minor tweaks to v4.4.0 release notes

Author: boegel

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -10,53 +10,57 @@ v4.4.0 (June 2nd 2021)
 feature release
 
 - various enhancements, including:
+  - enhance apply_regex_substitutions to allow specifying action to take in case there are no matches (#3440)
   - performance improvements for easyconfig parsing and eb startup (#3555)
-  - add support for multiple PRs in --from-pr (#3605, #3707)
-  - update setup.py to indicate compatibility with Python 3.8 and 3.9 (#3647)
-  - add support for prepending custom library paths in RPATH section (#3650)
+  - add support for downloading easyconfigs from multiple PRs with --from-pr (#3605, #3707, #3708)
+  - add support for prepending custom library paths in RPATH section via --rpath-override-dirs (#3650)
   - allow amending easyconfig parameters which are not the default (#3651)
-  - update HMNS for Intel OneAPI compilers (#3653)
-  - add support for --sanity-check-only + also run sanity check for extensions when using --module-only (#3655)
+  - update HierarchicalMNS for Intel OneAPI compilers (#3653)
+  - add support for --sanity-check-only (#3655)
   - add support for running commands asynchronously via run_cmd + complete_cmd functions (#3656)
   - add support for using oneAPI versions of 'intel' toolchain components (#3665)
   - add toolchain definition for gofbf (foss with FlexiBLAS rather than OpenBLAS) (#3666)
   - add support for using ARCH constant in easyconfig files (#3670)
   - honor keyboard interrupt in 'eb' command (#3674)
   - add toolchain definition for Fujitsu toolchain (#3677, #3704, #3712, #3713, #3714, #3717)
   - extend sanity check step to check whether specific libraries are not linked into installed binaries/libraries (#3678)
+    - via banned-linked-shared-libs and required-linked-shared-libs EasyBuild configuration options
+    - via banned_linked_shared_libs and required_linked_shared_libs methods in toolchain support
+    - via banned_linked_shared_libs and required_linked_shared_libs methods in easyblock
+    - via banned_linked_shared_libs and required_linked_shared_libs easyconfig parameters
   - add locate_solib function to locate Linux shared libraries (#3682)
   - add system agnostic function to locate shared libraries (#3683)
   - add update_build_option function to update specific build options after initializing the EasyBuild configuration (#3684)
-  - use unload/load in ModuleGeneratorLua.swap_module, since 'swap' is not supported by Lmod (#3685)
-  - update HierarchicalMNS to also return 'Toolchain/<name>/<version>' as $MODULEPATH extension for cpe* Cray toolchains (#3686)
   - allow opting out of recursively unloaded of modules via recursive_module_unload easyconfig parameter (#3689)
   - check for correct version values when parsing easystack file (#3693)
   - run post-install commands specified for a specific extension (#3696)
   - add support for --skip-extensions (#3702)
   - include PR title in output produced by --merge-pr (#3706)
 - various bug fixes, including:
-  - enhance apply_regex_substitutions to allow specifying action to take in case there are no matches (#3440)
-  - avoid metadata greedy behaviour when probing for external module metadata (#3559)
+  - avoid metadata greedy behaviour when probing for external module metadata (mostly relevant for integration with Cray Programming Environment) (#3559)
   - catch problems early on if --github-user is not specified for --new-pr & co (#3644)
   - re-enable write permissions when installing with read-only-installdir (#3649)
+  - also run sanity check for extensions when using --module-only (#3655)
   - improve logging when failing to load class from exts_classmap (#3657)
   - fix use of --module-only on existing installations without write permissions (#3659)
   - correct help text for subdir-user-modules (#3660)
-  - pin GitPython version for Python<3.6, don't test bootstrap script against Python 3.8/3.9 (#3675)
   - avoid picking up easyblocks outside of sandbox in framework tests (#3680)
-  - make get_config_obj return a copy rather than a reference (#3692)
+  - use unload/load in ModuleGeneratorLua.swap_module, since 'swap' is not supported by Lmod (#3685)
+  - update HierarchicalMNS to also return 'Toolchain/<name>/<version>' as $MODULEPATH extension for cpe* Cray toolchains (#3686)
+  - make EasyConfigParser.get_config_dict return a copy rather than a reference (#3692)
   - make sure that $TAPE is unset when using piped tar (#3698)
   - fix extending message for changed files in new_pr_from_branch (#3699)
   - enhance sched_getaffinity function to avoid early crash when counting available cores on systems with more than 1024 cores (#3701)
   - correctly strip extension from filename in extract_cmd and back_up_file functions (#3705)
-  - fix crash in create_test_report with --upload-test-report --from-pr when one or more test installations failed (#3708)
 - other changes:
   - deprecate adding a non-existing path to $MODULEPATH (#3637)
   - bump cryptography requirement from 3.2.1 to 3.3.2 (#3643, #3648)
   - test bootstrap script in separate workflow, and limit test configurations a bit (#3646)
+  - update setup.py to indicate compatibility with Python 3.8 and 3.9 (#3647)
   - replace log_error parameter of which() by on_error (#3661, #3664)
   - don't skip sanity check for --module-only --rebuild (#3645)
   - move disable_templating function into the EasyConfig class (#3668)
+  - pin GitPython version for Python<3.6, don't test bootstrap script against Python 3.8/3.9 (#3675)
   - tweak foss toolchain definition to switch from OpenBLAS to FlexiBLAS in foss/2021a (#3679)
   - suggest missing SSH key when not able to read from remote repository in --check-github (#3681)
   - drop support for Python 2.6 (#3715)