Merge pull request #3885 from migueldiascosta/eb450

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.5.0 + bump version to 4.5.0

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -4,6 +4,43 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 These release notes can also be consulted at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
 
+v4.5.0 (October 29th 2021)
+--------------------------
+
+feature release
+
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - add --review-pr-max and --review-pr-filter options to limit easyconfigs used by --review-pr + retain order of easyconfigs being compared with (#3754)
+  - use Rich (if available) to show progress bars when installing easyconfigs (#3823, #3826, #3833, #3835, #3844, #3864, #3867, #3882)
+    - see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Progress_bars.html
+  - add support for checking required/optional EasyBuild dependencies via 'eb --check-eb-deps' (#3829)
+  - add support for collecting GPU info (via nvidia-smi), and include it in --show-system-info and test report (#3851)
+  - added support for --insecure-download configuration option (#3859)
+  - make intelfftw toolchain component aware of imkl-FFTW module (#3861)
+  - make sure the contrib/hooks tree is included in the source tarball for easybuild-framework (#3862)
+  - add check_async_cmd function to facilitate checking on asynchronously running commands (#3865, #3881)
+  - add initial/experimental support for installing extensions in parallel (#3667, #3878)
+    - see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Installing_extensions_in_parallel.html
+  - filter out duplicate paths added to module files, and print warning when they occur (#3770, #3874)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - ensure that path configuration options have absolute path values (#3832)
+  - fix broken test by taking into account changed error raised by Python 3.9.7 when copying directory via shutil.copyfile (#3840)
+  - ensure newer location of CUDA stubs is taken into account by RPATH filter (#3850)
+  - replace 'which' by 'command -v' in 'eb' wrapper script to avoid dependency on 'which' command (#3852)
+  - refactor EasyBlock to decouple collecting of information on extension source/patch files from downloading them (#3860)
+    - in this context, the EasyBlock.fetch_extension_sources method was deprecated, and replaced by EasyBlock.collect_exts_file_info
+  - fix library paths to add to $LDFLAGS for intel-compilers toolchain component (#3866)
+  - remove '--depth 1' from git clone when 'commit' specified (#3871, #3872)
+  - make sure correct include directory is used for FlexiBLAS toolchain component (#3875)
+  - explictly disable rebase when pulling develop branch to create a merge commit, since not specifying how to reconcile divergent branches is an error with Git 2.33.1 and newer (#3879)
+  - tweak test_http_header_fields_urlpat to download from sources.easybuild.io rather than https://ftp.gnu.org (#3883)
+- other changes:
+  - change copy_file function to raise an error when trying to copy non-existing file (#3836, #3855, #3877)
+  - only print the hook messages if EasyBuild is running in debug mode (#3843)
+  - deprecate old toolchain versions (pre-2019a common toolchains) (#3876, #3884)
+    - see also https://docs.easybuild.io/en/latest/Deprecated-easyconfigs.html#deprecated-toolchains
+
+
 v4.4.2 (September 7th 2021)
 ---------------------------
 

easybuild/tools/version.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('4.4.3.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.5.0')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'