Merge pull request #3276 from boegel/eb491

tweak release notes for EasyBuild v4.9.1

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -13,25 +13,27 @@ update/bugfix release
 
 - 1 new software-specific easyblock: DualSPHysics (#3050)
 - minor enhancements and updates, including:
-  - use proxy in sanity check of `EB_OpenSSL_wrapper` (#2922)
-  - update Clang-AOMP easyblock for ROCm 5.6 + consider both `$EBROOTGCC` and `$EBROOTGCCCORE` to specify `-DGCC_INSTALL_PREFIX` (#2958)
+  - use proxy in sanity check of custom easyblock to install OpenSSL wrapper (#2922)
+  - update Clang-AOMP easyblock for ROCm 5.6 (#2958)
+  - consider both `$EBROOTGCC` and `$EBROOTGCCCORE` in Clang-AOMP easyblock to specify `-DGCC_INSTALL_PREFIX` (#2958)
   - update WIEN2k easyblock for v23.2 (#3035)
-  - enhance LAMMPS easyblock dynamically add `ARMV81` and `A64FX` to Kokkos CPU mapping based on LAMMPS version + fix installation of Python bindings for LAMMPS >= 2Aug2023 + fix sanity check by doing MPI_Finalize (#3036)
+  - enhance LAMMPS easyblock dynamically add `ARMV81` and `A64FX` to Kokkos CPU mapping based on LAMMPS version (#3036)
   - add `pip_verbose` option to PythonPackage and set it to True in PyTorch easyblock, to show build output when using pip (#3065)
   - also support OpenSSL 3 in OpenSSL wrapper easyblock (#3081)
   - improve error checking in PyTorch easyblock (#3085)
-  - update MCR easyblock for compatibility with v >= R2022b (#3119)
+  - update MCR easyblock for compatibility with versions >= R2022b (#3119)
   - add `species` easyconfig parameter to VEP easyblock (#3121)
   - only install Gurobi Python bindings via `setup.py` for Gurobi v10.x and older (#3225)
   - consistently honor `pretestopts` & `testopts` in `PerlModule` (#3231)
   - fix OCaml easyblock for recent versions (#3235)
-  - feature improve QuantumESPRESSO easyblock (#3241)
+  - improve QuantumESPRESSO easyblock by cleaning up and extending configure step + running test suite (#3241, #3258)
   - allow overriding `testinstall` in PyTorch easyconfigs (#3250)
   - enhance GCC easyblock to set `$LIBRARY_PATH` and disable building of NVPTX offload support on RISC-V systems (#3256)
-  - add support for conda provided by miniforge (#3260)
-  - move Go build junk into builddir (#3262)
+  - add support for conda provided by Miniforge (#3260)
+  - set `$GOPATH` in configure step of `GoPackage` easyblock to avoid polluting `$HOME/go` (#3262)
 - various bug fixes, including:
   - set `$BGW_TEST_MPI_NPROCS` in BerkeleyGW test step (#2950)
+  - fix installation of Python bindings for LAMMPS >= 2Aug2023 + fix sanity check by doing MPI_Finalize (#3036)
   - fix ELPA preprocessor flag for QuantumESPRESSO >= 7 (#3063)
   - fix link order in PETSc easyblock for SCOTCH >= 7.x (#3069)
   - update PyTorch easyblock to avoid configure warnings by disabling some options (#3070)
@@ -41,16 +43,15 @@ update/bugfix release
   - improve `generate_crate_list` + parsing of crates in `Cargo` easyblock (#3084)
   - remove trailing slash in `PETSC_DIR` set by custom easyblock for PETSc (#3086)
   - use correct TCL configure options for Python 3.11+ (#3087)
-  - apply CMake policy to select `python` based on `$PATH` order, instead of highest version (#3088)
+  - tweak `CMakeMake` easyblock to apply CMake policy to select `python` based on `$PATH` order, instead of highest version (#3088)
   - update `Cargo` easyblock to extract crates into a vendor subdir and overwrite git repo URLs with local paths (#3118)
   - only add `--with-ucc` for OpenMPI 4.1.4+ (#3223)
   - remove trailing slash in `SLEPC_DIR` in configure step of custom easyblock for SLEPc (#3229)
-  - fix OpenFOAM easyblock to fix `motorBike` example in sanity check for v >=11 (#3232)
-  - only run torchvision w/cuda sanity check command test if GPU is present (#3236)
+  - fix OpenFOAM easyblock to fix `motorBike` example in sanity check for versions >=11 (#3232)
+  - only run CUDA sanity check command for torchvision if GPU is present (#3236)
   - ensure localrc is created in the correct subdir for NVHPC v22.9+ (#3240)
   - remove wrong configure option for LibInt 2.6.x (#3249)
   - do not rename GCC's include-fixed directory by default + add script to regenerate it (#3254)
-  - remove FoX constraint on GIPAW for QuantumESPRESSO easyblock (#3258)
 - other changes:
   - update copyright lines to 2024 (#3268)