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Dear PSRCAT users,</div>
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We are excited to release PSRCAT v2.8.1 [bug fix only].</div>
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<span style="color: black;">The PSRCAT webpage </span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat" target="_blank" id="OWA4cb4e8e7-b17b-87c9-c077-27429e945434" class="OWAAutoLink" title="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-outlook-id="35221bb8-b05f-4336-85d6-b5da0a07964e" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;"><u>www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat</u></a></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);"><a href="https://doi.org/10.25919/d9a8-pq84" target="_blank" id="OWAd49a70dc-f6c2-3635-edbe-38d6fa4e061f" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://doi.org/10.25919/d9a8-pq84" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-outlook-id="311551fa-57e4-4fda-a2cf-b0964328b40b" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;"><u>https://doi.org/10.25919/d9a8-pq84</u></a></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 v2.8.1.</div>
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Updates for this release</div>
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Bug fixes:</div>
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- Fix derive for DIST, DIST_DM [PSRSOFT-386]</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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Regards,</div>
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Lawrence, on behalf of the PSRCAT team.</div>
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