Routine release

An important update is fix of a bug in event filtering with user-defined plugins (see below).

Bugfixes:

• Event filtering in user-defined plugins is enabled. Before that the filter decision returned by a plugin was ignored.
• A guard against a missing pile-up reweighting has been added. Before omitting pile-up reweighting in a multi-thread run caused a segfault.

Improvements:

• An exception is thrown if a source file cannot be read.
• Test programs updated to the new PEC files.

Routine release

An importand update is a change of the default cut on electron MVA ID to 0.9 (see below). The previous cut was too loose in terms of suppressing QCD.

Bugfixes:

• Changed the default cut on electron MVA ID to 0.9 instead of 0.5 (#11)
• Disables calculation of event weight in case of real data (when applicable) (#8)

Improvements:

• Added to Processor non-throwing methods to access plugins
• Added a plugin to filter on the number of jets above a pt threshold

Release aligned with 2012Bravo campaign

This release incorporates updates to read PEC files created by the single-top package of version 53X.02.01. This version is expected to be used in the 2012Bravo Grid campaign. Note that starting from the current release 3.3.0 PECLocalFwk is no longer capable of reading PEC files from 2012Alpha_v2 campaign.

Selected updates in the release:

• Code related to trigger selection is updated to match the brand-new plugin to store trigger results in the single-top package
• Code to do trigger selection is also factorised and made more logical
• Added class FileInPath to deal with relative paths for absolute files in a convenient manner
• Some short-cuts added to GenParticle class
• Added an access to jet electric charge and pull angle
• Many minor bug fixes and improvements to documentation