Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #55. 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: #7406: doxygen: scale plate_with_hole images (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7406 #7405: Clarify the documentation of GridGenerator::cylinder(). (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7405 #7404: Fix some commentary on iterators. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7404 #7402: Fix (Dynamic)?SparsityPattern::begin() for empty sparsity patterns. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7402 #7401: Add more run-time checks to the ABAQUS reader. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7401 #7400: Ensure a left-shift operation happens in the right data type. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7400 #7398: Introduce init_cuda in tests.h (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7398 #7397: document VT:point_value better (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7397 #7396: add Utilities:: pack_integers() to pack an array of ints (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7396 #7395: generate pkgconfig files (proposed by asartori86) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7395 #7394: enhanced documentation for DoFTools::Coupling::nonzero (proposed by koecher; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7394 #7393: Fix a documentation link. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7393 #7392: Deprecate the NetCDF bindings. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7392 #7391: Update step 57 (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7391 #7387: add DynamicSparsityPattern::column_index() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7387 #7386: Describe time by real scalar types in Function and friends (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7386 #7384: Fix a warning about an unused 'using' declaration in release mode. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7384 #7381: rework DSP::compute_Tmmult_pattern() with iterators (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7381 #7375: Functions::IncrementalFunction (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7375 #7367: Make CUDA tests more robust (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7367 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7403: Constructor for ActiveCellIterator from CellIterator (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7403 #7399: Can we use triangular mesh in dealii? (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7399 #7390: sparsity pattern with missing entries for vector-valued dG methods (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7390 #7389: deal.II 9.0 not working on CentOS 6 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7389 #7388: Arpack: Control of residual (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7388 #7385: Arpack: documentation, WhichEigenvalues, Arnoldi space size (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7385 #7383: Fix warning: unused type alias (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7383 #7374: Function should NOT be derived from FunctionTime<RangeNumberType> (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7374 #7373: MKL BLAS/LAPACK not found for dealii using the candi installer (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7373 #5570: netcdf-cxx4 support (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5570 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 dealii@googlegroups.com, 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
