Release 4.16.5 based on SC-11 (2013-02-11)

Improvements and bug fixes
    * NetSchedule: log the fact that a client session was reset
      (JIRA: CXX-3828)
    * NetSchedule: incorrect applog message length (JIRA: CXX-3827)
    * NetSchedule: QINF2 to provide jobs per status as well
      (JIRA: CXX-3824)
    * NetSchedule: remove obsolete commands (JIRA: CXX-3791)
    * NetSchedule: pidfile must not be updated till the successfull start of
      the server (JIRA: CXX-3729)
    * NetSchedule: The SETQUEUE command does not register client and does not
      check restrictions (JIRA: CXX-3727)
    * NetSchedule: more info about clients (registration time, last session
      start time) (JIRA: CXX-3720)
    * NetSchedule: blacklisted jobs cleanup (JIRA: CXX-3698)
    * NetSchedule: non-rollbacked changes in the data structures in case of
      disconnected client (JIRA: CXX-3300)
    * Modify Job Id to include queue identification to facilitate issue
      investigation. (JIRA: CXX-117)


Release 4.16.4 based on SC-11 (2012-12-28)

Improvements and bug fixes
    * NetSchedule: client in affinity registry (JIRA: CXX-3694)
    * Introduce a new command to reset the list of worker node affinities
      (JIRA: CXX-3676)
    * NetSchedule: core dump when finishing (JIRA: CXX-3671)


Release 4.16.3 based on SC-11 (2012-12-17)

Improvements and bug fixes
    * NS -- randomize and delay "job-to-do" notifications UDP sendouts (all but
      one) to distribute jobs more uniformly among WN's (JIRA: CXX-3662)
    * NetSchedule: STAT CLIENTS VERBOSE: print blacklisted jobs timeout
      (JIRA: CXX-3660)
    * NetSchedule: add queue=ZZZ value to each command log record
      (JIRA: CXX-3659)
    * NetSchedule: collect per client info of communicating errors
      (JIRA: CXX-3641)
    * Bug fix: the server node identifier sometimes was not initialized


Release 4.16.2 based on SC-11 (2012-12-06)

Improvements and bug fixes
    * NetSchedule: 0 status in request stops (JIRA: CXX-3649)
    * NetSchedule: timeout for blacklisted jobs (JIRA: CXX-2689)


Release 4.16.1 based on SC-11 (2012-11-30)

Improvements and bug fixes
    * NetSchedule: close connection explicitly if writing to socket failed
      (JIRA: CXX-3624)
    * NetSchedule: accept job result in FAILED state (JIRA: CXX-3632)
    * Improved logging
    * Bug fix: sending a message to a client could read out of a buffer in
      case of an empty message.
    * Bug fix: Failed to Failed total transition counter did not work properly.


Release 4.16.0 based on SC-11 (2012-11-14)

Improvements
    * NetSchedule: add pidfile command line argument (JIRA: CXX-3603)


Release 4.15.0 based on SC-10 (2012-11-13)

Improvements

    * NetSchedule: VERSION command output to include PID (JIRA: CXX-3506)
    * NetSchedule: STAT QUEUES and QINF2 commands (JIRA: CXX-3509)
    * NetSchedule: incorrect counters for timeouted jobs (JIRA: CXX-3515)
    * NetSchedule RECO: comma omitted in logging parameter changes
      (JIRA: CXX-3566)
    * CServer: destroy queues if all threads have finished successfully.
    * NetSchedule: bug fix in the logging parameters initialization


Release 4.14.0 based on SC-10 (2012-08-29)

Improvements

    * NetSchedule: log what was taken into account after the RECO command
      (JIRA: CXX-2716)
    * NetSchedule -- to log session ID and client IP (per command)
      (JIRA: CXX-2732)
    * NetSchedule: new command (LISTEN) to wait for job termination
      (JIRA: CXX-3412)
    * NetSchedule: changes in handling config files (JIRA: CXX-3446)
    * SJobDB -- increase sizes of input/output fields; decrease sizes of
      client_ip and client_sid fields (JIRA: CXX-3449)


Release 4.13.0 based on SC-10 (2012-06-13)

