available on the deal.II home-page at
</p>
<p align="center">
-<a href="http://www.dealii.org" target="_top">
- http://www.dealii.org
+<a href="https://www.dealii.org" target="_top">
+ https://www.dealii.org
</a>
</p>
<ol>
<li> <p>
New: All identifiers that the C++ standard (see
- <a href="http://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/dec96pub/"
+ <a href="https://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/dec96pub/"
target="_top"> this page</a> for the public draft -- the
standard itself is not available online for copyright reasons)
mandates to be in namespace <code>std::</code> are correctly
<li> <p>
New: There is now some support to include and use routines from the
- <a href="http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/HSL"
+ <a href="https://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/HSL"
target="_top">Harwell Subroutine Library</a>.
<br>
(WB 2001/01/30)
<li> <p>
New: We now support the output format of the <a
- href="http://www.kitware.com/vtk.html"
+ href="https://www.kitware.com/vtk.html"
target="_top">Visualization Toolkit (Vtk)</a> from the <code
class="class">DataOutBase</code> class and all derived classes.
<br>
<li> <p>
New: There is now some support to include and use routines from the
- <a href="http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/HSL"
+ <a href="https://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/HSL"
target="_top">Harwell Subroutine Library</a>, and support
classes
<code>SparseDirectMA27</code> and
the file <code>tria_accessor.cc(3d)</code> without optimization
flags even for optimized libraries. The gcc bug is documented
at the <a
- href="http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gcc&user=guest&password=guest&cmd=login"
+ href="https://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gcc&user=guest&password=guest&cmd=login"
target="_top">gcc bug tracking system page</a>, as bugs reports c++/615 and
optimization/2938.
<br>
<ol>
<li> <p>
New: Output for
- <a href="http://www.amtec.org" target="_top">Tecplot</a> has
+ <a href="https://www.amtec.org" target="_top">Tecplot</a> has
been added. It can be used by choosing output format «tecplot».
<br>
(<a href="mailto:benkirk@cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu">Benjamin Shelton Kirk</a> 2002/01/29)
<li> <p>
New: Output for
- <a href="http://www.opendx.org" target="_top">OpenDX</a> has
+ <a href="https://www.opendx.org" target="_top">OpenDX</a> has
been added. It can be used by choosing output format «dx» (not
yet for grid output). The data format is very basic now, but it
is planned to improve this to make use of the excellent
functions as a replacement.
<br>
For more information, read
- <a href="http://www.dealii.org/mail/msg00638.html" target="body">this mail</a>.
+ <a href="https://www.dealii.org/mail/msg00638.html" target="body">this mail</a>.
</strong>
<br>
(WB 2002/06/03)
<li> <p>
New: In all previous versions, deal.II used
- the <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html"
+ the <a href="https://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html"
target="_top">ACE (Adaptive Communications Environment)</a>
library to support cross-platform threading
facilities. While this is still supported, the default way
<li> <p>
New: deal.II now makes use of some parts of
- the <a href="http://www.boost.org/">boost</a> library, which is
+ the <a href="https://www.boost.org/">boost</a> library, which is
supposed to be a testground for the next generation C++ standard
library. The parts which we use are now in
<code>contrib/boost/include/boost_local/</code> and can be
<li> <p>
Removed: Thread support now relies solely on the use of POSIX
functions. The use of the
- <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html" target="_top">ACE
+ <a href="https://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html" target="_top">ACE
(Adaptive Communications Environment)</a> library for this is now no
longer supported. However, application programs can of course still use
ACE, but they will need to generate paths to this library in their
functions as a replacement.
<br>
For more information, read
- <a href="http://www.dealii.org/mail/msg00638.html" target="body">this mail</a>.
+ <a href="https://www.dealii.org/mail/msg00638.html" target="body">this mail</a>.
<br>
(WB 2002/06/10)
</p>
<ol>
<li> <p> New: After the documentation tool for deal.II has been
- changed to <a href="http://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a>, it is delivered in two
+ changed to <a href="https://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a>, it is delivered in two
tar-files. Additional to the traditional source tarball, the preprocessed
documentation is available ready for reading with a web browser.
