deal.II 9.5 released

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

Version 9.5.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded
the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is
available for free under an Open Source license from the deal.II homepage at

https://www.dealii.org/

The major changes of this release are:
- Substantial updates and extensions to deal.II's interfaces to other
libraries. This includes, in particular, the integration of Kokkos
additions and updates to the PETSc and Trilinos interfaces.
- Improvements to the matrix-free infrastructure
- Better support for non-matching grids
- Faster or more robust linear solvers and preconditioners
- Many changes to the CMake configuration system, as well as more extensive
use of modern C++ features
- A large number of updates to the tutorials and other documentation.

For more information see:
- The preprint at https://www.dealii.org/deal95-preprint.pdf
- The list of changes at

https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_9_4_0_and_9_5_0.html

The main features of deal.II are:
- Extensive documentation and 83 fully-functional example programs
- Support for dimension-independent programming
- Locally refined adaptive meshes
- Multigrid support
- A zoo of different finite elements
- Fast linear algebra
- Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing,
scaling from laptops to clusters with 100,000+ processor cores
- Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, SUNDIALS, UMFPACK and many other external
software packages
- Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms.

Wolfgang,
on behalf of the deal.II developer team and many contributors.


--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wolfgang Bangerth email: bang...@colostate.edu
www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

A release is also always an opportunity for us to thank the many people who
have contributed code to a release. The list is as always quite long -- for
the 9.5 release, the following people have all contributed code or
documentation or in other ways:

Pasquale Africa,
Nicolas Barnafi,
Nistha Bhawsinka,
Bruno Blais,
Fabian Castelli,
Terry Cojean,
Niklas Fehn,
Emmanuel Ferdman,
Vadim Gallyamov,
Daniel Garcia-Sanchez,
Rene Gassmoeller,
Robin Goermer,
Graham Harper,
Quang Hoang,
Sean Ingimarson,
Vladimir Ivannikov,
Pengfei Jia,
Tao Jin,
Nils Margenberg,
Luz Paz,
Laura Prieto Saavedra,
Sebastian Proell,
Ce Qin,
Oleg Rogozin,
Andrew Salmon,
Michael Schlottke-Lakemper,
Christoph Schmidt,
Magdalena Schreter-Fleischhacker,
Richard Schussnig,
Nils Schween,
Ahmad Shahba,
Simon Sticko,
Buğrahan Temür,
Ivy Weber,
Niklas Wik,
Vladimir Yushutin,
Jiaqi Zhang.

In addition, the release paper mentioned in the previous email has 15 authors.

Many thanks to all of you!
Wolfgang Bangerth, for all of the other developers