[Herwig-announce] Herwig 7.1.1 and ThePEG 2.1.1

[David Grellscheid]

Dear users of Herwig and ThePEG,

we're happy to announce a new incremental release in the Herwig 7
series, Herwig 7.1.1, with the matching release of ThePEG 2.1.1.

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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* ThePEG-2.1.1 release: 2017-07-14

** Added missing evaluate() option to GeneralVVSVertex

** More robust reading of LHE files

** Warn about duplicate PDG names in user input

** Write current timestamp into log files

** Calling 'read' in an input file will no longer change the
   repository directory you're in



* Herwig 7.1.1 release: 2017-07-14

** Snippets are now all installed

** Fixed broken ufo2herwig output and LHC-MB.in

** UFO improvements
*** More robust SLHA file handling
*** option of creating diagonal mixing matrices, needed for ATLAS
simplfied models
*** Improved warnings about resetting standard model particles
*** Fixed certain cases where the wrong lorentz structure was picked in
VVS vertices

** Improved error message for unhandled beam particles

** Fix for Dipole Shower chain selection

** Fixed crash in double diffractive delta resonances