Merge branch 'release-v54r4' into 'master'

Prepare LHCb v54r4

See merge request !3944

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 option(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS "Enable/Disable output of compile_commands.json" ON)
 
-project(LHCb VERSION 54.3
+project(LHCb VERSION 54.4
         LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 # Enable testing with CTest/CDash

ReleaseNotes/release_notes_template.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This version uses
 {{project_deps[:-1]|join(',\n')}} and
 {{project_deps|last}}.
 
-This version is released on `master` branch.
+This version is released on the `{{branch}}` branch.
 Built relative to {{project}} [{{project_prev_tag}}](/../../tags/{{project_prev_tag}}), with the following changes:
 
 ### New features ~"new feature"

ReleaseNotes/v54r4.md

+2023-01-27 LHCb v54r4
+===
+
+This version uses
+Gaudi [v36r9](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v36r9),
+Detector [v1r8](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v1r8) and
+LCG [101a](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/101a_LHCB_7/) with ROOT 6.24.08.
+
+This version is released on the `master` branch.
+Built relative to LHCb [v54r3](/../../tags/v54r3), with the following changes:
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+- Fixed an indexing error in transfer of covariance matrixes in SOATrackConversion.h, !3937 (@spradlin) [#285]
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+- ~Configuration | Speed up python configuration and improve profiling, !3829 (@rmatev) [#261,Moore#25]
+- ~RICH | Add allocate/deallocate mismatch checking code to RICH derived conditions, !3928 (@jonrob) [#284]
+
+
+### Other
+
+- ~Calo ~"Event model" | Add track-cluster match info to neutral pp, !3913 (@mveghel)
+- ~RICH | RichHistoBase: Making histogram booking const and thread safe, !3927 (@jonrob)
+- ~Functors | Add a new configurable function for getting Selection Report location, !3845 (@amathad)
+- ~Persistency | Needed for Moore!2006, !3929 (@sesen)
+- ~Persistency | Selective packing for persistency, !3721 (@msaur)
+- ~Core | Add missing invocation of DetectorDataService::finalize, !3932 (@clemenci)
+- ~Core | ParamFileSvc - Improve error reporting when given URL fails to be opened, !3920 (@jonrob)
+- Vocabulary event model functions: treat a SmartRef as-if it is a pointer, !3941 (@graven)
+- Remove code obsoleted by selective packing, !3936 (@graven)
+- Fix warning suppression for C++20 extension, !3931 (@clemenci)
+- Fix name collisions in XMLSummaryKernel tests, !3930 (@clemenci)
+- Force test validator to take into account stderr exclusions, !3925 (@clemenci)
+- Fixes to be able to build public headers in isolation, !3857 (@clemenci)
+- Add stderr exclusion for switch to Geant4 units, !3924 (@clemenci)
+- Cleanup LinksByKey interface, !3923 (@graven)
+- Unify various Linker wrapper classes, !3917 (@graven)
+- Add helper functions for UT hits and seed tracks, !3915 (@decianm)
+- Small fixes to compile on aarch64, !3910 (@clemenci)
+- Add a few new platforms to PlatformInfo, !3908 (@clemenci)
+- Fix warnings seen in a super project build, !3914 (@rmatev)
+- More const-correct Linked{From,To}, !3912 (@graven)