Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #272. 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: #16514: Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (proposed by dependabot[bot]; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16514 #16513: Reenable assume macro (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16513 #16512: DoFTools: Remove unnecessary template specializations (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16512 #16510: Fix one more warning (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16510 #16509: fix compiler warning (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16509 #16506: Fix type in Tensor initialization. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16506 #16505: Use simpler copy/move initialization in Tensor. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16505 #16504: Use p[index] instead of p(index) for class Point in tests/. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16504 #16503: Use p[index] instead of p(index) for class Point in one source file. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16503 #16502: Disable DEAL_II(_CXX23)_ASSUME macro for now (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16502 #16501: Fix types and names in step-30. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16501 #16500: Iterate space_dimension over the dedicated template argument list. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16500 #16499: base/tensor.h: work around bogus compiler warning (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16499 #16498: TpetraWrappers: fix various compiler warnings (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16498 #16497: Move matrix free classes from CUDAWrappers namespace to Portable namespace (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16497 #16496: Enable `FE_DGQ::get_interpolation_matrix()` for source finite element type `FENothing` (proposed by mschreter; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16496 #16495: tests: remove redundant 'using namespace dealii;' directives. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16495 #16494: DofTools: add missing codimension-one instantiation (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16494 #16490: Check if the global vector in distribute_local_to_global has ghost elements. (proposed by kinnewig; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16490 #16489: fix bug in function DoFCellAccessor::distribute_local_to_global() (proposed by YiminJin; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16489 #16488: Use p[index] instead of p(index) for class Point. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16488 #16486: CMake: fix compilation with bundled boost and modern clang (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16486 #16485: Move DoFTools templates to templates.h header file (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16485 #16482: Initialize NumberCache::n_global_active_cells (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16482 #16481: Work around warnings about invalid array accesses. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16481 #16480: Use an array-of-scalars as the base case for Tensor. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16480 #16478: exchange refinement flags: doc and changelog (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16478 #16477: Fix typo in changelog (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16477 #16476: cell_categorization test: Adjust output (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16476 #16474: Use a std::array instead of a C-style array for tensor elements. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16474 #16473: More Tensor simplifications with if constexpr. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16473 #16472: Fix a bug in function DoFCellAccessor::distribute_local_to_global() (proposed by YiminJin) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16472 #16471: test examples: support loading files (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16471 #16470: CMake: print newline when vectorization is disabled. (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16470 #16468: Use if-constexpr more in Tensor. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16468 #16467: Simplify Tensor::unroll(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16467 #16466: Fix a trilinos array type. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16466 #16462: step-32: move initial guess assignment (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16462 #16461: Fix a doc issue. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16461 #16460: Simplify a function's implementation for tensors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16460 #16459: Export C++23 status to config.h. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16459 #16458: Use std::abs() when computing the norm of a tensor of size 1. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16458 #16457: [C++23] When using C++23, use [[assume]] attribute. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16457 #16456: Fix constraint_info.h for g++-13 on MacOS X (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16456 #16455: Use std::hypot() instead of std::sqrt(sum of squares) in computing norms of tensors. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16455 #16454: Avoid using two temporary vectors when not necessary. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16454 #16452: Address more places where we call std::pow. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16452 #16451: Fix the type of an array. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16451 #16450: Avoid a warning. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16450 #16449: Use Utilities::fixed_power() in step-82. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16449 #16448: Fix compatibility issues of TpetraWrappers with older Trilinos versions. (proposed by kinnewig; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16448 #16444: Also test MUMPS symmetric mode. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16444 #16443: Minor doc updates to the sparse direct solvers. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16443 #16442: Better document Utilities::pow(). Also make it 'constexpr'. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16442 #16441: Use Utilities::fixed_power() where possible. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16441 #16440: Change accidental unicode character. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16440 #16439: Make Utilities::pow() available for floating point types. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16439 #16438: Treat ICPX as gcc-style compiler (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16438 #16437: Add a DEAL_II_ASSUME macro. (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16437 #16436: rename template parameters (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16436 #16435: Make FERemoteEvaluation work for FCL (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16435 #16434: Boost-1.83 compatibility: remove long double overloads of special functions (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16434 #16432: Template VectorType in TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix::residual() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16432 #16431: Document what a collective operation actually is. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16431 #16430: Add another test. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16430 #16429: Fix the indent script. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16429 #16428: Fix contrib/utilities/indent (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16428 #16426: Add a test. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16426 #16425: Introduce FEPointEvaluation::integrate_value() (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16425 #16424: Rename some functions in CUDAWrappers::EvaluatorTensorProduct (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16424 #16423: Rename FPE::real_point() to FPE::quadrature_point() (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16423 #16422: FPE: split up declaration and definition (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16422 #16421: Fix variable name. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16421 #16420: Fix TrilinosWrappers::SparsityPattern::Accessor::visit_present_row() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16420 #16419: Indent: format also change-log entries (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16419 #16418: Remove unnecessary change-log entries (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16418 #16417: Simplify code internal::extract_remote_rows() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16417 #16416: Fix allocation in TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix::AccessorBase (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16416 #16415: Fix ecl access cells (proposed by bergbauer; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16415 #16412: Relax asserts (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16412 #16411: Move the error check next to the checked statement. