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2019

• December 10, 2019: Minutes of the December 10 Software Meeting are available.
• December 3, 2019: Minutes of the December 3 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• November 29, 2019: Minutes of the November 26 Software Meeting are available.
• November 25, 2019: Minutes of the November 19 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• November 19, 2019: New version set: version_4.11.0.xml
• September 4, 2019: New release of gluex_install, version 2.10
• September 3, 2019: Minutes of the September 3rd Software Meeting are available
• August 30, 2019: New version set: version_4.8.0.xml
• August 25, 2019: Time-history plots of Hall D computing resources
• August 20, 2019: Minutes of the August 20th Software Meeting are available
• August 13, 2019: /mss/halld/halld-scratch will be zero'ed
• August 7, 2019: Minutes of the August 6th Software Meeting are available
• August 3, 2019: New release of build_scripts: version 1.51
• July 29, 2019: New update version set: version_4.7.0.xml
• July 23, 2019: Minutes of the July 23 Software Meeting are available
• July 16, 2019: Cache disk outage on Aug. 8
• July 9, 2019: Minutes of the July 9 Software Meeting are available
• July 8, 2019: recon-2017_01-ver03_11.xml and recon-2018_01-ver02_2.xml
• July 3, 2019: New version set: version_4.6.0.xml
• June 26, 2019: How do I upgrade my $GLUEX_TOP?
• June 18, 2019: Minutes of the HDGeant4 Meeting, June 18, 2019, have been posted.
• June 13, 2019: Minutes of the June 11 Software Meeting are available
• June 4, 2019: Minutes of the HDGeant4 Meeting, June 4, 2019, have been posted.
• June 4, 2019: two new version sets: version_4.5.0.xml and recon-2017_01-ver03_10.xml
• June 3, 2019: MCwrapper v2.2.1 released
• May 31, 2019: Minutes of the May 28 Software meeting are available.
• May 29, 2019: New version set: recon-2018_01-ver02_1.xml
• May 23, 2019: HDGeant4 Meeting Minutes for May 21, 2019 are available.
• May 23, 2019: A script for backups of disk files
• May 20, 2019: Batch Farm Change: PBS to Slurm on June 3rd
• May 1, 2019: Minutes of the April 30 Software meeting are available.
• April 29, 2019: Switching back to using SQLite as the default for CCDB on the Farm
• April 24, 2019: Gluex storage is now on stashcache!
• April 24, 2019: Minutes of the April 23 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• April 19, 2019: Minutes of the April 16 Software meeting are available.
• April 17, 2019: New production version set: version_4.4.0.xml, new recon-launch-compatible version set: version_halld_recon_4.1.1.xml
• April 9, 2019: Minutes of the April 9 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• April 5, 2019: New version set: version_offmon-2018_08-ver07_3.xml
• April 1, 2019: Minutes of the March 26 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• March 15, 2019: MCwrapper: Slick Rick Release (used by new version set: version_4.2.0.xml)
• March 12, 2019: CCDB access at JLab changed to MySQL database by default
• March 7, 2019: Report from the 2018 Review of JLAB Scientific Software and Computing
• March 6, 2019: Minutes of the March 5 Software meeting are available.
• March 1, 2019: discussion/proposal for making transition to G4
• February 27, 2019: Minutes of the February 26 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• February 26, 2019: Two new version sets: version_2018_ver00.xml and version_2018_ver01.xml
• February 12, 2019: Minutes of the February 12 HDGeant4 Meeting are available.
• February 11, 2019 Slurm jobs update.
• February 10, 2019: Bug fix release of halld_recon: version 4.1.1.
• February 5, 2019: Minutes of the February 5 Software meeting are available.
• February 4, 2019: New version set: version_4.1.0.xml
• January 30, 2019: Minutes of the January 29 HDGeant4 Meeting are available
• January 23, 2019: Minutes of the January 22 Software meeting are available.
• January 17, 2019: Several new packages releases, new version set file: version_4.0.0.xml
• January 16, 2019: Minutes of the January 15 HDGeant4 Meeting are available
• January 9, 2019: New release of gluex_install: version 2.9
• January 9, 2019: Minutes of the January 8 Software meeting are available.
• January 5, 2019: Proposal for merging dirc_commissioning_2018 branches into repositories