Improvments and bug fixes

    * Timeout for the jobs that are waiting too long for a WN with the "right"
      affinity (JIRA: CXX-3223)
    * Fixed output for notifications registry
    * Fixed picking job algorithm for the case when a worker node asked for a
      job considering its preferred affinities while none were in the list of
      the preferred affinities.
    * NetSchedule: collect statistics separately of how a job was picked for WN
      (JIRA: CXX-3345)


Release 4.12.0 based on SC-10 (2012-06-01)

Improvements and bug fixes

    * NetSchedule: borrow NC implementation of the log writer in a separate
      thread (JIRA: CXX-2859)
    * NetSchedule: new command to switch the current queue (JIRA: CXX-3249)
    * NetSchedule: timeout for jobs in Pending state (JIRA: CXX-3289)
    * NetSchedule: make selection of a pending job parallel (JIRA: CXX-3299)
    * Custom thread names


Release 4.11.0 based on SC-10 (2012-05-18)

Improvements and bug fixes

    * Leak of Worker Node internal structures (JIRA: CXX-804)
    * Netschedule: SST and SST2 (fast status) does not change timestamp
      (JIRA: CXX-2229)
    * NetSchedule: new output of the SST2/WST2/STATUS2 commands to return the
      updated job expiration time (JIRA: CXX-2380)
    * NetSchedule: the new REFUSESUBMITS command (JIRA: CXX-2416)
    * NetSchedule: MGET to advance the job last access time (JIRA: CXX-2653)
    * NetSchedule: close connection in case of a wrong command (JIRA: CXX-3156)
    * NetSchedule: error_message field in the events database (JIRA: CXX-3160)
    * NetSchedule: wipe out JXCG2 command (JIRA: CXX-3192)
    * Enhancement over GET2 affinity handling (JIRA: CXX-3206)
    * NetSchedule: move the peer address from parameters to client IP field in
      the connection start request (JIRA: CXX-3216)
    * NetSchedule GET2 to return output in URL-encoded format (JIRA: CXX-3217)
    * NetSchedule: extension to the SHUTDOWN command -- added drain option (JIRA: CXX-3237)
    * NetSchedule: STAT to produce additional output (JIRA: CXX-3242)
    * NetSchedule: changes in the ACNT command (JIRA: CXX-3253)
    * NetSchedule: Extend STAT JOBS with ability to print info with and without
      a queue (JIRA: CXX-3266)
    * NetSchedule to print peer control port in STAT CLIENTS output
      (JIRA: CXX-3279)
    * NetSchedule to print client host in STAT CLIENTS output (JIRA: CXX-3283)
    * NetSchedule: improved algorithm for picking a job considering preferred
      affinities. (JIRA: CXX-3290)


Release 4.10.0 based on TRUNK (2012-03-20)

