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 Herwig 7.1.4
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 Please contact <herwig@projects.hepforge.org> for any queries.
 
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 Herwig is actively developed by:
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 Johannes Bellm
 Stefan Gieseke
-David Grellscheid
 Patrick Kirchgaeßer
 Graeme Nail
 Andreas Papaefstathiou
 Simon Plätzer
-Radek Podskubka
-Michael Rauch
 Christian Reuschle
 Peter Richardson
 Mike Seymour
 Andrzej Siödmok
 Stephen Webster
 
 
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 Former authors are:
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 Ken Arnold
 Manuel Bähr
 Luca d'Errico
 Martyn Gigg
+David Grellscheid
 Nadine Fischer
 Keith Hamilton
 Marco A. Harrendorf
 Seyi Latunde-Dada
 Frashër Loshaj
+Radek Podskubka
 Daniel Rauch
+Michael Rauch
 Alberto Ribon
 Christian Röhr
 Pavel Růžička
 Peter Schichtel
 Alex Schofield
 Thomas Schuh
 Alexander Sherstnev
 Philip Stephens
 Martin Stoll
 Louise Suter
 Jon Tully
 Bryan Webber
 Alix Wilcock
 David Winn
 Benedikt Zimmermann
 
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 ========
 Herwig 7
 ========
 
-This is the release of Herwig 7.1.4, a multi purpose event
+This is the release of Herwig 7.2.0, a multi purpose event
 generator for high energy physics.
 
 The Herwig++ distribution contains an adapted version of LoopTools 2.6
 <http://www.feynarts.de/looptools/>. 
 
 BUILD AND INSTALL
 =================
 Please refer to https://herwig.hepforge.org/tutorials/ for detailed 
 instructions.