Releases: easybuilders/easybuild
EasyBuild v4.7.0
EasyBuild v4.7.0 is primarily a feature release, but it also includes various minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Highlights for this release are listed below. More details are available in the release notes which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Highlighted enhancements
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
also run unit tests with Python 3.11;
-
add support for checksums specified in external checksums.json file;
-
take into account custom configuration options specified in easystack files - see also docs;
-
add support for using
--output-format=md
(MarkDown); -
add support for
postinstallmsgs
; -
add
gfbf
as subtoolchain offoss
; -
make
iimkl
toolchain aware ofintel-compilers
; -
add generic easyblocks for installing (bundle of) Julia packages:
JuliaPackage
+JuliaBundle
; -
updates and enhancements for various generic easyblocks, incl.
ConfigureMake
,PythonPackage
; -
(***)
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: BerkeleyGW, Clang, Clang-AOMP, ESMF, libxml2, LLVM, OpenCV, OpenMPI, PETSc, QScintill, TensorFlow, Xmipp;
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
print deprecation warning with running EasyBuild with Python 2;
-
various tweaks to docstrings and help messages to fix problems with auto-generated documentation in MarkDown format;
-
vendor
distutils.version.LooseVersion
aseasybuild.tools.LooseVersion
(sincedistutils
is deprecated in Python 3.10, to be removed in Python 3.12); -
auto-enable use of oneAPI C/C++ compilers for
intel-compilers
>= 2022.2.0; -
use
-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic
instead of-xSSE2
when using Intel oneAPI compilers; -
drop support for easystack files using '
software
' top-level key; -
make PythonPackage easyblock compatible with
--sanity-check-only
by loading module early during sanity check step; -
(***)
update HDF5 easyblock to use--enable-threadsafe
configure option to make C API thread safe; -
(***)
bug fixes for various software-specific easyblocks: ANSYS, Clang, MRtrix, PyTorch;
Supported software
New version of common toolchains: foss/2022b
, intel/2022b
Support for installing 107 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- Alfred
- bamFilters
- CAT-BAT
- CloudCompare
- COBRApy
- CUDA-Samples
- DeepLabCut
- DRAGMAP
- ESM-2
- HighFive
- IJulia
- KaHIP
- LHAPDF
- Magics
- MEMOTE
- MONAI
- MOOSE
- MultilevelEstimators
- napari
- nf-core-mag
- OmegaFold
- pyccel
- PyDamage
- pyWannier90
- scvi-tools
- SELFIES
- SISSO++
- spaCy
- Squidpy
- TBA
- trimesh
- UCX-ROCm
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,904 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AOCC 4.0.0
- CDO 2.1.1
- CubeGUI/CubeLib/CubeWriter 4.8
- CUDA 11.8.0 + 12.0.0
- deepdiff 5.8.1
- FLANN 1.9.1
- GATK 4.3.0.0
- GDCM 3.0.20
- Ghostscript 10.0.0
- GRASS 8.2.0
- JasPer 4.0.0
- libspatialite 5.0.1
- LLVM 15.0.5
- Mesa 22.2.4
- mold 1.7.1
- MRChem 1.1.1
- ncbi-vdb 3.0.0
- nglview 3.0.3
- nodejs 18.12.1
- Octave 7.1.0
- OpenFOAM 10
- OpenFold 1.0.1
- OpenMolcas 22.10
- OpenStackClient 6.0.0
- PAPI 7.0.0,
- PETSc 3.17.4
- pyproj 3.4.0
- Python 3.10.8
- PyTorch 1.12.1
- PyTorch-Geometric 2.1.0
- QGIS 3.28.1
- Qt5 5.15.7
- QtPy 2.2.1
- ReFrame 3.12.0
- scanpy 1.9.1
- Score-P 8.0
- SignalP 6.0g
- SLEPc 3.17.2
- SNAP 2.0.1
- SpaceRanger 2.0.0
- SuperLU_DIST 8.1.0
- tensorboardX 2.5.1
- TensorFlow 2.8.4
- tesseract 5.3.0
- Valgrind 3.20.0
- Vim 9.0.0950
- VTK 9.2.2
- wandb 0.13.6
- WebKitGTK+ 2.37.1
- WPS/WRF 4.4
- wxPython 4.2.0
- X11 20221110
- Xmipp 3.22.07
These changes result from various contributions, made by 29 different contributors:
- 42 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 36 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 469 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.7.0, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
-
eb --install-latest-eb-release
-
eb --from-pr 17065
# use easyconfig from PR #17065
EasyBuild v4.6.2
EasyBuild v4.6.2 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Highlighted enhancements
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
enable running of LAPACK tests for recent OpenBLAS easyconfigs;
-
2 new software-specific easyblocks: CUDA compatibility libraries (CUDAcompat) + mamba;
