v0.69.0

🚀 Focus on HPC – Enhanced Performance & Stability!

This release brings significant improvements to HPC support, making PyMAPDL even more efficient in high-performance computing environments. For a deep dive, check out the updated HPC documentation.

🔥 Highlights

• ⚡ Seamless MPI Integration on SLURM Clusters – Tighter support for distributed computing.
  Details ➡️ #3500

• 🚀 Improved HPC Launcher Support – Smoother launching experience on HPC setups.
  Details ➡️ #3497

• 📖 Enhanced HPC Documentation – More clarity, better guidance!
  Details ➡️ #3506

• 📂 Redirect MAPDL Output to a File – Capture terminal output effortlessly!
  Details ➡️ #3596

  Example usage:

  from ansys.mapdl.core import launch_mapdl
  import os
  
  mapdl = launch_mapdl(mapdl_output="apdl.out")
  # create a file with the console output
  assert os.path.exists("apdl.out")
  with open("apdl.out", "r") as fid:
      assert "START GRPC SERVER" in fid.read()

• 🛠️ Improved Internal CI/CD Testing – Ensuring stability across the board.

• 🐛 Bug Fixes & Enhancements – General improvements for a better user experience.

Thanks for using PyMAPDL! 🚀

What's Changed

New Features

• chore: update CHANGELOG for v0.68.6 by @pyansys-ci-bot in #3479
• refactor: launch_mapdl by @germa89 in #3475
• feat: adding 'pymapdl_nproc' to non-slurm runs by @germa89 in #3487
• refactor: moving information class to another module by @germa89 in #3491
• refactor: __init__ file by @germa89 in #3490
• feat: passing tight integration env vars to mapdl by @germa89 in #3500
• refactor: modifying subprocess calls and removing try except continue statements by @clatapie in #3474
• refactor: externalise 'report' features to module by @germa89 in #3511
• test: check all commands are submitted by @germa89 in #3501
• refactor: simplifying directory setter property by @germa89 in #3517
• feat: support for launching an MAPDL instance in an SLURM HPC cluster by @germa89 in #3497
• refactor: moving tests to classes to avoid repeated fixtures execution by @germa89 in #3523
• refactor: using test classes in test_inline tests by @germa89 in #3524
• feat: using version instead of exec_path for the MPI checks by @germa89 in #3528
• chore: fix codecov.yml content by @SMoraisAnsys in #3542
• refactor: adding logging calls to misc.py by @germa89 in #3550
• refactor: removing-run_as_prep7-in-favour-of-run_as by @germa89 in #3551
• refactor: adding-type-ints-to-misc by @germa89 in #3553
• test: adding test for start_timeout arg by @germa89 in #3554
• feat: raising error if plot image cannot be obtained by @germa89 in #3559
• refactor: using find_mapdl instead of find_ansys by @germa89 in #3560
• refactor: increase post module coverage by @germa89 in #3556
• refactor: testing suite (random order) by @germa89 in #3519
• feat: supporting v25.1 and v25.2 by @germa89 in #3571
• feat: adding-mode-warning by @germa89 in #3574
• feat: adding check_has_mapdl by @germa89 in #3576
• feat: running MPI fix only if on windows by @germa89 in #3575
• refactor: replace get_ansys_path with get_mapdl_path by @germa89 in #3573
• feat: improving load_array to reduce format line length by @germa89 in #3590
• feat: redirect MAPDL console output to a file by @germa89 in #3596
• feat: avoid errors when retrieving invalid routine by @germa89 in #3606
• test: faking-v150 by @germa89 in #3509
• tests: adding timeout to each test by @germa89 in #3621
• feat: activate debug mode on testing using PYMAPDL_DEBUG_TESTING envvar by @germa89 in #3594
• refactor: annotate pymapdl part 1 by @germa89 in #3569
• feat: update copyright year by @germa89 in #3637
• refactor: Iterate over the dictionary directly instead of using .keys(). by @MaxJPRey in #3631
• refactor: small improvements to test settings by @germa89 in #3577

