[Herwig-announce] ThePEG 1.9.0 and Herwig++ 2.7.0 have been released

[David Grellscheid]

Dear Herwig++ and ThePEG users,

we would like to announce the new major release of Herwig++ 2.7.0
together with ThePEG 1.9.0. The release note is available as 
arXiv:1310.6877.

The main improvements are:

  * A converter for BSM model Feynman rules in the UFO format,
    allowing Herwig++ to run most BSM models without having to
    hand-code vertices.

  * Scaling parameters to estimate shower uncertainties.

  * More flexible and consistent rewrite of Matchbox NLO matching.

  * Generic BLHA2 interface to one-loop amplitude codes.

  * New underlying event tune UE-EE-5-MRST.

  * Many improvements in BSM code, including 4-body decays.

All other bug fixes and improvements since the last version are listed
in the NEWS files in both the tarballs.



To help with our future transition to C++-11, we provide the new
--enable-stdcxx11 configure flag. Please try to run test builds with
this flag enabled in ThePEG and Herwig++ and let us know about any
problems and successes, but do *not* use this in production code yet.
This flag is intended to become the default in one of the next major
releases.



As usual, you can find the downloads at
     http://projects.hepforge.org/herwig/versions

For any questions, please contact herwig at projects.hepforge.org

With best regards,

     The Herwig++ and ThePEG authors