The following people have contributed to this new version:
David Abdurachmanov, CERN, CMS,
Bertrand Bellenot, CERN/SFT,
Rene Brun, CERN/SFT,
Philippe Canal, FNAL,
Cristina Cristescu, CERN/SFT,
Olivier Couet, CERN/SFT,
Kyle Cranmer, NYU, RooStats,
Aurelie Flandi, CERN/SFT,
Gerri Ganis, CERN/SFT,
Andrei Gheata, CERN/Alice,
Lukasz Janyst, CERN/IT,
Christopher Jones, Fermilab, CMS,
Wim Lavrijsen, LBNL, PyRoot,
Sergey Linev, GSI, http,
Pere Mato, CERN/SFT,
Lorenzo Moneta, CERN/SFT,
Axel Naumann, CERN/SFT,
Danilo Piparo, CERN/SFT,
Timur Pocheptsov, CERN/SFT,
Fons Rademakers, CERN/SFT,
Enric Tejedor Saavedra, CERN/SFT,
Liza Sakellari, CERN/SFT,
Manuel Tobias Schiller,
David Smith, CERN/IT,
Matevz Tadel, UCSD/CMS, Eve,
Vassil Vassilev, CERN/SFT
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF/Atlas, RooFit,
Yue Shi Lai, MIT,
Maciej Zimnoch, GSOC
Core Libraries
General
Platform support
ROOT now works on linuxarm64 / AArch64 / ARMv8 64-bit - thanks, David Abdurachmanov!
ROOT supports GCC 5.0 (using the GCC4 ABI) and XCode 6.3, Mac OSX 10.10.3
Thread-Safety
A lot of effort went into improving the thread-safety of Core and Meta classes / functions. A special thanks to Chris Jones from CMS!
std::string_view
Introduce a preview of C++17’s std::string_view. To take advantage of this new class use:
#include "RStringView.h"
The documentation of this can be found at http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/basic_string_view The implementation provided is extracted from libcxx. Whenever the current compiler and standard library provide an implmentation, it is used.
The type string_view describes an object that can refer to a constant contiguous sequence of char-like objects with the first element of the sequence at position zero.
This type is used throughout the ROOT code to avoid copying strings when a sub-string is needed and to extent interfaces that uses to take a const char* to take a std::string_view as thus be able to be directly directly passed a TString, a std::string or a std::string_view. Usage example:
TIsAProxy’s constructor no longer take the optional and unused 2nd argument which was reserved for a ‘context’. This context was unused in TIsAProxy itself and was not accessible from derived classes.
Interpreter
The new interface TInterpreter::Declare(const char* code) will declare the code to the interpreter with all interpreter extensions disabled, i.e. as “proper” C++ code. No autoloading or synamic lookup will be performed.
A new R__LOAD_LIBRARY(libWhatever) will load libWhatever at parse time. This allows ROOT to resolve symbols from this library very early on. It is a work-around for the following code from ROOT 5:
// ROOT 5:void func() {
gSystem->Load("libEvent");
Event* e = new Event;
}
Instead, write:
// ROOT 6:
R__LOAD_LIBRARY(libEvent)
#include "Event.h"void func() {
Event* e = new Event;
}
TClass
Introduced new overload for calculating the TClass CheckSum:
which indicates via the ‘isvalid’ boolean whether the checksum could be calculated correctly or not.
TROOT
Implemented new gROOT->GetTutorialsDir() static method to return the actual location of the tutorials directory. This is $ROOTSYS/tutorials when not configuring with –prefix or -Dgnuinstall for CMake.
TColor
Add an enum to access the palette by name.
