A new Pull Request was created by @akritkbehera for branch IB/CMSSW_16_0_X/root636.

@akritkbehera, @cmsbuild, @iarspider, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
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Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-fa8d9e/48113/summary.html
COMMIT: 1e70352
CMSSW: CMSSW_16_0_ROOT636_X_2025-09-12-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/10078/48113/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @kpedro88 expose additional libraries needed for celeritas geant4 interface compilation #10069

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-fa8d9e/48113/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-fa8d9e/48113/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 230 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4113751
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 562
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4113169
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 49 files compared)
• Checked 215 log files, 184 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

+externals

looks good for ROOT6.36

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_16_0_X/root636 IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy, @ftenchini (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)