Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 2.8.1 [1].
Yes, that's right, EasyBuild v2.8.0 just got even better!
This is a primarily a minor bug fix release, motivated by a problem with
the new 'module avail' caching mechanism in EasyBuild v2.8.0 (which is
only triggered under very particular circumstances) [2].
A couple of other minor bugs in the EasyBuild framework have been fixed
as well, together with enhancements to a handful of easyblocks to
support the latest software versions and support for 13 new software
packages.
For more details, please see the release notes [3].
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v2.8.1, there are several options, see [4];
an easyconfig file for EasyBuild v2.8.1 is available in [5].
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth
EasyBuild release manager
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild/2.8.1
[2] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1776
[3] http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/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/3153/files
