EF Portal Version r1842 – 17.1.2025
Here is the Whats New in EF Portal 2024.1 with more details.
- NEW FEATURES
- Service Manager: added the ability to edit published services
- Core: Added auditing of logins and logouts into log file
- HPC Workspaces and Virtual Desktop: added CSS editor in Appearance Editor to fully customize the layout
- Support for SLURM Version 24
- Other SLURM features:
- Improved formatting for Cloud and Powering starting up and shutting down states
- Move Top feature for pending jobs
- Display and Set Nice values of Jobs
- ENHANCEMENTS
- VDI: improved usability of the Connection Quick Access bar available for each session preview in the List Sessions compact view
- VDI: improved user experience when waiting to connect to a session in case either Web Client or DCV URI are used
- DCV SM Integration: added automatic recovery of running sessions available in the SM Broker not tracked by EF Portal
- File Manager: added preview of video files
- File Manager: added preview of glb and glTF 3D models
- File Manager: administrators can define custom places for all users using a global ef.places file
- File Manager: custom places defined by users outside their home directory must be allowlisted by administrators to be used
- File Manager: added the ability to define custom extensions for text and image mime types which will be recognized as such by the File Manager
- SLURM plugin: added new Starting and PoweredDown states, particularly useful when hosts are in the Cloud
- SLURM plugin: added Move Top action for pending jobs
- Settings: added DCV URI as default connection option. Improved settings pages usability
- Hosts view: GPU related columns are hidden if no GPU data is available
- UI: added configurable logout behavior
- Appearance Editor: improved layout and behavior
- Installer: optimal memory settings for Server and Agent are automatically calculated and applied based on host memory capabilities both at first installation and update time
- Installer: improved the Grid Managers selection page to let users seamlessly configure HPC scheduler and VDI Session Managers
- Installer: improved behavior during EF Portal updates
- Logs: ef.log, agent.remote.log and dcvsm.log do not show error stack traces for better readability. Logs with full stack traces are now collected into corresponding .withtrace.log files
- Logs: Tomcat logging strategy has been revised to control growth of the Tomcat logs directory
- Logs: cleaned up misleading Hazelcast warnings
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
