Changes.md

MAD-X master

• Track
  • PR 1182 Fix thick dipole tracking

MAD-X release 5.09.00 (2023.05.05)

• Twiss
  • PR 1123 Fix errors in the time variable with EXACT flag to TWISS (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1125 Make TWISS treat [XY]ROTATION exactly, including the linear and second order map (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1129 Make track/twiss able to treat a thick solenoid exactly (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1133 Fix the Dqmin calculation when the CHROM option was used. (T. Persson)
  • PR 1136 Implements the exact translation in TWISS and TRACK (T. Persson)
  • PR 1161 Add tapering in multipole and octupoles (R. De Maria)
• Track:
  • PR 1148 Fix to get Dynap to work with the ny space Charge module (T. Persson)
  • PR 1109 Space charge (F. Schimdt, H. Renshal, A. Latina)
  • PR_1159 Fix calls to pro_input from trupdate, adding null termination (S. Berg)
  • PR_1169 Fix undefined variable in solenoid tracking with radiation (R. De Maria)
• PTC:
  • PR 1153, PR 1154, PR 1156 Fix mdump for map debugging and sync with MAD-NG (L. Deniau)
  • PR 1142 Fix issue-1140 generating function wrong sign from ptc_normal (P. Skowonronski)
  • PR 1111 Ensure that exact_model is set before zero_key is called in PTC (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1095 Implement more robust, optional, PTC DA map output (L. Deniau)
  • PR 1131 Add spin table (T. Persson and P. Skowonronski)
  • PR 1114 Exact option in PTC translation (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1159 Fix random errors in trupdate due to missing null termination (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1175 Revert to old PTC bend (L. Deniau, R. De Maria)
• Aperture:
  • PR 1168 Fix regression in aperture module resulting in wrong orbit in thick kickers (R. De Maria)
• Misc:
  • PR 1139 Remove inform forcing for seq generation (R. De Maria)
  • PR 1144 Flag to throw fatal error when missing file in interactive mode (T. Persson)
  • PR 1150 Fix issue with ESAVE after using FILL_KNOB (T. Persson)
  • PR 1081 Fix potential buffer overrun when node_name calls stoupper (J. S. Berg)
  • PR 1093 More robust aperture refinement (T. Persson)
  • PR 1113 Introduce LAST option in INSTALL and MOVE and change default behaviour [Breaking change!] (R. De Maria)
  • PR 1061 Fix k0 in dipedge in makethin (H. Burkhardt, R. De Maria)
  • PR 1137 Remove none from mad_dict for numbers (R. De Maria)
  • PR 1161 Fixing lines brake in save (R. De Maria, L. Deniau)
• Tests:
  • PR 1107, PR 1164 Stabizes few tests due to compiler dependent numerical noise (R. De Maria)
• Doc:
  • PR 1088 Additional explanation bv flag (J. Dilly)

MAD-X release 5.08.01 (2022.02.25)

• Fix radiation of multipoles in TRACK. #1079. (Riccardo)
• Fix in exact drift transfer map in TWISS #1077. (Tobias)
• Allows disabling the scaling of TWISS in PTC by default but possible to activate it. #1073. (Tobias)
• Fixes a bug in the dqmin calculation. #1075. (Tobias)

MAD-X release 5.08.00 (2022.01.17)

• Wire is now fully implemented in TWISS and TRACK. #1018. (Tobias, testing: Phillipe and Guido)
• Bug in the output of fc.3 where sometimes the highest orders multipoles were not included. #1022. (Riccardo)
• Restore the internal names in the SURVEY table. #1024. (Tobias)
• When an element was replaced the keyword was not updated. This is fixed now. #1024. (Tobias)
• Bug in TWISS with centre option combined with a tilted quadrupole. #1026. (Tobias)
• Bug in EMIT for octupole where k2 was retrived instead of k3. #1028. (Ghislain)
• Exact drift option implemented in TWISS. #1030. (Tobias)
• New release of PTC/FPP. #1031. (Piotr, Tobias)
• Npart for beam-beam element can now also be set directly in the element. #1033. (Tobias)
• New implementation of the tapering. #1034. (Ghislain, Tobias)
• Array potentially out of range. #1041. (J.S. Berg)
• Fix issue in tracking when FFILE is used. #1048. (Tobias)
• The unified atomic mass is introduced (AMASS). #1049. (Tobias)
• The information from EMIT is now stored in a table. #1053. (Tobias)
• The solenoid was wrong with a factor 2 in EMIT. #1061. (Andrea, Riccardo)
• Estimate of the DeltaQmin is now included in TWISS. #1060. (Tobias, Eirik)
• Option to output TPSA from PTC/FPP with more digits and cleaner format. #1052. (Laurent, Tobias)

