Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild version 3.6.1 [1].
This is a great release. None of the other projects have a release like
this. It's the best.
This is primarily a bugfix/update release.
Highlights include:
* fix traceback that occurred with --new-pr w.r.t. setting labels
* fix problem where temporary module file loaded during sanity
check was shadowed by an already existing module in a hierarchical
module naming scheme
* consider 'lib64/*' fallback for 'lib/*' files/ & directories (&
vice-versa) in sanity check, for better compatibility with SUSE-based
systems
* added support to PythonPackage easyblock to detect
auto-downloaded dependencies (disabled by default for now, can be
enabled using "download_dep_fail = True")
* provide control over which paths get added to $PATH in Binary
easyblock
* minor updates to Boost, ESMF, Maple, PETSc, WIEN2k easyblocks to
support latest versions
* support for 24 new software packages, incl. dotNET-Core-Runtime,
ecCodes, HOME, NetPIPE, wxWidgets
* updates for already supported software, incl. Boost 1.67.0, ESMF
7.1.0r, GATK 4.0.4.0, GCC 8.1.0, GROMACS 2018, OpenBLAS 0.3.0, PETSc
3.9.1, PGI 18.4, TensorFlow 1.8.0, WIEN2k 17.1
* new toolchains: fosscuda/2018a and giolfc/2017b
* various additional bug fixes, updates & enhancements
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 1,461!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available at
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html
.
A detailed overview of all changes is available in the release notes,
see http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v3.6.1, there are several options [2].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release
# this requires EasyBuild v3.3.0 or more recent since support
for SHA256 checksums is required
* eb --from-pr 6386 # use easyconfig from PR #6386 [3]
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth (a.k.a. boegel)
EasyBuild release manager
[1] https://pypi.org/project/easybuild/3.6.1
[2]
http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation
[3] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6386/files
