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# ROOT Version 5.28/00 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, cern

ROOT version 5.27/04 has been released on June 30 2010. In case you are upgrading from an old version, please read the releases notes of version 5.16, 5.18, 5.20, 5.22, 5.24 and version 5.26 in addition to these notes.

The production version is scheduled for December 2010, but it could happen earlier in case the LHC experiments request a release.

- 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
- Tutorials - ROOT's Tutorials

Binaries for all supported platforms are available at:

          http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-version-528

For more information, see:

          http://root.cern.ch

The following people have contributed to this new version:
Alberto Annovi, INFN, TH1,
Kevin Belasco, Princeton University, RooStats,
Bertrand Bellenot, CERN/SFT,
Rene Brun, CERN/SFT,
Philippe Canal, FNAL,
Olivier Couet, CERN/SFT,
Kyle Cranmer, NYU, RooStats,
Jason Detwiler, LBL, TClonesArray,
Valeri Fine, BNL/STAR,
Fabrizio Furano, CERN/IT,
Gerri Ganis, CERN/SFT,
Andrei Gheata, CERN/Alice,
Oleksandr Grebenyuk, GSI, TLatex, TPostScript,
Christian Gumpert, CERN and University Dresden, TEfficiency
Bill Heintzelman, UPENN, TTree,
Andreas Hoecker, CERN/Atlas, TMVA,
Pierre Juillot, IN2P3, PostScript,
Folkert Koetsveld, Nijmegen, RooFit,
Alex Koutsman, Nikhef, RooFit,
Sven Kreiss, NYU, RooStats,
Wim Lavrijsen, LBNL, PyRoot,
Sergei Linev, GSI,
Benno List, Desy, MathCore and MathMore,
Anar Manafov, GSI,
Mike Marino, TUM, pyroot/tutorials
Ramon Medrano Llamas, University of Oviedo, PROOF
Biagio di Micco, Pythia8,
Lorenzo Moneta, CERN/SFT,
Axel Naumann, CERN/SFT,
Eddy Offermann, Renaissance,
Bartolomeu Rabacal, CERN/ADL, Math,
Fons Rademakers, CERN/SFT,
Paul Russo, FNAL,
Sangsu Ryu, KISTI, PROOF
Stefan Schmitt, Desy, TUnfold,
Gregory Schott, Karlsruhe/CMS, RooStats,
Benoit Speckel, IN2P3, Fonts,
Peter Speckmayer, CERN, CLIC, TMVA,
Joerg Stelzer, DESY/Atlas, TMVA,
Alja Tadel, CERN/CMS, Eve,
Matevz Tadel, CERN/Alice, Eve,
Jan Therhaag, University Bonn, ATLAS, TMVA,
Eckhard von Toerne, University Bonn, ATLAS, TMVA,
Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF/Atlas, RooFit,
Helge Voss, MPI Heidelberg, LHCb, TMVA