McStas and McXtrace 3.7.6 released

Installation:

See McStas install pages on GitHub / McXtrace install pages on GitHub

 for details

What’s Changed

Common to McStas and McXtrace:

Tools

• mcgui/mxgui list mode scanning:
  • Support mcrun -L scan mode via mcgui ‘Scan steps’ entry by @willend in #2493
• Small but important improvements to mcdisplay/mxdisplay:
  • pyqtgraph variant:
    • Restore various click/keyboard control across PyQt5/PyQt6
    • Improvements to mcdisplay(-pyqtgraph) component list (do not underflow main window) by @willend in #2489
    • Fix missing PyQt5->PyQt6 correction for mcdisplay-pyqtgraph by @willend in #2481
    • Fix of another mcdisplay-pyqtgraph PyQt6 vs PyQt5 bug by @willend in #2485
  • matplotlib variant:
    • Silence mcdisplay-matplotlib noise when pressing ‘q’ by @willend in #2483
  • Common, parsing-system:
    • Fix for rare bug: Add fflush(stdout) protection of DEBUG_COMPONENT (fix #2486) by @willend in #2487

Libraries

• KDSource functional in mingw builds (+other minor improvements) by @willend in #2497 (comes with both McStas and McXtrace even though KDSource.comp is McStas-only for now)
• Get rid of ‘dirent’ dependency on Windows systems
  • Dirent windows fixup by @willend in #2496

Installers

• New MSVC-based installer-bundle for both McStas and McXtrace, will eventually fully replace the MinGW installer-bundle
  • See McStas windows install page for details
  • See McXtrace windows install page for details

McStas only:

Components

• Update NMO.comp by @willend in #2474

McXtrace only:

• No McXtrace-specific comp/instr changes

Infrastructure, common to McStas/McXtrace:

• Fixes to installdocs by @willend in #2476
• Various work on GitHub actions by @willend in #2488
• Give mctest a –displaymax handle by @willend in #2495
• Prepare for 3.7.6 release by @willend in #2498

Full Changelog: v3.7.1…v3.7.6

All the best on behalf of the McStas / McXtrace team,

Peter

Peter Kjær Willendrup
Forskningsingeniør, Specialkonsulent

DTU Physics