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Environment Modules

v5.6.1 Bugfix

This release fixes issues for SREs watching stability and regressions.

Published 6mo CLI & Terminal
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environment environment-modules hpc module modulefiles shell
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Summary

AI summary

Fixed bug where a reloaded module inherited tags from an earlier unload of the same name.

Full changelog
  • Script: improve mrel to better support Koji states and not rely on sudo privileges to test a new release.
  • Script: adapt utilities to only use curl rather also requiring wget.
  • Doc: CHARTER has been approved on September 4, 2025.
  • Doc: add EESSI design notes.
  • Doc: update modulefile(5) man page to describe the report modulefile command, which is supported since version 4.0.
  • Doc: use Furo Sphinx theme for the documentation published on Read The Docs.
  • Doc: describe how to call modulefile command from a hook procedure in module(1) man page. (fix issue #590)
  • Doc: add warning in INSTALL-win to mention ml command name conflict with MSVC x86 toolchain ml.exe. (fix issue #589)
  • Doc: add maintainer-guide.
  • Doc: website is now located at https://envmodules.io.
  • Doc: precise that no automatic path resolution is performed on prepend-path, append-path or remove-path modulefile commands. (fix issue #597)
  • Doc: add way to build latexpdf documentation.
  • Ensure that a module having the same name than a loaded module from another modulepath does not inherit its tags. (fix issue #599)
  • Drop tags stored in memory that applies to a module when unloading it. It ensures that tags applied to the module when reloaded from a different modulepath are not inherited.
  • Always apply abort on error behavior in case a Dependent Reload sticky (and --force is not set) or super-sticky module fails to reload. (fix issue #601)
  • When loading a module, check already loaded modules and their aliases exactly matching specification before looking at available modules and their aliases. (fix issue #602)
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Environment Modules provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles.

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