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ReleaseNotes/v55r1.md

+2024-02-13 LHCb v55r1
+===
+
+This version uses
+Detector [v1r26](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v1r26),
+Gaudi [v38r0](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v38r0) and
+LCG [105a](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/105a/) .
+
+This version is released on the `master` branch.
+Built relative to LHCb [v55r0](/../../tags/v55r0), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+- Add `ISequencerTimerTool::scopedTimer` to get an RAII wrapper which stops/starts a timer, !4408 (@graven)
+
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+- ~Decoding ~VP ~Simulation | Fix bug in VP encoding and decoding of topologyID, !4227 (@dpassaro)
+
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+- ~Configuration | Remove space in algorithm names, !4433 (@rmatev)
+- ~Configuration ~Persistency | Simplification/Streamleaning of GaudiConf.reading, !4442 (@graven)
+- ~Configuration ~Persistency | GaudiConf:reading.py: remove unused functionality, !4441 (@graven)
+- ~RICH | FPE Auditor: Issue warning not exception when trapping support unavailable, !4426 (@jonrob)
+- ~Build | Replace CMake command exec_program with execute_process, !4436 (@clemenci)
+- Use SynchronizedValue.h from Gaudi, !4422 (@graven)
+- Strong enum for Tagger::TagResult, used in FlavourTag and Tagger, !4423 (@graven)
+
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+
+### Other
+
+- ~RICH | Allen RICH decoding, !4001 (@dcampora)
+- Fixed handling of references in ex2 tests, !4446 (@sponce)
+- Revert "Revert "Merge branch 'strong-enum-tagresult' into 'master'"", !4434 (@graven)
+- Update References for: Gaudi!1545, LHCb!4431 based on lhcb-master-mr/10409, !4432 (@lhcbsoft)
+- Revert "Merge branch 'strong-enum-tagresult' into 'master'", !4430 (@sponce)
+- Fixed limit of VMem for mergesmallfiles test, !4428 (@sponce)
+- Modernization of RawDataSelector and MyGaudiAlgorithm, !4427 (@sponce)
+- Add muon LHCbIDs to Track_v3, !4413 (@thboettc)