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This file contains a description of the major changes to the easybuild-framework EasyBuild package.
For more detailed information, please see the git log.
These release notes can also be consulted at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
v4.9.4 (22 September 2024)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- set $LMOD_TERSE_DECORATIONS to 'no' to avoid additional info in output produced by 'ml --terse avail' (#4648)
- various bug fixes, including:
- implement workaround for permission error when copying read-only files that have extended attributes set and using Python 3.6 (#4642)
- take into account alternate sysroot for /bin/bash used by run_cmd (#4646)
v4.9.3 (14 September 2024)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for `--extra-source-urls` to fetch sources from additional URLs (#4079)
- add definition for gmpflf toolchain (#4566, #4571)
- reuse pre-computed checksums (#4569)
- add `cuda_cc_space_sep` variant that does not have periods (#4583)
- add `--skip-sanity-check` option (#4590)
- add `GNU_FTP_SOURCE` template constant (#4597)
- improve error messages for empty easyconfigs (#4603)
- improve help string for `--dep-graph` (#4610)
- only call `_sanity_check_step_extensions` if `--skip-extensions` is not set (#4620)
- add support for `--software-commit` and an associated template `%(software_commit)s` (#4628)
- various bug fixes, including:
- correctly evaluate result for `--dep-graph` (#4554)
- fix fetch progress bar showing to many files (#4568)
- resolve internal for imkl>=2021 version subdir via "latest" symlink (#4570)
- fix typo in message about including an easyblock from a commit (#4575)
- don't use special flags for `strict`, `precise`, `loose`, `veryloose` toolchain options on RISC-V (#4576)
- fix help text for `cuda_compute_capabilities` template (#4589)
- fix help message for `--http-headers-fields-urlpat` configuration option (#4594)
- fix `test_compiler_cache` in case `gcc` is available multiple times (#4599)
- handle post-install patches in check_checksums_for (#4605)
- fix `copy_file` with a folder as the target (#4609)
- allow for case where `homepage = None` when generating the docs (#4626)
- fix test_github_det_commit_status by using more recent commits (#4636)
- other changes:
- clean up code that was only there to support Python 2.6 + avoid syntax warnings when parsing py2vs3/py.p2 with Python 3.x (#3788)
- use Intel's oneAPI Fortran compiler by default for version 2024.0.0 and newer (`oneapi_fortran` toolchain option set to `True`) (#4567)
- allow using Node 16 actions in CI (#4574)
- remove a superflous check in `EasyBlock.run_all_steps` (#4623)
- remove trailing dots from backup message produced by --inject-checksums (#4632)
v4.9.2 (12 June 2024)
---------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- improve behavior when using extension which has 'nosource' enabled (#4506)
- enhance 'get_software_libdir' to return 'lib' or 'lib64' if only one of them contains library files (#4513)
- implement versions checks to avoid mixing major versions across the EasyBuild components (#4520, #4553)
- add support for easyconfig parameter 'module_only' (#4537)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix typo in patch_step logging (#4505)
- consider both 'easybuild-framework*.tar.gz' and 'easybuild_framework*.tar.gz' in CI workflows (#4507)
- don't delete existing environment module files when using '--dump-env-script' with '--force' or '--rebuild' (#4512)
- fix resolved (template) values in case of failure (#4532)
- also consider '$CRAY_PE_LIBSCI_PREFIX_DIR' to determine installation prefix for cray-libsci (#4551)
- symlink downloaded repo at specified commit when using '--from-commit' so easyconfigs for dependencies are found (#4552)
- other changes:
- code cleanup in 'easyblock.py' (#4519)
- stop running unit tests on Python 3.5 (#4530)
v4.9.1 (5 April 2024)
---------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- make `is_rpath_wrapper` faster by only checking file contents if file is not located in subdirectory of RPATH wrapper subdirectory (#4406)
- add terse support to `--missing-modules` (#4407)
- adapt version pattern for EnvironmentModules to allow using development version (#4416)
- use `--all` option with EnvironmentModules v4.6+ to get available hidden modules (#4417)
- add support for appending to path environment variables via `modextrapaths_append` + add corresponding `allow_append_abs_path` (#4436)
- improve output produced by `--check-github` (#4437)
- add script for updating local git repos with `develop` branch (#4438)
- show error when multiple PR options are passed (#4440)
- improve `findPythonDeps` script to recognize non-canonical package names (#4445)
- add support for `--from-commit` and `--include-easyblocks-from-commit` (#4468)
- improve logging & handling of (empty) `--optarch` values (#4481)
- add `--short` option to `findUpdatedEcs` script (#4488)
- add generic GCC and Clang compiler flags for RISC-V (#4489)
- various bug fixes, including:
- clean up log file of `EasyBlock` instance in `check_sha256_checksums` (#4452)
- fix description of `backup-modules` configuration option (#4456)
- replace `'` with `"` for `printf` in CI workflow for running test suite to have bash replace a variable (#4461)
- use `cp -dR` instead of `cp -a` for shell script "extraction" (#4465)
- fix link to documentation in `close_pr` message (#4466)
- fix `test_github_merge_pr` by using more recent easyconfigs PR (#4470)
- add workaround for 404 error when installing packages in CI workflow for testing Apptainer integration (#4472)
- other changes:
- clean up & speed up environment checks (#4409)
- use more performant and concise dict construction by using dict comprehensions (#4410)
- remove superflous string formatting (#4411)
- clean up uses of `getattr` and `hasattr` (#4412)
- update copyright lines to 2024 (#4494)
v4.9.0 (30 December 2023)
-------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- allow tweaking of easyconfigs from different toolchains (#3669)
- add support for `--list-software --output-format=json` (#4152)
- add `--module-cache-suffix` configuration setting to allow multiple (Lmod) caches (#4403)
- various bug fixes, including:
- deduplicate warnings & errors found in logs and add initial newline + tab in output (#4361)
- fix support for Environment Modules as modules tool to pass unit tests with v4.2+ (#4369)
- adapt module function check for Environment Modules v4+ (#4371)
- only install GitHub token when testing with Lmod 8.x + Python 3.6 or 3.9 (#4375)
- use `-qopenmp` instead of `-fiopenmp` for OpenMP in Intel compilers (#4377)
- fix `LIBBLAS_MT` for FlexiBLAS, ensure `-lpthread` is included (#4379)
- relax major version match regex in `find_related_easyconfigs` using for `--review-pr` (#4385)
- eliminate duplicate multideps from generated module files (#4386)
- resolve templated values in extension names in `_make_extension_list` (#4392)
- use source toolchain version when passing only `--try-toolchain` (#4395)
- fix writing spider cache for Lmod >= 8.7.12 (#4402)
- fix `--inject-checksums` when extension specifies patch file in tuple format (#4405)
- fix `LooseVersion` when running with Python 2.7 (#4408)
- use more recent easyblocks PR in `test_github_merge_pr` (#4414)
- other changes:
- extend test that checks build environment to recent `foss/2023a` toolchain (#4391)
v4.8.2 (29 October 2023)
------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for `%(sysroot)s` template value (#4359)
- add `dependency_names` method to `EasyConfig` class to get set of names of (direct) dependencies (#4360)