MAD-X release 5.07.00 (2021.05.03)

• Enable to save and load sequences with double precision floating point numbers in a hexadecimal format. In this way the exact same values are obtained after a saving and then loading a sequence. #954. (Tobias)
• Translations and rotations are transported to PTC. #957. (Tobias, Laurent, J.S. Berg)
• Voltage from crab cavities were previously included in total voltage exported to SixTrack. #965. (Tobias)
• Possible to load a sequence and plot without any active sequence. #967. (Tobias)
• Use Make 4.3 to build MAD-X. #969. (Laurent)
• Too long sequence names got corrupted before now it is prevented. #971. (Tobias)
• Lost particles in PTC caused wrong indexing resulting in wrong coordinates for lost particles (when more than 1). #972. (Tobias, Piotr)
• Crabcavity with 0 length were ignored by MAD-X. #986. (Tobias)
• Inconsitent use of beta and beta0 in TRACK. #988. (Andrea)
• The tilt is now consistent in PTC with MAD-X and the documentation. #991. (Tobias)
• Change to the geometrical definition for the Y-rotation in Survey (rest was already OK). #993. (Tobias, Laurent)
• Introduction of permanent misalignments in MAD-X and a new survey option. #973. (Tobias)
• Improved step size to find closed orbit in TRACK. #990. (Tobias)
• Long names and more digits are now default in the SixTrack conversion. #999. (Tobias)
• A bug with makethin with solenoid and expression was fixed. #1002. (Helmut)
• Tapering of the phase removed, added to matching and a warning for unstable closed orbit in TWISS is added. #1005. (Tobias)
• Correctors with length=0 but lrad will now radiate in TRACK. #1006. (Tobias)
• Allowing the 3 parameter to be 0 in the definition of the RACETRACK. #1007. (Tobias)
• Possibility to define a different beam-size-beam for horizontal and vertical in the APERTURE module. #1010. (Tobias)

MAD-X release 5.06.01 (2020.09.01)

• The BV flag was ignored for dipole fringe fields. This caused problems for LHC Beam2. Bug introduced in 5.06.00 release. #950. (Tobias)

MAD-X release 5.06.00 (2020.08.14)

Added features/updates/improvements

• Possible to write the eigenvectors of the one turn map to a file. #804. (Tobias)
• Arbitrary aperture definition in TRACK. #806. (Tobias)
• Signficant speed up of the thin TRACK. #807. (Tobias)
• OPENMP compilation restored. #815. (Tobias, Laurent)
• Signficant speed up of the thick TRACK. #817. (Tobias)
• Implement flag to save the calculated corrector strength in sequence. #820. (Tobias)
• Implement a new add expression command. #822. (Tobias)
• Additional format to define arbitrary aperture geometry. #823. (Tobias)
• When k0 is not equal to the angle is now exported to SixTrack. #826. (Tobias)
• Thin combine function magnet implemented in TRACK and TWISS. #827. (Tobias, Malte)
• Bug fix for the syntax of the option using ADD errors. #798. (Laurent)
• Fix in PTC-MADX interface when a skew component was present togher with a normal component. #798. (Laurent)
• 3rd clock in PTC which enables RF-modulation. #833. (Piotr)
• Arbitrary aperture geometry in PTC. #834. (Piotr)
• Tilted aperture exported to SixTrack. #836. (Tobias)
• Enables the plotting of longer sequences. #838. (Tobias)
• If strength is 0 of a dipole it uses the exact drift in TRACK. #846. (Tobias)
• PTC_TWISS with CENTRE option gave one element offset for the S postion. #859. (Piotr)
• Get the average value when tracking many particles. #864. (Tobias)
• PTC from 2020.03.25 #885. (Piotr)
• When the CHROM option is used in TWISS the chromaticity is given as DQ/DPT (before it was DELTAP). #887. (Tobias)
• Set Jacobian bisec default to 3. #893. (Laurent)
• Fix of the NPART in BEAM that was overwritten when the beam was updated. #901. (Tobias)
• RF-fringe field implemented. #902. (Tobias)
• Tapering included in TWISS. #905. (Tobias, Leon)
• Added WIRE attributes to the collimator and export to SixTrack. #914,#929. (Tobias, Helmut)
• FDSTEP is now used in matching to define step size. #921. (Laurent)
• Added radiation integrals I6 and I8. #924. (Tobias, Leon)
• Fix warnings in plot module for non-twiss tables with haxis=s. #923. (Laurent)
• Update constants to CODATA 2018. #925. (Tobias)
• The strength of the dipole, if defined, is now defining the fringe fields for dipoles. #934. (Tobias)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the move command when FROM was used for location. #815. (Tobias)
• Segmentation fault when weights were used wrongly with MACRO. #835. (Tobias)
• Fixes a bug in the MOVE command for complicated references. #854. (Tobias)
• Radiation for a thin solenoid gave NaN values in TWISS. #858. (Tobias)
• Fix of a problem with dipedge in TRACK. #850. (Andrea)
• A corrector could have a length that was disregarded by TRACK. #851. (Tobias)
• RF cavity defined with HARMON and zero LENGTH gets FREQ set to zero. 132 #858. (Tobias)
• Prevent infinite loop when aperture is exactly on closed orbit. #874. (Tobias)
• Fix of the thin combined function magnets in TWISS. #898. (Malte, Riccardo, Tobias)
• Fixes in the aperture algorithm as well as the addition of dispersion. #890. (Tobias, Thys)
• Corrected the scaling of the TWISS functions with PT in PTC. #903. (Tobias, Piotr)
• BV flag fixed for the element CRABCAVITY to have correct behavior. #919. (Tobias, Riccardo)

