We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm release candidate 25.05.0rc1.

To highlight some new features coming in 25.05:

- Support for defining multiple topology configurations, and varying them by partition.
- Support for tracking and allocating hierarchical resources.
- Dynamic nodes can be dynamically added to the topology.
- topology/block - Allow for gaps in the block layout.
- Support for encrypting all network communication with TLS.
- jobcomp/kafka - Optionally send job info at job start as well as job end.
- Support an OR operator in --license requests.
- switch/hpe_slingshot - Support for > 252 ranks per node.
- switch/hpe_slingshot - Support mTLS authentication to the fabric manager.
- sacctmgr - Add support for dumping and loading QOSes.
- srun - Add new --wait-for-children option to keep the step running until all launched processes have been launched (cgroup/v2 only).
- slurmrestd - Add new endpoint for creating reservations.

This is the first release candidate of the upcoming 25.05 release series, and represents the end of development for this release, and a finalization of the RPC and state file formats.

If any issues are identified with this release candidate, please report them through https://bugs.schedmd.com against the 25.05.x version and we will address them before the first production 25.05.0 release is made.

Please note that the release candidates are not intended for production use.

A preview of the updated documentation can be found at https://slurm.schedmd.com/archive/slurm-master/ .

Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/download-slurm/.

The changelog for 25.05.0rc1 can be found here: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/master/CHANGELOG/slurm-25.05.md#changes-in-25050rc1

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Marshall Garey
Release Management, Support, and Development
SchedMD LLC - Commercial Slurm Development and Support

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