42.1.0

🚀 Features

• Add a fastjet plugin (#3617) by @gagnonlg
• Move Root based MaterialTrack reading/writing from Examples to Plugins (#4353) by @asalzburger
• Examples - Introduce simple barrel MS geometry for GeoModel (#4382) by @junggjo9
• Implement volume material propagation with SympyStepper (#4132) by @andiwand
• Json I/O for Seeding2 configs (#4395) by @andiwand
• Allow dropping extra columns in SpacePointContainer2 (#4399) by @andiwand
• Add eic-shell CI build (#4297) by @veprbl
• Move ROOT surface material map I/O to plugins (#4400) by @asalzburger
• Add ROOT space point I/O (#4398) by @andiwand
• GeoModel + G4 simulation pipeline (#4276) by @junggjo9
• Add generic pointer concept (#4182) by @junggjo9
• Add noexcept specifier to Acts::Any (#3743) by @benjaminhuth
• Add few new math helper functions (#4284) by @junggjo9
• Introduce alignment decorator for Examples (#4377) by @asalzburger
• TrackingVolume gets access method to nav policy (#4444) by @paulgessinger

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Consistently use 2T field for seeding config (again) (#4393) by @andiwand
• Prefer external surface candidates in Navigation (#3989) by @andiwand
• Store also empty Hough vertex collection (#4411) by @pbalek
• Efficiency printout for TrackFinderPerformanceWriter (#4417) by @benjaminhuth
• Do not make a copy in SensitiveSurfaceMapper (#4422) by @ntadej
• Edm4hep reader with high complexity events (#4396) by @paulgessinger
• TrapezoidVolumeBounds - Fix printout legend (#4426) by @junggjo9
• Add material typedefs back with deprecation (#4425) by @paulgessinger
• Gx2Fitter - Initialize the propagator from Plain options (#4431) by @junggjo9
• Take iterator distance within vector in AxisDefinitions (#4456) by @wdconinc

◀️ Revert

• Build: Add compile check for std::format (originally #4415) (#4418) by @paulgessinger
• Feat: move ROOT surface material map I/O to plugins [originally #4400] (#4424) by @paulgessinger

🚜 Refactor

• Restructure of clustering algorihtm (#4391) by @CarloVarni
• Narrow next target requirement in Propagator (#4388) by @andiwand
• Use std::uint32_t to index new space points and seeds (#4394) by @andiwand
• Remove overlapping surfaces during navigation (#4389) by @andiwand
• PodioReader uses scoped timer (#4402) by @paulgessinger
• VertexNTupleWriter error handling improvements (#4403) by @paulgessinger
• Timer utility: use nanoseconds internally (#4405) by @paulgessinger
• MultiIndex checks and throws if values overflow (#4401) by @paulgessinger
• Derived seeding configs via constructor (#4397) by @andiwand
• GeoModelObjectFactory - Don't use std::tuple to safe the assebmled objects (#4410) by @junggjo9
• ActsExamples - Refactor how Surfaces are associated with G4Volumes (#4409) by @junggjo9
• Couple of improvements to SpacePointContainer2 (#4404) by @andiwand
• Use uv build backend for codegen project (#4434) by @paulgessinger
• Improve flexibility of CylindricalSpacePointGrid2 (#4432) by @andiwand
• Use space point ranges in BroadTripletSeedFinder (#4437) by @andiwand
• (gen3) Material designator node takes arbitrary surface material (#4441) by @paulgessinger
• Use zip in DoubletSeedFinder (#4439) by @andiwand
• Tracking geometry visitor does not call surface on portals (#4442) by @paulgessinger
• Shuffle if statement in DoubletSeedFinder (#4446) by @andiwand
• Generalized template unrolling for DoubletSeedFinder implementation (#4447) by @andiwand

⚡ Performance

• Couple of optimizations for Seeding2 (#4392) by @andiwand

🛠️ Build

• Add compile check for std::format (#4415) by @paulgessinger
• Bump uv to v0.7.19 (#4407) by @paulgessinger
• Do not scan for C++ modules on new versions of CMake (#4421) by @ntadej
• VecMem Setup Fix (#4451) by @krasznaa

