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 | Ticket | Type | Description |
 | ------ | ---- | ----------- |
 | [#8415](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/8415) | Minor | `g.load_script` will now apply argument type-checking, via `pyright`, by default. This means that some errors which would previously have been runtime errors will now be caught during the `g.load_script` call. See [Error Checking Troubleshooting](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/ibex_user_manual/wiki/Error-Checking-Troubleshooting) for more details. Also adds type hinting to public genie-python API functions.|
+| [#8381](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/8381) | Minor | The `genie_python` library has been split out into a [pip-installable package](https://pypi.org/project/genie-python/). There are no direct user-facing changes to `genie_python` as a result of this change, but it is now possible to depend on `genie_python` in downstream libraries and to install the `genie_python` library into environments other than IBEX via `pip`. |
 
 
 # Instrument Specific Changes
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 | [genie python#8501](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/8501) | minor | Added optional parameter to wait_for_runstate() to be in agreement with genie_simulate_impl.wait_for_runstate() on the number of positional parameters |
 | [ibex_bluesky_core#15](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/ibex_bluesky_core/issues/15) | Minor | Make `ibex_bluesky_core` available as a dependency, and add automated & manual system tests for bluesky. |
 | [#8409](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/8409) | Minor | Add commands to quickly read and sum event mode spectrum data. |
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+| [#8381](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/8381) | Minor | The back-end mechanism for sending sms/email/slack alerts via `g.send_sms` and `g.send_email` was updated to share a mechanism with other IBEX alerting mechanisms. These functions will no longer work on machines outside the ISIS network, or on IBEX installations which have not been configured to send alerts (all instrument machines have been configured to send alerts). |
+| [#8381](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/8381) | Patch | Python bindings to the Open Dynamics Engine (`pyode`) were removed. A deprecated version of `pyreadline` bindings were removed. |
 
 
 # InstrumentScripts