[Pythia8-announce] PYTHIA 8.212 now available

[Torbjorn Sjostrand]

Dear All,

PYTHIA 8.212 has been released today, and can be downloaded from
       http://home.thep.lu.se/Pythia

There are no really major physics news, but many small improvements
and bug fixes. Therefore we encourage users to upgrade.

The main physics changes concern:
* New weighting facilities in initial- and final-state showers.
* Improved matching/merging functionality for external showers.
* New possibility to access hadronization parameters in each step.
* Improved EvtGen interface with the possibility to force a rare decay.
* New MPI option for better matching to multiparton final states.
* New possibility to write Les Houches Event Files version 3.
* PDG codes in the 51 - 60 range introduced for Dark Matter.

We refer to the Update History, found e.g. in the html manual,
for the complete list of changes, including (almost) all the minor
improvements and bug fixes.

Wishing you an enjoyable experience with PYTHIA 8.212.

Sincerely yours,
The Pythia 8 Collaboration
(Torbjörn Sjöstrand, Jesper Roy Christiansen, Nishita Desai,
Philip Ilten, Stephen Mrenna, Stefan Prestel,
Christine Rasmussen, Peter Skands)