26.01

Changed

• Python: Update to 3.12.12, unpin most python packages, add distro package to
  fix aliBuild architecture detection
• Pythia8: Update to 8.317

Full Changelog: 25.12...26.01

25.12

Major update to the Geant4 stack and ROOT.

Added

• ROOTEGPythia6 recipe for TPythia6 support with upstream ROOT
• ninja recipe for Ninja build system

Changed

• ROOT: Update from 6.30.08 to 6.36.06, removed pythia6 dependency
• FairRoot: Update to 19.0.0
• GENIE: Update from v3.4.2 to v3.6.2, switch from pythia6 to pythia8
• Geant4: Update to 11.4.0
• Geant3: Update to 4-4
• Geant4_VMC: Update to 6-7
• VMC: Update to 2-1
• VGM: Update to 5-3-1
• GSL: Update to 2.8 for ROOT compatibility
• libpng: Update to 1.6.47
• FairShip: Add ROOTEGPythia6 dependency for TPythia6 functionality

Full Changelog: 25.11...25.12

25.11

Tagged release for the background production.

Fixed

• ACTS: PYTHONPATH set in recipe
• Fix prefer_system_checks for fmt, fairlogger evtgen

Changed

• defaults-actstracking.sh: FairShip override removed.
• Pythia: Update to 8.316
• EvtGen: Update to R02-02-00-alice2

Full Changelog: 25.09...25.11

25.09

Many version updates to align more with SLC9 for background production. New default added for ACTS tracking.

Added

• ACTS: Standalone recipe for new tracking framework
• HEPMC3: Recipe, required dependency for ACTS
• EIGEN3: Recipe, required dependency for ACTS
• Rust: Recipe to depend on system Rust toolchain
• npdb-client: Recipe to download and build client libraries.
• Defaults: defaults-actstracking, C++20 build environment to enable ACTS and its dependencies.
  Additional overrides setup to enable C++20 build compatibility, Fairship: added acts and hepmc3 as requirements,
  GEANT4: v10.7.3 -> v11.1.3, GEANT4VMC: v5-4 -> v6-1-p1, VMC: v1-1-p1 -> v2-0, pythia: v8230-ship -> v8311, GEANT3: v3-9 -> v4-4
  vgm: v5-2, evtGen: R01-06-00-ship -> R02-02-00-alice2, boost: 1.75.0 -> 1.83.0, gcc: 11.5.0 -> 13.2.0,
  flatbuffers: v1.11.0 -> v2.0.8
• TBB: Add recipe and dependency for ROOT

Fixed

• ROOT: Disabled davix to resolve build issues
• FairRoot: Add missing GEANT3 dependency
• EvtGen: Fix detection of C++11
• ACTS/Eigen3/Hepmc3: Fixed module detection
• FairShip: Find python paths correctly

