From steffen.hauf at xfel.eu  Tue Feb 10 11:22:18 2026
From: steffen.hauf at xfel.eu (Steffen Hauf)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:22:18 +0100
Subject: [NOBUGS] Updates on NOBUGS2026
Message-ID: <1772A425-F769-4EB5-9772-D8F71A8391A6@xfel.eu>

Dear All,

We?d like to give you a short update on NOBUGS2026! 

Abstract submission should open still in February, and Early-Bird registration soon thereafter. Both will be communicated here and at https://nobugs2026.xfel.eu/. Abstract submission will be open until May 3rd, 2026.

We are also happy to announce the following satellite meetings and workshops at this point:

Chris Roderick & St?phane Deghaye: GUI Workshop (Full Day)
Madelyn Polzin: UX Workshop (Half Day)
Vincent Hardion: Development Practices in Practice (Half Day)
Daniil Kazantsev: HTTomo (Half Day)
Yu Hu: Scientific Data Compression (Half Day)
Peter Peterson: Mantid developer meeting (Full Day)

If you are thinking about organizing a workshop or satellite meeting, please get in touch by the end of February.

Best wishes,

Linus and Steffen for the NOBUGS2026 Organizing Committee 

Dr. Steffen Hauf
Controls - Group Leader

European XFEL GmbH
steffen.hauf at xfel.eu
Phone +49 (0)40 8998-6964
Fax +49 (0)40 8994-6964
www.xfel.eu

Headquarters: Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany

Managing Directors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer, Dr. Nicole Elleuche
Registered as European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH at
Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 111165

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From steffen.hauf at xfel.eu  Wed Feb 18 14:04:35 2026
From: steffen.hauf at xfel.eu (Steffen Hauf)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:04:35 +0100
Subject: [NOBUGS] Updates on NOBUGS2026
In-Reply-To: <1772A425-F769-4EB5-9772-D8F71A8391A6@xfel.eu>
References: <1772A425-F769-4EB5-9772-D8F71A8391A6@xfel.eu>
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Dear All,

the NOBUGS2026 Indico page is now available at https://indico.xfel.eu/e/nobugs2026. 

Abstract submission will open on Monday, February 23rd, and will be open until May 3rd 2026. Early Bird Registration is planned to open in March, and will be announced here.

As a reminder: If you are thinking about organizing a workshop or satellite meeting, please get in touch by the end of February if you haven?t yet.

Best wishes,

Steffen for the NOBUGS 2026 LOC


> On Feb 10, 2026, at 12:22, Steffen Hauf via NOBUGS <nobugs at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> We?d like to give you a short update on NOBUGS2026! 
> 
> Abstract submission should open still in February, and Early-Bird registration soon thereafter. Both will be communicated here and at https://nobugs2026.xfel.eu/. Abstract submission will be open until May 3rd, 2026.
> 
> We are also happy to announce the following satellite meetings and workshops at this point:
> 
> Chris Roderick & St?phane Deghaye: GUI Workshop (Full Day)
> Madelyn Polzin: UX Workshop (Half Day)
> Vincent Hardion: Development Practices in Practice (Half Day)
> Daniil Kazantsev: HTTomo (Half Day)
> Yu Hu: Scientific Data Compression (Half Day)
> Peter Peterson: Mantid developer meeting (Full Day)
> 
> If you are thinking about organizing a workshop or satellite meeting, please get in touch by the end of February.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Linus and Steffen for the NOBUGS2026 Organizing Committee 
> 
> Dr. Steffen Hauf
> Controls - Group Leader
> 
> European XFEL GmbH
> steffen.hauf at xfel.eu
> Phone +49 (0)40 8998-6964
> Fax +49 (0)40 8994-6964
> www.xfel.eu
> 
> Headquarters: Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
> 
> Managing Directors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer, Dr. Nicole Elleuche
> Registered as European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH at
> Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 111165
> 
> _______________________________________________
> NOBUGS mailing list
> NOBUGS at nobugsconference.org
> https://lists.nobugsconference.org/mailman/listinfo/nobugs


