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What's Changed
User impact ðŸ›
* ECLBASE now behaves separately from JOBNAME by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5396
Breaking Changes ðŸ›
* New storage solution replacing enkf_fs by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5030
* Remove unused field export function by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5140
New Features 🎉
* Added command line option to lint the configuration setup by yngve-sk in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5249
Improvements
* Move storage meta data from ensemble -> experiment by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5102
* Add timestamps to torque debug log statements by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5166
* Replace text for run button in ERT to 'Open ERT' by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5184
* Collect config errors before displaying by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5235
* Raise ConfigValidationError if max running value or min_realization is not an integer by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5246
* Add some more logging by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5321
* Lower memory usage significantly when handling fields/grids by JHolba in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5251
* Add progress updates to Run analysis by JHolba in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/4986
* Observation validation errors are now shown in gui by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5385
Bug Fixes
* Make steplength settable again in IES by dafeda in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5075
* Verify if active realizations is less than minimum set by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5066
* Fix check for empty target case by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5125
* Scale obs errors before outlier detection by dafeda in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5126
* Fix bug where timed out realizations would be marked as success by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5113
* Raise expection if no file for refcase by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5163
* Declare qsub jobs as not rerunnable by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5173
* Validate distribution parameters by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5160
* Solve race condition in qstat_proxy.sh by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5182
* Reduce memory usage by not unnecessarily creating a copy of the parameters by dafeda in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5050
* Enable new parser DEFINE key to allow multiple arguments by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5193
* Fix strange `gui` case name appearing for each run of EnsembleSmoother by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5223
* Fix test for missing response by dafeda in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5274
Maintenance
* Remove duplicate installation from documentation by sondreso in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5076
* Ensemble Config & Enkf Config Node refactor by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5087
* Change weights via method instead of GUI during test by dafeda in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5198
* Delete unnecessary test of gen_data_config by dafeda in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5221
* Change Torque option TIMEOUT to QUEUE_QUERY_TIMEOUT by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5218
* Replace field_config.cpp and surface_config.cpp with dataclass by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5180
* Remove .DATA suffix from REFCASE path by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5245
* Merge tests that were both updating field by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5175
* Avoid function call in arguments default by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5270
* Remove unused from summary_config by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5298
* Refactor gen_kw_config & trans_func by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5265
* Dont show gui in tests by default by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5306
* Remove SCHEDULE_PREDICTION_FILE & GEN_KW PRED by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5317
* Fix some function names by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5313
* Refactor _generate_gen_kw_parameter_file by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5335
* Explicitly use mixed format when converting to dates, avoiding warning by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5417
* Refactor GEN_DATA and SUMMARY configuration by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5344
* Refactor gen_obs extraction of observation values by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5439
* Refactor EnsembleConfig, EnkfConfigNode & ExtParamConfig by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5436
Other Changes
* Fix running workflows from cli by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5068
* Show Error in suggestor when unsupported non-UTF-8 characters are present in the config file. by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5036
* Open storage inside BatchSimulator by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5071
* Rename instances of test_res_config.py to test_ert_config.py and test_ert_config_parsing.py by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5080
* Show Error in suggestor when unsupported non-UTF-8 characters are present in the DATA file by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5072
* Improve documentation for disable_monitoring by hnformentin in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5116
* Double the timeout due to the Azure slow performance by xjules in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5130
* Use case name as ensemble name by oyvindeide in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5136
* Create hypothesis strategy for observations parsing by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5117
* Fix warning and errors not showing up together in the suggestor window by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5165
* Fix bug where inactive mask was not used for fields by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5115
* Fix default case not showing up when starting gui for new project by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5187
* Add random sleep to qstat in torque driver by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5189
* Pin websockets less than version 11.0 by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5200
* Expose run information as environmental variables by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5127
* Clarify that GEN_KW does not support FORWARD_INIT by mortalisk in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5232
* Fix saving surface to file by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5227
* Sort observation keys before analysis by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5259
* Fix flake8-bugbear's B007 on unused loop control variables by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5286
* Bump the queue_query timeout in Torque driver by berland in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5297
* Add documentation for <ERTCASE> as a magic string by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5250
* Use numpy vectorised funcs in TRANSFORM_FUNCTIONS by pinkwah in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5268
* Cleanup old summary key loading logic by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5329
* Evaluate min_realizations for ensemble_experiment by andreas-el in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5339
* Allow quoted substrings as part of the FORWARD_MODEL arglist in new parser by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5327
* Add config path and file name to jobs.json by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5374
* Add environment variables on client by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5333
* Assign all unit tests using snake_oil_case_storage to same xdist thread by JHolba in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5390
* Add to_dict to ParameterConfig by frode-aarstad in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5372
* Test out type hints by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5392
* Flipping default parser means logging against old by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5402
* Refactor keyword handling with regard to meta-data creation by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5428
* Make default jobname <CONFIG_FILE>-<IENS> by DanSava in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5444
* pin typing_extensions=4.5 by eivindjahren in https://github.com/equinor/ert/pull/5455
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