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<span style="color:black">We are proud to announce version 6.5.0 of Mantid is now available. Installation packages can be found on our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://download.mantidproject.org/" title="https://download.mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">download
page</span></a>. You can also access the source code on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.4.0" title="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.4.0"><span style="color:#0563C1">GitHub
release page</span></a>. Please take a look at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/v6.5.0/release/v6.5.0/index.html" title="https://docs.mantidproject.org/v6.4.0/release/v6.4.0/index.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">release
notes</span></a>, which are filled with details of all of the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time
and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://forum.mantidproject.org/" title="https://forum.mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">forum</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or
by email on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mantid-help@mantidproject.org" title="http://mantid-help@mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">mantid-help@mantidproject.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">.rpm and .deb no longer available</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">This and future releases will no longer provide an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>.rpm</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for Red Hat and a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>.deb</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
Ubuntu. The new Linux tarball provided will work on both of these systems and has the advantage of not being tied to ancient system libraries that have held up internal updates. The new tarball can also be extracted and run anywhere, so does not require root
permissions to install.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">Installation on IDAaaS at ISIS</span></i><span style="color:black">:
<i>Along with the IDAaaS team we have made some changes so that the latest version will be installed alongside the previous version so that the version will no longer be pinned and the most recent and previous version will be available simultaneously.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">New Landing Page (www.mantidproject.org)</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We have also taken this opportunity to publish a new front page for
<a href="https://mantidproject.org/">mantidproject.org</a>. This new page replaces the ancient wiki pages where any relevant content has been migrated to
<a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/">docs.mantidproject.org</a> to be versioned with the code. We have captured a snapshot of the old pages and these are available at
<a href="https://archive.mantidproject.org/">archive.mantidproject.org</a> should they be required. If you notice any content that you find in the
<i>archive</i> pages that should be in <i>docs</i> then please let us know. <o:p>
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<span style="color:black">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Mantid Development Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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