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Status of Current BaBar Releases



Last Updated: 27 September 2004
Shahram Rahatlou, UC San Diego


This page summarizes the latest release in use in BaBar in the various production, analysis, and development areas. A full description of the tags and changes for each release can be found at Summary of all lettered N.M.Lx releases, or at the Software Release Announcements HN forum for the main N.M.L releases.

You can also use the WebSrtAdmin system to query the database for more technical and detailed information.

Prompt Reco

18.0.4c Run1-4 reprocessing and Run5 processing release for PC and ER.

18.0.4b Run1-4 reprocessing and Run5 processing release for PC and ER.

18.0.4a Run1-4 reprocessing and Run5 processing release for PC and ER. First "good" release for 18 release PR.

18.0.3d : Run5 processing release for ER (not functional for PC)

18.0.3c : Run1-4 reprocessing release for ER (not functional for PC)

18.0.3b : Initial Run5 processing release for PC and ER.

18.0.3a : Initial Run1-4 reprocessing release for PC and ER.

14.4.4d: being tested for both PC and ER.

14.4.4b: used in production for ER

14.4.2: used in production for PC

SP

The current releases are reported on the SP production page

Skimming

More current releases are reported on the Skims in BaBar page.

14.4.3d: Run4, SP5 skimming and merging

14.4.3c: Run4 skimming and merging ATTENTION Merging more than once is broken for releases <= 14.4.3c ! Use 14.4.3d for merging.

14.4.2b: Run4 skimming and merging; SP5 skimming

14.4.2a: Run4 skimming and merging

14.4.0c: SP6 skimming
14.4.0c: SP6 merging. also 14.3.1c (?)

14.4.2b: SP5 skimming since 12 May. Previously 14.4.0c and 14.4.0d
14.4.2b: SP5 merging

14.3.2i: SP5 conversion. Previously used 14.3.2d for the first 1/2 and 14.3.2h for the remaining.

Analysis

analysis-21 aka 14.5.2: You must also check the latest extra tags for important bug fixes.

Interactive Kanga Access

14.5.3: same as 14.5.2 but with the additional feature of using beta candidates in the "interactive" Kanga framework.

15.x Development

Next release: 15.8.0 (as soon as some problems in simu,and merging are sorted out)

15.7.1: This release is currently being used for PR and skimming tests.
In addition to the old 2 platforms it includes the new RHEL3 and SunOS59Forte7, which are not yet validated for production. Any new code must compile on all 4 platforms.

15.6.0: This is the first development release after the Framework APP* to App* migration.

15.5.0: 1st release after IOstreams migration

15.4.0: last release before IOstreams migration

15.3.0: mainly fixing the known problems in 15.2.0

15.2.0: All production executables run OOTB. Moose crashed with a problem related to a recent change in CLHEP. The problem needs to be fixed in DrcMakeHits. Fix now avialble. See http://babar-hn.slac.stanford.edu:5090/HyperNews/get/prelimbugs/5181.html