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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<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 5.0.0 of Mantid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">MANTID NOW RUNS IN Python 3</span></b><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">Make sure you update any of your Mantid scripts that are currently written in Python
2. As a reminder this migration is because Python 2 support ended on 1st Jan 2020.<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">For this release we have fully migrated all scripts in the Mantid Script Repository
to be Python 3 compatible.<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">Other highlights include:<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">
<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Waterfall Plots</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> in Workbench<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">
<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Settings menu</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> in Workbench, with options to set your plot
preferences, such as Marker Style and Error bar Capsize<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">
<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Brand new Engineering Diffraction interface</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><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">Several performance improvements, in particular relating to scripts.<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">Redesign of the Muon Analysis and Frequency Domain Interfaces.<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">These are just some 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 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">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 on our <a href="https://forum.mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#009933">forum</span></a>.<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">Installation packages can be found on our <a href="https://download.mantidproject.org/"><span style="color:#009933">download
page</span></a> which now links to sourceforge to mirror our download files around the world, you can also access the source code on <a href="https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v5.0.0"><span style="color:#009933">GitHub release page</span></a>.<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/v5.0.0/index.html">http://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v5.0.0/index.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Installation at ISIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We understand that this release falls within a running cycle for ISIS, and we do not want this to cause any disruption for ongoing
experiments. Therefore we have delayed the automatic updates of Mantid for iDAaaS and cabin based RHEL computers until after the current cycle has completed. The new version will be available as the “Nightly” on iDAaaS, but the full version will remain at
4.2 until the current cycle completes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">As always Windows and Mac installations are left to each user to update using the installer when they see fit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;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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