v31.1.0

Performance

• Improve edge classifier performance (#2734) (949678d) (@benjaminhuth)

Feature

• Graph export for Exa.TrkX (#2730) (8f4162f) (@benjaminhuth)
• HitSelector algorithm (#2731) (7e9c2f0) (@benjaminhuth)
• Optional write out detailed matching infos in CKFPerformanceWriter (#2733) (243850f) (@benjaminhuth)
• Seed CSV Writing (#2690) (51828bd) (@Corentin-Allaire)
• Experiment cuts to dublets in seed finder (#2326) (f32f90f) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• Collect and write material statistics in GSF (#2695) (3fd1e0f) (@benjaminhuth)
• Small detector refinements (#2703) (4921d08) (@asalzburger)
• Introduce concepts for (Regular)Surface (#2646) (e574e8a) (@paulgessinger)
• Add more unit tests for Json writing (#2693) (27fc8ec) (@asalzburger)

Refactor

• Make MaterialInteractor noise mode independent from direction (#2723) (73c9197) (@andiwand)
• Tests: remove unused aliases, functions, and variables (#2716) (b77e16e) (@AJPfleger)
• Add tracking performance as function of DeltaR (#2692) (d6b8266) (@Corentin-Allaire)
• Add nUpdatesGx2f to RootTrackSummaryWriter (#2665) (34fde98) (@AJPfleger)
• Replace cuboid bounds with trapezoid bounds for multiwire builder (#2647) (a560e7c) (@dimitra97)
• Easier computation for track params from seed (#2699) (6a028d8) (@CarloVarni)
• Set full vertex covariance after seeding (#2707) (eb7d11b) (@felix-russo)
• Rewrite KF with less code recicle (#2705) (082e64d) (@CarloVarni)
• Release step constraint after stepper in propagation (#2596) (37a2f9e) (@andiwand)
• GX2F: add additional parameters to python bindings (#2584) (3d1dc45) (@AJPfleger)
• Refactor MaterialInteractor (#2691) (825db48) (@andiwand)
• Refactor SurfaceReached aborter (#2603) (eae867a) (@andiwand)
• Improve Bethe Heitler approximation constructors and logging (#2679) (01ebd59) (@benjaminhuth)

Fix

• Remove possible wrong function in binUtility (#2666) (a1c697c) (@AJPfleger)
• Continue if number of top SPs is smaller than minimum required for filter in Orthogonal seeding (#2664) (ecb139f) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• Change WARNING to DEBUG for CKF No tracks found (#2719) (33c94a6) (@timadye)
• Zenodo wrong affiliation (#2711) (3639e04) (@benjaminhuth)
• SeedFinderConfig.hpp: add missing limits and vector includes (#2704) (6f9bb23) (@veprbl)
• Undocumented parameters (#2702) (c8b27e4) (@asalzburger)

Chore

• Update to newer podio versions (#2606) (60ff980) (@asalzburger)

Documentation

• Adding myself to the list of contributors (#2710) (a5aaea0) (@felix-russo)
• Add white paper for (cross-)covariance matrices in the Billoir vertex fit (#2667) (70f3442) (@felix-russo)

Test

• Use deterministic RNG for tests (#2694) (1d8d3ec) (@andiwand)
• Exa.TrkX link unit test MetricHooks (#2683) (fd1e0b4) (@AJPfleger)

v31.0.0

Breaking

• Error handling in the vertexing algorithms (#2649) (c17a685) (@felix-russo)
• TrackState chi2 type changes from double to float (#2562) (040a896) (@paulgessinger)
• The option helixCut is renamed to helixCutTolerance and moved to SeedFinderOptions (07732c3) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• Consistent naming of GSF mixture reduction and component merging (#2658) (6e8cd68) (@benjaminhuth)
• Introduce regular surface intermediate class (#2340) (85a0fea) (@paulgessinger)
• Move AMVF and IVF config explicitly (#2509) (178a798) (@felix-russo)
• Make BoundaryCheck constructor from bool explicit (#2592) (2697f5a) (@andiwand)
• Rename and rearrange propagator options (#2620) (c578923) (@andiwand)
• Move Grid out of detail (#2616) (76cf010) (@paulgessinger)
• remove division of vertex covariance with weight (#2551) (8ce9fd3) (@felix-russo)

