Rivet release 2.6.0

We are very pleased to release Rivet 2.6.0. This major release heralds several new analyses, and minor improvements and bugfixes, but also lots of important stuff behind the scenes.

We are very pleased to release Rivet 2.6.0. This major release heralds several new analyses, and minor improvements and bugfixes, but also lots of important stuff behind the scenes:

• Rivet can now read gzipped HepMC files, and write gzipped YODA files :-)
• Addition of a recursive composite structure to Particle, which enables a lot of cool stuff and is taking us toward an even more unified picture of particles and jets in the Rivet framework, although the latter is not there yet.
• A new analysis build system, making builds faster and more uniform, and integration of contrib analyses much easier.
• Lots of extensions to the filtering and functors system, and improvements to the detector parametrisation and machinery. In particular there’s now a very lightweight way to pass multiple smearing/efficiency functors in a list, and they’ll be executed sequentially through a uniform interface.