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diff --git a/release_notes/3a.0.0.md b/release_notes/3a.0.0.md
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-# clas12_tags 4.4.2 compatible with COATJAVA 6.5.6.1 and above
+# clas12Tags 4.4.2 compatible with COATJAVA 6.5.6.1 and above
 
+---
+
+### To load production tag 4.4.2 at JLab, use the following commands:
+
+```
+source /group/clas12/packages/setup.[c]sh
+module load clas12
+module switch gemc/4.4.2
+```
+
+---
+
+## Release Notes:
 
 4/13/23: This is a patched version that removed the switch_antialiasing OpenGL function to make it compatible with apple arm chips.
 
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 - added band geometry and digitization 
 - explicit c++11 in SConstruct as it still uses EVIO
 
-<br>
+<br/>
 
-### To load production tag 4.4.2 at JLab, use the following commands:
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4.4.1:
+
+- z tracking limit changed to 9m from 8m in the gcards 
+
+
+---
+
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4.4.0:
+
+- geant4 10.6 support 
+- conform all detectors to read RUNNO and DIGITIZATION_VARIATIONS in the digitization 
+- add time offsets for: LTCC 
+- add time offsets for: EC, PCAL 
+- HTCC mc_gain implementation 
+- conform all detectors to read DIGITIZATION_TIMESTAMP in the digitization 
+- dc, ec, htcc resolution matching 
+- gcards, yaml files from 4.4.0 and on in a dedicated “config” subdir 
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4.3.2:
+
+- FILTER_HADRONS option to write out events that have hit from specific hadrons in them
+- Rich sector 4 passive materials
+- FMT use "rgf_spring2020" variation with 3 layers and in retrieving Z0 in the digitization
+- RTPC geometry and digitization for the Bonus experiment
+- Target geometry for the Bonus experiment
+- GUI background color changed to white
+- Neutrals particles color changed to blue
+- Double radius for hits above thresholds
+- allow two sequential rotations in the detector definition
+- TOFs resolutions pars from CCDB
+- Move LUND vertex based on gcard entry
+- Detector time signal shift to match data: FTOF and DC
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4.3.1:
+
+- FTOF Time resolution updated based on data
+- Option  <a href="https://gemc.jlab.org/gemc/html/documentation/rerunEvents.html">SAVE_SELECTED, RERUN_SELECTED</a> to save RNG state for certain particles, detector
+- Option  <a href="https://gemc.jlab.org/gemc/html/documentation/ancestry.html"> SAVE_ALL_ANCESTORS </a> to save complete particles hierarchy in output (evio2root also updated)
+- gcards for rg-a different run-periods
+- gcards for rg-b different run-periods
+- ec, pcal digitization removed obsolete constants
+- moved ftof shield in the correct position
+- Option written in JSON format
+- rga_fall2018 variations for: FTOF, EC, PCAL, CTOF geometry services
+- default variation for DC geometry service
+- ltcc variarions for different run periods
+- added Geometry variation as a gcard option: DIGITIZATION_VARIATION, to be used by digitization routines.
+- target position added to BMT, CTOF digitization position shift, read from CCDB using DIGITIZATION_VARIATION
+- beam background merging is extended to all detectors
+- FTOF and CTOF resolutions matched to data
+- option RECORD_MIRRORS renamed RECORD_OPTICALPHOTONS
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4.3.0:
+
+- Updated DC geometry using latest survey (May 18 Entry in DB) 
+- Fixed bug that prevented material name from being displayed in the GUI
+- 3d cartesian field map support
+- new geant4 version: 10.4.p02
+- 51 micron tungsten shield (for bst) surrounding the target
+- calorimeters: reading ecal effective velocity from CCDB
+- change htcc time offset table to use the same used in reconstruction
+- Tony Forest: Added polarized target geometry/material and cad volume.
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.2.4:
+
+- Use new torus field map
+- FMT shift by 8mm
+- use run number 11 as default in the gcard
+- FMT background hits
+- production cut set for individual volumes in the options
+- new geant4 version
+- env variable "GEMC_DATA_DIR" as a base path in the gcard (gcard is now portable to other systems)
+- bst tungsten and heat shield
+- LTCC Nose CAD model
+- magnetic field map displacements and rotations with command line options
+- FAST MC mode 10, 20 output fixed
+- new solenoid field map used by default (scaled by -1)