Refactor

• Error handling in the vertexing algorithms (#2649) (c17a685) (@felix-russo)
• Remove dead code, default switch-cases (#2623) (86e63f3) (@AJPfleger)
• Unify floating point type for chi2 in Track(State) (#2562) (040a896) (@paulgessinger)
• Messages: fix missing and wrong closing ticks ' (#2663) (ebb7d40) (@AJPfleger)
• Disable FPE mask printing if FPEMON is disabled by envvar (#2670) (fbfd389) (@benjaminhuth)
• No error in GSF if start pars are out of bounds (#2669) (8c2b8c0) (@benjaminhuth)
• Consistent naming of GSF mixture reduction and component merging (#2658) (6e8cd68) (@benjaminhuth)
• Refactor RootTrackStatesWriter (#2648) (cc29c08) (@andiwand)
• Introduce regular surface intermediate class (#2340) (85a0fea) (@paulgessinger)
• Unit test amvfitter (#2530) (2747183) (@felix-russo)
• Use BOOST_<level>_EQUAL and similar (#2632) (b5e71d9) (@AJPfleger)
• Move AMVF and IVF config explicitly (#2509) (178a798) (@felix-russo)
• Use std::size_t consistently (#2624) (ed1919b) (@paulgessinger)
• Remove using namespace std; (#2631) (91c004c) (@AJPfleger)
• Make BoundaryCheck constructor from bool explicit (#2592) (2697f5a) (@andiwand)
• Rename and rearrange propagator options (#2620) (c578923) (@andiwand)
• Remove separate default DetectorElementBase file (#2617) (eb12644) (@paulgessinger)
• Use __cpp_concepts directly (#2626) (882fff7) (@paulgessinger)
• Put some helper types for Loop-Multistepper into separate file (#2612) (4571a6b) (@benjaminhuth)
• Move Grid out of detail (#2616) (76cf010) (@paulgessinger)
• Intersection index for stepper surface update (#2599) (3fd6166) (@andiwand)
• Refactor Examples to use tracks instead of trajectories (#2560) (0e44bd2) (@andiwand)
• Refactor FPE masks in Examples (#2581) (166c57a) (@andiwand)
• Improve CKF error message if target surface is not reached (#2587) (fa3e67e) (@andiwand)
• Replace magic seeding field in Examples (#2577) (0027d4c) (@andiwand)
• Remove division of vertex covariance with weight (#2551) (8ce9fd3) (@felix-russo)

Feature

• Improve DD4hep based detector building and add tests (#2689) (2097b7a) (@asalzburger)
• Update Json converters and enhance Detray version writing (#2608) (1c81427) (@asalzburger)
• Add DD4hep field adapter (#2593) (ecdbde7) (@paulgessinger)
• Delegate construction with tag type (#2668) (1db9cee) (@paulgessinger)
• Add weight cut reduction to GSF (#2659) (239b942) (@benjaminhuth)
• Introduce typelist (#2656) (6352ad8) (@asalzburger)
• GX2F: abort condition relChi2changeCutOff (#2586) (c3ceb12) (@AJPfleger)
• Allow custom precision for volume grid building (#2609) (e8ff45a) (@asalzburger)
• Introduce propagator stage (#2621) (7925974) (@andiwand)
• GX2F: use magnetic field to fit q/p (#2574) (4d4987d) (@AJPfleger)
• Wire Geant4MaterialRecording exclude material to python (#2628) (ee82495) (@andiwand)
• Cylindrical detector from DD4hep (#2582) (d4842c7) (@asalzburger)