MAD-X release 5.05.02 (2019.07.26)

• Bug fix in MAKETHIN. In version 5.05.00 and 5.05.01 correctors were sliced but the strength was not changed. #801. (Helmut, Tobias)
• Reverted equations for PT in module EMIT -> Same partition number as before 5.05.00. #784. (Andrea)
• x,y - rotations are now exported to SixTrack . #780. (Tobias)
• Added several mask files to the test suite. #789. (Tobias)
• Fixes the problem that several survey changes the comments. #788. (Tobias)

MAD-X release 5.05.01 (2019.06.07)

• Fixed bug that converted K3 values to K3S in MAKETHIN for octupoles. This error was introduced in the 5.05.00 release. #781. (Laurent, Tobias, Ewen)

MAD-X release 5.05.00 (2019.05.10) Backward incompatibilties with previous releases

• Changes the sign of the y-rotation in the survey. #729. (Tobias, Laurent)
• Prevents energy spread always beeing recalculated from the longitudinal emittance. #755. (Tobias)

Bug Fixes

• Bug fix in RF-cavity lag adjustment for no_cavity_totalpath=true. #759. (Laurent)
• Touchek lifetime bug when negative charge was used. #754. (Tobias)
• Fixed bug in PTC_TWISS and PTC_NORMAL that did not add deltap to the user orbit. #751. (Piotr, Laurent)
• Prevents conversion of an aperture in case no size has been given. #736. (Tobias)
• Bugfix for coasting beam in the IBS module. #735. (Angela)
• Frequency was not output in SXFwrite. #734. (Tobias)
• Fixed a problem with readtable/write tables. #720. (Laurent)
• MKTHIN was previously disregarding disregards E1 and E2 of RBEND. #710. (Helmut, Tobias)
• The thick quadrupole was tilted twice in TRACK when k1s was not equal to 0. #706. (Laurent)
• Fix selecting by class=variable and class=sequence. #696. (Thomas)
• A bug when cycling the lattice that created a negative drift with exactly the length of the sequence. #683. (Tobias)

Added features/checks/functionalities

• New PTC version (2019.04.18). #760. (Piotr)
• Mapdump added to PTC. #759. (Laurent)
• New regression tests for all elements in PTC for many configurations. #759. (Laurent)
• Comments implemented in survey. #755. (Tobias)
• New flag in SixTrack converter for more info in file fc.2. #749. (Veronika)
• Fixed synchrotron radiation equations to be fully relativistic, in TWISS, TRACK, and EMIT. #762. (Andrea)
• Fixed momentum damping equations in TWISS, TRACK, and EMIT. #762. (Andrea)
• Adds element solenoid to module EMIT and added synrad to solenoid in TWISS. #748. (Andrea)
• Prevents conversion of an aperture in case no size has been given. #736. (Tobias)
• SixTrack converter: Long names for aper file. #746. (Veronika)
• New version of MAKETHIN. #753. (Helmut, Tobias)
• Add chdir command to change directory. #741. (Thomas)
• Tilted solenoid in TWISS. #737. (Tobias, Helmut)
• Option to update element based on changes from a parent element. #733. (Tobias)
• Translate command does now work as a virtual drift. #727. (Tobias)
• Added the support to retrive the errors as an internal table. #725. (Tobias)
• Added conversion of the generalized RF-multipoles. #714. (Tobias)
• Added support for thick RBEND in TRACK. #697. (Andrea)
• Move command now keeps variables when the sequence is saved. #692. (Tobias)
• Added beam sanity checks such as checking that the energy is > 0. #689. (Kyrre)

