From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@colostate.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:55:43 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Remove now obsolete files.
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Remove now obsolete files.
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diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160222DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160222DenisDavydov
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index aa9cd873f0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160222DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Changed: ConstraintMatrix::distribute_local_to_global() and numerous
-functions in VectorTools namespace now require matching data types.
-This is done to correctly handle complex-valued case.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/02/22)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160227DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160227DenisDavydov
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index d1389511b0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160227DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Changed: Many functions in VectorTools and MatrixTools now require
-matching data types between vectors, matrices, and Function arguments.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/02/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160228WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160228WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e42732108..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160228WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Removed: Functions with names containing <code>boundary_indicator</code>
-have been removed. They had previously already been deprecated, and replaced
-by functions containing the string <code>boundary_id</code> instead, to keep
-with the style used for <code>material_id</code>, <code>subdomain_id</code>,
-etc.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/02/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160317MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160317MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 5bc553e90a..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160317MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Removed: Support for the legacy <code>Make.global_options</code>
-file has been removed.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/03/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160405MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160405MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index ebcc278022..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160405MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The default nodal point distribution of FE_Q, FE_DGQ,
-FE_Q_DG0, FE_Q_Bubbles, and FE_TraceQ has been changed from equidistant
-points to the node points of the corresponding Gauss-Lobatto quadrature
-formula. For degrees one and two, the Gauss-Lobatto quadrature is
-equidistant and thus the unit support points are as before. However, the
-Gauss-Lobatto points are more dense towards the element boundaries at higher
-degrees. This gives well-conditioned interpolation at arbitrary orders and
-much more stable computations. While these node distribution was available
-before, it was not very visible and often lead to misunderstandings by
-inexperienced users. Most codes will not be affected by this change, even
-those using cubic and higher degree polynomials, apart from slightly
-different (better) interpolation behavior and different entries in solution
-vectors. If you explicitly need equidistant points, use the constructors
-<tt>FE_Q<dim>(QIterated<1>(QTrapez<1>(),degree))</tt> or
-<tt>FE_DGQArbitraryNodes<dim>(QIterated<1>(QTrapez<1>(),degree))</tt>.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160409LucaHeltai b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160409LucaHeltai
deleted file mode 100644
index e319e2b619..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160409LucaHeltai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Changed: FlatManifold takes as argument a periodicity option. This
-used to be a Point<dim>, but it should have been a Tensor<1,dim>. This
-is now changed.
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, 2016/04/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160426MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160426MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 89854313f9..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160426MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Changed: deal.II used to create template instantiations for scalar
-types <tt>double</tt>, <tt>float</tt>, and <tt>long double</tt>. Since
-<tt>long double</tt> is rarely used and the additional precision does
-usually not pay off because most of the other arithmetics in deal.II are
-only done using <tt>double</tt> variables, it is not instantiated by default
-any more. This reduces the library size by up to 20 percent. In case you
-need instantiations of certain methods using <tt>long double</tt> data
-structures and get linker errors stating undefined symbols involving
-<tt>long double</tt>, include the respective <tt>.templates.h</tt> file(s)
-with the code definitions. See the section on @ref Instantiations in the
-manual for further information.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/26)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160607WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160607WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index d90e13dd2c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160607WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The Triangulation::Signals::clear signal is now triggered
-<i>before</i>, not <i>after</i> the internal data structures of the
-triangulation are destroyed. This allows functions attached to the signal to
-save information associated with the triangulation.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/06/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160615MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160615MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ec554d484..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160615MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The deal.II distributed vector classes do now derive from
-LinearAlgebra::VectorSpaceVector and have been moved to the
-LinearAlgebra::distributed namespace. In the definition of the new interfaces,
-several old vector functions have been marked as deprecated. The methods
-<tt>operator==</tt>, <tt>operator!=</tt>, <tt>is_non_negative</tt>, and
-<tt>norm_sqr</tt> have been removed from the new interface. For the latter,
-there exists a simple workaround as it simply corresponds to the square of
-<tt>l2_norm</tt>.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/06/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160625WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160625WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 915830dc1e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160625WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The conversion constructors of class Vector from the
-PETScWrappers::Vector, PETScWrappers::MPI::Vector,
-TrilinosWrappers::Vector, and TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector classes
-are now marked as <code>explicit</code>, i.e., they will no longer
-allow implicit, silent conversions. Such conversions lead to awkward
-errors that are hard to debug, and in cases where they are necessary,
-are best described in code through explicit casts.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/06/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160802GuidoKanschat b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160802GuidoKanschat
deleted file mode 100644
index 63bceb8738..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160802GuidoKanschat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Changed: DoFTools::make_cell_patches() only accepts block lists of type
-SparsityPattern. The reason is that it has to initialize the size of the
-pattern on distributed triangulations by computing the number of locally
-owned cells. Initialization differs between sparsity pattern classes, so no
-generic function would be possible. On the other hand, the block list is an
-object, which only extends over locally owned grid cells and its size can be
-determined efficiently upon initialization. Therefore, SparsityPattern is a
-good choice here.
-<br>
-At the same time, we changed the dof handler template to the type DoFHandler,
-since hp::DoFHandler requires a different setup of the SparsityPattern.
