[Rivet-announce] Rivet 2.4.1 and YODA 1.5.9 released

[Andy Buckley]

Dear Rivet fans,

We are pleased to announce -- only 3 months later than planned! -- the 
release of Rivet 2.4.1, along with YODA 1.5.9.

This Rivet release adds 6 new analyses, and many "paper cuts" 
improvements: lots of little things that are more flexible (or less 
annoying!) now than in the previous release. For example, you can now
skip N events from the input stream, pass trimming configurations to 
FastJets, and book YODA Counters in analyses, and the output YODA file 
is now written out (in unfinalised form) every 10k events by default so 
you don't have to wait all the way to the end of the run before you even 
get a hint of the results. The plotting has also been improved in 
various ways, including better consistency in how "hidden" paths are 
defined, how reference datasets are identified, and work toward handling 
the "plot variations" that will become standard with the multiweighted 
Rivet 3... and, importantly, it is now easier to configure to mimic the 
ATLAS standard style! For more detail, see 
https://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/rivet/file/tip/ChangeLog

This YODA release is not essential, but we do recommend that it be used 
to build this version of Rivet simply because it is the best version of 
YODA yet. This latest patch release adds a few small improvements over 
1.5.8, but most importantly allows use with ROOT6.

The codes are available to download right away from the respective 
websites at
http://rivet.hepforge.org/   and   http://yoda.hepforge.org/

Best wishes,
The Rivet/YODA team

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