2018

• December 27, 2018: Developer-friendly build for singularity container
• December 22, 2018: New tag of halld_recon, recon-2018_01-ver01
• December 18, 2018: Minutes from the December 18 HDGeant4 Meeting are available
• December 17, 2018: New version sets, version_3.9.xml and version_recon-ver03_6_jlab.xml
• December 14, 2018: Minutes of the December 11 Software meeting are available.
• December 6, 2018: Minutes from the December 4 HDGeant4 Meeting are available
• November 26-27, 2018: 12 GeV Computing Review held at JLab.
• November 14, 2018: Minutes of the November 13 Software meeting are available.
• November 2, 2018: Minutes of the October 30 Software meeting are available.
• October 24, 2018: Minutes from the October 23 HDGeant4 Meeting are available
• October 22, 2018: New release of halld_sim: version 3.6.0
• October 17, 2018: Minutes of the October 16 Offline Software meeting are available.
• October 9, 2018: Notes from the October 9 HDGeant4 Meeting are available
• October 5, 2018: version_3.7_jlab.xml feat. halld-recon 3.2.0, halld-sim 3.5.0, gluex_root_analysis 0.5, and MCwrapper 2.0.2
• October 4, 2018: New version of halld_recon: recon-ver03.2
• October 3, 2018: MCwrapper v2.0.2 released
• October 3, 2018: Minutes of the October 2 Offline Software meeting are available.
• September 19, 2018: Minutes of the September 18 Offline Software meeting are available.
• September 12, 2018: Minutes from the September 11 HDGeant4 meeting are available.
• September 7, 2018: New releases: AmpTools 0.9.4, halld_sim 3.4.0, MCwrapper 2.0.
• September 4, 2018: Minutes of the September 4 Offline Software meeting are available.
• August 31, 2018: New recommendation for setting up the GlueX environment (at JLab)
• August 30, 2018: New release of halld_sim: version 3.3.0
• August 29, 2018: New script to update private packages (build_scripts)
• August 28, 2018: Minutes from the August 28, HDGeant4 meeting are available.
• August 22, 2018: hdpm 0.8.0 released
• August 22, 2018: New releases of hdds, halld_recon, and halld_sim are out.
• August 21, 2018: Minutes of the August 21 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• August 15, 2018: Notes from the August 14, HDGeant4 meeting are available.
• August 7, 2018: Minutes of the August 7 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• August 1, 2018: reconstruction launch version set: version_recon-2017_01-ver03_jlab.xml released and built.
• July 30, 2018: The split of sim-recon is done.
• July 26, 2018: Minutes of the July 24 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• July 23, 2018: Split of sim-recon postponed indefinitely.
• July 21, 2018: Notes from the July 20 HDGeant4 meeting are available
• July 20, 2018: sim-recon split postponed to Monday
• July 20, 2018: Offline Software meetings and HDGeant4 meetings moving to Tuesdays
• July 13, 2018: sim-recon will be split up; push your changes before it happens on Tuesday!
• July 13, 2018: Minutes of the July 13 Offline Software Meeting are available
• June 29, 2018: Minutes of the June 29 Offline Software Meeting are available
• June 16, 2018: Minutes of the June 15 Offline Software Meeting are available
• June 1, 2018: Minutes of the June 1 Offline Software Meeting are available
• May 22, 2018: Minutes of the May 18 Offline Software Meeting are available
• May 5, 2018: Minutes of the May 4 Offline Meeting are available
• April 10, 2018: Minutes of the April 6 Offline Meeting are available
• March 5, 2018: Notes on the March 2 GlueX Containers Meeting are posted.
• February 25, 2018: Slides for talks at the Analysis/Offline/Calibration Session of Winter 2018 Collaboration Meeting have been posted.
• February 19, 2018: Notes on the Feb. 16 GlueX Containers Meeting are available.
• February 10, 2018: Minutes of the February 9 Offline Meeting are available
• February 7, 2018: New sim-recon release: version 2.23.0
• February 2, 2018: New releases: build_scripts 1.26, rcdb 0.03, sqlitecpp 2.2.0, sim-recon 2.26.0, hdgeant4 1.6.0
• January 26, 2018: Minutes of the January 26 Offline Meeting are available
• January 18, 2018: New release of rcdb: v0.02.01
• January 18, 2018: New version of CCDB: v1.06.06
• January 17, 2018: New version set 2.25 has new sim-recon (and more)
• January 17, 2018: New sim-recon release, version 2.21.0
• January 10, 2018: Minutes of the January 10 Offline Meeting are available
• January 3, 2018: MCwrapper 1.12 released

