Package Coordinators: Marco Clemencic, Charles Leggett, Stefan Roiser

Release Notes

This is mostly a bugfix release, but there are nonetheless a couple of important changes:

• now Gaudi can be used with Python 3 (gaudi/Gaudi#56)
• the IAsyncEventProcessorexperimental interface introduced in v32r0 (gaudi/Gaudi!878) has been replaced with IQueueingEventProcessor (gaudi/Gaudi!966)
• it’s now possible to get type information from Python version of DataHandles

Changed

• Replace IAsyncEventProcessor with IQueueingEventProcessor (gaudi/Gaudi!966)

Added

• GaudiKernel instructionsetLevel: Add additional AVX512 levels (gaudi/Gaudi!954)
• Add Python 3 support (gaudi/Gaudi#56, gaudi/Gaudi!875, gaudi/Gaudi!975, gaudi/Gaudi#88, gaudi/Gaudi!976)
• Add vecwid256 microarchitecture option to enable -mprefer-vector-width=256 (gaudi/Gaudi!965)
• Add type information to Python representation of DataHandles (gaudi/Gaudi!951)

Fixed

• Backward compatible interface of IAlgorithm for GaudiPython (gaudi/Gaudi#75, gaudi/Gaudi!977)
• Misc fixes for GaudiMP (gaudi/Gaudi#87, gaudi/Gaudi#75, gaudi/Gaudi!973)
• Remove unneeded change in refactoring of TES handling (gaudi/Gaudi#70, gaudi/Gaudi!971)
• Various ToolHandleArray bug fixes (gaudi/Gaudi!960)
• Functional ranges v3 0.9.x warning suppression (gaudi/Gaudi!968)
• Fix clang -Wpotentially-evaluated-expression warning (gaudi/Gaudi!970)
• Switch from Boost test minimal (deprecated) to single header variant (gaudi/Gaudi!948)
• Fixes for MacOS (gaudi/Gaudi!956)
• Make ContainedObject assignment consistent with copy construction (gaudi/Gaudi!967)
• THistSvc::io_reinit: Handle case of empty new filename (gaudi/Gaudi!959)
• EventSelector - Always set context ptr to null on release (gaudi/Gaudi!961)
• Minor improvements to sanitizers (gaudi/Gaudi!955)
• ChronoStatSvc - Clear maps in finalize (gaudi/Gaudi!958)
• Minor updates to Gaudi::Functional implementation (gaudi/Gaudi!952)
• THistSvc: Fix crash in MP if root file already exists (gaudi/Gaudi!949)
• Fix gcc9 warnings (gaudi/Gaudi!962)