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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We are proud to announce version 3.11.0 of Mantid, celebrating 10 years of the Mantid project
supporting Neutron and Muon research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This release includes improvements to allow Mantid to handle scanning workspaces, where detectors
may be in several locations for different time periods, and updates to the VSI to improve the performance of slicing regularly binned data. There have also been some significant performance enhancements for various algorithms within the framework due to the
ongoing efforts to improving our handling of instrument geometry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">This is just one of many improvements in this release, so please take a look at the release notes, which are filled with details of the 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:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">the</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </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/v3.11.0"><span style="color:#009933">GitHub</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Details of what is available is the release are in the release notes</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://docs.mantidproject.org/v3.11.0/release/v3.11.0/index.html">http://docs.mantidproject.org/v3.11.0/release/v3.11.0/index.html</a></span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></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"">RAL, R3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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