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+% ROOT Version 6.02/00 Release Notes
+% May 2014
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+## Introduction
+
+ROOT version 6.02/00 has been released on [      ].
+
+For more information, see:
+
+[http://root.cern.ch](http://root.cern.ch)
+
+The following people have contributed to this new version:
+
+ Bertrand Bellenot, CERN/SFT,\
+ Dario Berzano, CERN/SFT,\
+ Rene Brun, CERN/SFT,\
+ Ioan Gabriel Bucur, CERN/SFT \
+ Philippe Canal, FNAL,\
+ Cristina Cristescu, CERN/SFT,\
+ Olivier Couet, CERN/SFT,\
+ Kyle Cranmer, NYU, RooStats,\
+ Anders Eie, NTNU,\
+ Gerri Ganis, CERN/SFT,\
+ Andrei Gheata, CERN/Alice,\
+ Wim Lavrijsen, LBNL, PyRoot,\
+ Sergey Linev, GSI, http,\
+ Anna-Pia Lohfink,\
+ Pere Mato, CERN/SFT,\
+ Lorenzo Moneta, CERN/SFT,\
+ Axel Naumann, CERN/SFT,\
+ Danilo Piparo, CERN/SFT,\
+ Timur Pocheptsov, CERN/SFT,\
+ Fons Rademakers, CERN/SFT,\
+ Paul Russo, FNAL, \
+ Joerg Stelzer, DESY/Atlas, TMVA, \
+ Alja Tadel, UCSD/CMS, Eve, \
+ Matevz Tadel, UCSD/CMS, Eve, \
+ Eckhard von Toerne, University Bonn, ATLAS, TMVA, \
+ Vassil Vassilev, CERN/SFT \
+ Wouter Verkerke, NIKHEF/Atlas, RooFit, \
+ Yue Shi Lai, MIT
+
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