• Add chdir and puts environment settings to the per-modulefile evaluation saved context. So previous values of these settings are restored in case of evaluation failure.
• Fix save and restore of x-resource environment settings on the per-modulefile evaluation context.
• Use the correct warning procedure to report the full reference counter inconsistency message (so this message is fully inhibited during global whatis evaluations).
• Make append-path, prepend-path, remove-path and unsetenv commands alter env Tcl global array during display, help, test or whatis evaluation modes. Thus an invalid argument passed to these commands will now raise error on these modes. (see MIGRATING document)
• On whatis mode, append-path, prepend-path, remove-path, setenv and unsetenv commands initialize variables if undefined but do not set them to their accurate value for performance concern.
• Clear value instead of unsetting it during an unload mode evaluation of setenv or *-path commands to avoid breaking later reference to the variable in modulefile.
• Make getenv command returns value on help, test or whatis evaluation modes. (fix issue#188)
• Add an argument to the getenv command to return the value of this argument if the queried variable is undefined.
• Use a different modulefile interpreter for each evaluation mode.
• Adapt the procedure called for each modulefile command depending on the evaluation mode to adapt behavior of these commands to the module command currently running.
• Report calling name and arguments for modulefile commands on display mode. For the commands evaluated during this mode, trigger this report at the end of the evaluation.
• Inhibit chdir, conflict, module, module-log, module-trace, module-user, module-verbosity, prereq, set-alias, system, unset-alias, x-resource commands on help, test and whatis evaluation modes.
• Ignore chdir, module, module-trace, module-verbosity, module-user and module-log commands found during modulerc evaluation.
• Correctly restore an empty string value on sub-interpreter global variables when sanitizing this interpreter between two modulefile/modulerc evaluations.
• Cache in memory results of a modulefile search to reuse it in case of rerun instead of re-walking the filesystem.
• Evaluate global rc files once module sub-command is known and registered, so it can be queried during their evaluation.
• Rename _moduleraw shell function in _module_raw to use a common _module_ prefix for all module-related internal shell functions.
• Install: add --enable-append-binpath and --enable-append-binpath configure options to append rather prepend the bin or man directory when adding them to the relative environment variable.
• Doc: clarify documentation for module usage on scripting language like Perl or Python to mention that arguments to the module function should be passed as list and not as a single string.
• When interpreting a setenv modulefile order during an unload evaluation, variable is still set to be unset in generated shell code but it is set to the value defined on the setenv order in the interpreter context instead of being cleared.
• Register the conflicts defined by loaded modules in the environment (variable MODULES_LMCONFLICT) and ensure they keep satisfied. (see MIGRATING document)
• Register the prereqs defined by loaded modules in the environment (variable MODULES_LMPREREQ) and ensure they keep satisfied. (see MIGRATING document)
• Introduce the automated module handling mode, which consists in additional actions triggered when loading or unloading a modulefile to satisfy the dependency constraints it declares. Those actions are when loading a modulefile: the Requirement Load and the Dependent Reload. When unloading a modulefile, Dependent Unload, Useless Requirement Unload and Dependent Reload actions are triggered. (see MIGRATING document)
• Track the loaded modules that have been automatically loaded (with environment variable MODULES_LMNOTUASKED) to distinguish them from modules that have been explicitly asked by user. This information helps to determine what module becomes a useless requirement once all its dependent modules are unloaded.
• Track in saved collections the loaded modules that have been automatically loaded by add of a --notuasked argument to module load collection lines. So this information is restored in loaded environment when collection is restored. This --notuasked argument is ignored outside of a collection restore context.
• Consider modules loaded from a module source file as explicitly asked by user.
• Install: add --enable-auto-handling configure option to enable or disable the automatic modulefile handling mechanism.
• Process list of loaded modules or modules to load one by one during the restore, purge and reload sub-commands whatever the auto handling mode is.
• Add the ability to control whether the auto_handling mode should be enabled or disabled with an environment variable called MODULES_AUTO_HANDLING or from the command-line with --auto and --no-auto switches. These command-line switches are ignored when called from modulefile.
