v37.0.0

37.0.0

🚀 Features

• Memory dense MeasurementContainer for Examples (#3528) by @andiwand
• Detray geometry/material conversion in examples (#3579) by @asalzburger
• Allow user to supply root branch to Core CKF (#3534) by @andiwand
• Add counters to propagation summary (#3602) by @asalzburger
• Generalized conversion of FullPhysicalVolume (#3585) by @Berggren-Jonas
• Broadcast dataflow check to python (#3624) by @asalzburger
• Improvements to multitrajectory iterators (#3619) by @stephenswat
• (util) Add GraphViz helper types (#3635) by @paulgessinger
• Allow digitization to save cells (#3626) by @stephenswat
• Add Detray surface grid converter (#3608) by @asalzburger
• Add measurement emplace functions (#3627) by @stephenswat
• Added new SVG functionality (#3649) by @asalzburger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Track-EDM like implementation for the space points, to be used in the seeding (#3432) by @CarloVarni
• Allow detray sterile/non-sterile propagation (#3652) by @asalzburger
• Support seed from N space points (#3645) by @CarloVarni
• Enable geant4 propagation xcheck (#3657) by @asalzburger
• Adding possibility to read flat surface container (#3668) by @asalzburger
• (geo) TrackingVolume gets portal storage (#3673) by @paulgessinger
• (geo) TrackingVolume gets surface storage (#3675) by @paulgessinger
• Allow volume constrain for propagation (#3470) by @andiwand
• (geo) Extent designated initialization (#3680) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: (fix + chore) streamline nSegments usage (#3419) by @asalzburger
• Allow Style setting for IndexedSurfaceGrid in Svg (#3686) by @asalzburger
• Add test for space point edm (#3690) by @CarloVarni
• Gen 3 portal shells (#3564) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Add a radius bin to the grid (#3662) by @CarloVarni
• Add support for Timed Clusterization (#3654) by @CarloVarni

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Allow resetting reference surface in Track EDM (#3586) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Make material validity checks and construction explicit (#3494) by @AJPfleger
• Remove pre-C++20 std::identity implementation (#3599) by @AJPfleger
• Stitch tracks correctly after second pass in Examples Track Finding (#3597) by @andiwand
• Adding GeomentryId to detray portals (#3606) by @asalzburger
• Remove using namespace in Detray plugin header (#3616) by @paulgessinger
• Reject outliers while trimming track states in Core CKF (#3644) by @andiwand
• Reject material states when no measurements are found yet in Core CKF (#3648) by @andiwand
• Added GeoShapeSubtraction converter for the failing conversion of RPCs to SensitiveSurface (#3592) by @Berggren-Jonas
• Kf+gsf: correct hole-tagging for edge case (#3637) by @AJPfleger
• Replace asctime with strftime for safer date formatting (#3658) by @AJPfleger
• (gx2f) New error UsedUnreachableMeasurements (#3653) by @AJPfleger
• Fix Warning messages (#3679) by @CarloVarni
• Correct initial q/p covariance term in TrackParamsEstimationAlgorithm in Examples (#3665) by @andiwand
• Fit iterator traits for ContainerIndexIterator (#3689) by @CarloVarni
• BinUtility was auto-convertible from Transform3 (#3691) by @paulgessinger

