Dear EasyBuilders,
We're happy to announce the release of EasyBuild v4.7.2 [1].
There's no doubt that this is the best EasyBuild release so far.
Like, none at all.
Don't let the recent coronation of a new king, or silly events like
meeting of a particular open source software community distract you from it!
The executive summary for this release:
- Various small enhancements and bug fixes to EasyBuild framework,
easyblocks, and easyconfigs;
- Easyconfigs for various recent software versions, including
AlphaFold 2.3.4, CP2K 2022.1, GCC 12.3.0 + 13.1.0, R-bundle-Bioconductor
3.16, ...;
- Support for installing 89 new software applications and libraries;
EasyBuild v4.7.2 is primarily a bugfix and update release, but it also
includes various 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-v4.7.2)
## Highlighted enhancements & updates
[enhancements or updates that (may) warrant updating existing
installations are marked with (***)]
- extend (experimental) support for generating container images with
Apptainer;
- 2 new generic easyblock for installing Rust crates with cargo: Cargo
and CargoPythonPackage;
- (***) enhance PyTorch easyblock to use FlexiBLAS for PyTorch >= 1.11.0;
- (***) add additional extensions to recent R and R-bundle-Bioconductor
easyconfigs;
- (***) switch bamtofastq + Longshot to Cargo easyblock;
- (***) add egg file to OpenCV 4.6.0 python package for pip + pkgconfig
file;
- (***) add missing FastTreeMP binary for FastTree;
- (***) bump versions in Java wrappers to latest builds that include
ppc64le;
## Prominent bug fixes & changes
[bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are
marked with (***)]
- fix --check-github as gist url now includes username;
- (***) force building torchvision with CUDA support if CUDA is included
as dependency by setting $FORCE_CUDA;
- (***) use CUDA variant of OpenMM 7.5.1 as dependency for AlphaFold 2.3.0;
- (***) add missing OpenJPEG dependency for recent GDAL versions;
- (***) upgrade traitlets, ipywidgets, and widgetsnbextension +
downgrade jupyterlab_widgets extensions in IPython v8.5.0 to fix known
issues;
- (***) add missing dependencies and add patch for fix incorrect ids for
BRAKER v2.1.6;
- (***) FLINT needs BLAS so move it up from GCC level;
- add patch for scipy 1.10.1 extension in SciPy-bundle 2023.02 to fix
broken test;
- exclude flaky test_optim + add patch to fix test_quantization for
PyTorch 1.12.1 + make excluded tests for PyTorch 1.12.1 consistent;
- add make 4.3 as build dependency for recent OpenBLAS versions;
- add alternative checksum for MONAI 1.0.1;
- add historical repo paths to install command for old versions of texlive;
## Supported software
Support for installing 89 new software packages has been added,
including (but not limited to):
AGeNT
Annocript
BoltzTraP2
Casanovo
CellOracle
ColabFold
DiCE-ML
ESPResSo
FunGAP
GLI
HTSplotter
IsoSeq
LoRDEC
OptaDOS
PGPLOT
pod5-file-format
pytesseract
Python-bundle
PyTorch-bundle
Raven
Scalene
SoPlex
sysbench
TOPAS
turbinesFoam
=> This brings the total number of supported software packages to
3,085 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available at [4].
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
AlphaFold 2.3.4
Arrow 11.0.0
Clang 15.0.5
CP2K 9.1 + 2022.1
GCC 12.3.0 + 13.1.0
intel/2023.03 (incl. intel-compilers 22023.1.0, impi 2021.9.0, imkl
2023.1.0)
OpenMM 8.0.0
picard 3.0.0
R-bundle-Bioconductor 3.16
ReFrame 4.2.0
UCC-CUDA 1.1.0
These changes result from various contributions, made by 27 different
contributors:
* 14 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
* 15 merged pull requests for easyblocks
* 316 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.7.2, there are several options [5].
Two particularly easy options include:
* eb --install-latest-eb-release
* eb --from-pr 17986 # use easyconfig from PR #17986 [6]
Enjoy!
regards,
Kenneth & Sebastian
[1] https://pypi.org/project/easybuild/4.7.2
[2] https://docs.easybuild.io/release-notes/#release_notes_eb472
[3]
https://docs.easybuild.io/partial-installations/#partial_installation_skip
[4] https://docs.easybuild.io/version-specific/supported-software
[5] https://docs.easybuild.io/installation/#updating
[6] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/17986