Fix

• Fitters: connect void default accessors (#2688) (394192a) (@CarloVarni)
• NewVertex not considered in AdaptiveMultiVertexFit (#2655) (af8a537) (@felix-russo)
• HelixCut is renamed to helixCutTolerance and moved to SeedFinderOptions (#2653) (07732c3) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• Duplicated comment in reconstruction.py (#2651) (478abb0) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• GSF early stopping now should really stop (#2660) (c016981) (@benjaminhuth)
• And refactor geometric digitization (#2630) (a01f82a) (@benjaminhuth)
• Check_format(_local) for selected directories (#2634) (ce35608) (@AJPfleger)
• Missing path in setup script (#2635) (7529e62) (@benjaminhuth)
• safeInverse(m) for matrices larger than 4x4 (#2602) (f908ed6) (@AJPfleger)
• Pdg: eGamma for << was incorrect (#2614) (6e56a98) (@AJPfleger)
• Digitization::Digital in to_json() was skipped (#2615) (314529f) (@AJPfleger)
• Direct Navigator: Set surface iterator to next surface in case start surface is in the list (#2605) (5a05bca) (@CarloVarni)
• Set Current Surface as first surface for direct navigator (#2600) (159acb7) (@CarloVarni)
• Protection against nullptr in material interactor of KF (#2597) (fbc3bd8) (@CarloVarni)
• CKF does an extra copy on the fitted state (#2568) (9ba6e12) (@paulgessinger)
• Fix Fatras end of world (#2580) (825828c) (@andiwand)
• Use track selection in GSF physmon (#2578) (3f7b544) (@andiwand)
• GeoVisualization - Fix compiler warning that's appearing in Athena (#2585) (6b5a2f1) (@junggjo9)
• Enforce calculation of impact parameters wrt vertex position (#2524) (7a2383c) (@felix-russo)

Ci

• Run clang-tidy on large VMs (#2686) (c521263) (@paulgessinger)
• Specify python version in a number of jobs (#2672) (6517c35) (@paulgessinger)
• Reduce number of LCG to three (#2680) (abae9b3) (@paulgessinger)
• Add script and CI job to force std::size_t over size_t (#2671) (bd74d01) (@paulgessinger)
• Change name of required policy bot approval (#2676) (e9ff5da) (@paulgessinger)
• Update physmon vertexing histogram ranges (#2638) (de6b940) (@felix-russo)
• Update to gcovr=6.0 and remove bundled-version support (#2629) (f185bad) (@AJPfleger)
• Add clang-tidy check for &&, || and ! instead of and, or and not (#2569) (1f6dd58) (@paulgessinger)
• Remove docker tag, restrict ExaTrkX build to big VMs (#2579) (df34a3a) (@paulgessinger)

Documentation

• Doc fix for Gx2FitterOptions and 1 link (#2674) (da1c4e2) (@paulgessinger)
• Tweak admonition style, ensure eq. are ref'able (#2636) (534bddf) (@paulgessinger)
• Add white paper on the correction term in transport jacobian (#2643) (cf77a53) (@beomki-yeo)
• Language and markdown brush-over (#2642) (9f7767c) (@AJPfleger)
• Add white paper for AdaptiveGridTrackDensityTests (#2639) (95da553) (@felix-russo)
• Fix path for white paper screen shots (#2641) (bfaffe1) (@felix-russo)
• Restructure and update the documentation - 2023 edition (#2610) (922e6d1) (@paulgessinger)
• Add white paper index to the documentation (#2591) (cc2f639) (@paulgessinger)
• Fix broken TBB and lcginfo.cern.ch URLs (#2613) (c3aa32f) (@paulgessinger)

Chore

• Remove unused FpeMonitorTests from core (#2607) (40f921d) (@paulgessinger)
• Support macOS in setup script (ODD) (#2594) (0547774...

v30.3.2

Fix

• GeoVisualization - Fix compiler warning that's appearing in Athena (#2585) (b4028cf) (@junggjo9)

v30.3.1

Revert:

