[Rivet-announce] Rivet 2.1.2 and YODA 1.0.7 released

[Andy Buckley]

We are very happy to announce the release of Rivet version 2.1.2.

This release adds seven new analysis routines from ATLAS and CMS, fixes
a few bugs in CMS_2013_I1209721, OPAL_1998_S3749908, and in the
Rivet::Particle::abspid function, improves clang and Boost compiler
compatibility, and adds new utility functions, more handy direct
kinematics functions on Jet and Particle, and finally reactivates our
support for 2D histogramming, including 2D profile histograms.

As always, this new version is recommended for immediate use. Please
keep sending us your feedback and analysis codes!

At the same time we are releasing version 1.0.7 of the YODA data
analysis package, which is recommended for use with Rivet 2.1.2 -- but
please also try it out in non-Rivet projects: we hop you'll find it a
refreshingly nice way to handle physics data! The new YODA release
includes many significant improvements and new features, such as a
further improved yodamerge algorithm, data file ASCII portability
improvements, near-complete I/.O support for 2D histograms and profiles,
better behaviours of conversion scripts, new yodacnv and yodahist
scripts, and many major improvements in the Python mappings. It's a big
release! Again feedback is more than welcome.

Since it's proven impossible for us to make new Rivet releases for
analysis updates faster than every 1-2 months, we have also created a
"Rivet Contrib" area in our downloads site where newly submitted
analysis codes will be placed immediately: see
https://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/contrib/ and the README file in
that location. These analyses don't come with any "Rivet guarantee" but
we hope it will be useful to users who want to use the very latest
analyses and don't mind doing some technical work and physics checking
to get them working!

Best wishes,
Andy and the Rivet/YODA team

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN