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# v0.17.1 (2021-12-23)
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### Spack Bugfixes
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* Allow locks to work under high contention (#27846)
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* Improve errors messages from clingo (#27707 #27970)
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* Respect package permissions for sbang (#25764)
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* Fix --enable-locks behavior (#24675)
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* Fix log-format reporter ignoring install errors (#25961)
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* Fix overloaded argparse keys (#27379)
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* Allow style commands to run with targets other than "develop" (#27472)
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* Log lock messages to debug level, instead of verbose level (#27408)
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* Handle invalid unicode while logging (#21447)
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* spack audit: fix API calls to variants (#27713)
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* Provide meaningful message for empty environment installs (#28031)
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* Added opensuse leap containers to spack containerize (#27837)
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* Revert "patches: make re-applied patches idempotent" (#27625)
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* MANPATH can use system defaults (#21682)
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* Add "setdefault" subcommand to `spack module tcl` (#14686)
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* Regenerate views when specs already installed (#28113)
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### Package bugfixes
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* Fix external package detection for OpenMPI (#27255)
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* Update the UPC++ package to 2021.9.0 (#26996)
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* Added py-vermin v1.3.2 (#28072)
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# v0.17.0 (2021-11-05)
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`v0.17.0` is a major feature release.
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## Major features in this release
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1. **New concretizer is now default**
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The new concretizer introduced as an experimental feature in `v0.16.0`
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is now the default (#25502). The new concretizer is based on the
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[clingo](https://github.com/potassco/clingo) logic programming system,
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and it enables us to do much higher quality and faster dependency solving
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The old concretizer is still available via the `concretizer: original`
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setting, but it is deprecated and will be removed in `v0.18.0`.
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2. **Binary Bootstrapping**
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To make it easier to use the new concretizer and binary packages,
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Spack now bootstraps `clingo` and `GnuPG` from public binaries. If it
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is not able to bootstrap them from binaries, it installs them from
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source code. With these changes, you should still be able to clone Spack
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and start using it almost immediately. (#21446, #22354, #22489, #22606,
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#22720, #22720, #23677, #23946, #24003, #25138, #25607, #25964, #26029,
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#26399, #26599).
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3. **Reuse existing packages (experimental)**
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The most wanted feature from our
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[2020 user survey](https://spack.io/spack-user-survey-2020/) and
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the most wanted Spack feature of all time (#25310). `spack install`,
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`spack spec`, and `spack concretize` now have a `--reuse` option, which
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causes Spack to minimize the number of rebuilds it does. The `--reuse`
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option will try to find existing installations and binary packages locally
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and in registered mirrors, and will prefer to use them over building new
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versions. This will allow users to build from source *far* less than in
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prior versions of Spack. This feature will continue to be improved, with
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configuration options and better CLI expected in `v0.17.1`. It will become
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the *default* concretization mode in `v0.18.0`.
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4. **Better error messages**
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We have improved the error messages generated by the new concretizer by
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using *unsatisfiable cores*. Spack will now print a summary of the types
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of constraints that were violated to make a spec unsatisfiable (#26719).
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5. **Conditional variants**
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Variants can now have a `when="<spec>"` clause, allowing them to be
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conditional based on the version or other attributes of a package (#24858).
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6. **Git commit versions**
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In an environment and on the command-line, you can now provide a full,
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40-character git commit as a version for any package with a top-level
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`git` URL. e.g., `spack install hdf5@45bb27f58240a8da7ebb4efc821a1a964d7712a8`.
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Spack will compare the commit to tags in the git repository to understand
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what versions it is ahead of or behind.
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7. **Override local config and cache directories**
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You can now set `SPACK_DISABLE_LOCAL_CONFIG` to disable the `~/.spack` and
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`/etc/spack` configuration scopes. `SPACK_USER_CACHE_PATH` allows you to
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move caches out of `~/.spack`, as well (#27022, #26735). This addresses
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common problems where users could not isolate CI environments from local
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configuration.
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8. **Improvements to Spack Containerize**
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For added reproducibility, you can now pin the Spack version used by
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`spack containerize` (#21910). The container build will only build
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with the Spack version pinned at build recipe creation instead of the
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latest Spack version.
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9. **New commands for dealing with tags**
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The `spack tags` command allows you to list tags on packages (#26136), and you
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can list tests and filter tags with `spack test list` (#26842).
