diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/Armadillo/Armadillo-14.6.0-foss-2025a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/Armadillo/Armadillo-14.6.0-foss-2025a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..92c5874867e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/Armadillo/Armadillo-14.6.0-foss-2025a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'Armadillo'
+version = '14.6.0'
+
+homepage = 'https://arma.sourceforge.net/'
+description = """Armadillo is an open-source C++ linear algebra library (matrix maths) aiming towards
+ a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point and complex numbers are supported,
+ as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2025a'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://sourceforge.net/projects/arma/files']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+checksums = ['d18ccdb78a5da88f18fc529d8a8d40fad455842be6b01c59796f47a6f5bc7fe5']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('HDF5', '1.14.6'),
+    ('arpack-ng', '3.9.1'),
+]
+
+configopts = '-DBLAS_LIBRARY:PATH="$LIBBLAS" -DLAPACK_LIBRARY:PATH="$LIBLAPACK"'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['include/armadillo', f'lib/libarmadillo.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': ['include/armadillo_bits'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'numlib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/arpack-ng/arpack-ng-3.9.1-foss-2025a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/arpack-ng/arpack-ng-3.9.1-foss-2025a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..485e812f0d2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/a/arpack-ng/arpack-ng-3.9.1-foss-2025a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Author:    Robert Mijakovic <robert.mijakovic@lxp.lu>
+
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'arpack-ng'
+version = '3.9.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng'
+description = "ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems."
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2025a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'usempi': True}
+
+source_urls = [GITHUB_SOURCE]
+sources = ['%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['f6641deb07fa69165b7815de9008af3ea47eb39b2bb97521fbf74c97aba6e844']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Autotools', '20240712'),
+    ('pkgconf', '2.3.0'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('Eigen', '3.4.0'),
+]
+
+preconfigopts = "sh bootstrap && "
+configopts = '--enable-mpi --with-pic --with-blas="$LIBBLAS" --with-lapack="$LIBLAPACK"'
+
+github_account = 'opencollab'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [
+        'lib64/libarpack.la', f'lib64/libarpack.{SHLIB_EXT}',
+        'lib64/libparpack.la', f'lib64/libparpack.{SHLIB_EXT}'
+    ],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'numlib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/Brunsli/Brunsli-0.1-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/Brunsli/Brunsli-0.1-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a3a0c8aa1061
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/Brunsli/Brunsli-0.1-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+# Author: Denis Kristak
+# update: Thomas Hoffmann (EMBL)
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'Brunsli'
+version = '0.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/google/brunsli/'
+description = """Brunsli is a lossless JPEG repacking library."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/google/brunsli/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['62762dc740f9fcc9706449c078f12c2a366416486d2882be50a9f201f99ac0bc']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Brotli', '1.1.0'),
+]
+
+# skip use of third_party directory, since we provide Brotli via a proper dependency
+preconfigopts = "sed -i 's/add_subdirectory(third_party)//g' ../brunsli-%(version)s/CMakeLists.txt && "
+preconfigopts += "sed -i 's/\\(brotli...\\)-static/\\1/g' ../brunsli-%(version)s/brunsli.cmake && "
+
+configopts = '-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -lbrotlienc -lbrotlidec -lbrotlicommon" '
+
+buildopts = "BROTLI_DIR=$EBROOTBROTLI BROTLI_INCLUDE=$EBROOTBROTLI/include"
+
+# also install dbrunsli binary and missing libraries
+postinstallcmds = [
+    "mkdir %(installdir)s/bin",
+    "cp dbrunsli %(installdir)s/bin/",
+    "cp libbrunsli*.a %(installdir)s/lib/",
+    f"cp libbrunsli*.{SHLIB_EXT} %(installdir)s/lib/",
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/dbrunsli'],
+    'dirs': ['include/brunsli', 'lib'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = ['dbrunsli 2>&1 | grep Usage']
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CFITSIO/CFITSIO-4.6.2-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CFITSIO/CFITSIO-4.6.2-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e45c2f9ab6bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CFITSIO/CFITSIO-4.6.2-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+# Author: Denis Kristak (Inuits)
+# Update: Pavel Tománek (Inuits)
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'CFITSIO'
+version = '4.6.2'
+
+homepage = 'https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/'
+description = """CFITSIO is a library of C and Fortran subroutines for reading and writing data files in
+FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['66fd078cc0bea896b0d44b120d46d6805421a5361d3a5ad84d9f397b1b5de2cb']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+]
+# curl for HTTPs support
+dependencies = [
+    ('cURL', '8.11.1'),
+]
+
