deal.II Newsletter #301

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #301.
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:

#17806: Chunking for WorkStream with Taskflow (proposed by RyanMoulday)
#17805: FEPointEvaluation: Implement get_curl() (proposed by bergbauer)
#17803: Simplify string handling in examples/. (proposed by bangerth)
#17802: Simplify string handling. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17801: Cleanup some github workflows. (proposed by marcfehling)
#17800: windows: let upload-artifact deal with archiving. (proposed by marcfehling)
#17799: [WIP] allow to attach non-hp- and hp-DoFHandlers to MatrixFree (proposed by nmuch)
#17797: Enable batched matrix-vector product (proposed by dominiktassilostill)
#17796: Remove some includes (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17794: Add necessary EnableObserverPointer header to ReadVector (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#17793: Try using interprocedural/link-time optimization. (proposed by bangerth)
#17792: Make BLAS signatures compatible. (proposed by bangerth)
#17791: Improve the error messages one gets when an external dependency is not found. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17789: Better document the EnableObserverPointer class. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17788: Modifications in ReadVector (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17787: doxygen runner: let upload-artifact deal with compression. (proposed by marcfehling)
#17785: Fix cubic simplex constraints. (proposed by drwells; merged)

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

#17804 Running the finite element program in "make release" mode encountered an error (opened)
#17798 Assert that the output argument of FullMatrix::mmult() is not also an input argument. (opened)
#17795 Regression tester regressed 9627ae (opened and closed)
#17790 Make members of EnableObserverPointer private. (opened)
#17786 affinity test errors out when running `make test` command (opened)
#17759 Attempting to construct an FESystem with cubic FE_SimplexP elements throws an assert while running FESystem::Initialize() (closed)
#17657 Rename SmartPointer<T> to ObserverPointer<T>. (closed)

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