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## Other new features of note
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* Copy and relocate environment views as stand-alone installations (#24832)
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* `spack diff` command can diff two installed specs (#22283, #25169)
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* `spack -c <config>` can set one-off config parameters on CLI (#22251)
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* `spack load --list` is an alias for `spack find --loaded` (#27184)
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* `spack gpg` can export private key with `--secret` (#22557)
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* `spack style` automatically bootstraps dependencies (#24819)
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* `spack style --fix` automatically invokes `isort` (#24071)
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* build dependencies can be installed from build caches with `--include-build-deps` (#19955)
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* `spack audit` command for checking package constraints (#23053)
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* Spack can now fetch from `CVS` repositories (yep, really) (#23212)
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* `spack monitor` lets you upload analysis about installations to a
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[spack monitor server](https://github.com/spack/spack-monitor) (#23804, #24321,
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#23777, #25928))
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* `spack python --path` shows which `python` Spack is using (#22006)
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* `spack env activate --temp` can create temporary environments (#25388)
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* `--preferred` and `--latest` options for `spack checksum` (#25830)
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* `cc` is now pure posix and runs on Alpine (#26259)
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* `SPACK_PYTHON` environment variable sets which `python` spack uses (#21222)
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* `SPACK_SKIP_MODULES` lets you source `setup-env.sh` faster if you don't need modules (#24545)
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## Major internal refactors
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* `spec.yaml` files are now `spec.json`, yielding a large speed improvement (#22845)
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* Splicing allows Spack specs to store mixed build provenance (#20262)
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* More extensive hooks API for installations (#21930)
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* New internal API for getting the active environment (#25439)
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## Performance Improvements
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* Parallelize separate concretization in environments; Previously 55 min E4S solve
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now takes 2.5 min (#26264)
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* Drastically improve YamlFilesystemView file removal performance via batching (#24355)
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* Speed up spec comparison (#21618)
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* Speed up environment activation (#25633)
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## Archspec improvements
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* support for new generic `x86_64_v2`, `x86_64_v3`, `x86_64_v4` targets
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(see [archspec#31](https://github.com/archspec/archspec-json/pull/31))
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* `spack arch --generic` lets you get the best generic architecture for
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your node (#27061)
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* added support for aocc (#20124), `arm` compiler on `graviton2` (#24904)
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and on `a64fx` (#24524),
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## Infrastructure, buildcaches, and services
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* Add support for GCS Bucket Mirrors (#26382)
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* Add `spackbot` to help package maintainers with notifications. See
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[spack.github.io/spackbot](https://spack.github.io/spackbot/)
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* Reproducible pipeline builds with `spack ci rebuild` (#22887)
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* Removed redundant concretizations from GitLab pipeline generation (#26622)
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* Spack CI no longer generates jobs for unbuilt specs (#20435)
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* Every pull request pipeline has its own buildcache (#25529)
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* `--no-add` installs only specified specs and only if already present in… (#22657)
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* Add environment-aware `spack buildcache sync` command (#25470)
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* Binary cache installation speedups and improvements (#19690, #20768)
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## Deprecations and Removals
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* `spack setup` was deprecated in v0.16.0, and has now been removed.
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Use `spack develop` and `spack dev-build`.
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* Remove unused `--dependencies` flag from `spack load` (#25731)
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* Remove stubs for `spack module [refresh|find|rm|loads]`, all of which
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were deprecated in 2018.
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## Notable Bugfixes
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* Deactivate previous env before activating new one (#25409)
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* Many fixes to error codes from `spack install` (#21319, #27012, #25314)
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* config add: infer type based on JSON schema validation errors (#27035)
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* `spack config edit` now works even if `spack.yaml` is broken (#24689)
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## Packages
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* Allow non-empty version ranges like `1.1.0:1.1` (#26402)
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* Remove `.99`'s from many version ranges (#26422)
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* Python: use platform-specific site packages dir (#25998)
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* `CachedCMakePackage` for using *.cmake initial config files (#19316)
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* `lua-lang` allows swapping `lua` and `luajit` (#22492)
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* Better support for `ld.gold` and `ld.lld` (#25626)
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* build times are now stored as metadata in `$prefix/.spack` (#21179)
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* post-install tests can be reused in smoke tests (#20298)
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* Packages can use `pypi` attribute to infer `homepage`/`url`/`list_url` (#17587)
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* Use gnuconfig package for `config.guess` file replacement (#26035)
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* patches: make re-applied patches idempotent (#26784)
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## Spack community stats
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* 5969 total packages, 920 new since `v0.16.0`
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* 358 new Python packages, 175 new R packages
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* 513 people contributed to this release
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* 490 committers to packages
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* 105 committers to core
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* Lots of GPU updates:
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* ~77 CUDA-related commits
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* ~66 AMD-related updates
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* ~27 OneAPI-related commits
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* 30 commits from AMD toolchain support
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* `spack test` usage in packages is increasing
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* 1669 packages with tests (mostly generic python tests)
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* 93 packages with their own tests
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# v0.16.3 (2021-09-21)
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* clang/llvm: fix version detection (#19978)
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* Fix use of quotes in Python build system (#22279)
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* Cray: fix extracting paths from module files (#23472)
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* Use AWS CloudFront for source mirror (#23978)
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* Ensure all roots of an installed environment are marked explicit in db (#24277)
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* Fix fetching for Python 3.8 and 3.9 (#24686)
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* locks: only open lockfiles once instead of for every lock held (#24794)
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* Remove the EOL centos:6 docker image
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# v0.16.2 (2021-05-22)
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* Major performance improvement for `spack load` and other commands. (#23661)
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* `spack fetch` is now environment-aware. (#19166)
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* Numerous fixes for the new, `clingo`-based concretizer. (#23016, #23307,
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#23090, #22896, #22534, #20644, #20537, #21148)
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* Supoprt for automatically bootstrapping `clingo` from source. (#20652, #20657
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#21364, #21446, #21913, #22354, #22444, #22460, #22489, #22610, #22631)
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* Python 3.10 support: `collections.abc` (#20441)
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* Fix import issues by using `__import__` instead of Spack package importe.
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(#23288, #23290)
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* Bugfixes and `--source-dir` argument for `spack location`. (#22755, #22348,
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#22321)
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* Better support for externals in shared prefixes. (#22653)
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* `spack build-env` now prefers specs defined in the active environment.
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(#21642)
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* Remove erroneous warnings about quotes in `from_sourcing_files`. (#22767)
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* Fix clearing cache of `InternalConfigScope`. (#22609)
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* Bugfix for active when pkg is already active error. (#22587)
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* Make `SingleFileScope` able to repopulate the cache after clearing it.