+test_cmd = './testprog > testprog.lis && diff testprog.lis testprog.out && cmp testprog.fit testprog.std'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libcfitsio.a', f'lib/libcfitsio.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': ['include'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = ['fitscopy --help']
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-3.11.1-foss-2025a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-3.11.1-foss-2025a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..576d49e7b28b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-3.11.1-foss-2025a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'GDAL'
+version = '3.11.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.gdal.org'
+description = """GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style
+ Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model
+ to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for
+ data translation and processing."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2025a'}
+toolchainopts = {'usempi': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://download.osgeo.org/%(namelower)s/%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+patches = ['%(name)s-3.6.2_fix-python-CC-CXX.patch']
+checksums = [
+    {'gdal-3.11.1.tar.xz': '21341b39a960295bd3194bcc5f119f773229b4701cd752499fbd850f3cc160fd'},
+    {'GDAL-3.6.2_fix-python-CC-CXX.patch': '859b874b0c8ff7626a76d51f008bf05b7f89a35b325bdd1d126d2364154acc63'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+    ('pkgconf', '2.3.0'),
+    ('Bison', '3.8.2'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.13.1'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2025.06'),
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.3'),
+    ('expat', '2.6.4'),
+    ('GEOS', '3.13.1'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.47.2'),
+    ('libarchive', '3.7.7'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.13.4'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.48'),
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '3.1.0'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.7.0'),
+    ('zlib', '1.3.1'),
+    ('cURL', '8.11.1'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.45'),
+    ('PROJ', '9.6.2'),
+    ('libgeotiff', '1.7.4'),
+    ('HDF5', '1.14.6'),
+    ('HDF', '4.3.1'),
+    ('Armadillo', '14.6.0'),
+    ('CFITSIO', '4.6.2'),
+    ('zstd', '1.5.6'),
+    ('giflib', '5.2.2'),
+    ('json-c', '0.18'),
+    ('Xerces-C++', '3.3.0'),
+    ('PCRE2', '10.45'),
+    ('OpenEXR', '3.3.4'),
+    ('Brunsli', '0.1'),
+    ('Qhull', '2020.2'),
+    ('LERC', '4.0.0'),
+    ('OpenJPEG', '2.5.3'),
+    ('SWIG', '4.3.1'),
+]
+
+# iterative build for both static and shared libraries
+local_configopts_common = "-DGDAL_USE_INTERNAL_LIBS=OFF -DGDAL_USE_MYSQL=OFF "
+local_configopts_common += "-DGEOTIFF_INCLUDE_DIR=$EBROOTLIBGEOTIFF/include -DPython_ROOT=$EBROOTPYTHON "
+
+configopts = [
+    local_configopts_common + "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF",
+    local_configopts_common
+]
+
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libgdal.a', f'lib/libgdal.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': ['bin', 'include', 'lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = ["python -c 'import osgeo.%(namelower)s'"]
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GEOS/GEOS-3.13.1-GCC-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GEOS/GEOS-3.13.1-GCC-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5af87caf2160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GEOS/GEOS-3.13.1-GCC-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'GEOS'
+version = '3.13.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://trac.osgeo.org/geos'
+description = """GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS)"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://download.osgeo.org/geos/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_BZ2]
+checksums = ['df2c50503295f325e7c8d7b783aca8ba4773919cde984193850cf9e361dfd28c']
+
+builddependencies = [('CMake', '3.31.3')]
+
+# Build static and shared libraries
+configopts = ['', '-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF']
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/geos-config', f'lib/libgeos.{SHLIB_EXT}', 'lib/libgeos.a', f'lib/libgeos_c.{SHLIB_EXT}',
+              'include/geos.h'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'math'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HDF/HDF-4.3.1-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HDF/HDF-4.3.1-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f52e97cb5cb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HDF/HDF-4.3.1-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'HDF'
+version = '4.3.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf4/'
+description = """
+ HDF (also known as HDF4) is a library and multi-object file format for
+ storing and managing data between machines.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf4/archive/refs/tags/']
+sources = ['%(namelower)s%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['6dc3b8af610526788bf78fb3982b25a80abfc94e37ce0c3ae2929b5e9c937093']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('Bison', '3.8.2'),
+    ('flex', '2.6.4'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '3.1.0'),
+    ('Szip', '2.1.1'),
+    ('zlib', '1.3.1'),
+    ('libtirpc', '1.3.6'),
+]
+
+preconfigopts = "LIBS='-ltirpc' "
+
+local_common_configopts = '--with-szlib=$EBROOTSZIP CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$EBROOTLIBTIRPC/include/tirpc" '
+local_common_configopts += '--includedir=%(installdir)s/include/%(namelower)s '
+
+configopts = [
+    local_common_configopts,
+    # Cannot build shared libraries and Fortran...
