[Herwig-announce] Herwig 7.0.1 and ThePEG 2.0.1

[David Grellscheid]

Dear users of Herwig and ThePEG,

we're happy to announce the first bug-fix release in the Herwig 7 
series, Herwig 7.0.1, with the matching release of ThePEG 2.0.1. In 
future, we aim to release bug fixes every 4-8 weeks, incrementing the 
third digit of the version number.

The latest version of the bootstrap script at

   https://herwig.hepforge.org/herwig-bootstrap

will update ThePEG and Herwig in an existing bootstrap installation.

As always, contact <herwig at projects.hepforge.org> with any questions or 
comments, or use our newly re-opened bug tracker at

   https://herwig.hepforge.org/trac/

with user name "new" and password "ticket". Don't forget your email 
address in the CC field!

With best regards,

   The Herwig developers



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List of changes
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* Herwig 7.0.1 release: 2016-02-17

** Version number written to log file
    The Herwig version number is now included in addition to ThePEG's 
version.

** Tau lifetimes
    A bug with lifetimes for hard process Taus is fixed. Thanks to ATLAS
    for the report!

** Shower FSR retries
    Rare events could take a long time due to an extremely large number
    of FSR retries. These are now capped at a configurable number.

** Dipole shower
    Reweighting for non-radiating events; fixes for shower profile
    handling; option to downgrade large-Q expansion for alphaS

** Matchbox builtins
    Added massive currents for q-qbar

** ShowerAlphaQCD
    can now use user-defined thresholds

** Input snippets
    W/Z/H on-shell now split into three files; 4-flavour scheme added

** UFO converter
    The converter now has experimental support for writing out param
    cards of its current settings.

** LEPJetAnalysis loading fixed

** Contrib
    HJets++ has moved to a stand-alone project, FxFx has been added


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* ThePEG-2.0.1 release: 2016-02-17

** Electroweak scheme fixes
    Schemes 2 and 5 now set GF, scheme 7 calculates mw correctly.

** New ParVector 'clear' command

** More visible version information
    The version number of ThePEG is written into the log file.

** Rivet exception handling
    Any exceptions from Rivet/YODA are converted into warning exceptions.
    This can invalidate plots, please check the logfile.

** Rapidity limits fixed in FuzzyTheta cuts

** Doxygen updated to version 1.8

** Java interface fixed