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(#22559)
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* Channelflow: Fix the package. (#22483)
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* More descriptive error message for bugs in `package.py` (#21811)
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* Use package-supplied `autogen.sh`. (#20319)
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* Respect `-k/verify-ssl-false` in `_existing_url` method. (#21864)
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# v0.16.1 (2021-02-22)
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This minor release includes a new feature and associated fixes:
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* intel-oneapi support through new packages (#20411, #20686, #20693, #20717,
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#20732, #20808, #21377, #21448)
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This release also contains bug fixes/enhancements for:
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* HIP/ROCm support (#19715, #20095)
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* concretization (#19988, #20020, #20082, #20086, #20099, #20102, #20128,
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#20182, #20193, #20194, #20196, #20203, #20247, #20259, #20307, #20362,
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#20383, #20423, #20473, #20506, #20507, #20604, #20638, #20649, #20677,
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#20680, #20790)
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* environment install reporting fix (#20004)
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* avoid import in ABI compatibility info (#20236)
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* restore ability of dev-build to skip patches (#20351)
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* spack find -d spec grouping (#20028)
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* spack smoke test support (#19987, #20298)
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* macOS fixes (#20038, #21662)
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* abstract spec comparisons (#20341)
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* continuous integration (#17563)
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* performance improvements for binary relocation (#19690, #20768)
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* additional sanity checks for variants in builtin packages (#20373)
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* do not pollute auto-generated configuration files with empty lists or
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dicts (#20526)
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plus assorted documentation (#20021, #20174) and package bug fixes/enhancements
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(#19617, #19933, #19986, #20006, #20097, #20198, #20794, #20906, #21411).
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# v0.16.0 (2020-11-18)
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`v0.16.0` is a major feature release.
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## Major features in this release
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1. **New concretizer (experimental)** Our new backtracking concretizer is
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now in Spack as an experimental feature. You will need to install
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`clingo@master+python` and set `concretizer: clingo` in `config.yaml`
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to use it. The original concretizer is not exhaustive and is not
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guaranteed to find a solution if one exists. We encourage you to use
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the new concretizer and to report any bugs you find with it. We
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anticipate making the new concretizer the default and including all
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required dependencies for it in Spack `v0.17`. For more details, see
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#19501.
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2. **spack test (experimental)** Users can add `test()` methods to their
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packages to run smoke tests on installations with the new `spack test`
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command (the old `spack test` is now `spack unit-test`). `spack test`
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is environment-aware, so you can `spack install` an environment and
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`spack test run` smoke tests on all of its packages. Historical test
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logs can be perused with `spack test results`. Generic smoke tests for
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MPI implementations, C, C++, and Fortran compilers as well as specific
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smoke tests for 18 packages. This is marked experimental because the
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test API (`self.run_test()`) is likely to be change, but we encourage
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users to upstream tests, and we will maintain and refactor any that
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are added to mainline packages (#15702).
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3. **spack develop** New `spack develop` command allows you to develop
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several packages at once within a Spack environment. Running
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`spack develop foo@v1` and `spack develop bar@v2` will check
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out specific versions of `foo` and `bar` into subdirectories, which you
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can then build incrementally with `spack install ` (#15256).
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4. **More parallelism** Spack previously installed the dependencies of a
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_single_ spec in parallel. Entire environments can now be installed in
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parallel, greatly accelerating builds of large environments. get
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parallelism from individual specs. Spack now parallelizes entire
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environment builds (#18131).
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5. **Customizable base images for spack containerize**
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`spack containerize` previously only output a `Dockerfile` based
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on `ubuntu`. You may now specify any base image of your choosing (#15028).
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6. **more external finding** `spack external find` was added in `v0.15`,
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but only `cmake` had support. `spack external find` can now find
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`bison`, `cuda`, `findutils`, `flex`, `git`, `lustre` `m4`, `mpich`,
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`mvapich2`, `ncurses`, `openmpi`, `perl`, `spectrum-mpi`, `tar`, and
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`texinfo` on your system and add them automatically to
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`packages.yaml`.
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7. **Support aocc, nvhpc, and oneapi compilers** We are aggressively
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pursuing support for the newest vendor compilers, especially those for
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the U.S. exascale and pre-exascale systems. Compiler classes and
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auto-detection for `aocc`, `nvhpc`, `oneapi` are now in Spack (#19345,
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#19294, #19330).
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## Additional new features of note
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* New `spack mark` command can be used to designate packages as explicitly
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installed, so that `spack gc` will not garbage-collect them (#16662).
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* `install_tree` can be customized with Spack's projection format (#18341)
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* `sbang` now lives in the `install_tree` so that all users can access it (#11598)
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* `csh` and `tcsh` users no longer need to set `SPACK_ROOT` before
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sourcing `setup-env.csh` (#18225)
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* Spec syntax now supports `variant=*` syntax for finding any package
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that has a particular variant (#19381).
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* Spack respects `SPACK_GNUPGHOME` variable for custom GPG directories (#17139)
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* Spack now recognizes Graviton chips
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## Major refactors
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* Use spawn instead of fork on Python >= 3.8 on macOS (#18205)
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* Use indexes for public build caches (#19101, #19117, #19132, #19141, #19209)
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* `sbang` is an external package now (https://github.com/spack/sbang, #19582)
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* `archspec` is an external package now (https://github.com/archspec/archspec, #19600)
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## Deprecations and Removals
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* `spack bootstrap` was deprecated in v0.14.0, and has now been removed.
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* `spack setup` is deprecated as of v0.16.0.
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* What was `spack test` is now called `spack unit-test`. `spack test` is
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now the smoke testing feature in (2) above.
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## Bugfixes
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Some of the most notable bugfixes in this release include:
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* Better warning messages for deprecated syntax in `packages.yaml` (#18013)
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* `buildcache list --allarch` now works properly (#17827)
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* Many fixes and tests for buildcaches and binary relcoation (#15687,
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*#17455, #17418, #17455, #15687, #18110)
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## Package Improvements
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Spack now has 5050 total packages, 720 of which were added since `v0.15`.
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* ROCm packages (`hip`, `aomp`, more) added by AMD (#19957, #19832, others)
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* Many improvements for ARM support
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* `llvm-flang`, `flang`, and `f18` removed, as `llvm` has real `flang`
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support since Flang was merged to LLVM mainline
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* Emerging support for `spack external find` and `spack test` in packages.