Bug fixes or behavior changes

• fix: raising port busy when connecting by @germa89 in #3507
• fix: logo link by @germa89 in #3525
• fix: checking port on non-grpc mapdl instances by @germa89 in #3540
• fix: warning in docstring by @germa89 in #3552
• fix: gui-extended-example by @germa89 in #3555
• fix: python version warning by @germa89 in #3570
• fix: components typo by @germa89 in #3582
• fix: linkchecker and cheatsheet links by @germa89 in #3589
• fix: avoid verbose grpc interface when solving by @germa89 in #3608
• fix: exit getting frozen if routine is not finished by @germa89 in #3617
• fix: avoiding long names in test arguments by @germa89 in #3583
• fix: console launching by @germa89 in #3586
• fix: changelog by @germa89 in #3640

Documentation

• ci: avoiding linkcheck on changelog page by @germa89 in #3488
• docs: review of documenting using pymapdl on clusters (#3466) by @germa89 in #3506
• docs: removing extra links from landing page. by @germa89 in #3526
• maint: remove importlib-metadata requirement by @koubaa in #3546
• doc: Update pymapdl.rst by @MaxJPRey in #3527
• docs: extracting information to another rst file by @germa89 in #3549
• docs: updating compatible Python versions by @clatapie in #3572
• docs: update docker instructions by @germa89 in #3580
• docs: adding some info for getting multiple compose running by @germa89 in #3584

Maintenance

• ci: pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #3482
• ci: bump thollander/actions-comment-pull-request from 2 to 3 in the actions group by @dependabot in #3481
• ci: force coloring in pytest by @germa89 in #3484
• build: bump psutil from 6.0.0 to 6.1.0 in the minimal group by @dependabot in #3492
• build: bump the documentation group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3495
• build: bump ansys-sphinx-theme from 1.1.2 to 1.1.5 in the core group by @dependabot in #3494
• build: bump grpcio from 1.66.2 to 1.67.0 in the grpc-deps group by @dependabot in #3493
• build: bump ansys-sphinx-theme from 1.1.2 to 1.1.6 in the core group across 1 directory by @dependabot in #3496
• ci: ansys/actions/check-vulnerabilities to CI-CD by @clatapie in #3505
• build: bump pyansys-tools-report from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1 in the testing group by @dependabot in #3516
• build: bump the core group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3515
• ci: bump actions/checkout from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 in the actions group by @dependabot in #3521
• ci: pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #3522
• build: bump grpcio from 1.67.0 to 1.67.1 in the grpc-deps group by @dependabot in #3533
• build: bump the core group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3534
• build: bump pytest-cov from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0 in the testing group by @dependabot in #3535
• ci: pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #3545
• build: bump numpy from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3 in the minimal group by @dependabot in #3541
• build: bump ansys-sphinx-theme from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 in the core group by @dependabot in #3547
• ci: bump codecov/codecov-action from 4 to 5 in the actions group by @dependabot in #3557
• ci: skipping student versions when user is authenticated by @germa89 in #3564
• build: bump grpcio from 1.67.1 to 1.68.0 in the grpc-deps group by @dependabot in #3565
• build: bump pytest-rerunfailures from 14.0 to 15.0 in the testing group by @dependabot in #3567
• build: bump the core group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3566
• ci: adding codeql.yml by @germa89 in #3585
• build: bump imageio from 2.36.0 to 2.36.1 in the documentation group by @dependabot in #3593
• ci: pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #3599
• revert: "Merge branches 'feat/piping-MAPDL-output-to-a-given-file', 'main' and 'main' of https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl" by @germa89 in #3607
• build: bump grpcio from 1.68.0 to 1.68.1 in the grpc-deps group by @dependabot in #3601
• build: bump pytest from 8.3.3 to 8.3.4 in the testing group by @dependabot in #3603
• build: bump pyfakefs from 5.7.1 to 5.7.2 by @dependabot in #3604
• build: bump the core group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot in #3612
• build: bump numpy from 2.1.3 to 2.2.0 in the minimal group by @dependabot in #3619
• ci: adding student back by @germa89 in #3623
• ci: temporary skipping attrs license check by @germa89 in #3624
• ci: adding ubuntu 251 and 252 by @germa89 in #3626
• build: bump the core group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot in #3633
• build: bump the minimal group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3632
• ci: fix safety issue by @germa89 in #3638
• build: bump pyfakefs from 5.7.2 to 5.7.3 by @dependabot in #3630

Full Changelog: v0.68.6...v0.69.0