Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #26. 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: #6144: Bug fix for graph coloring/graph partitioning using Zoltan library. (proposed by niveshd) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6144 #6143: Check the result of a dynamic_cast. (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6143 #6141: Make comparator const (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6141 #6140: introduce LA::d::Vector::add_local() and sadd_local() to avoid to man... (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6140 #6138: Fix an exception type. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6138 #6137: CMake: Only set CMP0037 to old for cmake older than 3.11 (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6137 #6136: Fix doc mistake. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6136 #6135: Update description of Thread/Task::return_value(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6135 #6133: Gmres n tmp vectors bound (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6133 #6132: Explicitly check the result of a dynamic_cast. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6132 #6131: Move some destructor code inside a try block. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6131 #6130: petsc/solver_02: Make range more forgiving (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6130 #6129: Implement signals for Multigrid (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6129 #6128: Update documentation of FE_FaceQ/P. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6128 #6127: make VectorTools::get_position_vector() write into vector only on loc... (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6127 #6126: Avoid using functionality removed in libc++ for C++17 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6126 #6124: Fix VectorTools::integrate_difference() (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6124 #6123: Make sure is_contiguous() compares addresses, not values, of array objects. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6123 #6122: Tests: update petsc_complex/solver_real_02 (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6122 #6120: Tests: Slightly change stopping criterion in petsc/solver_02 (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6120 #6119: ScaLAPACKMatrix::pseudoinverse() (proposed by BenBrands) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6119 #6118: doc: minor fixes in step-37 (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6118 #6117: Adapt step-12 some further. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6117 #6116: Remove unnecessary semi-colons in step-12. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6116 #6115: Convert the various Mapping::get_*_data() functions to return std::unique_ptr. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6115 #6114: Enable writing Threads::Thread<T> for types T that are only movable. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6114 #6113: Let FiniteElement::get_*data return a std::unique_ptr (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6113 #6112: Let Predicate*::clone return a std::unique_ptr (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6112 #6111: Fix warnings from AssertCuda and AssertCusparse (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6111 #6110: Avoid using a deprecated SLEPc function. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6110 #6109: Avoid copies clang-tidy complains about (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6109 #6108: Fix odd use of comma operator. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6108 #6107: la::p::Vector: split compress() and update_ghosts() calls into chunks (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6107 #6106: Support for PETSc in MGTransferPrebuilt (multigrid) (proposed by alexrobomind) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6106 #6105: Tests: Update gla/* test outputs (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6105 #6104: Let GridTools::minimal/maximal_cell_diameter return global values (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6104 #6101: fix LaTeX in Lapack and ScaLapack (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6101 #6097: Use TimerOutput::Scope in step-32. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6097 #6087: Fix iterating over entries of parallel PETSc matrices. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6087 #6080: ScaLAPACKMatrix::invert for non-symmetric matrices (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6080 #5989: Update tbb (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5989 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #6142: cmake 3.11.0 does not find python in boost 1.67.0.b1 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6142 #6139: python for bindings (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6139 #6134: cmake 3.11.0 warnings (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6134 #6125: build errors with Apple's clang 9.1.0 / upstream clang 5.0.0 (or newer) and enables C++17 support (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6125 #6121: Question about is_contiguous() when creating an ArrayView (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6121 #6016: Audit uses of MPI_COMM_WORLD (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6016 #6015: MPI communications in p::d::BlockVector can be smarter for 1k blocks (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6015 #5914: Warnings in bundled TBB (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5914 #5880: Replace interface returning owning raw pointers (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5880 #5320: failing tests on petsc 3.8 / slepc 3.8 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5320 #4662: deal.ii doesn't compile in C++17 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/4662 #4089: Slepc 3.6.3 compatibility (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/4089 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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