- various bug fixes, including:
- add CI workflow to run unit tests with Python 2 (again) (#4333)
- fix typo in help message for `--silence-hook-trigger` (#4343)
- include major version (`*majver`) templates in auto-generated documentation (#4347)
- reset `tempfile.tempdir` to `None` to avoid that tmpdir path gets progressively deeper with each easystack item (#4350)
- fix `findPythonDeps.py` script when called with an (absolute or relative) path to an easyconfig instead of a filename (#4365)
- fix broken test for `reasons_for_closing`, which fails because commit status of easyconfigs PR is no longer available (#4366)
- other changes:
- reduce number of CI jobs by testing for Lua and Tcl module syntax in a single CI job (#4192)
v4.8.1 (11 September 2023)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add end-to-end test for running EasyBuild in different Linux distros using containers (#3968)
- suggest default title in `--review-pr` (#4287)
- add `build_and_install_loop` hooks to run before and after the install loop for individual easyconfigs (#4304)
- implement support for `cancel_hook` and `fail_hook` (#4315, #4325)
- add postiter hook to the list of steps so the corresponding hook can be used (#4316)
- add `run_shell_cmd` hook (#4323)
- add `build_info_msg` easyconfig parameter to print message during installation of an easyconfig (#4324)
- add `--silence-hook-trigger` configuration option to supress printing of debug message every time a hook is triggered (#4329)
- add support for using fine grained Github tokens (#4332)
- add definitions for ifbf and iofbf toolchain (#4337)
- add support for submodule filtering and specifying extra Git configuration in `git_config` (#4338, #4339)
- various bug fixes, including:
- improve error when checksum dict has no entry for a file (#4150)
- avoid error being logged when `checksums.json` is not found (#4261)
- don't fail in `mkdir` if path gets created while processing it (#4300, #4328)
- ignore request for external module (meta)data when no modules tool is active (#4308)
- use sys.executable to obtain path to `python` command in tests, rather than assuming that `python` command is available in `$PATH` (#4309)
- fix `test_add_and_remove_module_path` by replacing string comparison of paths by checking whether they point to the same path (since symlinks may cause trouble) (#4312)
- enhance `Toolchain.get_flag` to handle lists (#4319)
- only add extensions in module file if there are extensions (#4331)
v4.8.0 (7 July 2023)
--------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- use version suffixes in PR title instead of Python versions when using --new-pr (#4253 + #4286)
- add script to find updated ECs for installed module (#4271)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix regex for extracting glibc version from output of '`ldd --version`' in Gentoo Linux (#4290)
- allow versionsuffix to be set to None in `det_full_ec_version` (#4292)
- other changes:
- stop running tests with Python 2.7 since it is no longer supported in GitHub Action (#4267)
- replace imp.load_source by leveraging importlib.util.module_from_spec when using Python 3 (#4280)
v4.7.2 (27 May 2023)
--------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- extend (experimental) support for generating container images with Apptainer (#3975)
- add default download timeout (#4226)
- make the RPATH section check with `readelf -d` in sanity check optional (#4249)
- various bug fixes, including:
- add `make_extension_string` and `_make_extension_list` methods to `EasyBlock` class, so easyblocks can customize them (#3697)
- fix typo in condition guarding installation of GitHub token in CI workflow to run unit tests + fix broken tests related to GitHub integration features (#4216)
- fix --check-github as gist url now includes username (#4231)
- switch to Ubuntu 22.04 in GitHub Actions workflow to run container tests (#4238)
- use "/usr/bin/env python" in test_run_cmd_script (#4241)
- other changes:
- print potential errors after running a command only once (#4065)
- change github_* template descriptions to be somewhat clearer (#4251)
- remove workflow to test bootstrap script (#4255)
v4.7.1 (March 20th 2023)
------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add option to make sanity_check_paths arch dependent (#3845)
- add support for %(start_dir)s easyconfig template (#4073)
- add Ubuntu friendly package naming scheme EasyBuildDebFriendlyPNS (#4115)
- allow to directly import constants from easybuild.framework.easyconfig.constants (#4144)
- accept single source as dict and single checksum in check_checksums_for (#4180)
- add pre/post extension hook that is triggered before/after individual extension installations (#4193)
- enforce absolute paths as start dir of extensions (#4196)
- print warning when non-existing `start_dir` is specified for extension (#4201)
- add support to silence deprecation warning for easyconfigs and toolchains (#4207)
- skip directories when fixing shebangs (#4209)
- add support for 'modunloadmsg' easyconfig parameter (#4223)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix use of `locate` in `check_os_dependency` (#4166)
- add VERSION to easybuild.easyblocks namespace in test sandbox (#4171)
- also apply filter to asyncprocess test subsuite (#4172)
- don't use deprecated SafeConfigParser when running with Python 3.x (#4173)
- update CI workflows to run 'apt-get update' if installation of packages via 'apt-get install' failed, likely due to stale apt cache (#4176)
- fixes for findPythonDeps script (#4179)
- check type of versionsuffix value in det_full_ec_version, and raise useful error message if it's not a string (#4184)
- avoid GC3Pie deprecation warning (#4185)
- correctly restore sys.path in tests (#4186)
- suppress output of --skip-test-step test (#4187)
- fix flaky test_search_file due to accidental matches for `.*C++` search pattern (#4190)
- silence distutils deprecation warnings (#4204)
- improve handling of start_dir and add tests for cases where either ext_dir or initial start_dir or both are unset or None (#4206)
- restore initial environment before processing each easystack item (#4213)
- make test_help_long work on small terminals (#4218)
- other changes:
- use better test assertions by replacing use of assertFalse/assertTrue (#4170, #4205)
- remove Travis CI configuration file (#4174)
- filter out deprecation warnings for platform.dist in get_os_version and platform.linux_distribution in get_os_name (#4175)
- only give read permissions in GitHub Actions workflows (#4182)
- fix website/docs links in README (#4199)
- only print "default: " for configuration option of strlist type if default is not empty (#4220)
v4.7.0 (January 9th 2023)
-------------------------
feature release
- print deprecation warning with running EasyBuild with Python 2 (#4136)
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for checksums specified in external `checksums.json` file (#3749)
- vendor distutils.version.LooseVersion as easybuild.tools.LooseVersion (since distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10) (#3794, #4156)
- take into account custom configuration options specified in easystack file (#4057)
- add support for using --output-format=md (MarkDown) (#4117, #4155)
- add support for --filter-rpath-sanity-libs to skip RPATH sanity check for designated libraries (#4119)
- add sanity_check_load_module method to EasyBlock to provide control over when module is loaded during sanity check step (#4125)
- add eb_bash_completion_local.bash script to setup.py (#4127)
