deal.II Newsletter #353

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Rene Gassmoeller

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Apr 22, 2026, 6:01:21 AM (2 days ago) Apr 22
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Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #353.
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:

#19560: Do not nest ArborX namespace inside dealii namespace (proposed by Rombur; merged)
#19559: Avoid unnecessary exceptions in TableHandler class (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#19558: Include what you use: Remove unused header includes in .h files. (proposed by bangerth)
#19557: Remove a variable that is only ever written to. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19556: Update module exports for various external packages. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19555: Reorganize source files for module statements. (proposed by bangerth)
#19554: Centralize an exception. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19553: Reorganize headers to make them work with modules. (proposed by bangerth)
#19552: Properly initialize/reset cached entries in Tpetra vectors (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#19551: TriaLevel: add helper accessor functions for getting neighbors. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#19550: Do not mark functions in .cc files as 'inline'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19549: Reorganize headers to make them work with modules. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19548: Remove most uses of `is_valid_dim_spacedim`. (proposed by drwells)
#19547: Add PETScWrappers::MPI::FullMatrix (proposed by SanojKnalp)
#19545: Modify a header file so it plays more nicely with modules. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19544: Improve timer implementation (proposed by tnschmid)
#19543: Clarify documentation of FE_Nothing. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19542: [WIP] Optimizing Tpetra vector element-wise access (proposed by gassmoeller)
#19541: Reorganize headers to make them work with modules. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19540: Triangulation: compute the ReferenceCells early. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#19539: Improve step 46 docs (proposed by tnschmid; merged)
#19538: Export more of BOOST. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19537: Un-mark many variables in tria.cc as 'static'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19536: Avoid compiler warnings by restricting compilation of a function to 2d. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19535: Reorganize headers to make them work with modules. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19534: Also export operator<=> from the std module. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19533: TriaFaces::allocate_end(): combine with quad allocation. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#19532: Deal with header guards when converting to modules. (proposed by bangerth)
#19531: Fix an #include statement. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19530: Add TriaFaces::allocate_end(). (proposed by drwells; merged)
#19529: MUMPS: Add support for block matrices (proposed by fdrmrc)
#19528: Make header guards more uniform. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19526: Make header guards uniform. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19525: Coupling non matching (proposed by luca-heltai)
#19524: Add dealii_configuration.h. (proposed by bangerth)
#19523: Include what you use: Let each file include explicitly what it uses. (proposed by bangerth)
#19519: Disallow the use of CurlType for anything other than 2d and 3d. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19518: Work around a FP exception issue in MPI initialization. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19512: Work around an issue with detecting MPI and VTK. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#19487: MatrixFree: Simpler strategy in cell categorization in case of many categories (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#19472: FESubfaceValues: Fix assertion for DoF cell iterator type (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#19449: Allow Tpetra to add to non-local elements of distributed vector (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#18422: Enable FEInterfaceValues for mixed-meshes (proposed by dominiktassilostill; merged)

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

#19561 ParameterHandler should tell user about known entries (opened)
#19546 Don't use raw void* in ARKode. (opened)
#19527 Converting files to modules for files that are guarded by configuration variables. (opened and closed)

A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at this website.

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