Package Coordinators: Marco Clemencic, Charles Leggett, Stefan Roiser

Release Notes

Bugfix release, with some backward compatible changes, mostly meant to pick up LCG 96 and ROOT 6.18/00.

Note: Because of the updated version of Boost in LCG 96, you should use a recent version of CMake (>= 3.14).

Changed

• Add algorithm name to warning in HiveDataBroker (gaudi/Gaudi!923)
• Make Configurable.getGaudiType a classmethod (gaudi/Gaudi!929)
• Prefer xyz_v<T> over xyz<T>::value, and xyz_t<T> over typename xyz<T>::type (gaudi/Gaudi!925)
• Prefer std::{variant,optional} over boost::{variant,optional} (gaudi/Gaudi!926)

Added

• Specify JOB_POOL for genreflex custom commands (gaudi/Gaudi!933)
• Add an example MergingTransformer algorithm (gaudi/Gaudi!934)
• Add loop unroll hint macros to GaudiKernel/Kernel.h (gaudi/Gaudi!931)
• Add MsgCounter (gaudi/Gaudi!921)
• Introduce a MergingMultiTransformer (gaudi/Gaudi!901)

Fixed

• Removed a few unused .cpp files (gaudi/Gaudi!945)
• Print counters in Gaudi::Algorithm::finalize (gaudi/Gaudi!943, gaudi/Gaudi!946, gaudi/Gaudi!947)
• Make asynceventprocessor tests more stable (gaudi/Gaudi!940)
• Small fixes to toolchain (gaudi/Gaudi!938)
• Use the AlgContext guard constructor without EventContext for single thread (gaudi/Gaudi!973, gaudi/Gaudi#72, gaudi/Gaudi#73)
• Hide spurious warning from clang-8 (gaudi/Gaudi!941)
• Check that the clang-format command found can be executed (gaudi/Gaudi!935)
• Improve scheduler stall debug output (gaudi/Gaudi!930)
• Fix CMake modules test on special architectures (gaudi/Gaudi!927)
• Fix handling of strings with quotes in properties (gaudi/Gaudi!919)
• Remove reference to removed gaudimain.runSerialOld (gaudi/Gaudi!918)
• Restore backward compatibility after gaudi/Gaudi!878 (gaudi/Gaudi!917)
• Revert gaudi/Gaudi!869: Create a queue for all schedule-able algorithms (gaudi/Gaudi!924)
• Add GaudiKernel linkage to Counters unit test (gaudi/Gaudi!920)
• Misc. sanitizer fixes (gaudi/Gaudi!916)
• Fix distcc/icecc support (gaudi/Gaudi!911)
• Made the LibLZMA dependency in GaudiKernel optional (gaudi/Gaudi!909)
• GaudiKernel: check likely macros before defining them (gaudi/Gaudi!912)
• Fix IOpaqueAddress lifetime in EvtStoreSvc (gaudi/Gaudi!914)