diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7d1cdfe8c76..efae140763a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Rebuild slurmctld's job select_jobinfo->node_bitmap on restart/reconfigure
     of the daemon rather than restoring the bitmap since the nodes in a system
     can change (be added or removed).
- -- Add configuration option "--with-cpusetdir=PATH" for non-standard locations.
+ -- Add configuration option "--with-cpusetdir=PATH" for non-standard 
+    locations.
  -- Get new multi-core data structures working on BlueGene systems.
+ -- Modify PMI_Get_clique_ranks() to return an array of integers rather 
+    than a char * to satisfy PMI standard. Correct logic in 
+    PMI_Get_clique_size() for when srun --overcommit option is used.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.4.0-pre4
 =============================
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index f65393c2201..72a31966675 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 RELEASE NOTES FOR SLURM VERSION 1.4
-6 October 2008
+12 November 2008 (after SLURM 1.4.0-pre4 released)
 
 
 IMPORTANT NOTE:
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ HIGHLIGHTS
   order to effectively preempt or gang schedule jobs.
 * A new configuration parameter, PrologSlurmctld, can be used to support the 
   booting of different operating systems for each job.
+* Preemption of jobs from lower priority partitions in order to execute jobs
+  in higher priority partitions is now supported. The jobs from the lower 
+  priority partition will resume once preempting job completes. 
+  NOTE: Supported only in SelectType=select/cons_res only as of 12 November 
+  2008.
 
 CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGES (see "man slurm.conf" for details)
 * DefMemPerTask has been removed. Use DefMemPerCPU or DefMemPerNode instead.
@@ -44,3 +49,7 @@ COMMAND CHANGES (see man pages for details)
 * --task-mem and --job-mem options have been removed from sall,c sbatch and
   srun. Use --mem-per-cpu or --mem instead.
 * --ctrl-comm-ifhn-addr option has been removed from the srun comma.d
+
+OTHER CHANGES
+* The libpmi function PMI_Get_clique_ranks() has been changed to return an
+  array of integers rather than a string to satisfy PMI standard.
diff --git a/slurm/pmi.h b/slurm/pmi.h
index 9621077da9a..6740a8b6859 100644
--- a/slurm/pmi.h
+++ b/slurm/pmi.h
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ communicate through IPC mechanisms (e.g., shared memory) and other network
 mechanisms.
 
 @*/
-int PMI_Get_clique_ranks( char ranks[], int length);
+int PMI_Get_clique_ranks( int ranks[], int length);
 
 /*@
 PMI_Abort - abort the process group associated with this process
diff --git a/src/api/pmi.c b/src/api/pmi.c
index d0a7754beb1..3ddac7b7243 100644
--- a/src/api/pmi.c
+++ b/src/api/pmi.c
@@ -711,9 +711,14 @@ int PMI_Get_clique_size( int *size )
 	if (size == NULL)
 		return PMI_ERR_INVALID_ARG;
 
-	env = getenv("SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE");
+	env = getenv("SLURM_GTIDS");
 	if (env) {
-		*size = atoi(env);
+		int i, tids=1;
+		for (i=0; env[i]; i++) {
+			if (env[i] == ',')
+				tids++;
+		}
+		*size = tids;
 		return PMI_SUCCESS;
 	}
 	return PMI_FAIL;
@@ -742,7 +747,7 @@ communicate through IPC mechanisms (e.g., shared memory) and other network
 mechanisms.
 
 @*/
-int PMI_Get_clique_ranks( char ranks[], int length )
+int PMI_Get_clique_ranks( int ranks[], int length )
 {
 	char *env;
 
@@ -754,7 +759,19 @@ int PMI_Get_clique_ranks( char ranks[], int length )
 
 	env = getenv("SLURM_GTIDS");
 	if (env) {
-		strcpy(ranks, env);
+		int i = 0;
+		char *tid, *tids, *last;
+		tids = strdup(env);
+		tid = strtok_r(tids, ",", &last);
+		while (tid) {
+			if (i >= length) {
+				free(tids);
+				return PMI_ERR_INVALID_LENGTH;
+			}
+			ranks[i++] = atoi(tid);
+			tid = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &last);
+		}
+		free(tids);
 		return PMI_SUCCESS;
 	}
 
diff --git a/testsuite/expect/test7.2.prog.c b/testsuite/expect/test7.2.prog.c
index e3b2e34df5b..612c0e6cb8a 100644
--- a/testsuite/expect/test7.2.prog.c
+++ b/testsuite/expect/test7.2.prog.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	int i, j, rc;
 	int nprocs, procid;
+	int clique_size, *clique_ranks = NULL;
 	char *nprocs_ptr, *procid_ptr;
 	int pmi_rank, pmi_size, kvs_name_len, key_len, val_len;
 	PMI_BOOL initialized;
@@ -120,6 +121,24 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
+	if ((rc = PMI_Get_clique_size(&clique_size)) != PMI_SUCCESS) {
+		printf("FAILURE: PMI_Get_clique_size: %d, task %d\n",
+			rc, pmi_rank);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	clique_ranks = malloc(sizeof(int) * clique_size);
+	if ((rc = PMI_Get_clique_ranks(clique_ranks, clique_size)) !=
+	     PMI_SUCCESS) {
+		printf("FAILURE: PMI_Get_clique_ranks: %d, task %d\n",
+			rc, pmi_rank);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+#if _DEBUG
+	for (i=0; i<clique_size; i++)
+		printf("PMI_Get_clique_ranks[%d]=%d\n", i, clique_ranks[i]);
+#endif
+	free(clique_ranks);
+
 	if ((rc = PMI_KVS_Get_name_length_max(&kvs_name_len)) != PMI_SUCCESS) {
 		printf("FAILURE: PMI_KVS_Get_name_length_max: %d, task %d\n", 
 			rc, pmi_rank);