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Cleanup namespaces and includes of Geometry, MagneticField, and Surfaces (#4385) by @andiwand
• Reraise exception in lockfile selection (#4413) by @paulgessinger
• Add devcontainer configuration (#4412) by @paulgessinger
• Remove Ubuntu22.04 (#4378) by @paulgessinger
• Bump codegen python package version (#4419) by @andiwand
• Add check for devcontainer configuration (#4414) by @paulgessinger
• Update doxygen documentation format (#4427) by @junggjo9
• Encapsulate GeometryIdentifer to JSON writing (#4429) by @asalzburger
• Geometry.py bugfix (#4436) by @surnairit
• Fix spack builds (#4445) by @paulgessinger
• Add LCG107a and LCG108 jobs (#4438) by @paulgessinger
• Bump detray to 0.101.0 (#4449) by @paulgessinger

42.0.0

🚀 Features

• GenericDetector Gen3 geometry construction (#4218) by @paulgessinger
• Gen3 Migration of MultiWireVolume Builder class and Navigation Policy for the Muons (#4256) by @dimitra97
• Strip spacepoints in examples (#4269) by @benjaminhuth
• Introduce BoundFactory class & use it in the GeoModel detector factory (#4290) by @junggjo9
• Truth Jet Algorithm using FastJet (#4267) by @delitez
• GeometryIdentifier assignment in the tracking geometry by manipulating the visiting order with a flag (#4266) by @dimitra97
• Add ROOT IO support to HepMC3 (#4317) by @paulgessinger
• (alignment) Detector elements with factories (#4299) by @asalzburger
• Common Alignment infrastructure & DD4hep contextual detector (#4305) by @asalzburger
• HepMC3 reader can read multiple files and merge them (#4344) by @paulgessinger
• Alignable TGeoDetector (#4369) by @asalzburger
• A new space point and seed container (#4341) by @andiwand
• Alignable GenericDetector (#4370) by @asalzburger
• Navigation with Gen3 geometry (#4219) by @paulgessinger
• Alignable GeoModelDetector (#4372) by @asalzburger
• BroadTripletSeedFinder using the new space point and seed EDM (#4324) by @andiwand

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Unbreak Athena seeding after #4263 (#4302) by @andiwand
• Zero remaining edges in TorchEdgeClassifier (#4325) by @benjaminhuth
• Consistently use float for seeding (#4334) by @andiwand
• Make ITrackingGeometryVisitor abstract (#4333) by @paulgessinger
• Consistently use 2T field for seeding config (#4335) by @andiwand
• Include guard protection for HepMC3::WriterRootTree (#4343) by @asalzburger
• Make geo context ref in multiwire volume builder const (#4346) by @dimitra97
• Better mass and charge for nuclei PDG (#4337) by @pbalek
• No underflow in gamma distribution (#4339) by @pbalek
• (dd4hep) Explicitly ignore sub detectors that are not TRACKER (#4364) by @paulgessinger
• Use chi2 only for same measurement count in GreedyAmbiguityResolution (#4347) by @andiwand
• Make std::filesystem a private link in Exatrkx plugin (#4366) by @murnanedaniel
• Inline Mutable to Const PodioTrackStateContainer c'tor (#4380) by @wdconinc

◀️ Revert

• Determine PR number/sha using GitHub API in report.yml by @paulgessinger

🚜 Refactor

• Cleanup some seeding code (#4263) by @andiwand
• Have .ipp files include their .hpp file (#4291) by @andiwand
• HepMC3 reader/writer read/write events in order (#4213) by @paulgessinger
• Use the Acts::Tensor to replace torch::Tensor (#4278) by @benjaminhuth
• Determine PR number/sha using GitHub API in report.yml (#4328) by @veprbl
• Remove internal units from seeding (#4326) by @andiwand
• TrivialPortalLink -> don't check on-surface in Release (#4349) by @paulgessinger
• Reduce complexity of highly nested blocks (#3633) by @AJPfleger
• Remove ContextualDetector (#4304) by @asalzburger
• NavStream uses emplace correctly, can be reset (#4350) by @paulgessinger
• Make BoundaryTolerance, (Object-)Intersection trivially movable and copyable (#4351) by @paulgessinger
• Determine PR number/sha using GitHub API in report.yml (#4361) by @veprbl
• 🚨 BREAKING: Options for RiddersPropagator (#4373) by @andiwand
• GeoModelTree gets its own list of published fullPhysVol (#4368) by @junggjo9

