Environment Modules Updates

Symbolic version to designate module loaded version

by Xavier Delaruelle
When the Advanced module version specifiers is enabled, the loaded symbolic version may be used to designate the currently loaded version of specified module. $ ml display foo@loaded...
new feature
v4.7

Determining module implementation and version

by Xavier Delaruelle
New Modules variables are introduced to determine during the evaluation of a modulefile or a modulerc what module implementation is currently in use. The ModuleTool variable corresponds to the name of the module implementation and is set...
new feature
v4.7

Modules 4.4.1 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
Modules version 4.4.1 is out and provides substantial performance improvements as well as fixes for the few issues spotted in the 4.4 serie. The changes introduced in this bugfix release are: Fix error and warning messages relative to...
release
v4.4
bugfix

[email protected] released

by Xavier Delaruelle
This is my great pleasure to announce the availability of the version 4.4.0 of Modules. The main target of this new version is to propose enhanced ways to specify modulefiles over the module sub-commands and the modulefile-specific Tcl...
release
v4.4

Extended default

by Xavier Delaruelle
The extended default mechanism has been introduced to help selecting a module when only the first numbers in its version are specified. Starting portion of the version, part separated from the rest of the version string by a . character...
new feature
v4.4

Specify modules in a case insensitive manner

by Xavier Delaruelle
The ability to match module name in a case insensitive manner has been added. This feature can be enabled at different level with the following values set to the icase configuration option: never: a case sensitive match is applied in...
new feature
v4.4

Modules 4.2.5 released

by Xavier Delaruelle
Modules version 4.2.5 has just been released. This new release provides fixes for the issues found recently on the 4.2 serie. The changes introduced in this bugfix release are: Correctly escape `?` character in shell alias. (fix issue...
release
bugfix
v4.2

End of 4.2 strengthening work, road to 4.3

by Xavier Delaruelle
Version 4.2 of Modules was released in October last year with new capabilities to automatically handle dependencies between modulefiles. With these new automated mechanisms, corner cases were found which led to a more substantial bugfix...
testing
v4.2