Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #233. 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: #14440: Add operator==/!= also for TriaIterator and TriaActiveIterator. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14440 #14439: Fix a misspelling in a comment. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14439 #14438: Remove need to store MPI communicator in PETScWrappers::SolverBase (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14438 #14437: Fix step76 document (proposed by quangx) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14437 #14436: Update CI workflow to CUDA 11.8 (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14436 #14435: Fix flags for Trilinos+Kokkos (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14435 #14434: DoFTools: Remove template on sparsity pattern type. (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14434 #14433: multigrid tools: Remove template on sparsity pattern type. (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14433 #14432: Particles: Remove template on sparsity pattern type. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14432 #14431: NonMatching: Remove template on sparsity pattern type. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14431 #14429: Build CUDA tests in CUDA CI (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14429 #14428: Let all SolverCG constructors take MPI_Comm. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14428 #14427: Make TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector::reinit accept Utilities::MPI::Partitioner. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14427 #14425: Guard Belos code with macros (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14425 #14424: Print backends and architectures for Kokkos (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14424 #14423: Rename an inst file (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14423 #14422: remove .cu extension in program2doxygen (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14422 #14421: Further refactoring in data_out_base.cc (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14421 #14420: De template AffineConstraints::add_entries_local_to_global() (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14420 #14419: BlockSparsityPatternBase: inherit from SparsityPatternBase. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14419 #14418: TW sparsity pattern base (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14418 #14417: Introduce 4th-kind Chebyshev preconditioner (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14417 #14416: Fix vector access in SolverGMRES (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14416 #14415: CMake: add a compile_test_executables target (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14415 #14414: Fix small typos in the intro.dox of Step-66 (proposed by lpsaavedra; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14414 #14413: Fix FindGINKGO.cmake for Ginkgo 1.5.0 (proposed by tcojean; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14413 #14411: Add an assertion. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14411 #14410: Remove comments that don't actually explain anything. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14410 #14409: Do not mark functions in anonymous namespaces as 'static'. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14409 #14408: Fix a mistake in the documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14408 #14407: Add a documentation note. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14407 #14406: More refactoring of the VTU output. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14406 #14404: CI: Update backports. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14404 #14402: Refactor compressing arrays for VTU output. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14402 #14401: Minor fix to aid understand what a sentence means. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14401 #14398: AffineConstraints: remove the block sparsity constraint function. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14398 #14397: Cleanup BSP (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14397 #14396: (Dynamic)SparsityPattern: inherit from SparsityPatternBase. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14396 #14395: Fix a warning regarding unused variable (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14395 #14394: minor doc fixes for KellyEstimator (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14394 #14393: Add reference to dissertation in hp::Refinement namespace. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14393 #14392: Avoid boost::optional/variant in favor of std_cxx17::variant/optional. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14392 #14388: Add to the documentation of the ConsensusAlgorithms functions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14388 #14384: Add performance test showing compressible Navier-Stokes equations (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14384 #14377: Move CUDA compilation to Kokkos with nvcc_wrapper (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14377 #14355: Use Ubuntu 20.04 in GitHub actions (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14355 #14352: Add TrilinosWrappers::SolverBelos (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14352 #14328: Global coarsening: introduce embedded partitioner (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14328 #14323: GridTools::MarchingCubeAlgorithm: merge duplicate vertices in process() (proposed by mschreter; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14323 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #14430: Ghost particles are not generated across periodic boundaries (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14430 #14426: Unify interfaces of data structures for Trilinos/Petsc/Deal (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14426 #14412: Assert in FESubfaceValues() with triangles (adaptive mesh refinement) (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14412 #14405: Potential deadlock in ConsensusAlgorithm::NBX on some systems (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14405 #14403: Remove VtuStream class (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14403 #14400: MGTranferMatrixFree custom constraints optimization (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14400 #14399: compile error when i enable the p4est . 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