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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><img width="323" height="68" id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image001.png@01CE4D95.2BBE4A00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are pleased to release Mantid v2.5. This major release of Mantid has focussed on improvements to support single crystal diffraction and multi-dimensional visualisation, this has not however prevented us delivering a wide range of other
 improvements and new features.  This release also marks the start of the <a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/ReleaseNotes_2_5_Framework_Changes#Retirement_of_Mantid_Python_v1" title="ReleaseNotes 2 5 Framework Changes">retirement process for version 1 of
 the python API</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Details of what is available is the release are <a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_2.5">
http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_2.5</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">The new version is now available in the download area
<a href="http://download.mantidproject.org">http://download.mantidproject.org</a></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For VATES users who have previously installed Paraview<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In order to use the new visualisation tools in this release, you must update you version of ParaView. Please take installers for the 3.98.1 release of ParaView from <span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://download.mantidproject.org/VatesDownload.psp">here</a></span>.
 If you were previously using Paraview 3.10.1, and do not update to the new version of ParaView, the 3D visualisation tool additions will be disabled. For windows users, instructions on how to update Mantid to work with new ParaView are <span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/Paraview_setup" title="Paraview setup">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick Draper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/">Mantid Project Manager</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel: +44 (0)1235 447212<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Skype: nicholas_draper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RAL, R78, 1.02<o:p></o:p></p>
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