CMSSW_7_1_17

Changes since CMSSW_7_1_16_patch2:

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1. 9898 from @bendavid: Update pythia8 settings for lhapdf6 generators created: 2015-06-25 17:06:06 merged: 2015-06-26 08:02:00

2. 9900 from @bendavid: Backports of Herwig++ 2.7.1 interface and configuration changes generators created: 2015-06-25 17:42:33 merged: 2015-06-26 08:01:50

3. 9646 from @MilanoBicocca-pix: Add vtx smearing parameters from run 247324 operations simulation created: 2015-06-16 17:04:13 merged: 2015-06-26 07:58:38

CMSDIST Changes between Tags REL/CMSSW_7_1_16_patch2/slc6_amd64_gcc481 and REL/CMSSW_7_1_17/slc6_amd64_gcc481:

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1. 1629 from @mkirsano: Lhapdf6 fullmigration created: 2015-06-22 13:48:59 merged: 2015-06-24 14:19:35

2. 1609 from @degano: Remove patch for symlink and force them through makefile options instead created: 2015-06-05 10:11:37 merged: 2015-06-05 10:11:43