-
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: OpenFOAM, ESMF, netCDF, numexpr;
-
enhance EasyBuildMeta easyblock: auto-enable installing with
pip
;
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
(***)
add patch to GCC 11.x + 12.x to fix vectorizer bug; -
(***)
add patch to fix failing LAPACK tests due to use of-ftree-vectorize
; -
correctly count the number of failing tests (not failing test suites) in PyTorch builds;
-
(***)
add patches to fix incompatibilites between ASE and other packages in 2022a toolchain; -
(***)
fix execution permissions forbin/ngm*
for NextGenMap v0.5.5; -
(***)
add bzip2 and libxml2 as dependencies for netCDF 4.9.0; -
(***)
add patch to detect available cores and remove unneeded deps for Unicycler 0.5.0; -
make
--inject-checksums
inject dictionary value for checksums which maps filename to SHA256 checksum; -
fix trying to generate RPATH wrappers for Clang;
-
update easyconfigs to use
SYSTEM
template constant instead ofTrue
in dependencies;
Supported software
New version of intel toolchain: intel/2022.09
Support for installing 25 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- AMAPVox
- buildingspy
- CDBtools
- f90wrap
- Miller
- NVSHMEM
- paladin
- PyMOL
- python-irodsclient
- ruffus
- TELEMAC-MASCARET
- x13as
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,798 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- ASE 3.22.1
- biogeme 3.2.10
- Delly 1.1.5
- ESMF 8.3.0
- FDS 6.7.9
- Go 1.18.3
- GPAW 22.8.0
- IPython 8.5.0
- Julia 1.8.2
- LIBSVM 3.30
- netcdf4-python 1.6.1
- Nipype 1.8.5,
- OpenCV 4.6.0
- OpenMM 7.7.0
- Perl 5.36.0
- PyTorch 1.12.0
- PyTorch-Lightning 1.7.7
- RDFlib 6.2.0
- SAMtools 1.16.1
- scikit-learn 1.1.2
- Score-P 7.1
- SuiteSparse 5.13.0
- SUNDIALS 6.3.0
- sympy 1.11.1
- torchvision 0.13.1
- TRIQS 3.1.1
- UCX 1.13.1
- VEP 107
- Wayland 1.21.0
- wxWidgets 3.2.1
These changes result from various contributions, made by 24 different contributors:
- 17 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 20 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 159 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.6.2, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
-
eb --install-latest-eb-release
-
eb --from-pr 16465
# use easyconfig from PR #16465
EasyBuild v4.6.1
EasyBuild v4.6.1 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Highlighted enhancements
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
run
python
in the same process aseb
wrapper script by using exec (which improves startup performance ofeb
command); -
reduce the number of command line options for
cmake
command inCMakeMake
generic easyblock; -
enhance
PythonPackage
easyblock to make sure all test command output makes it to the EasyBuild log, also whenreturn_output_ec=True
is used; -
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: GROMACS, LAMMPS, libQGLViewer, NVHPC, PyTorch;
-
(***)
add extra symlinks and sanity checks for libtinfo in ncurses; -
speed up OpenMPI 4.1.4 configure by not running
autogen.pl --force
, but only running required Autotools commands;
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
use
det_cmake_version
function to determine CMake version inCMakeMake
generic easyblock (rather than assuming that CMake is loaded as a build dependency); -
don’t enable building of ld.gold when installing binutils on a RISC-V system + don’t configure GCC to use gold as default linker on a RISC-V system;
-
make Amber easyblock aware of FlexiBLAS;
-
tweak Amber(Tools) easyblock to run tests from top-level directory, and enable running of tests for AmberTools v20 + v21;
-
work around miscompilation of OpenBLAS on POWER by compiling with
-fstack-protector-strong
; -
various fixes for installing PyTorch on POWER systems;
-
(***)
replace HDF5 v1.13.1 with v1.12.1 as dependency, since we shouldn’t use odd minor versions of HDF5 which are not stable releases; -
(***)
use versioned symbols in ncurses built with system toolchain (by adding--with-versioned-syms
configure option); -
(***)
add CVE patch for XZ 5.2.5 + attempt to fix symbol patch for all OSs; -
(***)
add patch for AlphaFold v2.2.2 to fix NaN problem with jax 0.3.9; -
simplify AlphaFold
foss/2021a
easyconfigs by using a fleshed out patched OpenMM dependency; -
(***)
