v1.13.0: HCLS Example Blueprint, New Chrome Remote Desktop Module, & Image Building Improvements

Key New Features

• New Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) example running GROMACS on GPUs.
• New experimental chrome-remote-desktop module creates a GPU accelerated virtual machine that can be accessed using Chrome Remote Desktop.
• Improvements to custom-image so startup script failures now result in a failed build and several additional features.

Other Improvements

• vm_instance: Scope changed to cloud-platform.

Version updates

• install-htcondor: Update HTCondor release to current 10.x series.
• Slurm on GCP updated to version 5.4.1 (PR).
• Google Terraform Provider pinned to version 4.51.0 and will be bumped with each future release.

What's Changed

• Improve expandVariables error message by @thiagosgobe in #838
• Use keyword must be explicit across groups by @tpdownes in #852
• Improve unit test coverage of config package by @tpdownes in #857
• Add security vulnerability reporting policy by @heyealex in #853
• Update HTCondor release to current 10.x series by @tpdownes in #856
• Update varReference implementation and usage by @tpdownes in #858
• Remote desktop module - CRD baseline by @saltysoup in #811
• Bump SchedMD community v5 modules to 5.4.1 from 5.4.0 by @SkylerMalinowski in #862
• Add name_prefix to chrome-remote-desktop by @nick-stroud in #863
• Change vm-instance scope to cloud-platform to follow scopes best practice by @nick-stroud in #864
• Update pre-commit hooks by @tpdownes in #866
• Adopt Packer googlecompute plugin 1.1.0 by @tpdownes in #867
• Bump cloud.google.com/go/compute from 1.15.1 to 1.18.0 by @dependabot in #865
• main to develop for release of 1.12.0 by @cboneti in #872
• Improve Packer module by @tpdownes in #870
• Pinning Google terraform provider to 4.51.0 by @cboneti in #875
• Eliminate warnings and align variable naming by @tpdownes in #873
• Adds HCLS Blueprint and deploy instructions by @nick-stroud in #871
• Rename comment sections to align with architecture naming by @nick-stroud in #879
• Improve readability of useModule by @tpdownes in #877
• Add links to hybrid docs from other modules by @heyealex in #876
• Bump google.golang.org/api from 0.108.0 to 0.109.0 by @dependabot in #884
• Bump github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 by @dependabot in #883
• Bump django from 3.2.16 to 3.2.17 in /community/front-end/ofe by @dependabot in #881
• Bump cryptography from 36.0.1 to 39.0.1 in /community/front-end/ofe by @nick-stroud in #914
• Bump oauthlib from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 in /community/front-end/ofe by @nick-stroud in #915
• Rolling version to 1.13.0 by @nick-stroud in #921
• Release v1.13.0 by @nick-stroud in #916

New Contributors

• @saltysoup made their first contribution in #811

Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.13.0