2017

• December 23, 2017: New simulation branch created for use with the latest reconstruction launch results (i. e., recon-2017-ver02)
• December 13, 2017: Minutes of the December 13 Offline Meeting are available
• December 7, 2017: mcwrapper v1.11 released
• December 4, 2017: sim-recon bug fix release: version 2.20.1
• November 30, 2017: Offline Software Meeting Minutes, November 29, 2017
• November 28, 2017: Outage Alert: move of /work/halld and /work/halld2, Wed. Nov. 29, 9 am to 10 am
• November 25, 2017: HDGeant4 bug fix release: 1.5.1
• November 23, 2017: New default version set, version_2.21.xml
• November 20, 2017: New release: HDDS 3.12
• November 15, 2017: Minutes of the November 15 Offline Meeting are available
• November 3, 2017: Minutes of the November 1 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• November 2, 2017: New releases, AmpTools 0.9.3, sim-recon 2.19.0.
• October 5, 2017: Minutes of the October 4 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• October 10, 2017: New sim-recon release: version 2.18.0 is out.
• October 10, 2017: Change to cache deletion policy, preferred deletion of files from completed farm jobs.
• October 5, 2017: Minutes of the October 4 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• September 26, 2017: Farm jobs should use SQLite form of the CCDB
• September 26, 2017: Looking at /work usage
• September 25, 2017: New tag of mcsmear branch of sim-recon, version 3
• September 20, 2017: Minutes of the September 20 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• September 7, 2017: Minutes of the September 6 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• September 5, 2017: A new utility for reducing a CCDB sqlite file to a minimal size has been released.
• September 1, 2017: There is new documentation for my_sim-recon.sh.
• September 1, 2017: MCwrapper v1.8 has been released.
• August 25, 2017: Minutes of the August 23 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• August 16, 2017: RCDB v0.02 has been released.
• August 21, 2017: New Material Maps added to CCDB
• August 10, 2017: Minutes of the August 9 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• July 26, 2017: Minutes of the July 26 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• July 18, 2017: hdpm 0.7.2
• July 18, 2017: New sim-recon release: version 2.16.0 and version_2.13.2.xml
• July 14, 2017: Added capabilities in osg run scripts
• July 13, 2017: Minutes of the July 12 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• June 28, 2017: New sim-recon release: version 2.15.0
• June 28, 2017: Minutes of the June 28 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• June 26, 2017: Gluex osg production environment ready for testing
• June 26, 2017: hdpm 0.7.1 released
• June 14, 2017: Minutes of the June 14 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• June 12, 2017: hdpm 0.7.0 released
• June 6, 2017 New release of HDDS: version 3.11
• June 5, 2017: JLab Scientific Computing outage postponed until June 8
• June 2, 2017: Reconstruction Launch: 2016-02 ver04 done, batch 2
• June 2, 2017: Minutes of the May 31 meeting are available.
• May 26, 2017: REST production 2016-02 ver04 done
• May 24, 2017: MCwrapper 1.6 and 1.7 (Thomas)
• May 23, 2017: SciComp outage, June 1
• May 23, 2017: Problem with certificates and GitHub
• May 6, 2017: AmpTools had moved to GitHub
• April 16, 2017: HDPM 0.6.1 released
• April 12, 2017: MCwrapper 1.3 released
• April 2, 2017: Run GlueX software under Windows!?
• March 22, 2017: Offline Software Meeting Minutes, March 22, 2017
• March 8, 2017: HDGeant4 initial build done at JLab
• March 5, 2017: bug in EM bg generation in hdgeant
• March 3, 2017: DSelector: Generating Flat TTree
• March 3, 2017: New sim-recon release: version 2.12.0
• February 27, 2017: New simple email list: duplicate_cache
• February 27, 2017: Offline Software Meeting Minutes, February 22, 2017
• February 5, 2017: Minutes from the February 1st Meeting are available.
• February 5, 2017: Short-term advantage to switching to centos7
• January 24, 2017: New patch release of sim-recon: 2.11.1
• January 19, 2017: Recovery work on Lustre files complete.
• January 5, 2017: Draft report from the software review committee available.
• January 3, 2017: SQLite backups of the RCDB are now stored on the write-through cache.