add patch to fix missing sync in LINCS and SETTLE CUDA kernels for GROMACS 2020 and 2021; -
(***)
fix checksum for Stacks v2.62 (due to silent re-release without version bump); -
(***)
consistently add maeparser + CoordgenLibs dependencies to OpenBabel 3.1.1 easyconfigs; -
(***)
updateJava/11
to 11.0.16 andJava/17
to 17.0.4;
Supported software
Support for installing 37 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- BigDFT
- colossalai
- Dakota
- FastFold
- how_are_we_stranded_here
- libmad
- MetaMorpheus
- muMerge
- olaFlow
- OpenFAST
- OpenFold
- pyGenomeTracks
- RheoTool
- Satsuma2
- UCC-CUDA
- VESTA
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,773 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AmberTools 22.3
- BCFtools 1.15.1
- binutils 2.39
- BLAST+ 2.13.0
- CDO 2.0.5
- CoordgenLibs 3.0.1,
- Elk 8.5.2,
- FFmpeg 4.4.2 + 5.0.1
- FreeSurfer 7.3.2
- GATE 9.2
- GCC(core) 12.2.0
- GDB 12.1
- gnuplot 5.4.4
- Graphviz 5.0.0
- HDF5 1.12.2
- HTSlib 1.15.1
- Hypre 2.25.0,
- jax 0.3.14,
- LAMMPS 23Jun2022
- Libint 2.7.2
- maeparser 1.3.0
- matplotlib 3.5.2
- MATSim 14.0
- medaka 1.6.0
- Megalodon 2.5.0
- MetaEuk 6,
- MUMPS 5.5.1
- netCDF-Fortran 4.6.0
- ont-remora 1.0.0
- OpenFOAM v2206
- ParaView 5.10.1
- Perl 5.36.0
- Pyomo 6.4.2
- PyStan 3.5.0
- PyYAML 6.0
- scikit-bio 0.5.7
- scikit-learn 1.1.2
- SCOTCH 7.0.1
- spglib-python 2.0.0
- SUMO 1.14.1
- Valgrind 3.19.0
- ViennaRNA 2.5.1
- wxPython 4.1.1
- zfp 1.0.0
These changes result from various contributions, made by 25 different contributors:
- 16 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 20 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 266 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.6.1, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
-
eb --install-latest-eb-release
-
eb --from-pr 16240
# use easyconfig from PR #16240
EasyBuild v4.6.0
EasyBuild v4.6.0 is primarily a feature release, but it also includes various minor bug fixes, enhancements, and updates.
Highlights for this release are listed below. More details are available in the release notes which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Highlighted enhancements
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
add support for OneAPI compilers using toolchain option '
oneapi
'; -
add support for setting environment variables via '
pushenv
' with modextravars; -
fall back to sequential extension install if parallel install is not implemented;
-
one new software-specific custom easyblock for STAR-CCM+;
-
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: FFTW, Libint, OpenSSL, Siesta, TensorFlow, WPS;
-
add support for allowing some PyTorch tests to fail + print warning if one or more tests fail;
-
easyconfigs for
foss/2022a
andintel/2022a
common toolchains (see also here); -
(***)
additional extensions for R v4.2.0 (see--skip
); -
(***)
add patch for GCCcore 11.3.0 to support using-fuse-ld=mold
;
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
tweak '
eb
' wrapper script to correctly handle errors when python command being considered fails to run; -
tweak
is_patch_for
function to make it more robust; -
tweak
apply_patch
function to not create.orig
files (by default) when applying patch files; -
make sure that
CMakeMakeCp
generic easyblock uses correct build dir; -
make VEP easyblock compatible with
--sanity-check-only
; -
only load temporary module file during sanity check for pybind11 for stand-alone installations, so it can be installed as extension;
-
switch to Rust 1.60.0 build dependency for bamtofastq, since build fails with Rust 1.52.1;
-
(***)
avoid that pygmo v2.18.0 installs stuff in Python installation directory + add custom sanity check paths to pygmo easyconfigs; -
(***)
correctconfigopts
in deal.II v9.1.1 easyconfig;
Supported software
Support for installing 24 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- fio
- G-PhoCS
- Gibbs2
- Minipolish
- NetPyNE
- SISSO
- sklearn-pandas
- SWIPE
- topaz
- uncertainty-calibration
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,736 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AlphaFold 2.2.2
- Arrow 8.0.0
- CellRanger 7.0.0
- deal.II 9.3.3
- FSL 6.0.5.1
- GDAL 3.5.0
- geopandas 0.11.0
- GEOS 3.10.3
- h5py 3.7.0
- HDF5 1.13.1
- ImageMagick 7.1.0-37
- jemalloc 5.3.0
- Leptonica 1.82.0
- libRmath 4.2.0
- libxc 5.2.3
- MaSuRCA 4.0.9
