2024-01-26 LHCb v55r0

This version uses Gaudi v37r2, Detector v1r25 and LCG 104 with ROOT 6.28.04.

This version is released on the master branch. Built relative to LHCb v54r21, with the following changes:

New features new feature

• Persistency | Add zero-suppressed HltDecReport rawbank format, !4367 (@graven)

Fixes bug fix workaround

Enhancements enhancement

Code cleanups and changes to tests modernisation cleanup testing

• Decoding Calo | Small cleanups that speed up the Calo decoding, !4339 (@rmatev)
• Tracking | Drop FittedForward track type and use FitHistory instead, !4419 (@gunther) [#339]
• Tracking | Define order of hitzones in PrSciFiHits header, !4406 (@gunther)
• RICH | RichPID: Small clean up and modernisation, !4288 (@jonrob)
• Persistency | Small speedup of unpacking, !4340 (@graven) [#334]
• Persistency | Remove pointer assumption from packer's check function, !4323 (@ldufour)
• Build | Include a standalone compilation of ODIN in DAQEvent, !4412 (@raaij)
• Build | Reintroduced MDFLib, with StreamDescriptor inside, as it's needed by MooreOnline, !4400 (@sponce)
• Build | Use gaudi_add_pytest instead of gaudi_add_tests(pytest/nosetest), !4059 (@clemenci)
• Clean up original GOD generated code in PhysEvent and MCEvent, !4418 (@graven)
• Do not rely on dynamic TES location alternate resolution, !4415 (@graven)
• Streamline HltDecReport{,s} and HltDecReportsWriter, !4398 (@graven)
• Remove mention of deleted IBTaggingTool, !4391 (@cprouve)
• Remove PixelModule and HCRawBankDecoder, !4382 (@ldufour)
• Reduce code duplication and simplify ControlFlowNode and HLTControlFlowMgr, !4379 (@graven)
• Cleanup state location and track type usage in track v3 and converters, !4374 (@gunther) [#335]
• Do not build DetDesc dictionary, !4363 (@clemenci)
• Replace std::random_shuffle with std::shuffle, !4335 (@clemenci)
• Remove duplicate configuration of MCParticle/MCVertex unpacking, !4327 (@graven)

Documentation Documentation

Other

• Configuration | Add --with-defaults command-line option to LbExec, !4319 (@admorris)
• Muon PID Event model | Cleanup of ProtoParticle of duplicate muon info, !4416 (@mveghel)
• Calo Persistency | Add NeutralPID object to ProtoParticle, !4097 (@tnanut)
• RICH | DecodedDataFromMCRichHits: Improvements to hit time handling, !4371 (@jonrob)
• RICH PID Event model | Remove obsolete RICH additionalInfo in ProtoParticle, !4320 (@mveghel)
• RICH MC checking | Misc. improvements to support RICH 4D Reco, !4337 (@jonrob)
• Persistency | Add a raw event mover algorithm, !4393 (@sesen)
• Persistency | Check of unique rawbank sourceID in SelectiveCombineRawBankViewsToPersist, !4259 (@msaur) [Moore#614]
• Persistency | Add support for packing T::Selection, for classes T which are packable, if T::Selection is defined, !4193 (@graven)
• Prepare for new GaudiPartProp in Gaudi v38, !4420 (@clemenci)
• Fixes cast method of MatVec so that it works with non explicit casting operator, !4414 (@sponce)
• Fixed typo in platform info for clang16 platform, !4410 (@sponce)
• Various cleanup in LHCb, !4402 (@sponce)
• Adapted Phoenix Sink to changes in BaseSink interface, !4328 (@sponce)
• Add heavy flavour track related info and functionality for VP, !4208 (@mveghel)
• More paranoid FetchDataFromFile and more generic unpacking, !4403 (@graven)
• Fixed missing include breaking the build on gcc13, !4401 (@sponce)
• Remove DAQKernel package (and migrate its users, eg. bankKiller and RawEventDump), !4399 (@graven) [#338]
• Reduced precision of TestVDTMath to avoid fluctuations with platforms and compilers, !4397 (@sponce)
• Added new platforms to PlatformInfo, !4396 (@sponce)
• Minor tweak to PyConf JSON encoder to support set properties, !4381 (@clemenci)
• Add a copy of GaudiAlg (imported from Gaudi v37r2), !4373 (@clemenci)
• Backported floating point comparison fixes from Run2Patches, !4304 (@sponce)
• Update References for: !4379 based on lhcb-master-mr/9834, !4394 (@lhcbsoft)
• Various fixes for C++20, backported from Run2Support, !4392 (@sponce)
• Unpack MCParticles when requesting MCHeader, !4387 (@amathad)
• Cleaned up code around MDFWriter, !4380 (@sponce)
• Support setting compression algorithm with mdf_writer, !4282 (@cburr)
• Consistently use RawBank::View as input to algorithms instead of RawEvent, !4010 (@graven)
• Make FindVDT.cmake compatible with ROOT's FindVdt.cmake, !4345 (@clemenci)