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.2.3:
+
+- ctof, ftof banks: 1 ADC output / pmt instead of ADCL/ADCR for a single paddle)
+- CTOF, FTOF Paddle to PMT digitization for FADC
+- background merging algorithm framework
+- background merging algorithm implementation in digitization: DC, BST and MM.
+- Correct field geant4-caching
+- Solenoid integration method: G4ClassicalRK4 to fix some geant4 navigation issues in the field. Slower but more reliable (should have less crashes)
+- SYNRAD option to activate synchrotone radiation in vacuum (SYNRAD=1) or any material (SYNRAD=2)
+- dc gas material changed to 90% Ar, 10% G4_CARBON_DIOXIDE.
+- RF shift from target center: added option RFSTART: Radio-frequency time model. Available values are:
+  - "eventVertex, 0, 0, 0" (default): the RF time is the event start time + the light time-distance of the first particle from the point (0,0,0)
+  - "eventTime".....................: the RF time is identical to the event start time
+
+---
+
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.2.2:
+
+- target from CAD
+- htcc wc invisible
+- no transparency in MM
+- threshold mechanism
+- rotate LUND bank to flat
+- final beamline configuration
+- LTCC sector 4 removed
+- LTCC sector 1 removed
+- DC: Removed unused lines and calculation of smeared doca
+- generator user information are now in two dedicate banks: user header (TAG 11), and user particle infos (TAG 22)
+- MM overlaps with target fixed
+- New numbering scheme for CTOF, CND
+
+---
+
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.2.1:
+
+- fixes to CAD modeling of both the beamline and the torus
+- forward carriage volume fixed to accomodate beamline and shielding
+- fixed CND / CTOF overlaps
+- updated latest micromegas geometry
+- MM: Adjust transverse diffusion and ionization potential
+- updated latest BST
+- 3 + 3 configuration BST + MM
+- new vacuum pipe
+- new shield downsttream of the torus
+- LTCC box hierarchy fixed
+- LTCC frame is CAD + copies
+- corrected mini-stagger values for DC
+- Added TDC calibration constants to ec,pcal hitprocess
+- FADC mode 1 (still tuning it to make it exactly like Serguei DAQ)
+- reading tdc_conv for ctof from database
+- fixed an issue with the header bank where the LUND info index was not correct
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.2.4:
+
+- use JLAB_VERSION 2.1, with new mlibrary
+- Micromegas: updated  geometry and digitization
+- DC: realistic time to distance function, reading constants from CCDB
+- DC: ministagger for DC region 3: "even closer" layers 1,3,5: +300um, SL 2,4,6: -300um
+- LTCC: Reading CCDB SPE calibration constants
+- LTCC: Smearing ADC based on calibration constants
+- CTOF javacad instead of cad (should be indentical)
+- Fixed smeared infor in generated summary for FASTMC mode
+- improved/fixed CND digitization routine
+- updated RF timing (mlibrary)
+- BST+MM: using 3+3 configurations (no FMT)
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.1.0:
+
+- fixed a bug that affect output file size
+- fixed bug that affected multiple cad imports
+- added micromegas geometry and hit processes
+- RF output correct frequency in the clas12 gcard
+- updated FT geometry and hit process
+- updated ftof geometry
+- added reading of FTOF reading of tdc conversion constants from the database
+- check if strip_id is not empty in bmt_ and fmt_strip.cc, otherwise fill it.
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.0.2:
+
+- full (box, mirrors, pmts shields and WC) LTCC geometry
+- LTCC hit process routine.
+
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.0.1:
+
+- FTOF geometry fix
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 4a.0.0:
+
+- Fixes in source and hit process for FTOF
+- added EC gains.
+- Java geometry uses now coatjava 3.
+- Database fixed for DC geometry.
+- Linear time-to-distance for DC.
+- CTOF in the KPP position configuration in the new kpp.gcard.
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 3a.1.0:
+
+- DC time-to-distance implementation.
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 3a.0.2:
+
+- CND fix.
+
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 3a.0.1L
+
+- ctof has status working.
+
+---
+
+### - from clas12Tags 3a.0.0:
+
+- FTOF and CTOF paddle delays from CCDB
+- CTOF center off-set.
+
+---
+
+<br/>
 
-```
-source /group/clas12/packages/setup.[c]sh
-module load clas12
-module switch gemc/4.4.2
-```
 
-<br>
 
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