MAD-X release 5.04.02 (2018.10.03)

• Added a X11=yes/no switch to the build systems do disable usage of X11 on linux/mac #652. (Thomas)
• Fix a bug in the export of the trombone matrix to Sixtrack. #656. (Joel, Tobias)
• Increased numerical stability in PTC when TOTALTIME=true and many turns. #657. (Piotr)
• Added full functionality to find wavelength to subtract in TOTALPATH=true mode. #663. (Piotr)
• Fix make thin for k0=0 when angle is also defined. #666. (Tobias, Helmut)
• Prevents the aperture model running with the wrong TWISS settings. #667. (Tobias)
• Fix bug in racetrack aperture check. #673. (Laurent)
• Fixed memory corruption after several TWISS commands when comments were selected. #677. (Tobias)
• Fixed plotting when there are only solenoids in the lattice. #679. (Tobias)

MAD-X release 5.04.01 (2018.07.10)

• Increased the possible length of a name in the conversion to SixTrack. #620. (Tobias, James)
• Added the possibility comments to elements. #619. (Laurent, Tobias)
• Twiss output contains information about the beam-beam element. #622. (Tobias)
• The BV flag is included in the twiss output. #367. (Tobias)
• Fixed the documentation about E1 and E2 in Bending Magnet section. #618. (Laurent)
• Corrected factorials for normal form results. #617. (Piotr)
• RDT oscillations in ptc_twiss. #611. (Piotr)
• Disabling stochastic for closed orbit search also in ptc_twiss and ptc_normal. #611. (Piotr)
• Aper_offset and mech_sep now in slices after makethin. #615. (Riccardo)
• Fix incorrect field errors in tmbend with INTERPOLATE. The full length was not used. #610. (Thomas)
• Fix parsing negated logical after string parameter. #601. (Thomas)
• The output to Sixtrack of the Trombone element is now in sigma and p_sigma. #605. (Tobias)
• Synchrotron Radiation generator added. #608,#609. (Helmut, Laurent)
• Possible to set sectorfile="" to disable file output. #606. (Thomas)
• SROTATION in SURVEY is changed back to the same defintion as in 5.03.07. #642. (Thomas)

MAD-X release 5.04.00 (2018.03.02) Backward incompatibilties with previous releases

• RBARC attribute of OPTION is now considered by SURVEY.
• SROTATION angle sign changed in SURVEY for consistency with MAD-X and MAD-X PTC.
• YROTATION (and XROTATION) properly implemented and made consistent with MAD-X PTC.
• ELSEPARATOR kicks were swapped in H-V planes by TWISS.

Bug Fixes

• Fix lost support for MVAR in match #543. (Tobias)
• Fix problem with ESAVE #501. (Thomas)
• Fix consistency in RF-multipole kick phase when exported to SixTrack #505. (Tobias)
• Fix ELSEPARATOR. Before a horizontal field gave a vertical kick in twiss #509. (Tobias)
• Sign changed in SURVEY for SROTATION. #569. (Tobias)
• Fix the replace command that changed type of other elements. #599. (Tobias)
• Fix problem to read turn number and particle ID from TRACK table #533. (Tobias)
• Fix type and length of aperture elements name in sixtrack export #552. (Veronika, James)
• Fix the difference of output for VALUE command depending on compiler. #531. (Piotr)
• Ptc_track with element_by_element=false, before it was crashing in some cases (Piotr)
• Sign of rfcavity LAG was swapped in PTC #539. (Piotr)
• Sign of T of closed orbit in summary table was swapped #539. (Piotr)
• Removed absolute limit for T coordinate in ptc_tracking #548. (Piotr)
• Fixed ptc_align #545. (Piotr)
• 6D closed orbit search with TOTALPATH=true #551. (Piotr)
• Disabling STOCHASTIC switch during closed orbit search (was always failing) #565. (Piotr)
• Fixed the calculation of energy loss due to quantum synchrotron radiation emission. (Andrea)
• Fix aperture plot #490. (Thomas)
• Fix gub in SAVE selection #492. (Thomas)
• Fixing the unified atomic mass #518. (Laurent, Thomas)
• Fix plotting of two points with the same x-value. #576. (Tobias)
• Fix SURVEY to be aware of the RBARC option #564. (Laurent)
• Fixing the last digits of the physical constants from PDG in the code. (Laurent)

