Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #43. 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: #7043: doc: fix formatting of pre block (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7043 #7042: Consider periodic neighbors during grid refinement in serial (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7042 #7038: Make C++17 support independent of the special math functions. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7038 #7036: Cuda constraints for matrix-free (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7036 #7035: Use CamelCase in namespaces (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7035 #7034: Add transformation function between bases in matrix-free (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7034 #7032: Add interleaved dof storage for DG to MatrixFree (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7032 #7031: Add Triangulation::active_face_iterators(). (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7031 #7030: Add initlog to grid tests (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7030 #7029: Remove unused variables in LA::d::Vector::import (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7029 #7028: Reduce output of cell_categorization_02 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7028 #7027: Check for consistent manifold ids in 2D when creating a Triangulation (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7027 #7026: Fix formatting of our coding conventions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7026 #7025: Make an argument of GridGenerator::merge_triangulations() a reference. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7025 #7024: Provide test for higher order VTU output (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7024 #7022: Fix bug in import in LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7022 #7020: Add HDF5 classes (proposed by dangars) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7020 #7019: Use common type in AssertIndexRange for the comparison (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7019 #7018: Fix doxygen documentation for DataOutBase::VtkFlags::write_higher_order_cells (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7018 #7017: fix cell_vectorization_category with MG (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7017 #7016: Fix restrictions and warnings for some tests (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7016 #7015: Add support for high-order VTU output (proposed by agrayver; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7015 #7012: Allow merging multiple Triangulation objects at once (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7012 #7004: Document new VTK extensions and restrictions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7004 #7002: Applies variable size transfer to 'ParticleHandler'. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7002 #6959: Add a script that counts lines of code. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6959 #6904: Implement The Bernardi-Raugel Finite Element (proposed by GrahamBenHarper; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6904 #6900: Update step 9 (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6900 #6241: ScaLAPACKMatrix: copy functions (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6241 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7041: improvement to periodic BC (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7041 #7040: Dead link in online documentation (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7040 #7039: Revise names in internal::EvaluatorTensorProduct (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7039 #7037: CUDA support (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7037 #7033: Valid boundary ids when creating a Triangualation (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7033 #7023: Document steps to best visualise higher-order output in Paraview (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7023 #7021: Update tutorials about higher order VTK output (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7021 #7014: Apple LLVM 9.1.0 C++17 issues (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7014 #7009: cell_vectorization_category on GMG (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7009 #7007: GridGenerator::merge_triangulations with more than 2 triangulations to merge (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7007 #6931: Output and visualization of high-order solutions/meshes (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6931 #6796: Use MPI_Reduce_scatter in Utilities::MPI::compute_point_to_point_communication_pattern (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6796 #6790: Unused functions in ParticleHandler class? (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6790 #6397: Invalid manifold id is the same as flat manifold id (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6397 #4399: CUDA support for matrix-free (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/4399 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. Thanks for being part of the community! Let us know about questions, problems, bugs or just share your experience by writing to [email protected], or by opening issues or pull requests at https://www.github.com/dealii/dealii. Additional information can be found at https://www.dealii.org/. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. 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