From 7a9e6de20b65c62d784e7fef1a3263fbf814d8d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Castain Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:24:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add pre-deprecation warning to NEWS Signed-off-by: Ralph Castain --- NEWS | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e37ade831f7..2d823536c55 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -58,6 +58,23 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as: Master (not on release branches yet) ------------------------------------ +********************************************************************** +* PRE-DEPRECATION WARNING: MPIR Support +* +* As was announced in summer 2017, Open MPI is deprecating support for +* MPIR-based tools beginning with the future release of OMPI v5.0, with +* full removal of that support tentatively planned for OMPI v6.0. +* +* This serves as a pre-deprecation warning to provide tools developers +* with sufficient time to migrate to PMIx. Support for PMIx-based +* tools will be rolled out during the OMPI v4.x series. No runtime +* deprecation warnings will be output during this time. +* +* Runtime deprecation warnings will be output beginning with the OMPI v5.0 +* release whenever MPIR-based tools connect to Open MPI's mpirun/mpiexec +* launcher. +********************************************************************** + - Fix rank-by algorithms to properly rank by object and span - Do not build Open SHMEM layer when there are no SPMLs available. Currently, this means the Open SHMEM layer will only build if