• feat: add boolean useTime to AMVFitter (#2521)

v30.3.0

Refactor

• Comment and unify the creation and filling of trackStateProxy (KF) (#2499) (e0d26d8) (@AJPfleger)
• Make Fatras Particle and simulation surface aware (#2546) (630fc20) (@andiwand)
• Improve and clean-up GX2F unitTest (#2573) (a07ffcd) (@AJPfleger)
• Rework physmon track fitting (#2549) (06e46fc) (@andiwand)
• Propagator deduce parameter type from stepper (#2413) (f54faba) (@benjaminhuth)
• Refactor and fix accuracy property in ConstrainedStep (#2532) (5e0b311) (@andiwand)
• Remove effectiveProjector() from collector() in GX2F (#2556) (244b280) (@AJPfleger)
• Refactor target direction logic in KF/CKF (#2539) (fd80ca7) (@andiwand)
• Const access for Acts::Result (#2555) (79284ea) (@andiwand)
• Refactor CKF error handling and introduce path limit (#2540) (6371455) (@andiwand)
• Revert "remove division of vertex covariance with weight" (#2548) (9a27c85) (@felix-russo)
• Remove division of vertex covariance with weight (#2522) (89888a4) (@felix-russo)
• Refactor loop protection (#2535) (b1ef696) (@andiwand)
• Check for 0 charge in track linearization (#2507) (37e1543) (@felix-russo)

Feature

• Add boolean useTime to AMVFitter (#2521) (b4be75f) (@felix-russo)
• Use blueprint to generate cylindrical detector (#2557) (33e36ea) (@asalzburger)
• Add (optional) Jacobian reversal to Track (#2571) (6df0704) (@paulgessinger)
• Wire tolerance to bound parameter factory (#2563) (be4433c) (@andiwand)
• Allow particle selection with measurment count (#2570) (deb3744) (@benjaminhuth)
• Add measurement map selector with geometry selection (#2572) (adccec3) (@benjaminhuth)
• Add PODIO plugin, Track EDM backend (#2094) (db3ec38) (@paulgessinger)
• Python bindings and truth tracking example for GX2F (#2512) (2ed5a93) (@AJPfleger)
• Initial version of ATLAS-based FTF seeding (#2227) (13f9308) (@Rosie-Hasan)
• Fill track in GX2F (#2511) (a9ab6a5) (@AJPfleger)
• Introduce blueprint (#2550) (187b83c) (@asalzburger)
• Add infrastructure for GNN+CKF (#2558) (fa932cf) (@benjaminhuth)
• Angles of incidence in neural calibrator (#2494) (5035479) (@gagnonlg)
• Add csv prototrack writer (#2513) (25331d0) (@benjaminhuth)
• Add timing, device hint and mutex to ExaTrkX plugin (#2553) (cc7857b) (@benjaminhuth)
• Add option for double-matching in CKF performance writer (#2554) (35ec532) (@benjaminhuth)

Fix

• Fix boundaries navigation (#2534) (f84610d) (@andiwand)
• Fix bugs and improve docs for prototracks-to-parameters algorithm (#2567) (713ff52) (@benjaminhuth)
• Fixes after 2227 (#2565) (9b6cf2f) (@andiwand)
• Fix vertexing for physmon ckf tracking (#2547) (69e2190) (@andiwand)
• Add envelope to CuboidVolumeBuilder (#2542) (98f36a0) (@andiwand)
• DiscTrapezoidBounds vertices (#2541) (43411f1) (@XiaocongAi)

Chore

• Remove semicolon after function definition (#2566) (134fdb1) (@andiwand)

Performance

• Improve ConstrainedStep footprint after #2532 (#2561) (185d0da) (@andiwand)

CI

• Update Exa.TrkX images (#2515) (e0655e1) (@benjaminhuth)

Test

• Refactor GX2F test (#2545) (ecc68bc) (@andiwand)

v30.2.0

Feature

• MaterialComposition plots with python config (#2531) (16e44c0) (@paulgessinger)
• Add maximum propagation steps to CKF Examples algorithm (#2533) (95bc67b) (@andiwand)
• Introduce DD4hep Layer and Volume structure (#2505) (09ac8b6) (@asalzburger)
• Time vertex seeding (#2460) (e1323f7) (@felix-russo)
• Python bindings for particle hypothesis in PropagationAlgorithm (#2510) (9f0b3e4) (@andiwand)
• Python bindings for geantino hypothesis (#2508) (577c162) (@andiwand)

