Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #256. 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: #15295: Unify multiple copies of the same function. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15295 #15294: Document that compute_aspect_ratio_of_cells() requires LAPACK. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15294 #15293: Wrap some PETSc documentation lines. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15293 #15292: Add flag to NM::MappingInfo reinit functions (proposed by jh66637) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15292 #15291: Add changelog entry. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15291 #15290: Add CITATIONS.bib file to suggest citation in GitHub (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15290 #15289: TensorProductMatrixSymmetricSum: small modifications (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15289 #15288: MGTwoLevelTransfer: Clean old vector content in prolongate_add (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15288 #15287: MappingFEField: Remove update_JxW_values for Piola transform (proposed by bergbauer; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15287 #15286: Deprecate our own CUDA backend (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15286 #15285: Fix GitHub Linux CI (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15285 #15284: Use distinct names for PETSC call_and_possibly_capture_exception functions (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15284 #15283: Use Kokkos CMake targets (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15283 #15282: Fix a couple clang-tidy warnings (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15282 #15281: FEPointEvaluation: Integrate should use JxW (proposed by bergbauer; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15281 #15278: Use dealii-dependencies Docker for GitHub workflow (proposed by pcafrica; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15278 #15277: Fix data format in some changelogs. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15277 #15276: recoverable SNES and TS (proposed by stefanozampini) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15276 #15275: Fix some matrix_free tests without vectorization (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15275 #15274: FEPointEvaluation: skip renumbering when possible (proposed by bergbauer; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15274 #15273: Tensor product kernels: Evaluate integrate values only (proposed by bergbauer; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15273 #15271: Convert PETSc SNES interfaces to use callback error conventions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15271 #15270: Fix warnings when compiling with nvcc_wrapper (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15270 #15269: Make the PETSc TS interfaces conform to callback conventions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15269 #15267: Add 'requires' clauses for matrix template arguments to PETSc TS and SNES solvers. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15267 #15264: Suppress 'requires' clauses for doxygen if doxygen is too old. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15264 #15263: Convert IDA to use the callback standard. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15263 #15262: Test CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree not only for DEAL_II_WITH_CUDA (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15262 #15261: remove inexact CGAL kernels and add test (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15261 #15217: Make MatrixFree evaluation kernels more flexible w.r.t. number type (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15217 #15209: Integrate DG into non-nested MG (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15209 #15165: Introduce DistributedComputeIntersectionLocationsInternal (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15165 #14569: Tensor product matrix collection fix vectorization (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14569 #14536: Choose to initialize ghost elements with reinit(partitioner). (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14536 #14346: Add process_dofs_vectorized_transpose() variants with constant_offset (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14346 #14327: Precompute inverse diagonal (FDM) (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14327 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #15280: Redesign SolutionTransfer (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15280 #15279: Document backward incompatibilities in IDA/KINSOL, etc. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15279 #15272: New release with missing headers (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15272 #14840: Add C++20-style concepts to deal.II classes and functions (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14840 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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