Add new palettes with 255 colors. Names and colors’ definitions have been taken from here. Except for the kBird palette. These palettes can be accessed with gStyle->SetPalette(num). num can be taken within the following enum:
kDeepSea = 51
kGreyScale = 52
kDarkBodyRadiator = 53
kBlueYellow = 54
kRainBow = 55
kInvertedDarkBodyRadiator = 56
kBird = 57
kCubehelix = 58
kGreenRedViolet = 59
kBlueRedYellow = 60
kOcean = 61
kColorPrintableOnGrey = 62
kAlpine = 63
kAquamarine = 64
kArmy = 65
kAtlantic = 66
kAurora = 67
kAvocado = 68
kBeach = 69
kBlackBody = 70
kBlueGreenYellow = 71
kBrownCyan = 72
kCMYK = 73
kCandy = 74
kCherry = 75
kCoffee = 76
kDarkRainBow = 77
kDarkTerrain = 78
kFall = 79
kFruitPunch = 80
kFuchsia = 81
kGreyYellow = 82
kGreenBrownTerrain = 83
kGreenPink = 84
kIsland = 85
kLake = 86
kLightTemperature = 87
kLightTerrain = 88
kMint = 89
kNeon = 90
kPastel = 91
kPearl = 92
kPigeon = 93
kPlum = 94
kRedBlue = 95
kRose = 96
kRust = 97
kSandyTerrain = 98
kSienna = 99
kSolar = 100
kSouthWest = 101
kStarryNight = 102
kSunset = 103
kTemperatureMap = 104
kThermometer = 105
kValentine = 106
kVisibleSpectrum = 107
kWaterMelon = 108
kCool = 109
kCopper = 110
kGistEarth = 111
Interpreter Library
Many, many bugs have been fixed; thanks to everyone who has reported them!
Cling
Cling is now using a new just-in-time compilation engine called OrcJIT, a development based on MCJIT. It enables interpretation of inline assembly and exceptions; it will hopefully in the near future also support interpreting thread local storage (but doesn’t at the moment).
Thanks to the new JIT, cling also comes with debug symbols for interpreted code; you can enable them with “.debug”.
Function evaluation
Function calls through TMethodCall etc have been accelerated.
llvm / clang
llvm / clang were updated to r227800. This includes everything from the clang 3.6 release.
Dictionary Generation
Detect usage of #pragma once for inlined headers.
Turn on verbosity of genreflex if the VERBOSE environment variable is defined.
Optimise forward declarations in rootmap files in order to make their interpretation faster.
Propagate attributes specified in xml selection files to selected classes even when selected through typedefs.
Optimise selection procedure caching selected declarations in the selection rules, therewith avoiding to query the AST twice.
Include in the PCH all the STL and C headers to guarantee portability of binaries from SLC6 to CC7.
I/O Libraries
I/O New functionalities
Support for forward_list and I/O of unordered stl containers.
Support for std::complex.
I/O Behavior change.
The I/O now properly skip the content of base class onfile that have been removed from the in-memory class layout.
The scheduling the I/O customization rules within a StreamerInfo is now as soon as possible, i.e. after all sources have been read. One significant consequence is that now when an object is stored in a split branch the rule is associtated with the branch of the last of the rule’s sources rather than the last of the object’s data member.
Properly support TStreamerInfo written by ROOT v4.00.
Fix the ordering of the keys in a TFile being written; in particular fixing the result of GetKey and FindKey which were no longer returning the lastest cycle for a TFile being written since v5.34/11.
Networking Libraries
HTTP Server
Command Interface
One can now register an arbitrary command to the server, which become visible in the web browser. Then, when the item is clicked by the user, the command ends-up in a gROOT->ProcessLineSync() call.
Custom Properties
Custom properties can be configured for any item in the server. For example, one could configure an icon for each item visible in the browser. Or one could ‘hide’ any item from the user (but keep access with normal http requests). With such properties one could specify which item is drawn when web page is loaded, or configure monitoring. See tutorials/http/httpcontrol.C macro for more details.
Method Calls
Implement exe.json requests to be able to execute any method of registered objects. This request is used to provide remote TTree::Draw() functionality.
Misc
Correctly set ‘Cache-Control’ headers when replying to http requests. Better support of STL containers when converting objects into json with TBufferJSON class.