📚 Documentation

• Align variable names with full_chain_odd.py (#4331) by @DJDuque
• Update API versioning doc (#4311) by @paulgessinger
• Fix small typos in Portal docs (#4360) by @DJDuque
• Fix documentation typos (#4365) by @DJDuque

⚡ Performance

• Optimize sort and value range checks in SeedFinder (#4318) by @andiwand

🧪 Testing

• Remove dense propagation test (#4371) by @andiwand
• Clean propagation integration tests (#4376) by @andiwand

🛠️ Build

• Make finding torch-scatter optional (#4303) by @benjaminhuth
• Adjust to minimum dependency versions (#4323) by @paulgessinger

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Cleanup some Grid related code (#4312) by @andiwand
• Bump versions of traccc & friends (#4298) by @benjaminhuth
• Remove Legacy Plugin (#4313) by @andiwand
• Remove CUDA Plugin (#4314) by @andiwand
• Consistent use of std::ranges::for_each (#4319) by @asalzburger
• Bump dependency package to v11.1.0 (#4332) by @paulgessinger
• Try to use Bearer in GH Auth (#4338) by @paulgessinger
• Set version_number to 999.999.999 (#4342) by @paulgessinger
• Cleanup seeding namespaces (#4336) by @andiwand
• Consistent use of std::ranges::sort (#4320) by @asalzburger
• Turn compareRootFile.C into an executable (#4204) by @paulgessinger
• Add retry logic to the spack lockfile lookup, try without auth as last attempt (#4348) by @paulgessinger
• Switch macOS build to 15 + Xcode 16.3 / AppleClang 17 (#4355) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Rename TGeo to Root plugin (#4352) by @asalzburger

39.2.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (dd4hep) Explicitly ignore sub detectors that are not TRACKER

41.1.0

🚀 Features

• Add compression support to HepMC3 IO (#4207) by @paulgessinger
• Create curvilinear OR bound parameters at the end of propagation (#4227) by @andiwand
• Adding efficiency vs production radius to output root files (Revision of PR #3539 and #3981) (#4240) by @delitez
• (Examples) Add thread id to AlgorithmContext (#4236) by @paulgessinger
• Add junction removal for GNN track building (#4223) by @benjaminhuth
• Add initialSigmaQoverPt to estimateTrackParamCovariance (#4216) by @andiwand
• Add track "completeness" and "purity" to TrackFinderPerformanceWriter in Examples (#4245) by @andiwand
• (physmon) Compare GX2F vs KF truth tracking (#3889) by @AJPfleger
• Add trapezoid portal shells to StaticBlueprintNode (#4257) by @Matthewharri
• Add ModuleMap Stage for GNN graph construction (#4252) by @benjaminhuth
• Add examples script for GNN4ITk workflow (#4272) by @benjaminhuth
• GridPortalLink keeps merged trivial links (#4274) by @paulgessinger
• Introduction of alignment infrastructure (#4285) by @asalzburger
• Add ACTS Tensor class for GNN workflow (#4277) by @benjaminhuth

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add missing DirectedProtoAxis python bindings (#4220) by @paulgessinger
• Unbreak setting resize strategies from python (#4221) by @paulgessinger
• Retry smeared digitization if measurement is outside bounds in Examples (#4243) by @andiwand
• Add ttbar 200 seeding monitoring to physmon (#4248) by @andiwand
• Remove ROOT exposure from MuonHoughSeeder in Examples (#4249) by @andiwand
• Add missing CMake flag for TensorRT (#4253) by @benjaminhuth
• EDM4hep sim conv. allow separate vertices at same location (#4270) by @paulgessinger
• Geomodel.py - Fix SVG dump (#4288) by @junggjo9
• Make sure CalibrationContext gets copied to actor. (#4283) by @scott-snyder
• Various cmake issues related to the GNN workflow (#4295) by @benjaminhuth
• CMake for FRNN build (#4300) by @benjaminhuth