+    # https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/HDF#IncompatibilitywithNetCDFLibraries
+    # netcdf must be disabled to allow HDF to be used by GDAL
+    local_common_configopts + "--enable-shared --disable-fortran --disable-netcdf",
+]
+
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [
+        'bin/h4cc', 'bin/ncdump', 'lib/libdf.a', 'lib/libhdf4.settings', 'lib/libmfhdf.a', f'lib/libmfhdf.{SHLIB_EXT}'
+    ],
+    'dirs': ['include/%(namelower)s'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [
+    "h4cc --help",
+    "ncdump -V",
+]
+
+modextrapaths = {MODULE_LOAD_ENV_HEADERS: 'include/%(namelower)s'}
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/Imath/Imath-3.1.12-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/Imath/Imath-3.1.12-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e8931155bdbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/i/Imath/Imath-3.1.12-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'Imath'
+version = '3.1.12'
+
+homepage = 'https://imath.readthedocs.io/en/latest/'
+description = """
+Imath is a C++ and python library of 2D and 3D vector, matrix, and math operations for computer graphics
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/%(namelower)s/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['8a1bc258f3149b5729c2f4f8ffd337c0e57f09096e4ba9784329f40c4a9035da']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [f'lib/libImath.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': ['include/Imath'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/json-c/json-c-0.18-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/json-c/json-c-0.18-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3be45796746b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/json-c/json-c-0.18-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'json-c'
+version = '0.18'
+local_suff = '-20240915'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/json-c/json-c'
+description = """JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects
+ in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON
+objects."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/json-c/json-c/archive/']
+sources = [f'json-c-%(version)s{local_suff}.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['3112c1f25d39eca661fe3fc663431e130cc6e2f900c081738317fba49d29e298']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+]
+
+# disable using Valgrind during the tests to avoid failures caused by using an OS Valgrind
+pretestopts = 'USE_VALGRIND=0 '
+runtest = 'test'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libjson-c.a', f'lib/libjson-c.{SHLIB_EXT}', 'lib/pkgconfig/json-c.pc'],
+    'dirs': ['include/json-c'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LERC/LERC-4.0.0-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LERC/LERC-4.0.0-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5a5bfd76fcd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/LERC/LERC-4.0.0-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+# Updated: Denis Kristak
+# Updated: Thomas Hoffmann (EMBL)
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'LERC'
+version = '4.0.0'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/Esri/lerc'
+description = """LERC is an open-source image or raster format which supports rapid encoding and decoding
+for any pixel type (not just RGB or Byte). Users set the maximum compression error per pixel while encoding,
+so the precision of the original input image is preserved (within user defined error bounds)."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/Esri/lerc/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['91431c2b16d0e3de6cbaea188603359f87caed08259a645fd5a3805784ee30a0']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+]
+
+postinstallcmds = [
+    # copy the LercTest source file to a LercTest subdir in the installation directory and compile it
+    # (needs to be done here instead of in the sanity check, else it won't work when RPATH linking is enabled)
+    "cd %(builddir)s/lerc-%(version)s/src/LercTest && sed -i -e 's@../LercLib/include/@@' main.cpp",
+    "mkdir %(installdir)s/LercTest",
+    "cp %(builddir)s/lerc-%(version)s/src/LercTest/main.cpp %(installdir)s/LercTest/main.cpp",
+    "cd %(installdir)s/LercTest && ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} main.cpp -o LercTest -I../include -L../lib -lLerc",
+]
+
+sanity_check_commands = [
+    "%(installdir)s/LercTest/LercTest",
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['include/Lerc_c_api.h', 'include/Lerc_types.h', f'lib/libLerc.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.7.4-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.7.4-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..249a34779979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.7.4-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libgeotiff'
+version = '1.7.4'
+
+homepage = 'https://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/wiki/WikiStart'
+description = """Library for reading and writing coordinate system information from/to GeoTIFF files"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['c598d04fdf2ba25c4352844dafa81dde3f7fd968daa7ad131228cd91e9d3dc47']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('PROJ', '9.6.2'),
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '3.1.0'),
+    ('zlib', '1.3.1'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.47.2'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.7.0'),
+    ('cURL', '8.11.1'),
+]
+
+configopts = ' --with-libtiff=$EBROOTLIBTIFF --with-proj=$EBROOTPROJ --with-zlib=$EBROOTZLIB'
+configopts += ' --with-jpeg=$EBROOTLIBJPEGMINTURBO'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/listgeo', 'lib/libgeotiff.a', f'lib/libgeotiff.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'share'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libtirpc/libtirpc-1.3.6-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libtirpc/libtirpc-1.3.6-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c65858a722be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libtirpc/libtirpc-1.3.6-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libtirpc'
+version = '1.3.6'
+
+homepage = 'https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtirpc/'
+description = "Libtirpc is a port of Suns Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux."
