v3.5.12 - "official 3.5 update release"

What's Changed

• Platform support and installation procedures

  • McStas + McXtrace: Allow to build installable packages for linux aarch64 Debian / arm64 by @willend in #1702
  • McStas + McXtrace: Install mcstasscript from conda in the meta-packages. by @willend in #1724

• Please note that the packages are currently NOT available via the packages.mccode.org repo - and that you will have to manually uninstall McStas/McXtrace 3.5.1 before attempting to install 3.5.12

• Code generator and runtime-code

  • McStas + McXtrace: Fix for SPLIT + GROUP issue: In instruments with a SPLIT N followed by a GROUP, the last N-1 particles would become lost. by @willend in #1760
  • McStas + McXtrace: Implement combined OpenACC multicore + gpu in same binary. Enable by adding
    "OACCFLAGS": "-fast -Minfo=accel -acc=gpu,multicore -gpu=managed -DOPENACC -DMULTICORE", to your mccode_config.json by @willend in #1761
  • McStas + McXtrace: Add -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE on macOS, required for correctly using #include <stdio.h> by @willend in #1703

• Component bugfixes and improvements

  • McStas + McXtrace: Make use of mcpl_dump() in MCPL_output verbose mode by @willend in #1704
  • McStas: MCPL_input, correction of #1733 by @willend in #1734
  • McStas: [Fix] compilation error, if not behavior in Pol_guide_vmirror.comp by @g5t in #1708
  • McStas: Fix contributed component type mismatches (Monochromator_bent and Statistical_Chopper) @g5t in #1714
  • McStas: Union restructure share includes by @willend in #1716
  • McStas: PowderN: fixing tth_sign argument by @farhi in #1727 and Fix for #1741 by @willend in #1745
  • McXtrace: Add Collimator_linear port McStas -> McXtrace by @willend in #1737
  • McStas + McXtrace: Removal of all DECLARATION and OUTPUT parameters by @willend in #1754
  • McStas + McXtrace Fix SX issue from minghuisvn by @willend in #1755
  • Sync McStas <-> McXtrace powdern focusing algo for #1741 by @willend in #1747 + consequence-edits in #1748
  • McStas + McXtrace: Source_div_quasi fix for #1735 by @ebknudsen in #1759
  • McStas + McXtrace Single_crystal:
    • McStas: Fix #1732: Single_crystal powder mode was broken by #1521 by @farhi in #1738
    • Fixes for #1728 by @willend in #1731
    • Fix of Single_crystal reuse optimization by @mads-bertelsen in #1726
    • To allow compilation for GPU hardware, drop all tau_lists in OPENACC case by @willend in #1751
    • Introduction of order=0.5 mode in Single_crystal by @mads-bertelsen in #1762
    • Fix of order system in Single_crystal by @mads-bertelsen in #1764
    • Added order_extra feature for Single_crystal by @mads-bertelsen in #1767

• Instrument updates

  • McStas: Test_DiskChoppers2 [Fix] missing pointer dereferences by @g5t in #1710
  • McStas: Add a an updated (%)Example line for Test_StatisticalChopper by @willend in #1715
  • McStas: Fix these instruments to use "local" inputfile by @willend in #1729
  • McXtrace: NECSA X ray machines by @farhi in #1742
  • McStas: Expand on Test_Powders from Mads by @willend in #1766

• Python tool layer

  • McStas + McXtrace: Fix to comp-forms in mcdoc pages by @willend in #1723 (fixes #1722)
  • McStas + McXtrace: mcrun/mxrun optimization: allows to specify criteria expression by @farhi in #1743
  • McStas + McXtrace: mcrun/mxrun optimisation: better choice for missing dX/dY by @farhi in #1744
  • McStas + McXtrace: mccode-antlr: Add mccode_config / m[c,x]run entry for MCCOGEN by @willend in #1749
  • McStas + McXtrace: config updates for the added "MCCOGEN" setting by @willend in #1750
  • McStas + McXtrace: Add -n in supplement of --ncount, allow match including .instr by @willend in #1753
  • McStas: Strip off arguments not understood by mcdisplay-mantid by @willend in #1757
  • McStas + McXtrace: Intermediate fix for #1768 by @willend in #1769
  • McStas + McXtrace: Fix for issue 1763 and related issue propagating --no-output-files by @willend in #1765

• Documentation etc.

  • Add binder link in the "Docker" / container README by @willend in #1700
  • Document install steps around macOS 15 tightened security by @willend in #1706
  • Installation rewording for conda-envs by @willend in #1756

Full Changelog: v3.5.1...v3.5.12

Specific issues solved:: https://github.com/McStasMcXtrace/McCode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22ready+for+release%22+label%3Amcstas-3.5.1+label%3Amcxtrace-3.5.1+