🚜 Refactor

• Decouple EvtGen from HepMC3 conversion (#4206) by @paulgessinger
• Improve implementation of CUDA connected components (#4222) by @benjaminhuth
• Material blueprint node: homogenous material support (#4198) by @paulgessinger
• (Examples) Sequencer coordination with readers & writers (#4226) by @paulgessinger
• Logger locks if writing to stdout (#4225) by @paulgessinger
• LayerBlueprintNode can have external proto layer (#4217) by @paulgessinger
• Improved EDM4hep reading and writing (#4138) by @paulgessinger
• Allow (const) ProtoLayer to construct from MutableProtoLayer (#4231) by @paulgessinger
• Reduce verbosity on a number of Algorithms (#4241) by @paulgessinger
• (python) Geometry binding fix and improvement (#4239) by @paulgessinger
• (Examples) Replace the drift circle & simHit EDM by the MuonSpacePoint & MuonSegmentEDM (#4180) by @junggjo9
• Central and explicit configs for Examples (#4244) by @andiwand
• Use central truth matching for TruthVertexFinder in Examples (#4211) by @andiwand
• Use truncated gaussian for ODD smeared digitization in Examples (#4246) by @andiwand
• Some GNN-related CMake refactorings (#4254) by @benjaminhuth
• Replace torch::Device with Acts::Device (#4260) by @benjaminhuth
• Improve naming of duplication/fake rate vs ratio in Examples (#4155) by @andiwand
• GNN python bindings (#4259) by @benjaminhuth
• Generic Detector construction (#4230) by @paulgessinger
• Improved binding of LayerCreator (#4268) by @benjaminhuth
• Add shared bound blueprint Tests (#4282) by @junggjo9
• Allow sensitive volumes to have children & improve documentation (#4287) by @junggjo9

📚 Documentation

• Add troubleshooting section for Spack (#3881) by @stephenswat

🧪 Testing

• Run pythia physmon in single-threaded (#4234) by @paulgessinger

🛠️ Build

• Allow to toggle setup of traccc subprojects (#4255) by @benjaminhuth
• (deps) Bump SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 (#4261) by @dependabot[bot]
• Use stable MMG tag instead of custom branch (#4281) by @benjaminhuth

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bump dependency versions + tag (#4228) by @paulgessinger
• Remove CVFMS setup scripts and update docs (#4233) by @AJPfleger
• Update pytest flags: verbosity + summary (#4229) by @paulgessinger
• Update actsvg, harmonize python bindings (#4250) by @asalzburger
• Automated python requirements upgrades (#3924) by @github-actions[bot]
• Bump dependency tag in Debug job (#4286) by @paulgessinger
• Small python cleanups (#4280) by @asalzburger
• Bump cmakeperf to 0.6.1 (#4292) by @paulgessinger
• Use smart pointer mechanism to create GeoModelObjects (#4289) by @junggjo9

41.0.0

🚀 Features

• Scoped timer utility (#4172) by @paulgessinger
• Add an averaging timer (#4186) by @paulgessinger
• Update athena dump reader (#4011) by @benjaminhuth
• External surfaces for GSF (#3970) by @benjaminhuth
• Good default cuts for edge classifiers (#4197) by @benjaminhuth
• Allow compiling examples without ROOT (#4090) by @benjaminhuth
• (Examples) Sequencer prints sequence element on failure (#4200) by @paulgessinger
• TrackingGeometry exposes Generation (#4201) by @paulgessinger
• Gen3 geometry SVG visualization support (#4202) by @paulgessinger
• Add Error message in SurfaceArrayNavigationPolicy (#4177) by @ldamenti
• Expose ScopedLoggingThreshold to python + test (#4208) by @paulgessinger
• Add Hough vertex finder (#4127) by @pbalek

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (gx2f) Catch empty trajectory after repropagation (#4183) by @AJPfleger
• (Examples) Sonar issues in Generic Detector construction (#4185) by @paulgessinger
• Out of bounds access in PrototracksToParameter computation (#4191) by @benjaminhuth
• Strip endcap measurement reading in RootAthenaDumpReader (#4195) by @benjaminhuth
• Make ONNX GNN module work again (#4164) by @benjaminhuth

🚜 Refactor

• (Examples) Untemplate Generic Detector construction (#4176) by @paulgessinger
• DataHandle output and API optimization (#4173) by @paulgessinger
• (gx2f) Fall back when calling binding with direct navigator (#4192) by @AJPfleger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Remove direction from proto axis (#4188) by @asalzburger
• Remove EventRecording code (#4190) by @paulgessinger
• Some internal GSF refactorings (#2697) by @benjaminhuth
• (Examples) Evt gen. exchanges data via HepMC3 types (#4171) by @paulgessinger
• (Cylinder)VolumeBounds can have asym resize strats (#4199) by @paulgessinger
• (Examples) Sequencer runs events more in order (#4215) by @paulgessinger
• Remove unused HepMC3 helper functions (#4205) by @paulgessinger

