Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 3.4.1 [1].
You may have already heard... this is the best EasyBuild release ever!
This is primarily a bugfix & update release, but it also adds a couple
of minor features.
Highlights include:
* stable support for 'eb --trace' [2]
* support for --force-download & --ignore-checksums
* generic SystemMPI easyblock to install a module for an already
available OpenMPI or Intel MPI installation
* put symlinks in place for cc/c++/f77/f95 commands when installing
GCC to shadow available system commands
* fixed checksums for software for which the sources are downloaded
from GitHub (github.com/../../archive source URLs)
* see also
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/5151
* also consider rdma-core-devel as alternative to libibverbs-devel
OS dependency in OpenMPI easyconfigs
* include NLopt as dependency in R easyconfigs if nloptr extension
is installed
* this fixes an infinite loop that occurs when NLopt is being
installed during the installation of nloptr
* support for 13 new software packages, incl. FSLeyes, QEMU,
REMORA, SAS
* updates for already supported software,
incl. Blender 2.79, matplotlib 2.1.0, OpenCV 3.3.0,
OpenFOAM-Extend 4.0, OpenMPI 2.1.2 + 3.0.0, Python 2.7.14 + 3.6.3, etc.
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 1,307 [3]!
A detailed overview of all changes is available in the release notes [4].
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v3.4.1, there are several options, see [5].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release # requires EasyBuild v3.3.0 or
more recent
* eb --from-pr 5231 # use easyconfig from PR #5231 [6]
(EasyBuild v3.3.0 is required for --install-latest-eb-release because
support for SHA256 checksums is required)
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth (a.k.a. boegel)
EasyBuild release manager
[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easybuild/3.4.1
[2] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Tracing_progress.html
[3]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html
[4] http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html
[5]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation
[6] https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5231/files