🚜 Refactor

• Write smoothed states in GX2F (#3584) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Remove Utilities/detail/Subspace.hpp (#3589) by @andiwand
• Rework tracklet handling in Examples track finding (#3587) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Template algorithms on track container frontend TrackContainer (#3193) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Remove EventData/TrackHelpers.hpp (#3588) by @andiwand
• Write unbiased states only for smoothed in RootTrackStatesWriter (#3561) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Remove deprecated API (#3591) by @andiwand
• Volume holds bounds as mutable (#3595) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Path handling to use std::filesystem (#3308) by @AJPfleger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Replace EigenStepper extension list with single extension (#2865) by @andiwand
• Replace Acts::min_max with std::ranges::minmax_element (#3601) by @AJPfleger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Rename EigenStepper dense extension (#3603) by @andiwand
• Update to_array (#3600) by @AJPfleger
• Modernise GeometryHierarchyMap (#3594) by @AJPfleger
• Add C++23 std::ranges::contains place holder (#3598) by @AJPfleger
• Changed the GeoModelToDetectorVolume to be able to return Acts::Volumes (#3576) by @Berggren-Jonas
• Use std::ranges::sort and reverse (#3596) by @AJPfleger
• 🚨 BREAKING: VolumeBounds becomes a scoped enum (#3513) by @paulgessinger
• Make ViewConfig usable with designated initializers (#3613) by @paulgessinger
• TrackingGeometry interface cleanup (#3612) by @paulgessinger
• Improved Python bindings for algebra types (#3611) by @paulgessinger
• Modified from_json in AmbiguityConfigJson for easier implementation in Athena (#3628) by @Ragansu
• Visualization3D location and API (#3622) by @paulgessinger
• (geo) Portal(Link)+Surface verbosity reduction (#3636) by @paulgessinger
• Reduce abuse of auto in mbf smoother (#3630) by @CarloVarni
• 🚨 BREAKING: SourceLink setting only via rvalue reference (#3488) by @paulgessinger
• Remove Sequencer dataflow override (#3625) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Fuse Actor and Aborter (#3573) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Converge to naming sourceLink (#3647) by @AJPfleger
• Remove MPL library (#3642) by @stephenswat
• 🚨 BREAKING: Return all track states from Core CKF (#3391) by @andiwand
• Remove redundant operator!=, introduce operator<=> (#3660) by @AJPfleger
• Remove inline from constexpr functions for clarity (#3659) by @AJPfleger
• Use contains for maps and sets (#3670) by @AJPfleger
• Modernise type traits (#3655) by @AJPfleger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Remove mean reduction from MultiEigenStepperLoop (#3671) by @andiwand
• Enhance RootTrackParameterWriter with residuals and pulls (#3666) by @andiwand
• Removed maxHits condition from ScoreBasedAmbiguitySolver (#3676) by @Ragansu
• Use std::ranges:find, find_if, find_if_not (#3614) by @AJPfleger
• Unify proxy iterator types (#3664) by @stephenswat
• Use std::ranges::all_of, any_of, none_of (#3593) by @AJPfleger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Do not use geometry extent during seeding (#3688) by @CarloVarni
• (geo) Add portals + surfaces to closeGeometry and visitSurfaces (#3678) by @paulgessinger
• Use std::atan2 instead of atan2f (#3695) by @CarloVarni

📚 Documentation

• Add minimal Spack spec for ACTS core (#3638) by @stephenswat

⚡ Performance

• Use sympy generated transport jacobians for sympy covariance transport (#3650) by @andiwand

🧪 Testing

• (gx2f) Remove ToyDetectorYdirection relic (#3669) by @AJPfleger

🛠️ Build

• Update traccc to v0.16.0 (#3634) by @stephenswat
• Use patch to apply patch for Annoy (#3667) by @paulgessinger
• Use tarball download for Annoy (#3672) by @paulgessinger

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• (sonarcloud) Fix shallow clone (#3590) by @AJPfleger
• Fix doc commment flavor in BoundingBox (#3621) by @paulgessinger
• Synchronize versions (#3631) by @asalzburger
• Run clang-tidy on the ActSVG plugin (#3639) by @stephenswat
• Update ACTSVG version (#3643) by @asalzburger
• Update to detray version v0.75.3 (#3646) by @asalzburger
• Bump core count in GitLab CI to 8 (#3651) by @paulgessinger
• Require Sonar Analysis (#3663) by @paulgessinger
• GitLab -j6 (#3677) by @paulgessinger
• Update license header (#3623) by @AJPfleger