congradulations! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Jülich next week.
> On Mar 18, 2025, at 2:43 PM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear EasyBuilders, > > We're extremely pleased (and relieved) to announce that EasyBuild v5.0.0 is > finally available! No, really, it is! Really! > > The first steps towards EasyBuild v5.0.0 were taken roughly 100 weeks ago > (end of March 2023), so this marks the end of a long but fruitful effort. > > Thank you for your patience, we know many of you have been eagerly awaiting > this release. > > > ## Overview of changes > > A high-level overview of changes in EasyBuild v5.0.0 is available in the > EasyBuild documentation at https://docs.easybuild.io/easybuild-v5 . > > The pages and sections to which the entries in the high-level overview link > will be updated in the next couple of days with more information, so stay > tuned... > > A detailed list of all changes with links to the pull requests in which these > changes were implemented is available in the release notes: > https://docs.easybuild.io/release-notes/#release_notes_eb500 > > This release includes support for 148 new software packages! > > > ## Installation > > There are several ways of installing EasyBuild v5.0.0, including: > > - Via "pip install" (or other standard Python tools), see also > https://docs.easybuild.io/installation/#pip > > - Via "eb --install-latest-eb-release", which download the easyconfig file > for EasyBuild v5.0.0 from the 'develop' branch of the easybuild-easyconfigs > repository . > > Note that installing EasyBuild v5.0.0 with EasyBuild v4.x using "eb > --from-pr" will *not* work shortly after the release of EasyBuild v5.0.0, > because the 'develop' branch of the easybuild-easyconfigs repository will be > updated, and recent EasyBuild versions don't allow "cross-version" > installations via --from-pr . > > > ## Contributions > > This release includes contributions made by 25 different contributors: > > * 245 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework; > * 341 merged pull requests for easyblocks; > * 778 merged pull requests for easyconfigs; > > That's 1,364 merged pull requests in total! > > Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another! > > > ## Best release ever? > > While this release includes breaking changes + changes to the default > configuration of EasyBuild, the EasyBuild maintainers are confident that this > version of EasyBuild is stable and ready for production, since it has been > thoroughly tested. > > If you find any unexpected problems or bugs, please report them (via Slack, > GitHub, mailing list, etc.) so we can publish a (quick) bugfix release, > should that be required. > > So for once: let's take some time to conclude whether this really is the best > EasyBuild release ever. > We're pretty sure it is, but do make your own assessment after taking it for > a spin... > > > regards, > > Kenneth > > > [0] https://pypi.org/project/easybuild/5.0.0
