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<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>First of all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all McStas users!</div>
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<div>The McStas team had hoped to have a new release ready before the Christmas break, but a few important things are still missing. </div>
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<div>We now aim for release of McStas 2.1 in January 2014, with these important additions:</div>
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<li>Updated ESS source module with implementation of the proposed “pancake” design (which is currently under evaluation as an option for ESS)</li><li>Easier-to-install packages for Mac OS X and Windows systems</li><li>An overhauled user manual and a revised component manual</li><li>New contributed components and instruments – Please send your potential contributions soon! </li><li>Final dismissal of the use of STATE and POLARISATION parameters</li><li>Revised implementation of the output routines with functional NeXus event-list support </li><li>Patched MPI event list implementation (2.0 and earlier releases would hang in case of an empty single-node event list)</li><li>Auto-generation of Mantid IDF xml files via Perl mcdisplay</li></ol>
<div>All the best on behalf of the McStas team,</div>
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<div>Peter Willendrup</div>
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