24.10 - Freiburg

Tag release to prepare for breaking changes. Last release to include charm
cross-section measurement code, and obsolete detector configurations.

Added

• Add option for helium-filled decay volume
• Add pre-commit config: This will be phased in to improve code quality and
  spot issues as early as possible. Status visible in README and CI enabled for
  new pull requests.
• Add CHANGELOG.md
• Add .git-blame-ignore-revs to allow automatic reformatting etc. without
  polluting git blame
• Automatically built documentation using Doxygen
• Add CODEOWNERS file to automatically trigger reviews by the relevant experts
• Add different configuration files for vacuum /helium for the Decay Vessel
• Add option to enable/disable SND

Fixed

• Remove trailing whitespace and fix line endings
• Fix compilation warnings due to deprecations #469
• Fix issue with SST parameters #489
• Cleaned up Veto Implementation
• Fix crash of event display, PID when no entrance lid present
• Close ShipReco.py output file
• Remove unused (silently ignored!) argument for MuDISGenerator::SetPositions

Changed

• Update getGeoInformation command line interface
• Update SST geometry constants #483
• Housekeeping: Use same clang-format and clang-tidy config as FairRoot
• Decay Vessel configuration now imported from a yaml file
• Geometry of Decay Vessel updated to new design
• Housekeeping: Bump minimum CMake version to 3.12
• Housekeeping: Use FairRoot's find_package2 to find ROOT, VMC, fmt
• Housekeeping: Bump minimum ROOT version to 6.26
• Housekeeping: Use find_package to find BOOST
• Housekeeping: Set FairLogger dep instead of manual includes

Removed

• Remove obsolete files related to old ways of installing or testing FairShip
• Remove uses of future and past modules #473
• Remove Geant3 dependency
• Remove unimplemented event display functions (see #497)
• Disable SND by default
• Housekeeping: Don't use CMake commands no longer provided by FairRoot 19
• Housekeeping: Remove old CMake for ROOT 5
• Remove old, outdated tracking script

Pull requests predating CHANGELOG

• Fix missing branchlist for MuonBack generator by @olantwin in #441
• fixing overlap/extrusions in volMuFilter by @antonioiuliano2 in #442
• Update number of Target Tracker tstations by @antonioiuliano2 in #443
• Add header include guard to ShipGlobals.h by @olantwin in #444
• Use consistent size variables for wall container volumes by @antonioiuliano2 in #445
• README: Add link to cvmfs_release and specify correct default by @olantwin in #447
• eventDisplay: No need to commit suicide if you can disown by @olantwin in #450
• create_field_perturbation: no argument group needed by @olantwin in #449
• Bump pymongo from 3.10.1 to 4.6.3 in /conditionsDatabase by @dependabot in #451

New Contributors

• @yabezsh made their first contribution in #463
• @egamberini made their first contribution in #469
• @wcmartylee made their first contribution in #483
• @anupama-reghunath made their first contribution in #468
• @lfpc made their first contribution in #511

Full Changelog: ECN3_2023...24.10