JavaScript ROOT
Several files can now be loaded simultaneously
Use d3.time.scale to display time scales
Implemented drag and drop to superimpose histograms or graphs
Allow selection of drawing option via context menu
Better support of touch devices
Provide simple layout, making it default
Allow to open ROOT files in online session (via url parameter)
One could monitor simultaneously objects from server and root files
Implement ‘autocol’ draw option - when superimposing histograms, their line colors will be automatically assigned
Implement ‘nostat’ draw option - disabled stat drawing
Using ‘same’ identifier in item name, one can easily draw or superimpose similar items from different files. Could be used in URL like: ...&files=[file1.root,file2.root]&items=[file1.root/hpx, file2.root/_same_]...&files=[file1.root,file2.root]&item=file1.root/hpx+file2.root/_same_ Main limitation - file names should have similar length.
When ‘autozoom’ specified in draw options, histogram zoomed into non-empty content. Same command available via context menu.
Item of ‘Text’ kind can be created. It is displayed as lain text in the browser. If property ‘mathjax’ specified, MathJax.js library will be loaded and used for rendering. See tutorials/http/httpcontrol.C macro for example.
When using foreignObject, provide workaround for absolute positioning problem in Chrome/Safari, see http://bit.ly/1wjqCQ9
Support usage of minimized versions of .js and .css files. Minimized scripts used by default on web servers.
Implement JSROOT.extend instead of jQuery.extend, reduce usage of jquery.js in core JSROOT classes
Implement main graphics without jquery at all, such mode used in nobrowser mode.
Provide optional latex drawing with MathJax SVG. TMathText always drawn with MathJax, other classes require mathjax option in URL
Improve drawing of different text classes, correctly handle their alignment and scaling, special handling for IE
TTree Libraries
TTree Behavior change.
Merging.
Added fast cloning support to TTree::MergeTrees and TTree::Merge(TCollection,Option_t).
TTreeCache
The TTreeCache is now enabled by default. The default size of the TTreeCache is the estimated size of a cluster size for the TTree. The TTreeCache prefilling is also enabled by default; when in learning phase rather than reading each requested branch individually, the TTreeCache will read all the branches thus trading off the latencies inherent to multiple small reads for the potential of requesting more data than needed by read from the disk or server the baskets for too many branches.
The default behavior can be changed by either updating one of the rootrc files or by setting environment variables. The rootrc files, both the global and the local ones, now support the following the resource variable TTreeCache.Size which set the default size factor for auto sizing TTreeCache for TTrees. The estimated cluster size for the TTree and this factor is used to give the cache size. If option is set to zero auto cache creation is disabled and the default cache size is the historical one (equivalent to factor 1.0). If set to non zero auto cache creation is enabled and both auto created and default sized caches will use the configured factor: 0.0 no automatic cache and greater than 0.0 to enable cache. This value can be overridden by the environment variable ROOT_TTREECACHE_SIZE.
The resource variable TTreeCache.Prefill sets the default TTreeCache prefilling type. The prefill type may be: 0 for no prefilling and 1 to prefill all the branches. It can be overridden by the environment variable ROOT_TTREECACHE_PREFILL
In particular the default can be set back to the same as in version 5 by setting TTreeCache.Size (or ROOT_TTREECACHE_SIZE) and TTreeCache.Prefill (or ROOT_TTREECACHE_PREFILL) both to zero.
TTree methods which are expected to modify a cache, like AddBranchToCache, will attempt to setup a cache of default size if one does not exist, irrespective of whether the auto cache creation is enabled. Additionally several methods giving control of the cache have changed return type from void to Int_t, to be able to return a code to indicate if there was an error.
Usually TTree::SetCacheSize will no longer reset the list of branches to be cached (either set or previously learnt) nor restart the learning phase. The learning phase is restarted when a new cache is created, e.g. after having removed a cache with SetCacheSize(0).
TSelectorDraw
The axis titles in case of a x:y:z plot with the option COLZ were not correct.
TParallelCoordVar
Change the format used to print the variables limit for ||-Coord to %g. It was %6.4f before.