-<br>
-(Guido Kanschat, 2016/08/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160802TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160802TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat
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index 8cedec8584..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160802TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Changed: Several operators from LocalIntegrators::Divergence got moved
-to LocalIntegrators::GradDiv and the never used/tested
-LocalIntegrators::Divergence::grad_div() function was removed.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, 2016/08/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160808JonathanRobey b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160808JonathanRobey
deleted file mode 100644
index bc031698f1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160808JonathanRobey
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Deprecated: MGLevelObject::clear() deprecated in favor of
-MGLevelObject::clear_elements() due to clear() being inconsistent with
-behavior of other container objects.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Robey, 2016/08/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160813TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160813TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index f8f2a9d3e7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160813TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Removed: Deprecated classes CompressedSparsityPattern,
-CompressedSimpleSparsityPattern, CompressedSetSparsityPattern, and their
-block variants got removed.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/08/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160822WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160822WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index f72416f83c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160822WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-New: deal.II now requires at least BOOST version 1.56, rather than the
-previous minimal version of 1.54. This is because 1.54 does not support
-serializing objects of type std::unique_ptr if C++11 is used, but we now
-use such objects in a variety of places in classes that can be serialized.
-BOOST 1.56, on the other hand, supports this. deal.II bundles BOOST 1.62
-for cases where no or no sufficiently new version of BOOST is found on
-a system.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/08/22)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160906DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160906DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index db3bae6469..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160906DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The template parameter order in many VectorTools functions is now
-different; this was done so that the order is the same across similar functions.
-This will only effect code that explicitly specifies template parameters for
-overloaded VectorTools functions (no known deal.II-based projects do this).
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/09/06)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160914TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160914TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c6833cae0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160914TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Deprecated: MGCoarseGridLACIteration got deprecated in favor of
-MGCoarseGridIterativeSolver.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/09/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160915DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160915DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index cd6cc08aac..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20160915DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Deprecated: ParameterHandler::read_input,
-ParameterHandler::read_input_from_xml, and
-ParameterHandler::read_input_from_string are now deprecated in favor of
-ParameterHandler::parse_input, ParameterHandler::parse_input_from_xml, and
-ParameterHandler::parse_input_from_string. These new functions throw
-exceptions to indicate failure instead of using return codes.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/09/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20161025DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20161025DanielArndt
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index e48983f751..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20161025DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Changed: VectorTools::create_right_hand_side and
-VectorTools::create_boundary_right_hand_side now take an additional template
-parameter VectorType.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/10/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20161203WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20161203WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 8dd14af928..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20161203WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Deprecated: The DataOutInterface::write_pvd_record() and
-DataOutInterface::write_visit_record() functions were actually
-independent of any kind of data being written. As a consequence,
-they did not depend on the state of the DataOutInterface object
-to which they belonged (or any object of a derived class). Such
-functions typically reside in the DataOutBase namespace instead
-where they have now been moved. The functions in DataOutInterface
-are now deprecated.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170111MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170111MartinKronbichler
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index b573aaa93b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170111MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The class FE_DGQ used to provide a protected constructor taking a
-one-dimensional Quadrature argument. This has been changed in favor of a
-constructor taking a vector of polynomials. To use the old constructor, you
-can create a vector of polynomials by replacing the argument
-<code>quadrature_1d</code> by
-<code>Polynomials::generate_complete_Lagrange_basis(quadrature_1d.get_points())</code>. In
-addition, the class FE_DGQArbitraryNodes that defines the public interface
-taking a one-dimensional quadrature formula is unchanged, so only user codes
-that derive directly from FE_DGQ should be affected.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170116Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170116Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bc0fa04ff..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170116Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The MappingQGeneric class (which is a base class of MappingQ)
-sometimes set the update_JxW_values flag internally, even though this
-was not necessary. This resulted in doing more work than was actually
-necessary, and this has been rectified. On the other hand, this change
-means that in some circumstances, codes may not have <i>explicitly</i>
-told an FEValues or FEFaceValues object that they actually need the
-JxW values, but could access them anyway without getting an
-error. This will now yield an error that is easily fixed by
-explicitly listing update_JxW_values as a required flag where you
-create the FEValues object.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170211DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170211DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index cfb16f0e03..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170211DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Changed: PETScWrappers::VectorBase::operator= is now both private and
-undefined. This operator was formerly implicitly defined (i.e., it did a
-byte-for-byte copy of VectorBase's members), which provided, almost certainly,
-the wrong behavior since the underlying <code>Vec</code> (the managed PETSc
-object) would then be destroyed twice. Since both inheriting classes
-(PETScWrappers::Vector and PETScWrappers::MPI::Vector) define their own
-operator= overloads this operator is also not necessary.
-
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2017/02/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170216Pelteret b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170216Pelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index a13e59eecb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170216Pelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The template arguments to the
-DerivativeApproximation::approximate_derivative_tensor() function have
-been modified. It is no longer necessary to explicitly specify the
-<tt>dim</tt>  and <tt>spacedim</tt> arguments as they are determined from
-the input DoFHandler.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/02/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170318DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170318DanielArndt
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index f344ef5ef0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/incompatibilities/20170318DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Changed: LAPACKFullMatrix::print_formatted is only allowed
-if the state is 'matrix' or 'inverse_matrix'.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2017/03/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160302AlbertoSartori b/doc/news/changes/major/20160302AlbertoSartori
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index cd8ec5d0eb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160302AlbertoSartori
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added indent target to indent all headers and source
-files. Now you can do make (or ninja) indent inside the build
-directory.