Changed

• Defaults: Moved all overrides from defaults files to individual recipes to reduce duplication
  • defaults-release.sh: Moved all 12 package overrides to their respective recipe files, leaving only environment configuration
  • boost: Updated recipe from v1.75.0 to v1.70.0 and moved version, tag, requires, and prefer_system_check to recipe
  • GCC-Toolchain: Updated prefer_system_check in recipe to match defaults version
  • ROOT: Added prefer_system_check configuration to recipe
  • GSL: Updated prefer_system_check in recipe to match defaults version
  • protobuf: Updated recipe from v2.6.1 to v3.12.3 and added version/tag configuration
  • GEANT4: Updated recipe source, version, tag, requires, env, and prefer_system_check to match defaults
  • GEANT4_VMC, VMC: Added prefer_system_check configurations to recipes
  • pythia: Updated recipe source, tag, requires, and prefer_system_check to match defaults
  • vgm, evtGen, GEANT3: Added prefer_system_check configurations to recipes
  • FairRoot, FairMQ, FairLogger, GENIE, log4cpp, apfel, PHOTOSPP, Tauolapp, pythia6, HepMC, lhapdf, lhapdf5, XercesC, googletest: moved prefer_system_check configurations to respective recipe files
  • FairMQ: Updated recipe version from v1.4.49 to v1.4.38 to match defaults
  • Tauolapp: Updated recipe version format and tag from v1.1.5 to v1.1.5-ship to match defaults
  • pythia6: Updated recipe tag from 428-alice1 to v6.4.28-snd and source from alisw/pythia6.git to SND-LHC/pythia6 to match defaults
• Python-modules-list: Updated pip to v25.0.1
• Python-modules-list: Added pybind11 v2.13.6
• EvtGen: Added cmake build instructions required for R02-02-00
• Fairship: Added build option to include acts (if found)
• Fairship: Added acts and hepmc3 as dependency modules
• gcc-toolchain: Disabled gprofng in binutil config
• gcc-toolchain: Rebuild mpfr, gmp to be used with gdb
• FairLogger: Update to 2.3.0
• alibuild-recipe-tools: Update to 0.2.5
• googletest: Update to 1.17.0
• fmt: Update to 11.2.0
• lhapdf: Switch to upstream, update to 6.5.5
• Xerces-C: Update to 3.3.0
• flatbuffers: Update to 25.2.10
• XRootD: Update to 5.8.4
• autotools: Update to 1.6.4
• CMake: Update to 3.26.5 (match SLC9)
• boost: Update to 1.75.0 (match SLC9 version)
• GCC: Update to v11.2.0 when not using system toolchain
• Freetype: Update to 2.10, update recipe from alidist
• OpenSSL: Update recipe from alidist

Removed

• lhapdf: Don't build python extension

New Contributors

• @barskern made their first contribution in #120

Full Changelog: 25.08...25.09

25.08

Maintenance release with several fixes and no major version upgrades.

Added

• Readd support for GEANT3, to allow using upstream FairRoot

Fixed

• Freetype & XDevel: Fix freetype detection
• Fix various issues identified by alidistlint
• FairShip: set environment correctly

Changed

• ROOT: Update recipe and version to 6.30.8
• vgm: update to v4-9 to support C++17
• ROOT: Explicitly enable PROOF for newer ROOT versions
• Root: Check version, features
• FairRoot: Update to 18.8.2

Removed

• Alpaca: Unused, unmaintained and doesn't include all relevant production
  mechanisms for our use
• Remove unused recipes

New Contributors

• @shahrukhqasim made their first contribution in #99
• @singiamtel made their first contribution in #100
• @raquishp made their first contribution in #112

Full Changelog: 24.10...25.08

24.10

Added

• GenFit: Standalone recipe, use for FairShip

Fixed

• Python-modules: Remove obsolete workaround for scikit-garden
  Installing numpy without specifying the version ahead of the other
  dependencies lead to the installation of two conflicting numpy versions, one
  of which broke matplotlib.

Changed

• XRootD: Update to 5.7.1
• FairRoot: Update to v18.6.10 (support C++20, stepping stone to v19)
• FairShip: Clean up recipe, remove unused gtest dependency

Full Changelog: 24.09...24.10

24.09

Fixed

• VMC, GEANT4-VMC: Fix ROOT/VDT discovery in CMake
• ROOT: defaults didn't pick up CVMFS version

Changed

• XRootD: build with KRB5 support
• ROOT: Update to 6.28
• GENIE: Update to 3.4.2

Removed

• GEANT3: remove as it is not used

Full Changelog: 24.07...24.09

24.07

Changed

• XRootD: Update to 5.7.0 to fix authentication issue with EOS

Full Changelog: 24.06...24.07

24.06

Ubuntu 22.04 is now also supported.

Fixed

• bz2: version number set to string (1.0 -> "1.0")

Changed

• Geant4: Update to 10.7.3, as required for Ubuntu 22.04
• Python-modules-list: scikit-learn and sklearn-evaluation module version requirement relaxed from == to >=

Removed

• madgraph: remove as it is not used

Full Changelog: 24.05.1...24.06

24.05.1

Changelog

Changed

• ZeroMQ: Update to 4.3.5 and change to upstream repo (an up-to-date version is required by SWAN)

Full Changelog: 24.05...24.05.1