FEniCS 2017.2 release

[Jack Hale]

Dear all,

FEniCS Project version 2017.2 was released on 5th December 2017. Binary distributions (Docker, Ubuntu PPA and Anaconda) are now ready.

https://fenicsproject.org/download

Release notes:

http://fenics.readthedocs.io/projects/dolfin/en/stable/ChangeLog.html
http://fenics.readthedocs.io/projects/ffc/en/stable/releases/v2017.2.0.html
http://fenics.readthedocs.io/projects/ufl/en/stable/releases/v2017.2.0.html
http://fenics.readthedocs.io/projects/instant/en/latest/releases/v2017.2.0.html
http://fenics.readthedocs.io/projects/fiat/en/stable/releases/v2017.2.0.html
http://fenics.readthedocs.io/projects/dijitso/en/latest/releases/v2017.2.0.html

Important reminder for users and developers:

FEniCS 2017.2 will be the last release that is compatible with Python 2 (python). FEniCS 2018.1 will support Python 3 only (python3) (http://www.python3statement.org/).

DOLFIN 2018.1, a C++ library, will be exposed to Python 3 using pybind11, rather than SWIG. There will be some minor interface changes and 3rd party libraries should be tested and updated. The easiest way to test with something similar to 2018.1 is to use our Docker nightly image:

docker run -ti quay.io/fenicsproject/dev

Please come to our Slack channel (https://fenicsproject-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/) if you have further questions.

Kind regards,

Jack S. Hale

University of Luxembourg