- check whether nvidia-smi/rocm-smi command is available before trying to run it in `get_gpu_info` (#4131)
- add gfbf as subtoolchain of foss (#4143)
- add support for postinstallmsgs (#4145)
- make iimkl toolchain aware of intel-compilers (#4146)
- add definition for nvofbf toolchain (#4157, #4163)
- various bug fixes, including:
- also use EasyConfig instances cache in process_easyconfig when build_specs is empty dict (#4107)
- fix build options that should have empty list as default value (#4108)
- catch easyconfig parsing failure so we can generate and post a test report (#4109)
- add explicit return when no checksums match those specified in a tuple (#4112)
- tweak findPythonDeps.py script to use canonical package names (#4118)
- add `-fdefault-double-8` to `r8` toolchain compiler option for GCC (to be consistent with Intel) (#4121)
- always start with empty list for banned/requires libraries to avoid that corresponding build option is updated in-place (#4137)
- fix container tests by using EPEL archive URL for downloading Singularity RPM (#4138)
- use -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic instead of -xSSE2 when using Intel oneAPI compilers (#4147)
- partially skip test_det_copy_ec_specs if no GitHub token is available (#4149)
- other changes:
- drop support for easystack files using 'software' top-level key (#4057)
- also run unit tests with Python 3.11 + add Python 3.11 to classifiers in setup.py (#4092, #4141)
- use new EasyBuild logo in README (#4123)
- automatically cancel Github Action workflow runs for outdated commits (#4132)
- auto-enable use of oneAPI C/C++ compilers for intel-compilers >= 2022.2.0 (#4135)
- trim CI test configurations to avoid hitting GitHub rate limits (#4148)
- various tweaks to docstrings and help messages to fix problems with auto-generated documentation in MarkDown format (#4129, #4130, #4154, #4160, #4162, #4168)
- update copyright lines for 2023 (#4161)
v4.6.2 (October 21st 2022)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for easystack file that contains easyconfig filenames + implement parsing of configuration options (#4021)
- skip over unset $EB_PYTHON/$EB_INSTALLPYTHON in eb wrappeer script (#4080)
- add GITHUB_RELEASE and GITHUB_LOWER_RELEASE templates (#4084)
- add `%(cuda_cc_cmake)s` template (#4087)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make check_sha256_checksums verify all checksums if they're specified as a dict value (#4076)
- replace use of symlink with copied files in `alt_location` tests to fix failing EasyBuild installation on BeeGFS (#4083)
- fix trying to generate RPATH wrappers for Clang (#4088)
- make sure that GitPython version is a proper version before checking minimal required version (#4090, #4091)
- first look for patch in alt_location when it is specified (#4093)
- other changes:
- make scripts executable (#4081)
- make --inject-checksums inject dictionary value for checksums which maps filename to SHA256 checksum (#4085)
- update to v3 of actions/checkout and actions/setup-python in CI workflows (#4089)
- use SYSTEM template constant in dependencies instead of True in framework tests (#4094)
v4.6.1 (September 12th 2022)
----------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add script to find dependencies of Python packages (#3839)
- add 'ai' default module class (#4053)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix code style issues reported by recent flake8 linter (#4049)
- stick to autopep8 < 1.7.0 with Python 2.7 (#4055)
- ensure we call EasyBlock.patch_step for postinstallpatches (#4063)
- fix leaked handles in set_columns, complete_cmd, run_cmd_qa, det_terminal_size functions + tests (#4066)
- fix `quote_str` when string with both ' and " ends with a double quote (#4068)
- fix type-checking of patches to allow dict values + correctly handle patches specified as dict values in --new-pr (#4070)
- relax toolchain test by accepting both -march=native (x86_64) and -mcpu=native (aarch64) (#4071)
- other changes:
- run python in the same process as `eb` wrapper script by using `exec` (#4048)
- add get_linked_libs_raw function, and use it from both check_linked_shared_libs and sanity_check_rpath (#4051)
- update CI workflows (except container tests) to use Ubuntu 20.04, since Ubuntu 18.04 is deprecated (#4064)
- use SYSTEM constant for dependency that uses system toolchain in dumped easyconfig (#4069)
v4.6.0 (July 8th 2022)
----------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- allow searching for sources/patches in alternative location by specifying 'alt_location' in source/patch spec (#3994)
- show URLs used for download attempts in trace output (#4026)
- add support for setting environment variables via 'pushenv' with modextravars (#4030)
- add support for OneAPI compilers using toolchain option 'oneapi' (#4031, #4032, #4039)
- make check_linked_shared_libs more robust by taking into account that 'ldd' may fail (#4033)
- fall back to sequential extension install if parallel install is not implemented (#4034)
- add support for using template values in name/version of extensions (#4036)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make sure that ARCH constant has 'aarch64' (rather than 'arm64') as value on macOS ARM (#4018)
- tweak 'eb' wrapper script to correctly handle errors when python command being considered fails to run (#4019)
- tweak is_patch_for function to make it more robust (#4028)
- other changes:
- update Lmod used to run tests to version 8.7.6 (#4027, #4030)
- tweak apply_patch to not create .orig files (by default) when applying patch files (#4038)
v4.5.5 (June 8th 2022)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add toolchain definitions for nvompi (NVHPC + OpenMPI) (#3969), nvpsmpi (NVHPC + ParaStationMPI) (#3970), gfbf (GCC, FlexiBLAS, FFTW) (#4006)
- add support for FFTW.MPI toolchain component ($FFT*DIR variables) (#4012)
- add support for customizing EasyBuild command used in jobs via --job-eb-cmd (#4016)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix copying of easyconfig file with --copy-ec without --rebuild if module is already installed (#3993)
- ignore deprecation warnings regarding cryptography in Python 3.6 + Blowfish with Python 3.10 in test suite output (#3999)
- fix typo in debug log message in easyblock.py (#4000)
- fix printing of list of attempted download URLs when url-encoded characters are used in URL (#4005)
- set $FFT(W)_LIB_DIR to imkl-FFTW's lib path in build environment if usempi toolchain option is enabled (#4011)
- correctly identify Apple Silicon M1 as Arm 64-bit by also considering arm64 next to aarch64 (#4014)
- fix 'eb --show-system-info' on Apple M1 system (#4015)
- other changes:
- change 'eb' command to import easybuild.framework to check if EasyBuild framework is available (#3995, #3998)
v4.5.4 (March 31st 2022)
------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- warn about potentially missing patches in --new-pr (#3759, #3966)
- add support for 'clone_into' field in git_config source spec to specify different name for top-level directory (#3949)
- add bash completion for easyconfigs from local dir but not robot search path (#3953)
- add a 'sync pr' message when the PR has a mergeable state but is showing a failed status for the test suite on the last commit (#3967)
- add gmpit toolchain definition (GCC + MPItrampoline) (#3971)
- use 'zypper search -i' to check whether specified OS dependency is installed on openSUSE + make sure that rpm is considered for checking OS dependencies on RHEL8 (#3973)
- add support for post-install patches (#3974)
- add support for 'download_instructions' easyconfig parameter key to specify some download or installation steps for user in case of complicated way of obtaining needed files (#3976, #3981)
