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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img width="323" height="68" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D033EE.3C0C5AA0" alt="cid:image001.png@01CE4D95.2BBE4A00"></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">We are proud to introduce a wide variety of improvements in this release including: a collection of improvements to multi dimensional and "normal" plotting, new experimental planning
interfaces. We have also bundled Paraview into the installers for Mantid from this release, so there is no need to install Paraview separately, and also the multi dimensional visualization is now available to everyone. The improved "matplotlib-like" python
graphing api is now officially released after graduating from the "mantidplot future" namespace, this lives nicely in harmony with the previous commands so existing scripts should continue to work. Finally we have made quite a variety of performance improvements,
notably to NXSPE file saving and handling of files containing large numbers of periods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">These are just a few headline points for the changes in this release, so please take a look at the release notes which are filled with important changes and improvements in many areas.
The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements within Mantid, and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version of Mantid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Throughout the Mantid project we put a lot of effort into ensuring Mantid is a robust and reliable product. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us. Please keep on
reporting any problems you have, or crashes that occur to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto://mantid-help@mantidproject.org"><span style="color:#009933">mantid-help@mantidproject.org</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or
use our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/Contact"><span style="color:#009933">contact page</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Installation packages can be found on our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://download.mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#009933">download page</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which
now links to sourceforge to mirror our download files around the world, you can also access the source code on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v3.4.0"><span style="color:#009933">GitHub</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Details of what is available is the release are
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_3.4">http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_3.4</a></span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nick Draper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/">Mantid Project Manager</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tel: +44 (0)1235
<span style="color:#1F497D">56</span>7212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Skype: nicholas_draper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RAL, R3, G16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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