ROOT Version 5.08/00 Patch Release Notes

A new production version ROOT 5.08/00b has been released January 24, 2006.

Binaries are currently not available for patch releases.

The complete source tree for all systems (17.8 MB) is available here:

      ftp://root.cern.ch/root/root_v5.08.00b.source.tar.gz

Alternatively get the source from CVS using:

      cvs -d :pserver:cvs@root.cern.ch:/user/cvs export -r v5-08-00b root

After obtaining the source read the file root/README/INSTALL.

Fons Rademakers, for The ROOT Team.

Fix a problem in TH1::Fit() when the option "I" (Integral) is requested. In this case, the internal cache may be overwritten.
Fixes in Reflex source code generation:
- Rename cpp selction namespace (ROOT::Reflex::Selection)
- Check for inner private base classes in shadow classes
- Rename dummy types for unnamed enums and unknown types
- Fix for type generation of pointer to const/volatile member
- Fix for type generation of templated member operators
- Fix for counting of template parameters containing parentheses
- Add selections also after exclusion of classes
Fixes in Reflex library:
- Member.h: new function Member::IsArtificial()
- Fix for checking of preceding "::" in type and scope names
Cintex:
- Functions returning complex objects by value and throwing exception were inducing double memory deletes (PyCOOL problem)
- Fixed improper handling of functions returning void*
- Forwarding on CPP macros to CINT through the EnumBuilder
Trees:
- When uing the fast merging option, make sure that the maximum size of the collections is properly updated (TBranchElement::fMaximum)
SMatrix:
- Fix compilation error of reflex dictionary for not squared matrices