Merge pull request #19462 from SebastianAchilles/eb490

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.9.0 + bump version to 4.9.0

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -3,10 +3,99 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 
 These release notes can also be consulted at https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
-The latest version of easybuild-easyconfig provides 18,407 easyconfig files, for 3,292 different software packages,
+The latest version of easybuild-easyconfig provides 18,752 easyconfig files, for 3,369 different software packages,
 incl. 40 different (compiler) toolchains.
 
 
+v4.9.0 (30 December 2023)
+-------------------------
+
+feature release
+
+- added easyconfigs for foss/2023b (#19449) and intel/2023b (#19450) common toolchains
+- added example easyconfig files for 77 new software packages:
+  - AICSImageIO (#19315), ANTIC (#19203), BiasAdjustCXX (#19341), BOPTEST (#19295), BRiAl (#19208), castor (#19176),
+    CellBender (#19296), cliquer (#19210, #19323), CPMD (#19387), cppyy (#19204), CUDD (#19208), datalad (#18675),
+    Demystify (#17990), dftd4 (#19223), dialog (#17696), DIA-NN (#19454), dynesty (#19091), ebGSEA (#19447),
+    ECL (#19211), eclib (#19209), epct (#19298), EUKulele (#19217), FACE (#14840), fastml (#19357), forbear (#14840),
+    fplll (#19371), fpylll (#19371), ftfy (#19353), Gdspy (#19458), GFF3-toolkit (#19071), giac (#19323), GMP-ECM (#19323),
+    HepMC (#19139), hic-straw (#19309), HPCC (#18892), iced (#19309), IML (#19201), iperf (#19259), jedi (#19269),
+    jedi-language-server (#19269), jupyter-rsession-proxy (#19311), lcalc (#19329), libaed2 (#14840),
+    LoopTools (#19397), m4ri (#19208), m4rie (#19208), MDI (#19417), mdust (#19106), MitoHiFi (#19263), MPFI (#19323),
+    multicharge (#19221), OMERO.insight (#19337), OMERO.py (#19338), PFFT (#19255), primecount (#19370),
+    primecountpy (#19370), PyAV (#19359), pycubescd (#19302), pylipid (#19428), PySINDy (#19306),
+    pythermalcomfort (#19285), PyTorchVideo (#19359), R-bundle-CRAN (#19170), Restrander (#19232), scikit-lego (#19064),
+    scrublet (#19215), SEACells (#18724), simanneal (#19347), Simstrat (#14840), solo (#19216), SPEI (#19441),
+    SUPPA (#19181, #19275), SYMMETRICA (#19328), Triton (#19381), vaeda (#19214), VSCode (#19418), waLBerla (#18932)
+- added additional easyconfigs for various supported software packages, including:
+  - ANTs 2.5.0, Arriba 2.4.0, Arrow 14.0.1, at-spi2-core 2.50.0, Autoconf-archive 2023.02.20, awscli 2.15.2,
+    Blender 3.6.5 + 4.0.1, Boost 1.83.0, boto3 1.28.70, Bracken 2.9, BUStools 0.43.1, cairo 1.18.0, cairomm 1.16.2,
+    CASTEP 23.1, cddlib 0.94m, cdo-bindings 1.6.0, CellRanger 7.2.0, CoCoALib 0.99818, COMSOL 6.2.0.290, Coreutils 9.1,
+    cryptography 41.0.5, CubeLib 4.8.2, CubeWriter 4.8.2,  CUDA 12.3.0, CVXPY 1.3.0, cysignals 1.11.2, DBus 1.15.8,
+    dftd4 3.4.0, E-ANTIC 1.3.0, elfutils 0.190, f90wrap 0.2.11, FastQC 0.12.1, Ferret 7.6.0, FFLAS-FFPACK 2.5.0,
