Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #143. 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: #11207: Use hp::FEValues in initialize_cell_range (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11207 #11205: Avoid printing gcc information in OSX CI (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11205 #11203: Add simplex elements to the MF permitted list. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11203 #11202: Improve MGTransferMatrixFree::interpolate_to_mg (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11202 #11201: Add GridGenerator::convert_hypercube_to_simplex_mesh (proposed by eliasstudiert) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11201 #11200: [CI] OSX tester: change to gcc-10. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11200 #11199: Add particle update data function to overwrite particle information (proposed by blaisb; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11199 #11197: doxygen: simplify mesh_loop arguments (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11197 #11196: Actually use ShapeInfo for Simplex::FE_P and Simplex::QGauss (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11196 #11194: Better document some FEValues functions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11194 #11193: Better document a bunch of functions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11193 #11192: Use upper-case letters for vectors in the documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11192 #11191: Improve the documentation of a couple of AffineConstraints functions. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11191 #11190: Deprecated DoFHandlerType in MappingFEField. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11190 #11189: Deprecate DataPostprocessorInputs::CommonInputs::{get|set}_cell. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11189 #11188: Make FEEvaluationImpl work for ElementType::tensor_none (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11188 #11187: Fix typo in step 67 (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11187 #11186: Make ShapeInfo compatible with Simplex::FE_P and Simplex::QGauss (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11186 #11184: Avoid name macro_cell in matrix-free implementation (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11184 #11183: MatrixFree: deprecate n_macro_cells (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11183 #11182: Remove DoFHandlerType from internal::DataOutImplementation::{DataEntryBase|DataEntry|MGDataEntry}. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11182 #11181: Deprecate MatrixFree::get_dof_handler. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11181 #11180: Add missing const MPI_Comm & (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11180 #11179: Step-37: small update to the documentation (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11179 #11178: Simplex mesh (2D): implement refinement (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11178 #11177: Make assert more verbose in FEEvaluation (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11177 #11176: QCollection<dim> accept Quadrature<1> (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11176 #11171: Deprecate hp::DoFHandler. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11171 #11169: Deprecate MatrixFree::reinit() functions with default Mapping argument (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11169 #11168: Make MatrixFree compile for arbitrary dim quadrature rules (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11168 #11163: Move GhostParticlePartitioner (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11163 #11160: Deprecate DoFHandler initialization interface. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11160 #11159: parallel running version of multigrid Cuthill McKee reordering (proposed by mathsen; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11159 #11128: ADHelpers: Fix indexing for symm tensor extractor (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11128 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #11206: Brainstorming - Re-design the data storage structure used in the ParticleHandler (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11206 #11204: Unresolved matrix-free simplex projection problems (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11204 #11198: Quadrature QGaussRadauChebyshev and "end-point" (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11198 #11195: AffineConstraints::condense does not work properly in certain cases with MPI (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11195 #11185: Rebuild of the macOS binary (.dmg release) is needed (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11185 #10917: Build failure using deal.II in macOS 11.0 Big Sur, unable to find libdl.dylib (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10917 #10902: Warning in include/deal.II/matrix_free/mapping_info.templates.h (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10902 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/recent_changes.html. 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