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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img width="323" height="68" style="width:3.3645in;height:.7083in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01D342A8.42981B40" alt="cid:image001.png@01CE4D95.2BBE4A00"></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><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" 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">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We are proud to announce version 4.0.0 of Mantid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This release sees the introduction of a brand new graphical user interface, Mantid Workbench,
which will eventually replace MantidPlot. The Mantid Workbench has been built from the ground up to allow more automated testing in an effort to vastly improve on the stability of MantidPlot. In addition it offers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://matplotlib.org/">matplotlib</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-based plotting:
Matplotlib is the de-facto standard plotting package for the scientific community and one of its core goals is to produce publication-quality plots<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">cleaner interface: MantidPlot had many toolbars, buttons and menus that would confuse new users. Mantid Workbench aims to have a simpler interface and removes many
legacy tools that were unused from MantidPlot<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">support for high-dpi displays: Based on Qt5, allowing for improved handling of high-resolution screens such as retina displays<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please see </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.0.0/mantidworkbench.html#workbench-v4-release-notes">the
full workbench release notes</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> for more information along with the new </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/workbench/index.html#workbench">documentation</a>.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This is just one of the 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>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt;background:white">
<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>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<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></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://download.mantidproject.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">download
page</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">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></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v4.0.0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">GitHub</span></a>.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><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/nightly/release/v4.0.0/index.html">http://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.0.0/index.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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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