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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Hi.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>

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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">The first </span></span><span class="markkv3n6vpwu"><span style="color:black; background:#FFF100">release</span></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">

</span></span><span class="mark120wa3pmq"><span style="color:black; background:#FFF100">candidate</span></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black"> for the upcoming 2.9

</span></span><span class="markkv3n6vpwu"><span style="color:black; background:#FFF100">release</span></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black"> is now available for all core modules.</span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">As usual,</span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black"> it is tagged as

</span></span><span class="contentpasted1"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"; color:#FF5454; background:white">v2.9.0rc1</span></b></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black"> on gitlab, tarballs on the webpage are available,</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">

</span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">and in addition</span></span></p>

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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">we have uploaded pypi packages which should also be suitable to test downstream C++ based code against an installation of the core modules using

<span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff" class="ContentPasted0">pip install --pre dune-grid==2.9.0rc1</span></span><br>

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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Please test, and report any problems that you encounter</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>

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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Robert and Andreas<br>

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