HOOMD-blue 4.4.0 release

[Joshua Anderson]

All,

HOOMD-blue 4.4.0 is now available. Thanks to all who reviewed changes, submitted bug reports, and contributed code! The source code, Docker images, and conda-forge packages are available now. See below for the detailed change log, which is also included in the documentation.

Thanks to all who made this release possible.
* Continuing contributors: Joshua A. Anderson, Michael Howard, Philipp Schönhöfer, Simone Ciarella, Tim Moore.

Links:

Documentation: https://hoomd-blue.readthedocs.io
Releases: https://github.com/glotzerlab/hoomd-blue/releases
Report issues: https://github.com/glotzerlab/hoomd-blue/issues
Contribute: https://github.com/glotzerlab/hoomd-blue/pulls

Change log:

Added
• hoomd.md.external.field.Magnetic computes forces and torques on particles from an external magnetic field (#1637).
• Tutorial on placing barriers (hoomd-examples/#111).
Fixed
• Use mpirun specific local ranks to select GPUs before checking SLURM_LOCALID (#1647).
• Fix typographical errors in RevCross documentation (#1642).
• Use standards compliant thrust::get (#1660).
Changed
• Removed unused code (#1646).
• No longer issue a warning when hoomd.md.Integrator is used without an integration method (#1659).
• Increase performance of Force.forces, Force.torques, Force.energies, and Force.virials (#1654).
Deprecated
• num_cpu_threads > 1. Use num_cpu_threads = 1 (#1656).
• HPMCIntegrator.depletant_fugacity > 0 (#1657).
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Joshua A. Anderson, Ph.D.
Research Area Specialist, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan