[ROOT] ROOT development release 4.00/03 is now available

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Mar 25 2004 - 12:25:51 MET


Dear Rooters,

We have the pleasure to announce a new development release(ROOT 4.00/03)

Tar files for the source, documentation and binaries are available at:

   http://root.cern.ch/root/Version400.html
   http://root.cern.ch/root/html/examples/V4.00.txt.html

The corresponding CVS tag is v4-00-03.

The AFS versions of 4.00/03 can be found at: 

  /afs/cern.ch/sw/root/v4.00.03/rh73_gcc32/root   for Redhat7.3 gcc3.2
  /afs/cern.ch/sw/root/v4.00.03/rh73_gcc296/root  for Redhat7.3 gcc2.96
  /afs/cern.ch/sw/root/v4.00.03/sun4x_58/root     for Solaris5.8 CC5.2


Summary of the main features in version 4.00/03 (w.r.t. 4.00/02)
===============================================================
    Many improvements in the Tree query mechanism. 
    Many improvements for STL collections (rootcint and Trees). 
    Many improvements in the Matrix classes.
      See Matrix Inversion
Tutorial                                                        
http://root.cern.ch/root/html/examples/invertMatrix.C.html
    New function TGraph::Eval. 
    Many improvements in the authentication classes. 
    PDF files are now compressed by default. 
    Many improvements in the GUI for win32gdk. 
    TTree::BuildIndex may be used with a majorname only. 
    $ROOTSYS/bin/hadd is now able to merge files containing histograms 
      and Trees. 

For more details on all the developments see the development notes.


The ROOT team



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