Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #142. 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: #11177: Make assert more verbose in FEEvaluation (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11177 #11176: QCollection<dim> accept Quadrature<1> (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11176 #11175: Fix typo (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11175 #11171: Deprecate hp::DoFHandler. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11171 #11170: Deprecated FiniteElement::operator[]. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11170 #11169: Deprecate MatrixFree::reinit() functions with default Mapping argument (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11169 #11168: Make MatrixFree compile for arbitrary dim quadrature rules (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11168 #11167: [WIP] Add test: MatrixFree + simplex mesh (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11167 #11165: Fix typo in class documentation of "FEEvaluation" (proposed by mschreter; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11165 #11164: Define DEAL_II_MPI_VERSION_GTE also for serial compilation (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11164 #11163: Move GhostParticlePartitioner (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11163 #11162: Add reference to skew-symmetric implementation in step-67 (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11162 #11161: Functions of hp::Refinement now only available for DoFHandler in hp mode. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11161 #11160: Deprecate DoFHandler initialization interface. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11160 #11159: parallel running version of multigrid Cuthill McKee reordering (proposed by mathsen) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11159 #11158: [WIP] Add step-67b (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11158 #11157: Fix fe_face_evaluation_process_and_io for multiple components (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11157 #11156: Improve VectorDataExchange::Full::reset_ghost_values (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11156 #11154: Fix compute_shared_memory_contiguous_indices (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11154 #11153: Avoid using deprecated DoFHandler properties in tests. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11153 #11152: Finish mechanism for the update of ghost particles (proposed by blaisb; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11152 #11151: Fix sm-mode L:d:V for zero sized vectors (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11151 #11150: Use mpi_processes_within_communicator (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11150 #11149: Clean up distribute_dofs(). (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11149 #11148: Allow user to specify CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11148 #11147: Simplify simplify_categorize_by_boundary_ids (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11147 #11145: Adjusted mg_constrained_dofs for usage of own IndexSets (proposed by mathsen; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11145 #11143: step-7: mark some ints as doubles (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11143 #11141: Add internal::TriangulationImplementation::ImplementationMixedMesh (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11141 #11134: Expose mesh loop bug for anisotropic grids. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11134 #11133: Rework DoFHandler connections to underlying Triangulation. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11133 #11131: Transfinite interpolation: add a test (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11131 #11109: pass MPI_Comm by const ref (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11109 #11097: Use dof_indices_contiguous_sm in evaluation functions (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11097 #10899: Support ExodusII with GridIn (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/10899 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #11174: hp::DoFHandler produces duplicate dof indices for FE_Q(2) (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11174 #11173: Replace deprecated MatrixFree::reinit() from tests (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11173 #11172: Make OS bundle automatic (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11172 #11166: Make MatrixFree work for simplex meshes (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11166 #11155: step-67: move RK coeffients into TimeStepping (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11155 #11146: FE_Nedelec for degree=8? (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11146 #11138: Linker error 9.2.0 dmg on MacOS Catalina: argument list too long (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11138 #11107: pass MPI_Comm by value or reference? (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11107 #11093: Provide a mechanism to update ghost_particles location and properties without regenerating them (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11093 #9347: Generalize Matrixfree::get_cell_iterator() (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/9347 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/recent_changes.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. 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