Merge pull request #2998 from SebastianAchilles/eb481

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.8.1 + bump version to 4.8.1

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -3,7 +3,48 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 
 These release notes can also be consulted at http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
-The latest version of easybuild-easyblocks provides 249 software-specific easyblocks and 42 generic easyblocks.
+The latest version of easybuild-easyblocks provides 252 software-specific easyblocks and 43 generic easyblocks.
+
+
+v4.8.1 (11 September 2023)
+--------------------------
+
+update/bugfix release
+
+- new custom easyblock for tensorflow-compression (#2990)
+- minor enhancements and updates, including:
+  - drop unnecessary CUDA stub libraries from $LIBRARY_PATH (#2793)
+  - update Score-P easyblock to use `--with-nocross-compiler-suite=nvhpc` for recent software versions (#2928)
+  - unset `$CPPFLAGS`, `$LDFLAGS`, `$LIB` which may interfere with Score-P configure magic (#2928)
+  - update Clang easyblock for versions >= 16 + run tests only for final stage of bootstrap build (#2929)
+  - handle new directory structure for Intel Advisor (#2942)
+  - use `DCPU_BASELINE=DETECT` for OpenCV when default optarch compiler option is used (#2954)
+  - update MXNet easyblock + don't try to install R extension by default for MXNet >= 1.0 (#2955)
+  - use checkMCR.sh to determine if we have the correct MCR for FreeSurfer (#2962)
+  - add options to `MesonNinja` easyblock to customize `build_cmd`, `install_cmd`, `builddir` (#2963, #2993)
+  - add support for building CP2K with libvori support (#2967)
+  - enable system `pybind11` for PyTorch 1.10+ to make sure `pybind11` provided as dependency is used (#2968)
+  - update LLVM easyblock for LLVM v16: symlink `third-party` to `third-party-<version>.src` (#2970, #2994)
+  - update scipy easyblock for scipy >= 1.11.0 (#2971, #2980)
+  - update sanity check for Mesa >= 22.3 (#2973)
+  - update sanity check for OpenFOAM 11 (#2978)
+  - add support to `PerlModule` easyblock to customize prefix option used in installation command (#2979)
+  - update TensorFlow easyblock for v2.13 since LMDB is no longer a dependency (#2982)
+  - enhance PyTorch easyblock to print individual failed tests (#2983)
+  - enhance PETSc easyblock to support using custom `$PETSC_ARCH` (#2987)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - correctly determine path to active binutils in TensorFlow easyblock (#2218)
+  - patch Java binaries/libraries when using alternate sysroot to ensure correct glibc & co are picked up + add custom sanity check (#2557, #2995)
+  - update OpenMPI easyblock to fix sanity check for Clang-based compilers (#2774)
+  - improve depot management in `JuliaPackage` easyblock (#2935)
+  - add custom easyblock for sympy to fix issue in test step when tmpdir is a symlink (#2949)
+  - disable disk space check in STAR-CCM+ installer (#2956)
+  - fix type check for `optarch` value in `Cargo` easyblock (#2969)
+  - conditionally add `-Wno-unused-command-line-argument` to `$CFLAGS` to fix error when installing `imkl-FFTW` with RPATH (#2975)
+  - enhance PythonPackage easyblock to deal with `posix_local` installation scheme used by Python in recent Debian/Ubuntu versions (#2977, #2988)
+  - don't add MATLAB libraries to `$LD_LIBRARY_PATH` (#2981)
+  - enhance Mesa easyblock to append EGL vendor library directory path to `$__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_DIRS` (#2985)
+  - fix typo in TensorFlow easyblock when finding libdir of OpenSSL (#2989)
 
 
 v4.8.0 (7 July 2023)

easybuild/easyblocks/__init__.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('4.8.1.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.8.1')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'