- mold 1.3.0
- netCDF 4.9.0
- NEURON 7.8.2
- NLopt 2.7.1
- nvtop 2.0.2
- PLUMED 2.8.0,
- PRISMS-PF 2.2
- PROJ 9.0.0
- PyTorch 1.11.0
- Qt5 5.15.5
- QuantumESPRESSO 7.1
- R 4.2.1
- Ray-project 1.13.0
- ReFrame 3.11.2
- SpectrA 1.0.1
- TensorFlow 2.7.1
- UCX-CUDA 1.12.1
- WPS 3.9.1
These changes result from various contributions, made by 24 different contributors:
- 17 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 17 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 149 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.6.0, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
-
eb --install-latest-eb-release
-
eb --from-pr 15832
# use easyconfig from PR #15832
EasyBuild v4.5.5
EasyBuild v4.5.5 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant re-installing easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
set
$FFT(W)_LIB_DIR
to imkl-FFTW’s lib path in build environment ifusempi
toolchain option is enabled; -
fix '
eb --show-system-info
' on Apple M1 system; -
remove system-compiled binutils dirs from
$LDFLAGS
in binutils easyblock; -
(***)
add patch for OpenMPI 4.1.1 to support building using--with-cuda=internal
; -
(***)
disable use of-ftree-vectorize
for OpenFOAM v2112 with foss/2021b; -
(***)
also symlinkcert.pem
in from-source OpenSSL installation (if it exists), to ensure that system certificates are found; -
use
x.py
to bootstrap Rust so that build options are properly passed through; -
(***)
add hwloc dependency to tbb v2021.4.0; -
(***)
define$HHLIB
as path to HH-suite installation directory, required by Perl scripts; -
(***)
add missing parallel and tbl2asn dependencies for prokka 1.14.5; -
(***)
also build shared library + fix$PYTHONPATH
for gmsh 4.9.0; -
add missing dependencies + switch to non-static build for Arriba v2.1.0;
-
(***)
add R dependency to vcflib 1.0.3, and move fromGCC/11.2.0
tofoss/2021b
toochain; -
(***)
update fallback version for OpenSSL 1.1 wrapper to v1.1.1o; -
(***)
installsklearn
meta-package with scikit-learn v1.0.1;
Highlighted enhancements & changes
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
change '
eb
' command to importeasybuild.framework
to check if EasyBuild framework is available; -
add toolchain definitions for
nvompi
(NVHPC + OpenMPI),
nvpsmpi
(NVHPC + ParaStationMPI), andgfbf
(GCC, FlexiBLAS, FFTW); -
add support for FFTW.MPI toolchain component;
-
add support for customizing EasyBuild command used in jobs via --job-eb-cmd;
-
add support to ConfigureMake for tweaking (first part of) test command via 'test_cmd';
-
1 new software-specific easyblock for FFTW.MPI;
-
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: ABAQUS, Clang, cuDNN, FFTW, LLVM, Mesa, MrBayes, NEURON, OpenMPI, OpenSSL wrapper, R, SuperLU, TensorFlow;
-
don't use
gold
linker by default for GCC >= 11.3; -
add candidates for 2022a common toolchains:
foss/2022.05
,intel/2022.05
; -
(***)
also build BLIS backend for FlexiBLAS v3.0.4 with GCC/10.3.0; -
(***)
additional extensions for R-bundle-Bioconductor 3.14 + R v4.1.2 (see --skip); -
(***)
update Arrow to use EasyBuild-provided versions of some dependencies and enable all compression codecs; -
(***)
addcsh
->tcsh
symlink in recent tcsh easyconfigs;
Supported software
Support for installing 35 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- Albumentations
- arosics
- CellTypist
- detectron2
- EigenExa
- FFTW.MPI
- FreeBarcodes
- GTK4
- i7z
- ModelTest-NG
- OGDF
- panito
- parameterized
- ruamel.yaml
- SCGid
- scPred
- smooth-topk
- SPOTPY
- UCC
- Wayland
- XGrafix
- XPLOR-NIH
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,711 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- ABAQUS 2022
- ARGoS 3.0.0
- astropy 5.0.4
- Bazel 4.2.2 + 5.1.1
- binutils 2.38
- BLIS 0.9.0
- Boost 1.79.0
- cryoDRGN 1.0.0
- CUDA 11.7.0
- FlexiBLAS 3.2.0
- GCC 9.5.0 + 11.3.0 + GCC 12.1.0
- Go 1.18.1
- GTDB-Tk 2.0.0
- GTK3 3.24.33
- gzip 1.12,
- Hypre 2.24.0
- IMB 2021.3
- IQ-TREE 2.2.1
- jax 0.3.9
- libfabric 1.15.1
- LLVM 14.0.3
- magma 2.6.2
- Mathematica 13.0.0
- Mesa 22.0.3
- mold 1.2.1
- MUMPS 5.5.0
- Nim 1.6.6
- OpenMPI 4.1.4
- OSU-Micro-Benchmarks 5.9
- Perl 5.34.1
- PMIx 4.1.2
- Python 3.10.4
- R 4.2.0
- R-bundle-Bioconductor 3.15
- ReFrame 3.11.0
- Rust 1.60.0
- SAMtools 1.15.1
- SciPy-bundle 2022.05
- SeqKit 2.2.0
- Spack 0.17.2
