Hello,
We are proud to announce version 6.11.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.11.0>.
In this release we gave extra attention to fixing bugs and improving algorithms (for example by making them run faster or use less memory). We also added several new algorithms. These are the highlights for this release:
* There is a new Deprecation Policy<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/deprecation.html> for Mantid. One of the main changes is that we will deprecate algorithms that have not been used for 3 years or more.
* For single crystal diffraction, we added a new algorithm FindMultipleUMatrices to find multiple UB matrices when given lattice parameters for sample with multiple domains or spurious peaks.
* Also for single crystal diffraction, IntegratePeaksSkew is better at determining background bins by minimising third-moment (skew). This is achieved by forcing skew > 0 (minimum skew we would expect in background). This change stops peak mask of IntegratePeaksSkew including too many pixels due to small diffuse scattering (seen in the figure above).
* For powder diffraction, the algorithms AlignAndFocusPowder, AlignAndFocusPowderFromFiles, SNSPowderReduction and LoadEventAndCompress were updated to use logarithmic compression, which uses less memory.
* For reflectometry, we added a new algorithm PolarizationEfficienciesWildes for calculating the efficiencies of the polarizing components of an instrument with two flippers. This algorithm implements the approach from the A. R. Wildes 2006 paper doi: 10.1080/10448630600668738<https://doi.org/10.1080/10448630600668738>.
* For SANS, we added new algorithm PolarizerEfficiency for calculating the efficiency of a polariser.
* For Inelastic, renamed tabs of QENS Fitting from MSD Fit, I(Q,t) Fit, ConvFit and F(Q) to MSD, I(Q,t), Convolution and Function(Q) respectively.
* For Inelastic, the Elwin Tab of Data Processor Interface now includes access to the Slice Viewer or 3D Plot from the output plot widget of the output workspaces containing more than 1 histogram.
* Again for Inelastic, QENS Fitting Interface now allows loading a _Result workspace from the I(Q, t) fitting tab into the Function (Q) fitting tab if one of the fit parameters is A0.
* Finally, for developers, the Mantid developer environments are now created using a new mantid-developer Conda meta-package, hosted on our Conda channel. This change does not affect users but greatly simplifies our development process, as package dependencies are now automatically sorted on different operating systems.
Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.11.0/index.html>, which are filled with details of all the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
Kind regards,
The Mantid Team
Sarah Foxley
Mantid Team Lead and Engineering Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Phone - 01235 446938
sarah.foxley(a)stfc.ukri.org<mailto:sarah.foxley@stfc.ukri.org>
She/Her/Hers
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Hello,
We are proud to announce version 6.10.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.10.0>.
This release includes a wide array of updates, bugfixes, and new features, which build on the functionality of Mantid.
Highlights for this release include:
* New algorithms to support Polarised SANS data reduction
* A new algorithm, IntegratePeaks1DProfile, for integrating single-crystal Bragg peaks in a workspace with an x-unit TOF
* A new option to find peaks using the ratio of variance/mean in FindSXPeaksConvolve
* Improvements to the way Mantid handles event compression
* New detector grouping options in the Indirect Diffraction Interface
* A new way to easily load multiple files into Elwin Tab
* Renaming of the Inelastic Data Analysis interface to Inelastic QENS Fitting
Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.10.0/index.html>, which are filled with details of all the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
Kind regards,
The Mantid Team
Sarah Foxley
Mantid Team Lead and Engineering Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Phone - 01235 446938
sarah.foxley(a)stfc.ukri.org<mailto:sarah.foxley@stfc.ukri.org>
She/Her/Hers
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Hello,
We are able to announce the availability of the patch version 6.9.1 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.9.1>.
This patch release corrects some significant issues since version 6.9.0 was released in February.
Specifically this patch release:
* fixes a problem with workbench freezing when plotting from a workspace that is changing (e.g. plotting live data)
* Improve stability of the ReflectometryReductionOneLiveData v1<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/algorithms/ReflectometryReductionOne…> algorithm for OFFSPEC users
* Adds sample log values to the live data workspace before the instrument is loaded in ReflectometryReductionOneLiveData v1<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/algorithms/ReflectometryReductionOne…> to ensure log values are available when setting the detector positions.
* Fixes a bug in the Elwin Tab of the Data Manipulation Interface where changing integration range with the sliders did not change default integration range.
* Fixes a crash when using multiple Indirect or Inelastic Interfaces
Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.9.1/index.html>, which are filled with details of all the changes and improvements. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements . Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
Kind regards,
The Mantid Team
Sarah Foxley
Mantid Team Leader and Mantid Project Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Phone - 01235 446938
sarah.foxley(a)stfc.ukri.org<mailto:sarah.foxley@stfc.ukri.org>
She/Her/Hers
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Hello,
We are proud to announce version 6.9.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.9.0>.
