<div>Dear Rivet & YODA users,</div><br><div>We are very pleased to release Rivet 2.6.1 after a longer than intended gap. This release fixes several emergent build issues due to platform evolution, adds many new analyses, and includes many important bug-fixes and feature improvements. It is intended to be the final release in the Rivet v2 series, before the multi-weight enabled v3 is released (really!) later this month.</div><br><div>The packages can be downloaded from their HepForge home pages as usual:</div><div><a href="https://rivet.hepforge.org/" title="https://rivet.hepforge.org/">https://rivet.hepforge.org/</a></div><div><a href="https://rivet.hepforge.org/" title="https://rivet.hepforge.org/">http://yoda.hepforge.org/</a></div><br><div>We recommend that all users update their production versions of Rivet to 2.6.1 immediately. We hope you enjoy all the improvements -- please let us know your experiences and ideas for future improvements.</div><br><div>We would also like to draw your attention to the new Rivet "LHC analysis coverage" web pages, where we have cross-referenced the Rivet analysis collection with all the LHC papers known to the CERN CDS system: <a href="https://rivet.hepforge.org/rivet-coverage" title="https://rivet.hepforge.org/rivet-coverage">https://rivet.hepforge.org/rivet-coverage</a> . We have broken down the completion rates by each experiment, to provide a bit of competition! Clearly-unsuitable papers have been removed from this tabulation, and "urgent" and in-progress analysis implementations are indicated: please let us know if you would like an analysis to be marked as in-progress or as high-priority and we'll update our files. The coverage pages will be periodically updated: complete coverage will always be a moving target :-)</div><br><div>Best wishes and happy riveting!</div><div>The Rivet/YODA team</div><br><div><div><signature id="initial"><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="padding-bottom:15px"><div><strong>Dr Andy Buckley, Senior Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow</strong></div><div>Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"></td><td><div style="font-size:0.9em;white-space:nowrap;border-left:2px solid gray;margin-left:20px;padding-left:20px"><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></signature></div></div>