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+Version 4.0 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
+
+This versions features many new components. The most outstanding
+additions are
+- Support for Nedelec edge elements; in general, we now support
+  vector-valued elements where the vector components are coupled
+- An implementation of Q(r) elements with hierarchic shape functions
+- A new and simpler-to-use multi-threading scheme
+- A much faster scheme to read in grids in 2d
+- Support for more compilers and operating systems
+- ...
+
+A complete list of the more than 100 changes in this version with
+respect to the previous version can be found at
+ http://www.dealii.org/news/2003/3.4.0-vs-4.0.0.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
+- Continuous and discontinuous elements of higher order
+- 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.
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+
+Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat, the deal.II team