- Spark 3.2.1
- SuperLU 5.3.0
- ToFu 1.5.0
- UCX 1.12.1
- X11 2022050
- zlib 1.2.12
These changes result from various contributions, made by 21 different contributors:
- 17 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 25 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 272 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.5.5, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
eb --install-latest-eb-release
eb --from-pr 15635
# use easyconfig from PR #15635
EasyBuild v4.5.4
EasyBuild v4.5.4 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant re-installing easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
close log after installing a
Bundle
component, to avoid leaking log files across installations; -
set
$NINJAFLAGS
to make sure Ninja doesn’t use all visible cores when building Qt5; -
replace hardcoded
/tmp
to make sure that Bazel build respects$TMPDIR
; -
add alternative checksum for norm, optmatch extensions in R 4.1.0 and R 4.1.2 easyconfigs;
-
avoid pollution in the tmp directory when running the AlphaFold tests;
-
(***)
downgrade dependency onnodejs
+ usejupyter-server-proxy
injupyter-matlab-proxy
andconfigurable-http-proxy
easyconfigs; -
fix
GBprocesS
easyconfig by switching to source tarball created usinggit_config
; -
fix installation of RDKit by using
-DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE=ON
; -
add patch to fix linking error for imread extension in
scikit-image
easyconfigs usingintel
toolchain; -
(***)
configure libffi 3.4.2 with--disable-exec-static-tramp
to prevent segfaults; -
set
XLA_PYTHON_CLIENT_ALLOCATOR=platform
for running tests in jax CUDA easyconfigs; -
(***)
add patch to fix shared linking invcflib
; -
fix failing sanity check for
PRINSEQ
that occurs as a result of adding support toTarball
easyblock for installing extensions;
Highlighted enhancements & changes
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
add support for post-install patches;
-
add support for specifying download instructions that are printed when source files are not found and can not be downloaded;
-
also try collecting AMD GPU info (via
rocm-smi
) for--show-system-info
; -
enable code linting check for all supported Python versions;
-
add
gmpit
toolchain definition (GCC + MPItrampoline); -
enhance
Tarball
easyblock to support using it for installing extensions; -
(***)
build single-file shared libraries for imkl so it can be used as FlexiBLAS backend via$FLEXIBLAS_LIBRARY_PATH
; -
updates, enhancements and fixes for various software-specific easyblocks: Anaconda, Clang-AOMP, Gurobi, imkl, intel-compilers, Java, MRtrix, OpenSSL, Python, TensorFlow, wxPython;
-
add check to verify that patch files touched in PRs have a description in place;
-
(***)
additional extensions for Perl v5.34.0, R v4.1.2, R-bundle-Bionconductor v3.14 (see--skip
; -
(***)
also installrMATS_P
commands inrMATS-turbo
easyconfig; -
(***)
addFlask-Session
to Flask v1.1.4 and Flask v2.0.2; -
(***)
enhancevcflib
easyconfigs to also install scripts; -
(***)
use typing-extensions from Python v3.9.6 easyconfig in ArviZ and PyMC3; -
consistently use
system
toolchain in EasyBuild easyconfigs;
Supported software
Support for installing 29 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- Abseil
- ArchR
- CMAverse
- Devito
- GraphMap
- Hydra
- M1QN3
- MAGeCK
- MEGAN
- ONNX
- ont-remora
- Optuna
- porefoam
- presto
- PyFrag
- skorch
- SPM
- STRique
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,667 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AlphaFold 2.1.2
- AmberTools 21
- BLIS 3.1
- DFTB+ 21.1
- DIRAC 22.0
- ELPA 2021.11.001
- FlexiBLAS 3.1.3
- IgBLAST 1.18.0
- ITSx 1.1.3
- Julia 1.7.2,
- libtree 3.0.3,
- matplotlib 3.5.1
- MDAnalysis 1.1.1 + 2.0.0,
- medaka 1.5.0
- NLTK 3.7
- numexpr 2.8.1
- OpenAI-Gym 0.21.0
- OpenBLAS 0.3.20
- PIPITS 2.8
- pocl 1.8
- pyEGA3 4.0.0
- SAMtools 1.15
- SBCL 2.2.1
- shovill 1.1.0
- sympy 1.9
- VirtualGL 3.0
- VTK 9.1.0
- XGBoost 1.5.0
These changes result from various contributions, made by 23 different contributors:
- 19 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 24 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 163 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.5.4, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
-
eb --install-latest-eb-release