Histogram Libraries
TFormula
New version of the TFormula class based on Cling. Formula expressions are now used to create functions which are passed to Cling to be Just In Time compiled. The expression is therefore compiled using Clang/LLVVM which will give execution time as compiled code and in addition correctness of the result obtained.
This class is not 100% backward compatible with the old TFormula class, which is still available in ROOT as =ROOT::v5::TFormula=. Some of the TFormula member funtions available in version 5, such as =Analyze= and =AnalyzeFunction= are not available in the new TFormula class. On the other hand formula expressions which were valid in version 5 are still valid in TFormula version 6
TFormula is not anymore a base class for TF1.
The new TFormula allows to defines the parameter names directly in the syntax. Example:
TFormula f("f","f1","[constant]+[slope]*x");
New pre-defined functions are provided, as: crystalball for the Crystal-Ball function, cheb0,1,...10 for the Chebyshev polynomials
TF1
Change of its inheritance structure. TF1 has not anymore TFormula as a base class, so this code
TF1 * f1 = new TF1("f1","f1","sin(x)",0,10);
TFormula * formula = (TFormula *) f1;
it is not valid anymore. The equivalent correct code is now
TF1 * f1 = new TF1("f1","f1","sin(x)",0,10);
TFormula * formula = f1->GetFormula();
Allow possibility to automatically normalize itself. If the function TF1::SetNormalized(true) is called, when evaluated, the function will return its value divided by its integral computed in the function range.
TF1NormSum
New helper class computing the normalized sum of TF1 objects. It is a functor class which can be used as input to a global TF1 for fitting a sum of normalized components. This is useful for example in signal plus background fit, where one can fit directly the number of signal and background events, without the need to use something like TF1::IntegralError. See the tutorial tutorials/fit/fitNormSum.C as an example on how to use the TF1NormSum and perform such a fit.
TF1Convolution
Another helper functor class for performing numerical convolution of functions, expressed as TF1 objects, using Fast Fourier Transform. The class requires the FFTW package installed in ROOT. The tutorial tutorials/fit/fitConvolution.C provides an example on how to create a TF1 based on the convolution of two others TF1 objects and used it to fit some data.
TGraph2DPainter
In some case and extra point was drawn in the center od the plot when a TGRaph2dwas drawn with P, P0, or PCOL options.
THistPainter
It was possible to interactively zoom outside the histograms’ limits. Protections have been added.
When an histogram was drawn with the option E0 and log scale along the Y axis, some additional markers were drawn at the bottom line of the plot. This was reported <a href=“http://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18778”>here.
Implement the option 0 combined with the option COL as requested <a href=“https://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19046”>here. When the minimum of the histogram is set to a greater value than the real minimum, the bins having a value between the real minimum and the new minimum are not drawn unless the option 0 is set.
Example:
{
TCanvas *c1 = new TCanvas("c1","c1",600,600);
c1->Divide(1,2);
TH2F *hcol21 = new TH2F("hcol21","Option COLZ",40,-4,4,40,-20,20);
TH2F *hcol22 = new TH2F("hcol22","Option COLZ0",40,-4,4,40,-20,20);
Float_t px, py;
for (Int_t i = 0; i < 25000; i++) {
gRandom->Rannor(px,py);
hcol21->Fill(px,5*py);
hcol22->Fill(px,5*py);
}
hcol21->SetBit(TH1::kNoStats);
hcol22->SetBit(TH1::kNoStats);
gStyle->SetPalette(1);
c1->cd(1); hcol21->Draw("COLZ");
c1->cd(2); hcol22->Draw("COLZ0");
hcol22->SetMaximum(100);
hcol22->SetMinimum(40);
return c1;
}
The parameter gStyle->SetHistTopMargin() was ignored when plotting a 2D histogram using the option E. This can be seen plotting the histogram with "LEGO E".
GetObjectInfo did not display the right value form "Sum" for histograms plotted with option SAME on top of an histogram displayed with a subrange. This was reported in ROOT-7124.
Use GeyStdDev instead of GetRMS. The stat box now shows Std Dev instead of RMS.
