This release contains more major performance improvements for Spack environments, as well as bugfixes for mirrors and a python
issue with RHEL8.
- mirror bugfixes: symlinks, duplicate patches, and exception handling (#13789)
- don't try to fetch
BundlePackages
(#13908) - avoid re-fetching patches already added to a mirror (#13908)
- allow repeated invocations of
spack mirror create
on the same dir (#13908) - bugfix for RHEL8 when
python
is unavailable (#14252) - improve concretization performance in environments (#14190)
- improve installation performance in environments (#14263)