Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #88. 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: #8411: Link to more resources on learning how to program. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8411 #8409: doc: no doxygen for friend declarations (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8409 #8408: doc: correct friend markup in tensor (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8408 #8407: Point assignment operator (proposed by dangars) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8407 #8405: Fix a bug in LA::d::Vector::compress on the host (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8405 #8404: Fix CellDataTransfer tests for complex Petsc complex scalar type (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8404 #8403: Enable MappingFEField on multigrid levels (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8403 #8402: Choose a more appropriate tolerance for vector add_and_dot (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8402 #8401: Fixing the linker error of StandardTensors with clang 4.0.1 (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8401 #8400: Add new make_vectorized_array function (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8400 #8399: Fix EnableIfScalar for VectorizedArray (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8399 #8398: improve CellDataStorage documentation (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8398 #8397: Add assert to Utilities::MPI::compute_index_owner (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8397 #8396: ranged-for documentation fix (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8396 #8395: Implement CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree::initialize_dof_vector (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8395 #8394: Avoid initializing a numbered list in step-28 documentation (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8394 #8393: Provide AVX-512 output for four additional tests (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8393 #8392: Test robustness: avoid points directly at the periodicity boundary (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8392 #8391: Add alternative test output for some roundoff-sensitive tests (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8391 #8390: Be more conservative in clearing the cache of MappingQCache (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8390 #8389: Add assignment operator between different MemorySpace (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8389 #8385: Constexpr SymmetricTensor and TableIndices (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8385 #8349: Add notes on packaging for distributions. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8349 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #8410: Compilation of Physics/Elasticity/kinematics fails with icc18 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8410 #8406: Warnings about vectorization (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8406 #8347: CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree doesn't provide initialize_dof_vector (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8347 #8292: Provide some documentation for package maintainers (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8292 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/5d389cdf.1c69fb81.d621a.ab5fSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
