Merge pull request #4649 from boegel/eb494

prepare release notes for EasyBuild v4.9.4 + bump version to 4.9.4

Author: jfgrimm

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 These release notes can also be consulted at https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Release_notes.html.
 
 
+v4.9.4 (22 september 2024)
+--------------------------
+
+update/bugfix release
+
+- various enhancements, including:
+  - set $LMOD_TERSE_DECORATIONS to 'no' to avoid additional info in output produced by 'ml --terse avail' (#4648)
+- various bug fixes, including:
+  - implement workaround for permission error when copying read-only files that have extended attributes set and using Python 3.6 (#4642)
+  - take into account alternate sysroot for /bin/bash used by run_cmd (#4646)
+
+
 v4.9.3 (14 September 2024)
 --------------------------
 

easybuild/tools/version.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 # recent setuptools versions will *TRANSFORM* something like 'X.Y.Zdev' into 'X.Y.Z.dev0', with a warning like
 #   UserWarning: Normalizing '2.4.0dev' to '2.4.0.dev0'
 # This causes problems further up the dependency chain...
-VERSION = LooseVersion('4.9.4.dev0')
+VERSION = LooseVersion('4.9.4')
 UNKNOWN = 'UNKNOWN'
 UNKNOWN_EASYBLOCKS_VERSION = '0.0.UNKNOWN.EASYBLOCKS'