Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #11. 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: #5471: Guard some calls to memcpy, memset and memmove to avoid undefined behavior (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5471 #5470: update PETSc PreconditionLU documentation, take 2 (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5470 #5468: Improving and fixing GridTools::compute_point_locations (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5468 #5467: fix deprecation bug (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5467 #5465: Added Assert in fe_values.h to ensure fe_values object is reinited to cell (proposed by sairajat; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5465 #5464: suppress use of ROL for older versions of Trilinos (proposed by vishalkenchan; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5464 #5463: Detect a compiler bug that prevents compilation of complex Sacado::Rad. (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5463 #5462: Fix numerics/project_03 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5462 #5461: Add header to tests using Sacado::Rad. (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5461 #5459: Use c++14's [[deprecated]] if possible (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5459 #5458: Added GridTools::guess_point_owner and test (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5458 #5457: try to fix sundials tests (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5457 #5453: update documentation for PETSc PreconditionLU (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5453 #5452: Merge parallel::GridTools into GridTools (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5452 #5451: Error corrected: removed extra #ifdef MPI in distributed/grid_tools.cc (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5451 #5448: Add a missing instantiation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5448 #5447: Deprecate VectorView (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5447 #5446: Prefer UTF-8 to latin-1. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5446 #5445: Update the GDB pretty-printer. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5445 #5444: Fix missing include file in multigrid/interface_matrix_entry_01 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5444 #5443: filter XML binary output in some tests (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5443 #5442: fix illegal character (<F6> instead of oe) (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5442 #5439: Let Trilinos direct solver use given factorization with LA::distributed::Vector (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5439 #5436: Change sharedtria dof distribution to match distributed tria (proposed by tcclevenger) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5436 #5434: fix dos formatted files in contrib/utilities/indent (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5434 #5433: Rename class groups in template-arguments.in. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5433 #5431: Add a changelog entry for complex-valued vectors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5431 #5430: Add tests for VectorTools::integrate_difference() using complex data types. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5430 #5429: Instantiate some more functions for the codim-1 case. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5429 #5428: Set file permissions in the indentation script. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5428 #5419: Allow outputting complex-valued data through DataOut. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5419 #5408: Speed up SphericalManifold::get_new_point (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5408 #5385: escape characters in LaTeX format of ParameterHandler (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5385 #5380: Using Trilinos/ROL library (proposed by vishalkenchan; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5380 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #5469: Inline some hot functions of GeometryInfo (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5469 #5466: a way to hide boost/iostreams/filter warning (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5466 #5460: Quadrature Point without reinit cell (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5460 #5456: rol tests failing (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5456 #5455: sacado tests failing (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5455 #5454: Refactor the PETSc matrix/vector classes (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5454 #5450: unexpected DoF numbering at hanging node in 3D (probably not an issue) (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5450 #5449: VectorTools::interpolate fails for FE_FaceQ (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5449 #5441: data_out tests are fragile (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5441 #5440: dof_handler.begin_active_face() is still in documentation (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5440 #5438: VectorTools::interpolate still needs fixing for systems where parts have no support points (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5438 #5437: Make TriaAccessor::vertex_index faster (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5437 #5435: project_to_object_01 appears to be fragile (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5435 #5432: update the python GDB pretty-printer (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5432 #5427: merge GridTools and parallel::GridTools (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5427 #5426: checking: file permissions and line endings (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5426 #5378: ParameterHandler print_parameter latex and escaping (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5378 #5278: Deprecate VectorView (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5278 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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