- also try collecting AMD GPU info (via rocm-smi) for --show-system-info (#3978, #3982)
- various bug fixes, including:
- ensure --review-pr can find dependencies included in PR (#3979)
- run 'apt-get update' in GitHub Actions workflow for container tests to update container package list before installing anything (#3985)
- other changes:
- enable code linting check for all supported Python versions (#3725)
- update copyright lines for 2022 (#3986)
v4.5.3 (February 11th 2022)
---------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- also check for git in --check-eb-deps (#3954)
- add end2end test for 'eb --containerize' (#3958)
- various bug fixes, including:
- take into account that patch files can also be zipped when checking filename extension for patches (#3936)
- initialize BACKUP_PKG_URL with empty string in install_eb_dep.sh script (#3939)
- fix get_os_name and get_os_version to avoid reporting UNKNOWN in output of eb --show-system-info (#3942)
- consistently use actions/setup-python@v2 in CI workflows (#3944)
- switch to using pip3 for installing EasyBuild in container recipes generated by EasyBuild (#3945)
- specify easybuild.io as EasyBuild homepage in setup.py (#3947)
- avoid crash in get_os_version on modern SLES-based OSs (#3955)
- other changes:
- indicate compatibility with Python 3.10 in setup.py (#3940)
v4.5.2 (January 24th 2022)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- automatically prepend value for env-for-shebang configuration setting with sysroot (#3919)
- enhance update_build_option to return original value + add support for update_build_options (#3923)
- fix compatibility with Python 3.10 (#3926, #3933)
- also take /etc/os-release into account in get_os_name and get_os_version (#3930)
- enhance get_cpu_architecture and get_cpu_family to be aware of RISC-V (#3931)
- various bug fixes, including:
- relax pattern checks in test_toy_exts_parallel (#3921)
- use sources.easybuild.io as backup URL for downloading Environment Modules sources to run test suite (#3928)
- make intelfftw toolchain component aware of GCCcore (#3929)
- other changes:
- deprecate use of (actual) patch files that don't have a filename ending with .patch (#3920)
- remove version restriction for keyring in requirements.txt to test with latest version (#3925)
- simplify requirements.txt by removing Python 2.6 support (#3927)
- only run GitHub tests when testing with Lua module syntax, to avoid hitting GitHub rate limit when running tests (#3938)
v4.5.1 (December 13th 2021)
---------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- also dump environment to reprod directory (#3374)
- determine which extensions can be skipped in parallel (if --parallel-extensions-install is enabled) (#3890)
- fall back to sequential installation for extensions with unknown dependencies when using --parallel-extensions-install (#3906)
- allow oversubscription in sanity check for OpenMPI-based toolchains (#3909)
- various bug fixes, including:
- don't try to ensure absolute path for path part of repositorypath (#3893, #3899)
- fix typo in EULA agreement error message (#3894)
- only remove lock if it was created in the same EasyBuild session (not if it existed already) (#3889)
- introduce EasyBlock.post_init method to correctly define builddir variable when build-in-installdir mode is enabled in easyconfig or easyblock (#3900)
- also show download progress bar when using --inject-checksums (#3905)
- pick up custom extract_cmd specified for extension (#3907)
- make test_run_cmd_async more robust against fluke failures (#3908)
v4.5.0 (October 29th 2021)
--------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- add --review-pr-max and --review-pr-filter options to limit easyconfigs used by --review-pr + retain order of easyconfigs being compared with (#3754)
- use Rich (if available) to show progress bars when installing easyconfigs (#3823, #3826, #3833, #3835, #3844, #3864, #3867, #3882)
- see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Progress_bars.html
- add support for checking required/optional EasyBuild dependencies via 'eb --check-eb-deps' (#3829)
- add support for collecting GPU info (via nvidia-smi), and include it in --show-system-info and test report (#3851)
- added support for --insecure-download configuration option (#3859)
- make intelfftw toolchain component aware of imkl-FFTW module (#3861)
- make sure the contrib/hooks tree is included in the source tarball for easybuild-framework (#3862)
- add check_async_cmd function to facilitate checking on asynchronously running commands (#3865, #3881)
- add initial/experimental support for installing extensions in parallel (#3667, #3878)
- see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Installing_extensions_in_parallel.html
- filter out duplicate paths added to module files, and print warning when they occur (#3770, #3874)
- various bug fixes, including:
- ensure that path configuration options have absolute path values (#3832)
- fix broken test by taking into account changed error raised by Python 3.9.7 when copying directory via shutil.copyfile (#3840)
- ensure newer location of CUDA stubs is taken into account by RPATH filter (#3850)
- replace 'which' by 'command -v' in 'eb' wrapper script to avoid dependency on 'which' command (#3852)
- refactor EasyBlock to decouple collecting of information on extension source/patch files from downloading them (#3860)
- in this context, the EasyBlock.fetch_extension_sources method was deprecated, and replaced by EasyBlock.collect_exts_file_info
- fix library paths to add to $LDFLAGS for intel-compilers toolchain component (#3866)
- remove '--depth 1' from git clone when 'commit' specified (#3871, #3872)
- make sure correct include directory is used for FlexiBLAS toolchain component (#3875)
- explictly disable rebase when pulling develop branch to create a merge commit, since not specifying how to reconcile divergent branches is an error with Git 2.33.1 and newer (#3879)
- tweak test_http_header_fields_urlpat to download from sources.easybuild.io rather than https://ftp.gnu.org (#3883)
- other changes:
- change copy_file function to raise an error when trying to copy non-existing file (#3836, #3855, #3877)
- only print the hook messages if EasyBuild is running in debug mode (#3843)
- deprecate old toolchain versions (pre-2019a common toolchains) (#3876, #3884)
- see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Deprecated-easyconfigs.html#deprecated-toolchains
v4.4.2 (September 7th 2021)
---------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add per-extension timing in output produced by eb command (#3734)
- add definition for new toolchain nvpsmpic (NVHPC + ParaStationMPI + CUDA) (#3736)
- include list of missing libraries in warning about missing FFTW libraries in imkl toolchain component (#3776)
- check for recursive symlinks by default before copying a folder (#3784)
- add --filter-ecs configuration option to filter out easyconfigs from set of easyconfigs to install (#3796)
- check type of source_tmpl value for extensions, ensure it's a string value (not a list) (#3799)
- also define $BLAS_SHARED_LIBS & co in build environment (analogous to $BLAS_STATIC_LIBS) (#3800)
- report use of --ignore-test-failure in success message in output (#3806)
- add get_cuda_cc_template_value method to EasyConfig class (#3807)
- add support for fix_bash_shebang_for (#3808)
- pick up $MODULES_CMD to facilitate using Environment Modules 4.x as modules tool (#3816)
- use more sensible branch name for creating easyblocks PR with --new-pr (#3817)
