ReFrame 2.9

ReFrame 2.9 Release Notes

API Changes

• Old sanity and performance patterns syntax completely removed
• New extended syntax of extra_resources
• Allow sourcesdir to be None even for compiled regression tests
• More advanced examples in documentation

Framework

• Redesign of the exception hierarchy
• Version information moved away from settings
• Support for flexible job allocations that span a full reservation
• Support for easy deprecation of fields
• Fix ungraceful exit when a job is blocked in in unrecoverable state
• Fix regex group references to be compatible with Python 3.5
• Fix random failures in unit tests
• Fix behaviour of --partition option to override any similar option passed in site configuration