+    ffnvcodec 12.1.14.0, FPM 1.15.1, FriBidi 1.0.13, gap 4.12.2, git-lfs 3.4.0, GitPython 3.1.40, Givaro 4.2.0,
+    GLib 2.78.1, glog 0.6.0, GObject-Introspection 1.78.1, gperftools 2.13, GPyTorch 1.10, GROMACS 2023.3,
+    HarfBuzz 8.2.2, HiC-Pro 3.1.0, hifiasm 0.19.7, hypothesis 6.90.0, ICU 74.1, imageio 2.33.1, imkl 2024.0.0,
+    impi 2021.11.0, intel-compilers 2024.0.0, IPython 8.17.2, ITK 5.3.0, Kent_tools 457, KyotoCabinet 1.2.80,
+    LHAPDF 6.5.4, libfdf 0.5.0, libjxl 0.8.2, LinBox 1.7.0, lrslib 7.2, lxml 4.9.3, magma 2.7.2, maturin 1.3.1,
+    MEME 5.5.4, meson-python 0.15.0, Miniconda3 23.9.0, Mmg 5.7.2, Molden 7.3, mrcfile 1.4.3, nanoflann 1.5.0,
+    nauty 2.8.6, Nextflow 23.10.0, nodejs 20.9.0, Normaliz 3.10.1, NSS 3.94, NWChem 7.2.2, Oases 20180312, Pango 1.51.0,
+    Parallel-Hashmap 1.36, parameterized 0.9.0, phonopy 2.20.0, pigz 2.8, pmt 1.2.0, poetry 1.6.1, PostgreSQL 16.1,
+    pplpy 0.8.9, PyCairo 1.25.1, pypmt 1.2.0, PyQt5 5.15.7, pytest 7.4.2, pytest-xdist 3.3.1,
+    Python-bundle-PyPI 2023.10, PyTorch 2.1.2, R 4.3.2, RASPA2 2.0.47, SBCL 2.3.11, SCENIC 1.3.0, scikit-image 0.22.0,
+    SciPy-bundle 2023.11, SDL2 2.28.5, setuptools-rust 1.8.0, Seurat 4.4.0, SimpleITK 2.3.1, Singular 4.3.2p10,
+    Spark 3.5.0, STAR 2.7.11a, STAR-CCM+ 2310, strace 6.6, SuiteSparse 7.1.0, tbb 2021.11.0, TOML-Fortran 0.4.1,
+    TRAVIS-Analyzer 220729, UCX-CUDA 1.15.0, VirSorter 1.0.6, virtualenv 20.24.6, VSEARCH 2.25.0, VTK 9.3.0,
+    wandb 0.16.1, XGBoost 2.0.2, xprop 1.2.6, xtb 6.6.1, Xvfb 21.1.9, xxd 9.0.2112
+- minor enhancements, including:
+  - add sanity check commands for recent GDB versions (#19102)
+  - add aarch64 and ppc64le checksums to NVHPC 23.7 (#19249)
+  - allow Python version of Z3 to be used as a dependency (#19354)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - use `CargoPythonBundle` generic easyblock for timm to install required Rust packages in a controlled way (#18332)
+  - add alternate checksum for OpenImageIO v2.4.14.0 (#19090)
+  - only set flag `--enable-asmjit` for PLUMED when installing on `x86_64` (#19110)
+  - ensure right Python version is used in DP3, WSClean and dependencies by specifying `-DPython3_EXECUTABLE` CMake option (#19119)
+  - add patch to work around potential crash in PyTorch 1.13.1 caused by GCC 12 compiler bug (#19133)
+  - add patch to fix detection of newer Intel CPUs in OpenBLAS 0.3.20 through 0.3.23 (#19141)
+  - remove outdated `--disable-docs` configure option from FriBidi-1.0.12 (#19147)
+  - add libiconv dependency to gettext 0.22 (#19155)
+  - fix OpenBLAS 0.3.20+ on newer Intel CPUs (#19159)
+  - only use ScaFaCos as dependency for LAMMPS 23Jun2022 on `x86_64` (#19164)
+  - add patch to fix regression in GCC 12.x on AVX512 systems (#19180)
+  - add pkgconf build dependency to libGLU (#19186)
+  - sidestep some build issues with CUDA-Samples 12.1 (#19189)
+  - make Pillow easyconfigs aware of sysroot template (#19226, #19267)
