Release for derivation production
Release request ticket: ATLASINFR-5149

AthDerivation release for the EXOT3 group, all formats are working.

Tagging AnalysisBase 24.2.29

https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ATLMCPROD-10842

contains MRs:

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66402 main-cppcheck-TruthIO 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66490 TruthRivetTools+IsolationCorrections: Fix cppcheck warnings.

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66491 Pythia8EnvironmentConfig add the definition of LHAPDF_INSTAL_PATH 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66316 Clean-up: Rename GenParticleSimWhiteList to GenParticleSimAcceptList

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66523 Herwig7_i: Some updates for the ConfigChecker 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66549 [AGENE-2233] Introduction of bblvlv_modified 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66566 New common jO fo aMC@NLO+Pythia8 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66590 updated lhapdf-config to use simpler logic 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66598 GeneratorObjects: Avoid atomic operations on shared_ptr.

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66711 Herwig7_i: Change the default tune to the up-to date value

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66740 TheP8I: add configuration modules 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66757 PYTHIA8: define PYTHIA8DATA environment variable 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66771 Herwig7_i; Add new options for the matchbox running mode 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66645  Add switch for Pythia_i INFO about (merging) efficiency

Tagging AnalysisBase 24.2.28

contains MRs:

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66235 Implementing the option of differentiating between charge-conjugate parent...

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66332 Add const type specifiers in ChargedTracksWeightFilter

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66742 MadGraph5Amc : update MG version to 2.9.16.atlas5 including patch requested in ATLMCPROD-10645

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66312 Sweeping !65766 from main to 21.6. Fix typo in link in PowhegControl README.md

First 24.0 release after migration to EL9
Release request ticket: ATLINFR-5125

Tagging AnalysisBase 24.2.27

Tagging AnalysisBase 21.2.266

https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/APR-127

https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ATR-28400

Release for DAOD production and upgrade
Release request ticket: ATLINFR-5095

contains MRs:

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65684 Merge branch '23.0-McEventCollection_p7-TP-Convertors' into '23.0' 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65869 Add support of the serialization of tools to the GenEvent

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65982 Drop barcode() for a raw pointer of HepMC3::GenParticle 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65711 Sweeping McEventCollection_p7 persistent version and associated TP converter into 23.0 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65990 Remove the HepMC::raw_pointer function and two use cases

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65991 Remove the free functions for vertex size in AtlasHepMC

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65980 fixing names of weights in NNLOPS reweighting for HJ Powheg

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65994 Simplifications in AtlasHepMC/Polarization.h 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66020 Herwig7_i: Add the new tune schemes

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65711 Sweeping McEventCollection_p7 persistent version and associated TP converter into 23.0 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66050 Introduce AtlasHepMC/Barcode.h header and moveall barcode-related functions there. 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66051 Revert "Generators: remove unused generators" 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66070 Herwig7_i: Add an option for the shower scale variations 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66068 Generators: add missing Base fragment to Sherpa3 integration logic 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66084 Use access by reference in AtlasHepMC 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66086 Drop the obsolete definitions from HepMCHelpers 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65095 Revise how GenParticle status is set for particles created during the simulation

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66095 Update GenEvent.h -- fix HepMC2 compilation 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66155 Fix ATLASSIM-6895

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66190 Update Particle Decay Filter 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66205 Remove specifications for int for functions in TruthUtils and add specification to Barcode.h 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66227 Patch for ATLASSIM-6901

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66271 Generators: fix issue with duplicated settings in Sherpa_i 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65941 convert ParticleDecayFilter into xAODParticleDecayFilter

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66225 Simplify the TruthUtils 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66301 update to new LCG layer LCG_102b_ATLAS_29 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/65830 Wrapping barcode usage in PileUpTools 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66342 Formatting issues in the McEventCollection convertes, give direct access to HepMC2 classes in xAOD 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66351 call find module for TheP8I - needed for AGENE-2225

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66348 remove ProtosLHEF_i QGSJet_i and MCTester_i from the repository 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66364 CppCheckUninitVar 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66384 AtlasHepMC: Fix thread-safety checker warning. 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66441 shortcut for 'lhapdf-config --version' call, which is slow and responsible for timeout errors in MG 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66413 Cleanup in the MagicNumbers.h 

https://gitlab.cern.ch/atlas/athena/-/merge_requests/66156 Investigate an option of storing the event weight names in the MCEvent collection

Tagging AnalysisBase 24.2.26

Tagging AnalysisBase 21.2.265