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## Infrastructure
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* Major infrastructure improvements to pipelines on `gitlab.spack.io`
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* Support for testing PRs from forks (#19248) is being enabled for all
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forks to enable rolling, up-to-date binary builds on `develop`
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# v0.15.4 (2020-08-12)
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This release contains one feature addition:
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* Users can set `SPACK_GNUPGHOME` to override Spack's GPG path (#17139)
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Several bugfixes for CUDA, binary packaging, and `spack -V`:
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* CUDA package's `.libs` method searches for `libcudart` instead of `libcuda` (#18000)
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* Don't set `CUDAHOSTCXX` in environments that contain CUDA (#17826)
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* `buildcache create`: `NoOverwriteException` is a warning, not an error (#17832)
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* Fix `spack buildcache list --allarch` (#17884)
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* `spack -V` works with `releases/latest` tag and shallow clones (#17884)
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And fixes for GitHub Actions and tests to ensure that CI passes on the
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release branch (#15687, #17279, #17328, #17377, #17732).
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# v0.15.3 (2020-07-28)
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This release contains the following bugfixes:
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* Fix handling of relative view paths (#17721)
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* Fixes for binary relocation (#17418, #17455)
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* Fix redundant printing of error messages in build environment (#17709)
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It also adds a support script for Spack tutorials:
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* Add a tutorial setup script to share/spack (#17705, #17722)
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# v0.15.2 (2020-07-23)
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This minor release includes two new features:
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* Spack install verbosity is decreased, and more debug levels are added (#17546)
|
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* The $spack/share/spack/keys directory contains public keys that may be optionally trusted for public binary mirrors (#17684)
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This release also includes several important fixes:
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|
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* MPICC and related variables are now cleand in the build environment (#17450)
|
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* LLVM flang only builds CUDA offload components when +cuda (#17466)
|
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* CI pipelines no longer upload user environments that can contain secrets to the internet (#17545)
|
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* CI pipelines add bootstrapped compilers to the compiler config (#17536)
|
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* `spack buildcache list` does not exit on first failure and lists later mirrors (#17565)
|
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* Apple's "gcc" executable that is an apple-clang compiler does not generate a gcc compiler config (#17589)
|
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* Mixed compiler toolchains are merged more naturally across different compiler suffixes (#17590)
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* Cray Shasta platforms detect the OS properly (#17467)
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* Additional more minor fixes.
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# v0.15.1 (2020-07-10)
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This minor release includes several important fixes:
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* Fix shell support on Cray (#17386)
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* Fix use of externals installed with other Spack instances (#16954)
|
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* Fix gcc+binutils build (#9024)
|
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* Fixes for usage of intel-mpi (#17378 and #17382)
|
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* Fixes to Autotools config.guess detection (#17333 and #17356)
|
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* Update `spack install` message to prompt user when an environment is not
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explicitly activated (#17454)
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This release also adds a mirror for all sources that are
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fetched in Spack (#17077). It is expected to be useful when the
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official website for a Spack package is unavailable.
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# v0.15.0 (2020-06-28)
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`v0.15.0` is a major feature release.
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## Major Features in this release
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1. **Cray support** Spack will now work properly on Cray "Cluster"
|
|
systems (non XC systems) and after a `module purge` command on Cray
|
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systems. See #12989
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2. **Virtual package configuration** Virtual packages are allowed in
|
|
packages.yaml configuration. This allows users to specify a virtual
|
|
package as non-buildable without needing to specify for each
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|
implementation. See #14934
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|
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3. **New config subcommands** This release adds `spack config add` and
|
|
`spack config remove` commands to add to and remove from yaml
|
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configuration files from the CLI. See #13920
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4. **Environment activation** Anonymous environments are **no longer**
|
|
automatically activated in the current working directory. To activate
|
|
an environment from a `spack.yaml` file in the current directory, use
|
|
the `spack env activate .` command. This removes a concern that users
|
|
were too easily polluting their anonymous environments with accidental
|
|
installations. See #17258
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5. **Apple clang compiler** The clang compiler and the apple-clang
|
|
compiler are now separate compilers in Spack. This allows Spack to
|
|
improve support for the apple-clang compiler. See #17110
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6. **Finding external packages** Spack packages can now support an API
|
|
for finding external installations. This allows the `spack external
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|
find` command to automatically add installations of those packages to
|
|
the user's configuration. See #15158
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## Additional new features of note
|
|
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* support for using Spack with the fish shell (#9279)
|
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* `spack load --first` option to load first match (instead of prompting user) (#15622)
