prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.7.0 + bump version to 4.7.0

Author: migueldiascosta

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -4,6 +4,54 @@ 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.
 
 
+v4.7.0 (January 9th 2023)
+-------------------------
+
+feature release
+
+- deprecate support for running EasyBuild with Python 2 (#4136)
+- add gfbf as subtoolchain of foss (#4143)
+- add definition for nvofbf toolchain (#4157)
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - add easybuild.tools.LooseVersion (since distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10) (#3794)
+  - also run unit tests with Python 3.11 (#4092)
+  - add support for using --output-format=md (MarkDown) (#4117)
+  - add support for --filter-rpath-sanity-libs to skip RPATH sanity check for designated libraries (#4119)
+  - add sanity_check_load_module method to EasyBlock to provide control over when module is loaded during sanity check step (#4125)
+  - add eb_bash_completion_local.bash script to setup.py (#4127)
+  - check whether nvidia-smi/rocm-smi command is available before trying to run it in `get_gpu_info` (#4131)
+  - automatically cancel Github Action workflow runs for outdated commits (#4132)
+  - add Python 3.11 to classifiers in setup.py (#4141)
+  - add support for postinstallmsgs (#4145)
+  - make iimkl toolchain aware of intel-compilers (#4146)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - add support for checksums specified in external `checksums.json` file (#3749)
+  - also use EasyConfig instances cache in process_easyconfig when build_specs is empty dict (#4107)
+  - fix build options that should have empty list as default value (#4108)
+  - catch easyconfig parsing failure so we can generate and post a test report (#4109)
+  - add explicit return when no checksums match those specified in a tuple (#4112)
+  - tweak findPythonDeps.py to use canonical package names (#4118)
+  - add `fdefault-double-8` to `r8` toolchain compiler option for GCC (to be consistent with Intel) (#4121)
+  - correct uses of :param name: and :return: in docstrings (#4129)
+  - docstrings - fixes to formatting or variables names (#4130)
+  - always start with empty list for banned/requires libraries to avoid that corresponding build option is updated in-place (#4137)
+  - fix container tests by using EPEL archive URL for downloading Singularity RPM (#4138)
+  - use -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic instead of -xSSE2 when using Intel oneAPI compilers (#4147)
+  - partially skip test_det_copy_ec_specs if no GitHub token is available (#4149)
+  - fix MarkDown formatting in autogenerated documentation (#4155)
+  - add encoding comment in nvofbf.py to fix SyntaxError when using Python 2 (#4163)
+- other changes:
+  - take into account custom configuration options specified in easystack file + drop support for easystack files using 'software' top-level key (#4057)
+  - use new EasyBuild logo in README (#4123)
+  - auto-enable use of oneAPI C/C++ compilers for intel-compilers >= 2022.2.0 (#4135)
+  - trim CI test configurations to avoid hitting GitHub rate limits (#4148)
+  - fix spelling in help for easyconfig constants + easyconfig parameters (#4154)
+  - make vstring/version variables in LooseVersion read-only (#4156)
+  - convert author lines for mkdocs (#4160)
+  - update copyright lines for 2023 (#4161)
+  - fix several linter issues for auto-generated MarkDown (#4162)
+
+
 v4.6.2 (October 21st 2022)
 --------------------------
 

easybuild/tools/version.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 # 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('4.6.3.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.7.0')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'