ROOT version 5.11/02 is released

The first development release of ROOT 5.11/02 is now available.

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

           http://root.cern.ch/root/Version511.news.html
           http://root.cern.ch/root/Version511.html

The CVS tag for this version is v5-11-02.

Highlights of this new version:

• Use of precompiled headers in the build system
• Many developments in PROOF
• Improvements in the SQL interfaces. New package ODBC.
• GL in the pad. Many improvements
• Grayscale option to print or preview a canvas
• New option in TGraph to draw an exclusion area
• GUI Builder; Important developments. More coming shortly
• A new lightweight Qt interface from GSI
• New Fast Fourier Transform package FFTW
• many improvements in MathCore, Smatrix and TMatrix

The production release (will be version 5.12) is planned for this summer. The precise date will depend on the progress of the CINT/Reflex integration.

On behalf of the ROOT team

Rene Brun Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 09:33:12 MEST