RELEASE NOTES 2_9_7 The present version of the UVES pipeline has been improved with respect to version 2.2.0 mainly in the following: o Improved optimal extraction quality. o Improved ThAr lines catalog accuracy. o Fixed some compilation warnings to improve code portability. o Fixed bugs setting the target offset during the efficiency computation. o Fixed bugs computing the variance. o Fixed bugs in using different merging options in REDUCE/SPAT o Prevented the possibility to have guess and final order tables misaligned. o Support of TFLAT data reduction. Additional quality control parameters computation. o The FITS header of pipeline products has been uniformed across instrument pipelines. o Updated documentation.