The Stats Format was ignored when painting the pave stats for 2D histograms.
TGraph2D
Change GetHistogram() in order to be able to access the returned histogram before the 2D graph has been filled with points. That was not possible previously. This problem was reported <a href=“https://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19186”>here.
When a TGraph2D was entirely in the plane Z=0 the 3D could not be defined. This problem was reported <a href=“https://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19517”>here.
TMultiGraph
When a TMultiGraph contained only one TGraph the number of bins for the internal histogram was not set correctly. This problem was reported <a href=“https://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19603&p=83973#p83973”>here.
THStack
Implement GetNhists() to return the number of histograms in the stack.
New drawing option NOSTACKB. histograms are drawn next to each other as bar charts.
Example:
TCanvas* nostackb() {
TCanvas *cst0 = new TCanvas("cst0","cst0",600,400);
THStack *hs = new THStack("hs","Stacked 1D histograms: option #font[82]{\"nostackb\"}");
TH1F *h1 = new TH1F("h1","h1",10,-4,4);
h1->FillRandom("gaus",20000);
h1->SetFillColor(kRed);
hs->Add(h1);
TH1F *h2 = new TH1F("h2","h2",10,-4,4);
h2->FillRandom("gaus",15000);
h2->SetFillColor(kBlue);
hs->Add(h2);
TH1F *h3 = new TH1F("h3","h3",10,-4,4);
h3->FillRandom("gaus",10000);
h3->SetFillColor(kGreen);
hs->Add(h3);
hs->Draw("nostackb");
return cst0;
}
NOSTACKB plot example
GUI Libraries
TGTextViewostream
A new TGTextViewostream class has been added. It is a text viewer widget and is a specialization of TGTextView and std::ostream. It uses a TGTextViewStreamBuf, which inherits from std::streambuf, allowing to stream text directly to the text view in a cout - like fashion. A new tutorial showing how to use the TGTextViewostream widget has also been added.
FitPanel
Add the functionality for composing function using convolution and for normalized sums using the new TF1NormSum and TF1Convolution classes.
2D Graphics Libraries
TText
The character position was not correct with the Cocoa backend. (see https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6561)
Interactive update of TText position did not work in NDC mode. (se https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-7284).
TLegend
Use the new TStyle global attribute gStyle->GetLegendTextSize() to set the legend item text size. If this value is 0 and if the text size directly set on the TLegend object is also 0, then the text size is automatically computed to fit the legend box. If gStyle->GetLegendTextSize() is non equal to 0 and if text size directly set on the TLegend object is 0, then the gStyle value is used to draw the legend text. If the text size directly set on the TLegend object is not null, then it is used to draw the legend text.
TTexDump
The hollow fill style was not rendered correctly. (see https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6841)
Better line width matching with screen and pdf output.
Text color was ignored. It was always black.
Text color was ignored. It was always black.
The underscore _ produced an error outside the TeX math context.
Fix an issue with transparent pads.
Implement transparent colors using TiKZ “opacity”.
Implement TStyle::SetLineScalePS() to control le global basic line width.
Offer 0 as line width option. Useful to make a line invisible.
TPostScript
Small fix for fill patterns 1, 2 and 3.
With TMathtext, only the fonts really used are now loaded in the PostScript file. Typically it reduces the file size by a factor 10 (compare to the previous implementation) for normal plots with math formulae and greek characters.
Offer 0 as line width option. Useful to make a line invisible.
TPDF
When a text size was equal or smaller than 0 the PDF file was corrupted.
Small fix for fill patterns 1, 2 and 3.
When printing a coloured 2D histograms (with option COLZ) into a PDF or PostScript file, the preview on screen using many standard PDF previewer tools showed very thin white lines between the bins as well as in the color palette. This made very ugly the final output. This problem is due to bad implementation of anti-aliasing in these previewers. A way to bypass this issue was to turn off the anti-aliasing in the previewer but then the rest of the document does not look nice. This problem is now bypassed with a fix in both PDF and PostScript output.
Offer 0 as line width option. Useful to make a line invisible.