Fix

• Fix and refactor PathLimitReached (#2536) (e328ce0) (@andiwand)
• Remove TProfile max in material composition altogether (#2528) (c77ea1d) (@paulgessinger)
• MaterialComposition analysis (#2526) (2a75e2c) (@paulgessinger)
• Update RootTrajectorySummaryWriter.cpp - writing the correct vector to branch (outlierChi2) (#2488) (ea7aaa5) (@paulgessinger)

Documentation

• Typos and and grammar missed by the CI (#2517) (658faae) (@AJPfleger)

Performance

• Use analytical solution for straight tracks during impact point estimation (#2506) (d8c447c) (@felix-russo)

CI

• Drop GitHub Actions LCG builds (#2516) (020a076) (@paulgessinger)
• Include ttbar track summary in physmon (#2490) (3201e75) (@paulgessinger)

v30.1.1

Fix

• MaterialComposition analysis (#2526) (6cef8be) (@paulgessinger)

v30.1.0

Fix

• (Layer-based) Geometry construction handles layerless volumes (#2514) (6474bd2) (@paulgessinger)
• Initialize output in RefittingAlgorithm (#2503) (691f1d5) (@andiwand)
• Fix Geant4 initial particle translation (#2492) (7719ac6) (@andiwand)
• Root hashes after tgeo thickness gap bug (#2502) (ff17e5b) (@asalzburger)
• Properly sort candidates in NavigationStateUpdators (#2483) (ffc9e12) (@dimitra97)

Feature

• Python bindings for Geant4 manager and handle (#2500) (f2c21c2) (@andiwand)
• dd4hep surface factory (#2501) (a3013a0) (@asalzburger)
• Add material conversion + test for TGeo (#2496) (c50a62d) (@asalzburger)
• Add angles of incidence in RootMeasurementWriter (#2493) (dd3348c) (@gagnonlg)
• Make CKF branching configurable from python (#2486) (363d111) (@andiwand)
• Add time to impact point estimation (#2414) (8b146dc) (@felix-russo)
• Extract impact parameters and their covariance matrix (#2464) (a23fe6d) (@felix-russo)

Refactor

• Rename ambi output in Python examples (#2504) (42fca85) (@andiwand)
• Rename maximumChi2CutForSeeding (#2495) (e349434) (@felix-russo)
• Align initial track param covariance (#2491) (20fa776) (@andiwand)
• Rename local variables and improve comments for IVF (#2485) (4a4f858) (@felix-russo)
• Remove obsolete assignments due to calculateTrackQuantities() (#2487) (753dbec) (@AJPfleger)

Chore

• Move nested Support to ProtoSupport (#2497) (fa0a8d4) (@asalzburger)

Performance

• Do not sort track state candidates with chi2 above cut-off. (#2489) (29bd620) (@goetzgaycken)

CI

• Update LCG tests (#2410) (4515f2c) (@paulgessinger)

v30.0.0

Breaking

• Disambiguate surface intersection solutions (#2336) (45e07d7) (@andiwand)
• Particle hypothesis for track parameters (#2341) (19662db) (@andiwand)
• Rename trackStates to trackStatesReverse (#2426) (c4433bc) (@paulgessinger)

Fix

• Fix RootSimHitReader for empty events (#2478) (5d65fd0) (@andiwand)
• Use electron hypothesis for GSF (#2471) (ac8ec6e) (@benjaminhuth)
• Use material towards target in CKF (#2322) (ee6d693) (@andiwand)
• Fix Kalman filter extrapolation after smoothing (#2470) (e34660a) (@andiwand)
• Fix units in RootParticleReader (#2477) (7f8d143) (@andiwand)
• Fix Kalman filter smoother logging (#2468) (5cdea63) (@andiwand)
• Fix Kalman filter navigation reset (#2467) (8796478) (@andiwand)
• Navigator correction (#2463) (2b15209) (@dimitra97)
• Remove reserve from compatibleSurfaces (#2459) (c490152) (@paulgessinger)
• Correct typo (#2457) (8071832) (@CarloVarni)

