Release 8.7.0

• /afs/cern.ch/atlas/software/dist/8.7.0

• Zhongliang Ren

• CMT v1r16p20040701
• RedHat 7.3
• gcc3.2

• Release Notes & Used Tags
• Nicos Build Summary (opt)
• Nicos Build Summary (dbg)
• Doxygen by package
• Doxygen by directory

• Distribution kit works
• Reconstruction mostly OK (except on geant3) including ESD persistence (see details below)
• Pile-up needs checking
• Digitization needs checking
• Simulation works
• Generation works

• Reconstruction
  • Cannot run on Geant3. See this bug report
  • Still problem with Jet calibration. See this bug report
  • Energy flow still switched off
  • ESD persistency starts to work significatively. To write: athena -c "doWriteESD=True" RecExCommon_topOptions.py To read back: athena -c "readESD=True" RecExCommon_topOptions.py. (note that calo cells are not compactified yet).
  • Crash related to truth in some files: corrected in Generators/GenAnalysisTools/CBNT_Truth-00-00-33