Merge pull request #3763 from migueldiascosta/eb441

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.4.1 + bump version to 4.4.1

Author: boegel

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -4,6 +4,37 @@ 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.
 
 
+v4.4.1 (July 6th 2021)
+----------------------
+
+update/bugfix release
+
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - enhance detection of patch files supplied to 'eb' command with better error messages (#3709)
+  - add per-step timing information (#3716)
+  - add module-write hook (#3728)
+  - add ignore-test-failure configuration option to ignore failing test step (#3732)
+  - add toolchain definition for nvompic (NVHPC + OpenMPI) (#3735)
+  - warn about generic milestone in --review-pr and --merge-pr (#3751)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - don't override COMPILER_MODULE_NAME, inherited from Ffmpi, in Fujitsu toolchain definition (#3721)
+  - avoid overwritting pr_nr in post_pr_test_report for reports with --include-easyblocks-from-pr (#3724, #3726)
+  - fix crash in get_config_dict when copying modules that were imported in easyconfig file (like 'import os') (#3729)
+  - parse C standard flags in CFLAGS for Fujitsu compiler (#3731)
+  - fix error message for --use-ccache (#3733)
+  - error out when passing a list to run_cmd* to avoid running wrong command unintended, unless shell=True is used (#3737)
+  - minor fixes to output of test reports when using multiple PRs (#3741)
+  - fix location for modules installed with intel-compilers toolchain in HierarchicalMNS by always checking toolchain compiler name against template map (#3745)
+  - avoid checking msg attribute of GitCommandError (#3756)
+  - consider sources provided as dict in EasyBlock.check_checksums_for (#3758)
+  - don't make changes to software installation directory when using --sanity-check-only (#3761)
+  - honor specified easyblock for extensions (#3762)
+- other changes:
+  - make sure that tests requiring a github token have 'github' in the test name so that they can be easily filtered (#3730)
+  - deprecate EasyBuild bootstrap script (#3742)
+  - use temporary download folder in test_http_header_fields_urlpat (#3755)
+
+
 v4.4.0 (June 2nd 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('4.4.1.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.4.1')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'