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Dear PSRCAT users,</div>
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We are excited to release PSRCAT v2.6.3 - this release takes the number of pulsars in the catalogue to over 4000!</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="OWA9e431e56-ca4c-f1df-241f-4fa527a56d9e" class="x_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="OWA6f2d7037-fb5a-d878-2fbf-33c1ab960d28" class="x_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, the 'stable' pulsar software stack is now running v2.6.2 and the 'next' release is running v2.6.3.</div>
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Updates for this release</div>
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Bug fixes:</div>
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- Add missing PALFA MSPs [PSRSOFT-337]</div>
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- Fix W10>P0 for some pulsars [PSRSOFT-290]</div>
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- Fix names [PSRSOFT-336]</div>
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Features:</div>
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- addition of FAST pulsars from hzw+25 [PSRSOFT-260]</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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