Package Coordinators: Marco Clemencic, Charles Leggett, Benedikt Hegner

Release Notes

This release contains several bugfixes and improvements, and some backward incompatible change.

Backward Incompatible Changes

• Dropped backward compatibility with XyzFactory classes (mr !420)
  • obsolete XyzFactory.h header files and macros DECLARE_XYZ_FACTORY have been removed
• Add category support to StatusCode (mr !514)
  • StatusCode internal code is now an enum class and conversion to/from integer has been made explicit
• Remove obsolete MT components (mr !546, mr !608)
  • unused GaudiMT and GaudiMTTools have been removed
• Externalize shared python tools (mr !612)
  • a couple of Python tools have been moved to independent projects
• Dropped unused ICounterSvc, its implementation and its tests (mr !628)
  • not used

Deprecations

• Add deprecation warning in PropertyProxy (mr !633)
  • properties with [[deprecated]] in the doc string print a deprecation warning when assigned
• Deprecate Algorithm begin/end run methods (mr !542)
  • beginRun and endRun methods of Algorithm are deprecated

All Merge Requests

• Bug Fix
  • EventView isolation fix, and added testing (mr !540)
  • TaggedBool: use a more specific header guard name (mr !584)
  • Fix formatting of current master (mr !586)
  • [[deprecated]] does not compile with using statements (mr !587)
  • Fixed Python formatting (mr !588)
  • Make uncompiled exported headers compilable (mr !590)
  • Fix compilation with gcc 5.4 (Ubuntu 16.04) (mr !607)
  • Allow updating of registered Timeline Event records (mr !610)
  • Fix compilation with C++17 (mr !616)
  • Speed up TimelineSvc (mr !620)
  • Remove constexpr from StatusCode default constructor for Coverity scans (mr !630)
  • Fix deduction of property return values (mr !634)
  • AvalancheSchedulerSvc: Fix undefined output ordering (mr !635)
  • Fix warnings seen when compiling with gcc8 (mr !638)
  • Prevent property deprecation warnings when unpickling options (mr !641)
  • Fixed a couple of bugs found by Coverity (mr !644)
• Build System
  • Fixed typo in CMake option name (mr !578)
  • Fix distcc support and add icecream (mr !585)
  • Require Python 2.7 until Python 3 migration is complete (mr !606)
  • Externalize shared python tools (mr !612)
  • Remove restrictions on names of installed headers (mr !615)
• C++ Framework
  • Add thread friendly THistSvc (mr !455)
  • Make Gaudi::Property<T> work even if T is only copy-constructible (mr !470)
  • Version of !508 closer to the original !474 version (mr !509)
  • Implement EventIDBase ordering in a generic way by specifying projections (mr !510)
  • Add category support to StatusCode (mr !514)
  • Use tool type as default name for auto registered ToolHandles (mr !535)
  • Deprecate Algorithm begin/end run methods (mr !542)
  • Remove obsolete MT components (mr !546)
  • CommonMessaging: allow msgLevel to be called early (mr !566)
  • Add support for Gaudi::Range_ to DataObjectHandle (mr !571)
  • Demoted a few AvalancheSchedulerSvc messages (mr !576)
  • Add Range & Selection support to Gaudi::Functional (mr !579)
  • Added support for direct reading over WebDAV to IoComponentMgr (mr !580)
  • Use GaudiKernel/compose.h (mr !582)
  • ToolHandle: add TaggedBool parameter to control retrieval (mr !583)
  • ToolHandle: throw exception if retrieval fails (mr !591)
  • Revert some interface changes of THistSvc (mr !594)
  • ToolHandle: add EnableTool tagged bool to control retrieval (mr !595)
  • Add declareTool(handle) convenience method to Algorithm (mr !598)
  • CommonMessaging: Improved inlining and branch predicition (mr !600)
  • Use deduction guide in C++17 version of compose and rename it to overloaded (mr !621)
  • StatusCode: have setters return reference to *this (mr !627)
  • ThreadInitTask: MT fix (mr !631)
• Code Cleanup
  • Dropped backward compatibility with XyzFactory classes (mr !420)
  • Avoid C-style casts (mr !526)
  • Change Tuple ownership implementation (mr !534)
  • Revisit in-failure and in-stall console dumps of scheduler state, plus few other misc. things (mr !541)
  • Use detected_or idiom to simplify Range.h (mr !572)
  • Remove unused IIncidentListener inheritance from RndmEngine (mr !573)
  • Extend detected_or implementation and use it in CommonMessaging (mr !574)
  • Cleanup GaudiKernel/reverse.h (mr !581)
  • Restore thread-wise task schedule reporting in scheduler state dumps (mr !593)
  • Remove deprecated header GaudiKernel/ThreadGaudi.h (mr !608)
  • Simplify TupleObj::columns (mr !623)
  • EventIDBase: improve printout (mr !626)
  • Dropped unused ICounterSvc, its implementation and its tests (mr !628)
  • Add deprecation warning in PropertyProxy (mr !633)
  • Remove deprecation warning from ExtraInputs and ExtraOutputs properties (mr !639)
• Configuration
  • Update Gaudi and LCG versions, and release notes (mr !601)
• Task Scheduling
  • Adapt RunSimulator visitor to new downward navigation gears in the CF PRG realm (mr !539)
• Tests
  • Add test build of public headers (mr !592)
  • Small improvement to the TimelineSvc test (mr !611)
  • Add gaudi_add_compile_test and StatusCode compilation test (mr !613)

The full list of changes can also be found on Gitlab.

Externals version: LCG 93