Description: ROOT - An Object Oriented Framework For Large Scale Data Analysis.
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# ROOT Version 5.26/00 Release Notes

ROOT version 5.26/00 will be released on December 15 2009. In case you are upgrading from an old version, please read the releases notes of version 5.16, 5.18, 5.20, 5.22 and version 5.24 in addition to these notes.

- Bindings - packages related to the interplay with other programming languages (Python, Ruby)
- Cint - the C++ interpreter
- Core - the basic ROOT functionality
- Geometry - building, representing and drawing geometrical objects
- 2D Graphics - ROOT's two dimensional graphics interface
- 3D Graphics - ROOT's three dimensional graphics interface
- Graphical User Interface - from basic GUI elements to ROOT's own, complete dialogs
- Histograming - counting values, spectra, and drawing them
- HTML - the documentation generator
- Input/Ouput - storing and reading data
- Mathemathics - everything one can use to calculate: minimizers, matrixes, FFT, and much more
- Miscellaneous - things that didn't make it into the other groups: table
- Monte Carlo - monte carlo and physics simulation interfaces
- Networking - network-related parts, e.g. protocols and authentication interfaces
- PROOF - parallel ROOT facility
- RooFit - a fitting library
- RooStats - a collection of statistical tools
- SQL - database interfaces
- TMVA - multivariate analysis tools
- Trees - ROOT's unique container class and related utilities

Binaries for all supported platforms are available at:

          https://root.cern/releases/release-52600/

For more information, see:

          http://root.cern.ch

The following people have contributed to this new version:
Bertrand Bellenot, CERN/SFT,
Brian Bockelman, UNL,
Rene Brun, CERN/SFT,
Philippe Canal, FNAL,
Olivier Couet, CERN/SFT,
Kyle Cranmer, NYU/Atlas, RooStats
Valeri Fine, BNL/STAR,
Lucie Flekova, CERN/SFT summer student,
Fabrizio Furano, CERN/IT,
Gerri Ganis, CERN/SFT,
Andrei Gheata, CERN/Alice,
Mary-Louise Gill, CERN/SFT summer student,
David Gonzalez Maline, CERN/SFT,
Andreas Hoecker, CERN/Atlas, TMVA
Louis Höfler,
Jan Iwaszkiewicz, CERN,
Daniele Kruse, CERN, GDML
Wim Lavrijsen, LBNL, PyRoot
Alfio Lazzaro, Milano/AtlasMinuit
Sergei Linev, GSI,
Anar Manafov, GSI,
Lorenzo Moneta, CERN/SFT,
Axel Naumann, CERN/SFT,
Eddy Offermann, Renaissance,
Danilo Piparo, Karlsruhe/CMS, RooStats,
Timur Pocheptsov, JINR/Dubna,
Fons Rademakers, CERN/SFT,
Philip Rodrigues, Oxford, Doc,
Paul Russo, FNAL,
Gregory Schott, Karlsruhe/CMS, RooStats,
Tomasz Sosnicki, CERN/SFT summer student,
Joerg Stelzer, DESY/Atlas, TMVA
Matthew Strait, UMN.edu DOC
Alja Tadel, CERN/CMS, Eve
Matevz Tadel, CERN/Alice, Eve
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF/Atlas, RooFit,
Matthias Wolf, Karlsruhe/CMS, RooStats