  A major new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ (version 3.0)
is now available. This release marks the end of distinguishing Herwig++ and
HERWIG development and therefore constitutes the first major release of version
7 of the Herwig event generator family. The new version features a number of
significant improvements to the event simulation, including: built-in NLO hard
process calculation for all Standard Model processes, with matching to both
angular-ordered and dipole shower modules via both subtractive (MC@NLO-type)
and multiplicative (Powheg-type) algorithms; QED radiation and spin
correlations in the angular ordered shower; a consistent treatment of
perturbative uncertainties within the hard process and parton showering.
Several of the new features will be covered in detail in accompanying
publications, and an update of the manual will follow in due course.