TSVG
Use float numbers instead of integer to describe graphics paths to avoid rounding problems.
Implement missing math symbols.
Offer 0 as line width option. Useful to make a line invisible.
TASImage
In the animated gif it is now possible to specify the delay between the last image and the fist image in case of infinite loop. (Fernando Hueso González ).
TPadPainter
Offer 0 as line width option. Useful to make a line invisible.
TPad
In TPad::ShowGuidelines the number of guide lines is limited to 15. Above that they become useless.
Make sure that “/” and “.” are not part of the method name when a canvas is saved as a .C file.
TLatex
With the Cocoa backend the PDF and PS output produced miss-aligned exponents because the GetTextExtend method behaved differently in batch mode and “screen” mode. This is now fixed. See http://root.cern.ch/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18883
Improve the square-root drawing in case it is small.
Better adjustment of the tilde accent position in case of Cocoa backend.
TMathText
\mu is now working for Postscript output.
\splitline is now implemented.
Cocoa backend
Line width and line style were not applied on boxes.
3D Graphics Libraries
GL Viewer
New option “Rotate scene” in the “Extras” tab of the GL Viewer. It allows to do a real rotation instead of a wobbling when the “Auto Rotator” is launched.
New methods from Jeremi Niedziela to return the image in memory.
Tutorials
New tutorial textviewostream.C showing how to use the TGTextViewostream widget.
Build, Configuration and Testing Infrastructure
Backport Python3 compatibility of build scripts
New functionalities
Support ARM 64 bits architecture.
Partial support for PPC 64 bits Little Endian architecture.
Add “Optimized” CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: allow highest level of optimisation of the GCC and Clang compilers (-Ofast).
Support ccache activation with cmake configuration switch.
Support link to jemalloc and tcmalloc allocators.
Careful suppression of known and understood warnings, e.g. coming from external packages.
Patch Releases
Release 6.04/02
Platform Support
Added support for Intel icc 15
Build System
Define ROOT_XXX_FLAGS in ROOTConfig.cmake for use by client packages ROOT-7401
Enabled c++14 in CLING when compiling ROOT with c++14 enabled (CMake: -Dcxx14=ON, classic: –enable-cxx14)
Dictionary Generation
Uniform style of warnings, use standard ROOT logging facilities rather than cout/cerr.
Do not add as autoparse keys stl classes, stl (nested) containers templated with plain old data or integers.
Core
Fixed support for dictionary for class with inlined namespace.
Do not treat Mac OSX’s “cl_kernels” dylinker entry as a library ROOT-7436
TDirectory::TContext
Fixed a thread safety issue in TMVA by updating TDirectory::TContext.
We added a default constructor to TDirectory::TContext which record the current directory and will restore it at destruction time and does not change the current directory.
The constructor for TDirectory::TContext that takes a single TDirectory pointer as an argument was changed to set gDirectory to zero when being passed a null pointer; previously it was interpreting a null pointer as a request to not change the current directory - this behavior is now implement by the default constructor.
I/O
Fix the issue described at ROOT-7500 : crash due to change in base class which versioned derived class.
Fix template instantiations in cling internals ROOT-7364
Forget erroneous decls in case of errors ROOT-7295
Work around binutils issue (ld crash building llvm) on MacOSX with GCC (pull requests 64-66)
Work around MacOS X builds being version specific ROOT-6966
Handle relocation of ROOT and non-PCH-able glibc headers.
Fix parsing of definition for forward declared enums ROOT-7419
Pass CXXFLAGS to the PCH generator, to ensure platform consistency.
Work around linker assert when building with GCC on OS X (PR #68)
PyROOT
Fix lookup of templated classes in namespace with arguments that have ‘std::’ in their name ROOT-7448
Use GetTrueTypeName() instead of GetFullTypeName(), as the latter loses namespaces
Strip down number of libraries linked to libPyROOT in order to reduce to the minimum the time needed to import the ROOT module.