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16411 #16410: Unify if-else branches with common code. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16410 #16409: Push a variable declaration down to its first use. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16409 #16408: Simplify some locations. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16408 #16406: Optimize memory management in Trilinos sparsity pattern accessors. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16406 #16405: Avoid dynamic memory allocation when we know that we won't need it. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16405 #16404: Do not mark a pointer as 'mutable' where not necessary. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16404 #16403: Use prefix ++ universally. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16403 #16402: Change a few variable names. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16402 #16401: Avoid a global 'typedef' and qualify things locally. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16401 #16399: Optimize setting a matrix to zero. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16399 #16398: Deal with IndexSet operations in a more efficient way. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16398 #16397: Make a couple of functions 'private'. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16397 #16396: Remove a likely mistaken attribute. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16396 #16395: Do not break hyphenated words in the documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16395 #16394: Add factory functions for FERemoteEvaluationCommunicator (proposed by jh66637) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16394 #16393: Add a DEAL_II_ASSUME macro. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16393 #16391: Hand back used quadratures during conversion of intersections to points (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16391 #16389: 'explicit' on default constructors is redundant. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16389 #16388: Use the combined orientation in another FiniteElement function. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16388 #16387: Revise the top of the ReadMe file. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16387 #16385: Test examples (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16385 #16382: Enhance documentation for sum_into_values (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16382 #16378: Prohibit calling compress() on vectors with ghost elements. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16378 #16377: More small updates to tria_description.cc. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16377 #16374: Convert CreateDescriptionFromTriangulationHelper into a function. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16374 #16330: exchange refinement flags (proposed by quangx; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16330 #16329: NOXSolver: add a test demonstrating the issue with pending_exception (proposed by vovannikov; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16329 #16327: make tests/mpi/affine_constraints_get_view_01 more robust (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16327 #16323: RemotePointEvaluation: add AdditionalData struct (proposed by mschreter; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16323 #16304: Add support for hanging nodes to the NedelecSZ class. (proposed by kinnewig; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16304 #16303: Add preferred citation to CFF (proposed by jpthiele; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16303 #16300: Classes used by Step 89 (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16300 #16290: Add parallel support to TpetraWrappers::Vector. (proposed by kinnewig; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16290 #16288: Add a Tpetra-based version of Trilinos SparseMatrix and SparsityPattern. (proposed by kinnewig; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/16288 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #16515: Update issue template (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16515 #16511: Regression tester regressed 068fe9 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16511 #16508: Regression tester regressed 833748 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16508 #16507: Regression tester regressed 8b5812 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16507 #16493: Audit and fix missing codimension-one instantiations (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16493 #16492: anisotropic, adaptive refinement asserts (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16492 #16491: Regression tester regressed 9c9a7d (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16491 #16487: Fix types in a part of step-30. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16487 #16484: Make sure all generic template definitions are in *.templates.h files (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16484 #16483: Regression tester regressed 7d8aab (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16483 #16479: Regression tester regressed 05ddc7 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16479 #16475: need to update test output for AVX512 for cell_categorization (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16475 #16469: Regression tester regressed af7473 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16469 #16465: Clean up the Tensor class. (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16465 #16464: Building docker image on ubuntu focal fails (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16464 #16463: Regression tester regressed 8245d5 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16463 #16453: ParameterHandler: *.json files with keys containing underscores cannot be parsed (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16453 #16447: Static deal.II (Windows) cannot be configured with external shared Boost (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16447 #16446: Regression tester regressed 3a2d67 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16446 #16445: Tpetra wrappers do not compile (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16445 #16433: Deal.II 9.4+ messes up Boost external libraries (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16433 #16427: Indent script messes up permissions. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16427 #16414: Trilinos sparsity pattern: end iterator raises assertion for some locally owned rows (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16414 #16413: deal.II 9.5.1+ does not compile with Boost 1.83 (Visual Studio 2022) (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16413 #16407: Document what a "collective operation" is. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16407 #16400: Regression tester regressed 843177 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16400 #16392: copying manifold ids and extract_boundary_mesh (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16392 #16390: Boost: special functions are unavailable on ppc64el (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16390 #16386: Regression tester regressed e7f6e8 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16386 #16333: step-32 seems to assign vectors the wrong way around. (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16333 #16238: Doxygen version for developer documentation too old (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/16238 #15383: deal.II Release 9.5.0 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15383 #15036: Where to put pictures of the documentation? (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15036 #14338: Generalized interface to collect CGAL intersections (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14338 #13997: Delete trailing whitespace in the changes.h file (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/13997 #13321: Replace std::pow with integer exponent (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/13321 #12894: Support for Kokkos in deal.II (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12894 #10222: intel constexpr failure (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10222 #7324: Cannot configure deal.II 9.0.0 with custom Boost on Windows (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7324 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. Thanks for being part of the community! 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