Improvements and bug fixes

    * Many non-ticketed performance/output/cosmetic changes
    * error messages (JIRA: CXX-2232 duplicate)
    * second INIT within one connection session (JIRA: CXX-2233)
    * SST/WST (fast status) reports incorrect state for jobs in various states
      (JIRA: CXX-2251)
    * FRES does not reschedule a job (JIRA: CXX-2252)
    * Eliminate excessive/duplicate logging of events (JIRA: CXX-2403)
    * wrong job status after run expiration (JIRA: CXX-2405)
    * Delay job expiration (JDEX) for a job in the 'Pending' state
      (JIRA: CXX-2422)
    * remove obsolete commands REGC and URGC (JIRA: CXX-2429)
    * fix CLRN implementation (duplicate registration records, no actual
      unregistration) (JIRA: CXX-2432)
    * fix worker node registration algorithm (the INIT command)
      (JIRA: CXX-2433)
    * GET with affinity for the case when there is no such a job
      (JIRA: CXX-2437)
    * job status after getting previously timeouted job (JIRA: CXX-2438)
    * incorrect version report for -version and -version-full options
      (JIRA: CXX-2505)
    * run_counter (JIRA: CXX-2514)
    * infinite loop for timeouted job runs (JIRA: CXX-2517)
    * remove FRES command (JIRA: CXX-2518)
    * make CANCEL working for any state (JIRA: CXX-2519)
    * CFRM and FRED for cancelled jobs (JIRA: CXX-2520)
    * rename "attempt*" fields with "event*" fields in the DUMP output
      (JIRA: CXX-2525)
    * split records in the job history where 2 events are written as one
      (JIRA: CXX-2526)
    * RETURN output (JIRA: CXX-2528)
    * job events info (JIRA: CXX-2530)
    * job run fields (JIRA: CXX-2531)
    * introduce read_counter (JIRA: CXX-2533)
    * reading group may be destroyed while it should not be (JIRA: CXX-2542)
    * infinite Reading state (JIRA: CXX-2543)
    * infinite loop for timeouted job reading (JIRA: CXX-2545)
    * Introduce new field 'event' in jobs history (JIRA: CXX-2549)
    * may crash when JDEX is received (JIRA: CXX-2554)
    * remove the event_count field from the DUMP <job key> command output
      (JIRA: CXX-2555)
    * accept job results given in JXCG even if there was a problem of providing
      a new job (JIRA: CXX-2556)
    * JXCG for Confrmed/ReadFailed job (JIRA: CXX-2559)
    * PUT/JXCG for a job in Reading state (JIRA: CXX-2560)
    * GET/WGET does not provide a job even though there are some available
      (JIRA: CXX-2565)
    * Add security token and run-counter for jobs that are given away for
      executing or reading (JIRA: CXX-2568)
    * DROJ command to be replaced with CANCEL and retired later
      (JIRA: CXX-2570)
    * introduce reduced fetch for jobs (JIRA: CXX-2572)
    * introduce new CANCELQ command (JIRA: CXX-2573)
    * remove 'time_submit', 'subm_addr' and 'subm_port' fields from the job
      DUMP and replace them with an event record. (JIRA: CXX-2575)
    * a partial job input/output could be provided (JIRA: CXX-2577)
    * strip tags support (JIRA: CXX-2578)
    * DB error while getting a job leaves the job in the Running state
      (JIRA: CXX-2581)
    * client identification (JIRA: CXX-2584)
    * daemonization parameters (JIRA: CXX-2611)
    * non-existing queue during handshaking (JIRA: CXX-2630)
    * skip the version checking for SST and WST commands (JIRA: CXX-2636)
    * memorizing the jobs which have ever been given for running and reading
      (JIRA: CXX-2649)
    * race condition in GETP (JIRA: CXX- 2663)
    * notification in case a job is cancelled (JIRA: CXX-2667)
    * notifications for clients which used WGET command. (JIRA: CXX-2668)
    * remove the [server]:udp_port parameter from the .ini file
      (JIRA: CXX-2679)
    * job status notification message format - should use job key instead of
      job number (JIRA: CXX-2680)
    * changes in serving affinities (JIRA: CXX-2697)
    * Changes in the job available message format (NCBI_JSQ_) (JIRA: CXX-2701)
    * remove support of the 'affp' in batch submit (JIRA: CXX-2702)
    * QERY and QSEL are deleted (JIRA: CXX-2709)
    * 'delete_done' queue attribute to eliminate (JIRA: CXX-2726)
    * the queue notif_timeout parameter (JIRA: CXX-2728)
    * incorrect output for DUMP and DUMP <job key> (JIRA: CXX-2757)
    * configuration parameters for the speed of deleting jobs from BerkleyDB
      (JIRA: CXX-2758)
    * unnecessery fetch from BerkleyDB when fetching a job
      (JIRA: CXX-2760)
    * DUMP implementation improvement (JIRA: CXX-2763)
    * periodic statistics logging (JIRA: CXX-2780)
    * log output false positive for JDEX (JIRA: CXX-2781)
    * Replace "Job not found" with "eJobNotFound" in the output
      (JIRA: CXX-2801)
    * incorrect pending job garbage collecting (JIRA: CXX-2805)
    * worker node affinity storage on the server side (JIRA: CXX-2807)
    * introduce the new GETCONF command (JIRA: CXX-2819)
    * add a job to the clients blacklist if running/reading timeout is
      detected. (JIRA: CXX-2835)
    * Affinity registry garbage collector (JIRA: CXX-2838)
    * limit the max timeout for the WGET command (JIRA: CXX-2851)
    * introduce CWGET command (JIRA: CXX-2857)
    * More specific WGET/GET2 notifications (JIRA: CXX-2863)
    * notifications to to send to WGET listeners for
      returned/failed/timeouted jobs (JIRA: CXX-2865)
    * introduce the new STAT NOTIFICATIONS command (JIRA: CXX-2870)
    * introduce the new 'STAT AFFINITIES' command (JIRA: CXX-2871)
    * DROPQ to send notifications that a job has changed its state
      (JIRA: CXX-2882)
    * logging client IP in case of socket writing errors (JIRA: CXX-2883)
    * DUMP parameters to return a part of the queue (JIRA: CXX-2889)
    * GET2/JXCG2 to be extended with optional port and timeout parameters
      (JIRA: CXX-2895)
    * Do not keep history of the running and reading jobs for clients
      (JIRA: CXX-2898)
    * improving job expiration detection for garbage collector and picking
      pending job (JIRA: CXX-2900)
    * Get rid of the 'daemon' parameter from a config file (JIRA: CXX-2911)
    * Extended STAT output; it also works for all the queues (JIRA: CXX-2925)
    * RECO is now allowed for admins only (JIRA: CXX-2944)
    * Admin identifiers are now configurable (JIRA: CXX-2945)
    * Extending AFLS output format (JIRA: CXX-2953)
    * GET2/JXCG2 accepting affinity related parameters (wnode_aff, any_aff)
      (JIRA: CXX-2968)
    * STAT CLIENTS/AFFINITIES/NOTIFICATIONS are introduced (JIRA: CXX-2976)
    * HTTP respecting stop request status codes in logs (JIRA: CXX-3019)
    * ns_node is sent with SUBMIT notifications (JIRA: CXX-3023)
    * ns_node and queue are sent with GET2 notifications (JIRA: CXX-3024)
    * DUMP now has an optional status=... argument (JIRA: CXX-3032)
    * Job groups are introduced. Some commands have been extended with the
      group=... optional parameter (JIRA: CXX-3034)
    * The progress_message parameter is deleted from the SUBMIT command
      (JIRA: CXX-3036)
    * The ns_node identifier is generated/used stored at the startup
      (JIRA: CXX-3041)
    * The STSN command is deleted; STAT JOBS aff=... is introduced instead
      (JIRA: CXX-3103)
    * The QPRT command is deleted (JIRA: CXX-3104)
    * Garbage collector: the speed of deletion from the DB is wrong
      (JIRA: CXX-3138)
    * introduce SST2/WST2/STATUS2 commands (JIRA: CXX-3147)