Added features/checks/functionalities

• Thick 6d SOLENOID tracking implemented in TRACK #495 #564. (Andrea)
• The TRANSLATION element implemented #515. (Tobias)
• SECTORPURE option implemented for sectormaps #518. (Tobias)
• Thick attribute for SOLENOID implemented in MAKETHIN #547. (Helmut)
• XROTATION and YROTATION implemented. #569. (Laurent, Tobias)
• Field errors added to thick SBENDs and QUADRUPOLEs in TRACK #583. (Andrea)
• MULTIPOLEs and SBENDs support k0l != angle in SURVEY, TRACK, TWISS and EMIT #564. (Laurent)
• Implemented new thick map for combined-function SBEND (and QUADRUPOLE) with h, k0, and k1 handled independently #471. (Andrea)
• Name mangling in SixTrack export to uniquely compress names longer than 16 characters. (Andrea)
• PTC_CREATE_LAYOUT now stops if a not supported aperture is found in any element. (Piotr)
• Added AC dipole in PTC_TRACK and PTC_TRACKLINE (Piotr) #531. (Piotr)
• Add an initial guess attribute for closed orbit search in PTC_TRACK #567. (Piotr)
• Implemented roll errors of thin dipoles (EALIGN in thin lattice are very approximative) #549. (Piotr)
• Orbit_-cT renamed to orbit_t to allow access and use within expressions #548. (Piotr)
• PTC_SETSWITCH modifies only the parameters explicitly defined by the user (no more default update) #548. (Piotr)
• Added seed option in PTC_SETSWITCH to set random number generator seed of PTC #548. (Piotr)
• Added option TRACKRDTS in PTC_TWISS to produce table TWISSRDT with Resonance Driving Terms (order >=3) #548. (Piotr)
• Automatic determination of SECTOR_NMUL parameter, speeds up calculations with exact Hamiltonian (EXACT=true) by factor 3 #559. (Piotr)
• Updated PTC version (fix problems with chromaticities of 4th order and above) #537. (Piotr)
• Review of coupling calculation in MAD-X, slides part 1 and part 2. (Laurent)
• Review of SOLENOID maps and YROTATION maps for tilted solenoid-antisolenoid of FCC-ee, slides. (Laurent, Tobias)
• Switch to C++11 (Laurent, Piotr, Thomas)

MAD-X release 5.03.07 (2017.10.20)

• Fix signs for Sixtrack export of Beam-Beam #467. (Riccardo)
• Fix curvature in thick sbend #483. (Andrea)
• Fix segfault in Best random number generators #476. (Laurent)
• Fix in limitation of eigenvalues calculation #455. (Tobias)
• Fix PTC_twiss quitting without tiding up memory #462. (Piotr)
• Fix in sigma matrix initialisation in presence of coupling #425. (Tobias)
• Fix in table read/write with duplicated lines occurring #489. (Tobias)
• Fix problem with plotting columns from a read Twiss table #488. (Tobias)
• Fix coupling checks #484. (Tobias, Laurent)
• Fix documentation for time definition #470. (Tobias)
• Fix BBOrbit flag #466. (Laurent)
• Tests added for checking coupling in challenging setup. (Tobias)
• Abort PTC_create_layout when matrix element encountered (was ignored). (Piotr)
• Fix radiation in PTC_twiss and implement adequate tests on request of FCC-ee users. (Piotr)
• Fix energy gain calculation for linac acceleration for time=true. (Piotr)
• Add PTC_track radiation argument with stronger precedence than PTC_setswitch. (Piotr)
• Add PSI angle (around S axis) rotation in ptc_eplacement. (Piotr)
• Replace PTC_track normal form calculation by complex version for closed solutions. (Piotr)
• Document ONETABLE option and format of TRACKONE table. (Piotr)
• Add and document RECLOSS option in PTC_track. (Piotr)
• Add ROOTNTUPLE option in PTC_track. (Piotr)

MAD-X migrated on GitHub/Git (2017.06.23)

• MAD-X new repository on GitHub.

MAD-X release 5.03.06 (2017.05.29)

• Bug fix in dipedge element map [Laurent].

MAD-X release 5.03.05 (2017.05.17)

• Bug fix in sigma matrix initialization [Irina].

MAD-X release 5.03.04 (2017.05.15)

• Radiation bux fixes (including quantum), now working properly [Andrea].
• Matching bux fixes, now working with the chrom option (ticket #414) [Laurent].
• Beam attribute access bufg fix (nasty side effect, ticket #422) [Laurent].
• New random number generator with support for 10 streams [Laurent].
• New track quantum seed option added [Laurent].