-
eb --from-pr 15214
# use easyconfig from PR #15214
EasyBuild v4.5.3
EasyBuild v4.5.3 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant re-installing easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
avoid crash in
get_os_version
on modern SLES-based OSs; -
fix
get_os_name
andget_os_version
to avoid reportingUNKNOWN
in output ofeb --show-system-info
; -
switch to using
pip3
for installing EasyBuild in container recipes generated by EasyBuild; -
(***)
add missing UCX-CUDA dep to GROMACS for foss-2021a-CUDA-11.3.1; -
(***)
add patch to fix Kraken2 ncbi ftp/https check in rsync_from_ncbi.pl for versions 2.0.9-2.1.1; -
(***)
consistently apply patch for mapDamage 2.2.1 to use external seqtk; -
fix download URL in UDUNITS v2.2.28 easyconfigs;
-
add alternative checksum for MASS, class, nnet, spatial extensions in R 4.1.0 and R 4.1.2 easyconfigs;
Highlighted enhancements & changes
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
new software-specific easyblock for reticulate R package;
-
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: CUDA, HDF5, NAMD;
-
(***)
set CUDA target architecture(s) for GROMACS based CUDA compute capabilities listed in EasyBuild configuration; -
(***)
also install Python bindings for SHTns 3.5.1;
Supported software
Support for installing 25 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- Arcade-Learning-Environment
- Bambi
- CASTEP
- deepmedic
- histolab
- MuJoCo + mujoco-py
- OpenCensus-python
- PyEVTK
- pyradiomics
- PyTorch-Lightning
- Redis
- SoXt
- SURVIVOR
- xtensor
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,647 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AOCC 3.2.0
- Bowtie 1.3.1
- Clang 13.0.1
- ConnectomeWorkbench 1.5.0
- CUDA 11.5.1 + 11.6.0
- dask 2022.1.0
- deepTools 3.5.0
- FDS 6.7.7
- GATE 9.1
- Geant4 11.0.0
- Graphviz 2.50.0
- GROMACS 2021.5
- JupyterLab 3.2.8
- MEGA 11.0.10
- methylpy 1.2.9
- minimap2 2.24
- ncbi-vdb 2.11.2
- OpenCV 4.5.5
- pyFAI 0.20.0
- Racon 1.5.0
- RAxML 8.2.12
- ReFrame 3.10.1
- ROOT 6.24.06
- scikit-image 0.19.1
- SeqKit 2.1.0
- Siesta 4.1.5
- SqueezeMeta 1.5.0
- torchvision 0.11.3
These changes result from various contributions, made by 21 different contributors:
- 13 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 10 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 156 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.5.3, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
eb --install-latest-eb-release
eb --from-pr 14979
# use easyconfig from PR #14979
EasyBuild v4.5.2
EasyBuild v4.5.2 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant re-installing easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
fix compatibility with Python 3.10;
-
minor fixes for IntelBase generic easyblocks and various software-specific easyblocks: CP2K, GATE, Perl, Siesta, WRF;
-
(***)
add patch to fix memory leak in OpenMPI that heavily affects CP2K, SIESTA, QuantumESPRESSO, VASP, ...; -
(***)
fix broken patch file for recent GPAW versions; -
(***)
add missing PCRE dependency for pullseq; -
(***)
enforce using internal Boost for bcl2fastq2 with a GCC 10.x toolchain; -
(***)
add patches to fix CVE-2021-23437 for Pillow and Pillow-SIMD;
Highlighted enhancements & changes
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
enhance
get_cpu_architecture
andget_cpu_family
to be aware of RISC-V; -
deprecate use of (actual) patch files that don’t have a filename ending with
.patch
; -
add support for enabling sanity checks for specific components in the
Bundle
easyblock; -
use all available cores for running Perl test suite;
-
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: AOCC, CUDA, Bazel, Gurobi, intel-compilers, itac, LibInt, Mathematica, NAMD, SuiteSparse, WPS;
-
bundle LAPACKE with FlexiBLAS 3.0.4;
-
(***)
additional extensions for R-bundle-Bioconductor 3.14; -
(***)
additional extensions for R v4.1.2; -
(***)
update Java 1.8 wrapper to 1.8.0_311 for x86_64; -
(***)
bump nbconvert extension in recent IPython easyconfigs to version 6.4.0; -
update build dependencies for recent binutils + GCCcore easyconfigs to avoid depending on M4 1.4.18 with system toolchain;
Supported software
Support for installing 48 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- ANGEL
- Calcam
- DyMat
- ExaML
- FMPy
- hivtrace