<br>
</p>
<li> <p> New: deal.II is now able to interface to the
- <a href="http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/index.html"
+ <a href="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/index.html"
target="_top">METIS</a> library to generate domain partitionings. This
is enabled if a METIS installation is detected, which either happens
automatically in <code>./configure</code>, or
</p>
<li> <p> New: deal.II now comes with a complete set of
- wrappers classes for <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/"
+ wrappers classes for <a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/"
target="_top">PETSc</a> vectors, matrices, linear solvers and
preconditioners. Many of the algorithms in deal.II have also been
updated to make use of these wrappers. All of this is only enabled if a
</p>
<li> <p> New: First steps to a migration of the documentation from
- <tt>kdoc</tt> to <a href="http://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a> have
+ <tt>kdoc</tt> to <a href="https://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a> have
been done. It can be generated after installing <a
- href="http://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a> by calling <tt>make</tt>
+ href="https://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a> by calling <tt>make</tt>
in <tt>doc/doxygen</tt> and using the preliminary link page <a
href="../doxygen/index.html">index.html</a> in that directory.
<br>
</p>
<li> <p>
- New: Added support for <a href="http://www.gmsh.info"
+ New: Added support for <a href="https://www.gmsh.info"
target="_top">gmsh</a> mesh format in <code>GridIn::read_msh</code>.
<br>
(Luca Heltai 2004/04/21)
Wolfgang.
<br>
Deal.II comes with its own copy of the <a
- href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/">UMFPACK</a>
+ href="https://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/">UMFPACK</a>
library, courtesy of its author. In order to use, follow the steps
listed <a href="../readme.html#umfpack">here</a>. Note that UMFPACK
comes with its own license; to use UMFPACK, please read the <a
<li> <p>
New: Class <code>FunctionParser</code>. Wrapper
class for the fparser library (see
- <a href="http://warp.povusers.org/FunctionParser/">
- http://warp.povusers.org/FunctionParser/</a>).
+ <a href="https://warp.povusers.org/FunctionParser/">
+ https://warp.povusers.org/FunctionParser/</a>).
<br>
(Luca Heltai, 2005/03/07).
</p>
lexicographic ordering (with x running fastest) wherever
possible. For more information on the new numbering scheme, see
the <a
- href="http://ganymed.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/pipermail/dealii/2005/000827.html">announcement</a>
+ href="https://ganymed.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/pipermail/dealii/2005/000827.html">announcement</a>
on the mailing list. <br> The ordering of vertices in <code>CellData</code> given to the <code>Triangulation::create_triangulation</code>
function has been changed accordingly. For backward
compatibility there is now a new <code>Triangulation::create_triangulation_compatibility</code>
<p>
Changed: The subversion repository for deal.II development is now
located on commercially hosted space at <a
- href="http://www.dealii.org/svn/dealii/">http://www.dealii.org/svn/dealii/</a>.
+ href="https://www.dealii.org/svn/dealii/">https://www.dealii.org/svn/dealii/</a>.
<br>
(GK 2009/01/20)
</p>
<li>
<p>
Changed: Some parts of the library used to use classes and functions
- from the <a href="http://www.boost.org/">BOOST</a> library. Since
+ from the <a href="https://www.boost.org/">BOOST</a> library. Since
many of the components of BOOST have been voted into what will be the
next C++ standard, we now use a namespace std_cxx1x (coined on the
provisional name C++0x used for the next C++ standard) into which we
<li>
<p>
- Updated: The version of the <a href="http://www.boost.org/">BOOST</a>
+ Updated: The version of the <a href="https://www.boost.org/">BOOST</a>
library that is in the <code>contrib/</code> directory and is used in
various places of the library has been upgraded to 1.37.
<br>
<li>
<p>
- Updated: The version of the <a href="http://www.boost.org/">BOOST</a>
+ Updated: The version of the <a href="https://www.boost.org/">BOOST</a>
library that is in the <code>contrib/</code> directory and is used in
various places of the library has been upgraded to 1.36.
<br>
<li>
<p>
New: The GridIn::read_msh function can now read version 2 of the MSH format described
- <a target="_top" href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html">here</a>.
+ <a target="_top" href="https://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html">here</a>.
<br>
(WB 2008/10/07)
</p>
<li>
<p>
- New: The version of <a href="http://www.boost.org/">boost</a>
+ New: The version of <a href="https://www.boost.org/">boost</a>
included in the <code>contrib/</code> directory has been updated
to 1.41.0.
