ROOT Version 5.20/00 Release Notes

ROOT version 5.20/00 has been released June 25, 2008. In case you are upgrading from version 5.14, please read the releases notes of version 5.16 and version 5.18 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
SQL - database interfaces
TMVA - multivariate analysis tools
Trees - ROOT's unique container class and related utilities

Binaries for all supported platforms are available at:

      http://root.cern.ch/root/Version520.html

Versions for AFS have also been updated. See the list of supported platforms:

      http://root.cern.ch/Welcome.html

For more information, see:

      http://root.cern.ch

The following people have contributed to this new version:
Ilka Antcheva,
Jean-François Bastien,
Bertrand Bellenot,
Rene Brun,
Philippe Canal,
Olivier Couet,
Valeri Fine,
Leo Franco,
Gerri Ganis,
Andrei Gheata,
Mihaela Gheata,
David Gonzalez Maline,
Andreas Hoecker,
Jan Iwaszkiewicz,
Lukasz Janyst,
Anna Kreshuk,
Wim Lavrijsen,
Sergei Linev,
Anar Manafov,
Diego Marcos-Segura,
Lorenzo Moneta,
Axel Naumann,
Mathieu de Naurois,
Eddy Offermann,
Valeriy Onuchin,
Timur Pocheptsov,
Fons Rademakers,
Paul Russo,
Alja Tadel,
Matevz Tadel,
Wouter Verkerke,
Guido Volpi,
Hady Zalek