Details for ET_2026_05
Release team
- Steve, release manager
- Beyhan, co-chair
- Roland, co-co-chair
- Maxwell Rizzo, release manager emeritus
- the release date will be Jun 01 2026
- the code name for the release will be Hypatia
Gallery tests
Clusters and testers
| Cluster |
Tester |
| Deep Bayou |
Steve Brandt |
| Delta |
Cheng-Hsin |
| Sunrise |
Peter Diener |
| Anvil |
Maxwell Rizzo |
| Expanse |
? |
| Frontera |
Johnny or Noora |
| SuperMUC |
N/A |
| SuperMIKE |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBee |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBeeC |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBeeD |
Steve Brandt |
| Stampede |
Deborah |
Proposed Inclusions
| Thorn |
Champion |
Reviewers |
| Bhahaha |
Zach |
Peter |
| BHNS Gallery Example |
Beyhan |
Steve |
| CanudaX |
Helvi |
Lucas, Beyhan |
| Cottonmouth |
Steve |
Zach, Deborah |
Schedule
Jan 22:
Add call for new features to the website
These are the things to be included as of now
- LSU: Cottonmouth
- UIUC: CanudaX
- Idaho: Bhahaha
- BHNS merger gallery example
Mar 1: Step 3
Choose features, update master thornlist this month
Find reviewers for features
Decide on release-critical compute systems
Regenerate auto-generated thorns for the first time
Apr 1: Step 5: Start testing
Release-critical testing
May 1: Step 6: Release Prep
Feature Freeze
Create Zenodo item
Draft Release Announcement
Contact contributors and release team about inclusion
Jun 1: Release
Details for ET_2025_05
Release team
- Maxwell Rizzo, release manager
- Roland Haas, release co-manager
- Steven R. Brandt, release manager emeritus
- The codename for the ET_2025_05 will be Martin D. Kruskal
- the release date will be May 29 2025
- Clusters and testers:
| Cluster |
Tester |
| Deep Bayou |
Steve Brandt |
| Delta |
Roland Haas |
| Sunrise |
Peter Diener |
| Anvil |
Maxwell Rizzo |
| Expanse |
Roland Haas |
| Frontera |
Johnny Tsao |
| SuperMUC |
N/A |
| SuperMIKE |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBee |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBeeC |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBeeD |
Steve Brandt |
Proposed Inclusions
- Inclusions for this release (champion, reviewer):
- Z4c (Erik/Roland, Steve/Peter)
- BHaHAHA (Zach, Peter)
- CCE_Export [Spectre] (Deborah, Lucas)
- FLRWSolver (Hayley, Zach)
- Gallery Examples:
- New axi-dilaton gallery example (already reviewed)
Schedule
- 2025-01-23 (-18wk): propose functionality to include
- 2025-02-13 (-15wk): choose features which are going to be included
- ask for review volunteers, assign tasks to people
- create tickets for each proposed item tickets repo
- decide on a list of release-critical compute systems
- 2025-03-20 (-10wk): all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
- 2025-04-17 (-6wk): all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
- 2025-04-17 (-6wk): regenerate Kranc and NRPy+ codes
- 2025-04-17 (-6wk): start testing
- gallery examples
- test simfactory on clusters
- test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
- 2025-04-24 (-5wk): decide on name
- 2025-05-01 (-4wk): feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
- 2025-05-01 (-4wk): create first draft of the release notes as an md file
- Identify contributors to the release
- Identify the release team
- Identify major changes to call out in the release notes.
- 2025-05-01 (-4wk): announce date publicly
- 2025-05-15 (-2wk): draft release announcement
- 2025-05-22 (-1wk): testing done
- 2025-05-22 (-1wk): hard freeze, no more changes at all
- 2025-05-22 (-1wk): make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
- 2025-05-29: release date
Details for ET_2024_11
Release team
- Roland Haas, release manager
- Maxwell Rizzo, release co-manager
- Steven R. Brandt, release manager emeritus
- The codename for the ET_2024_11 will be Annie Jump Cannon
- Clusters and testers:
| Cluster |
Tester |
| Deep Bayou |
Steve Brandt |
| Delta |
Roland Haas |
| Sunrise |
Peter Diener |
| Anvil |
Maxwell Rizzo |
| Expanse |
Roland Haas |
| Frontera |
Johnny Tsao |
| SuperMUC |
N/A |
| SuperMIKE |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBee |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBeeC |
Steve Brandt |
| QueenBeeD |
Steve Brandt |
Proposed Inclusions
- Inclusions for this release (champion, reviewer):
- TOVola (David, Maxwell)
Z4c (Erik, Steve) missing test cases
Schedule
- 2024-08-02 (-18wk): propose functionality to include
- 2024-08-23 (-15wk): choose features which are going to be included
- ask for review volunteers, assign tasks to people
- create tickets for each proposed item tickets repo
- decide on a list of release-critical compute systems
- 2024-09-27 (-10wk): all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
- 2024-10-18 (-6wk): all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
- 2024-10-18 (-6wk): regenerate Kranc and NRPy+ codes
- 2024-10-18 (-6wk): start testing
- gallery examples
- test simfactory on clusters
- test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
- 2024-10-25 (-5wk): decide on name
- 2024-11-01 (-4wk): feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
- 2024-11-01 (-4wk): create first draft of the release notes as an md file
- Identify contributors to the release
- Identify the release team
- Identify major changes to call out in the release notes.
- 2024-11-01 (-4wk): announce date publicly
- 2024-11-15 (-2wk): draft release announcement
- 2024-11-22 (-1wk): testing done
- 2024-11-22 (-1wk): hard freeze, no more changes at all
- 2024-11-22 (-1wk): make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
- 2024-11-29: release date
Release names
- The list of proposed names for last release was
- Prior releases
- The list of names already used, see also on the website's past releases page
- Considered and rejected names
Tools/Links
-
Testsuite status page
- Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: Testsuite Machines
- Release announcements: wiki sandbox
- See list in Release Process
- Testing is performed on the latest version of common operating systems, for example Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Mac OS etc. People often want to build the ET on their laptop or workstation. Instructions for which packages etc are needed can be found in the respective Simfactory option list. This information could also be provided on the Cactus website.
Release Plan
Test status is on Release coordination page.
