# ROOT Version 5.24/00 Release Notes
ROOT - An Object Oriented Framework For Large Scale Data Analysis.
Keywords: software development, oo, object oriented, unix, x11, windows, c++, html, rene brun, fons rademakers

ROOT version 5.24/00 will be released end of June 2009. In case you are upgrading from an old version, please read the releases notes of version 5.16, 5.18, 5.20 and version 5.22 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/Version521.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:
Kevin Belasco, N/A, Princeton University for MCMC,
Bertrand Bellenot, CERN/SFT,
Rene Brun, CERN/SFT,
Philippe Canal, FNAL,
Or Cohen, CERN & Weizmann, TMVA
Olivier Couet, CERN/SFT,
Kyle Cranmer, NYU/Atlas, RooStats
Dominik Dannheim, MPI-Munich/Atlas, TMVA
Valeri Fine, BNL/STAR,
Gerri Ganis, CERN/SFT,
Andrei Gheata, CERN/Alice,
Mihaela Gheata, CERN/Alice,
David Gonzalez Maline, CERN/SFT,
Roberto Gracia Del Baņo, Universidad de Valencia, recorder,
Andreas Hoecker, CERN/Atlas, TMVA
Jan Iwaszkiewicz, CERN,
Lukasz Janyst, CERN/IT,
Anna Kreshuk, GSI,
Wim Lavrijsen, LBNL, PyRoot
Alfio Lazzaro, Milano/AtlasMinuit
George Lewis, New York University/Atlas for SPlot,
Josef Leydold, TU Vienna, Unuran
Sergei Linev, GSI,
Johan Lundberg, CERN/Atlas, class TRolke
Anar Manafov, GSI,
Lorenzo Moneta, CERN/SFT,
Axel Naumann, CERN/SFT,
Eddy Offermann, Renaissance,
Katerina Opocenska, Charles University of Prague, recorder,
Rustem Ospanov, CERN/Atlas, TMVA
Mario Pelliccioni, Turin/CMS, RooStats
Timur Pocheptsov, JINR/Dubna,
Fons Rademakers, CERN/SFT,
Paul Russo, FNAL,
Manuel Schiller, Heidelberg/LHCb, SMatrix,
Gregory Schott, Karlsruhe/CMS, RooStats
Stefan Schmitt, DESY, TUnfold
Peter Speckmayer, CERN/Atlas, TMVA
Joerg Stelzer, DESY/Atlas, TMVA
Matthew Strait, umn.edu, doc
Alja Tadel, CERN/CMS, Eve
Matevz Tadel, CERN/Alice, Eve
Jan Therhaag, Bonn/Atlas, TMVA
Eckhard von Toerne, Bonn/Atlas, TMVA
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF/Atlas, RooFit
Alexander Voigt, Dresden/Atlas, TMVA
Helge Voss, MPI-K-Heidelberg/Atlas, TMVA
Andrzej Zemlja, IFJ-Krakow/Atlas