2016

• December 9, 2016: Minutes from the December 7th Meeting are available.
• November 30, 2016: Sim-recon 2.10.0 released
• November 26, 2016: Sim-recon 2.9.0 released
• November 17, 2016: Versions and builds that track recon-ver03
• November 10-11: Software Review 4 held at JLab.
• November 9, 2016: Minutes from the November 9 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• November 9, 2016: Improved Reconstruction Test Webpage in production.
• November 4, 2016: HDGeant4 update: hits available for all detectors.
• October 26, 2016: Minutes from the October 26 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• October 14, 2016: CentOS7 ifarm build available for test driving
• October 13, 2016: Minutes from the October 12 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• October 11, 2016: new HOWTO on the wiki for installing and running HDGeant
• October 4, 2016: New sim-recon release: 2.6.0
• September 28, 2016: Minutes from the September 28 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• September 21, 2016: Analysis Launch 2016 ver04 underway
• September 15, 2016: sim-recon 2.5.0 has been released.
• September 14, 2016: Minutes from the September 14 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• September 14, 2016: The Hall D group disk (/group/halld) has been expanded from 700 to 800 GB.
• August 24, 2016 Monitoring Launch: 2016-02 ver06 complete.
• August 24, 2016: New sim-recon release: version 2.4.0
• August 17, 2016: Minutes from the August 17 Offline Software Meeting are available.
• August 12, 2016: New Analysis Actions in ROOT DSelector
• August 9, 2016: New release: sim-recon 2.3.0
• August 3, 2016: ROOT 6 Upgrade decision: build against both 5 and 6
• July 28, 2016: New bug fix release: sim-recon 2.2.1. Fixes double-free-on-exit bug.
• July 8, 2016: New sim-recon release: 2.2.0
• June 21, 2016: Lustre upgrade done.
• May 18, 2016: No more read-only cache, it's all write-through cache now.
• April 22, 2016: Bug fix release: 1.11.1
• April 21, 2016: New TTree DSelector
• April 15, 2016: GCC 4.9.2 available on farm
• April 13, 2016: RCDB C++ API available
• April 5, 2016: GlueX Software Help email list
• March 8, 2016: sim-recon 1.10.0 released.
• March 2, 2016: Minutes of the March 2nd meeting are available.
• February 22, 2016: 2016 GlueX Physics and Analysis Workshop announced.
• February 9, 2016: Kinematic Fitter Overhaul done.
• February 3, 2016: Minutes of the February 3rd meeting are available.
• January 25, 2016: Minutes of the January 20th meeting are available.
• January 11, 2016: DL1Trigger object added.
• January 8, 2016: Minutes of the January 6th meeting are available.
• January 3, 2016: ifarm1101 removed from nightly-build node list

2015

• December 11, 2015: New sim-recon release: 1.8.0.
• December 11, 2015: Minutes of the December 9th meeting are available.
• December 3, 2015: CCDB release v1.06.00 out.
• December 1, 2015: JANA 0.7.4 released.
• November 23: New sim-recon release: 1.7.0.
• November 10, 2015: New private wiki released. (Announcement) (Wiki)
• November 5, 2015: Another new Hall D work disk, for builds, SQLite
• October 31, 2015: Minutes of the October 28 meeting are available.
• October 22, 2015: New Version Management System features: URL checking for Git, hash-specific check-outs, document update
• October 21, 2015: New Hall D Lustre-based work disk operational. All files were transferred from the old partition.
• October 19, 2015: New releases: sim-recon 1.6.0 and HDDS 3.4
• October 15, 2015: New Hall D work disk coming. Pause writing to the current one at 1:00 pm, Tue., Oct. 20.
• October 15, 2015: Minutes of the October 14 meeting are available.
• October 2, 2015: Minutes of the September 30 meeting are available.
• September 21, 2015: Minutes of the September 16 meeting are available.
• September 11, 2015: New simple email list, "git_update"
• September 9, 2015: ROOT TTree Format Overhaul
• September 3, 2015: Minutes of the September 2 meeting are available.
• August 30, 2015: sim-recon 1.5.1 has been released.
• August 29, 2015: New note on GlueX builds has been released. Find it here.
• August 17, 2015: build_scripts has moved to /group/halld/Software/build_scripts
• August 1, 2015: New simple email list. ccdb_changes reports recent activity on the CCDB.
• July 30, 2015: New wiki page. Policy on CCDB Variations for Reconstructing Simulated Data
• July 30, 2015: ifarm.jlab.org is changing. Use "ifarm62" for CentOS 6.2, "ifarm65" for CentOS 6.5. "ifarm" is the same as "ifarm65" (it used to point to CentOS 6.2 nodes).
• July 30, 2015: Git info. There is a wiki page with a collection of links related to the recent conversion from Subversion to Git.
• July 29, 2015: New releases. hdds 3.3, sim-recon 1.4.0