-<br>
-(Alberto Sartori, 2016/03/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160408LucaHeltaiWolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/major/20160408LucaHeltaiWolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a13f94d98..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160408LucaHeltaiWolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-New: Manifold objects were previously only used to compute the
-locations of individual new points on a manifold. Now, they are also
-used to compute tangent vectors (via Manifold::get_tangent_vector()), and this
-functionality provides the basis for computing normal vectors to manifolds
-as well.
-<br>
-In many cases, tangent vectors can be computed quite easily if the
-manifold has a functional description, i.e., if it can be
-represented via the ChartManifold class. In those cases, it is only
-necessary to overload the ChartManifold::push_forward_gradient()
-function that computes the derivatives of the push forward operation.
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/04/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160409LucaHeltai b/doc/news/changes/major/20160409LucaHeltai
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index 9951c1147f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160409LucaHeltai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-New: Added a new Mapping class, MappingManifold, to use exact
-geometrical information extracted from the Manifold description instead
-of a polynomial approximation when computing transformations from the
-reference to the real cell. This class allows the computation of
-quadrature points, tangent vectors, and normal vectors which are exact
-with respect to the geometrical description, and it uses the underlying
-Manifold objects of the Triangulation. MappingManifold coincides with
-MappingQ1 for the FlatManifold descriptor.
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, 2016/04/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160413DanielShapero b/doc/news/changes/major/20160413DanielShapero
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index 5e60b0c640..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160413DanielShapero
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added move operations to BlockIndices, BlockVectorBase and
-BlockVector; Vector move operations nullify old object instead of
-using swap.
-<br>
-(Daniel Shapero, 2016/04/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160428DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/major/20160428DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d2f376db2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160428DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Added an interface to the GNU Scientific Library. Also introduce a
-cubic spline interpolation function Functions::CSpline.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/04/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160430DenisDavydovJean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/major/20160430DenisDavydovJean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index df8bbc44ae..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160430DenisDavydovJean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-New: Add a collection of classes to manage user's quadrature point data:
-CellDataStorage, TransferableQuadraturePointData and
-parallel::distributed::ContinuousQuadratureDataTransfer.
-The implementation of CellDataStorage is flexible to support different types of
-data object at different cells. parallel::distributed::ContinuousQuadratureDataTransfer
-provides a convenient interface to transfer quadrature point data between cells
-of parallel::distributed::Triangulation.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/04/30)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160520Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/major/20160520Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 89fbddfee3..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160520Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The step-44 tutorial now uses the new CellDataStorage class to
-store and retrieve local quadrature point data. An alternative approach to
-solving the linear system using the LinearOperator class has been implemented.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/05/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160601RyanGroveTimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/major/20160601RyanGroveTimoHeister
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index 6626d9e07f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160601RyanGroveTimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The tutorial step-56 demonstrates Geometric Multigrid for the
-Stokes equations.
-<br>
-(Ryan Grove, Timo Heister, 2016/06/01)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160617TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/major/20160617TimoHeister
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index d1e505775d..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160617TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The tutorial step-55 shows how to solve the Stokes system
-in parallel with PETSc or Trilinos.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/06/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160623DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/major/20160623DenisDavydov
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index 7d2803b9bb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160623DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-New: Add new classes to expand a scalar finite element solution into
-the orthogonal bases FESeries::Fourier and FESeries::Legendre. Also
-provide auxiliary functions to calculate norms of subsets of expansion
-coefficients FESeries::process_coefficients and linear regression
-FESeries::linear_regression. Update step-27 to use this namespace to drive
-the hp-adaptive FEM solution process.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/06/23)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160706MatthiasMaierTimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/major/20160706MatthiasMaierTimoHeister
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index 0df0da5ebe..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160706MatthiasMaierTimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Refactored: The contrib/ directory has been cleaned up and the
-Parameter GUI has be reloacted into its own repository:
-https://github.com/dealii/parameter_gui
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, Timo Heister, 2016/07/06)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160707DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/major/20160707DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index d607510cb1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160707DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: The library is now compatible with PETSc 3.7.0. Part of this change
-included adding a new header, <tt>petsc_compatibility.h</tt>, which provides
-some version-independent functions for using common PETSc functions.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/07/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160711MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/major/20160711MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index ef3e5e4f25..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160711MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The testsuite now supports fine grained feature constraints
-of the form <code>test.with_[feature]_with_[...]=true</code> corresponding
-to variables <code>DEAL_II_<FEATURE>_WITH_[...]</code> exported to
-<code>deal.IIConfig.cmake</code>.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/07/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160713MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/major/20160713MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 69f7e9b7be..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160713MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The build system now checks for usable compiler/linker
-flags during various stages of the configure run. This should catch the
-majority of issues by user supplied flags/libraries and unusable final
-link interfaces before we actually proceed to compile the library.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/07/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160725DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/major/20160725DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 73647e52bf..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160725DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: A few of the introductory examples (steps five through eight) no
-longer use the Function class; they use plain functions instead.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/07/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160803BrunoTurcksin b/doc/news/changes/major/20160803BrunoTurcksin
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cd21ffe99..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160803BrunoTurcksin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added Python bindings to generate and manipulate a Triangulation from
-Python. The Triangulation generated in Python can be saved and later, loaded
-inside a C++ code.
