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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;background:white">We are proud to announce version 3.5 of Mantid, this version includes significant improvements to multidimensional visualisation, the addition of an "Region of Interest"
Mode into the Instrument view and a new multiple scattering absorption correction algorithm based on the work of Jerry Mayers. In addition to this we are also releasing the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://forum.mantidproject.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#005580;background:white">Mantid
Forum</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">to
provide a centre for support and conversation across the Mantid community.<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
<a href="http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_3.5">release notes</a> 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><span style="background:white">the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://forum.mantidproject.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#005580;background:white">Mantid
Forum</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">.<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/v3.5.0"><span style="color:#009933">GitHub</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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_3.5">http://www.mantidproject.org/Release_Notes_3.5</a> </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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