We are happy to announce a new stable feature release of DD4hep version 1.11 with a total of 365 commits added to the repository since version 1.10. The release tarball can be downloaded from the repository:
https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/releases/tag/v01-11
This release has seen major improvements in nearly all DD4hep packages, an overview of the most important changes and new features is provided in the following:
- Support of optical surfaces and reflections (requires ROOT 6.20)
- Rewrite of CMake and rebase functionality on targets
- Support for reflection of volumes
- Material properties use now default DD4hep units
- Support for Python 3
- Introduction of new Gaudi plugin manager
- Minimal requirement for DD4hep C++14 (dropping C++11 support)
- Allow for various material scan types from the root interactive prompt
For a more comprehensive list please read the Release Notes