-<br>
-(Bruno Turcksin, 2016/08/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160811DavidWellsJonathanRobeyWolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/major/20160811DavidWellsJonathanRobeyWolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 198bd013cb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160811DavidWellsJonathanRobeyWolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: deal.II no longer uses features of the C++ language that
-were deprecated with C++11, C++14, or that are scheduled to be
-deprecated for C++17.
-<br>
-(David Wells, Jonathan Robey, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/08/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160819WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/major/20160819WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 278fd380ff..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160819WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: There are 6 new video lectures that explain the
-basics of Linux and the command line, how mesh refinement works, and some
-more complicated time stepping schemes.
-(@dealiiVideoLectureSeeAlso{2.9,2.91,17.25,17.5,17.75,30.25})
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/08/19)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160906TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/major/20160906TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 8da8c73441..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160906TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The doxygen documentation now contains nicely formatted
-boxes containing the text message of each exception. Several messages
-haven been clarified and improved.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/09/06)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160925Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/major/20160925Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index aaea88e607..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160925Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The Tensor class has two new functions implemented, namely those
-that return its Tensor::adjugate() and Tensor::cofactor().
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/09/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20160928DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/major/20160928DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index e479f8739a..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20160928DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: FE_Enriched finite element class implements the partition of unitity
-method which allows to enrich the finite element space based on a priori
-knowledge about solution.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/09/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161001JaeryunYim b/doc/news/changes/major/20161001JaeryunYim
deleted file mode 100644
index 31fc955156..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161001JaeryunYim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Add a new FiniteElement class, FE_P1NC, to implement the scalar
-version of the P1 nonconforming finite element which is a piecewise linear
-element on quadrilaterals in 2d.
-<br>
-(Jaeryun Yim, 2016/10/01)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161020DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/major/20161020DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index b36029e655..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161020DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: deal.II now bundles a subset of BOOST 1.62 instead of a subset
-of BOOST 1.56.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/10/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161028WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/major/20161028WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fd999b648..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161028WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The code in class GridReordering has been rewritten from
-scratch. It now follows the algorithm described in the paper by
-Agelek, Anderson, Bangerth and Barth mentioned in the documentation
-of that class.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/10/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161031WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/major/20161031WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 72e3db9801..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161031WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The way DataPostprocessor receives its input has been updated.
-<br>
-In the past, the two functions we use to postprocess data got lists of arguments
-for the solution, its derivatives, the evaluation points, and normal vectors.
-This is not flexible enough: We can not easily add other information that
-we have needed in the past or that users have requested, such as a pointer
-to the cell we're currently on, or the material-id of the cell.
-<br>
-Rather than adding each possible argument anyone may want to use
-individually to the list of the postprocessor function arguments, the
-existing functions have been deprecated in favor of a new set of
-functions DataPostprocessor::evaluate_scalar_field() and
-DataPostprocessor::evaluate_vector_field() that
-take a reference to a structure that contains these individual pieces
-of information. We can extend the members of these structures without
-backward compatibility issues because the functions still get a
-reference to the same structure, we just grow the structure
-itself. Functions that never used the new members of the structure
-will continue to work as they always did.
-<br>
-As an example of what is possible, the
-DataPostprocessorInputs classes that are now handed to the evaluation
-functions contain a way to access the cell that is currently being
-evaluated.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/10/31-2016/12/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161108KonstantinLadutenkoandmanyothers b/doc/news/changes/major/20161108KonstantinLadutenkoandmanyothers
deleted file mode 100644
index 80ae0d0534..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161108KonstantinLadutenkoandmanyothers
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: We have run the PVS static analysis checker on the entire code base,
-to see what possible problems it uncovers (see
-https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/3342).  With the exception of
-a few false positives, several dozen issues (mostly uninitialized
-variables) were fixed.
-<br>
-(Konstantin Ladutenko and many others, 2016/11/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161109DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/major/20161109DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index c4745887ff..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161109DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: the error codes for all MPI functions are now checked and, if the
-MPI function failed for any reason, an exception with a helpful message is
-thrown.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/11/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161123MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/major/20161123MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 26a52c387f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161123MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The step-37 tutorial program now shows the matrix-free multigrid
-solver based on MPI parallelization rather than only a serial version.
