and direct access to the most recent compilers, MPIs and hundreds of other applications relevant to HPC. Amongst others, it includes gcc 14.2.0 and OpenMPI 5.0.5 as new default versions. Minor version updates for other Qlustar 13 components are also included, in particular Nvidia graphics drivers (550.144.03), Lustre (2.15.6) and gdrcopy (2.4.4) for use with Nvidia GPUs. [1] https://qlustar.com/qlustar/hpc-stack/hpc-core-stack/ [2] https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [3] https://www.schedmd.com/slurm/ [4] https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core [5] https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ [6] https://openucx.org/

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Security/Bug fix releases 13.3.0, 12.0.3.11
by General announcements about Qlustar 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

The Qlustar releases 13.3.0 and 12.0.3.11 are ready including a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0321251 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0321252 The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included: For Qlustar 13 only: - Qlustar HPC Core Stack 03/25 update (details to be announced separately)

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Security/Bug fix releases 13.2.4, 12.0.3.10
by General announcements about Qlustar 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

The Qlustar releases 13.2.4 and 12.0.3.10 are ready including a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0205251 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2025/0205252 The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included: For Qlustar 13 only: - Update to QluMan 13.7.2 + Slurm: void exception when User Management is opened at startup + HA: - fix exception when mail can't be send - change koton command for ipmitool syntax + LoginData: add missing imports for converting v1 safe to v2 + qluman-qt: Add support for running on wayland

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Security/Bug fix releases 13.2.3, 12.0.3.9
by General announcements about Qlustar 07 Dec '24

07 Dec '24

The Qlustar releases 13.2.3 and 12.0.3.9 are ready including a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/qsa/2024/1206241 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2024/1206242 The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included: For Qlustar 13 only: - Update to QluMan 13.7.1 + GUI: Add missing import of zmq so new keypairs can be created + Some improvements for the repair functionality of QluMan HA

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A new approach to Cluster High-Availability
by General announcements about Qlustar 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the first public release of QluMan HA as the new driver of the Qlustar HA stack. Implemented on top of general Qlustar functionality, QluMan HA was *specifically designed for HPC, AI and Storage cluster solutions* where a scalable number of compute and storage nodes are controlled and managed by a pair of redundant head-nodes. Read the full announcement at https://qlustar.com/news/2024/2024-11-19-qluman-ha

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Security/Bug fix releases 13.2.2, 12.0.3.8
by General announcements about Qlustar 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

The Qlustar releases 13.2.2 and 12.0.3.8 are ready including a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/qsa/2024/1019241 https://qlustar.com/qsa/2024/1019242 The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included: For Qlustar 13 only: - Update to QluMan 13.7.0 + GUI improvement: Save open windows for each cluster tab and reopen them when reconnecting + Catch errors parsing LDAP user data and handle users without gecos field

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