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     <strong>What's new in Jalview 2.10.3 ?</strong>
   </p>
   <p>
-    Version 2.10.3 is due for release in October 2017. The full list of
-    bug fixes and new features can be found in the <a
-      href="releases.html#Jalview.2.10.3"> 2.10.3 Release Notes</a>, but
-    the highlights are below.
+    Version 2.10.3 was released in November 2017. The major focus was to
+    improve Jalview's sequence features datamodel and the scalability of
+    the alignment rendering system. The full list of bug fixes and new
+    features can be found in the <a href="releases.html#Jalview.2.10.3">2.10.3
+      Release Notes</a>. Key improvements include:
   </p>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Faster and more responsive UI when importing and working
+      with wide alignments and handling hundreds and thousands of
+      sequence features</li>
+    <li>Improved usability with <a
+      href="features/pdbsequencefetcher.html">PDB</a> and <a
+      href="features/uniprotsequencefetcher.html">UniProt</a> Free Text
+      Search dialog, and new tab for retrieval of sequences for lists of
+      IDs.
+    </li>
+    <li>Short names assigned to sequences retrieved from UniProt</li>
+    <li>Groovy console upgraded to 2.4.12 (improved support for Java 9)</li>
+  </ul>
   <p>
     <strong><a name="experimental">Experimental Features</a></strong>
   </p>
   <p>
-    This release of Jalview introduces an <em>Experimental Features</em>
-    option in the Jalview Desktop's <em>Tools</em> menu that allows you
-    to try out features that are still in development. To access the
-    experimental features below - first enable the <strong>Tools&#8594;Enable
-      Experimental Features</strong> option, and then restart Jalview.
+    Remember, please enable the <em>Experimental Features</em> option in
+    the Jalview Desktop's <em>Tools</em> menu, and then restart Jalview
+    if you want to try out features below:
   </p>
   <ul>
     <li><em>Annotation transfer between Chimera and Jalview</em><br />Two
@@ -48,6 +60,6 @@
         the Chimera viewer's Chimera menu</a> allow positional annotation to
       be exchanged between Chimera and Jalview.</li>
   </ul>
-
+  
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