-Moreover, support for adaptively refined meshes has been added.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/11/23)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 27fd8d5dd0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: The Physics namespace is dedicated to defining useful
-functions and other quantities that are regularly used in the implementation
-of classical (multi-)physics problems.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/12/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteretAndrewMcBride b/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteretAndrewMcBride
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b8fb4c5e7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteretAndrewMcBride
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: Implemented some standard tensor definitions for elasticity in
-Physics::Elasticity::StandardTensors. Within the newly implemented
-Physics::Elasticity::Kinematics namespace are some standard
-definitions of kinematic quantities commonly used in elasticity.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, Andrew McBride, 2016/12/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteretAndrewMcBride_1 b/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteretAndrewMcBride_1
deleted file mode 100644
index ae5ee92489..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20161205Jean-PaulPelteretAndrewMcBride_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: The Physics::Transformations namespace defines a number of operations
-that can be used to push forward and pull back quantities to and from different
-body configurations.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, Andrew McBride, 2016/12/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20170104Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/major/20170104Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d096c5cec..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20170104Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: A LinearOperator Payload class supporting Trilinos sparse matrices and
-preconditioners has been developed. LinearOperator's, and their associated
-functionality, have thus been extended so that they can now be used with
-Trilinos algebra types.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, Matthias Maier, 2017/01/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20170117LiangZhaoTimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/major/20170117LiangZhaoTimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index ae5d789d54..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20170117LiangZhaoTimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The tutorial step-57 shows how to solve the stationary Navier-Stokes
-equations using Newton's method.
-<br>
-(Liang Zhao, Timo Heister, 2017/01/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/major/20170224Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/major/20170224Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 828fa320cc..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/major/20170224Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: The new code gallery example, "Quasi-Static Finite-Strain
-Quasi-incompressible Visco-elasticity", demonstrates the parallel solution of
-a near incompressible rate-dependent elastomeric strip.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/02/24)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160211SpencerPatty b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160211SpencerPatty
deleted file mode 100644
index 7dd3d96d70..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160211SpencerPatty
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The GridTools::build_triangulation_from_patches() function now
-also copies the locations of vertices from the cells of the source
-triangulation to the triangulation that is built from the list of patch cells.
-<br>
-(Spencer Patty, 2016/02/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160212Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160212Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 914dafa1a6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160212Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FE_Nedelec elements up to polynomial order 12 can now be
-constructed.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/02/12)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160214MathiasMentler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160214MathiasMentler
deleted file mode 100644
index ade94a5a2f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160214MathiasMentler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Double contraction of two SymmetricTensor<..,VectorizedArray<T>> now
-works. Introduced internal::NumberType<T> with static member 
-internal::Numbertype::value to be called instead of the constructor Number()
-in symmetric_tensor.h.
-<br>
-(Mathias Mentler, 2016/02/14)
-
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160217BrunoTurcksin b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160217BrunoTurcksin
deleted file mode 100644
index 28539ad10e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160217BrunoTurcksin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The function IndexSet::make_trilinos_map() now works if some
-processors have a contiguous range of indices and others do not.
-<br>
-(Bruno Turcksin, 2016/02/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160217Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160217Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index c0732189c5..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160217Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Updated: step-44 has been been expressed in a more dimension independent
-manner, and can be now run in both 2-d and 3-d.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/02/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160302MauroBardelloni b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160302MauroBardelloni
deleted file mode 100644
index f6603283bd..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160302MauroBardelloni
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The OpenCASCADE::push_forward_and_differential_forms()
-function is now able to change the direction of the normal vector
-according to Orientation() method.
-<br>
-(Mauro Bardelloni, 2016/03/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160304BrunoTurcksin b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160304BrunoTurcksin
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f05cbfecf..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160304BrunoTurcksin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: When using C++11, the function filter_iterators() allows to filter a
-range of iterators using predicates (like the ones defined in IteratorFilter).
-<br>
-(Bruno Turcksin, 2016/03/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160305DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160305DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 12d294de24..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160305DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Added another scaling factor to Kelly error estimator, namely h_K.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/03/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160307WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160307WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index e2208a3187..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160307WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-New: When using C++11, there is now a function Threads::new_task()
-that can take as an argument either a lambda function, or the result
-of a std::bind expression, or anything else that can be called as in a
-function call. There is also a similar function Threads::new_thread()
-that takes the same kind of argument.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/03/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160309MauroBardelloni b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160309MauroBardelloni
deleted file mode 100644
index b555009ac8..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160309MauroBardelloni
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Add NURBSPatchManifold. This class is a child of ChartManifold and
-implements a manifold descriptor for the face of a CAD imported usign
-OpenCASCADE.
-<br>
-(Mauro Bardelloni, 2016/03/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160311TobyD.YoungDenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160311TobyD.YoungDenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index d868a74ae9..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160311TobyD.YoungDenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Added unit tests for complex-valued PETSc and SLEPc.
-<br>
-(Toby D. Young, Denis Davydov, 2016/03/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160314LucaHeltai b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160314LucaHeltai
deleted file mode 100644
index e48122ebd0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160314LucaHeltai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: Added custom target "relocate" to Mac OS X builds, that runs
-a script to make all paths absolute in the shared libraries included
-in the deal.II package (only enabled when building a package, and when
-including external libraries to the package)
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, 2016/03/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160318MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160318MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d2da986c4..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160318MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The distribution of degrees of freedom on multigrid levels,
-DoFHandler::distribute_mg_dofs(), contained a few steps that scaled
-quadratically in the number of local cells for certain configurations. These
-steps have been replaced by linear complexity calls.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/03/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160318TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160318TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 1444866cae..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160318TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Added GridTools::rotate() in three space dimensions.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/03/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160320WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160320WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 81ee801963..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160320WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: DoFHandler::locally_owned_dofs() could create a segmentation
-fault in cases where some processors do not own any cells. This was caused
-by an incorrect computation in DoFTools::locally_owned_dofs_per_subdomain().
