The major changes of this release are:
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-\item The \texttt{CellDataStorage} class provides a mechanism to store
- user-defined data on each cell. This data is treated as a first-class
- citizen to \dealii{} and, when used in conjunction with other classes,
- can be shipped to other MPI cores during mesh refinement and
- repartitioning.
+\item The \texttt{CellDataStorage} class provides a safe mechanism to store
+ and communicate user-defined data on each cell.
\item The \texttt{MappingManifold} class provides mappings between the
reference cell and a mesh cell that is ``exact'' in the sense that
approximations of the manifold.
TODO: Luca
-\item the \texttt{LinearOperator} class has been extended by a generic
- ``payload'' mechanism that allows to attach arbitrary additional
- information to a \texttt{LinearOperator}. The mechanism was used to
- implement a \texttt{TrilinosPayload} class to have full support for using
- the suite of {\trilinos} iterative solvers and preconditioners with a
- \texttt{LinearOperator}.
+\item The \texttt{LinearOperator} class has been extended by a generic
+ ``payload'' mechanism that allows the attachment of arbitrary additional
+ information to a \texttt{LinearOperator}.
\item A dedicated physics module has been created to provide some standard
definitions and operations used in continuum mechanics.