Release Notes for OPAL 2024.1

Fix hard coded momentum tolerance (#727)

Fix for running FFA in parallel (#747)

Fix implementation of trimcoils (#750)

Fix segmentation fault due to out of range field lookup (#751)

The minimum version of Trilinos is set to >=13.0 (#756)

Fix ascii2h5block tool (#763)

Fix grid indexes for interpolations (#767)

Fix linking problems with Boost library (#770)

Fix division by zero check (#771)

Fix masks (#775)

Fix multiple-time-stepping integrator (#778)

Fix SDDS output file with MPI load balancing information (#779)

Fix lost particles from geometry (#781)

Fix single particle simulations (#782)

Fix monitor memory usage (#792)

New boost’s matrix and vector_t operations (#716)

FFA lattice in PyOPAL (#745, #758, #766)

New RINGDEFINITION attribute (BEAM_THETAINIT, default=0.0) to define an angular offset (in [deg]) of the beam relative to the tangent vector, in the x-y plane (#764)

Elliptical shape for DEGRADER (#786)

New element OUTPUTPLANE (#793)

Smart pointers for fieldmaps (#744)

Improve error message for using protected keywords (#748)

Verify correct values for some input parameters (#759, !619)

Implement inform from all nodes independently by each object (#760)

MAX_R and MIN_R attributes of RINGDEFINITION (#790)

Replace deprecated sprintf (#752)

Fix variables assigned but not used (#753)

Remove deprecated Tpetra functions (#755, #769)

Unify methods to check integers (#761)

Unify internal units in elements (#762, #773, #787)

Use scoped enumerations to overcome string comparison (#772, #776, #783)

PyOPAL cmake option (#788, #807)

Use C++ standard functions instead of Boost (#797, #798, #799)

New BEAM attribute (MOMENTUMTOLERANCE, default=1e-2) setting a fractional tolerance to deviations in the distribution compared to the reference data at initialization (#764, #765)

Fix HDF5 output write (#785)

AWA EXX Beamline : TCAV

AWA Drive Linac : Traveling Wave Structure