MAD-X release 5.03.00 (2017.04.14)

• Adding setvars_const, setvars_knob, fill_knob commands and fill->scale parameter [Riccardo].
• Computation of higher order alpha_c with ptc_twiss, time=true, icase=56 [Piotr].
• Fix of issue in ptc_twiss big slow down (ticket #417) [Piotr].
• Scaling of dispersions and chromaticities with beta for ptc_twiss with time=true [Piotr].
• Cleaner higher order compaction factor calculation [Piotr].
• Bug fix bug (ticket #402) where T and PT were not checked if within user specified box [Piotr].
• Bug fix to get Hamiltonian terms from ptc_normal with the new PTC [Piotr].

MAD-X new release numbering (2017.04.14)

• MAD-X major number represents (pro) release number, minor number represents #bug fixes.

MAD-X release 5.02.13 (2016.12.20)

• Setvars_knob and fill_knob new commands plus testsuite [Riccardo]
• Documentation updates for tickets overcome and answers [Irina, Andrea, Laurent]
• KSL0 error added to kickers implementation (ticket #339) [Irina, Andrea]
• Track maxaper limits checks enabled and extended to longitudinal [Irina]
• Update of cosmux and cosmuy checks (now 3 methods are implemented for xchecks) [Irina]
• Twiss chrom bug fix in case of failure with first deltap trial (wrong chromaticity) [Irina]
• Inaccurate chromatic functions calculation for coupled lattice, warning added in Twiss [Irina]
• Update of tests to follow bugs fixes and cleanup [Irina, Laurent]
• Bug fix in factorial for anharmonicities in ptc_normal [Piotr]
• Bug fix (ticket #394) in TFS table for error (unchecked column access) [Piotr]
• K1 implemented in thick sbend in track [Andrea]
• Makethin does not share anymore last slice of thick quad to allow proper name (ticket #329) [Andrea]
• Bug fix and gards added in setvars/fill commands familly [Laurent]
• Bug fix for angles and bv flag in Survey command, update of TI8 sequence [Laurent]
• Update formula for multipole angle and tilt calculation, update documentation [Laurent]
• Survey command updated for pitfalls in documentation [Laurent]
• Lrad and tilt added to monitors (not used, ticket #361) [Laurent]
• Bug fix about invalid use of TKicker by Track and Twiss (ticket #398) [Laurent]
• Space charge final update in Track and Twiss [Frank, Laurent]
• Bug fix in dipedge tilt in Track and translation to PTC [Frank, Laurent]
• Bug fix in beam parameter, relativistic beta missing in one update case [Frank, Laurent]
• Ongoing integration of general multipole (was Combined Function Magnet) TBC [Malte, Laurent]
• libmadx-linux32 not built anymore due dependencies to missing libX11.so 32 bit [Laurent]

MAD-X release 5.02.12 (2016.10.15)

• Bug fix for wrong logic in coupling [Irina]
• Bug fix in Track command [Laurent]
• Bug fix in parser [Laurent]
• Keeptrack option for Run command [Laurent]

MAD-X release 5.02.11 (2016.10.11)

• Coupling fixes (see slides) [Irina]
• Secondary method to cross-check fractional part of the tunes (see slides) [Irina]
• Sigma matrix in twiss (i.e. sig11..sig66) [Irina]
• Correction of a logic error in max_mult_ord settings in c6t [Laurent]
• New PTC and PTC tests update [Piotr]
• Bug fixes caused by all variables initialized within declaration in Fortran 95 (#389) [Laurent,Irina,Andrea]
• Committing F. Schmidt's Space-Charge update [Andrea]
• Minor improvement of the build system [Laurent]
• Improvement of the CMake build system [Yngve]
• Add flag to export all markers to Sixtrack (#391) [Laurent]
• Some bug fixes (e.g. #388, #394) [Laurent, Piotr]

MAD-X release 5.02.10 (2016.04.23)

• New Twiss command attribute 'sectoracc' to twiss command for saving composed maps in sectormap [Laurent]
• Bug fix in coupling for phase advance computation [Laurent, Irina]
• Default beam 'et', 'sigt', 'sige' set in dictionnary instead of beam update [Laurent]
• New fix point for probe initialization (affected if RF and/or dp) (#385) [Laurent]
• Cleaning of modules initialization: twiss, track, emit, touschek, dynap, plot, ibs [Laurent]
• New 'tabindex' feature to find the index of a string in a table column [Laurent]
• More attributes copied by makethin to generated thin sequence [Helmut]

MAD-X release 5.02.09 (2016.04.06)

• Many bug fixes.
• Bug fix for one turn map initialization in many modules (see slides) [Laurent]
• Bug fix for RF initialization [Laurent]
• Bug fix in coupling [Irina]
• Bug fix in micado [Ghislain]
• Flip mode implementation for strong coupling [Irina]
• New scheme to synchronize C vs Fortran I/O [Laurent]
• New Windows (10) build using msys2+mingw32+mingw64 platforms [Laurent]
• New Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) build for standalone linux [Laurent]
• Garbage collector natively build and tested on Windows [Laurent]
• Default release set to GNU 64 bit [Laurent]
• ...

