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Hi.</div>
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We have now finalized the 2.9.0 release. We hope we did all the required steps if something is missing</div>
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let us know.</div>
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Thanks to everyone for testing!</div>
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Best</div>
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Andreas<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Dedner, Andreas <A.S.Dedner@warwick.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 October 2022 18:42<br>
<b>To:</b> dune-devel@lists.dune-project.org <dune-devel@lists.dune-project.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> rc1 for 2.9.0 available</font>
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<span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">The first </span></span><span class="x_markkv3n6vpwu"><span style="color:black; background:#FFF100">release</span></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">
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</span></span><span class="x_markkv3n6vpwu"><span style="color:black; background:#FFF100">release</span></span><span class="x_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="x_contentpasted0"><span style="color:black"> it is tagged as
</span></span><span class="x_contentpasted1"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"; color:#FF5454; background:white">v2.9.0rc1</span></b></span><span class="x_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="x_contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">and in addition</span></span></p>
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<span class="x_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
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<span class="x_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="x_contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Robert and Andreas<br>
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