- various bug fixes, including:
- remove Python 2.6 from list of supported Python versions in setup.py (#3767)
- don't add directory that doesn't include any files to $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (#3769)
- make logdir writable also when --stop/--fetch is used and --read-only-installdir is enabled (#3771)
- fix forgotten renaming of 'l' to 'char' __init__.py that is created for included Python modules (#3773)
- fix verify_imports by deleting all imported modules before re-importing them one by one (#3780)
- fix ignore_test_failure not set for Extension instances (#3782)
- update iompi toolchain to intel-compiler subtoolchain for oneAPI versions (>= iompi 2020.12) (#3785)
- don't parse patch files as easyconfigs when searching for where patch file is used (#3786)
- make sure git clone with a tag argument actually downloads a tag (#3795)
- fix CI by excluding GC3Pie 2.6.7 (which is broken with Python 2) and improve error reporting for option parsing (#3798)
- correctly resolve templates for patches in extensions when uploading to GitHub (#3805)
- add --easystack to ignored options when submitting job (#3813)
- other changes:
- speed up tests by caching checked paths in set_tmpdir + less test cases for test_compiler_dependent_optarch (#3802)
- speed up set_parallel method in EasyBlock class (#3812)
v4.4.1 (July 6th 2021)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- enhance detection of patch files supplied to 'eb' command with better error messages (#3709)
- add per-step timing information (#3716)
- add module-write hook (#3728)
- add ignore-test-failure configuration option to ignore failing test step (#3732)
- add toolchain definition for nvompic (NVHPC + OpenMPI) (#3735)
- warn about generic milestone in --review-pr and --merge-pr (#3751)
- various bug fixes, including:
- don't override COMPILER_MODULE_NAME, inherited from Ffmpi, in Fujitsu toolchain definition (#3721)
- avoid overwritting pr_nr in post_pr_test_report for reports with --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3724, #3726)
- fix crash in get_config_dict when copying modules that were imported in easyconfig file (like 'import os') (#3729)
- parse C standard flags in CFLAGS for Fujitsu compiler (#3731)
- fix error message for --use-ccache (#3733)
- error out when passing a list to run_cmd* to avoid running wrong command unintended, unless shell=True is used (#3737)
- minor fixes to output of test reports when using multiple PRs (#3741)
- fix location for modules installed with intel-compilers toolchain in HierarchicalMNS by always checking toolchain compiler name against template map (#3745)
- avoid checking msg attribute of GitCommandError (#3756)
- consider sources provided as dict in EasyBlock.check_checksums_for (#3758)
- don't make changes to software installation directory when using --sanity-check-only (#3761)
- honor specified easyblock for extensions (#3762)
- other changes:
- make sure that tests requiring a github token have 'github' in the test name so that they can be easily filtered (#3730)
- deprecate EasyBuild bootstrap script (#3742)
- use temporary download folder in test_http_header_fields_urlpat (#3755)
v4.4.0 (June 2nd 2021)
----------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- enhance apply_regex_substitutions to allow specifying action to take in case there are no matches (#3440)
- performance improvements for easyconfig parsing and eb startup (#3555)
- add support for downloading easyconfigs from multiple PRs with --from-pr (#3605, #3707, #3708)
- add support for prepending custom library paths in RPATH section via --rpath-override-dirs (#3650)
- allow amending easyconfig parameters which are not the default (#3651)
- update HierarchicalMNS for Intel OneAPI compilers (#3653)
- add support for --sanity-check-only (#3655)
- add support for running commands asynchronously via run_cmd + complete_cmd functions (#3656)
- add support for using oneAPI versions of 'intel' toolchain components (#3665)
- add toolchain definition for gofbf (foss with FlexiBLAS rather than OpenBLAS) (#3666)
- add support for using ARCH constant in easyconfig files (#3670)
- honor keyboard interrupt in 'eb' command (#3674)
- add toolchain definition for Fujitsu toolchain (#3677, #3704, #3712, #3713, #3714, #3717)
- extend sanity check step to check whether specific libraries are not linked into installed binaries/libraries (#3678)
- via banned-linked-shared-libs and required-linked-shared-libs EasyBuild configuration options
- via banned_linked_shared_libs and required_linked_shared_libs methods in toolchain support
- via banned_linked_shared_libs and required_linked_shared_libs methods in easyblock
- via banned_linked_shared_libs and required_linked_shared_libs easyconfig parameters
- add locate_solib function to locate Linux shared libraries (#3682)
- add system agnostic function to locate shared libraries (#3683)
- add update_build_option function to update specific build options after initializing the EasyBuild configuration (#3684)
- allow opting out of recursively unloaded of modules via recursive_module_unload easyconfig parameter (#3689)
- check for correct version values when parsing easystack file (#3693)
- run post-install commands specified for a specific extension (#3696)
- add support for --skip-extensions (#3702)
- include PR title in output produced by --merge-pr (#3706)
- various bug fixes, including:
- avoid metadata greedy behaviour when probing for external module metadata (mostly relevant for integration with Cray Programming Environment) (#3559)
- catch problems early on if --github-user is not specified for --new-pr & co (#3644)
- re-enable write permissions when installing with read-only-installdir (#3649)
- also run sanity check for extensions when using --module-only (#3655)
- improve logging when failing to load class from exts_classmap (#3657)
- fix use of --module-only on existing installations without write permissions (#3659)
- correct help text for subdir-user-modules (#3660)
- avoid picking up easyblocks outside of sandbox in framework tests (#3680)
- use unload/load in ModuleGeneratorLua.swap_module, since 'swap' is not supported by Lmod (#3685)
- update HierarchicalMNS to also return 'Toolchain/<name>/<version>' as $MODULEPATH extension for cpe* Cray toolchains (#3686)
- make EasyConfigParser.get_config_dict return a copy rather than a reference (#3692)
- make sure that $TAPE is unset when using piped tar (#3698)
- fix extending message for changed files in new_pr_from_branch (#3699)
- enhance sched_getaffinity function to avoid early crash when counting available cores on systems with more than 1024 cores (#3701)
- correctly strip extension from filename in extract_cmd and back_up_file functions (#3705)
- other changes:
- deprecate adding a non-existing path to $MODULEPATH (#3637)
- bump cryptography requirement from 3.2.1 to 3.3.2 (#3643, #3648)
- test bootstrap script in separate workflow, and limit test configurations a bit (#3646)
- update setup.py to indicate compatibility with Python 3.8 and 3.9 (#3647)
- replace log_error parameter of which() by on_error (#3661, #3664)
- don't skip sanity check for --module-only --rebuild (#3645)
- move disable_templating function into the EasyConfig class (#3668)
- pin GitPython version for Python<3.6, don't test bootstrap script against Python 3.8/3.9 (#3675)
- tweak foss toolchain definition to switch from OpenBLAS to FlexiBLAS in foss/2021a (#3679)
- suggest missing SSH key when not able to read from remote repository in --check-github (#3681)
- drop support for Python 2.6 (#3715)
v4.3.4 (April 9th 2021)