TFormula, TF1
Allow possibility to automatically normalize itself. If the function TF1::SetNormalized(true) is called, when evaluated, the function will return its value divided by its integral computed in the function range.
Added helper classes TF1NormSum, TF1Convolution.
Fix a bug in calling TF1::Update when changing the parameter values. Fix also the TF1Convolution.
Fix the caching of the parameters in TF1NormSum to avoid recomputing integrals for same parameter values.
Remove unwanted printout from Streamer method.
RooFit
Fix for contour computations in RooMinimizer[ROOT-7290]
Dictionary Generation
Uniform style of warnings, use standard ROOT logging facilities rather than cout/cerr.
Do not add as autoparse keys stl classes, stl (nested) containers templated with plain old data or integers.
Tree
TTreeReaderArray now supports vector<builtin-type>.
Graphics
Fix file corruption in TTeXDump::DrawPolyMarker.
Make sure the line width used to draw #sqrt is always >=1.
Release 6.04/04
Build System
Fix generation of PCH with CXX flags with spaces ROOT-7478
Implemented option ‘geocad’ with CMake making use of the OpenCASCADE software package.
Fix option ‘rpath’ for CMake and ensure that works for MacOSX 10.11
Core
Fix the location of include files in ROOTINCDIR/include instead of ROOTINCDIR ROOT-7537
Fix thread safety of the creation of TMethodCall from a TFunction.
Fix dictionary generation of STL collection involving one of ROOT’s core classes when the user header contains only a forward declaration of the class [ROOT-7695].
Bugs
[ROOT-7680] - Can’t build v6-02-12 on MacOS X 10.11
[ROOT-7709] - PyROOT not functional with system-default Python version on MacOS X 10.11
[ROOT-7715] - Building ROOT with CMake not in my PATH fails
Release 6.04/08
Build
Add –disable-search-usrlocal to configure/make to be able to avoid conflict with incompatible installation (e.g. homebrew).
Add /opt/X11 to configure/make search for include files and libraries.
Updates PCRE to 8.37 (current upstream version) which can detect PPC64LE machine.
Fail cmake configuration if the specified CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is unknown
Fix RPATH for MacOSX (El Capitan) to avoid building with -Drpath=ON. The default uses rpath=@loader_path/../lib.
Core
Add missing protection when creating new StreamerInfo.
Add accessor functions and functionality needed by CMS event display.
Do not delete resource when replaceing default TApplication.
Interpreter
Prevent crash in expressions which contain use undefined identifier ROOT-7737
Disable unnecessary code during dictionary generation that triggered problem due to the lack of support for template parameter packs ROOT-7708
Add suport in the type and name normalization routine for template parameter packs ROOT-7708
IO
For backward compatibility with ROOT5, allow to define IO constructors with the signature MyClass::MyClass(void&) where void is a forward declared type.
In TBuffer shrink buffers when requested.
Histograms
Fix interval calculation in Divide for the Poisson ratio case
Minuit
Make function pointer held by TMinuitMinimize thread local
Patches Release 6.04/08
Bugs
[ROOT-7627] - [ICC][CMake][PATCH] Pass CC and CXX to builtin_lzma if Intel C++ Compiler (ICC) Is used
[ROOT-7629] - [CMake][PPC64LE][PATCH] Set correct ROOT architecture on PPC64LE – linuxppc64gcc
[ROOT-7708] - Failure in dictionary generation of HEPMC3
[ROOT-7713] - Menus not highlighted under mouse cursor using Cocoa backend in OS X El Capitan
[ROOT-7723] - allow IOCtors to have as argument a ref to a type called void
[ROOT-7725] - MANPATH not correctly set by thisroot.sh
[ROOT-7727] - CMake: include/compiledata.h has empty CXXOPT and CXXDEBUG
[ROOT-7737] - Assert in cling when using undeclared variables
[ROOT-7630] - [pcre][PPC64LE][PATCH] Update builtin_pcre to 8.37 version
Task
[ROOT-7773] - find_package(ROOT) should include a set of default libraries
Release 6.04/10
ROOT version 6.04/10 was released on 18 November, 2015.
