48.4.0

🚀 Features

GBTS Extract the best fitted chain from every edge (#6320) by @mimodekjaer
Make EDM4hep track state conversion public (#6369) by @jbeirer
(traccc) Support suspension and skip unused vecmem events in silicon strip sp formation algorithm (#6361) by @m-fila
(traccc) Estimate seed track parameters for spacepoints made of two measurements (#6097) by @jburzy
Add material designation for the Gen3 (Blueprint) OpenDataDetector (#6248) by @LeaBaumann
Supply curvature to navigation intersection interfaces (#6401) by @paulgessinger
Join the two-way track finding passes without a second propagation (#6386) by @andiwand
(detray) Convert a replacement world subtree (#6418) by @paulgessinger
GBTS sum-of-ratio linking cut and post-fit curvature bound (#6408) by @mimodekjaer

Set particle hypothesis on fitter output tracks (#6352) by @benjaminhuth
Correct the cone and point free/bound Jacobians (#6366) by @Zequn-SUN
(traccc) GBTS z0 update from new track state (#6263) by @mimodekjaer
GBTS Order nodes with identical phi by position (#6399) by @andiwand
Fix buggy checks in GridPortalLink::resolveVolume and CylinderBounds:closestPoint (#6377) by @mvessell96
(traccc) Move the strip seed position along the seed direction onto the measurement plane (#6392) by @jburzy
(ci) Handle Unicode dependency filenames in SonarCloud (#6411) by @paulgessinger
(cmake) Isolate policy settings in ActsConfig (#6003) by @mohitt31
(traccc) Correct measurement variance computation (#6286) by @stephenswat
(traccc) GBTS path start where no edge one level up (#6384) by @mimodekjaer

Compute the cotTheta error only when the scattering term alone fails the triplet cuts (#5680) by @thomaaks
Make the doublet finder's cuts for a block of candidates at a time (#6379) by @thomaaks
(traccc) Transpose GBTS neighbour storage (#6183) by @stephenswat
Symmetric deltaZ by design and symmetric collision region by compile-time flag (#6257) by @thomaaks
Find a middle space point's triplets in one call (#6253) by @thomaaks

(deps) Bump https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format from v23.1.2 to 23.1.3 (#6390) by @dependabot[bot]
(cmake) Add a github-ci preset without ccache (#6014) by @mohitt31
(traccc) Remove unnecessary Python dependency (#6424) by @stephenswat

Debug for overflow in GBTS neighbours (#6396) by @mimodekjaer
Remove experimentCuts compile switch in DoubletSeedFinder (#6398) by @andiwand
(traccc) Remove vestigial CPU clustering code (#6412) by @stephenswat
Add LCG 110 GCC 16 build and tests (#6365) by @paulgessinger