- MetaPhlAn
- mold
- OpenFace
- PhyloPhlAn
- PuLP
- PyTorch3D
- SCopeLoomR
- SHTns
- TALYS
- xxHash
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,622 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
intel/2022.00
toolchain- antiSMASH 5.2.0
- BLAST+ 2.12.0
- CP2K 8.2
- Extrae 3.8.3
- gmsh 4.9.0
- h5py 3.6.0
- IQ-TREE 2.1.3
Java/15
+Java/17
- libxsmm 1.17
- MultiQC 1.11
- numba 0.54.1
- NVHPC 21.11,
- openCARP 8.2
- OpenCV 3.4.1
- OpenFOAM v2112
- Pillow + Pillow-SIMD 8.3.2
- PLUMED 2.7.3
- Raysect 0.7.1
- scanpy 1.8.2
- SqueezeMeta 1.0.0
- statsmodels 0.13.1
These changes result from various contributions, made by 30 different contributors:
- 16 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 23 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 199 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.5.2, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
eb --install-latest-eb-release
eb --from-pr 14830
# use easyconfig from PR #14830
EasyBuild v4.5.1
EasyBuild v4.5.1 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 which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant re-installing easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
don't try to ensure absolute path for path part of
--repositorypath
EasyBuild configuration option; -
only remove lock if it was created in the same EasyBuild session (not if it existed already);
-
(***)
minor fixes for various software-specific easyblocks: CP2K, MUMmer, netcdf4-python, ORCA, OpenFOAM, OpenMPI, PETSc, SLEPc; -
(***)
add patch for libfabric v1.12.1 to fix unknown link width 0x10 warning; -
add patch for GCCcore 9.1-9.3 and 10.1-11.1 to fix compatibility with recent kernel headers;
-
(***)
add patch to fix CVE-2021-43527 in NSS; -
pass tests on A* GPUs by setting
NVIDIA_TF32_OVERRIDE=0
in jax 0.2.19; -
(***)
add patch to fix broken (hanging) Mash binaries; -
seed in PCRE2 sources to fix broken MariaDB 10.5.8 + 10.6.4 easyconfigs;
-
rename R bindings for
Arrow
toarrow-R
, so it can be used in a lowercase module naming scheme; -
comment out imkl build dependency for FlexiBLAS 3.0.4 with
GCC/11.2.0
; -
consistently use '
Grace
' software name + sync homepage/source_urls;
Highlighted enhancements
*enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
enhancements for experimental feature
--parallel-extensions-install
:- also determine which extensions can be skipped in parallel;
- fall back to sequential installation for extensions with unknown dependencies;
- see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Installing_extensions_in_parallel.html;
-
allow oversubscription in sanity check for OpenMPI-based toolchains;
-
new software-specific easyblock for Clang-AOMP;
-
enhanced Rpm generic easyblock;
-
updates and enhancements for various software-specific easyblocks: Eigen, GROMACS, Inspector, jaxlib, SAMtools, tbb;
-
(***)
additional extensions for R-bundle-Bioconductor 3.13; -
(***)
additional extensions for R v4.1.x;
Supported software
Support for installing 71 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- BabelStream
- bamtofastq
- bcbio-gff
- Clang-AOMP
- CMSeq
- dRep
- DUBStepR
- elprep
- epiScanpy
- FMM3D
- HIP
- InChI
- LERC
- libtree
- Megalodon
- nnU-Net
- PPanGGOLiN
- ProFit
- PySide2
- ROCm
- Shasta
- SimNIBS
- SMV (Smokeview)
- ThemisPy
- TOBIAS
- zlib-ng
- Zopfli
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,575 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AlphaFold 2.1.1
- Arrow 6.0.0
- Boost 1.77.0
- Eigen 3.4.0
- ESMF 8.2.0
- Flye 2.9
- Horovod 0.23.0
- ITK 5.2.1
- jax 0.2.24
- NCO 5.0.3
- OpenMPI 4.1.2
- pangolin 3.1.16
- PyTorch 1.10.0
- R 4.1.2
- R-bundle-Bioconductor 3.14
- scikit-learn 1.0.1
- torchvision 0.11.1
- Trycycler 0.5.2
- Unicycler 0.4.9
- UShER 0.5.0
- WPS 4.3.1
- Yambo 5.0.4
These changes result from various contributions, made by 24 different contributors:
- 15 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 19 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 244 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.5.1, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
-
eb --install-latest-eb-release
-
eb --from-pr 14545
# use easyconfig from PR #14545
EasyBuild v4.5.0
EasyBuild v4.5.0 is primarily a feature release, but it also includes various minor bug fixes and updates.