|
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* support the Cray cce compiler both new and classic versions (#17256, #12989)
|
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* `spack dev-build` command:
|
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* supports stopping before a specified phase (#14699)
|
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* supports automatically launching a shell in the build environment (#14887)
|
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* `spack install --fail-fast` allows builds to fail at the first error (rather than best-effort) (#15295)
|
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* environments: SpecList references can be dereferenced as compiler or dependency constraints (#15245)
|
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* `spack view` command: new support for a copy/relocate view type (#16480)
|
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* ci pipelines: see documentation for several improvements
|
|
* `spack mirror -a` command now supports excluding packages (#14154)
|
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* `spack buildcache create` is now environment-aware (#16580)
|
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* module generation: more flexible format for specifying naming schemes (#16629)
|
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* lmod module generation: packages can be configured as core specs for lmod hierarchy (#16517)
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## Deprecations and Removals
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The following commands were deprecated in v0.13.0, and have now been removed:
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* `spack configure`
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* `spack build`
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* `spack diy`
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|
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The following commands were deprecated in v0.14.0, and will be removed in the next major release:
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|
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* `spack bootstrap`
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|
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## Bugfixes
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|
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|
Some of the most notable bugfixes in this release include:
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|
|
* Spack environments can now contain the string `-h` (#15429)
|
|
* The `spack install` gracefully handles being backgrounded (#15723, #14682)
|
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* Spack uses `-isystem` instead of `-I` in cases that the underlying build system does as well (#16077)
|
|
* Spack no longer prints any specs that cannot be safely copied into a Spack command (#16462)
|
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* Incomplete Spack environments containing python no longer cause problems (#16473)
|
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* Several improvements to binary package relocation
|
|
|
|
## Package Improvements
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|
|
|
The Spack project is constantly engaged in routine maintenance,
|
|
bugfixes, and improvements for the package ecosystem. Of particular
|
|
note in this release are the following:
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|
|
* Spack now contains 4339 packages. There are 430 newly supported packages in v0.15.0
|
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* GCC now builds properly on ARM architectures (#17280)
|
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* Python: patched to support compiling mixed C/C++ python modules through distutils (#16856)
|
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* improvements to pytorch and py-tensorflow packages
|
|
* improvements to major MPI implementations: mvapich2, mpich, openmpi, and others
|
|
|
|
## Spack Project Management:
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|
|
|
* Much of the Spack CI infrastructure has moved from Travis to GitHub Actions (#16610, #14220, #16345)
|
|
* All merges to the `develop` branch run E4S CI pipeline (#16338)
|
|
* New `spack debug report` command makes reporting bugs easier (#15834)
|
|
|
|
# v0.14.2 (2020-04-15)
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This is a minor release on the `0.14` series. It includes performance
|
|
improvements and bug fixes:
|
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|
|
* Improvements to how `spack install` handles foreground/background (#15723)
|
|
* Major performance improvements for reading the package DB (#14693, #15777)
|
|
* No longer check for the old `index.yaml` database file (#15298)
|
|
* Properly activate environments with '-h' in the name (#15429)
|
|
* External packages have correct `.prefix` in environments/views (#15475)
|
|
* Improvements to computing env modifications from sourcing files (#15791)
|
|
* Bugfix on Cray machines when getting `TERM` env variable (#15630)
|
|
* Avoid adding spurious `LMOD` env vars to Intel modules (#15778)
|
|
* Don't output [+] for mock installs run during tests (#15609)
|
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|
|
# v0.14.1 (2020-03-20)
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This is a bugfix release on top of `v0.14.0`. Specific fixes include:
|
|
|
|
* several bugfixes for parallel installation (#15339, #15341, #15220, #15197)
|
|
* `spack load` now works with packages that have been renamed (#14348)
|
|
* bugfix for `suite-sparse` installation (#15326)
|
|
* deduplicate identical suffixes added to module names (#14920)
|
|
* fix issues with `configure_args` during module refresh (#11084)
|
|
* increased test coverage and test fixes (#15237, #15354, #15346)
|
|
* remove some unused code (#15431)
|
|
|
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# v0.14.0 (2020-02-23)
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`v0.14.0` is a major feature release, with 3 highlighted features:
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|
|
1. **Distributed builds.** Multiple Spack instances will now coordinate
|
|
properly with each other through locks. This works on a single node
|
|
(where you've called `spack` several times) or across multiple nodes
|
|
with a shared filesystem. For example, with SLURM, you could build
|
|
`trilinos` and its dependencies on 2 24-core nodes, with 3 Spack
|
|
instances per node and 8 build jobs per instance, with `srun -N 2 -n 6
|
|
spack install -j 8 trilinos`. This requires a filesystem with locking
|
|
enabled, but not MPI or any other library for parallelism.
|
|
|
|
2. **Build pipelines.** You can also build in parallel through Gitlab
|
|
CI. Simply create a Spack environment and push it to Gitlab to build
|
|
on Gitlab runners. Pipeline support is now integrated into a single
|
|
`spack ci` command, so setting it up is easier than ever. See the
|
|
[Pipelines section](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.0/pipelines.html)
|
|
in the docs.
|
|
|
|
3. **Container builds.** The new `spack containerize` command allows you
|
|
to create a Docker or Singularity recipe from any Spack environment.
|
|
There are options to customize the build if you need them. See the
|
|
[Container Images section](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/containers.html)
|
|
in the docs.
|
|
|
|
In addition, there are several other new commands, many bugfixes and
|
|
improvements, and `spack load` no longer requires modules, so you can use
|
|
it the same way on your laptop or on your supercomputer.
|
|
|
|
Spack grew by over 300 packages since our last release in November 2019,
|
|
and the project grew to over 500 contributors. Thanks to all of you for
|
|
making yet another great release possible. Detailed notes below.
