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Hi guys, Just a heads up that we're going to push out a yt-1.6 point release just around the New Years. It'll be taken from the trunk+a bit of hg, which means basically: * Bug fixes * Stephen's new Parallel HOP * Optimized Hierarchy * (very inefficient) Direct ray caster * Star particle analysis routines * SEDs * Fixes for plots, including normalized phase plots * Collective communication in parallel routines * amr_utils instead of the various Cython routines (Have I missed anything else that's in trunk / hg but not 1.5?) As you can see, most of the major, user-visible features for this release are Stephen's. He's already documented most, as well. Congratulations and thanks, Stephen! I'll work to document the updates I'm responsible for, as well. -Matt