Highlights for this release are listed below. More details are available in the release notes which includes links to the respective pull requests for more detailed information.
Highlighted enhancements
(enhancements that (may) warrant updating existing installations are marked with (***)
)
-
support for showing progress bars when installing easyconfigs;
- enabled by default if the Rich Python package (https://pypi.org/project/rich) is installed;
- see https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Progress_bars.html for more information;
-
add initial/experimental support for installing extensions in parallel;
- currently only supported for R extensions;
- see https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Installing_extensions_in_parallel.html for more information;
-
add support for checking required/optional EasyBuild dependencies via
eb --check-eb-deps
; -
add support for
--insecure-download
configuration option; -
one new software-specific custom easyblock for
imkl-FFTW
; -
enhance GCC easyblock to add support for AMD GPU offloading;
-
enhance FlexiBLAS easyblock to support building with Intel MKL (imkl) as backend;
-
enhance imkl easyblock to add support for installing with NVHPC;
-
(***)
detect problem with compiling CPU detection code in configure output in GROMACS easyblock;- only relevant for specific GROMACS versions that were installed using CMake 3.15.3;
-
easyconfigs for
foss/2021b
andintel/2021b
common toolchains;
Prominent bug fixes & changes
(bug fixes or changes that (may) warrant reinstalling easyconfigs are marked with (***)
)
-
deprecate old toolchain versions (pre-
2019a
common toolchains); -
refactor EasyBlock to decouple collecting of information on extension source/patch files from downloading them;
-
change
copy_file
function to raise an error when trying to copy non-existing file; -
fix library paths to add to
$LDFLAGS
forintel-compilers
toolchain component; -
restore RPATH wrappers for OpenMPI sanity check;
-
(***)
don’t use--config=mkl
configuration option when installing TensorFlow 2.4+;- this fixes some performance related issues for TensorFlow installations, see release notes for more details;
-
(***)
in-place updates for components offoss/2021b
andintel/2021b
common toolchains;- see release notes for more details;
-
(***)
add patch to fix PMIx detection in OpenMPI v4.0.3, v4.0.5, v4.1.0; -
(***)
add patch for GROMACS 2019.3 easyconfigs using CMake 3.15.3 to fix CPU detection;
Supported software
Support for installing 39 new software packages has been added, including (but not limited to):
- ARTS
- bashplotlib
- CIRI-long
- ESL-Bundle
- FreeTDS
- imkl-FFTW
- libSBML
- longread_umi
- MixMHC2pred
- OpenSceneGraph
- pycoQC
- radeontop
- RInChI
- scGeneFit
- TOML-Fortran
- vawk
- VMTK
This brings the total number of supported software packages to 2,506 (excluding extensions)!
An up-to-date list of supported software is available here.
Various software updates have been added, including (but not limited to):
- AlphaFold 2.0.1
- artic-ncov2019 2021.06.24
- BerkeleyGW 3.0.1
- CP2K 8.2
- CUDA 11.4.2
- Dalton 2020.0
- ELSI 2.7.1
- FFTW 3.3.10
- jax 0.2.20
- ibxc 5.1.6
- MEME 5.4.1
- OpenBLAS 0.3.18
- OSU-Micro-Benchmarks 5.8
- PyTorch-Geometric 2.0.1
- Qiskit 0.31.0
- QuantumESPRESSO 6.8
- RDKit 2021.03.4
- SAMtools 1.13
- SciPy-bundle 2021.10
- UCX + UCX-CUDA 1.11.2
- Z3 4.8.12
These changes result from various contributions, made by 30 different contributors:
- 40 merged pull requests for EasyBuild framework
- 33 merged pull requests for easyblocks
- 225 merged pull requests for easyconfigs
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
To upgrade to EasyBuild v4.5.0, there are several options.
Two particularly easy options include:
eb --install-latest-eb-release
eb --from-pr 14248
# use easyconfig from PR #14248