Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #257. 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: #15339: Minor adjustments to FETools::extrapolate(). (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15339 #15338: Clarify the name of a variable. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15338 #15336: FEPointEvaluation with FEDG_Q and n_components >1 (proposed by jh66637) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15336 #15335: Fix a typo in step-8 (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15335 #15334: ensure distribute_local_to_global() is called with contiguous iterators (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15334 #15331: Add a test. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15331 #15330: Adjust iterator traits classes for C++20. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15330 #15329: Add something about postprocessing to step-4. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15329 #15328: Use ReferenceCell::closest_point() in GridTools::find_active_cell_around_point(). (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15328 #15327: github-actions: Do not treat `tautological-constant-compare` as error. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15327 #15326: Fix compiler warning with clang-16 (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15326 #15325: Fix compiling with Trilinos 14 and Cuda (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15325 #15324: Remove unused mpi_communicator pointer members initialized by temporaries (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15324 #15323: `TriaAccessor`: remove outdated assert for `n_faces()` for `structdim!=dim` (proposed by mschreter) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15323 #15322: Prefer numbers::is_nan over std::isnan (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15322 #15321: Only install new Intel compilers. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15321 #15319: Add utility function returning point indices which are not found (proposed by jh66637) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15319 #15318: Make distribute_local_to_global() work with std:: iterators (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15318 #15317: Minor updates to step-62. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15317 #15316: Minor updates to step-69. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15316 #15315: Mark loop indices as 'const' where possible. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15315 #15314: Use numbers::is_finite whenever we compare with infinity. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15314 #15313: Be systematic in how we name arguments of FEValues member functions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15313 #15312: Hotfix muparser: Fix problem with IntelLLVM finite math (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15312 #15311: Fix a comment at the end of an ifdef. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15311 #15308: Test icpx instead of icpc (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15308 #15307: Fix dim = 1 mesh loading with gmsh. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15307 #15306: Use one process to build with Intel to decrease memory usage. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15306 #15304: use FEPE::get_normal_vector() to be consistent with FEE (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15304 #15303: Tensor product evaluation at arbitrary points: Optimize linear case (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15303 #15300: Fix matrix_free test. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15300 #15299: Avoid taking references on temporaries. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15299 #15297: Choose to initialize BlockVector with ghost elements using reinit(partitioners). (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15297 #15296: Mark two tests as dependent on p4est. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15296 #15295: Unify multiple copies of the same function. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15295 #15292: Add flag to NM::MappingInfo reinit functions (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15292 #15283: Use Kokkos CMake targets (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15283 #15266: Added support for VTK (proposed by pcafrica; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15266 #15218: Add a function for projecting points onto reference cells. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15218 #15164: Allow using Trilinos 14.0 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/15164 #14657: Hermite polynomials (proposed by ivweber; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14657 #14595: Added reinit(partitioners) to LA::distributed::BlockVector. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14595 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #15337: Fast path of FEPointEvaluation for FEDG_Q with n_components>1 broken (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15337 #15333: Check for typos as part of the CI (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15333 #15332: Add assertion to distribute_local_to_global(). (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15332 #15320: make in example step dirs on RHEL 8 /usr/bin/ld.gold: warning: /usr/lib64/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS): unknown program property type 0xc0000000 in .note.gnu.property section (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15320 #15310: Consistently use q_point in the interface of FEValues for quadrature point indices. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15310 #15309: Talk about actually doing something with the solution computed in tutorials (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15309 #15305: Fields are not reset during MappingInfo().reinit_*() (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15305 #15302: Deprecate FEEval::get_normal_vector() after the next release (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15302 #15301: github-actions: Switch to Intel ICX compiler. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15301 #15298: step-70: warning: possibly dangling reference to a temporary [-Wdangling-reference] (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15298 #15246: Remove duplication of call_and_possibly_capture_exception(). (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15246 #15123: gcc11 O3 warnings (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15123 #15112: Do not return error codes via int return values in external interfaces (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/15112 #12337: CellIDTranslator for more than 10 mesh levels and 32 bit integers in 3D? (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12337 #10579: Bug with dim = 1 codim = 2 gmsh reader (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10579 #8852: Performance tests (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8852 #7930: Bug in find_active_cell_around_point (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7930 #7407: matrix-free/stokes_computation fails on macOS with clang (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7407 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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