This release includes a wide array of updates, bugfixes, and new features, which build on the functionality of Mantid.
Highlights for this release include:
* Significant improvement to the performance of LoadAscii algorithm
* A new algorithm, IntegratePeaksShoeboxTOF, for integrating single-crystal Bragg peaks in a workspace using a shoebox
* The ability to do 1D peak finding using FindPeaksConvolve
* The ability to open the SliceViewer directly from Indirect and Inelastic Interfaces for output data
Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.9.0/index.html>, which are filled with details of all the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
Kind regards,
The Mantid Team
Sarah Foxley
Mantid Team Leader and Mantid Project Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Phone - 01235 446938
sarah.foxley(a)stfc.ukri.org<mailto:sarah.foxley@stfc.ukri.org>
She/Her/Hers
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Hello,
We are proud to announce version 6.8.0 of Mantid. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/> along with updated instructions for installing the latest release via Conda. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.8.0>.
This release includes a wide array of updates, bugfixes, and new features, which build on the functionality of Mantid.
Highlights for this release include:
* Upgrading the Python version to 3.10
* Autoscaling options have been added to the SliceViewer
* New algorithms BayesQuasi2 and BayesStretch2 based on the quickBayes package
* New algorithm FindSXPeaksConvolve to find single-crystal Bragg peaks in instruments with RectangularDetectors
* Algorithms SANSTubeCalibration and SANSTubeMerge have been added for calibrating the SANS2D instrument at ISIS
Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.8.0/index.html>, which are filled with details of all the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
Kind regards,
The Mantid Team
Sarah Foxley
Scientific Software Engineer & Mantid Project Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Phone - 01235 446938
sarah.foxley(a)stfc.ukri.org<mailto:sarah.foxley@stfc.ukri.org>
She/Her/Hers
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Hello,
We are proud to announce version 6.5.0 of Mantid is now available. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/>. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.4.0>. Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/v6.5.0/release/v6.5.0/index.html>, which are filled with details of all of the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<http://mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
.rpm and .deb no longer available
This and future releases will no longer provide an .rpm for Red Hat and a .deb for Ubuntu. The new Linux tarball provided will work on both of these systems and has the advantage of not being tied to ancient system libraries that have held up internal updates. The new tarball can also be extracted and run anywhere, so does not require root permissions to install.
Installation on IDAaaS at ISIS: Along with the IDAaaS team we have made some changes so that the latest version will be installed alongside the previous version so that the version will no longer be pinned and the most recent and previous version will be available simultaneously.
New Landing Page (www.mantidproject.org)
We have also taken this opportunity to publish a new front page for mantidproject.org<https://mantidproject.org/>. This new page replaces the ancient wiki pages where any relevant content has been migrated to docs.mantidproject.org<https://docs.mantidproject.org/> to be versioned with the code. We have captured a snapshot of the old pages and these are available at archive.mantidproject.org<https://archive.mantidproject.org/> should they be required. If you notice any content that you find in the archive pages that should be in docs then please let us know.
Kind regards,
Mantid Development Team
Dr Martyn Gigg (He/Him)
[pronunciation: mar-tyn gigg]
ISIS Data Reduction Team Lead
Science and Technology Facilities Council
martyn.gigg(a)stfc.ac.uk<mailto:martyn.gigg@stfc.ac.uk>
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Hello,
We are proud to announce version 6.4.0 of Mantid is now available. Installation packages can be found on our download page<https://download.mantidproject.org/>. You can also access the source code on the GitHub release page<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/releases/tag/v6.4.0>.
Packaging & Installation
As advertised in v6.3.0 we have reworked our installer packages for this release. Changes include:
- Windows and macOS packages are now named MantidWorkbench-6.4.0 with the appropriate extension. Other than this they are used in the same manner.
- A new linux tarball ,``mantidworkbench-6.4.0.tar.xz``, now supports many Linux distributions and should work on any 2010+ distribution. This can simply be unpacked with `tar xJf mantidworkbench-6.4.0.tar.xz ` and can reside anywhere without requiring root privileges.
Last Release of .rpm and .deb
This release will be the last time we provide an .rpm for Red Hat and a .deb for Ubuntu. The new Linux tarball provided above will work on both of these systems and has the advantage of not being tied to ancient system libraries that have held up internal updates. The new tarball can also be extracted and run anywhere, so does not require root permissions to install.
Please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/v6.4.0/release/v6.4.0/index.html>, which are filled with details of all of the changes and improvements in many other areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us and please keep on reporting any problems you have on our forum<https://forum.mantidproject.org/> or by email on mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<http://mantid-help@mantidproject.org>.
Installation on IDAaaS at ISIS: The version will remain pinned at whatever version you are using. Please contact support(a)analysis.stfc.ac.uk<mailto:support@analysis.stfc.ac.uk> to arrange for the environment for your group to be updated at a convenient time.
Kind regards,
Mantid Development Team
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