v0.4.6: More Flexibility = More Power

0.4.6

This update introduces breaking (but beneficial) changes to the way complex workflows are designed (mostly those based on the @subflow pattern). Now, it is possible to modify the executor of any constituent Job in a workflow. Refer to the updated documentation.

Added

• The WORKFLOW_ENGINE quacc setting now accepts None.
• A DEBUG quacc setting as been added.

Changed

• The way to run complex, dynamic flows has been modified to rely on functools.partial() instead of kwargs. See the updated documentation.
• Refactored test suite

v0.4.5: Out With the Old; In With the New

[0.4.5]

Added

• Added ML interatomic potential recipes

Changed

• ASE optimization log files and pickle files are written to disk by default
• Deprecated the old Q-Chem recipes and replaced them with the updated versions

Removed

• Officially drop support of the Prefect workflow engine

v0.4.4: The ESPRESSO release ☕

Summary

This release introduces core recipes for Quantum ESPRESSO, developed by @tomdemeyere!

Added

• Added core Quantum ESPRESSO recipes and custom calculator. (@tomdemeyere)
• Added a new function, quacc.utils.files.copy_decompress_files_from_dir

Changed

• The copy_files kwarg in most recipes can now include a directory
• Renamed quacc.utils.files.copy_decompress to quacc.utils.files.copy_decompress_files

Fixed

• Quacc settings that are paths now have ~/ expanded in most cases

What's Changed

• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1331
• Move custodian tests by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1332
• Add espresso recipes and custom calculator by @tomdemeyere in #1238
• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1333

New Contributors

• @tomdemeyere made their first contribution in #1238

Full Changelog: v0.4.3...v0.4.4

v0.4.3: The Dask release

[0.4.3]

Added

• Added preliminary support for the Dask workflow engine via Dask Delayed and Dask Distributed.

Changed

• Renamed CREATE_UNIQUE_WORKDIR to CREATE_UNIQUE_DIR to better reflect its utility.
• The default for the SCRATCH_DIR setting is now None instead of ~/.quacc_scratch. In other words, the default is to not use a scratch directory. This should help with onboarding, and the ability to set it as None may be broadly of interest. Setting the SCRATCH_DIR to a given Path will still work as expected.
• Files are no longer recursively copied from SCRATCH_DIR to RESULTS_DIR. Instead, they are recursively moved. This should speed up I/O operations.

Fixed

• Fixed a missing phonopy_kwargs keyword argument in quacc.recipes.common.phonons

What's Changed

• Bump prefect from 2.14.6 to 2.14.9 by @dependabot in #1302
• Bump emmet-core from 0.74.3 to 0.74.5 by @dependabot in #1300
• Bump phonopy from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0 by @dependabot in #1301
• Bump parsl[monitoring] from 2023.11.20 to 2023.11.27 by @dependabot in #1304
• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1314
• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1316
• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1315
• mv * files from SCRATCH_DIR to RESULTS_DIR instead of cp -r, and make SCRATCH_DIR optional by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1313
• refactor: remove unnecessary f-string by @deepsource-autofix in #1318
• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1317
• Clearer description of path handling by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1319
• Add support for the Dask workflow engine by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1323
• Simplify Dask tutorial by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1325
• Update CHANGELOG.md by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1329
• Fix sporadic codecov upload issues by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1328

Full Changelog: 0.4.2...v0.4.3

v0.4.2

[0.4.2]

Added

• Added a Jenkins-based test suite that runs tests on HPC resources without mocking for Gaussian, GULP, ORCA, and VASP (minimal)
• Added a TBLite phonon recipe

Changed

• Changed the auto_kpts kwarg in the Vasp calculator to pmg_kpts
• Internal refactoring of recipes to have a separate _base.py module when appropriate
• Removed the unnecessary Atoms arg from the calc_setup function

Fixed

• Fixed slow initial import (3 s --> 1 s)
• Fixed a few broken type hints
• Fixed functional and basis set strings in Gaussian recipes
• Uses number of physical cores instead of logical cores as default for molecular DFT recipes

New Contributors

• @janosh made their first contribution in #1283

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...0.4.2

v0.4.1

[0.4.1]

Changed

• Switched to using the PyPi release of NewtonNet (1.1).
• NewtonNet recipes don't run a Hessian calculation by default unless needed

Fixed

• Fixed circular import issue when running Q-Chem calculations.

