Release of Slurm-web v3.2.0

[rezib]

Added

• gateway: Support custom LDAP user primary group attribute and group object classes (LDAP error Unable to extract user primary group with gidNumber attribute from user entries with ActiveDirectory #342).
• agent: Retrieve Slurm version from slurmrestd REST API and return value in response of stats endpoint.
• frontend: Display Slurm version in clusters list (Display Slurm version on clusters #314).
• ldap-check: Support custom LDAP user primary group attribute and group object classes (LDAP error Unable to extract user primary group with gidNumber attribute from user entries with ActiveDirectory #342).
• conf:
  • Add ldap>user_primary_group_attribute parameter for the gateway.
  • Add ldap>group_object_classes parameter for the gateway.
  • Add cache>version parameter for the agent.
• docs:
  • Add link to related github issue for slurmrestd TCP/IP socket limitation in architecture page.
  • Add warning about the pure documentation purpose of complete examples of gateway/agent configuration files.
  • Explain [slurmrestd] > version agent setting is more intended for developers and should not be changed.
  • Mention Slurm accounting is required in quickstart guide (view job Server error: The server encountered #341).

Changed

• agent: Check Slurm version returned from slurmrestd against hard-coded minimal version and log error if not greater or equal.
• frontend: Add intermediate cluster list width to 80% on large screens, before going down to 60% on even larger screens.
• pkgs: Add requirement on RFL.core and RFL.authentication >= 1.0.3.
• docs:
  • Update configuration reference documentation.
  • Update screenshots with latest UI changes.

Fixed

• backend: handle rfl.settings.errors.SettingsSiteLoaderError when loading gateway and agent site configuration (rfl.settings.errors.SettingsSiteLoaderError when loading site configuration #317).
• gateway: Response with HTTP/501 and JSON error when requesting users with authentication disabled.
• agent:
  • Translate HTTP/404 from slurmrestd into JSON error agent that can be interpreted by frontend and emit clear error message in logs (JSONDecodeError on slurmrestd 404 #321).
  • Detect responses from slurmrestd not formatted in JSON, translated into JSON error for frontend and emit clear error message in logs (JSONDecodeError with slurmrestd due to accounting error #333).
  • Detect absence of warnings key in slurmrestd responses and emit warning log instead of crashing (KeyError with unsupported Slurm version #316).
• genjwt: fix portability to Python < 3.8 in debug message.
• ldap-check: fix usage of user_name_attribute configuration parameter (RFL's ldap.py not pulling user_name_attribute from gateway.ini #340).
• frontend:
  • Support node names without digits in expand/fold logic (Unsupported node naming scheme without digit causing blank node list #328).
  • Update dependencies to fix CVE-2024-39338 (axios), CVE-2024-6783 (vue-template-compiler) and CVE-2024-4067 (micromatch).
  • Display empty list of users/account with light gray cross instead of dot in reservations page (Reservation with empty users list represented with a dot #336).
  • Hide users disclosure from jobs filters panel when authentication is disabled (Error when filtering by Users. "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'users'" #330).
• docs:
  • Mention requirement of SLURMRESTD_SECURITY=disable_user_check environment variable in slurmrestd service drop-in configuration override (Analyze SLURMRESTD_SECURITY=disable_user_check requirement #320).
  • Fix protocols section in architecture page to mention Slurm internal authentication mechanism (with sackd) and clarify that munge is not involved between Slurm-web agent and slurmrestd.

🙏 Special thanks @rseaman2016 @Talavig @attssystem @digdilem @parapar @c-vinet @satishdotpatel for their feedback and contributions!

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This discussion was created from the release v3.2.0.