Release 4.9.0 based on SC 8.0 (2011-07-11)

Improvements and bug fixes

    * Job dump provides a full information about each attempt to run a job and
      also provides the job expiration time (JIRA: CXX-2228)
    * NetSchedule ignores HTTP GET probes and closes the opened connection
      (JIRA: CXX-2407)
    * Fine-grain control of what service threads should generate log records
      and whether to log batch submit as a single log record or each job in the
      batch separately (JIRA: CXX-2414)
    * Pick up logging settings upon the RECO command (JIRA: CXX-2476)
    * Do not reserve file descriptors at the very beginning (JIRA: CXX-2487)
    * Jobs will not disappear after netschedule restart (JIRA: CXX-2493)
    * Job runs are deleted when a job is deleted (JIRA: CXX-2499)


Release 4.8.0 based on SC 8.0 (2011-05-24)

Improvements

    * Application level logging (JIRA: CXX-2146)
    * Excessively long input is not accepted any more. The client will get an
      error message. (JIRA: CXX-2361)
    * The netschedule output is now unified. Each line starts with the 'OK:' or
      'ERR:' regardless of what command the output is for. (JIRA: CXX-2254)
    * The job dump output now also has job tags. (JIRA: CXX-2245)
    * Batch submit does not accept wrong input anymore and resets the command
      handler to the initial state if there are errors. (JIRA: CXX-2240)
    * The client name is now logged as well as some other parameters
      (JIRA: CXX-1978)

