Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #97. 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: #8904: Simplify code for writing vtu/pvtu output files in application progams (proposed by nfehn) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8904 #8903: VectorizedArray: Update documentation POD -> StandardLayoutType (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8903 #8902: Make output cells, faces and co-faces optional in GridOut::write_vtk (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8902 #8901: Fix DoFHandler>::n_boundary_dofs() in issue #8897 (proposed by dougshidong) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8901 #8900: Introduce VectorizedArrayBase and VectorizedArrayIterator (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8900 #8899: ArpackSolver sets number of iterations in SolverControl after finishing calculations (proposed by anates) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8899 #8898: Step-61 Use FE_DGRT for Darcy velocity (proposed by sophy1029) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8898 #8895: Fix a bug in merge triangulations() (proposed by starki0815; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8895 #8894: New functionality to compute maximum aspect ratio of a mesh (proposed by nfehn; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8894 #8893: Add VectorizedArray::size() member function (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8893 #8869: Update the description of the Nedelec element. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8869 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #8897: Incorrect count on DoFHandler::n_boundary_dofs() for distributed Triangulations (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8897 #8896: Implement range-based iterators for VectorizedArray (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8896 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. Thanks for being part of the community! Let us know about questions, problems, bugs or just share your experience by writing to dealii@googlegroups.com, or by opening issues or pull requests at https://www.github.com/dealii/dealii. Additional information can be found at https://www.dealii.org/. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/5da4c5c3.1c69fb81.69c86.09d4SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