-----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for filtering dependencies by using False as version (#3506)
- add create_unused_dir function to create a directory which does not yet exist (#3551)
- avoid running expensive 'module use' and 'module unuse' commands when using Lmod as modules tool, update $MODULEPATH directly instead (#3557, #3633)
- create CUDA cache (for JIT compiled PTX code) in build dir instead of $HOME (#3569)
- add "Citing" section to module files (#3596)
- add support for using fallback 'arch=*' key in dependency version specified as arch->version mapping (#3600)
- also check for pending change requests and mergeable_state in check_pr_eligible_to_merge (#3604)
- ignore undismissed 'changes requested' review if there is an 'approved' review by the same user (#3607, #3608)
- sort output of 'eb --search' in natural order (respecting numbers) (#3609)
- enhance 'eb' command to ensure that easybuild.main can be imported before settling on python* command to use (#3610)
- add --env-for-shebang configuration option to define the env command to use for shebangs (#3613)
- add templates for architecture independent Python wheels (#3618)
- mention easyblocks PR in gist when uploading test report for it + fix clean_gists.py script (#3622)
- also accept regular expression value for --accept-eula-for (#3630)
- update validate_github_token function to accept GitHub token in new format (#3632)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix $BLAS_LIB_MT for OpenBLAS, ensure -lpthread is included (#3584)
- use '--opt=val' for passing settings from config file to option parser to avoid error for values starting with '-' or '--' (#3594)
- avoid raised exception when getting output from interactive command in run_cmd_qa (#3599)
- add option to write file from file-like object and use in download_file (#3614)
- make sure that path to eb is always found by tests (#3617)
- other changes:
- add pick_default_branch function to clean up duplicate code in tools/github.py (#3592)
- refactor the CI configuration to use inclusion instead of exclusion (#3616)
- use develop branch when testing push access in --check-github (#3629)
- deprecate --accept-eula, rename to --accept-eula-for (#3630)
v4.3.3 (February 23rd 2021)
---------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- advise PR labels in --review-pr and add support for --add-pr-labels (#3177)
- add support for using customized HTTP headers in download_file (#3472, #3583)
- also take toolchain dependencies into account when defining template values (#3541, #3560)
- add support for --accept-eula configuration option + 'accept_eula' easyconfig parameter (#3535, #3536, #3546)
- detect 'SYSTEM' toolchain as special case in easystack files (#3543)
- enhance extract_cmd function to use 'cp -a' for shell scripts (.sh) (#3545)
- allow use of alternate envvar(s) to $HOME for user modules (#3558)
- use https://sources.easybuild.io as fallback source URL (#3572, #3576)
- add toolchain definition for iibff toolchain (#3574)
- add %(cuda_cc_space_sep)s and %(cuda_cc_semicolon_sep)s templates (#3578)
- add support for intel-compiler toolchain (>= 2021.x versions, oneAPI) (#3581, #3582)
- various bug fixes, including:
- add --init and --recursive options to 'git submodule update' command that is used when creating source tarball for specific commit (#3537)
- filter out duplicate paths in RPATH wrapper script (#3538)
- don't clean up imported modules after verifying imports of included Python modules (#3544)
- avoid no-op changes to $LD_* environment variables in ModulesTool (#3553)
- fix UTF-8 encoding errors when running EasyBuild with Python 3.0.x-3.6.x (#3565)
- create lib64 symlink as a relative symlink (#3566)
- don't reuse variable name in the loop to fix adding extra compiler flags via toolchainopts (#3571)
- symlink 'lib' to 'lib64' if it doesn't exist (#3580)
- include %(mpi_cmd_prefix)s and %(cuda_*)s templates in output of --avail-easyconfig-templates (#3586)
- other changes:
- rename EasyBlock._skip_step to EasyBlock.skip_step, to make it part of the public API (#3561)
- make symlinking of posix_c.so to posix.so in test suite configuration conditional (#3570)
- use 'main' rather than 'master' branch in GitHub integration functionality (#3589)
v4.3.2 (December 10th 2020)
---------------------------
update/bugfix release
- add (experimental) support for specifying easyconfig files via an "easystack" file (#3479, #3511, #3515, #3517, #3520, #3521)
- see also https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Easystack-files.html
- add definition for new 'gobff' toolchain using BLIS and LibFLAME (#3505)
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for toolchain options like 'extra_cxxflags' to specify extra compiler options (#2193)
- fix combination of --copy-ec and --from-pr (#3482)
- enhance copy_files function: support single file target, error on empty input list, support verbose mode (#3483)
- cache result of fetch_files_from_pr function (mainly to speed up framework test suite) (#3484)
- add locate_files function to filetools module (#3485)
- add support for %(module_name)s template value (#3497)
- clarify input format for --cuda-compute-capabilities in 'eb --help' output (#3509)
- add support for skiping unit tests (test step) via --skip-test-step (#3524)
- various bug fixes, including:
- also ignore vsc.* imports coming from from pkg_resources/__init__.py (setuptools) in fake vsc namespace (#3491)
- don't pass username in github_api_get_request when no GitHub token is available (#3494)
- also inject -rpath options for all entries in $LIBRARY_PATH in RPATH wrappers (#3495)
- avoid TypeError being raised by list_toolchains (#3499)
- check if PR is already merged in --merge-pr (#3502)
- graciously handle wrong PR id in fetch_pr_data (#3503)
- fix regression in apply_regex_substitutions: also accept list of paths to patch (#3507)
- update installation procedure for EasyBuild in generated Singularity container recipes (#3510)
- fix GitHub Actions workflow for test suite: run outside of repo checkout + also test bootstrap script with Python 3.9 (#3518)
- bump cryptography from 2.9.2 to 3.2 for Python 2 in requirements.txt (#3519)
- fix 'eb --help=rst' when running with Python 3 (#3525)
- other changes:
- exclude test configurations with Lmod 7 and Python 3, except for Python 3.6 (#3496)
- significantly speed up parsing of easyconfig files by only extracting comments from an easyconfig file when they're actually needed (#3498)
- don't include file/ldd/readelf commands run during RPATH sanity check in --trace output (#3508)
v4.3.1 (October 29th 2020)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- further GCC toolchain fixes for aarch64 (#3433)
- take into account --include-easyblocks-from-pr when uploading test reports (#3446)
- add path to pkg-config files in sysroot to $PKG_CONFIG_PATH when --sysroot is specified (#3451)
- add support for NVHPC compiler + toolchain (based on PGI) (#3454)
- check for _VERSION and _PREFIX Cray environment variables with both software and module name (#3460)
- allow including easyblocks from multiple PRs (#3480, #3481)
- various bug fixes, including:
- avoid UnicodeDecodeError in apply_regex_substitutions when patching files that include non-UTF-8 characters (#3450)
- avoid appending lib stubs pattern to RPATH filter over and over again (#3452)
- fix missing string template on error for incorrect extension 'sources' value (#3461)
- fix compatibility with Python 3.9 by renaming fancy root logger (#3465)
- also remove empty checksums list specified in easyconfig file when using --inject-checksums (#3466)
