I’m please to announce the immediate release and general availability of Metronome 2.6.0, the first in a new series of stable releases. This release includes all of the features from the 2.5.x development series, and all the bugfixes from the 2.4.x stable series. Highlights include:

• the ability to regenerate a run entirely from the database (allowing you to completely remove old run directories)
• support for multiple platform namespaces
• web interface speed improvements
• improved error-checking of submit files
• the ability to block one run on another
• CRON-style scheduling for regularly repeated runs
• a web-based view of the Metronome queue
• submit node performance improvements
• streaming user-level I/O (check your run’s progress before it completes; especially handy for runs which can hang)
• support for the Modules prereq system
• tool support for version sweeping

Please review the release notes for the 2.5.x series for more details.