• Init: add pager-related command-line options in shell completion scripts.
• Doc: describe MODULES_LMCONFLICT, MODULES_LMPREREQ and MODULES_LMNOTUASKED in module.1 man page.
• Add -f and --force command-line switches to by-pass dependency consistency during load, unload or switch sub-commands. (see MIGRATING document)
• Disallow collection save or loaded modules reload if some loaded modules have some of their dependency constraints unsatisfied.
• The Dependent Reload action of a load, unload and switch sub-commands excludes modules that have unsatisfied constraints and includes modules whose constraints are satisfied again (when sub-command process solves a conflict for instance).
• Doc: describe --force, --auto and --no-auto command-line switches and MODULES_AUTO_HANDLING variable in module.1 man page.
• Ignore directories .SYNC (DesignSync) and .sos (SOS) when walking through modulepath directory content. (contribution from Colin Marquardt)
• Install: look for make rather gmake on MSYS2.
• Fix exec() usage in Python module function definition to retrieve the correct return status on Python3.
• Cookbook: add the top-priority-values and unload-firstly-loaded recipes.
• Install: add gcc to the build requirements in RPM specfile.
• Silent any prereq violation warning message when processing Dependent Reload mechanism or purge sub-command.
• Doc: mention createmodule.sh and createmodule.py scripts in FAQ. (fix issue#189)
• Register all alternative names of loaded modules in environment with MODULES_LMALTNAME variable. These names correspond to the symbolic versions and aliases resolving to the loaded modules. Helps to consistenly solve conflict or prereq constraints set over these alternative names. (fix issue#143 / see MIGRATING document)
• Doc: describe MODULES_LMALTNAME in module.1 man page.
• Install: add --with-bin-search-path configure option to get in control of the path list used to search the tools required to build and configure Modules. (fix issue#164)
• Install: add --enable-silent-shell-debug-support configure option to add the ability to control whether or not code to support silent shell debug should be added to the module function and sh-kind initialization scripts. (fix issue#166)
• Install: add --enable-quarantine-support configure option to add the ability to control whether or not code to support quarantine mechanism should be added to the module function and initialization scripts. (fix issue#167)
• Check version set in modulefile magic cookie. If modulefile sets a version number greater than modulecmd.tcl script version, this modulefile is not evaluated like when no magic cookie is set at all. (fix issue#171 / see MIGRATING document)
• Fix uninitialized variable in procedure producing list of element output. (fix issue#195)
• Ensure the consistency of module load modulefile command once the modulefile defining it has been loaded by assimilating this command to a prereq command. Thus the defined constraint is recorded in the MODULES_LMPREREQ environment variable. Same approach is used for module unload modulefile command which is assimilated to a conflict command. Thus the defined constraint is recorded in the MODULES_LMCONFLICT environment variable. (see MIGRATING document)
• Only look at loaded modules when unloading so unloading an nonexistent modulefile does not produce an error anymore. (fix issue#199)
• Report error raised from modulefile evaluation as ERROR rather WARNING, like when a conflict constraint is hit. Moreover this kind of evaluation error is now silenced on global evaluation like when proceding avail or search sub-commands.
• Record messages to report them by block on when processing a load or an unload modulefile evaluation to improve readability on these evaluating modes that may cascade additional actions. (see MIGRATING document)
• Foreground load, unload, switch and restore actions (ie. asked on the command-line) now report a summary of the additional load and unload evaluations that were eventually triggered in the process.
• Support del and remove aliases for unload sub-command like on compatibility version. (fix issue#200 with contribution from Wenzler)
• Correctly transmit the arguments along with the command to execute on system modulefile command. (fix issue#201)
• Contrib: add mt utility script which helps to run just specific part of the test suite.
• Introduce set-function and unset-function modulefile commands to define shell function on sh-kind and fish shells. (fix issue#193 with contribution from Ben Bowers)