- avoid confusing error log message when determining impi version while trying to define value for %(mpi_cmd_prefix)s template (#3474)
- unset $LD_LIBRARY_PATH when checking for OS dependencies with 'rpm' & co (#3477)
- don't change directory in download_repo function in tools.github (#3486)
- take source_urls, checksums, patches into account when extension source is specified via 'sources' (#3487)
- other changes:
- consider $EB_INSTALLPYTHON in 'eb' command to specify 'python' command to use for running EasyBuild (#3428)
- use only the sub folder name for createSubmoduleDeps script (#3464)
v4.3.0 (September 13th 2020)
----------------------------
feature release
- various enhancements, including:
- add script to create 'sources' entries for git submodules (#3369, #3436)
- add templates for CUDA compute capabilities (#3382)
- '%(cuda_compute_capabilities)s', '%(cuda_sm_comma_sep)s', '%(cuda_sm_space_sep)s'
- add EasyBuild configuration option --generate-devel-module (#3388)
- to allow disabling generating of "devel" modules via --disable-generate-devel-module
- set up a minimal build environment when using system compiler (#3399)
- by default, $CC is set to 'gcc' and $CXX is set to 'g++' when using 'system' toolchain
- minimal build environment can be customized via --minimal-build-env configuration option
- add --sysroot configuration option to specify alternative location of system root (#3419)
- this is useful when installing software in a Gentoo Prefix environment (for example)
- various bug fixes, including:
- allow including easyblocks from multiple locations, by combining --include-easyblocks and --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3311)
- also escape backslashes in quote_py_str() (#3386)
- use one argument 'module swap' statements in Tcl modulefiles (required by Modules 4.2.3+) (#3397)
- fix copying of (non-existing) file with apply_patch (#3400)
- create symlink from lib64 to lib subdir in installation directories to avoid that GCC prefers /lib64 system directories (#3401)
- fix default value for 'lib64_fallback_sanity_check' build option (#3402)
- correctly determine commit status in --merge-pr (#3406)
- stop installing ccache wrapper for Fortran compiler (#3409)
- fix issues with applying PR patch in --from-pr (#3414)
- make RPATH wrapper script more robust by using 'python -E -s -S' to run rpath_args.py (#3422)
- don't inject -Wl,-rpath options when '-x c++-header' compiler option is used (#3424)
- fix lack of -mno-recip on aarch64 by tweaking GCC options used when 'precise' toolchain option is enabled (#3425)
- make sure self.start_dir is set in ExtensionEasyBlock (#3426, #3435)
- exclude local variables from typo check in easyconfig files (#3427)
- other changes:
- stick to cryptography 2.9.2 when using Python 2.7 to avoid broken test suite in CI (#3392)
- automatically enable --ignore-locks with --fetch (#3404)
- switch to status badge based on tests run in GitHub Actions CI in README (#3415)
- make flake8 code style checks pass (#3416, #3417)
- limit Travis to only test with Python 2.6 + Lomod 7 (#3418)
- ignore deprecation warning raised for cryptography when using Python 3.5 produced by output of test suite (#3423)
v4.2.2 (July 8th 2020)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add support for using 'sources' and 'git_config' for extensions in 'exts_list' (#3294)
- add support for software minver template (like %(pyminver)s, etc.) (#3344, #3345)
- add support for updating dictionary or tuple easyconfig parameters with self.cfg.update (#3356)
- various bug fixes, including:
- fix crash in --avail-easyconfig-constants when using --output-format=rst + ensure sorted output (#3341)
- always take into account builddependencies when generating template values, also when we're not iterating over builddependencies (#3346)
- fix running command as 'easybuild' user in generated Singularity definition file (#3347)
- allow ignoring versionsuffix in --try-update-deps (#3350, #3353)
- retain order of paths when generating prepend_path statements for module file (don't sort them alphabetically) (#3367)
- also put easyblocks used by extensions in 'reprod' directory (#3375)
- also copy template values in EasyConfig.copy method to ensure they are defined when installing extensions (#3377)
- skip lines that start with 'module-version' when determining whether a module exists in ModulesTool.exist (#3379)
v4.2.1 (May 20th 2020)
----------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- also mention CPU architecture (x86_64, POWER) in comment for test reports (#3281)
- add support for enhancing existing sanity check in easyconfigs, as opposed to overwriting paths/commands (#3288)
- clean up locks when EasyBuild session is cancelled with a signal like SIGTERM (#3291, #3321)
- add 'find_glob_pattern' function to filetools module (#3297)
- add constants for common OS dependencies (OS_PKG_IBVERBS_DEV, OS_PKG_OPENSSL_DEV, ...) (#3309, #3334)
- flesh out get_mpi_cmd_template function from Mpi.mpi_cmd_for method (#3312)
- add variable 'moddependpaths' to specify extra $MODULEPATH entry to consider for loading dependency modules (#3324)
- allow copying of tweaked easyconfigs when using --try-* with --copy-ec (#3332)
- various bug fixes, including:
- make ModulesTool.exist more robust w.r.t. module wrappers, aliases, defaults, etc. (#3216, #3337)
- clean up rst output of --list-toolchains (#3246)
- cast CPU arch name provided by archspec to a regular string (#3286)
- get pr_title and pr_descr built_options in new_pr_from_branch instead of new_pr (and commit_msg in both) (#3298)
- make pypi_source_urls more robust by using HTMLParser rather than xml.etree.ElementTree (#3303, #3329)
- fix broken test for --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3304)
- don't use distutils.dir_util in copy_dir (#3310)
- print trace message for sanity check command before running it (#3316)
- fix problems with processing of easyconfigs using a Cray* toolchain when there are no actual external modules (#3319)
- make test_find_eb_script more robust in case $EB_SCRIPT_PATH is already set (#3320)
- fix several small problems wit --try-update-deps (experimental feature) (#3325, #3326, #3330)
- add --disable-job in 'eb' command used in jobs, to prevent infinite job cycle (#3328)
- avoid empty entries in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other path-like environment variables (#3333)
- other changes:
- fix code style issues in easybuild.tools + add flake8 linting test (#3282)
- introduce contextmanager for disabling templating and reduce resolving errors (#3287)
- add 'change_into_dir' named argument to 'extract_file' + print deprecation warning if it's not specified (#3292)
- improve install_eb_dep.sh script to install EasyBuild dependencies in CI environment (#3314)
v4.2.0 (April 14th 2020)
------------------------
feature release
- add support for --try-update-deps (experimental feature), to upgrade dependencies based on available easyconfigs (#2599)
- adding locking to prevent two parallel builds of the same installation directory (#3009)
- for more information, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Locks.html
- significantly speed up -D/--dry-run by avoiding useless 'module show' (#3203)
- add support for creating an index & using it when searching for easyconfigs (#3210)
- for more information, see https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Easyconfigs_index.html
- additional GitHub integration features:
- add support for targeting easyblocks and framework repositories in --new-pr (#1876, #3189)
- add support for --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3206)
