Dear EasyBuilders,
I'm happy to announce the release of EasyBuild v4.4.1 [1],
right in time for your summer vacation (in the northern hemisphere).
You guessed it: this is the best EasyBuild release to date, or did you
think it's a coincidence that the version is equivalent to the sum of
the cubes of the first 6 natural numbers (if you remove the dots)?!
They even set the ocean itself on fire to try and distract you this
time, go figure...
EasyBuild v4.4.1 is primarily a bugfix and update release, but also
includes several minor enhancements.
Highlights for this release are listed below. More details are available
in the release notes [2] which includes links to the respective pull
requests for more detailed information.
(this information is also available at
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/releases/tag/easybuild-v4.4.1)
## Highlighted enhancements
[enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are
marked with (***)]
- add per-step timing information in standard output of eb command;
- add new hook that triggers right before writing generated module file
(module_write_hook);
- add ignore-test-failure configuration option to ignore failing test step;
- enhance ConfigureMake generic easyblock to add support for building
multiple build targets;
- 5 new custom easyblocks, for AOMP, FreeFEM, NCCL (built from source),
torchvision, and UCX plugins;
- update custom easyblock for Boost to always build single and multi
threaded versions;
- (***) enhance sitecustomize.py in Python easyblock to support
overriding core Python packages, and allowing overriding in virtualenv;
- (***) updates & enhancements for various custom easyblocks, incl.
Amber, Clang, FFTW, Hypre, intel-compiler, Java, OpenSSL wrapper, Perl,
Python, XALT, Xmipp;
- (***) additional extensions for recent R easyconfigs [3];
## Prominent bug fixes & changes
[bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are
marked with (***)]
- add comment with test report in right location when combining
--from-pr and --include-easyblocks-from-pr;
- fix crash when copying modules that were imported in easyconfig file
(like import os);
- (***) fix location for modules installed with intel-compilers
toolchain in HierarchicalMNS;
- don’t make changes to software installation directory when using
--sanity-check-only;
- honour specified easyblock for extensions;
- change Bundle easyblock to also collect altroot and altversion in the
module step so they are set when running --module-only;
- (***) bug fixes for various custom easyblocks, incl. GCC,
intel-compilers, NVHPC, TensorFlow, VEP;
- (***) set minimal OpenSSL version to 1.1.1 for OpenSSL v1.1 wrapper;
- (***) add patch for GCC 10.2.0 to fix internal compiler error on aarch64;
- (***) add missing rgdal dependency to R-INLA;
- (***) add patch to fix uniq operation in TensorFlow 2.4.1;
- (***) add patch for recent GCCcore versions to fix compatibility with
CUDA 11;
- (***) avoid using PMIx from system instead of PMIx dependency
specified via --with-pmix for OpenMPI 4.x;
- (***) add patch for GCCcore 10.3.0 to prevent issues when compiling
with nvcc;
## Other changes
- deprecate EasyBuild bootstrap script;
- rework the dependency handling of OpenMPI to use explicit configure
options to disable features if required dependency is not provided;
- side effect of this is that you need to add --with-ucx yourself if
you want to build OpenMPI on top of a system provided UCX!
- (***) switch to NCCL 2.8.3 built from source for CuPy, Horovod,
libgpuarray, PyTorch and TensorFlow using fosscuda/2020b;
- cleanup of easyconfigs for (bundles) of Python packages: remove
default PYPI_SOURCE source URLs + use PythonBundle rather than Bundle
easyblock;
## Supported software
Support for installing 39 new software packages has been added,
including (but not limited to):
AOMP
dSFMT
FreeFEM
futhark
GenomeWorks
hipify-clang
microctools
Nektar++
OpenMM-PLUMED
phototonic
PyFoam
RECON
UCX-CUDA
Vala
=> This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,388!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available at [4].
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
Amber 20.11
Bonito 0.4.0
DOLFIN 2019.1.0.post0
ELPA 2021.05.001
FDS 6.7.6
GCC 8.4.0 + 9.4.0
GDAL 3.3.0
Go 1.16.5
GSL 2.7
h5py 3.2.1
Horovod 0.22.0
Hypre 2.21.0
IPython 7.25.0
LDC 1.26.0
libxc 5.1.5
medaka 1.4.3
MUMPS 5.4.0
NCCL 2.9.9
netCDF 4.8.0
Nim 1.4.8
nodejs 14.17.0
numba 0.53.1
NVHPC 21.5
Octave 6.2.0
petsc4py 3.12.0
PySCF 1.7.6
PyTorch 1.9.0
R 4.0.5 + R 4.1.0
ReFrame 3.6.2
Ruby 3.0.1
Score-P 7.0
Subread 2.0.2
SuiteSparse 5.10.1
sympy 1.8
TensorFlow 2.5.0
VMD 1.9.4a51
Z3 4.8.11
These changes result from various contributions, made by 23 different
contributors:
* 27 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
* 41 merged pull requests for easyblocks
* 268 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.4.1, there are several options [5].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release
* eb --from-pr 13344 # use easyconfig from PR #13344 [6]
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth & Miguel
[1] https://pypi.org/project/easybuild/4.4.1
[2]
https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html#easybuild-v4-4-1-july-6th-2021
[3]
https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Partial_installations.html#installing-additional-extensions-using-k-skip
[4]
https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/version-specific/Supported_software.html
[5]
https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Installation.html#updating-an-existing-easybuild-installation
[6] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/13344