MAD-X new Linux and Windows platforms (2016.04.06)

• MAD-X is now built and tested on Linux Ubuntu and Windows 10 (+msys2) VMs.

MAD-X release 5.02.08 (2015.11.23)

• Release for stabilization before pro-release.
• Policy changes for release delivery.
• LHC and HLHC user-cases added to the test system.
• Backward compatibility checks with LHC/HLLHC studies (see slides).
• Some bug fixes and new feature (see tickets).
• Makethin thick slices improved, default teapot and makedipedge [Helmut]
• Documentation correction and improvement [Ghislain].
• ...

MAD-X release 5.02.07 (2015.09.25)

• Many bug fixes.
• Makethin thick slices improved, default teapot [Helmut, Laurent]
• Documentation correction and improvement [Ghislain].
• ...

MAD-X release 5.02.06 (2015.06.26)

• Many bug fixes.
• New makethin [Helmut, Laurent]
• Documentation correction and improvement [Ghislain].
• ...

MAD-X release 5.02.05 (2015.04.10)

• Minor release with some bug fix.
• Documentation correction and improvement [Ghislain].
• ...

MAD-X release 5.02.04 (2014.11.14)

• Minor release with some bug fix.
• Documentation with some correction, including figure 24.3 [Ghislain].
• Portable commanded copyfile, renamefile, removefile added and unified [Laurent].
• Column "Keyword" added to survey table for consistency with twiss table (#308) [Laurent].

MAD-X new users guide (2014.10.16)

• MAD-X new user's guide written in LaTeX and distributed in PDF.

MAD-X release 5.02.03 (2014.10.15)

• New Latex/PDF MAD-X userguide (draft) [Ghislain].
• Add support for sanitizer (#305) [Laurent].
• Add support for openmp (#299) [Laurent].
• Bug fix in element management (#296) [Laurent, Piotr].
• Bug fix in garbage collector with Intel (#307) [Laurent].
• Bug fix in survey to process skew component in multipole (#306) [Laurent].
• Bug fix in the initial orbit input for twiss (#271) [Ghislain].
• Bug fix in use_macro on MacOSX 10.9 (#298) [Piotr].
• Bug fix in ptc_twiss to handle beam-beam and space charge correctly (#295) [Piotr].
• Bug fix to remove dummy CELL command (#303) [Laurent].
• Bug fix in seqedit cycle after makethin (#286) [Ghislain].
• Bug fix in LINE with multiplied elements (#290) [Ghislain, Piotr].
• Bug fix in ptc_create_universe crashing ptc_create_layout (#287) [Piotr].
• Bug fix and improvement in synchrotron radiation calculation (#266) [Ghislain].
• Bug fix in ptc_normal crashing MAD-X (#282) [Laurent].
• Error reporting improvement when PTC does not find the closed orbit (#152) [Piotr].
• Improvement of makethin module (#283) [Helmut].
• Many minor bugs fix.

MAD-X release 5.02.02 (2014.07.04)

• Many bugs fix.
• ...
• See also the slides of MAD-X meeting on indico.

MAD-X memory management (2014.07.04)

• MAD-X memory footprint is halved for standard (HL-LHC) studies.

MAD-X release 5.02.01 (2014.04.25)

• Minor bugs fix.
• Bug fix in plot (#261) [Laurent, Ghislain].
• Bug fix in table ranges (#262) [Laurent].
• Bug fix in numdiff [Laurent].
• Bug fix in refpos (#257) [Ghislain].
• Bug fix in circular sequence [Ghislain].
• Bug fix in threader (#260) [Ghislain].
• Bug fix in beam update (#259) [Ghislain].

MAD-X release 5.02.00 (2014.03.05)

• 2nd production release since 2011.06.
• Minor bugs fix.
• Major bug fix in aperture when loading offset (ticket #254) [Laurent, Ghilain]
• New printf-like command [Laurent].

MAD-X pro-release (2014.03.05)

• MAD-X pro-release 5.02.00 becomes the default on lxplus.

MAD-X 64 bit (2014.02.13)

• MAD-X 64 bit becomes the default on lxplus (see releases).