Feature

• Move GSF out of namespace Experimental (#2479) (2b922b0) (@benjaminhuth)
• Add helix cut tolerance parameter to seeding config (#2472) (77c0742) (@osbornjd)
• Add covariance matrix of tracks to ROOT output (#2461) (ef15f5c) (@owtscharenko)
• Add (optional) forward linking of track states (#2418) (66b04e5) (@paulgessinger)
• Volume agnostic material interaction (#2465) (dc13bc0) (@asalzburger)
• Geometry ID Generator aka ODD light part3 (#2462) (43fab5c) (@asalzburger)
• Support also 1d-measurements in GX2F (#2440) (15eb6b3) (@AJPfleger)
• Make stepping logger volume agnostic (#2454) (68658f1) (@asalzburger)

Chore

• Update issue and PR templates (#2475) (40e5cf9) (@paulgessinger)

Refactor

• Reduce number of surface allocations in vertexing (#2443) (86033d0) (@paulgessinger)
• Multiwirebuilder fix (#2450) (c92cded) (@dimitra97)
• Disambiguate surface intersection solutions (#2336) (45e07d7) (@andiwand)
• Allow to configure GSF mixture reducer as delegate (#2466) (af4fb26) (@benjaminhuth)
• Reduce WARNING verbosity in 2 cases (#2458) (d62a42f) (@benjaminhuth)
• Particle hypothesis for track parameters (#2341) (19662db) (@andiwand)
• Remove GSF meta cache (#2448) (67be87d) (@benjaminhuth)
• Rename trackStates to trackStatesReverse (#2426) (c4433bc) (@paulgessinger)

CI

• Bump build procs in GitLab CI (#2474) (f6d9c0a) (@paulgessinger)

v29.2.0

Refactor

• Optional curvilinear state in Propagator (#2444) (fb15929) (@paulgessinger)
• Align overstep limit (#2441) (f581704) (@andiwand)
• Store phi inside space point instead of computing atan2 (#2416) (1fb3f22) (@CarloVarni)
• Use separate column for previous in MTJ (#2425) (272948d) (@paulgessinger)
• Add GeoId constructor from value to bindings & restructure (#2431) (03d2e5f) (@benjaminhuth)
• Use qOverP in dense environment (#2432) (eee7051) (@andiwand)

Feature

• Harmonize shared ptr usage for surfaces with detector elements (#2451) (a9953db) (@asalzburger)
• Propagation end of world (#2452) (9e20cea) (@asalzburger)
• Add volume grid start lookup - ODD light part 2 (#2436) (817c58c) (@asalzburger)
• Add optional pass through of prototracks to param estimation algorithm (#2438) (af4ad67) (@benjaminhuth)
• Geant4 gdml detector - ODD light part 1 (#2424) (410ed37) (@asalzburger)
• Multiwire builder (#2275) (3214740) (@dimitra97)
• Perform the Greedy Solver after the ML Solver (#2434) (109fb7d) (@Corentin-Allaire)

Fix

• Add check if RNG provided instead of nullptr dereference (#2449) (e8600a4) (@benjaminhuth)
• Add important code forgotten in #2184 (#2446) (0c16c3f) (@benjaminhuth)
• Nullptr dereference and invalid std::optional (#2445) (f7e9f23) (@benjaminhuth)
• Avoid segfault in track conversion (#2437) (b406627) (@benjaminhuth)

Performance

• Avoid some reallocations in GSF (#2447) (4b8222d) (@benjaminhuth)

CI

• End of file checker (#2435) (8f07d6c) (@andiwand)
• Disable autodiff plugin for lcg (#2433) (b10f804) (@andiwand)