v28.1.0

Feature

• Minimum number of top SPs in orthogonal seeding confirmation (#2298) (f651d07) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• Add ability to skip grid bins in SP grouping and add ITk "fast" tracking config for seeding (#2166) (14b0cea) (@LuisFelipeCoelho)
• Target surface for filtering phase of CKF (#2319) (271cbf8) (@andiwand)
• Really make patched python constructors accept pathlib Paths (#2335) (61df945) (@benjaminhuth)
• Root SimHit Reader and unit test (#2330) (ced7cb7) (@benjaminhuth)

Ci

• Physmon comment report pipes through summary (#2342) (3f4cbab) (@paulgessinger)
• Add ttbar pu 200 job to physmon (#2282) (b5acca1) (@paulgessinger)
• Create job summaries in python (#2339) (b5babcb) (@paulgessinger)
• Switch off forced-assertions in extra Ubuntu builds (#2337) (6527cda) (@paulgessinger)
• Athena job: use separate variable (9699885) (@paulgessinger)
• Athena trigger uses github.sha (b01a2dd) (@paulgessinger)
• Explicitly trigger current commit hash for Athena build (e853b17) (@paulgessinger)

Refactor

• Remove direction from stepper (#2312) (3c69bf2) (@andiwand)

Performance

• Add option of stereo angle when building telescope detector (#2240) (0147d07) (@XiaocongAi)

Fix

• Boundless Portal can be constructed from JSON (#2327) (6276311) (@paulgessinger)
• Fix BinningValue conversions (#2333) (d85d3fd) (@andiwand)