A new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig (version 7.1) is now
available. This version introduces a number of improvements, notably: multi-jet
merging with the dipole shower at LO and NLO QCD; a new model for soft
interactions and diffraction; improvements to mass effects and top decays in
the dipole shower, as well as a new tune of the hadronisation parameters.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures. Herwig is available from
https://herwig.hepforge.org