Geant4 10.0 Release Notes
December 6th, 2013



The code and binary libraries for the supported systems are available through our Source Code Web page.

We are grateful for the efforts of Geant4 users who have provided detailed feedback or comprehensive reports of issues. We thank in particular those who have contributed corrections, improvements or developments included in this release.

Please refer to the Geant4 User Documentation for further information about using Geant4.

Contents

  1. Supported and Tested Platforms
  2. Supported CLHEP version
  3. Items for migration of the user code
  4. New Developments and Capabilities
  5. Expected effects on physics and performance
  6. Known Run-Time Problems and Limitations
  7. Compilation Warnings
  8. Geant4 Software License
  9. Detailed list of changes and fixes


1. Supported and Tested Platforms

Officially tested platforms: More verified configurations (64 bits): Note: Windows platforms are supported/verified only for the sequential mode. Multi-threading capability of this release does not support Windows.


2. Supported CLHEP version

This release of Geant4 has been verified with CLHEP, release 2.1.4.1. Use of a different CLHEP version may cause incorrect simulation results.
NOTE: an internal module of the relevant CLHEP classes is provided and can be used as alternative to an external CLHEP library installation.


3. Items for migration of the user code

Listed here is some relevant information on developments included in this release, some of which may require migrations in order to upgrade from release 9.x series to this release. Note that for all users a full re-installation of libraries (or a full re-compilation) and a re-compilation of user applications is required.

General

Geometry

Electromagnetic and optical physics

Hadronic physics

Physics Lists

Data Sets

This release introduces new data set versions. Please see the corresponding details in Section 10 of this document.


4. New Developments and Capabilities

General Geometry Materials Electromagnetic physics Hadronic physics Phonon Physics Generic Biasing Physics Lists Visualization and Interfaces

5. Expected effects on physics and computing performance

Electromagnetic physics Hadronic physics Sequential application with multi-threaded Geant4 library


6. Known Run-Time Problems and Limitations

For a complete list of outstanding run-time problems and to submit any problem you may find while running this version of Geant4, please refer to the Geant4 Problem Reporting System.


7. Compilation Warnings

There may be a few compilation warnings on some platforms. We do not believe that any of these lead to incorrect run-time behaviour.


8. Geant4 Software License

A Software License applies to the Geant4 code. Users must accept this license in order to use it. The details and the list of copyright holders is available at http://cern.ch/geant4/license and also in the text file LICENSE distributed with the source code.


9. Detailed list of changes and fixes

These are the main new features/fixes included in this release since the last patched public release (for more detailed lists of fixes/additions, please refer to the corresponding History files provided in most packages):

Configuration

Analysis

Digitization & Hits

Electromagnetic Processes

  • Adjoint:
  • DNA:
  • High Energy
  • Low Energy
  • Muons
  • Polarisation
  • Standard
  • Utils
  • Xrays
  • Error Propagation

    Event

    Externals

    General Processes

    Geometry

    Global

    Graphical Representations

    Hadronic Processes

    Intercoms

    Interfaces

    Materials

    Particles

    Persistency

    Physics lists

    Run

    Track & Tracking

    Visualization

    Environments

    Data sets

    Examples