Merge pull request #3819 from migueldiascosta/eb442

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.4.2 + bump version to 4.4.2

Author: boegel

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -4,6 +4,42 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 These release notes can also be consulted at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
 
+v4.4.2 (September 7th 2021)
+---------------------------
+
+update/bugfix release
+
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - add per-extension timing in output produced by eb command (#3734)
+  - add definition for new toolchain nvpsmpic (NVHPC + ParaStationMPI + CUDA) (#3736)
+  - include list of missing libraries in warning about missing FFTW libraries in imkl toolchain component (#3776)
+  - check for recursive symlinks by default before copying a folder (#3784)
+  - add --filter-ecs configuration option to filter out easyconfigs from set of easyconfigs to install (#3796)
+  - check type of source_tmpl value for extensions, ensure it's a string value (not a list) (#3799)
+  - also define $BLAS_SHARED_LIBS & co in build environment (analogous to $BLAS_STATIC_LIBS) (#3800)
+  - report use of --ignore-test-failure in success message in output (#3806)
+  - add get_cuda_cc_template_value method to EasyConfig class (#3807)
+  - add support for fix_bash_shebang_for (#3808)
+  - pick up $MODULES_CMD to facilitate using Environment Modules 4.x as modules tool (#3816)
+  - use more sensible branch name for creating easyblocks PR with --new-pr (#3817)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - remove Python 2.6 from list of supported Python versions in setup.py (#3767)
+  - don't add directory that doesn't include any files to $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (#3769)
+  - make logdir writable also when --stop/--fetch is used and --read-only-installdir is enabled (#3771)
+  - fix forgotten renaming of 'l' to 'char' __init__.py that is created for included Python modules (#3773)
+  - fix verify_imports by deleting all imported modules before re-importing them one by one (#3780)
+  - fix ignore_test_failure not set for Extension instances (#3782)
+  - update iompi toolchain to intel-compiler subtoolchain for oneAPI versions (>= iompi 2020.12) (#3785)
+  - don't parse patch files as easyconfigs when searching for where patch file is used (#3786)
+  - make sure git clone with a tag argument actually downloads a tag (#3795)
+  - fix CI by excluding GC3Pie 2.6.7 (which is broken with Python 2) and improve error reporting for option parsing (#3798)
+  - correctly resolve templates for patches in extensions when uploading to GitHub (#3805)
+  - add --easystack to ignored options when submitting job (#3813)
+- other changes:
+  - speed up tests by caching checked paths in set_tmpdir + less test cases for test_compiler_dependent_optarch (#3802)
+  - speed up set_parallel method in EasyBlock class (#3812)
+
+
 v4.4.1 (July 6th 2021)
 ----------------------
 

easybuild/tools/version.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 # 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 = LooseVersion('4.4.2.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.4.2')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'