Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #72. 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: #7862: Add documentation for initialising Trilinos AMG constant modes (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7862 #7861: Additional doco LocalIntegrators::L2 (proposed by loganharbour) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7861 #7859: CI: kill older running builds (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7859 #7858: CMake: Also filter SYMENGINE_CXX_FLAGS (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7858 #7857: Rename file generated by doc/news/changes/header (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7857 #7856: New variant of mesh_loop. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7856 #7855: Add SymEngine to the readme file in the documentation (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7855 #7854: Rename the helper classes in the Differentiation::AD namespace (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7854 #7853: Also link with LAPACK libraries in SCALAPCK symbol test (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7853 #7850: Revamp the layout of the main 'index.html' file. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7850 #7847: Fix problem with GrowingVectorMemory for LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector<Number, MemorySpace::CUDA> (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7847 #7846: Fix data_out_13 in case there is no ZLIB support (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7846 #7845: Remove IndexSet overloads in DataOut and FEValues (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7845 #7844: SD: Types, traits, and expression class (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7844 #7843: add DynamicSparsityPattern::nonempty_cols() and nonempty_rows() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7843 #7841: FEValuesViews output traits (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7841 #7840: New assign_co_dimensional_manifold_indicators function. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7840 #7839: CMake: also update BASE_LINKER_FLAGS* when dropping -fuse-ld=... (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7839 #7838: add Utilities::MPI::create_ascending_partitioning() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7838 #7837: Fix SCALAPACK symbol check (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7837 #7836: fix tbb range size type (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7836 #7834: Added get_names to Extractors. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7834 #7833: add Trilinos error checks and fix nonlocal sparsity graph entry (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7833 #7832: step-15: small doc update (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7832 #7831: use Utilities::MPI::some_to_some() in SparsityTools::distribute_spars... (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7831 #7828: Add SparsityTools::gather_sparsity_pattern() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7828 #7827: Fix Tpetra test for std::fabs without std::complex overload (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7827 #7826: extend DynamicSparsityPattern::compress() to communicate non-local data (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7826 #7825: Add missing #ifdef DEAL_II_WITH_THREADS around tbb calls (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7825 #7820: Check SCALAPACK symbols (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7820 #7818: Set cell manifold ids when the apply_all_indicators_to_manifold flag is used. (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7818 #7816: CMake: Reorganize MPI sanity check (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7816 #7813: Add some basic tests for SymEngine (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7813 #7807: Fix compiling bundled boost with MSVC and C++17 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7807 #7801: Allow CXX14/17 autodetection for MSVC (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7801 #7793: Add useful methods to TrilinosWrappers::PreconditionAMG::AdditionalData (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7793 #7792: Fix link targets in frames. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7792 #7766: split SparsityPattern into a base class and derived class with a spec... (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7766 #7764: Detect CUDA compute capability (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7764 #7763: Fix dual dof handler sparsity (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7763 #6981: AD Helpers: Add helper for vector functions (QP-level) (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6981 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7860: Do we fill Trilinos AMG constant modes directly from DoFHandler? (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7860 #7852: scalapack symbol check is still broken, namely for Intel MKL (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7852 #7851: Grainsize unreasonably small in vector_operations_internal.h (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7851 #7849: AD helpers: Replace all instances of `Tensor<0,dim>` with `scalar_type` (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7849 #7848: Rename AD helper classes (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7848 #7842: SolverCG fails for LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector<double, MemorySpace::CUDA> (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7842 #7835: broken tbb parallel_for for 64 bit indices (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7835 #7830: Update bundled boost (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7830 #7829: scalapack symbols check is broken (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7829 #7824: Undeclared identifier 'tbb' (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7824 #7811: ld.lld cannot link with openmpi (with enabled fortran support in openmpi) (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7811 #7802: read_ucd ignores manifold ids associated to cells (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7802 #7774: Linker error: undefined referent to 'pdsyevr_' and 'pssyevr_' (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7774 #7725: Change name of "Recent changes" header file (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7725 #6867: LA::d::Vector = TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector deprecation (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6867 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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