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/03/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160321TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160321TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 16359da48f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160321TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added GridGenerator::torus() to generate the volume mesh of a
-torus in three dimensions and a manifold description TorusManifold to
-go with it.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/03/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160323DanielArndtAliSamii b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160323DanielArndtAliSamii
deleted file mode 100644
index 4faee434f7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160323DanielArndtAliSamii
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Triangulation::add_periodicity allows for accessing neighbors across
-periodic boundaries via new functions in TriaAccessor.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, Ali Samii, 2016/03/23)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160325WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160325WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 01c09e30f5..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160325WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: The product of a rank-1 tensor (a vector) and a rank-2
-symmetric tensor (a symmetric matrix) is now defined and yields
-a rank-1 tensor (a vector). The opposite product was previously
-already defined.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/03/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160327DanielShapero b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160327DanielShapero
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f5c69f8f7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160327DanielShapero
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: When using C++11, a move constructor and assignment operator has
-been added to SparseMatrix, so that these objects can be returned from
-functions and packed into pairs and tuples.
-<br>
-(Daniel Shapero, 2016/03/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160328MauroBardelloni b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160328MauroBardelloni
deleted file mode 100644
index 983707cbe2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160328MauroBardelloni
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-New: Add GridTools::remove_hanging_nodes() and
-GridTools::remove_anisotropy() in GridTools. GridTools::remove_hanging_nodes()
-detects cells with hanging nodes and refines the neighbours in the direction
-that removes hanging nodes or in every directions.
-GridTools::remove_anisotropy() refines a mesh until the resulting mesh is
-composed by cells with ratio between the extension in each coordinate
-direction lower than a fixed value.
-<br>
-(Mauro Bardelloni, 2016/03/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160403MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160403MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index c45dae253c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160403MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The multigrid transfer performed invalid data accesses on
-multigrid hierarchies that define the coarse level as a level larger than
-0. This has been fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160408DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160408DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 40b36b54b0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160408DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Meshworker::Assembler::ResidualSimple now also works for
-multiple blocks if no constraints are given.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/04/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160408DanielShapero b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160408DanielShapero
deleted file mode 100644
index b19aa0753d..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160408DanielShapero
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: A move constructor has been added to Quadrature.
-<br>
-(Daniel Shapero, 2016/04/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160409LucaHeltai b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160409LucaHeltai
deleted file mode 100644
index d1d03c4b9c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160409LucaHeltai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added CompositionManifold to create new manifolds from two
-ChartManifold objects. This can be used, for example, to rotate a
-cylindrical Manifold, or to make a cylinders with parabolic sides.
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, 2016/04/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411AndreaMola b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411AndreaMola
deleted file mode 100644
index 33e325a9ce..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411AndreaMola
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-New: Added New option in the read_ucd function of the GridIn class.
-A flag can now be assigned to the function, to decide wether the
-indicators specified in a UCD file should be interpreted as
-boundary_ids or as manifold_ids. This is particularly useful
-when the indicators refer to internal faces, for which
-boundary_ids cannot be used.
-<br>
-(Andrea Mola, 2016/04/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411GiuseppePittonLucaHeltai b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411GiuseppePittonLucaHeltai
deleted file mode 100644
index 29d8aa0714..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411GiuseppePittonLucaHeltai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: added hessenberg_signal and krylov_space_signal to SolverGMRES.
-These signals allow to retrieve the Hessenberg matrix and the basis vectors
-generated by the Arnoldi algorithm.
-<br>
-(Giuseppe Pitton, Luca Heltai, 2016/04/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index ae5f1d095c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160411MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Improved: DoFRenumbering::compute_Cuthill_McKee when used with
-distributed triangulations contained parts that scaled as the global problem
-size, rather than the processor-local size. This prevented its use with more
-than a few hundred cores when hanging node constraints were activated. This
-has been fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160412TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160412TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index c979e22d3a..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160412TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added TensorProductManifold to create new manifolds from two
-ChartManifold objects. This can be used, for example, to combine a
-2d manifold with a flat manifold for an extruded mesh.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/04/12)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160412TimoHeisterMartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160412TimoHeisterMartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 082e7ba366..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160412TimoHeisterMartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed and improved: Fix algorithm for incomplete assignment of level
-subdomain ids for parallel geometric multigrid. Also optimize algorithms
-used for assignment and DoF communication.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/12)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160413MauroBardelloni b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160413MauroBardelloni
deleted file mode 100644
index 598c63db15..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160413MauroBardelloni
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: added ReinitHelper for PETSc. This is required by LinearOperator
-class to reinit vectors.
-<br>
-(Mauro Bardelloni, 2016/04/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160414MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160414MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 9dd7710bd6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160414MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The parallel loops in the deal.II Vector class for
-vector-vector operations have been revised for performance. This includes
-adjusting the minimum parallel grain size to 4096 vector entries and using an
-affinity partitioner provided by Threading Building Blocks for better data
-locality, especially on multi-socket systems.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160418DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160418DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index c1f48d7a7c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160418DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Improved: MeshWorker treats periodic faces as interior faces.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/04/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160419DanielShapero b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160419DanielShapero
deleted file mode 100644
index 16e0a73e52..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160419DanielShapero
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Added move operations to IndexSet.
