[RELEASE] release-2.0.0 tasks

[climbfuji]

Release task list

Project board: spack-stack-2.0.x (2025 Q4)

• Create release branches release/x.y for spack, spack-packages and spack-stack
• Update doc/CMakeLists.txt, doc/source/conf.py (x.y instead of dev, x.y.z instead of develop, and .gitmodules (release/x.y instead of develop): dc4d05f
• Clear project board (no open pull requests other than for specific site configs or documentation)
• Prepare Wiki page for release (https://github.com/jcsda/spack-stack/wiki)
• Roll out release x.y.z from release branch release/x.y and update documentation (readthedocs), site config, and wiki page each time. Can use release candidate tag instead: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/releases/tag/spack-stack-2.0.0rc3
  • Acorn (NOAA-EMC)
  • Atlantis (NRL)
  • Blueback (NRL)
  • Derecho (EPIC)
  • Discover (JCSDA)
  • Gaea (EPIC)
  • Hercules (EPIC)
  • Narwhal (NRL)
  • NAS (NASA)
  • Nautilus (NRL)
  • Orion (EPIC)
  • S4
  • Ursa (EPIC)
  • JCSDA AWS Parallelcluster (JCSDA)
  • JCSDA AWS AMI (JCSDA)
  • JCSDA CI containers (JCSDA)
  • NAVY PW AWS (NRL)
  • NOAA PW AWS (EPIC)
  • NOAA PW Azure (EPIC)
  • NOAA PW Gcloud (EPIC)
• Tag spack and spack-packages
• Update .gitmodules in spack-stack: [release/2.0] Update .gitmodules: use tags spack-stack-2.0.0 for submodules #1862
• Update doc/CMakeLists.txt, doc/source/conf.py, and .gitmodules to use tags instead of release branches
• Tag spack-stack
• Finalize Wiki page for release (https://github.com/jcsda/spack-stack/wiki)
• Prepare and publish release notes: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/releases
• As needed, merge pull requests into release branches back into develop / spack-stack-dev
  • In Merge release/2.0 to spack-stack-dev spack-packages#28:
    • [release/2.0] Bug fix for eckit: handle new compression backend zip (libzip) for version 1.32+ spack-packages#26
    • [release/2.0] Fix MET segfaults (fixup_rpath --> environment modification) spack-packages#29
    • Harfbuzz updates for WCOSS2/NCO spack-packages#30
    • hpcx_mpi: add property 'libs' to package spec spack-packages#31
  • In Merge release/2.0 to develop #1858:
    • release/2.0 Bugfix for eckit/libzip, update nrl_batch_install.sh (-i fms), update common packages_clang.yaml (ip openmp), update navy-aws site config #1838
    • [skip ci] Update NAS README #1841
    • [skip ci] Set UDUNITS2_XML_PATH in modules #1843 (or the preferred solution to update the udunits package itself - see udunits: set UDUNITS2_XML_PATH in environment spack/spack-packages#2729)
    • [release/2.0] Fix MET segmentation faults in spack-packages, navy-aws site config updates round 2 #1844
    • release/2.0: Update batch_install.sh - workaround for ParallelWorks #1849
    • EC2 ubuntu site config for 2.0 release. #1851
    • Acorn/WCOSS2/NCO updates #1850
    • [release/2.0] Last minute updates for release/2.0 for ParallelWorks Navy #1852
    • [release/2.0] Last minute updates for release/2.0 for ParallelWorks Navy #1852
    • Configuration updates for discover-scu17 #1854
    • [release/2.0] Move documentation from readthedocs to Wiki #1855
    • [release/2.0] Updates for EPIC hosts #1856
    • release/2.0: Yet another Parallelworks update for site navy-aws #1857
    • Update containers for spack-stack 2.0 #1863
    • Fix incorrect openmpi version for modulefile #1865
    • discover gcc configuration updates #1864
• Close GitHub project

[rickgrubin-noaa]

ursa

• configures / builds against
  • oneAPI 2025.2.1 / MPI 2021.13
  • oneapi 2025.2.1 / MPI HPC-X 2.18.1

An update to spack-packages / hpcx_mpi/package.py is required to satisfy a build for this MPI provider.