Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #93. 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: #8751: Move operator== from a test to the CellData class itself. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8751 #8750: Create p:f:ConstructionData by a selected group of processes (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8750 #8749: Improve performance of DoFHandler::distribute_mg_dofs (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8749 #8748: Add boost serialization for ConstructionData (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8748 #8747: Change gzip compression level to best_speed (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8747 #8746: Add Boost serialization function to CellData (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8746 #8745: Update the documentation of the MeshWorker::LocalResults class. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8745 #8743: Fix the bounds of an index computation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8743 #8742: Change TensorProductPolynomialsBubbles from "is-a" to "has-a" TensorProductPolynomials (proposed by GrahamBenHarper) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8742 #8741: Updates to the step-65 documentation. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8741 #8739: add functions to access svd u and vt variables (proposed by MFraters) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8739 #8738: Update readme. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8738 #8737: Add CellId::is_parent_of (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8737 #8736: doxygen: rewrite set_canonical_doxygen.py in Perl (proposed by fvanmaele) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8736 #8732: Move the call to update_number_cache() after all other calls. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8732 #8731: p:d:step-27: Adjusted AdditionalData object for Trilinos. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8731 #8730: add interface for user defined GMG constraints (proposed by tcclevenger) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8730 #8728: Embed vector operations in MatrixFree cell loops (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8728 #8727: Avoid deprecated FE argument in distribute_mg_dofs (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8727 #8726: Simplify matrix_free/parallel_multigrid_adaptive_03 test (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8726 #8725: Fix doxygen documenation of p:d:t (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8725 #8724: Generalize an if-statement for all parallel triangulations (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8724 #8723: Change TensorProductPolynomials and AnisotropicPolynomials to derive from ScalarPolynomialsBase (proposed by GrahamBenHarper) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8723 #8722: step-26: Doc: Fixed positivity preservation criterion. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8722 #8721: Fix typo in step 50 (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8721 #8720: Clarify the degree of the elements NedelecSZ and Nedelec (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8720 #8719: fix broken step-56 (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8719 #8717: Remove an unnecessary friend declaration. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8717 #8716: Make a variable 'const'. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8716 #8713: Put implementation details of FEFaceEvaluation into separate file (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8713 #8712: Major redesign of hp::Refinement. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8712 #8711: Remove PolynomialType template argument from FE_Poly (proposed by GrahamBenHarper) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8711 #8709: Add maxwell singularity test (proposed by dangars) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8709 #8703: Fix compiling with CUDA support (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8703 #8701: VectorizedArray: Implement a compare_and_apply_mask function (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8701 #8668: Split MappingCartesian::compute_fill into several functions. (proposed by simonsticko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8668 #8655: corrects the no. of output lines in description of results for step-3 documentation (proposed by krishnakumarg1984; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8655 #8648: Make postprocessors work when using complex-valued solutions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8648 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #8744: Adding deal.II to Compiler Explorer (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8744 #8740: CellDataTransferBuffer in dof handler is super slow (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8740 #8735: doxygen: avoid Python dependency for setting canonical links (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8735 #8734: Treat periodic neighbors correctly in compute_vertices_with_ghost_neighbors (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8734 #8733: PETSc SolverControl: Maximum number of iterations truncated? (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8733 #8729: PETSc issue: Convergence failure with hp-adaptivity (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8729 #8718: Step-56: Error in debug configuration (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8718 #8715: Failing to install deal.II on an old Mac using Spack (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8715 #8714: doxygen: ordinal not in range (Ubuntu 18.04) (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8714 #8710: Fichera corner Maxwell simulation fails (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8710 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. Thanks for being part of the community! 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