deal.II Newsletter #319

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #319.
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:

#18384: Move a function into namespace dealii. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18383: Fix HIP build (proposed by Rombur; merged)
#18382: Add assertion to check vector compression in AffineConstraints::distribute() (proposed by kinnewig)
#18381: FEPointEvaluation: Make DoF numbering a constructor argument (proposed by bergbauer)
#18380: Disentangle the order in a file. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18379: Give the combined orientation a glossary entry. (proposed by drwells)
#18378: Add some notes to step-44. (proposed by bangerth)
#18377: Switch MatrixOut to default to sparse output. (proposed by bangerth)
#18376: Clarify a couple of things in the introduction to step-44. (proposed by bangerth)
#18374: QProjector documentation fixes (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18373: Fix the pictures of oriented faces. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18371: Apply auto-indenter to all python scripts. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18369: Add necessary header includes. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18368: Add to some documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18367: Add a script that traces which other files a .cc or .h file depends on. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18366: Remove an outdated Trilinos comment. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18365: Make it possible to create sparse outputs from MatrixOut. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18364: QProjector: add a general function for projecting quadrature points to faces or subfaces. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18362: MatrixFree: refactor a face setup routine. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18355: QProjector: combine all `project_to_all_faces()` functions. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18340: Fix naming of variables in tria.cc, part 3. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18339: Fix naming of variables in tria.cc, part 2. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18217: Upgrade Kokkos to 4.5.1. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18081: Add basic periodicity for tetrahedra with a mesh generator and a test. (proposed by KJSchwiebert; merged)

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

#18375 Improve documentation of access to vector entries and constraints in matrix-free module (opened)
#18372 Auto-indent Python scripts in our CI steps. (opened)
#18370 Make sparse output in MatrixOut the default. (opened)
#18363 Configure using Python (opened)
#17964 Enable basic periodicity for tetrahedral Lagrange elements (closed)

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