|
|
|
|
## Major new core features
|
|
* Distributed builds: spack instances coordinate and build in parallel (#13100)
|
|
* New `spack ci` command to manage CI pipelines (#12854)
|
|
* Generate container recipes from environments: `spack containerize` (#14202)
|
|
* `spack load` now works without using modules (#14062, #14628)
|
|
* Garbage collect old/unused installations with `spack gc` (#13534)
|
|
* Configuration files all set environment modifications the same way (#14372,
|
|
[docs](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.0/configuration.html#environment-modifications))
|
|
* `spack commands --format=bash` auto-generates completion (#14393, #14607)
|
|
* Packages can specify alternate fetch URLs in case one fails (#13881)
|
|
|
|
## Improvements
|
|
* Improved locking for concurrency with environments (#14676, #14621, #14692)
|
|
* `spack test` sends args to `pytest`, supports better listing (#14319)
|
|
* Better support for aarch64 and cascadelake microarch (#13825, #13780, #13820)
|
|
* Archspec is now a separate library (see https://github.com/archspec/archspec)
|
|
* Many improvements to the `spack buildcache` command (#14237, #14346,
|
|
#14466, #14467, #14639, #14642, #14659, #14696, #14698, #14714, #14732,
|
|
#14929, #15003, #15086, #15134)
|
|
|
|
## Selected Bugfixes
|
|
* Compilers now require an exact match on version (#8735, #14730, #14752)
|
|
* Bugfix for patches that specified specific versions (#13989)
|
|
* `spack find -p` now works in environments (#10019, #13972)
|
|
* Dependency queries work correctly in `spack find` (#14757)
|
|
* Bugfixes for locking upstream Spack instances chains (#13364)
|
|
* Fixes for PowerPC clang optimization flags (#14196)
|
|
* Fix for issue with compilers and specific microarchitectures (#13733, #14798)
|
|
|
|
## New commands and options
|
|
* `spack ci` (#12854)
|
|
* `spack containerize` (#14202)
|
|
* `spack gc` (#13534)
|
|
* `spack load` accepts `--only package`, `--only dependencies` (#14062, #14628)
|
|
* `spack commands --format=bash` (#14393)
|
|
* `spack commands --update-completion` (#14607)
|
|
* `spack install --with-cache` has new option: `--no-check-signature` (#11107)
|
|
* `spack test` now has `--list`, `--list-long`, and `--list-names` (#14319)
|
|
* `spack install --help-cdash` moves CDash help out of the main help (#13704)
|
|
|
|
## Deprecations
|
|
* `spack release-jobs` has been rolled into `spack ci`
|
|
* `spack bootstrap` will be removed in a future version, as it is no longer
|
|
needed to set up modules (see `spack load` improvements above)
|
|
|
|
## Documentation
|
|
* New section on building container images with Spack (see
|
|
[docs](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/containers.html))
|
|
* New section on using `spack ci` command to build pipelines (see
|
|
[docs](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pipelines.html))
|
|
* Document how to add conditional dependencies (#14694)
|
|
* Document how to use Spack to replace Homebrew/Conda (#13083, see
|
|
[docs](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/workflows.html#using-spack-to-replace-homebrew-conda))
|
|
|
|
## Important package changes
|
|
* 3,908 total packages (345 added since 0.13.0)
|
|
* Added first cut at a TensorFlow package (#13112)
|
|
* We now build R without "recommended" packages, manage them w/Spack (#12015)
|
|
* Elpa and OpenBLAS now leverage microarchitecture support (#13655, #14380)
|
|
* Fix `octave` compiler wrapper usage (#14726)
|
|
* Enforce that packages in `builtin` aren't missing dependencies (#13949)
|
|
|
|
|
|
# v0.13.4 (2020-02-07)
|
|
|
|
This release contains several bugfixes:
|
|
|
|
* bugfixes for invoking python in various environments (#14349, #14496, #14569)
|
|
* brought tab completion up to date (#14392)
|
|
* bugfix for removing extensions from views in order (#12961)
|
|
* bugfix for nondeterministic hashing for specs with externals (#14390)
|
|
|
|
# v0.13.3 (2019-12-23)
|
|
|
|
This release contains more major performance improvements for Spack
|
|
environments, as well as bugfixes for mirrors and a `python` issue with
|
|
RHEL8.
|
|
|
|
* mirror bugfixes: symlinks, duplicate patches, and exception handling (#13789)
|
|
* don't try to fetch `BundlePackages` (#13908)
|
|
* avoid re-fetching patches already added to a mirror (#13908)
|
|
* avoid re-fetching already added patches (#13908)
|
|
* avoid re-fetching already added patches (#13908)
|
|
* allow repeated invocations of `spack mirror create` on the same dir (#13908)
|
|
* bugfix for RHEL8 when `python` is unavailable (#14252)
|
|
* improve concretization performance in environments (#14190)
|
|
* improve installation performance in environments (#14263)
|
|
|
|
# v0.13.2 (2019-12-04)
|
|
|
|
This release contains major performance improvements for Spack environments, as
|
|
well as some bugfixes and minor changes.
|
|
|
|
* allow missing modules if they are blacklisted (#13540)
|
|
* speed up environment activation (#13557)
|
|
* mirror path works for unknown versions (#13626)
|
|
* environments: don't try to modify run-env if a spec is not installed (#13589)
|
|
* use semicolons instead of newlines in module/python command (#13904)
|
|
* verify.py: os.path.exists exception handling (#13656)
|
|
* Document use of the maintainers field (#13479)
|
|
* bugfix with config caching (#13755)
|
|
* hwloc: added 'master' version pointing at the HEAD of the master branch (#13734)
|
|
* config option to allow gpg warning suppression (#13744)
|
|
* fix for relative symlinks when relocating binary packages (#13727)
|
|
* allow binary relocation of strings in relative binaries (#13724)
|
|
|
|
# v0.13.1 (2019-11-05)
|
|
|
|
This is a bugfix release on top of `v0.13.0`. Specific fixes include:
|
|
|
|
* `spack find` now displays variants and other spec constraints
|
|
* bugfix: uninstall should find concrete specs by DAG hash (#13598)
|
|
* environments: make shell modifications partially unconditional (#13523)
|
|
* binary distribution: relocate text files properly in relative binaries (#13578)
|
|
* bugfix: fetch prefers to fetch local mirrors over remote resources (#13545)
|
|
* environments: only write when necessary (#13546)
|
|
* bugfix: spack.util.url.join() now handles absolute paths correctly (#13488)
|
|
* sbang: use utf-8 for encoding when patching (#13490)
|
|
* Specs with quoted flags containing spaces are parsed correctly (#13521)
|
|
* targets: print a warning message before downgrading (#13513)
|
|
* Travis CI: Test Python 3.8 (#13347)
|
|
* Documentation: Database.query methods share docstrings (#13515)
|
|
* cuda: fix conflict statements for x86-64 targets (#13472)
|
|
* cpu: fix clang flags for generic x86_64 (#13491)
|
|
* syaml_int type should use int.__repr__ rather than str.__repr__ (#13487)
|
|
* elpa: prefer 2016.05.004 until sse/avx/avx2 issues are resolved (#13530)
|
|
* trilinos: temporarily constrain netcdf@:4.7.1 (#13526)
|
|
|
|
# v0.13.0 (2019-10-25)
|
|
|
|
`v0.13.0` is our biggest Spack release yet, with *many* new major features.