+  - fix possible error/crash in NCCL on x86 due to cpuid (#19231)
+  - reduce timestep to fix sanity check commands in LAMMPS 23Jun2022 (#19246)
+  - add patch for GCC 12.x to fix miscompiling C++ code causing double-free in case of exceptions (#19253)
+  - replace format tag with explicit extension name in Optuna v3.0.3 (#19256)
+  - enhance easyconfigs for gnuplot 5.4.x to make sure that Lua dependency is always used (#19261)
+  - patch setup.py for grpcio extension in TensorFlow 2.13.0 easyconfigs to take into account alternate sysroot (#19268)
+  - avoid indirect dependency on old CMake version built with GCCcore/10.2.0 via Catch2 build dependency using system toolchain in recent pybind11 easyconfigs (#19270)
+  - use existing patch in pybind11 2.6.2 and 2.7.1 to fix failing test due to extra whitespace (#19279)
+  - change toolchain in `json-fortran` easyconfigs to `GCC`, since it includes Fortran modules (#19283)
+  - remove Unicode character in description of SMRT-Link easyconfigs (#19312)
+  - don't use `%(namelower)s` template in extension name in IPython v8.14.0 easyconfig (#19330)
+  - add patch to fix `[cz]asums` in OpenBLAS 0.3.24 (#19331)
+  - fix failing tokenizers with `CargoPythonPackage` easyblock (#19333)
+  - define `$GTKDOCIZE` as '`echo`' before generating configure script for new HarfBuzz versions (#19339)
+  - fix PAPI test step hanging on some systems (#19372)
+  - compile LERC test binary in `postinstallcmds` to fix sanity check error when RPATH linking is enabled (#19386)
+  - use `GCC` toolchain in `kim-api`, since it includes Fortran modules (#19399, #19401, #19402, #19403, #19404, #19405)
+  - fix wrong handling of floats in z3-solver (#19414)
+  - Fix numpy build on Sapphire Rapids CPUs in SciPy-bundle-2023.07-gfbf-2023a (#19419, #19425)
+  - allow ITK legacy code and Python wrappers in ITK v5.2.1 (#19431)
+  - link to xxHash library provided via EasyBuild in python-xxhash v3.2.0 (#19432)
+  - include MPFR 4.1.0 patch in MPFR 4.2.0 easyconfigs to fix failing tsprintf test with glibc >= 2.37 (#19438)
+  - skip `Test::Sys::Info` test that expects `/etc/fstab` in Perl-bundle-CPAN (#19440)
+  - exclude `cdp*` CUDA samples that fail to build on aarch64 in CUDA-Samples v12.1 (#19451)
+- other changes:
+  - let SuiteSparse easyblock set `CMAKE_OPTIONS` for SuiteSparse v7.1.0 (#19177)
+  - add versionsuffix `-param` to easyconfig for ReaxFF 2.0 (#19307)
+  - use `LooseVersion` from `easybuild.tools` (#19376)
+
+
 v4.8.2 (29 October 2023)
 ------------------------
 

setup.py

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 # recent setuptools versions will *TRANSFORM* something like 'X.Y.Zdev' into 'X.Y.Z.dev0', with a warning like
 #   UserWarning: Normalizing '2.4.0dev' to '2.4.0.dev0'
 # This causes problems further up the dependency chain...
-VERSION = '4.9.0.dev0'
+VERSION = '4.9.0'
 
 MAJ_VER = VERSION.split('.')[0]
 MAJMIN_VER = '.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[0:2])