deal.II Newsletter #327
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #327.
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:
#18753: Fix more modules for external dependencies (proposed by masterleinad)
#18752: Update website URL from www.dealii.org to dealii.org (proposed by tamiko)
#18751: contrib/utilities: update makeofflinedoc.sh to use https://dealii.org (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18750: Rename cell_to_face_patch to cell_to_face_patch_numbering (proposed by mwichro)
#18749: Update some commentary. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18748: Let our scripts provide proper links to step-xx tutorials. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18747: std.ccm: add missing include (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18746: step-85: Kronecker product ghost penalty for higher order elements (proposed by mwichro)
#18745: CMake: Module support: do not link in internal object targets (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18744: [9.7] Take over #18732 #18734 #18740 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18743: Add step-101 tutorial program with Shifted Boundary Method for Poisson equation (proposed by mwichro)
#18742: GitHub CI: Add build with C++20 modules (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#18741: Add export_line_segments function for VTK visualization (proposed by mwichro)
#18740: std.ccm: add missing includes (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18739: Provide a motivating paragraph for step-85. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18738: Links for the results sections in the tutorials. (proposed by cembooks)
#18737: [9.7] Take over #18731 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18736: [9.7] Take over #18728 #18726 #18725 #18714 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18735: [9.7] take over #18717 #18718 #18730 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18734: Fix muparser.ccm for bundled muparser (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#18733: [9.7] Take over #18721 (proposed by jpthiele; merged)
#18732: Reduce includes in std.ccm (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#18731: CMake: Module support: refactor installation logic and paths (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18730: umfpack.ccm: add an export (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18728: test step-93: use check_solver_within_range (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#18727: Implement back_interpolate() for TpetraWrappers::Vector. (proposed by kinnewig)
#18726: Let doxygen see MUMPS-related documentation (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#18725: Add MUMPS to "solvers and preconditioners" groups (proposed by fdrmrc; merged)
#18723: [9.7] Take over #18716 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18722: [9.7] reindent (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18721: trilinos.ccm guard against inclusion of optional Ifpack2 (proposed by jpthiele; merged)
#18720: Use a less obscure example in the introduction of step-1. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18719: Kokkos: implement NumberTraits::abs() on device (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18718: Export a PETSc TS function. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18717: Export SUNComm and SUN_COMM_NULL. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18716: p4est.ccm: also export sc_init (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18715: [9.7] Take over #18710 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18714: Fix for broken internal links in the tutorials. (proposed by cembooks; merged)
#18713: [9.7] Cherry-pick module infrastructure (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18712: [9.7] Take over #18711 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18711: sparse_direct.cc: guard code containing global typenames and literals (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18710: Symengine: avoid anonymous namespace (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18709: Remove deprecated code from the 9.6 release (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#18708: std.ccm: do not export std::snprintf (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18707: [9.7] Take over #18701 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18705: Revert "Remove the inclusion of Kokkos_Macros.h from config.h." (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18704: Also include revision.h into macros.h. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18703: Wrap a few more symbols. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18702: Replace DEAL_II_DEPRECATED_EARLY with DEAL_II_DEPRECATED (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#18701: Test sundials/arkode_(01|02|04|08|09|10): adjust output (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18700: [9.7] Cherry-pick #18650 (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#18699: Avoid the use of sprintf. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18697: std.ccm: fix a preprocessor directive (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18696: [9.7] Take over #18695 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18695: Silence a maybe-uninitialized warning. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#18694: std.ccm: fix a preprocessor directive, prefer #ifdef when possible (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#18688: `MappingFEField`: store which DoFs are nonzero in each component. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18672: Kokkos with device support: require 3.7 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18658: Use `std::clamp` instead of the `std::min/std::max` pattern (proposed by fernandezerbes; merged)
#18650: Provide general description of constraint handling in matrix-free module (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#18534: SymmetricTensor: avoid ndarray for device support (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18530: Kokkos: test that exception macros work on device (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18486: Kokkos: support and test SymmetricTensor (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18434: Add utility to detect unwanted merges in feature (proposed by jpthiele; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#18729 TpetraWrappers::Vector::locally_owned_elements() returns wrong index set (opened)
#18724 C++20 modules possible fix idea for `export import` statements (opened and closed)
#18706 Remove inclusion of Kokkos_Macros.hpp from config.h. (opened)
#18698 Module support: compile with C++20 module on regression tester (opened and closed)
#18657 Reserve step-100 (closed)
#18375 Improve documentation of access to vector entries and constraints in matrix-free module (closed)
#17722 Replace std::min(b, std::max(x,a)) by std::clamp(x, a, b). (closed)
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