EF Portal Release Notes

EF Portal Version r1786 – 25.9.2024

  • FEATURES
    • Added support for Redhat 8 and 9, CentOS 8 and 9, AlmaLinux 8 and 9, Rocky 8 and 9
    • Added support for Ubuntu 22 and 24
    • Added support for Amazon Linux 2023
    • Added support for SLURM 22.x and 23.x
    • Support for file, ssh and S3 file manager place and remote spoolers
    • Support for Copy/Paste/Move operations on files and directories between spoolers, remote spoolers and places
    • Display of present file manager copy/paste/move operation
    • Preview of data in spoolers supported for images, text and pdf as overlay in the file manager, draggable and resizable
    • Editor for text files in File Manager including saving into all supported locations
    • Remember last location in a file manager and spooler and return to that path when viewing the “Place”
    • Show history of paths in places (spooler, filemanager) and allow user to jump to a selected previous locations. History display can be toggled pressing the ‘t’ key.
    • Search is now performed in all columns for job lists and spooler list. Search by dates is supported as well.
    • Improved search in File Manager
    • Support for UTF-8 Characters in Filenames
    • Custom File Manager Places via ~/.ef/ef.places
    • Job History Service displaying history of job usage in table and graph view
    • GPU Compute and Memory monitoring in host view
    • DCV SM Integration – Added Enqueue API support
    • DCV SM Integration – Added option for command line parameters for the autorun delegate script
    • DCV SM Integration – Added more session info in the session details page, like storage root and last disconnection time
    • Added Gridware scheduler support
    • Added LSF MultiCluster support
    • Updated the EF Portal installer to accept DCV SM as only scheduler/session manager
    • Show full hostname in title of host view when hovering over hostname
  • CHANGES
    • Upgraded Apache Tomcat to latest version 9.0.86 from Feb 14 2024
    • Upgraded Apache Commons Text from 1.9 to 1.11
    • Upgraded jQuery UI to v1.13.3
    • Upgraded jqGrid to v4.7
    • Upgraded ACE editor to 1.36.2
  • BUGFIXES
    • SLURM plugin: fixed a bug which prevented the host list from being displayed for certain SLURM setups
    • SLURM plugin: fixed a bug which prevented –project option of grid.submit from working properly
    • SLURM plugin: fixes for display of cloud states
    • ‘enginframe status’ system script now correctly displays the listening port when Tomcat has been configured to use HTTPS
    • Installer: fixed a bug which listed Eclipse Adoptium JREs as unsupported
    • Fixed a bug which which made job list disappear after performing a search with no results in host view and spooler view