Core
Resolve issues on SL6, 32bits when during process tear down libCling.so is removed before all the dictionary have been tear down.
Activate interpreter in inspector calls by ShowMembers [ROOT-7779)].
Interpreter
Resolve problem with static intialization related to explicit template instantiation. This fixes [ROOT-7775].
Hist
Improve thread safety of TH1::Fit by making static member of TVirtualFitter thread local. This fixes [ROOT-7791].
TNetXNGFileStager
Fixed ROOT-7703. This restores the behavior of Locate() to that found with TXNetFileStager: Rather than return only the xrootd server’s reply, the endpoint hostname is looked up and Locate() returns the full url, including the path.
Release 6.04/12
I/O
Add to the TClass StreamerInfo for non-stl collections. A ‘collection’ here is a class for which there is a TVirtualCollectionProxy. For example this applies to ATLAS’ DataVector.
TWebFile. Fixed ROOT-7809. Returns an error for a redirect which does not specify the new URI, rather than going into a loop.
Interpreter
Cache ROOT specials (ROOT-7830 and friends).
Accelerated calls as seen e.g. in PyROOT [ROOT-7840]. This fixes a PyROOT performance regression between 6.02 and 6.04, seen by ATLAS.
Documentation
Apply THtml->doxygen transformation for func doc. Eases cherry picking.
Bugs and Improvements
[ROOT-7789] - ROOTConfig.cmake should not set CMAKE_MODULE_PATH nor install FindX modules
[ROOT-7809] - TWebFile infinite loop for 301 redirects without Location
[ROOT-7817] - Avoid a crash under some circumstances when trying to open an invalid path.
Properly handle the case of an executable with a space in its full pathname when search for linked in library. This fixes [ROOT-8019].
Reduce memory consumption (autoparsing) of plugins TXNetSystem/TNetXNGSystem and TGQt.
Meta Library
Added a new mode for TClass::SetCanSplit (2) which indicates that this class and any derived class should not be split.
This included a rework the mechanism checking the base classes. Instead of using InheritsFrom, which lead in some cases, including the case where the class derived from an STL collection, to spurrious autoparsing (to look at the base class of the collection!), we use a custom walk through the tree of base classes that checks their value of fCanSplit.
This also has the side-effect of allowing the extension of the concept ‘base class that prevent its derived class from being split’ to any user class. This fixes [ROOT-7972].
Reduce autoparse occasions by autoloading libraries also based on their type_info-derived name, instead of only their normalized name.
Improve TClassEdit’s handling of STL’s default allocator, in particular for std::map ROOT-8048
Dictionaries
Add the -noIncludePaths and –noIncludePaths to rootcling and genereflex respectively to avoid storing in the dictionaries the include paths passed with the “-I” switch. ROOT will rely on ROOT_INCLUDE_PATH only at runtime to find headers.
I/O
Resolve an issue when space is freed in a large ROOT file and a TDirectory is updated and stored the lower (less than 2GB) freed portion of the file [ROOT-8055].
TTree
Do not automatically setup read cache during TTree::Fill(). This fixes [ROOT-8031].
Fast Cloning.
Added a cache specifically for the fast option of the TTreeCloner to significantly reduce the run-time when fast-cloning remote files to address [ROOT-5078].
The new cache can be controlled from the TTreeCloner, TTree::CopyEntries or hadd interfaces.
The new cache is enabled by default.
To update the size of the cache or disable it:
From TTreeCloner use: TTreeCloner::SetCacheSize
From TTree::CopyEntries add to the option string "cachesize=SIZE"
From hadd, use the command line option -cachesize SIZE
SIZE should be given in number bytes and can be expressed in ‘human readable form’ (number followed by size unit like MB, MiB, GB or GiB, etc. or SIZE can be set zero to disable the cache.
Release 6.04/18
Published on 2016-06-22.
Core
Fix the validity of TRef after the first ProcessID is full.
TTree
Properly handle the last element of arrays in the TTreeFormula functions MinIf and MaxIf ROOT-7258
