Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #22. 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: #5941: save/load state and property of ScaLAPACKMatrix (proposed by BenBrands) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5941 #5940: Exception fixes and cleanup (clang-tidy) (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5940 #5939: fix MPI type and remove confusing assert (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5939 #5937: add more parameters to LA::distributed::BlockVector::mmult() (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5937 #5936: clang-tidy performance findings (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5936 #5935: expand_all_instantiations cmake target (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5935 #5934: Use more LAPACK and BLAS routines in LAPACKFullMatrix (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5934 #5933: Fix the location of hats on symbols in the documentation. (proposed by sophy1029; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5933 #5932: Remove old backward compatible code with Boundary (proposed by luca-heltai) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5932 #5930: Use types::boundary_id in a code sample. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5930 #5929: Fix some odd formatting. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5929 #5927: Cuda sparse matrix (proposed by Rombur) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5927 #5926: Move an implementation to a source file. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5926 #5925: Fix the memory usage of the /source/fe unity files. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5925 #5924: Fix references to Boundary (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5924 #5923: Fix warning in TBB (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5923 #5922: Change GridOut::write_mesh_per_processor_as_vtu (proposed by tcclevenger; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5922 #5921: scalapack: split _06 test into four (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5921 #5920: Use SphericalManifold in step-45. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5920 #5919: Deprecate `fixed_int_power` (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5919 #5918: Fix get_fe_by_name for MSVC (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5918 #5917: Avoid using operator[] in dof_info.h for accessing the end iterator (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5917 #5916: Remove argument names when using '= default'. (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5916 #5915: scalapack: query lwork from ppocon (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5915 #5913: add Event signals for GMG (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5913 #5912: Typos corrected in step-3 (proposed by mathgirl; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5912 #5911: Fix integer overflow in TensorProductMatrix (proposed by jwitte08; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5911 #5910: followup: document Functions::LSingularityFunction (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5910 #5909: document Functions::LSingularityFunction (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5909 #5908: Fix a bug in CUDAWrappers::Vector::reinit (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5908 #5907: Fix some warnings and errors reported by MSVC (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5907 #5906: Fix issues found by clang-tidy checks=performance* (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5906 #5905: Use std::uint8_t as the underlying data type for CellId. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5905 #5904: fix grammar in VectorTools::project() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5904 #5898: LAPACKFullMatrix - add another Tmmult() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5898 #5896: Use std::uint8_t instead of 'unsigned char' for refinement flags. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5896 #5895: Explicitly list signed/unsigned char. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5895 #5894: Use std::uint8_t for refinement cases. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5894 #5885: Use more std::unique_ptr and std::make_shared/unique (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5885 #5882: Let FETools::get_fe_by_name return a std::unique_ptr (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5882 #5870: Integrators for DG face integrals with tests. (proposed by kkormann; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5870 #5869: ScaLAPACKMatrix: add functions to perform addition, multiplication and row/column scaling (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5869 #5414: New function: distributed compute point locations (and tests) (proposed by GivAlz; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5414 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #5938: clang-tidy (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5938 #5931: Boundary and manifold IDs not respected on boundary (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5931 #5928: Make current master compile again with MVSC (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5928 #5914: Warnings in bundled TBB (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5914 #5903: Improve documentation of LAPACKFullMatrix and ScaLAPACKFullMatrix (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5903 #5901: Make LAPACK required (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5901 #5900: LAPACKFullMatrix has a couple hand-written routines which could use BLAS (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5900 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_after_8_5_0.html. 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