Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #99. 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: #8972: fix doxygen documentation generation for tutorial steps (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8972 #8971: Add copy assignment to MatrixFree::AdditionalData (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8971 #8970: Fix docu of GridOutFlags::Svg (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8970 #8968: Fix python bindings configuration for new boost (proposed by agrayver) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8968 #8967: Make MPI test suite independent from p4est (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8967 #8965: Add copy constuctor to MatrixFree::AdditionalData (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8965 #8964: MPI critical section (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8964 #8963: Update tutorials to use write_vtu_with_pvtu_record (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8963 #8962: Output all faces and edges to vtk (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8962 #8959: Report how much memory was requested when we fail allocating that much. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8959 #8956: duplicate MPI communicator in ConsensusAlgorithm (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8956 #8955: ConsensusAlgorithmPayload: duplicate communicators (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8955 #8954: fix typos in comments (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8954 #8953: duplicate communicator in compute_p2p... (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8953 #8952: Delete FunctionParse copy constructor. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8952 #8950: Provide a link to the geometry paper. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8950 #8949: doc: improve write_vtu_with_pvtu_record (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8949 #8948: Step-50 cleanup (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8948 #8947: new MPI::free_communicator and DuplicatedCommunicator helper (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8947 #8946: Make VectorTools::interpolate() working in parallel (proposed by elauksap; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8946 #8945: Remove unnecessary trilinos options (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8945 #8944: Fix bug in MatrixFree::get_face_iterator (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8944 #8943: Fix coarse solver documentation in step-50 (proposed by dangars) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8943 #8942: Update the results section of step-49. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8942 #8941: Fix an error check with MathJax. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8941 #8939: Fix missing MPI_Wait in compute_point_to_point_communication_pattern (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8939 #8927: new function Utilities::cutoff_digits() (proposed by nfehn; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8927 #8902: Make output cells, faces and co-faces optional in GridOut::write_vtk (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8902 #8898: Step-61 Use FE_DGRT for Darcy velocity (proposed by sophy1029; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8898 #8892: Replace std::bind in documentation (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8892 #8885: FEInterfaceValues: gradients and hessians (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/8885 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #8969: Do not transfer MPI communicator for p::s::Tria::copy_tria (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8969 #8966: MPI tests can be only run with p4test (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8966 #8961: Failure to configure with python bindings on Ubuntu (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8961 #8960: Update tutorials step-37/18/32/45/55/48/42/64/50/40 to recent changes in PR #8904 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8960 #8958: How to deal with MPI P2P communication using the same MPI tag (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8958 #8957: deal.II does not see the HDF5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8957 #8951: compile error with std::vector<FunctionParser<dim>> (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/8951 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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