|
|
From facility deployment to improved environments, microarchitecture
|
|
support, and auto-generated build farms, this release has features for all of
|
|
our users.
|
|
|
|
Spack grew by over 700 packages in the past year, and the project now has
|
|
over 450 contributors. Thanks to all of you for making this release possible.
|
|
|
|
## Major new core features
|
|
- Chaining: use dependencies from external "upstream" Spack instances
|
|
- Environments now behave more like virtualenv/conda
|
|
- Each env has a *view*: a directory with all packages symlinked in
|
|
- Activating an environment sets `PATH`, `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, `CPATH`,
|
|
`CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`, `PKG_CONFIG_PATH`, etc. to point to this view.
|
|
- Spack detects and builds specifically for your microarchitecture
|
|
- named, understandable targets like `skylake`, `broadwell`, `power9`, `zen2`
|
|
- Spack knows which compilers can build for which architectures
|
|
- Packages can easily query support for features like `avx512` and `sse3`
|
|
- You can pick a target with, e.g. `spack install foo target=icelake`
|
|
- Spack stacks: combinatorial environments for facility deployment
|
|
- Environments can now build cartesian products of specs (with `matrix:`)
|
|
- Conditional syntax support to exclude certain builds from the stack
|
|
- Projections: ability to build easily navigable symlink trees environments
|
|
- Support no-source packages (BundlePackage) to aggregate related packages
|
|
- Extensions: users can write custom commands that live outside of Spack repo
|
|
- Support ARM and Fujitsu compilers
|
|
|
|
## CI/build farm support
|
|
- `spack release-jobs` can detect `package.py` changes and generate
|
|
`.gitlab-ci.yml` to create binaries for an environment or stack
|
|
in parallel (initial support -- will change in future release).
|
|
- Results of build pipelines can be uploaded to a CDash server.
|
|
- Spack can now upload/fetch from package mirrors in Amazon S3
|
|
|
|
## New commands/options
|
|
- `spack mirror create --all` downloads *all* package sources/resources/patches
|
|
- `spack dev-build` runs phases of the install pipeline on the working directory
|
|
- `spack deprecate` permanently symlinks an old, unwanted package to a new one
|
|
- `spack verify` chcecks that packages' files match what was originally installed
|
|
- `spack find --json` prints `JSON` that is easy to parse with, e.g. `jq`
|
|
- `spack find --format FORMAT` allows you to flexibly print package metadata
|
|
- `spack spec --json` prints JSON version of `spec.yaml`
|
|
|
|
## Selected improvements
|
|
- Auto-build requested compilers if they do not exist
|
|
- Spack automatically adds `RPATHs` needed to make executables find compiler
|
|
runtime libraries (e.g., path to newer `libstdc++` in `icpc` or `g++`)
|
|
- setup-env.sh is now compatible with Bash, Dash, and Zsh
|
|
- Spack now caps build jobs at min(16, ncores) by default
|
|
- `spack compiler find` now also throttles number of spawned processes
|
|
- Spack now writes stage directories directly to `$TMPDIR` instead of
|
|
symlinking stages within `$spack/var/spack/cache`.
|
|
- Improved and more powerful `spec` format strings
|
|
- You can pass a `spec.yaml` file anywhere in the CLI you can type a spec.
|
|
- Many improvements to binary caching
|
|
- Gradually supporting new features from Environment Modules v4
|
|
- `spack edit` respects `VISUAL` environment variable
|
|
- Simplified package syntax for specifying build/run environment modifications
|
|
- Numerous improvements to support for environments across Spack commands
|
|
- Concretization improvements
|
|
|
|
## Documentation
|
|
- Multi-lingual documentation (Started a Japanese translation)
|
|
- Tutorial now has its own site at spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io
|
|
- This enables us to keep multiple versions of the tutorial around
|
|
|
|
## Deprecations
|
|
- Spack no longer supports dotkit (LLNL's homegrown, now deprecated module tool)
|
|
- `spack build`, `spack configure`, `spack diy` deprecated in favor of
|
|
`spack dev-build` and `spack install`
|
|
|
|
## Important package changes
|
|
- 3,563 total packages (718 added since 0.12.1)
|
|
- Spack now defaults to Python 3 (previously preferred 2.7 by default)
|
|
- Much improved ARM support thanks to Fugaku (RIKEN) and SNL teams
|
|
- Support new special versions: master, trunk, and head (in addition to develop)
|
|
- Better finding logic for libraries and headers
|
|
|
|
|
|
# v0.12.1 (2018-11-13)
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|
|
This is a minor bugfix release, with a minor fix in the tutorial and a `flake8` fix.
|
|
|
|
Bugfixes
|
|
* Add `r` back to regex strings in binary distribution
|
|
* Fix gcc install version in the tutorial
|
|
|
|
|
|
# v0.12.0 (2018-11-13)
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|
|
## Major new features
|
|
- Spack environments
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- `spack.yaml` and `spack.lock` files for tracking dependencies
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- Custom configurations via command line
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- Better support for linking Python packages into view directories
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- Packages have more control over compiler flags via flag handlers
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- Better support for module file generation
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- Better support for Intel compilers, Intel MPI, etc.
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- Many performance improvements, improved startup time
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## License
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- As of this release, all of Spack is permissively licensed under Apache-2.0 or MIT, at the user's option.
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- Consents from over 300 contributors were obtained to make this relicense possible.
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- Previous versions were distributed under the LGPL license, version 2.1.
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## New packages
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Over 2,900 packages (800 added since last year)
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Spack would not be possible without our community. Thanks to all of our
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[contributors](https://github.com/spack/spack/graphs/contributors) for the
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new features and packages in this release!
