Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #48. 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: #7178: Add an assertion. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7178 #7177: document TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix VectorType (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7177 #7176: Use correct dof sets in case of multigrid renumbering. (proposed by jodlbauer) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7176 #7173: Extend constrained linear operators to work with any LinOp Payload. (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7173 #7172: Mark EpetraExt as optional (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7172 #7171: Allow TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix::mmult for 64-bit indices (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7171 #7170: Update the glossary entry on distorted cells. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7170 #7169: Replace SparsityPattern::Iterator with LinearIndexIterator. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7169 #7168: Fix hp_step-40_variable_01 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7168 #7167: Improve the MatrixFree doxygen formatting (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7167 #7166: Add some more entries to .gitignore. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7166 #7165: Shared tria improvements (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7165 #7164: Silence another warning in compute_n_point_to_point_communications (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7164 #7163: small typo (proposed by tcclevenger; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7163 #7161: [WIP] Add jenkins (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7161 #7160: quadrature: improve documentation (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7160 #7159: Extend DoFRenumbering::hierarchical(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7159 #7158: Check for the ability to call non-constepr functions in constexpr ones (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7158 #7157: Avoid warning about unused variable in compute_n_point_to_point_communications (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7157 #7156: Fix: 'iota' is not a member of 'std' (proposed by mwichro; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7156 #7154: Avoid some warnings compiling with CUDA support (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7154 #7152: Use workaround in 'execute_transfer()' only on older p4est versions. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7152 #7151: Add another test for hp parallel DoFs. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7151 #7150: Add a test for parallel hp handling. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7150 #7149: Add a test. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7149 #7145: Implement a function for computing the number of messages received per MPI process (proposed by eldarkh; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7145 #7134: Work around ICC issue with __builtin_expect in constexpr function (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7134 #7091: Matrixfree vectorization mask (proposed by schoeder; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7091 #6976: AD Helpers: Introduce base class for cell-level AD helper classes (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6976 #6965: Change step-16: add alternative without MeshWorker (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6965 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7175: dealii-9.0.0.dmg OSX and "illegal instruction 4" (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7175 #7174: Bug in parallel component-wise multigrid renumbering (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7174 #7162: Bug in hp::DoFHandler::distribute_dofs() (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7162 #7155: Compilation issue (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7155 #7153: Zero volume (cohesive) elements (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7153 #7148: Using deal.II-9.0.0 Docker image with my C++ project seems to require C++14 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7148 #7146: error when compiling (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7146 #7074: boost 1.68.0 fails serialization configure check (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7074 #6954: Implement a function for computing the number of messages received per MPI process (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6954 #6183: Rewrite the distorted cells glossary entry (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/6183 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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