User and Programmers’ Guide to the X Ray-Tracing Package McXtrace, version 3.8.6

2.1  Kernel

An important update has been made to the approach of negative propagation lengths. Instead of inplicitly absorbing photons these are now generally restored. In many cases the previous behaviour casued confusion and counter-inutitive operation, in particular regarding mutually exclusive monitors with the flag restore_xray set.