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This is deal.II newsletter #80.
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:
#8272: Fixed doi for step-60 (proposed by GivAlz)
#8269: Add tests for gmsh-4.3 (proposed by masterleinad)
#8267: [9.1] Take over #8265 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8266: Add support for msh 4.1 (proposed by luca-heltai)
#8265: Allow for gmsh mesh format 4.1 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8264: [9.1] Take over #8263 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8263: sacado: fix test concurrency (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8262: Interpolation function extended to work with FE_Bernstein elements (proposed by anates)
#8261: [master] Take over #8260 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8260: [9.1] Cleanup documentation: find_common_subspace() (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#8259: [9.1] Take over #8256 (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8258: [9.1] Take over #8257 (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8257: Add two brief class descriptions. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8256: Update 9.1 changes (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8254: [9.1] Take over #8247 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8253: [9.1] Take over #8246 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8252: [9.1] Take over #8238 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8251: [9.1] Take over #8236 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8250: [9.1] Take over #8225 and #8235 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8249: [9.1] Take over #8234 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8248: [9.1] Take over step-64 changes (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8247: Fix a dependency between tutorial programs. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8246: Change CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree::point_type to Point (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8244: Step-64 also depends on step-40. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8243: Update the results section of step-64. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8242: Rework the first part of step-64. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8239: Update a comment in the doxygen options file. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8238: Mention step-61 in the introduction of step-51. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8237: Update the introduction to step-64. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8236: Fix the dependencies of step-61. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8235: step-63 documention follow-up (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8234: clarify a comment (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8233: [9.1] Take over #8228 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8232: [9.1] Take over #8204 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8231: [9.1] Take over #8230 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8230: Disable two ADOL-C tests in release configuration (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8229: step-66: a nonlinear, parallel matrix-free example [WIP] (proposed by tjhei)
#8228: Updates to the step-63 results section. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8227: [9.1] Take over #8224 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8226: Updates to the step-63 program. (proposed by bangerth)
#8225: Updates to the step-63 introduction. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8224: gcc-9 variant for general_data_storage_01 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8220: [9.1] Take over #8218 (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8218: Move changelog entry to proper file (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8217: [9.1] Take over #8191 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8216: [9.1] Take over #8208 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8215: [9.1] Take over #8202 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8214: [9.1] Take over #8201 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8213: [9.1] Take over #8186 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8212: doxygen: use coloneq in tutorials (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8211: [9.1] Take over #8200 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8210: [9.1] Take over #8209 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8209: Add vector_adaptor_02 Trilinos-12.14.1 variant (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8208: step-63 typo and add some tutorial keywords (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8207: move changelog entry for step-63 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8205: Remove doxygen format from a comment block (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#8204: Minor updates to the AD page. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8202: fix doxygen @name tags (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8201: clang-format: do not break @name lines (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8200: CMake: Add a safeguard that disables ADOL-C in case SEACASChaco is enabled (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8199: [9.1] take over #8195 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8197: Improve GridGenerator::torus, volume case (dim=3) (proposed by kronbichler)
#8196: WIP: Integration of Mesquite mesh smoother (+ Verdict quality assessor) (proposed by jppelteret)
#8195: Fix documentation in ScratchData (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#8193: Fix a typo. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8191: Make TransfiniteInterpolationManifold more robust (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8190: [9.1] Take over #8188 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8189: Updated boost::unordered_map/set to std library (proposed by adam4130; merged)
#8188: undeprecate get_mg_dof_indices (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8187: Fix bug in tutorial step-46 (proposed by starki0815)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#8274 Linking warning when building the deal.II dmg package (opened)
#8273 C2 continuity (opened)
#8271 [Homepage] Update Survey results from 2016 (opened)
#8270 [Homepage] https://www.dealii.org/ideas.html (opened)
#8268 Packing and unpacking of `FullMatrix` into `std::vector` (opened)
#8255 hp::FECollection::find_common_subspace still in docs (opened and closed)
#8245 GMSH-4.3 msh compatibility (Mesh format 4.1) (opened and closed)
#8241 step-64: Unclear variable name (opened and closed)
#8240 CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree::point_type (opened and closed)
#8223 step-63: Explain the relaxation factor (opened)
#8222 step-63: Random shuffle is unnecessarily complicated (opened)
#8221 step-63: create_downstream_cell_ordering() only works on uniformly refined meshes (opened)
#8219 Redo tutorial images (opened)
#8206 create GridGenerator images (opened)
#8203 doxygen: symengine doxygen blurb not visible (opened and closed)
#8198 GridGenerator::hyper_ball: Do we want alternative variant? (opened)
#8194 Make ScratchData compatible with ADHelpers (opened)
#8192 ScratchData: Doxygen section tags leaking into documentation (opened and closed)
#8170 9.1 Testsuite status (closed)
#8162 Use std::unordered_{set,map} (closed)
#7887 get_mg_dof_indices is deprecated? (closed)
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