- for more information, https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Integration_with_GitHub.html
- various other enhancements, including:
- add a contrib/hooks dir with some examples of hooks used (#2777)
- also mention working directory + input passed via stdin (if any) in trace output of run_cmd (#3168)
- probe external modules for missing metadata that is not provided via extermal module metadata file (#3174)
- also update $CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and $CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH in generated module file (#3176)
- optionally call log.warning in print_warning (#3195)
- add an option to git_config to retain the .git directory (#3197)
- allow use of SYSTEM as --try-toolchain option (#3213)
- mention CPU arch name in comment for uploaded test report, if it's known by archspec (#3227)
- make --merge-pr take into account --pr-target-branch (#3236)
- make --check-contrib print a warning when None is used for checksums (#3244)
- update install-EasyBuild-develop.sh script and create script for 2020a merge sprint (#3245)
- add template for mpi_cmd_prefix (#3264)
- update copy_dir to include option to merge directories (#3270)
- support template name for CUDA version (#3274)
- various bug fixes, including:
- use correct module for errors_found_in_log (#3119)
- fix EasyConfig.update code to handle both strings and lists as input (#3170)
- fix removing temporary branch on --check-github (#3182)
- fix shebang even if first line doesn't start with '#!' (#3183)
- make boostrap script work with Python 3 (#3186)
- read patch files as bytestring to avoid UnicodeDecodeError for patches that include funky characters (#3191)
- fix online check in --check-github: try repeatedly and with different URLs to cater for HTTP issues (#3194)
- don't crash when GitPython is not installed when using Python 3 (#3198)
- fix os_name_map for RHEL8 (#3201)
- don't add shebang to binary files (#3208)
- use checkout@v2 in GitHub Actions to fix broken re-triggered tests (#3219)
- don't filter out None values in to_checksums, leave them in place (#3225)
- fix defining of $MPI_INC_* and $MPI_LIB_* environment variables for impi version 2019 and later (#3229)
- use correct target account/repo when creating test report & posting comment in PR (#3234)
- reorganize EasyBlock.extensions_step to ensure correct filtering of extensions (#3235)
- also support %(installdir)s and %(builddir)s templates for extensions (#3237)
- unset $GITHUB_TOKEN in Travis after installing token, to avoid failing test_from_pr_token_log (#3252)
- fix reporting when skipping extensions (#3254)
- avoid API rate limit errors on online check in --check-github (#3257)
- show easyconfig filenames for parallel build (#3258)
- make EasyConfig.dump aware of toolchain hierarchy, to avoid hardcoded subtoolchains in dependencies easyconfig parameters (#3261)
- fix use of --copy-ec with a single argument, assume copy to current working directory (#3262)
- fix posting of comment in PR with --upload-test-report (#3272)
- take into account dependencies marked as external modules when composing template values like %(pyver)s (#3273)
- other changes:
- increase timeout & use api.github.com for connectivity check in check_github (#3192)
- restore flake8 default ignores (#3193)
- enable tracking of test suite coverage using coveralls (#3204)
- make tests use easybuilders/testrepository rather than hpcugent/testrepository after it was moved (#3238)
- improve raised error in remove_dir and deprecate rmtree2 (#3228)
v4.1.2 (March 16th 2020)
------------------------
bugfix release
- fix gitdb dependency on Python 2.6 in test configuration (#3212)
- fix broken test for --review-pr by using different PR to test with (#3226)
- censor authorization part of headers before logging ReST API request (#3248)
- see also https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/security/advisories/GHSA-2wx6-wc87-rmjm
v4.1.1 (January 16th 2020)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- add check_log_for_errors function (in easybuild.tools.run) to detect and handle multiple errors (#3118)
- implement support for 'eb --show-ec' to show contents of specified easyconfig file (#3132)
- also update $XDG_DATA_DIR (share/) and $GI_TYPELIB_PATH environment variables (lib*/girepository-*) in generated module files (#3133)
- add support for --copy-ec to copy easyconfig file to specified location (#3142)
- mention --disable-* option in --help output for boolean options enabled by default (#3151)
- add --cuda-compute-capabilities configuration option (#3161)
- various bug fixes, including:
- ignore imports from vsc namespace made from pkgutil.py (#3120)
- only actually change permissions using os.chmod in adjust_permissions if the current permissions are not correct already (#3125)
- use shutil.copyfile to just copy file contents if target path exists and is owned by someone else (#3127)
- fix or avoid warnings that commonly arise in build log (#3129)
- disable buffering in asyncprocess.Popen using bufsize=0, to fix run_cmd_qa missing output (#3130)
- update pip & install wheel package in generated Singularity container recipes (#3136)
- avoid crash in modify_env & unset unset_env_vars when using (older versions) of Python 3.5 & 3.6 by using list(...) (#3140)
- take into account that lib64 could be a symlink to lib (or vice versa) in get_software_libdir function (#3141)
- only parse docstring if it exists in gen_easyblock_doc_section_rst function (#3144)
- only add useful entries for $CPATH, $(LD_)LIBRARY_PATH and $PATH (non-empty directories) (#3145, #3152)
- fix --list-software=detailed when using Python 3 by leveraging sort_looseversions function from py2vs3 module (#3146)
- ensure subdirectories in software install directory have correct search (exec) permission (#3147)
- take into account that a checksum value may be a tuple of valid checksum in EasyBlock.check_checksums (#3153)
- other changes:
- bump to Lmod 8.2.9 in GitHub CI config (#3115)
- update copyright statements for 2020 (#3149)
- make Hound CI code style checker ignore "Black would make changes" produced by flake8-black (#3162)
v4.1.0 (December 4th 2019)
--------------------------
update/bugfix release
- various enhancements, including:
- performance improvements:
- skip validation when copying EasyConfig object for extension (#3071)
- correctly specify that ActiveMNS & co are singleton classes when using Python 3 (#3073)
- don't call out to prohibitively expensive getRootLoggerName in getLogger, just use 'root' instead (#3074)
- fix inconsistent module path usage that leads to repeated reloading in HMNS (#3099)
- add support for specifying different dependency version based on processor architecture (#3047)
- support use of glob patterns for paths to files with external modules metadata (#3075)
- take into account that external modules may not be visible directly (due to module hierarchy) (#3083)
- add support for including 'extensions' statement in Lua modules with Lmod 8.2.8+ (#3085, #3107, #3110)
- add support for --sync-pr-with-develop (#3087)
- add support for --new-branch-github, --new-pr-from-branch, --sync-branch-with-develop, --update-branch-github (#3103)
- fix typo in docstring for new_branch_github (#3106)
- various bug fixes, including:
- correctly handle iccifortcuda toolchain with standalone iccifort in det_toolchain_compilers (#3055)
- init git repo with git.repo.clone() instead of copy_dir() (#3062)
- fix regular expression so depends-on statements are recognized correctly in Tcl module files (#3065)
- update GitPython to latest version that supports Python 2.6 in requirements.txt to fix broken test_new_update_pr (#3066)