ReFrame 3.8.0

ReFrame v3.8.0 Release Notes

New features and enhancements

• Allow setting test variables from the command line (#2117)
• New syntax for performance checking (#2083)
• Automatically detect location of Spack (#2123)
• Refactor test registry (#2119)
• Automatically create a Spack environment when not set (#2031)
• Use the variable built-in machinery in the build system classes (#2095)
• Improve handling of user programming errors (#2087)
• Add SGE scheduler backend (#1959)

Bug fixes

• Use partition's and system's environment when autodetecting the topology (#2140)
• Do not bypass metaclass logic in the bind directive (#2147)
• Do not crash if processor and/or device topology files are not properly formatted JSON files (#2136)
• Catch TypeError when filter_params function does not return a tuple (#2122)
• Fix default executable assignment (#2107)
• Make test_cancel_(with_grace|term_ignore) unit tests more robust (#2100)
• Handle None in Decimal conversion of junit report (#2098)
• Do not emit module unuse <path> after loading modules with Lmod from a specific path (#2094)
• Remove unnecessary file locks (#2091)
• Fix hook override with multiple inheritance (#2081)
• Remove redundant whitespace in local launcher's command (#2092)
• Fix the way a custom Python binary is passed to the bootstrap script (#2086)
• Always use $HOME for storing processor auto-detection results (#2074)

Other

• Change the EB template for deployment on 3.7.2 (#2111)
• Fix sanity function deprecation unit test (#2080)
• Don't fail the CI if a cleanup stage fails (#2073)
• Remove sn.sanity_function references from unit tests (#2071)
• Improve documentation of built-ins (#2128)
• Remove quotes from image link in README (#2126)
• Adapt README to use PyPI friendly img include (#2125)
• Use an absolute URL for the ReFrame logo in README.md (#2121)
• Fix documentation about processor auto-detection (#2079)