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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We are proud to announce version 4.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">2</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> of Mantid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE THAT WILL SUPPORT Python 2</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From v4.3 onwards Mantid will no longer support Python 2 and scripts run in Mantid will have to change to reflect
this. <a href="https://pythonclock.org/"><span style="color:#009933">Time is Ticking</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">NB. Mantid v4.3 will be released near the End of February 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Interfaces, interfaces, interfaces</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">!
Hard to say but Easy to use! One of the major changes for this release is the new Direct <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/interfaces/ALF%20View.html#alf-view-ref"><i><span style="color:#009933;text-decoration:none">ALF View</span></i></a> GUI
for aligning samples on the ALF Instrument. There have also been serious developments in the <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.2.0/indirect_geometry.html"><i><span style="color:#009933;text-decoration:none">Indirect</span></i></a> Interfaces:
The Analysis and Bayes Interfaces have been introduced to Mantid Workbench and all interfaces will accept lists to plot multiple spectra. Generally usability has been improved, such as the cleaner <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.2.0/sans.html"><i><span style="color:#009933;text-decoration:none">ISIS
SANS</span></i></a> Interface and the multiple improvements in Workbench. The Script Repository has even been added into <a href="https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.2.0/mantidworkbench.html"><i><span style="color:#009933;text-decoration:none">Workbench</span></i></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",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:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">These are just a few 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>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",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 the <a href="http://forum.mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#005580;background:white">Mantid Forum</span></a><span style="color:#333333">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="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="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://download.mantidproject.org/">download
page</a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="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="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v4.2.0">GitHub</a>.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Details of what is available i</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">n</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
the release are in the release notes</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.2.0/index.html">http://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v4.2.0/index.html</a>
<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>
<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>
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