Release Notes

Changes since v3.10.0

New features and enhancements

Add new command line option to distribute single node jobs on multiple cluster nodes (#2458)
Add new build system backend for custom builds (#2494)
Extend the syntax of valid_systems and valid_prog_environs (#2479)
Introduce environment variables for controlling system auto-detection (#2444)
Support early access to fixtures (#2484)
Add configuredir variable to the Autotools build system (#2460)
Add display name to the failure statistics (#2472)
Extend the public API of Job (#2463)
Add support for Python 3.10 (#2443)
Support for loggable variables, parameters and properties of tests (#2428)
Remove runtime timings from the default output (#2425)
Add convenience function to set a test variable only if it's undefined (#2403)

Fix test filtering by name when multiple exact matches are requested (#2485)
Treat empty source code context when reporting errors (#2482)
Fix regression with tests that treat stdin as a tty (#2476)
Make rerun prompt consistent with the new naming scheme (#2471)
Fix and enhance LSF support (#2383)
Properly select configuration when running tests (#2438)
Enforce override of hooks with the same name (#2436)
Do not set up Spack shell support (#2424)
Fix job cancellation when job is pending due to ReqNodeNotAvail (#2417)
Fix --show-config for null config options (#2414)
Automatically convert numeric configuration parameters when set from the command line or the environment (#2392)
Fix find_modules to return unique module names (#2401)
Print skip test messages for new asynchronous execution policy (#2400)

Add OSU benchmarks in the test library and adapt CSCS checks accordingly (#2421)
Time the warmup phase and print minimum required duration in the GPU burn test (#2345)
Make bench_name loggable in Gromacs library test (#2462)
Add support for build both GPU dgemm+sgemm executables (#2372)

Use pytest-rerunfailures to and mark flaky unit tests (#2493)
Update checkout and setup-python versions for GH actions (#2457)
Minor deployment improvements (#2447)
Improve documentation about setting performance references in tests (#2492)
Modernize test syntax in the test dependencies docs (#2459)
Update versionadded annotations (#2448)
Add a small note in the Spack backend tutorial on specifying a spec targets (#2422)
Use compile as the name of the build pipeline stage (#2418)
Enhance documentation of environment variables set in the system configuration (#2419)