<br>
<li>
<p>
New: A report has been added on the
- <a href="http://www.dealii.org/reports/codimension-one/desimone-heltai-manigrasso.pdf"
+ <a href="https://www.dealii.org/reports/codimension-one/desimone-heltai-manigrasso.pdf"
target="body">codimension one</a> capabilities
of the library (by Antonio DeSimone, Luca Heltai
and Cataldo Manigrasso, SISSA, Trieste, Italy). It
a task-based, rather than thread-based approach, in which one
uses a high-level description of <i>what</i> needs to be done,
rather than how these jobs have to be mapped onto threads. We then
- use the <a href="http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org">Threading
+ use the <a href="https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org">Threading
Building Blocks (TBB) library</a> to schedule tasks onto available
hardware resources. This new scheme of describing parallism and
various abstractions to make programming in this framework easier
<li>
<p>Fixed: Linking with more than one of the deal.II 1d, 2d, or 3d libraries
when using static libraries did not work. This is now fixed. However, due to
- GCC bug <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10591"
+ GCC bug <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10591"
target="_top">10591</a>, GCC versions prior to and including 4.1.x will
still not work. Working with shared libraries was not and is not affected
by this problem.
(Sebastian Pauletti, Andrea Bonito, Luca Heltai, WB, 2010/12/06)
</p></li>
- <li><p>Updated: The version of the <a href="http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org">Threading
+ <li><p>Updated: The version of the <a href="https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org">Threading
Building Blocks (TBB)</a> shipped with deal.II has been updated
to release 3.0 Update 3 (Commercially aligned version).
<br>
<li>
<p>Fixed: Linking with more than one of the deal.II 1d, 2d, or 3d libraries
when using static libraries did not work. This is now fixed. However, due to
- GCC bug <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10591"
+ GCC bug <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10591"
target="_top">10591</a>, GCC versions prior to and including 4.1.x will
still not work. Working with shared libraries was not and is not affected
by this problem.
</p>
<li>
- <p>Updated: The version of <a href="http://www.boost.org/">boost</a>
+ <p>Updated: The version of <a href="https://www.boost.org/">boost</a>
included in the <code>contrib/</code> directory has been updated
to 1.43.0.
<br>
</p>
<li><p> New: The ParameterHandler class is now built on the
- <a href="http://www.boost.org" target="_top">boost</a>
+ <a href="https://www.boost.org" target="_top">boost</a>
<code>property_tree</code> library which provides a much better
foundation for extensions. In particular, the description of parameters
can now be exported in XML and JSON formats for processing with external
(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2011/09/22)
<li> New: deal.II can now be configured and built with the
-<a href="http://clang.llvm.org">Clang C++ frontend of the LLVM compiler</a>.
+<a href="https://clang.llvm.org">Clang C++ frontend of the LLVM compiler</a>.
<br>
(Timo Heister, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2011/08/20)
(Matthias Maier, 2012/05/22)
<li> New: The GridIn::read_unv function can now read meshes generated
-by the Salome framework, see http://www.salome-platform.org/ .
+by the Salome framework, see https://www.salome-platform.org/ .
<br>
(Valentin Zingan, 2012/04/27)
(Juan Carlos Araujo Cabarcas, 2013/03/25)
</li>
- <li> New: deal.II now uses <a href="http://www.cmake.org/">CMake</a>
+ <li> New: deal.II now uses <a href="https://www.cmake.org/">CMake</a>
as its configuration and build tool. Please read through the
readme and other installation files for information about how the
installation process has changed.
(Bruno Turcksin, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2013/10/26)
</li>
- <li> New: The testsuite is now ported to <a href="http://www.cmake.org/">
+ <li> New: The testsuite is now ported to <a href="https://www.cmake.org/">
CMake</a> and uses CTest as test driver.
<br>
(Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Matthias Maier, Bruno Turcksin, 2013/10/20)
</li>
<li>
- Fixed: Under some circumstances (see http://code.google.com/p/dealii/issues/detail?id=82)
+ Fixed: Under some circumstances (see https://code.google.com/p/dealii/issues/detail?id=82)
the DoFTools::make_periodicity_constraints() function could create cycles in
the ConstraintMatrix object. This is now fixed.
<br>
<li>
New: TableHandler::write_text() now also supports output in
- org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) format via a new entry in the
+ org-mode (https://orgmode.org/) format via a new entry in the
TableHandler::TextOutputFormat enumeration.
<br>
(Oleh Krehel, 2013/08/15)
<li>
New: Added support for the Open Asset Import Library (Assimp)
- (http://assimp.sourceforge.net/). This library can be used
+ (https://assimp.sourceforge.net/). This library can be used
to read about 40 different 3D graphics formats, used in 3D
modelers (such as Blender, Maya, etc.). Some of these formats
contain mesh information, that in turn can be read