Due to a number of bugs and other issues, analysis reports from HWInjReport had been suspended indefinitely until these issues could be resolved. I am happy to report that these issues have been resolved and have resulted in the release of HWInjReport v2.2. This version contains a number of fixes to the analysis logic to improve accuracy and reliability.

Several features were added to HWInjReport for this version. The first is that the application has been modified to use direct access to the data nodes when running on a CONDOR machine; this has the effect of significantly improving runtime by a factor 3 or better due to no longer needing to wait on the archive robot to load files, which was the case when running from LDAS-pcdev1, for instance. In part of this, HWInjReport now uses gw_data_find to find frame files instead of the deprecated ligo_data_find. The second feature is support for analyzing the CAL-INJ channel in RAW frame files and checking the TRANSIENT bit within that channel for hardware injections. The third feature is support for recognizing STOCHASTIC injections.

Also with this version, the output format has been compressed some for better readability (the output is not as wide as it originally was), and the threshold for IFO coincidence between Hanford and Livingston has been increased to 12ms from 10ms.

With these changes, version 2.2 is the latest stable release of HWInjReport. It is still expected that changes and improvements to the software will continue into the future as necessary; however, hopefully, these changes will not necessitate another cessation of analysis using HWInjReport due to validation issues.