Dear EasyBuilders,
It is my pleasure to announce the release of EasyBuild version 3.9.3 [1].
This release is so good that I just *had* to push it out before taking
some summer vacation, holding it back from you any longer would be a
capital crime...
This is a bugfix/update release, with one of the driving forces being
adding support for installing the upcoming EasyBuild v4.0 (more on that
soon...).
Highlights include:
* only require vsc-base for EasyBuild 2.x and 3.x in EasyBuildMeta
easyblock
* updates/bug fixes for CMakeMake generic easyblock and the GCC,
HEALPix, HPCG, Modeller, OpenBLAS, OpenFOAM, Rosetta, SNPhylo and SWIG
software-specific easyblocks
* added support for 25 new software packages, incl. AtomPAW, deal.II,
OR-Tools, ReFrame, and X!Tandem
* updates for already supported software, incl. ABINIT 8.10.3,
CFITSIO 3.47, GDB 8.3, GROMACS 2019.3, HEALPix 3.50, HPCG 3.1, Nilearn
0.5.2, OpenBLAS 0.3.6, Xerces-C++ 3.2.0, ...
* fixed checksum (again...) for boot 1.3-22 extension in R 3.6.0
easyconfig
* various additional bug fixes, updates & enhancements
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 1,805!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available at [2].
A detailed overview of all changes is available in the release notes [3].
These changes result from a whole bunch of merged contributions, by 23
different contributors:
- 6 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 17 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 71 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v3.9.3, there are several options [4].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release
* eb --from-pr 8553 # use easyconfig from PR #8553 [5]
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth (a.k.a. boegel)
EasyBuild release manager
[1] https://pypi.org/project/easybuild/3.9.3
[2]
https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html
[3] https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html
[4]
https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation
[5] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8553/files
