Mantid 6.15.0 Release Notes

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We are proud to announce version 6.15.0 of Mantid.

Key features of this release include:

  • The new Instrument View has had several updates; read about them in the Mantid Workbench release notes. This feature is still being developed and new features will be coming to the nightly.

  • The Engineering Diffraction interface has two new tabs, Absorption Correction and Texture. Read more about the work on texture in the Diffraction release notes.

  • Several updates have been made to the AlignAndFocusPowderSlim v1; see the Diffraction and Framework release notes for details.

  • The Bayes Fitting interface 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 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.

Installation packages can be found on our download page which now links to the assets on our GitHub release page, where you can also access the source code for the release.

Citation

Please cite any usage of Mantid as follows:

  • Mantid 6.15.0: Manipulation and Analysis Toolkit for Instrument Data.; Mantid Project. doi: 10.5286/SOFTWARE/MANTID6.15

  • Arnold, O. et al. Mantid-Data Analysis and Visualization Package for Neutron Scattering and mu-SR Experiments. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 764 (2014): 156-166 doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.07.029 (download bibtex)

Changes

Full Change Listings

For a full list of all issues addressed during this release please see the GitHub milestone.