[Mantid Announcements] Release of Mantid 6.16

We are proud to announce version 6.16.0 of Mantid. Key features of this release include: * Upgraded to Python 3.12. See the changes made to Python here<https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html>ml>. * A large number of new features added to the new Instrument Viewer, as detailed in the Mantid Workbench<https://docs.mantidproject.org/v6.16.0/release/v6.16.0/mantidw… release notes. * The Help documentation now opens in the system's default web browser instead of an embedded viewer. * Further improvements for texture analysis including Ikeda Carpenter peak shapes and support for IMAT. Further details are in the Diffraction<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.15.0/diffr… release notes. * For ORNL instruments which use the ADARA system, it is now possible to record and playback an ADARA-packet stream. See #40748<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/pull/40748> for more details. These are just some of the many improvements in this release, so please take a look at the release notes<https://docs.mantidproject.org/nightly/release/v6.16.0/index.html&…ml>, which are filled with details of the important changes and improvements in many areas. Please note: We are aware of an issue affecting the instrument view 3d view with the Windows stand alone installer. Affected users can install with Conda/Mamba<https://www.mantidproject.org/installation/index#installing-… or disable OpenGL in the settings and use the 2d projections. We plan to have a fix for this soon. 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 discussion board<https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/discussions> or mantid-help@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@stfc.ukri.org<mailto:sarah.foxley@stfc.ukri.org> She/Her/Hers [cid:8b5c30c1-3bd0-4547-a9fb-0e6d1354f9d7]