Adapt to acts v0.12.0

This MR bumps and adapts to Acts v0.12.0. atlasexternals!579 (merged) needs to be merged, a tag created, and this MR needs to be the one bumping the externals version.

Changes since Acts v0.10.04:

v0.10.05

13 Merge Requests in this release:

Bug

• !655 - PlaneLayerTests-inspired bugfixes

Improvement

• !676 - Extract KF result into own struct
• !675 - Make Result assignable and copyable
• !674 - MultiTrajectory: apply/visitBackwards can break
• !666 - Change DD4hep Attribute handling
• !654 - Reduce vertexing template arguments and introduce linearizer
• !627 - RiddersPropagator

Infrastructure

• !670 - Remove allow_failure from integration tests
• !669 - Use CI DAG to start unit and integration test before build stage is complete
• !668 - Explicitly set build type in ubuntu job

Uncategorized

• !673 - PlanarModuleCluster with time
• !672 - Reintegrating AtlasStepper into Core
• !663 - Initialize centroid in BoundingBoxTest.cpp with 0,0,0

4 issues addressed in this release:

Bug

• #637 - PlaneLayerTests call SurfaceArrayCreator::surfaceArrayOnPlane wrong
• #636 - In PlaneLayerTests, "pNullTransform" is not a null transform...

Improvement

• #647 - Move AtlasStepper from acts-core/Legacy back to acts-core/Core
• #645 - Change DD4hep Attribute handling

v0.11.00

16 Merge Requests in this release:

New Feature

• !687 - Direct navigator and associated Tests
• !681 - KalmanFitter uses Acts::Result
• !651 - Free parameter input/output for stepper - part 1
• !566 - Multi adaptive vertex fitter

Bug

• !690 - Changed destructors
• !661 - Fix integration tests

Improvement

• !696 - Reduce template parameters in vertexing
• !694 - Clang-tidy: modernize-use-equals-delete
• !693 - Simplify the GeometryID interface (w/o introducing MultiIndex)
• !689 - Less propagator templates
• !680 - Add logging to GainMatrix smoother and updater
• !679 - Modify abort condition signature check and call pattern
• !671 - Resolve "Free parameter input/output for stepper" - part 1.5
• !665 - DD4hep and MaterialMapping - v2

Infrastructure

• !686 - Add LCG96 setup script and CI jobs
• !678 - Add script that automates the release creation.

7 issues addressed in this release:

Bug

• #655 - Overflow issues in GeometryID

Improvement

• #654 - Streamline GeometryID interface
• #625 - Explicit errors on numerical failure of KF components
• #635 - Free parameter input/output for stepper

Uncategorized

• #661 - Delete called on non-final object
• #652 - Implement DirectNavigator
• #642 - Translation of material / material mapping proxies from DD4hep to Acts

v0.11.01

1 Merge Requests in this release:

Bug

• !707 - Fix parameter interface usage in AtlasStepper

v0.12.00

19 Merge Requests in this release:

New Feature

• !708 - Move json plugin to core
• !703 - Add StraightLineStepper.cpp
• !698 - Adapt KF fit with DirectNavigator
• !688 - Finite State Machine helper class
• !643 - KF on multitrajectory
• !488 - Introducing confined volume logic for TrackingVolume and DD4hep

Bug

• !718 - OversteppingLimit and pathLimit setting
• !713 - Fix parameter interface usage in AtlasStepper

Improvement

• !720 - Make attachVolume and attachVolumeArray public
• !715 - Optimisation of Surface::intersect(...)
• !702 - Reduce template arguments from RiddersPropagator
• !701 - Removed unused variables/typedefs
• !700 - Remove type deductions from steppers
• !699 - New SurfaceIntersection schema and overstepping fix
• !685 - Biannual CMake cleanup
• !684 - Fix units in material description and interactions
• !667 - Change seeding interface to iterators

Infrastructure

• !714 - Make working with develop branches easier make_release script
• !709 - Add detection of CI directory for zsh

11 issues addressed in this release:

Bug

• #664 - AtlasStepper uses old parameter interfaces
• #658 - CMake: CDash setup is unused
• #656 - CMake: Identification plugin target name is inconsistent

Improvement

• #657 - CMake: remove boilerplate for tests
• #608 - Clarify units in the material description
• #607 - Move interaction formulas to the Materials module

Uncategorized

• #672 - Overstep limit is ignored in Navigator
• #666 - Investigate use of pre-computed LocalPosition in compatibleSurfaces(...)
• #613 - Intersection with surfaces: update and refinement
• #663 - KF with DirectNavigator
• #675 - bin/setup.sh is problematic for packaging