deal.II Newsletter #305

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #305.
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:

#17995: Do not make a difference between debug/release mode when to include a file. (proposed by bangerth)
#17994: Don't use a .templates.h file if we unconditionally include it anyway. (proposed by bangerth)
#17993: Disentangle some includes. (proposed by bangerth)
#17992: Add a script that detects cycles in our include files. (proposed by bangerth)
#17991: Make code in step-44 easier to read. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17990: Import and require TaskFlow 3.10. (proposed by bangerth)
#17988: Add `types::orientation_id`. (proposed by drwells)
#17987: Deprecate `types::geometric_entity_type`. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17986: Be consistent about escaping names of code gallery programs. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17985: Move `max_n_vertices<structdim>()` etc to `namespace ReferenceCells`. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17982: Better document some small pieces of step-44. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17979: Bump minimum version for Trilinos to 12.14.1. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#17977: support DoF coupling in FESystem (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#17974: Add ReferenceCell::max_n_vertices<dim>(). (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17897: Modernize `dealii::Rol::VectorAdaptor` to use `ROL::Ptr`. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#17887: Disable CGAL warning (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17516: parallel_for() for transform with taskflow (proposed by tjhei; merged)

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

#17989 Regression tester regressed 586503 (opened and closed)
#17984 Use blocked parallel-for loop of TaskFlow. (opened)
#17983 Import TaskFlow 3.10. (opened)
#17981 Regression tester regressed 08cfb2 (opened and closed)
#17980 Regression tester regressed a35748 (opened and closed)
#17978 Documentation of TrilinosWrappers::PreconditionerBase::vmult() (opened)
#17975 Regression tester regressed cea239 (closed)
#17971 Regression tester regressed 750ac7 (closed)
#17968 Regression tester regressed 0cc152 (closed)
#17963 Regression tester regressed a6fff1 (closed)
#17962 Regression tester regressed 12a627 (closed)
#17956 Regression tester regressed 668cd8 (closed)
#17954 Regression tester regressed 1e5549 (closed)
#17451 Have a function FiniteElement::shape_function_belongs_to(i, ...extractor...). (closed)
#7780 Use libraries that support task migration (closed)

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