Version 2.1.0 February 2017  PR: 1150 - 1415
Open PR: 1352, 1358, 1362 

Queue system/workflows:

 - Functionality to blacklist nodes from LSF [1240, 1256, 1258, 1274, 1412, 1415].
 - Use bhist command to check lsf job status if job has expired from bjobs [1301].
 - Debug output from torque goes to stdout [1151].
 - Torque driver will not abort if qstat returns invalid status [1411].
 - Simulation status USER_EXIT - count as failed [1166].
 - Added Enum identifier 'JOB_QUEUE_DO_KILL_NODE_FAILURE [1268].
 - Have deprecated the ability to set queue options directly on the drivers [1288].
 - Added system for version specific loading for workflow job model
   description files [1177].
 - Job loader should not try to load from directory [1187].
 - Refactoring of max runtime - initiated from WPRO [1237].
 - Determine which nodes are running a job [1251].

Build updates:

 - Check if python modules are present in the required version [1150].
 - Do not build ERT_GUI if PyQt4 is not found [1150, 1230].
 - Do not fail build numpy is not found [1153].
 - Allow for user provided CMAKE_C_FLAGS on linux [1300].
 - Require exactly version 2.7 of Python [1307].
 - Travis testing improvements [1363].
 - Removed devel/ directory from source [1196].
 - Setting correct working directory, and build target dependency
   for sphinx-apidoc / html generation [1385].

Eclipse library:

 - C++ move constructor and operator= for smspec_node [1155, 1200].
 - fortio_ftruncate( ) [1161].
 - INIT writer will write keywords DEPTH, DX, DY, DZ [1164, 1172, 1311, 1388].
 - Grid writer will take unit system enum argument [1164].
 - New function ecl_kw_first_different( ) [1165].
 - Completion variables can be treated as totals [1167].
 - Fixed bug in ecl_kw_compare_numeric( ) [1168].
 - Refactored / inlined volume calculations in ecl_grid [1173, 1184].
 - Made function ecl_kw_size_and_type_equal() public [1192].
 - Fixed bug in ecl_grid_cell_contains() [1402, 1404, 1195, 1419].
 - OOM bug in ecl_kw_grdecl loader for large files [1207].
 - Cache cell volumes in ecl_grid [1228].
 - Geertsma / gravity functionality [1227, 1284, 1289, 1292, 1364, 1408].
 - Summary + restart - will allow some keyword differences [1296].
 - Implemented ecl_rst_file_open_write_seek( ) [1236].
 - Optionally apply mapaxes [1242, 1281].
 - Expose and use ecl_file_view datastructere - stop using 'blocks' in ecl_file objects [1250].
 - ecl_sum will internalize Aquifer variables [1275].
 - Make sure region properties RxxT are marked as total + depreecated some properties [1285].
 - ecl_kw_resize() + C++ operator[] [1316]
 - Added small C++ utility to create eclipse filenames[1396].
 - Make sure restart and INIT files are written with correct unit ID [1399, 1407].
 - Skip keyword data type: 'C010' without failing [1406, 1410].
 - Adding parsing of the last (optional) config token for the SLAVES kwd [1409].
 - Add nnc index to the information exported by ecl_nnc_export() [1204].
 - Marked solvent related total keywords ?NIT and ?NPT.* as totals [1241].
 - Top active cell in grid [1322].
 - Added absolute epsilon to ecl_kw comparsion [1345,1351].

Smoother, updates and 'running':

 - Fixed bug with local updates of GEN_DATA [1291].
 - Changed default MDA weights and removed file input [1156, 1190, 1191].
 - Bug in handling of failed realisations [1163].
 - Fix bug missing assignment of analysis module in ES-MDA [1179].
 - OpenMP implementation of fwd_step [1185, 1324,1342].
 - Removes the ability to update dynamic variables [1189].
 - Allow max CV FOLD to be the number of ensembles [1205, 1208].
 - Fix for min_realizations logic [1206].
 - Can assign a specific analyis module for one local update [1224].
 - Handle updates when some summary relaisations are "too short" [1400, 1405].
 - Extending hook manager to support PRE_UPDATE and POST_UPDATE hooks [1340,1360].
 - RML logging is on by default [1318].
 - Changed default ENKF_ALPHA value to 3.0 [??]
 - Implemented subsspacce inversion algorithm [1334, 1344].

libgeometry:

 - Added function to create new geo_surface (i.e. IRAP) object [1308].
 - Get (x, y) pos from surface [1395].

Python code:

 - cwrap has been moved out to stand-alone module, out of ert
   package [1159, 1320, 1325, 1326, 1328, 1332, 1338, 1341, 1343, 1347, 1350, 1353]
 - Simplified loading of shared libraries [1234].
 - Python3 preparations [1231, 1347].
 - Added __repr__ methods: [1266, 1327, 1329, 1331, 1348, 1373, 1375, 1377, 1384, 1387].
 - Implement __getitem__( ) for gen_data [1331].
 - Removed cstring_obj Python class [1387].
 - EclKW.numpy_array returns shared buffer ndarray [1180].
 - Minor bug in ecl_kw.py [1171].
 - Added EclKW.numpyView( ) and EclKW.numpyCopy( ) [1188].
 - Bug in EclKW slice access [1203].
 - Expose active_list better in Python [1392].
 - @TYPE@_vector suppports negative indices in __getitem__ and
   __setitem__; added repr method [1378].
 - added root() methdo ert/__init__.py [1293].

GUI / Configuration / Documentation

 - Bug when viewing plots while simulating [1157.]
 - Bug when plotting short vectors [1303].
 - Completely refactored the ERT Gui event system [1158, 1162].
 - Marked keywords INIT_SECTION and SCHEDULE_FILE as deprecated [1181].
 - Removed outdated keywords from documentation [1390].
 - Documented UMASK keyword [1186].
 - ConfigParser: Can turn off validation + warnings [1233, 1249, 1287].
 - Make ies advanced option only [1401].
 - Removing MAX_RUNNING_LOCAL and MAX_RUNNING_LSF from user doc [1398].
 - Apply plot style to other plots [1397].
 - Fig bug in initialization when out of range [1394].
 - Added new object for generic config settings [1391].
 - Changes to plot settings [11359,376,1380,1382,1386].
 - Fix bug in load case manually [1368].
 - Documentation of plugins [1194].
 - Changed all time handling to UTC. This will affect loading old cases [1229, 1257].
 - Removed keyword QC_PATH + updated GRID [1263].
 - Making sure the ertshell is creating the run path [1280].
 - Create Doxygen [1277,1278,1294,1309,1317].
 - Ability to run analysis from GUI [1314].
 - Improved documentation of priors [1319].
 - Bug in config parsing with relative paths [1333].
 - Field documentation updates [1337].


libwecl_well:

  - Internalize rates for wells and connections in the well library
    [1403].
  - New function well_ts_get_name() [1393].

libutil:

  - Functions for parsing and outputting dates in ISO format[1248].
  - stringlist_join - like Python str.join [1243].
  - bug in matrix_dgemm [1286].
  - Resurrected block_fs utilities from the past [1297].
  - Slicing for runpath_list [1356].