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["Metzger-Kraus, Christof" <christof.metzger-kraus AT helmholtz-berlin.de>]

Dear OPAL users and developers,

a few more bugs have been found and fixed since we published release 
candidate 2. Thats why we decided to publish another release candidate. We 
think that the last release candidate should only marginally differ from the 
final release.

The following bugs have been fixed:
- prevent access to memory that isn't allocated,
- properly freeing memory,
- properly initializing member variables,
- fix material definitions,
- change mean excitation energy in collimator material,
- fixing orientation of triangles in boundary geometries,
- fixing insertion of triangle normals into array,
- fixing interpolation of data in CSR wake computation,
- Gaussian distributions:
         o change of shape of cutoff from rectangular to elliptic ,
         o always allow to use SIGMAR and CUTOFFR,
- fixing collection of all sections with surface physics,
- fixing linearization of field map data for type 3DDynamic,
- fixing enlargement of mesh for space charge calculation.

Pull the code from the repository and checkout tag/OPAL-1.4.0rc3 to test the 
third (and hopefully last) release candidate.

Cheers,
christof



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Dr. Christof Metzger-Kraus
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)
Institute of Accelerator Physics FG-IA
Albert-Einstein-Str. 15
D-12489 Berlin
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Room:   3435


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From: Metzger-Kraus, Christof
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 9:28 AM
To: opal AT lists.psi.ch
Subject: RE: Version 1.4.0rc1

Dear OPAL users and developers,

due to a major bug in the release candidate 1 we decided to publish a second 
release candidate. The following additional improvements have been added to 
the repository:
- fixing output of H5Part-file in simulations with follow-up tracks
- fixing number of particles in flat-top part of emitted distributions
- fixing thermal energy for emission model 'None'
- remove delay of emission process (OPAL-T)
- build process adapted to Intel compiler
- allow simulations with multiple SurfacePhysics processes (OPAL-T)

To test the second release candidate pull the code from the repository and 
checkout tag/OPAL-1.4.0rc2.


Cheers,
christof

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Dr. Christof Metzger-Kraus
--------------------------------------------------------
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)
Institute of Accelerator Physics FG-IA
Albert-Einstein-Str. 15
D-12489 Berlin
--------------------------------------------------------
Room:   3435


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From: Metzger-Kraus, Christof
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 4:12 PM
To: opal AT lists.psi.ch
Subject: Version 1.4.0rc1

Dear OPAL users and developers,

I just pushed the first release candidate for OPAL 1.4.0 to the repository. 
The following new features/improvements can be found in this upcoming version:
- kickers implemented in PARALLEL-T,
- restart from any step and any H5Part file,
- fine-grained control over amount of output in PARALLEL-T,
- array-type TrackRun attributes MAXSTEPS, DT and ZSTOP (currently PARALLEL-T 
only),
- statistics file now compliant to SDDS format,
- rewrite of autophase algorithm,
- stand-alone autophase tracker,
- better exception handling,
- follow-up track now working correctly,
- MatchedGauss distribution,
- return type of ElementBase::getType changed to enum which is faster to 
compare than strings.

If you have access to the repository and if you have some time you can share 
then it would be great if you could test this release candidate and give us 
feedback. If all goes well we hope to release the next production version 
(including binaries) in four to five weeks.

Cheers,
christof

ps: to check out the release candidate clone the repository and then use
git checkout tags/OPAL-1.4.0rc1




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Dr. Christof Metzger-Kraus
--------------------------------------------------------
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)
Institute of Accelerator Physics FG-IA
Albert-Einstein-Str. 15
D-12489 Berlin
--------------------------------------------------------
Room:   3435


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