ICARUSCode is the main simulation and reconstruction software repository for the ICARUS experiment/collaboration.
List of ICARUSCode Releases
This list of ICARUSCode releases is no longer actively maintained. Please refer to the GitHub page for ICARUSCode releases. You can also find a historical record of all tagged versions of ICARUSCode by clicking on the menu to select different branches/tags on the main GitHub page for ICARUSCode (see screenshot below).
For any questions about releases of ICARUSCode or to ask for a new release, please contact the current (as of January 2026) Release Manager and author of this page, Jacob Smith (jacob dot a dot smith at stonybrook dot edu).
ICARUSCode Dependencies
ICARUSCode currently depends on the following non-exhaustive list of software:
ICARUSData (housed on Fermilab Redmine): includes data files for, e.g., signal processing
ICARUS Signal Processing: includes algorithms for readout signal processing
ICARUSAlg: includes things independent of the ART framework/package such as detector geometry descriptions and GDML files
ICARUSUtil (mostly optional): includes scripts and facilities for submitting computing jobs to the scientific computing grid
SBNCode: the main ‘parent package’ of ICARUSCode that contains code shared by all SBN experiments (e.g. SBND)
However, ICARUSCode is part of a much larger software stack, all of which is based on LArSoft (larsoft). Intermediate software packages (e.g. SBNCode, GENIE_xSec, SBNDAQ-ARTDAQ-Core, etc.) will have their own list of dependencies. But as a user of ICARUSCode, you will likely not have to worry about those upstream dependencies.
For an up-to-date look at a GitHub software package’s list of dependencies, the source of truth is always the ups/product_deps file in the associated repository. For example, here is the link to the SBNCode product_deps file for the development branch of SBNCode. Note that different GitHub branches may have different dependency lists.
SBNDAQ-ARTDAQ-Core (sbndaq-artdaq-core) Quirks
SBNDAQ-ARTDAQ-Core is explicitly a dependency of SBNCode. But it often causes problems for those who use it. If you need to check out SBNDAQ-ARTDAQ-Core in your working area, the effective MRB command is:
mrb gitCheckout -d sbndaq_artdaq_core sbndaq-artdaq-core
which checks out the repository sbndaq-artdaq-core from the default repository
in GitHub and puts it into sbndaq_artdaq_core directory. Note the use of both hyphens (-) and underscores (_). This is, unfortunately, required syntax as of May 2026. While the GitHub repo uses hyphens, ups (the package manager we use on GPVMs) doesn’t play nice with hyphens.
Versioning Conventions
In all releases, the first three qualifiers of the ICARUSCode release tag match the underlying LArSoft version. For example, ICARUSCode v10_06_00_06p05 is based on LArSoft v10_06_00. The remaining part, _06p05, denotes the 06 release of SBNCode and the 05 patch made at the ICARUSCode level. Note that other software packages may follow their own versioning conventions.