Version 4.2 of Modules was released in October last year with new
capabilities to automatically handle dependencies between modulefiles
[1]. With these new automated mechanisms, corner cases were found
which led to a more substantial bugfix work than initially expected.
After 4 bugfix releases, with a specific focus on error management
(v4.2.3) and on warning/error/informational message report (v4.2.4), I
consider the work on this v4.2 branch over.
Of course there are still things to improve, but I consider the
remaining stuff to work on as new features like the introduction of
additional automated mechanisms (*Conflict Unload*, etc).
If you encounter strange situation with v4.2.4, feel free to report
them here or directly on the bug tracker [2].
On my side, I am happy to re-start the work on v4.3 [3]. I will
progressively disclose here the new features that will be part of it.
Hope to roll out this release at the beginning of summer. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
Xavier
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/modules/mailman/message/36400120/
[2] https://github.com/cea-hpc/modules/issues
[3] https://github.com/cea-hpc/modules/milestone/5
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