deal.II Newsletter #242

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #242.
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:

#14813: implement VectorTools::add_constant (proposed by tjhei)
#14811: Fix Tpetra detection and unit tests (proposed by masterleinad)
#14810: Fix using mesh_loop with DG and periodic boundary conditions (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#14809: NonMatching::MappingInfo: precompute mapping data for an IteratorRange of cells/faces (proposed by bergbauer)
#14808: CI: Jenkins increase timeout (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14806: enable compressed debug info for library (proposed by tjhei)
#14805: fix unused variable warning (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14803: Include bundled include directories as CMake SYSTEM paths (proposed by masterleinad)
#14802: FieldTransfer: enable coarsening (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#14801: Fix description of assemble_system() in step-40. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#14800: Fix a grammar mistake. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#14798: disable -Wdeprecated-builtins for boost (proposed by tjhei)
#14797: fix wrong sign of char in MF (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14796: remove useless comment (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14793: doc: replace FE_DGRT with correct name (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14792: doc: move simplex function from module (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14790: doc: fix GridGenerator::convert_hypercube_to_simplex_mesh (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14781: Added test for SolutionTransfer with hp-refinement and manually set flags. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#14771: Use try_compile in macro_check_compiler_setup.cmake (proposed by masterleinad; merged)

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

#14812 Trouble finding trilinos (opened)
#14807 FieldTransfer: coarsening FE_Nothing cells (opened)
#14804 Final library compilation stage takes forever (opened)
#14799 Nonlinear solvers (opened)

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