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UI & Usability Changes
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User Interface
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- Fixed the ability to drag & drop files into Mantid on OSX >=10.10
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- The welcome dialog has been redesigned to use less of the screen to fit better onto laptops with small high resolution screens that use screen scaling.
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Scanning workspaces
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- Choosing 'Show Detectors' for a workspace will now also show the time indexes for scanning workspaces.
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Workspace History Window
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.. figure:: ../../images/WorkspaceHistoryShortenedValues.png
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- Algorithm proprties with long values are now shown in a shortened format both in this display and the log.  The full history is still retained, and genereated python scripts will still work as before.
Custom Interfaces
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- General > Multi dataset fitting interface and the general fitting dock now display the status string returned by the `Fit` algorithm. If an error occured during fitting it will be reported in this string.
- Indirect ILL calibration tab, deprecated since v3.9 is now dropped.
- SANS > ISIS SANS v2 experimental interface has become available. It has basic reduction functionalities and makes use of the new reduction backend.
SliceViewer Improvements
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- SliceViewer input of number of bins, thickness, and slice point now waits until the editing is finished to rebin or changing slice point instead of changing with each digit entered.

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VSI Improvements
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- ParaView has been updated to to `v5.4.0 <https://blog.kitware.com/paraview-5-4-0-release-notes/>`_.
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.. figure:: ../../images/LaNaF4_3D_Slices.png
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- Upstream ParaView Contributions

  - Fix scaling, orientation and position inputs when nonorthogonal axes are present.
  - Speed up MultiSlice view by avoiding repeated allocating and freeing memory.
  - Fix the resample to image mapper, which was failing when input contains cell data.
  - Expose the SamplingDimensions property when using the resample to image mapper with vtkStructuredGrids.
  - Improve surface filter performance using vtkSMPTools
  - Refactor the vtkDataSetTriangleFilter for better performance.
  - Refactor the threshold filter to take advantage of structured data.
  - Minimize duplicate code in vtkDataArrayPrivate and parallelize range calculation.
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- Multislice view uses a custom `representation <https://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Views_And_Representations>`_ to speed up slicing by taking advantage of the consistent bin
  sizes in a MDHistoWorkspace. Smooth interaction with typical data sizes (< 10 million cells) is now possible.
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Bugs Resolved
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- Fixed a bug causing table windows with string values to appear truncated if the string contained a space.
- Fixed a bug where setting a table column's plot type would not be saved to the workspace correctly.
- We have improved the documentation for the `RewriteSpectraMap` property of the `LoadInstrument`
  algorithm
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- Fixed a bug where replacing a workspace with X errors with a workspace without would cause a crash if the workspace's data view was open.

Full list of
`GUI <http://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%22Release+3.11%22+is%3Amerged+label%3A%22Component%3A+GUI%22>`_
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`Documentation <http://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%22Release+3.11%22+is%3Amerged+label%3A%22Component%3A+Documentation%22>`_
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