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  • Patch Release 2.1.1

    Tuesday, December 21, 2021

    We hereby announce the first patch release for the 2.1 series of Allpix Squared, version 2.1.1. This release contains 29 commits over the feature version 2.1.0. The changes mostly concern the conversion and reading of field meshes. The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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  • Allpix Squared 2.1 Released

    Wednesday, November 17, 2021

    We are happy to announce a new stable feature release Allpix Squared version 2.1 with a total of 138 commits added to the repository by three contributors since version 2.0. While this release is a bit smaller than previous feature releases, we decided it would still be of interest to ship this promptly. The release tarball can be downloaded from the repository:

    https://gitlab.cern.ch/allpix-squared/allpix-squared/tags/v2.1.0

    The new version is also available as docker image in the project’s docker registry, as read-to-use version on CVMFS and as binary release from the website.

    Allpix Squared was extended be a new module and several improvements. In the following, an overview over the most important changes and new features is provided:

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  • Patch Release 2.0.3

    Thursday, October 28, 2021

    We hereby announce the next patch release for the 2.0 series of Allpix Squared, version 2.0.3. This release contains 36 commits over the last patch version 2.0.2 and updates some missing details in the user manual, comes with an updated CI reference build and adds some additional checks for corner cases. The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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  • Patch Release 2.0.2

    Thursday, September 23, 2021

    Summer has passed and we are happy to announce another patch release for the 2.0 series of Allpix Squared, version 2.0.2. This release contains 40 commits over the last patch version 2.0.1 and fixes a few issues and smooths out a few missing code documentations. The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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  • Patch Release 2.0.1

    Friday, July 09, 2021

    We are happy to announce the first patch release in the 2.0 series of Allpix Squared, version 2.0.1. This release contains 26 commits over the major version 2.0.0 and fixes a few issues found over the past weeks. The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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  • 2nd Allpix Squared User Workshop

    Tuesday, June 22, 2021

    After the very exciting announcement of the release of Allpix Squared 2.0., we would like to invite you to the Second Allpix Squared User Workshop, taking place wherever you are (virtual) on August 17-19, 2021. This workshop aims to bring together the community of users and developers to discuss new features, software development and numerous applications. It will consist of an introductory talk to the many interesting studies performed with Allpix Squared, expert talks and simulation case studies.

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  • Allpix Squared 2.0 Released

    Tuesday, June 15, 2021

    After more than 3.5 years of continuous development and countless feature and patch releases of the Allpix Squared 1.x series, we are proud to announce the second major release of the framework, Allpix Squared 2.0. This version contains more than 1500 commits over the last feature release 1.6 and brings major improvements in many areas as detailed below. Among them is a major rework of the framework core, introducing an efficient multithreading functionality including full reproducibility, as well as a large number of new features and physics simulation models.

    As usual, the release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    We would like to use this opportunity for a few laudatory words.

    • First of all, we would like to extend our gratitude to the by now 34 contributors and former developers as well as the countless users for their continued input to the development, be it through actual code or through fruitful discussions and suggestions on the implementation of different features.
    • Furthermore, we would like to thank the two Google Summer of Code students, Viktor Sonesten and Mohamed Moanis Ali, who have contributed significantly to the new multithreading capabilities. It took a while for your code to land in master, but here it is!
    • Last but not least, we would like to thank Koen Wolters, one of the bedrocks of the Allpix Squared development who laid the foundation of the framework and until today - despite leaving the field and taking up a full-time job - continues to contribute code, to review merge requests and to make suggestions for improvements of the tool in his spare time. Thank you very much!

    We would also like to advertise our second User Workshop, which will be held fully virtually from 17 August 2021 to 19 August 2021. Please register and submit an abstract to present your use case of Allpix Squared.

    Enough of the chatter, let’s cut to the new features shipped with Allpix Squared 2.0:

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  • Patch Release 1.6.2

    Thursday, April 01, 2021

    We are happy to announce the next patch release Allpix Squared, version 1.6.2 which contains 70 commits over the previous patch version 1.6.1. It fixes issues mostly related to the CI as well as some corner cases in a few modules. This patch release contains patches from two new contributors - thank you and welcome!

    The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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  • Patch Release 1.6.1

    Thursday, January 28, 2021

    We are happy to announce the first release of 2021, the patch release Allpix Squared, version 1.6.1 which contains 30 commits over the feature version 1.6. It fixes a few corner cases concerning the very late arrival of particles from Geant4 and the handling of Monte Carlo particle information. This patch release contains patches from one new contributor - welcome to the team!

    The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

    The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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