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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We're pleased to announce the release of pyGPlates
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">1.0.0rc1</span><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Note:</b> This is a <i>pre-release</i> of version <span style="font-family:"Courier New"">
1.0.0</span>. Version <span style="font-family:"Courier New"">1.0.0</span> will be released in January 2025 and will have the same functionality. This pre-release is mainly to ensure there are no issues with the new
<i>pip</i> support.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PyGPlates can now be installed using <a href="https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/index.html" title="https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/index.html">conda</a> or <a href="https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/" title="https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/">pip</a>.
Please see the <a href="https://www.gplates.org/docs/pygplates/pygplates_getting_started.html" title="/docs/pygplates/pygplates_getting_started.html">installation instructions</a> in the pyGPlates documentation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Note:</b> The old method of manually installing pre-compiled binaries is no longer supported (that’s now handled by conda and pip). But older versions of pyGPlates can still be found on the
<a href="https://www.gplates.org/download/">download</a> page.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Find out what’s new in this release at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.gplates.org/news/2024-12-13-PyGPlates-1-0-0rc1-released/">https://www.gplates.org/news/2024-12-13-PyGPlates-1-0-0rc1-released/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">PyGPlates documentation and tutorials are available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/G5B9Clx1NjiozZ3v1Uyeh-0?domain=gplates.org">http://www.gplates.org/docs.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">John Cannon, GPlates Developer - <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OjoECmO5glu5Rn7rpS9DjEj?domain=gplates.org">
http://www.gplates.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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