Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #17. It automatically reports recently merged features and discussions about the deal.II finite element library.
## Below you find a list of recently proposed or merged features: #5738: Fix a grammar error. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5738 #5737: Fix warnings: do not use Assert in CUDA kernel (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5737 #5736: Change .cuh extension to h (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5736 #5735: Add cuSPARSE support in the build system (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5735 #5734: Extend scalapack more (proposed by BenBrands) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5734 #5733: Minor change in FE Enriched element (proposed by niveshd; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5733 #5732: Follow-up of #5655: add mmult and Tmmult to petsc sparse matrix and petsc parallel sparse matrix (proposed by Jie-Cheng) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5732 #5731: Increase precision in FE_RT_Bubbles tests (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5731 #5730: Make some variables const (references) (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5730 #5729: Use nullptr instead of 0 or NULL (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5729 #5728: Be explicit about virtual functions called in con-/destructors (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5728 #5726: Use automatic memory management, rather than doing it by hand. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5726 #5725: Fix a formula that trips up doxygen. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5725 #5724: Fix grammar in parameter description (proposed by bartniday; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5724 #5723: Use complete grammar. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5723 #5722: New Finite Element RT+Bubbles (PR #4540 part II) (proposed by eldarkh; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5722 #5721: Add another test. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5721 #5720: Fix bug in MappingFEField. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5720 #5719: Update some comments around renumbering DoFs. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5719 #5718: DoFRenumbering::hierarchical() for parallel::shared::Triangulation (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5718 #5717: Make sure distribute_dofs doesn't copy unnecessarily (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5717 #5714: Replace HyperShellBoundary by SphericalManifold in tests (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5714 #5713: suppress PHG warning saying: PHG_EDGE_SIZE_THRESHOLD is low (proposed by vishalkenchan; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5713 #5712: Make the instructions for the p4est installation script more precise (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5712 #5711: Simplify implementation for normal_vector and get_normals_at_vertices in SphericalManifold (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5711 #5710: Update documentation by using Manifold instead of Boundary (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5710 #5709: New polynomial space RT+Bubbles (PR #4540 part I) (proposed by eldarkh; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5709 #5708: fix Zoltan debug output (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5708 #5706: Update output of bits/cone_03 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5706 #5705: Extended step-26 documentation with regard to positivity preservation. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5705 #5704: add template wrappers for ScaLAPACK functions (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5704 #5703: Replace HyperShellBoundary by SphericalManifold in tests (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5703 #5702: ROL: bug fix applyBinary function in Rol::VectorAdaptor (proposed by vishalkenchan; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5702 #5701: Fix failing tests after #5691 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5701 #5700: Make AssertCuda use Assert instead of AssertThrow (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5700 #5699: Do not use pedantic when cuda support is enabled (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5699 #5698: Rebase Opencascade Boundary classes (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5698 #5697: Replace ConeBoundary by CylindricalManifold (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5697 #5696: Fix hierarchical renumbering (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5696 #5695: Dummy implementation for CylindricalManifold for spacedim!=3 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5695 #5694: Write something about the Z order in the glossary. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5694 #5691: Write data and vertices as floats (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5691 #5690: CMake: remove mpi two-pass search (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5690 #5684: Replace StraightBoundary by FlatManifold in tests (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5684 #5682: Replace CylinderBoundary by CylindricalManifold in tests (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5682 #5658: Simplex quadratures and their utilities. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5658 #5655: Add PETScWrappers::MatrixBase::mmult (proposed by Jie-Cheng; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5655 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #5727: Convention for cuda header files (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5727 #5716: MPI_InitFinalize messes with MPI_Comm_create_group (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5716 #5715: Bug using MappingFEField and refinements (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5715 #5707: Zoltan prints extra output (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5707 #5683: CylindricalManifold<2> doesn't provide an implementation (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5683 #5681: FlatManifold as replacement of StraightBoundary doesn't treat normals the same way (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5681 #5510: Configuring dealii with MPI fails with CMake 3.10.0 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5510 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_after_8_5_0.html. 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