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# v0.11.2 (2018-02-07)
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This release contains the following fixes:
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* Fixes for `gfortran` 7 compiler detection (#7017)
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* Fixes for exceptions thrown during module generation (#7173)
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# v0.11.1 (2018-01-19)
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This release contains bugfixes for compiler flag handling. There were issues in `v0.11.0` that caused some packages to be built without proper optimization.
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Fixes:
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* Issue #6999: FFTW installed with Spack 0.11.0 gets built without optimisations
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Includes:
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* PR #6415: Fixes for flag handling behavior
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* PR #6960: Fix type issues with setting flag handlers
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* 880e319: Upstream fixes to `list_url` in various R packages
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# v0.11.0 (2018-01-17)
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Spack v0.11.0 contains many improvements since v0.10.0.
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Below is a summary of the major features, broken down by category.
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## New packages
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- Spack now has 2,178 packages (from 1,114 in v0.10.0)
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- Many more Python packages (356) and R packages (471)
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- 48 Exascale Proxy Apps (try `spack list -t proxy-app`)
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## Core features for users
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- Relocatable binary packages (`spack buildcache`, #4854)
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- Spack now fully supports Python 3 (#3395)
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- Packages can be tagged and searched by tags (#4786)
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- Custom module file templates using Jinja (#3183)
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- `spack bootstrap` command now sets up a basic module environment (#3057)
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- Simplified and better organized help output (#3033)
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- Improved, less redundant `spack install` output (#5714, #5950)
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- Reworked `spack dependents` and `spack dependencies` commands (#4478)
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## Major new features for packagers
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- Multi-valued variants (#2386)
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- New `conflicts()` directive (#3125)
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- New dependency type: `test` dependencies (#5132)
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- Packages can require their own patches on dependencies (#5476)
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- `depends_on(..., patches=<patch list>)`
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- Build interface for passing linker information through Specs (#1875)
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- Major packages that use blas/lapack now use this interface
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- Flag handlers allow packages more control over compiler flags (#6415)
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- Package subclasses support many more build systems:
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- autotools, perl, qmake, scons, cmake, makefile, python, R, WAF
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- package-level support for installing Intel HPC products (#4300)
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- `spack blame` command shows contributors to packages (#5522)
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- `spack create` now guesses many more build systems (#2707)
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- Better URL parsing to guess package version URLs (#2972)
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- Much improved `PythonPackage` support (#3367)
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## Core
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- Much faster concretization (#5716, #5783)
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- Improved output redirection (redirecting build output works properly #5084)
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- Numerous improvements to internal structure and APIs
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## Tutorials & Documentation
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- Many updates to documentation
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- [New tutorial material from SC17](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html)
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- configuration
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- build systems
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- build interface
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- working with module generation
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- Documentation on docker workflows and best practices
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## Selected improvements and bug fixes
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- No longer build Python eggs -- installations are plain directories (#3587)
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- Improved filtering of system paths from build PATHs and RPATHs (#2083, #3910)
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- Git submodules are properly handled on fetch (#3956)
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- Can now set default number of parallel build jobs in `config.yaml`
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- Improvements to `setup-env.csh` (#4044)
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- Better default compiler discovery on Mac OS X (#3427)
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- clang will automatically mix with gfortran
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- Improved compiler detection on Cray machines (#3075)
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- Better support for IBM XL compilers
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- Better tab completion
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- Resume gracefully after prematurely terminated partial installs (#4331)
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- Better mesa support (#5170)
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Spack would not be possible without our community. Thanks to all of our
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[contributors](https://github.com/spack/spack/graphs/contributors) for the
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new features and packages in this release!
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# v0.10.0 (2017-01-17)
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This is Spack `v0.10.0`. With this release, we will start to push Spack
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releases more regularly. This is the last Spack release without
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automated package testing. With the next release, we will begin to run
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package tests in addition to unit tests.
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Spack has grown rapidly from 422 to
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[1,114 packages](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/v0.10.0/package_list.html),
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thanks to the hard work of over 100 contributors. Below is a condensed
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version of all the changes since `v0.9.1`.
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### Packages
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- Grew from 422 to 1,114 packages
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- Includes major updates like X11, Qt
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- Expanded HPC, R, and Python ecosystems
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### Core
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- Major speed improvements for spack find and concretization
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- Completely reworked architecture support
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- Platforms can have front-end and back-end OS/target combinations
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- Much better support for Cray and BG/Q cross-compiled environments
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- Downloads are now cached locally
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- Support installations in deeply nested directories: patch long shebangs using `sbang`
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### Basic usage
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- Easier global configuration via config.yaml
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- customize install, stage, and cache locations
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- Hierarchical configuration scopes: default, site, user
|
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- Platform-specific scopes allow better per-platform defaults
|
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- Ability to set `cflags`, `cxxflags`, `fflags` on the command line
|
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- YAML-configurable support for both Lmod and tcl modules in mainline
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- `spack install` supports --dirty option for emergencies
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### For developers
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- Support multiple dependency types: `build`, `link`, and `run`
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- Added `Package` base classes for custom build systems
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- `AutotoolsPackage`, `CMakePackage`, `PythonPackage`, etc.
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- `spack create` now guesses many more build systems
|
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- Development environment integration with `spack setup`
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- New interface to pass linking information via `spec` objects
|
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- Currently used for `BLAS`/`LAPACK`/`SCALAPACK` libraries
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- Polymorphic virtual dependency attributes: `spec['blas'].blas_libs`
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### Testing & Documentation
|
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- Unit tests run continuously on Travis CI for Mac and Linux
|
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- Switched from `nose` to `pytest` for unit tests.
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- Unit tests take 1 minute now instead of 8
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- Massively expanded documentation
|
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- Docs are now hosted on [spack.readthedocs.io](https://spack.readthedocs.io)
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