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = [SOURCEFORGE_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_BZ2]
+checksums = ['bbd26a8f0df5690a62a47f6aa30f797f3ef8d02560d1bc449a83066b5a1d3508']
+
+configopts = '--enable-static --enable-shared --disable-gssapi'
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42')
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [f'lib/libtirpc.{x}' for x in ['a', SHLIB_EXT]],
+    'dirs': ['include/tirpc', 'lib'],
+}
+
+modextrapaths = {MODULE_LOAD_ENV_HEADERS: 'include/tirpc'}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF/netCDF-4.9.3-gompi-2025a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF/netCDF-4.9.3-gompi-2025a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d2921b3d4a24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/netCDF/netCDF-4.9.3-gompi-2025a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+name = 'netCDF'
+version = '4.9.3'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/'
+description = """NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries
+ and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented
+ scientific data."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2025a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'usempi': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/Unidata/%(namelower)s-c/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+patches = ['%(name)s-%(version_major_minor)s.0_skip-nasa-test.patch']
+checksums = [
+    {'v4.9.3.tar.gz': '990f46d49525d6ab5dc4249f8684c6deeaf54de6fec63a187e9fb382cc0ffdff'},
+    {'netCDF-4.9.0_skip-nasa-test.patch': '19d99e03c048b037dc01f03f5b8ddc910ebaceb076d0f050540d348f26dfcd2a'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Autotools', '20240712'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+    ('Doxygen', '1.14.0'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('HDF5', '1.14.6'),
+    ('cURL', '8.11.1'),
+    ('Szip', '2.1.1'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.8'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.13.4'),
+]
+
+# disable Szip, zlib parallel I/O tests, since these can hang on some systems, e.g. generoso
+# see: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/16834
+# and  https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/17107#issuecomment-1432947172
+preconfigopts = (
+    "sed -i"
+    " -e 's|@MPIEXEC@ -n 4 ./tst_parallel5|echo \"skipped by EasyBuild\"|g'"
+    " -e 's|@MPIEXEC@ -n 4 ./tst_parallel_zlib|echo \"skipped by EasyBuild\"|g'"
+    " -e 's|@MPIEXEC@ -n 4 ./tst_parallel_compress|echo \"skipped by EasyBuild\"|g'"
+    # disable check for H5 plugins
+    " -e '10,23d'"
+    " %(builddir)s/%(namelower)s-c-%(version)s/nc_test4/run_par_test.sh.in &&"
+)
+
+# make sure both static and shared libs are built
+# and disable "remote" tests that access a unreliable external test server over internet
+configopts = [
+    "-DENABLE_DAP_REMOTE_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF",
+    "-DENABLE_DAP_REMOTE_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON",
+]
+
+# some tests try to start 16 MPI ranks, so we need to allow oversubscription to avoid failing tests
+pretestopts = "PRTE_MCA_rmaps_default_mapping_policy=:oversubscribe "
+runtest = 'test'
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OpenEXR/OpenEXR-3.3.4-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OpenEXR/OpenEXR-3.3.4-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0a5a958fb0aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OpenEXR/OpenEXR-3.3.4-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'OpenEXR'
+version = '3.3.4'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.openexr.com/'
+description = """OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic
+ for use in computer imaging applications"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/%(namelower)s/%(namelower)s/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['63abac7c52f280e3e16fc868ac40e06449733bb19179008248ae7e34e4f19824']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('Imath', '3.1.12'),
+    ('zlib', '1.3.1')
+]
+
+local_libs, local_bins = [
+    ['Iex', 'IlmThread', 'OpenEXR', 'OpenEXRUtil'],
+    ['envmap', 'header', 'makepreview', 'maketiled', 'multipart', 'multiview', 'stdattr']
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': (
+        [f'lib/lib{s}.{SHLIB_EXT}' for s in local_libs] +
+        [f'bin/exr{b}' for b in local_bins]
+    ),
