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Dear PSRCAT users,</div>
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We are excited to release PSRCAT v2.6.1, our 81st version of the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue!</div>
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<span style="color: black;">The PSRCAT webpage </span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat" target="_blank" id="OWAfc2714f5-9896-600e-de4e-48151d3edbac" class="OWAAutoLink" title="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat</a></u></span><span style="color: black;"> has
been updated, and if you wish to use the SQL database and the corresponding scripts, they can be accessed at the following DOI
</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://doi.org/10.25919/d9a8-pq84" target="_blank" id="OWA182900b0-30c6-1c0a-d6bb-8852d238e890" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://doi.org/10.25919/d9a8-pq84" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">https://doi.org/10.25919/d9a8-pq84</a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><u>.</u></span></div>
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For users of ATNF machines, both the 'stable' and 'next' pulsar software stacks are now running v2.6.1.</div>
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Updates for this release</div>
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Fix par file output that caused Tempo2 mixed coords errors [PSRSOFT-304, PSRSOFT-294, PSRSOFT-257]</div>
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Fix missing widths for cab+24 [PSRSOFT-322]</div>
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Fix missing citations for psrcat2 [PSRSOFT-319]</div>
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Fix for some duplicate pulsars [PSRSOFT-301]</div>
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Fix missing refs [PSRSOFT-299, PSRSPFT-298]</div>
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Fix incorrect ELONG ELAT [PSRSOFT-296]</div>
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Add missing survey [PSRSOFT-292]</div>
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Fix bug where expert mode loads latest version only [PSRSOFT-289]</div>
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Fix incorrect units for PML PMB [PSRSOFT-287]</div>
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Fix width unit for lsb+24 [PSRSOFT-286]</div>
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Fix missing PEPOCH [PSRSOFT-281].</div>
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Many other small fixes</div>
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Add args to -h[PSRSOFT-293]</div>
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Add Makefile [PSRSOFT-302]</div>
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Thanks to Agastya for the code development and verification for this release, and to Vince McIntyre and Andrew O'Brien for web development. </div>
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A huge thank you also to those users who spotted and reported any issues back to us - as always, please don't hesitate to contact us to report any issues that you encounter.</div>
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