-<br>
-(Daniel Shapero, 2016/04/19)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160420DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160420DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index d2a3a80951..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160420DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: Added an optional string parameter to the ParameterHandler::read_input ()
-and ParameterHandler::read_input_from_string() functions.
-When a line which equals this string is encountered, the parsing of parameters
-is terminated.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/04/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160421MartinKronbichlerDanielJodlbauer b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160421MartinKronbichlerDanielJodlbauer
deleted file mode 100644
index 81f673ba35..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160421MartinKronbichlerDanielJodlbauer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The methods TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix::(T)mmult previously
-produced invalid matrix sizes if the final matrix was non-square. This has
-been fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, Daniel Jodlbauer, 2016/04/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160423MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160423MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ce4d0775e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160423MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector and TrilinosWrappers::Vector could
-access invalid memory in the reinit() method if the MPI communicator was
-deleted before termination of the program. This usually happened when using
-vectors from GrowingVectorMemory where a pool keeps vector alive. This has
-been fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/04/23)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160424DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160424DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ce61d78a6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160424DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix will now exit early if there are no
-entries to add to the matrix. This usually occurs when zero elision is on. This
-fixes a bug where the matrix raises an exception if there are no entries to add
-to a matrix and the provided row and column values are not locally stored.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/04/24)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160428ConradClevenger b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160428ConradClevenger
deleted file mode 100644
index 805684d6ac..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160428ConradClevenger
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: Added function GridOut::write_mesh_per_processor_as_vtu. This allows
-the visualization of a parallel finite element mesh that can be separated into each
-processor's owned and ghost cells. It also allows for the visualization of each level
-of a multilevel mesh.
-<br>
-(Conrad Clevenger, 2016/04/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160507DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160507DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 1eead88331..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160507DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The method Triangulation::create_triangulation will now throw an
-exception if any cells have negative measure. This check is not run if the
-triangulation keeps track of distorted cells or if the codimension is not zero.
-This check was previously only run in 3D.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/05/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160507JoschaGedicke b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160507JoschaGedicke
deleted file mode 100644
index 5bb863b231..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160507JoschaGedicke
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Bug in the RelaxationBlock class function do_step. Before, the
-corrections were not added together, which leads to a wrong update whenever the
-Jacobi blocks are overlapping. For SOR, SSOR and non-overlapping Jacobi this was
-not an issue.
-<br>
-(Joscha Gedicke, 2016/05/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160509JihuanTian b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160509JihuanTian
deleted file mode 100644
index 027419f2bf..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160509JihuanTian
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Corrected the sign of curl calculated in the functions:
-LocalIntegrators::curl_curl_matrix, LocalIntegrators::curl_matrix,
-LocalIntegrators::nitsche_curl_matrix and LocalIntegrators::ip_curl_matrix in
-integrators/maxwell.h.
-<br>
-(Jihuan Tian, 2016/05/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160510DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160510DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index e8badace41..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160510DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Add functions to transform Cartesian coordinates to spherical and back:
-GeometricUtilities::Coordinates::to_spherical and
-GeometricUtilities::Coordinates::from_spherical.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/05/10)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160511DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160511DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 665313f9b2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160511DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The function GridGenerator::subdivided_parallelepiped and its
-variants could generate meshes with cells that had negative Jacobians.
-The function now detects when this will happen and raises a descriptive
-exception instead of going on to produce cells which may have negative measure.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/05/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160515TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160515TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index cd4505c0a4..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160515TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Add VectorTools::compute_global_error that computes global
-errors from cellwise errors obtained by VectorTools::integrate_difference()
-and do MPI collectives if necessary.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/05/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160519AlbertoSartori b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160519AlbertoSartori
deleted file mode 100644
index 853656404f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160519AlbertoSartori
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Added PArpackSolver::reinit() when dealing with BlockVectors.
-<br>
-(Alberto Sartori, 2016/05/19)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160520DenisDavydovWolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160520DenisDavydovWolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 838d5ef2a3..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160520DenisDavydovWolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: There are now additional functions in the FETools::Compositing namespace that build
-finite elements out of simpler finite elements, either by forming tensor
-products or by combining the set of shape functions.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/05/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160522BrunoTurcksin b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160522BrunoTurcksin
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b6393ef0c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160522BrunoTurcksin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Fix a bug where the SparsityPattern could not have more than 4
-billions entries when using 32bit indices.
-<br>
-(Bruno Turcksin, 2016/05/22)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160525JoschaGedicke b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160525JoschaGedicke
deleted file mode 100644
index d34d54ffb2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160525JoschaGedicke
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Return value std::vector<unsigned int> vertex_mapping for the
-DoFTools::make_vertex_patches() function, including the optional inversion
-of the vertex mapping.
