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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are proud to announce version 6.7.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our
<a href="https://download.mantidproject.org/">download page</a>. You can also access the source code on the
<a href="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.6.0">GitHub release page</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This release includes a wide array of updates, bugfixes, and new features, which build on the functionality of Mantid. Notably there have been major changes to the code underlying event filtering. Further details
can be found in the <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.7.0/framework.html">
Framework release notes</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Highlights for this release include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Further refinements to the <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/interfaces/direct/ALFView.html#alfview-ref">
ALFView</a> interface<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The peak overlay feature in <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/workbench/instrumentviewer.html#instrumentviewer">
Instrument Viewer</a> now works in side-by-side view. There is also more flexibility to define how detector banks are arranged in the side-by-side view.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Major changes have been made to the treatment of temperature in the
<a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/algorithms/Abins-v1.html#algm-abins">
Abins</a> and <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/algorithms/Abins2D-v1.html#algm-abins2d">
Abins2D</a> algorithms (see <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/concepts/DynamicalStructureFactorFromAbInitio.html#dynamicalstructurefactorfromabinitio">
supporting documentation</a> for more details)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">File browser performance issues on GTK-based linux environments has been fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please take a look at the <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.7.0/index.html">
release notes</a>, which are filled with details of all 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
<a href="https://forum.mantidproject.org/">forum</a> or by email on <a href="http://mantid-help@mantidproject.org">
mantid-help@mantidproject.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kind regards,<br>
The Mantid Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2D2D62;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Sarah Foxley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Scientific Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Phone – 01235 446938<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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