Removed

• Removed unsupported qchem_internal_relax_job

v0.4.0

[0.4.0]

Added

• Added quacc.recipes.common, including quacc.recipes.common.slabs, quacc.recipes.common.defects, and quacc.recipes.common.phonons
• Added phonopy schema in quacc.schemas.phonopy
• Added EMT phonon workflow

Changed

• The method for specifying swaps to the default calculator arguments in recipes has been overhauled. In place of the previous calc_swaps: dict approach, additional parameters can be specified via the **kwargs. In practice, this means in recipes you can do scf = "diis", max_steps=100 instead of calc_swaps={"scf":"diis", "max_steps":100}, for instance.
• Moved quacc.runners.calc to quacc.runners.ase
• Moved quacc.runners.prep to quacc.schemas.prep
• Reduced code duplication across complex flows

What's Changed

• Rename runners.calc to runners.ase by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1149
• Simplify subflows by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1152
• Add more type-hints by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1156
• Calc swaps by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1157
• Add phonon workflow by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1155
• Check if Orca size is more then 1 mb by @rishav-karanjit in #1163
• style: format code with Black, isort and Prettier by @deepsource-autofix in #1164
• Bump maggma from 0.57.4 to 0.57.5 by @dependabot in #1166
• Bump emmet-core from 0.71.2 to 0.72.8 by @dependabot in #1167
• Bump prefect from 2.14.2 to 2.14.3 by @dependabot in #1169
• Bump monty from 2023.9.25 to 2023.11.3 by @dependabot in #1168
• Refactor VASP slab workflow by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1172
• Refactor phonon workflow by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1173
• Refactor slab calculations by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1176
• Refactor by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1177
• Fix type hints by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1179

New Contributors

• @rishav-karanjit made their first contribution in #1163

Full Changelog: v0.3.13...v0.4.0

v0.3.13

Summary

The ASE hackathon resulted in a lot of changes to the ASE codebase, several of which broke quacc. This version updates quacc to support the new master version of ASE as of 11/2/2023.

v0.3.12

[0.3.12]

Added

• Added a basic phonon runner in quacc.runners.calc.phonons
• Added a TBLite phonon recipe phonon_job
• Added more type hints for input keyword arguments
• Added the quacc info command-line argument for error reporting

Changed

• Consolidated VASP INCAR co-pilot settings
• Internal refactoring of the Q-Chem and VASP calculators

Fixed

• All Path-based settings have .expanduser() applied

What's Changed

• Use .expanduser() on Path settings by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1105
• Add Python 3.12 to test suite by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1106
• Change ValueError to RuntimeError when cclib fails by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1107
• Add ASE lower bound by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1109
• Switch away from deprecated datetime utility by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1110
• Better path handling for docs by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1115
• Refactor custom calculators by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1117
• Add a skipcq to qchem custodian by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1118
• Refactor Q-Chem calculator by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1122
• Cleaner parsing of Q-Chem scratch files by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1124
• Clean up code comments by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1125
• Clarify docstrings and type hints by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1126
• Refactor VASP calculator by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1127
• Clarify VASP default settings by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1128
• Vasp INCAR co-pilot redesign by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1129
• Faster checking of workflow engine in settings by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1131
• Bump prefect from 2.13.8 to 2.14.2 by @dependabot in #1132
• Run docformatter by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1133
• Add a quacc info command line option by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1134
• Add phonon maker by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1137
• Improve phonon handling by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1138

Full Changelog: v0.3.11...v0.3.12

v0.3.11

Summary

Improved error messages when calculations fail, highlighting what working directory to look at.

What's Changed

• Refactor DFTB+ error handling by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1103
• Clearer error handling by @Andrew-S-Rosen in #1104

Full Changelog: v0.3.10...v0.3.11