23/07/2025
Release: 1.1.7
https://github.com/payu-org/payu/releases/tag/1.1.7
Getting Started
This version of payu can now be accessed on gadi:
module use /g/data/vk83/modules
module load payu/1.1.7
Updates
UM: Add date-based restart pruning. This supports date-based restart pruning for ESM1.5 and ESM1.6 AMIP configurations as previously it was only supported if there was a MOM subcomponent (#553)
ACCESS-OM3: Remove overriding user settings for restart output frequency in model driver (#556)
ACCESS-OM3: Add date-based restart pruning (#562)
ACCESS-OM3: Commit MOM output documentation into the docs folder of the configuration (#567)
ACCESS-ESM1.6: Add new model driver to run the ACCESS-ESM1.6 configurations that are under development (#563)
ACCESS-ESM1.6: Add cable namelists as optional configuration files (#570)
ACCESS-ESM1.6: Incorporate CICE5 into driver (#585)
ACCESS-ESM1.6: Don’t write start date to CICE5 namelist (#596)
ACCESS-ESM1.6: Refactor parsing restart date-times and test methods to be consistent between ESM1.6 components (#599)
Deprecate MATM model driver (#573)
Add more error messaging when cloning from a tag/commit #575
Add exe_prefix configuration option to documentation (#582)
Fix bug that would run archive user scripts after the collation job was submitted (#584)
Allow repeat config option to be used with previous restart defined in config.yaml (#580)
Always map-by node when npernode is set in config.yaml (#594)
Allow starting from a restart in config.yaml with a non-zero counter which is used for naming output directories (#604).
Prepend a launcher script to the Payu generated PBS commands, if it exists (#607)
List loaded environment modules in error logs after all modules are loaded (#608)
For a full list of pull requests that includes additional bug fixes, see the Payu Github 1.1.7 release.
Notes
Automatically committing MOM6 Parameter output files for ACCESS-OM3
MOM output documentation, e.g. MOM_parameter_doc.* files, are committed back into the docs/ folder of the configuration. This is run when model outputs are archived by payu and the commit message is payu archive: documentation of MOM6 run-time configuration. If runlog is set to False, this will also disable these commits.
Customising the MPI run command
The exe_prefix option adds a string immediately before the model executable in the MPI run command. This can be useful for configuring profilers or valgrind. For example, given the following in config.yaml:
name: atmosphere
model: um
exe: um_hg3.exe
exe_prefix: aps -r <aps_output_dir>
The generated run command would then look like mpirun <mpi_flags> aps -r <aps_output_dir> <path/to/um_hg3.exe>.
Support
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Credits
Development was by @spencerwong, @anton, @jo-basevi and @manodeep
Reviewers included @dougiesquire, @cbull, @Aidan, @TommyGatti and @tmcadam
Documentation update by @Benoit