deal.II Newsletter #190

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #190.
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:

#12937: Improve assert message in DictionaryPayLoad (proposed by peterrum)
#12936: MatrixFreeFunctions::ConstraintKinds: rename and reorder (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12935: Improve an error message. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12934: Mark FEValuesExtrator objects as 'const'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12932: FEValues: simplify CellIteratorBase (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12931: Optimize particle generation (proposed by gassmoeller)
#12930: FEValues: explicitly instantiate functions (proposed by peterrum)
#12929: Rename some tests (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12928: minor MGRepartining edits (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#12927: Minor fixes to `predict_error` doc. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#12926: Update predict_error doc entry (proposed by gfcas; merged)
#12924: MGTwoLevelTransfer (p): add fallback FE case (proposed by peterrum)
#12923: Enable FETools::get_projection_matrix() for multiple components (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12925: Fix typo (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12922: CylindricalManifold: make member variable const. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#12921: N_Vector now returns a pointer to MPI_Comm (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#12920: Add signed distance function for 1D and 2D ellipsoids (proposed by nmuch; merged)
#12918: [9.3] add changelog entry for point release (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#12917: add changelog entry for point release (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#12915: [9.3.2] Revert "Remove copy from SUNDIALS::KINSOL" (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#12913: ParticleHandler: Store vector of particles per cell in std::list (proposed by kronbichler; merged)

And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:

#12933 Error with distribute_sparsity_pattern (opened)
#12914 Compilation error when using Sundials and MPICH (closed)

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