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 WRENCH Release Notes
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+### wrench 2.6-dev
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+- Implementation of a "backfilling depth" feature for EASY and convervative_bf batch scheduling algorithms
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 ### wrench 2.5
 
 - Implementation of the EASY batch scheduling algorithm in BatchComputeService