Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 3.0.1 [1].
This is obviously the best EasyBuild release ever in the history of
mankind, since it (mainly) fixes a couple of bugs that were reported in
the previous best release ever (EasyBuild v3.0.0).
Highlights for this release include:
* always use Intel-specific MPI compiler wrappers (mpiicc, mpiicpc,
mpiifort) for toolchains using both Intel compilers and Intel MPI;
- strictly speaking this is a backward-incompatible change, yet we
opted to include this as a bug fix after careful consideration and testing
* avoid traceback being produced when an EasyBuildError containing a
'%s' in the message was being raised;
* dump original easyconfig rather than templated easyconfig (potentially
with hardcoded toolchains for dependencies) to easyconfig archive when
using --minimal-toolchains;
* several bug fixes related to the experimental support for RPATH;
* support for 7 new software packages, incl. LoFreq and PhyloBayes-MPI
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 1,123 [2]!
A detailed overview of all changes is available in the release notes [3].
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or
another; special thanks for Miguel Dias Costa (National University of
Singapore) for helping out with putting together the release notes!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v3.0.1, there are several options, see [4].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release # requires EasyBuild v2.9.0
* eb --from-pr 3872 # use easyconfig from PR #3872 [5]
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth (a.k.a. boegel)
EasyBuild release manager
[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild/3.0.1
[2]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html
[3] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html
[4]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation
[5] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/3872/files
