Description: 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 5.20/00 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