easybuilders · boegel · Jun 3, 2024 · Dec 13, 2024 · Dec 13, 2024 · Dec 16, 2024
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -3,7 +3,43 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 
 These release notes can also be consulted at https://docs.easybuild.io/release-notes .
 
-The latest version of easybuild-easyblocks provides 209 software-specific easyblocks and 47 generic easyblocks.
+The latest version of easybuild-easyblocks provides 210 software-specific easyblocks and 47 generic easyblocks.
+
+
+v5.3.1 (19 Jun 2026)
+--------------------
+
+update/bugfix release
+
+- new easyblocks:
+  - add custom easyblock for ESPResSo (#4066)
+- bug fixes:
+  - fix location of `object_storage` for Dataset easyblock (#4128)
+  - enhance SAMtools easyblock to specify ncursesw libraries to link to via `CURSES_LIB` (#4149)
+  - use `sanity_check_load_module` in sanity check step of custom easyblock for GROMACS (#4151)
+  - fix incorrect plugins path in ABAQUS easyblock, which fixes long startup times (#4152)
+  - make sure that RPATH section for binaries in Rust 1.90.0+ installation includes path to runtime libraries of GCC compiler (#4156)
+  - trickle down modified build directory to bundle components in custom easyblock for gnupg-bundle (#4157)
+  - fix `--sanity-check-only` for netcdf4-python (#4161)
+- enhancements:
+  - add Arm support to NAMD easyblock (#3348)
+  - enable hwloc, cuFFTMp, and HeFFTe support in GROMACS easyblock (#3531)
+  - enhance `run_pip_list` function to print warning for mismatched Python package names or versions (#4109)
+  - adapt sanity checks in OpenMPI easyblock for AMD ROCm (#4119)
+  - add `$CUDNN_HOME` and `$CUDNN_PATH` as extra environment variables to be set by cuDNN easyblock (#4130)
+  - enhance custom easyblock for OpenMPI to add ROCm support (#4132)
+  - support `postinstallcmds` for `Dataset` generic easyblock (#4138)
+  - add logging if PyTorch tests were successful (#4140)
+  - enhance `PythonPackage` easyblock to limit ulimit stack size when unlimited (#4144, #4164)
+  - allow for either Mesa or OpenGL as dependency for VMD (#4147)
+  - improve error reporting for Python package without any close matches in output of `pip list` (#4155)
+  - make custom easyblock for MRtrix aware of `configopts` easyconfig parameter (#4158)
+  - ignore compiler-rt and lldb test failure for `ptrace_scope` > 1 in LLVM easyblock (#4159)
+- updates:
+  - update `Boost` sanity checks for versions 1.89 and newer (#4088)
+  - update test command in custom easyblock for scipy easyblock for scipy >= 1.17 (#4143)
+- code cleanup:
+  - pythonpackage: fix warning message for max ulimit (#4145)
 
 
 v5.3.0 (10 Apr 2026)
@@ -66,7 +102,7 @@ v5.2.1 (20 Feb 2026)
   - allow to enable more components in Extrae (#4027)
   - add fallback architecture for zen5 to BLIS easyblock (#4034)
   - add LLVM support to ParaStationMPI easyblock (#4047)
-  - allow easier reuse of `compose_install_command` of `PythonPackage`, and add `%(python)s` template and default Python libdir in sanity check (#4050) 
+  - allow easier reuse of `compose_install_command` of `PythonPackage`, and add `%(python)s` template and default Python libdir in sanity check (#4050)
   - update ELPA easyblock to make it aware of NVHPC toolchain compiler (#4051)
   - add option to allow missing or additional detected PyTorch test suites (#4052)
   - update QuantumESPRESSO easyblock - add pretestopts + GPU test cmd (#4053)
@@ -77,7 +113,7 @@ v5.2.1 (20 Feb 2026)
   - update custom easyblock for Gurobi for version 13 (#4060)
 - other changes:
   - make `CargoPythonPackage` the default class for extensions/components of `CargoPythonBundle` (#3993)
-- code cleanup: 
+- code cleanup:
   - enable flake8-comprehension code style check and fix issues (#3989)
 
 
@@ -224,7 +260,7 @@ update/bugfix release
   - change `buildenv` easyblock: use `python3` as default path to Python executable in RPATH wrapper scripts (#3910)
   - limit parallelism of OpenBLAS tests with parallel property (#3936)
   - remove deprecated license classifier in setup.py (#3942)
-- code cleanup: 
+- code cleanup:
   - simplify use of `self.cfg.dependencies()` in `PETSc` easyblock (#3813)
   - stop setting `separate_build_dir` to `True` in various custom easyblocks (#3836, #3837, #3838, #3839, #3840, #3842, #3843, #3844, #3845, #3846, #3847)
   - remove disabling libunwind on aarch64 for Mesa (#3908)

diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/__init__.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 # 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 = '5.3.0'
+VERSION = '5.3.1'
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'
 
 

diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/a/abaqus.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/a/abaqus.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def install_step(self):
                 (r"SIMULIA[0-9]*doc.*:", os.path.join(self.installdir, 'doc')),  # if docs are installed
                 (r"SimulationServices.*:", sim_subdir),
                 (r"Choose the CODE installation directory.*:\n.*\n\n.*:", sim_subdir),
-                (r"SIMULIA/CAE.*:", cae_subdir),
+                (r"SIMULIA/CAE(?!/plugins).*:", cae_subdir),
                 (r"location of your Abaqus services \(solvers\).*(\n.*){8}:\s*", sim_subdir),
                 (r"Default.*SIMULIA/Commands\]:\s*", os.path.join(self.installdir, 'Commands')),
                 (r"Default.*SIMULIA/CAE/plugins.*:\s*", os.path.join(self.installdir, 'plugins')),

diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/b/boost.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/b/boost.py
@@ -348,10 +348,13 @@ def sanity_check_step(self):
                         os.path.join('lib', 'libboost_python%s%s.%s' % (suffix, lib_mt_suffix, shlib_ext)))
 
         else:
-            custom_paths['files'].append(os.path.join('lib', 'libboost_system.%s' % shlib_ext))
+            if LooseVersion(self.version) <= LooseVersion("1.88.0"):
+                custom_paths['files'].append(os.path.join('lib', 'libboost_system.%s' % shlib_ext))
 
             if self.cfg['tagged_layout']:
-                custom_paths['files'].append(os.path.join('lib', 'libboost_system%s.%s' % (lib_mt_suffix, shlib_ext)))
+                if LooseVersion(self.version) <= LooseVersion("1.88.0"):
+                    p = os.path.join('lib', 'libboost_system%s.%s' % (lib_mt_suffix, shlib_ext))
+                    custom_paths['files'].append(p)
                 custom_paths['files'].append(os.path.join('lib', 'libboost_thread%s.%s' % (lib_mt_suffix, shlib_ext)))
 
             if self.cfg['boost_mpi']:

diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/c/cudnn.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/c/cudnn.py
@@ -78,3 +78,12 @@ def fetch_step(self, *args, **kwargs):
             more_info='https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/cudnn/latest/reference/eula.html'
         )
         return super().fetch_step(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def make_module_extra(self):
+        """Set the install directory as CUDNN_HOME, CUDNN_PATH."""
+
+        txt = super().make_module_extra()
+        txt += self.module_generator.set_environment('CUDNN_HOME', self.installdir)
+        txt += self.module_generator.set_environment('CUDNN_PATH', self.installdir)
+        self.log.debug("make_module_extra added this: %s", txt)
+        return txt