At the run II steering, Rene Brun presented the current status of ROOT.
He went over the newest improvements in ROOT 2/23. This includes a
much greater modularization, the addition of a set of SQL abstract classes
and performance improvement when reading file back.

He also stressed that the current focus for the next release is to work
on consolidation of current features. However he also hoped that he will
be able toimprove the current ROOT file format to be self describing by
the next release (tentatively due in February/March); this feature is necessary
for DZero to consider using ROOT files. Also he hopes to be able to improve
the TTree class to meet the need of CDF Online.