Merge pull request easybuilders#6574 from boegel/eb362

bump version to 3.6.2 & update release notes

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -3,9 +3,51 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 
 These release notes can also be consulted at http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
-The latest version of easybuild-easyconfig provides 8,983 easyconfig files, for 1,461 different software packages,
+The latest version of easybuild-easyconfig provides 9,247 easyconfig files, for 1,489 different software packages,
 30 different (compiler) toolchains, 13 software bundles and 1 meta-package.
 
+v3.6.2 (July 11th 2018)
+-----------------------
+
+bugfix/update release
+- added easyconfigs for new toolchains: foss/2018b (#6424), fosscuda/2018b (#6555) and intel/2018b (#6409)
+- added example easyconfig files for 28 new software packages:
+  - CUnit (#6469), eggnog-mapper (#6513), FANN (#6468), FTGL (#6421), FreeFem++ (#5918), fastStructure (#6448),
+    fastq-tools (#5396), fullrmc (#6422), GDGraph (#6529), heaptrack (#6450), libgpuarray (#5429), lz4 (#6449),
+    MAJIQ (#5983), makedepf90 (#6504), nanopolish (#6464), opencv_contrib (#6441), PRC (#6477), Pillow-SIMD (#6152),
+    Pytorch (#6152), poretools (#6467), pystran (#6395), R-keras (#6530), Scoary (#6521), Scrappie (#6469),
+    torchvision (#6152), WISExome (#6524), WannierTools (#6539), zstd (#6449, #6452)
+- added additional easyconfigs for various supported software packages, including:
+  - GROMACS 2018.2, HDF5 1.10.2, IPython 6.3.1, Kraken 1.0, Mesa 18.1.1, netCDF 4.6.1, NWChem 6.8, OpenBLAS 0.3.1,
+    OpenMPI 3.1.1, Perl 5.28.0, Python 2.7.15, R 3.5.0, X11 20180604
+- minor enhancements, including:
+  - add hint on file name differences between downloaded and expected in cuDNN easyconfig (#6042)
+  - add 'gee' extension to R 3.4.4 easyconfigs (#6376)
+  - enable building of MPI libraries in VTK 8.1.0 easyconfigs (#6460, #6429)
+- minor changes, including:
+  - rename 'Canu' to 'canu' for v1.7 (#6389)
+  - update existing easyconfigs for OpenCV 3.4.1 to use new custom easyblock for OpenCV (#6509) 
+  - fix software name in Bsoft easyconfig (#6557)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - fix SAMtools dependency for ChimPipe, required SAMtools < 1.0 (#5930)
+  - skip installing of documentation in easyconfig for jemalloc 5.0.1 (#6428)
+  - stop including GCCcore 6.4.0 as build dep for GCCcore 8.1.0 (#6431)
+    - no longer needed with updated GCC easyblock
+  - add patch for GCCcore 6.4.0 to fix compilation problems on glibc 2.26 systems (#6432, #6495)
+  - fix checksums for pkgmaker/rngtools/RWeka/RcppProgress/mgcv extensions in R 3.4.4 easyconfigs (#6446, #6502)
+  - added necessary compiler flag for Guile 1.8.8 (#6457)
+  - build hwloc 1.11.10 with -fno-tree-vectorize to avoid segfaulting lstopo on Intel Skylake (#6461)
+  - add patch for binutils 2.30 to fix assertion failure (#6463)
+  - sync extensions in Python-3.6.4-iomkl-2018a.eb easyconfig with other Python 3.6.4 easyconfigs using 2018a toolchain (#6471)
+  - enable checking/setting of unlimited stack limit in Python 3.6.x easyconfigs using an 'intel' toolchain (#6485, #6492)
+  - add missing libxml2 dependency for HDF5 1.10.1 (#6498)
+  - also copy eggnog-mapper scripts (#6522)
+  - fix missing dependencies for Perl modules included as extensions for Perl 5.26.1 (#6532) and 5.28.0 (#6533)
+  - fix location of include directory in libffi 3.2.1 easyconfigs (#6565)
+- other changes
+  - also check for multiple dependency variants in easyconfigs using GCCcore 7.3.0 & newer (#6444)
+
+
 v3.6.1 (May 28th 2018)
 ----------------------
 

setup.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 # 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 = '3.6.2.dev0'
+VERSION = '3.6.2'
 
 API_VERSION = VERSION.split('.')[0]
 EB_VERSION = '.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[0:2])