📚 Documentation

• Fix typo in the RKN method (#4189) by @CouthuresJeremy

🛠️ Build

• Conditionally enable ROOT for Examples only (#4210) by @paulgessinger

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Spack (#3980) by @paulgessinger
• Attempt to fix sonar cloud action after deprecation by @paulgessinger
• Fix sonar action name by @paulgessinger
• Sonar arguments format fix by @paulgessinger
• Bump dependency version (#4187) by @paulgessinger
• Remove -s flag from pytest (#4209) by @paulgessinger

40.1.0

🚀 Features

• Enable TransformRange to work with C++20 views (#4129) by @paulgessinger
• Allow turning off Layer center of gravity (#4150) by @paulgessinger
• Allow writing hepmc3 straight from pythia (#4153) by @paulgessinger
• Component wise digital clustering (#4142) by @asalzburger
• Regional measurement counts for ParticleSelector in Examples (#4158) by @andiwand
• Using new ProtoAxis based grid construction and AnyGridView for GridSurfaceMaterial (#4157) by @asalzburger

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Codegen uv aarch64 install (#4140) by @paulgessinger
• Suppress warnings in odd construction in pytest (#4136) by @paulgessinger
• Improve ODD seeding efficiency (#4145) by @andiwand
• Mixed up TrackingGeometry lambda visitor usage (#4149) by @paulgessinger
• Fix vertex id grouping in ParticleTrackParamExtractor (#4148) by @andiwand
• Improve and fix some interaction code (#4133) by @andiwand
• Increase the surfaceCandidateIndex in the Detector Navigator an re initialize navigation state in case of unreachable portal (#4134) by @dimitra97
• Fix link to spack guide (#4144) by @cgleggett
• Move Pythia8 gen to full-on PIMPL (#4161) by @paulgessinger
• Component wise digitisation (now for real) (#4163) by @asalzburger
• Typo in physmon modes for refit (#4165) by @AJPfleger
• (gx2f) Ignore unreached measurements (#4167) by @AJPfleger
• Add except statement for podio ImportError (#4174) by @benjaminhuth
• Write message for FATRAS sim error instead of number (#4179) by @paulgessinger

🚜 Refactor

• Add a consuming data handle that removes a key (#4135) by @paulgessinger
• Optionally write track info in VertexNTupleWriter in Examples (#4146) by @andiwand
• Deduplicate seeds after track selection in TrackFindingAlgorithm in Examples (#4147) by @andiwand
• Replace SeedingPerformanceWriter with TrackFinderPerformanceWriter in Examples (#4152) by @andiwand
• Whiteboard improvements (#4137) by @paulgessinger
• Add variadic python POD helper macro (#4162) by @paulgessinger
• Particle Data lookup uses map (#4170) by @paulgessinger

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Replace clang-14 job with clang-19 (#4130) by @stephenswat
• Add codegen artefacts to git ignore file (#4139) by @asalzburger
• Make codegen check install python (#4151) by @paulgessinger
• Update traccc to v0.20.0 (#4125) by @stephenswat
• GBTS Seeding changing names of mapping files (#4122) by @Rosie-Hasan
• Bump histcmp to v0.8.1 (#4175) by @AJPfleger
• Add and use CMake preset for tensorrt job (#4107) by @paulgessinger
• Zoom in on vertex position in ttbar physmon (#4178) by @paulgessinger

40.0.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Codegen uv aarch64 install (#4140)

40.0.0

🚀 Features

• 🚨 BREAKING: Updating the cuts in ScoreBased Solver to eta based cuts. (#4054) by @Ragansu
• Adding a few changes to test seeding algorithm (#4075) by @noemina
• Codegen as sources from CMake (#4104) by @paulgessinger
• Adding cuboid portal shell (#4047) by @ssdetlab
• Add option for initial step size (#4101) by @andiwand
• Introduce trapezoid portal shells for Gen3 (#4116) by @dimitra97
• Gen3 geometry identifier assignment (#4124) by @paulgessinger
• Add recoverable CKF error for surfaces without expected measurements. (#4120) by @goetzgaycken

