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The new FairSoft (external packages) release mar15 is available.
The release can be downloaded from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairSoft fairsoft_mar15
cd fairsoft_mar15
git checkout -b mar15 mar15

The release can be downloaded from GitHub:

https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairSoft/tree/dec14

For more details:

https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairRoot/releases

The SVN FairRoot repository is frozen and will not be updated any more. If you still using it please move the new Git repository in GitHub.
https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairRoot.git

A project template that can be used as a starting point for anybody who would like to build his simulation and reconstruction software on FairRoot. The project template is in the FairRoot/template/project_template directory
The template demonstrate and implement the following:

• General structure of the software (cake config files, VMC/Geant configurations, etc ..)
• Example detector with sensitive and passive volumes (NewDetector) and data class
• Particle Stack for Geant3/4 with filtering infrastructure
• Event generators (Pathia6,8) more are available directly from FairRoot
• Passive component implementation (Magnet Yoke, Beam Pipe)
• Track visualisation tool (Event display)
• A rename script which replace all the generic names to user defined ones

Brief description of how to get started with FairRoot. and how to run the tutorials
http://fairroot.gsi.de/getting_started

The R3BRoot release "feb14" is using FairBase tag release v-13.12 and can be downloaded by:
svn co https://subversion.gsi.de/fairroot/r3broot/release/feb14 r3broot

New tag v-13.12 is now available,
The release can be downloaded from SVN:
svn co https://subversion.gsi.de/fairroot/fairbase/tags/v-13.12

New version of the external packages "Dec13" is available:

https://subversion.gsi.de/fairroot/fairsoft/release/dec13

Due to technical problems Wiki, Subversion and forum of the GSI are not reachable from outside the GSI. The Linux team is working on this problem but it could take few days!