MAD-X release 5.01.06 (2014.01.31)

• Minor bugs fix.
• Summary of orbit correction changed (bug fix) [Ghislain].
• ptc_twiss: [Piotr]
• implementation of map_table in ptc_twiss the same way as in ptc_normal.
• support for initial condition specification (map table).
• implementation of min and max for betas and dispersion, and min, max and rms for the orbit.

MAD-X release 5.01.05 (2013.12.20)

• Minor bugs fix.
• Upgrade to last PTC release [Laurent].
• Random crash corrected (thanks to new win-gnu arch) [Laurent].

MAD-X release 5.01.04 (2013.12.13)

• Minor bugs fix.
• Nightly tests and build fully operational [Laurent].
• Cross platforms build and test reports completed [Laurent].
• Update of the physical constants published by the PDG in 2012 [Ghislain].
• New support for platform Gnu windows (11 platforms supported now) [Laurent].
• Fixed numerical instability in Touschek module and improved parameter handling for integration [Ghislain].

MAD-X release 5.01.03 (2013.11.05)

• Many bugs fix.
• Nested sequence bug corrected [Ghislain].
• New thick quadrupole element for tracking [Andrea].
• New makethin module (in C++) [Helmut, Laurent].
• New static space charge code in track (expert only) [Frank, Laurent].
• MAD-X on indico [Laurent].

MAD-X nightly builds and tests (2013.10.21)

• MAD-X moved to a dedicated server for builds and tests with nightly reports (see development).

MAD-X on Indico (2013.10.07)

• MAD-X events are now archived on Indico (see events).

MAD-X numdiff manual (2013.08.14)

• MAD-X numdiff tool has been extended for data validation and the manual is published.

MAD-X release 5.01.02 (2013.05.30)

• Minor bugs fix.
• Numdiff manual added [Laurent].
• New multi-pass tracking feature [Frank, Laurent].

MAD-X release 5.01.01 (2013.05.10)

• Minor bugs fix.
• Garbage collector to fix memory leaks [Laurent].
• Full 64 bit support (better than 32 bit now) [Laurent].

MAD-X memory management (2013.05.10)

• MAD-X dynamic memory allocations are now garbage collected (see roadmap).

MAD-X release 5.01.00 (2013.03.13)

• 1st production release since 2011.06.
• Minor bugs fix.
• New numdiff [Laurent].
• Input script as argument (input redirection no more needed) [Laurent].

MAD-X pro-release (2013.03.13)

• MAD-X pro-release 5.01.00 becomes the default on lxplus.

MAD-X release 5.00.20 (2013.02.20)

• Many bugs fix.
• New table API (major bug fix) [Laurent].
• Upgrade to last PTC release [Laurent].
• New removefile, renamefile, appendfile commands for script portability [Laurent].
• Tests system completed for Windows, Linux and MacOSX in 32 and 64 bit (234 tests) [Laurent, Andrea, Piotr].

MAD-X on OS X 10.5 (2013.01.08)

• MAD-X users running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) must use madx releases 5.00.19 or later.

MAD-X project (2012.11.20)

• The MAD-X status and future plans slides (restricted access).

MAD-X module keepers (2012.10.22)

• MAD-X module keepers team as been updated (see contributors).

MAD-X test suite (2012.09.26)

• MAD-X first test suite now contains 37 tests (see roadmap).

MAD-X at ICAP'12 (2012.08.23)

• The MAD-X presentation and paper presented at the ICAP'12 conference.

MAD-X shared library (2012.06.27)

• MAD-X is now provided as a standalone library for scripting languages (see roadmap).

MAD-X test system (2012.06.08)

• MAD-X is now equiped with a new test system (see roadmap).

MAD-X numdiff (2012.05.30)

• MAD-X provides now the numdiff tool to compare numeric files (see roadmap).

MAD-X/PTC library (2012.03.14)

• MAD-X provides now PTC as a standalone library for lxplus users (see roadmap).

MAD-X workspace (2012.03.07)

• MAD-X has now its own workspace on AFS (see roadmap).

MAD-X examples (2012.03.05)

• The examples has been moved to SVN (see roadmap).

MAD-X trac system (2012.02.01)

• The trac system is now fully operational (see roadmap).

MAD-X user's guide (2012.01.18)

• The user's guide has been moved to SVN (see roadmap).

MAD-X website (2011.12.08)

• The new website (this website) has been published (see roadmap).

MAD-X build system (2011.11.28)

• MAD-X is now equiped with a brand new build system (see roadmap).

First 10 years of PTC (2011.11.09)

• The PTC 1/2 day workshop (restricted access).

MAD-X 1st contact (2011.05.31)

• The MAD-X project overview presented at the BE-ABP-LCU meeting (restricted access).