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+Version 5.2 of the deal.II object-oriented finite element library has been
+released. It is available from the deal.II home-page at
+
+                   http://www.dealii.org/
+
+Version 5.2 offers a number of improvements over previous versions. In
+particular, it contains a version of the sparse direct solver package UMFPack,
+as well as corresponding interfaces to use it from within deal.II.
+
+In addition to this, the most noteworthy changes are:
+- There are two more tutorial programs that demonstrate solving 3d, quasi-
+  static elasticity problemsin parallel as well as some data handling
+  techniques
+- Support for parsing and evaluating functions given in text, rather than
+  in program form
+- A new graphical output format that can later be converted to the file
+  formats understood by a large number of visualization packages
+- Optimization of the interface to PETSc, in particular for distributed
+  sparse matrices
+- Full support for computations with symmetric tensors
+- Many improvements in the generation of our 4000+ page documentation
+
+A comprehensive list of almost 100 new features and fixed bugs can be found at
+     http://www.dealii.org/5.2.0/news/5.1.0-vs-5.2.0.html
+
+All main features of the previous versions have been continued and improved:
+- Support for dimension-independent programming
+- Extensive documentation and working example programs
+- Locally refined grids
+- A zoo of different finite elements
+- Fast linear algebra
+- Built-in support for symmetric multi-processing (SMP)
+- Output for a variety of visualization platforms.
+
+deal.II can be downloaded for free and is distributed under an Open
+Source license.
+
+
+Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat, the deal.II team