Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #239. 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: #14719: Use initlog() in more tests. (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14719 #14718: Add explicit instantiations for VectorTools::get_position_vector overload (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14718 #14717: Fix ghost indices handling for PETSc vectors (proposed by stefanozampini) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14717 #14716: Minor fixes for PETSc testing (proposed by stefanozampini) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14716 #14715: Configure: enhance discovery of SLEPc (proposed by stefanozampini; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14715 #14714: Make ensure_kokkos_initialized thread-safe (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14714 #14713: CMake: add_test(): allow concurrent runs of tests with shared targets (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14713 #14712: Global-coarsening MG: test linear elements (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14712 #14710: ReferenceCell: consolidate some tables. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14710 #14709: Miscellaneous improvements to ReferenceCell (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14709 #14708: Added default constructor for CellWeights. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14708 #14707: Minor changes to PoisseuilleFlow. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14707 #14706: Remove reference cell namespace (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14706 #14705: Fix race condition in implicit Kokkos initialization (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14705 #14703: Test: sundials/n_vector: fix race condition (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14703 #14702: Set combined orientation (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14702 #14701: Also mark some variable instantiations as 'extern'. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14701 #14700: Improve two static_assert()s. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14700 #14699: include/deal.II/optimization/line_minimization.h add missing include (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14699 #14698: Declare the existence of explicit instantiations. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14698 #14697: Add a comment for a recent patch. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14697 #14696: Tests: optimization/* add missing includes (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14696 #14684: PETScWrappers::MatrixBase implement clear_rows_columns (proposed by stefanozampini; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14684 #14683: PETScWrappers::MPI::SparseMatrix: use SEQAIJ with one process (proposed by stefanozampini; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14683 #14628: Convert CUDA tests to use Kokkos (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14628 #14601: Align PETSc mpi comm with comm of PETSc Vec type, and expose VecNest type (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14601 #14361: introduce BoundingBox::is_neighbor() (proposed by jh66637; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/14361 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #14711: Configuring with `Trilinos` somehow adds cuda flags on `expanse` (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14711 #14704: find_all_active_cells_around_point issue with simplex (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14704 #14695: mapping_collection not defined (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/14695 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. 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/63d00eae.050a0220.dcc29.b5eaSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
