Tagging AliceO2 version async-DataRec-2026-v8

Fix a misplaced prepreg strip in the TPC inner field cage

This fixes a copy-paste error that put both copies of an outer prepreg
strip on the C side and none on the A side.

- TPC_PRSTR1 copy 2 was placed at z = -177.925 like copy 1, where every
  neighbouring pair (sandwich, epoxy, and the rotated segments) places
  its second copy at +177.925.
- The strip now sits at +177.925; the world-position census changes
  from 4 at -177.925 / 2 at +177.925 to the intended 3 / 3.
- Found by a TGeo to STEP round-trip study; TGeoManager::CheckOverlaps
  reports 0 overlaps on TPC either way, so it could not have flagged
  the coincident pair.

Track skipped read timeframes in file statistics & dumping (#15735)

* Track skipped read timeframes in file statistics, dump

* Use concrete when recording skipped timeframe

Track skipped read timeframes in file statistics & dumping (#15735)

* Track skipped read timeframes in file statistics, dump

* Use concrete when recording skipped timeframe

Deduplicate MFT capacitor/welding and X7R0402 geometry

Deduplicate geometrically identical MFT capacitor/welding TGeoVolumes and
the X7R0402 assembly, reducing the ALICE geometry by ~15k logical volumes.

* Geant4 initialization: 26.3s → 17.0s (~35% faster).
* Logical volume UIDs: 27,491 → 6,919, while preserving 5,465,235 nodes.
* Verified that the deduplicated volumes are never accessed by name, so no
  alignment or hit-scoring dependencies are affected.
* Verified that generated hits are bit-by-bit identical before and after
  the change.
* Adds dimension-consistency guards to the static geometry cache.
* Makes geometry transformations to Geant4/VecGeom/CAD substantially more
  tractable by drastically simplifying the geometry volume graph.

A major simplification of the ALICE geometry with significant benefits for
downstream geometry transformation and processing workflows.

[ALICE3] TF3: switch substaves according to close gaps between staves (…

…#15725)

* switch substaves according to close gaps between staves

CTP: luminosity workflow (#15708)

* Change headers for lumi
* Reads TF files and prints rate per BC
* final lumi per BC
* Fix conditional block formatting in RawDecoderSpec.cxx

Co-authored-by: Ella Taylor <ella@eduroam-175425670-2.dyndns.cern.ch>
Co-authored-by: shahor02 <shahor02@users.noreply.github.com>

faster mat LUT

Signed-off-by: Felix Schlepper <felix.schlepper@cern.ch>

faster mat LUT

Signed-off-by: Felix Schlepper <felix.schlepper@cern.ch>

CCDB: improved support for CI Security Proxy (#15713)

Add ability to specify Gate Token also for DELETE / PUT / UPDATE operations.