Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #315. 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: #18288: Cmake: clean up Kokkos configuration (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18288 #18287: Avoid unicode quoting. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18287 #18286: FEPointEvaluation: enable normal derivatives for arbitrary number of components (proposed by bergbauer; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18286 #18284: Clarify documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18284 #18283: Migrate docker infrastructure to docker-files repository. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18283 #18281: Fix a wrong word. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18281 #18280: Fix a problem with DoFTools::map_dofs_to_support_points() and FE_Nothing. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18280 #18277: p::distributed::BlockVector: add MemorySpace (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18277 #18276: Portable::MatrixFree support cell_loop() with BlockVector (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18276 #18275: Trilinos: remove <13.2 code (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18275 #18274: Portable::FEEvaluation: remove deprecated functions taking bool (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18274 #18273: Portable::MatrixFree: introduce DeviceVector (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18273 #18272: Trilinos: require 13.2 (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18272 #18270: step-64: Improve explanation of MPI-GPU assignment (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18270 #18269: step-64: require LAPACK (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18269 #18268: Portable::MatrixFree: fix a typo (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18268 #18267: refactor Portable::MatrixFree by combining Shared and GPU data (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18267 #18266: Fix a typo in a code comment (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18266 #18265: SparseMatrixTools: speed up a function to extract a sub-matrix (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18265 #18264: Inline an often-used function (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18264 #18263: SparsityPattern: order of functions and avoid inlining a function (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18263 #18262: Set a formula in typewriter font (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18262 #18261: portable matrix-free: fix GPU crash in compute_diagonal() (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18261 #18260: portable matrixfree: rename and move kernel (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18260 #18259: Add geometry in GridGenerator pass by arguments (proposed by brunaccampos; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18259 #18258: New class for nodal variants of Nedelec polynomials with the test (proposed by nataneb) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18258 #18257: Fix a linker error (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18257 #18251: Separate parsing of Cmake macro arguments from their use. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18251 #18219: Minor cleanup in reporting in detailed.log. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18219 #18190: Add cmake query for latest tag with number commits and commit ID (proposed by lpsaavedra; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/18190 #17659: fix Kokkos+CUDA inside PETSc/Trilinos detection (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/17659 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #18285: Portable::MatrixFree multiple DoFHandler support (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18285 #18282: Regression tester regressed 193324 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18282 #18279: Allow using DoFTools::map_dofs_to_support_points() with FE_Nothing. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18279 #18278: Regression tester regressed f17312 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18278 #18271: Regression tester regressed a6be64 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18271 #18254: What is "DebugRelease"? (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18254 #18210: step-64 crashes on GPU (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18210 #18096: Recent boost changes aren't compatible with soname-only installation (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/18096 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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