+    'dirs': ['include/%(name)s', 'share'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PCRE/PCRE-8.45-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PCRE/PCRE-8.45-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8f80cc293b4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PCRE/PCRE-8.45-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'PCRE'
+version = '8.45'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.pcre.org/'
+description = """
+ The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
+ pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = [
+    SOURCEFORGE_SOURCE,
+    'https://ftp.%(namelower)s.org/pub/%(namelower)s/',
+]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['4e6ce03e0336e8b4a3d6c2b70b1c5e18590a5673a98186da90d4f33c23defc09']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.8'),
+    ('zlib', '1.3.1'),
+]
+
+configopts = "--enable-utf --enable-unicode-properties --enable-pcre16 --enable-pcre32"
+
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [
+        'bin/%(namelower)s-config',
+        'include/%(namelower)s.h',
+        'share/man/man3/%(namelower)s.3',
+        f'lib/libpcre32.{SHLIB_EXT}',
+    ],
+    'dirs': ['lib/pkgconfig', 'share/doc/%(namelower)s/html', 'share/man/man1'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PROJ/PROJ-9.6.2-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PROJ/PROJ-9.6.2-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..78bf18206b23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PROJ/PROJ-9.6.2-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+##
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+#
+# Copyright:: Copyright 2014-2015 The Cyprus Institute
+# Authors:: Thekla Loizou <t.loizou@cyi.ac.cy>
+# License:: MIT/GPL
+#
+##
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'PROJ'
+version = '9.6.2'
+
+homepage = 'https://proj.org'
+description = """Program proj is a standard Unix filter function which converts
+geographic longitude and latitude coordinates into cartesian coordinates"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://download.osgeo.org/proj/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['53d0cafaee3bb2390264a38668ed31d90787de05e71378ad7a8f35bb34c575d1']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('pkgconf', '2.3.0'),
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+    ('googletest', '1.17.0'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('SQLite', '3.47.2'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.7.0'),
+    ('cURL', '8.11.1'),
+    ('XZ', '5.6.3'),
+    ('nlohmann_json', '3.12.0'),
+]
+
+# build twice, once for static, once for shared libraries
+configopts = ['', '-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF']
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/cct', 'bin/cs2cs', 'bin/geod', 'bin/gie', 'bin/proj', 'bin/projinfo',
+              'lib/libproj.a', f'lib/libproj.{SHLIB_EXT}'],
+    'dirs': ['include'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/Xerces-C++/Xerces-C++-3.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/Xerces-C++/Xerces-C++-3.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47c4961c1b3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/x/Xerces-C++/Xerces-C++-3.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'Xerces-C++'
+version = '3.3.0'
+
+homepage = 'https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/'
+
+description = """Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable
+subset of C++. Xerces-C++ makes it easy to give your application the ability to
+read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating,
+manipulating, and validating XML documents using the DOM, SAX, and SAX2
+APIs."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://archive.apache.org/dist/xerces/c/%(version_major)s/sources/']
+sources = ['xerces-c-%(version)s.tar.gz']
+patches = ['%(name)s-3.2.5_Change-CXX-standard-to-17.patch']
+checksums = [
+    {'xerces-c-3.3.0.tar.gz': '9555f1d06f82987fbb4658862705515740414fd34b4db6ad2ed76a2dc08d3bde'},
+    {'Xerces-C++-3.2.5_Change-CXX-standard-to-17.patch':
+     'be97c578849f66032beb9d5bd8e3baa2fc25f5a31e5721b728fc6ea6205457d9'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('pkgconf', '2.3.0'),
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+    ('CMake', '3.31.3'),
+    ('ICU', '76.1'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('cURL', '8.11.1'),
+]
+
+runtest = 'test'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    "files": [
+        "bin/XInclude",
+        "include/xercesc/xinclude/XIncludeUtils.hpp",
+        f"lib/libxerces-c-%(version_major_minor)s.{SHLIB_EXT}",
+    ],
+    "dirs": ["bin", "include", "lib"],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'