Dr. Steffen Hauf
Controls - Group Leader

European XFEL GmbH
steffen.hauf at xfel.eu
Phone +49 (0)40 8998-6964
Fax +49 (0)40 8994-6964
www.xfel.eu

Headquarters: Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany

Managing Directors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer, Dr. Nicole Elleuche
Registered as European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH at
Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 111165

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From petersonpf at ornl.gov  Tue Feb 24 15:09:42 2026
From: petersonpf at ornl.gov (Peterson, Peter)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:09:42 +0000
Subject: [NOBUGS] Release of Mantid v6.15.0
Message-ID: <PH7PR09MB121913971528B7BAD53809CB1A774A@PH7PR09MB12191.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

We are proud to announce version 6.15.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__download.mantidproject.org_&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=sunAdyfdAdW_4WnZqbIIESAu0FG-TYWkHLaiodnbDTQ&e=> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_mantidproject_mantid_releases_tag_v6.15.0&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=AEi2lLtfQns0OZhU7Y76f9SMnW0m1fLVPmz46g-iABg&e=>.
Key features of this release include:

  *   The new Instrument View has had several updates; read about them in the mantid workbench release notes<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_release_v6.15.0_mantidworkbench.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=lHnulDi6eHAyV4o2QU6h5jRmJk1j9xhc-B0A5Fx3P3Q&e=> . This feature is still being developed and new features will be coming to the nightly.
  *   The engineering diffraction interface<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_interfaces_diffraction_Engineering-2520Diffraction.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=9my-fyIFHPI8tZgCWqyqa26VIS1FXe3E2HjBabBgqjc&e=> has two new tabs, Absorption Correction and Texture. Read more about the work on texture in the difraction release notes<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_release_v6.15.0_diffraction.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=V3wRh69HzlGj50MoayiglTFWL48jJW5TR7piaWTw9_w&e=>.
  *   Several updates have been made to the AlignAndFocusPowderSlim<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_algorithms_AlignAndFocusPowderSlim-2Dv1.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=UKHDEvhsBWduAAPOFA39Woqx2rnYKUCv09Ba6dN9yAw&e=>; see the difraction<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_release_v6.15.0_diffraction.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=V3wRh69HzlGj50MoayiglTFWL48jJW5TR7piaWTw9_w&e=> and framework<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_release_v6.15.0_framework.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=ufdhuQqvW1KD_N4qzBUpgy2KW6CHwxxNqAjIqVnuOKM&e=> release notes for details.
  *   The Bayes fitting interface<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_interfaces_inelastic_Inelastic-2520Bayes-2520Fitting.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=TBgcuhwKCCAncHjO7Kck6MBhNNfBBQjNfwg2avGmJ9Q&e=> has a new combo box to swap between using the quasielasticbayes (old Fortran library) backend and the quickbayes (new python library) backend.
  *   The ISIS SANS<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.mantidproject.org_v6.15.0_interfaces_isis-5Fsans_ISIS-2520SANS.html&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=gHkcCCaKP5SVwRuyoMqWhWNjq1y8JfCPqpTjvPCQz8Y&e=> Interface has a new option for selecting a range of phi values in the masking tab to generate multiple phi slices from a single 1D reduction - as well as a new checkbox to enable wide-angle corrections.

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.
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 forum<https://urldefense.us/v2/url?u=https-3A__forum.mantidproject.org&d=DwMFAw&c=v4IIwRuZAmwupIjowmMWUmLasxPEgYsgNI-O7C4ViYc&r=ei3ul-fXT5Ohr6jy1MpF0q1f9i5NBrSMpid9V_N6yXU&m=51f01ilHhrfLVpSmBtiziqYc0ablpPETTi66yrXX8aab3kZAYJz1NeaYrfDy_HBd&s=Ab7a0oCI-lq4SFu-bZD2yhrY9xjBoZB5je7PRU4RSZs&e=>.
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