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We are proud to announce version 6.14.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our
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page</a></span> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the
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release page</a></span>.</div>
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These are the highlights for this release:</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">This is the final release of Mantid to include a package built for Intel Macs. There will continue to be packages built for Apple Silicon (M series processors).</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">The <span style="font-family: Monaco, Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">
<code style="font-family: Monaco, Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">mslice</code></span> package is now an optional dependency of
<span style="font-family: Monaco, Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;"><code style="font-family: Monaco, Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;">mantidworkbench</code></span>. To install it alongside
<code>mantidworkbench </code>run <code>mamba install -c mantidworkbench mslice</code> . Full/standalone installers and IDAaaS remain unchanged; mslice will be automatically provided there.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">An experimental version of the new Instrument View has been made available. To access this, right-click on a workspace in the ADS in Workbench, then click
<code>(Experimental) Show Instrument</code> . This feature is still at an early stage of development with further functionality being added over the v6.15 development period.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">The final pieces of work to support the polarised SANS technique at ISIS have been included in this release. See the
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SANS release notes</a> for more details.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">In the <a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAff8906cc-ac14-d5d9-07ae-c93003ed60e6" href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/workbench/sliceviewer.html">
SliceViewer</a>, a masking feature for Matrix Workspaces with a non-numeric y-axis has been added.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">Texture Analysis can now be performed using the logic included in
<code>Engineering.texture.TextureUtils</code> and a collection of scripts that can be found in
<code>diffraction/ENGINX/Texture</code> within the <a rel="nofollow" class="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" id="OWAbafc4277-2e93-e32c-6f18-69f30a1317be" href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/workbench/scriptrepository.html#workbenchscriptrepository">
mantid script repository</a></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">A collection of improvements to AlignAndFocusPowderSlim. See the
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Diffraction release notes</a> for more details.</div>
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These are just some of the many improvements in this release. Please take a look at the release notes, which are filled with details of the important changes and improvements in many areas.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our
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by email on <span style="color: rgb(18, 100, 163);"><a style="color: rgb(18, 100, 163);" data-stringify-link="mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org" data-sk="tooltip_parent" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link OWAAutoLink" id="OWA74dc5fe7-eb6d-d10e-dd7a-0e9a0562c443" target="_blank" href="mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org">mantid-help@mantidproject.org</a></span>.</div>
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Kind Regards,</div>
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