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-Version 8.5.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded the
-J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is
+Version 8.5.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded
+the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is
 available for free under an Open Source license from the deal.II homepage at
-
-                   https://www.dealii.org/
+https://www.dealii.org/
 
 The major changes of this release are:
-
-- The CellDataStorage class provides a mechanism to store and communicate
-  user-defined data on each cell.
+- The CellDataStorage class stores and communicates user-defined data.
 - The MappingManifold class provides exact mapping between the reference cell
   and a mesh cell.
 - Various improvements for high-order elements.
@@ -15,13 +12,11 @@ The major changes of this release are:
   mechanism that allows the attachment of arbitrary additional information.
 - A dedicated physics module to provide definitions and operations
   used in continuum mechanics.
-- The FE_Enriched class implements the operation of enriching the finite
-  element space of an underlying element.
-- The FESeries namespace provides expansions of a finite element solution in
-  terms of different, hierarchical bases.
+- The FE_Enriched class implements an enriched finite element space of an
+  underlying element. The FESeries namespace provides expansions of a finite
+  element solution in terms of different, hierarchical bases.
 - New tutorial programs step-55, step-56, and step-57; as well as updates to
-  step-27, step-37, and step-44. In addition, the separate code gallery of
-  deal.II has gained a number of new entries.
+  step-27, step-37, and step-44.
 - More than 240 other features and bugfixes, see the full list of changes at
   https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_8_4_2_and_8_5_0.html
 
@@ -33,7 +28,6 @@ The main features of deal.II are:
 - Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing,
   scaling from laptops to clusters with 100,000+ of processor cores
 - Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software
-- Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms.
 
 D. Arndt, W. Bangerth, D. Davydov, T. Heister, L. Heltai, M. Kronbichler,
 M. Maier, J.-P. Pelteret, B. Turcksin, D. Wells, and many other contributors.