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix material decorator wiring in Python Examples (#4110) by @pbalek
• Correctly removing absEtaMax from kwargs of TrackSelector (#4114) by @pbalek
• Reserve Memory of cluster collection (#4119) by @CarloVarni
• Correct handling of buildITkGeometry return value (#4115) by @pbalek
• Compilation without geant4 (#4003) by @goetzgaycken
• Fix combination of material for molar electron density and mean excitation energy (#4079) by @andiwand

🚜 Refactor

• 🚨 BREAKING: Clean up CuboidVolumeStack (#4106) by @ssdetlab
• 🚨 BREAKING: Remove ProtoBinning in favour of ProtoAxis (#4046) by @asalzburger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Accumulated material changes (#4077) by @andiwand
• 🚨 BREAKING: Move Gen3 Blueprint API to Experimental for now (#4111) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Deprecate GeometryIdentifier setXXX methods (#4096) by @paulgessinger
• Remove boilerplate from ContainerBlueprintNode (#4118) by @ssdetlab
• Type-erased Grid access (#4117) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Make constructors explicit (#3975) by @paulgessinger
• Migrate Material node to overload based API (#4105) by @paulgessinger
• 🚨 BREAKING: Merge curvilinear track params into bound track params (#4061) by @andiwand

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Fix a few sonar issues in Cuboid portal shell (#4113) by @paulgessinger

39.2.0

🚀 Features

• Generic TrackingGeometry visitor + closure (#4089) by @paulgessinger
• TrackingGeometry visitor gets additional lambda support. (#4099) by @paulgessinger
• Adaptive step size for the AtlasStepper (#4102) by @andiwand

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add missing TrackingVolume symbol (#4100) by @paulgessinger

🚜 Refactor

• Improved GeometryIdentifier python bindings (#4085) by @paulgessinger
• GeometryIdentifier immutable modification (#4095) by @paulgessinger
• GeometryIdentifier checks value range (#4094) by @paulgessinger
• Expose max component values for geometry ids (#4097) by @paulgessinger
• Drop SympyStepper::stepImpl (#4103) by @andiwand

🛠️ Build

• Remove ACTS_BUILD_NONCOMPILE_TESTS (#4092) by @paulgessinger

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Use repo slug instead of git url for cache key (#4093) by @paulgessinger
• Add LCG 107a builds (#4091) by @paulgessinger

39.1.0

🚀 Features

• Detray material collection (#4065) by @asalzburger
• Make layer envelope configurable in Gen1 geometry building (#4067) by @benjaminhuth
• Introduce G4Trap converter (#4072) by @asalzburger
• Allow propagator initialization to fail (#4036) by @andiwand

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Remove unused SubspaceTests (#4063) by @paulgessinger
• GeoModel recording again (#4066) by @asalzburger
• Centre from confex face in Annulus (#4071) by @paulgessinger
• Missing thread sync in CUDA connected components (#4080) by @benjaminhuth
• Require CUDA_STANDARD 20 in Plugins/Cuda (#4084) by @wdconinc

🚜 Refactor

• Remove redundant logical in covariance helper (#4033) by @AJPfleger
• Simplify track selection logic in AlignmentAlgorithm (#3934) by @AJPfleger
• Disentangle stepper state creation and initialization (#4069) by @andiwand
• Clean navigator state creation (#4070) by @andiwand
• Add back DD4hep field access (#4073) by @paulgessinger
• Delete non-compile tests (#4076) by @paulgessinger
• Decouple stepping from navigation (#4039) by @andiwand
• ProtoLayer can (optionally) hold mutable surfaces (#4030) by @paulgessinger

📚 Documentation

• Fix publication year for billoir vertex fitter (#3962) by @andiwand

🧪 Testing

• Python test fixes: GSF + EDM4hep (#4088) by @paulgessinger

🛠️ Build

• Add cmake helper function for header compilation (#4083) by @paulgessinger
• Use CONFIG mode for onnxruntime (#4086) by @paulgessinger

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Fix clang-tidy config file format (#4062) by @paulgessinger
• Pre-commit check for type_t uses --fix (#4082) by @paulgessinger
• Readability-redundant-smartptr-get (#4064) by @paulgessinger
• Update particle data script (#4081) by @paulgessinger