Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #51. 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: #7270: CMake: Uniformly use ADD_FLAGS and LIST(APPEND for CMAKE_REQUIRED (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7270 #7269: [9.0] redo 7156 (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7269 #7268: adapt block size in save_parallel (proposed by BenBrands) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7268 #7264: Introduced CellWeights class for load balancing by the number of DoFs. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7264 #7261: [9.0.1] fix PETSc detection (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7261 #7259: use const cast for old OpenMPI version (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7259 #7258: Propagate the last year of changes into the documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7258 #7257: Figure out the last copyright date for any of our source files. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7257 #7256: Fix copyright date format. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7256 #7255: Do not unnecessarily create backup files that then litter the build directory (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7255 #7254: Provide the mod_header.pl.in with a copyright header and explanation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7254 #7253: CMake: Add a YEAR file and use it for reproducible builds (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7253 #7252: CMake: FindSLEPC.cmake: Fix regex for version number (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7252 #7250: Remove DEAL_II_WITH_THREADS checks, revert #7246 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7250 #7249: Remove dummy threading implementation (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7249 #7248: Remove if true and semicolons (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7248 #7247: Allow configure checks to be run with more warnings (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7247 #7246: Fix compiling with THREADS=OFF (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7246 #7244: Deprecate the PosixThreadBarrier class. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7244 #7239: Do some hp DoF index allocation tasks in parallel. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7239 #7234: Make the order of active_fe_indices stable (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7234 #6977: AD Helpers: Add helper for variational formulations (cell-level) (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6977 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7271: ScaLAPACK vs SLATE (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7271 #7267: package.py says that arpack depends on MPI, but configure says that it depends on lapack (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7267 #7266: ${DEAL_II_LINKER_FLAGS} not used in lapack symbol check (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7266 #7265: adol-c requirement in deal.ii ver 9.0.0 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7265 #7263: Enabling DEAL_II_WITH_NETCDF causes the build to fail: 'netcdfcpp.h' file not found (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7263 #7262: clang doesn't know -Wno-placement-new (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7262 #7260: dealii-9.0.0 wrongly detects the PETSc version: 3.10.1 is detected as 3.0.1.0 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7260 #7251: dealii claims copyright for future years (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7251 #7245: Compiling without threads broken (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7245 #7179: Surprising result from hp_unify_dof_indices_02 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7179 #7162: Bug in hp::DoFHandler::distribute_dofs() (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7162 #6592: rpath related warnings/errors (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6592 #1553: Multiple linker errors in static builds with ARPACK and UMFPACK (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/1553 #994: Double check whether Trilinos's TrilinosConfig.cmake is really correct (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/994 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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