PipelineFX Qube 6.2.2 Core/Supervisor/Worker maintenance release is available

A new 6.2.2 maintenance release is now available for the Qube 6.2 Core/Supervisor/Worker. This is a recommended release for all customers running Qube v6.2.

Below is a list of the fixes and enhancements since the last point-release.

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@RELEASE: 6.2.2

==== CL 9145 ====
@FIX: disabled logging to /var/spool/qube/{host,user}, as it was creating large log files and causing sluggish performance.

An option to enable these logs may be made available in the future.

==== CL 9142 ====
@FIX: fixed issue where global resources tracking drift sand more subjobs than can be accomodated by the actual global resource count is dispatched.

ZD: 5074

==== CL 9085 ====
@CHANGE: increase MySQL wait_timeout value from default of 8 hours to 36 hours to decrease frequency of "MySQL server has gone away (2006)" error messages.
@CHANGE: increase MySQL max_allowed_packet value from default of 1MB to 64MB to decrease frequency of "MySQL server has gone away (2006)" error messages.

==== CL 9084 ====
@CHANGE: increase MySQL max_allowed_packet value from default of 1MB to 64MB to decrease frequency of "MySQL server has gone away (2006)" error messages.

==== CL 9058 ====
@FIX: renaming logs during rotation would fail on Windows

==== CL 9010 ====
@FIX: fixed memory bloat issue in supervisor threads on start up, on farms with many jobs.
In some cases, it had been reported that each supe thread was taking up 500+ MB.

==== CL 8957 ====
@NEW: add user name to print to supelog when a worker lock is updated

BUGZID: 63661
ZD: 4860

==== CL 8939 ====
@FIX: fixed another small "hole" that could cause race-conditions to dispatch a single subjob more than once

ZD: 4783
BUGZID: 63657

==== CL 8937 ====
@FIX: supe issue where the same subjob can be dispatched more than once to worker(s).

ZD: 4783
BUGZID: 63657

==== CL 8901 ====
@FIX: fixed bug where subjobs will be retried indefinitely when retrysubjob is set.

BUGZID: 63517
ZD: 2950 4661

==== CL 8889 ====
@FIX: fixed issue where the supervisor kept adding duplicate auto-wrangling and mail callbacks when jobs are resubmitted

BUGZID: 63655
ZD: 4661

==== CL 8885 ====
@FIX: properly remove datawarehouse scheduled tasks for round-robin tables

==== CL 8882 ====
@UPDATE: supe's embedded python version on Win 32-bit, upgrading from 2.3 to 2.5

BUGZID: 63648

==== CL 8872 ====
@FIX: issue introduced in 6.2.1 that broke callbacks (not being triggered)

==== CL 8865 ====
@NEW: add Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) support.

ZD: 4484

==== CL 8864 ====
@NEW: add python 2.6 support for Fedora 14 x64.

ZD: 4555

==== CL 8859 ====
@FIX: add bookmarks (TOC) to Admin docs, update section for qblock to refer to "Users guide" instead of non-existent "Command Reference"

==== CL 8847 ====
@CHANGE: upgrade_config tool no longer comments out some of the customized paths in qb.conf

ZD: 4470

==== CL 8846 ====
@FIX: supe and worker RPMs now correctly "require" specific qube-core version (like "6.2-1")

BUGZID: 63644
ZD: 4470

==== CL 8841 ====
@FIX: issue with supervisor threads stalling, waiting for NFS I/O on the "mounted" job logs, when NFS latency is large.