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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The release over Christmas is always a smaller release due to the holidays and various international meetings. However that did not stop us adding lots of important improvements throughout Mantid,
particularly for plotting, reflectometry, and the addition of support for Integration reports for single crystal diffraction data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Mac Users Please Note:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From
this release Mantid will require OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" or above. If for some reason you cannot update you may continue to use Mantid v3.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Details of what is available is the release are
<a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_3.1">http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_3.1</a><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<span lang="EN-US">The new version is now available in the download area <a href="http://download.mantidproject.org">
http://download.mantidproject.org</a><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mantid/files/3.1/"><span style="color:#3366BB">sourceforge</span></a>,
you can also download the source code from the same page or access it on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/tree/v3.1"><span style="color:#3366BB">GitHub</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Nick Draper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/">Mantid Project Manager</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tel: +44 (0)1235 <span style="color:#1F497D">
56</span>7212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Skype: nicholas_draper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">RAL, R3, G16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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