Merge pull request #1112 from ganga-devs/mesmith75-patch-2

Release notes 6.7.0

Author: mesmith75

release/ReleaseNotes

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+* Added associated_files to ShareDir, a list of IGangaFiles that are used by an application. #1106
+* Change to signature of decrementShareCounter and incrementShareCounter in IPrepareApp. Both take ShareDir objects now. #1106
+* Change to signature of decrease and increase methods in the PrepRegistry. Both take ShareDir objects now. #1106
+* Added counterVal method to get shareref counter of a ShareDir. #1106
+* maxFiles attribute added to GangaDatasetSplitter. Default is -1, use all files. #1105
+* Bugfix for proxy returning objects properly. #1103
+* Bugfix to transform unit creation and checking #1120
+* Argsplitter can use GaudiExec extraArgs attribute. args take precedence if in the application schema. #1119
+* Ganga optimised bigly. #917
+   Bugfix: CPU bottleneck in constructing objects inheriting from GangaObject
+   Bugfix: Race condition in credential managment
+   Feature: Improved parallel monitoring on backends which support standard interface
+   Cleanup: using __slots__ and _additional_slots for managing attributes
+   Cleanup: simplified thread locking
 
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+ganga/python/GangaDirac
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+* Bugfix to script templates for uploading files from the WN. #1114
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+ganga/python/GangaLHCb
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+* Uploaded DiracFiles for GaudiExec added to ShareDir associated_files and removed with the job. #1106
+* Bugfix to GaudiExec - script files are deleted from temp after job submission. #1104
+* Bugfix to GaudiExec - make postprocessor for XML summary follow getMetadata flag. #1110
+* GaudiExec can be submitted with only extra opts. #994
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+ganga/python/GangaAtlas
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+* Added support for BYTESTREAM jobs #1121
+* Enabled splitting of jobs by number of events #1116
+* Proxy disabled for ATLAS #1122
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