-<br>
-(Joscha Gedicke, 2016/05/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160603WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160603WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index d9e5a09dc1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160603WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The Tensor class was not explicitly instantiated. This did
-not matter in almost all contexts because its members are all defined
-as @p inline in the header file. The only cases where it matters if one
-(or the compiler) were to take the address of one of the static member
-variables.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/06/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160606TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160606TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f9dd6eeec..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160606TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FEFieldFunction now works correctly in distributed computations,
-where before exceptions of type ExcPointNotAvailableHere could occur for
-evaluation points on or close to a boundary to a ghost cell.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/06/06)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160621TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160621TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 85162a8f94..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160621TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: IndexSet::at(idx) returns an iterator pointing to the given index
-or the next larger element in the set if idx is not contained.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/06/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160621TimoHeister_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160621TimoHeister_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 41292e82f5..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160621TimoHeister_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Performance of DynamicSparsityPattern::begin(r) and
-DynamicSparsityPattern::end(r) has been improved dramatically in parallel
-computations and if the pattern is empty.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/06/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160624DanielShapero b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160624DanielShapero
deleted file mode 100644
index 86330e799c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160624DanielShapero
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added an operator* to SynchronousIterators which returns a
-reference to the stored tuple of iterators iterators. The iterators member
-may be made private in a future release.
-<br>
-(Daniel Shapero, 2016/06/24)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160624DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160624DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 24b50c3e8e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160624DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: GnuplotFlags now supports user specified space dimension labels
-through a member variable.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/06/24)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160625WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160625WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 88cce65051..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160625WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Changed: Similar to MappingQEulerian, MappingQ1Eulerian has gained
-a second constructor that reverses the order of the arguments to indicate
-which DoFHandler a vector is based on. The old constructor is now
-deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/06/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160625WolfgangBangerth_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160625WolfgangBangerth_1
deleted file mode 100644
index dcba596c4e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160625WolfgangBangerth_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: The MappingFEField class was previously only instantiated
-if the vector type was dealii::Vector. It is now also instantiated
-for PETSc and Trilinos wrapper vector types.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/06/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160630MichaelHarmon b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160630MichaelHarmon
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ffeac7857..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160630MichaelHarmon
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: Added TrilinosWrappers::SolveDirect::initialize and
-TrilinosWrappers::SolverDirect::solve to solve distributed linear systems
-with multiple right hand sides without needing to refactorize the matrix
-everytime.
-<br>
-(Michael Harmon, 2016/06/30)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160701WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160701WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index d58ca4d844..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160701WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The function DoFTools::dof_couplings_from_component_couplings
-for hp::FECollection arguments was compiled but not exported from the
-object file. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/07/01)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160707DanielShapero b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160707DanielShapero
deleted file mode 100644
index 925e2f8f85..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160707DanielShapero
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: A move constructor has been added to Triangulation.
-<br>
-(Daniel Shapero, 2016/07/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 42bd7c3579..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: SymmetricTensor::access_raw_entry() erroneously produced
-an indexing error for rank-4 symmetric tensors. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/07/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth_1
deleted file mode 100644
index e1d36fd998..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: SymmetricTensor::norm() did not work correctly for complex
-underlying scalar types. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/07/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth_2 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth_2
deleted file mode 100644
index 68af5f47f8..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160708WolfgangBangerth_2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: There is now a function DerivativeForm::norm().
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/07/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160710DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160710DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index af476a4688..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160710DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Allow to use FETools::get_fe_by_name for all
-availabale FiniteElements.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/07/10)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160711WolfgangBangerthJean-PaulPelteretRajatArora b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160711WolfgangBangerthJean-PaulPelteretRajatArora
deleted file mode 100644
index 84b69aed8f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160711WolfgangBangerthJean-PaulPelteretRajatArora
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FEValues::reinit() would sometimes try to be overly
-clever and not re-compute information when called with the same
-cell twice in a row, even if the underlying triangulation had
-been moved, translated, stretched, or otherwise had its vertex
-locations changed between the two calls to FEValues::reinit().
-This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, Jean-Paul Pelteret, Rajat Arora, 2016/07/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160713MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160713MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 6af60501f2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160713MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: CMake now handles mixed compiler and linker setup via
-<code>DEAL_II_CXX_FLAGS*</code> / <code>DEAL_II_LINKER_FLAGS*</code> and
-<code>CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS*</code> properly.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/07/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160713WolfgangBangerthMartinKronbichlerMatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160713WolfgangBangerthMartinKronbichlerMatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index f0ae1fefce..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160713WolfgangBangerthMartinKronbichlerMatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Work around an issue with the OpenMPI installation on certain
-Ubuntu versions: The build system now automatically drops the
-"-fuse-ld=gold" linker flag if openmpi is incompatible with it.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, Martin Kronbichler, Matthias Maier, 2016/07/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160719DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160719DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index d4d6f1906b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160719DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added GridGenerator::quarter_hyper_ball() to generate the
-intersection of a hyper ball with the positive orthant relative
-to its center.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/07/19)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160720DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160720DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e03a74a95..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160720DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: Allow for initializing the constrained
-boundary DoFs in MGConstrainedDoFs using a std::set
-instead of a FunctionMap whose function values were not used.
-Allow for non-primitive FiniteElements.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/07/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721JonathanRobey b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721JonathanRobey
deleted file mode 100644
index dcd16c48ed..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721JonathanRobey
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: VectorTools::interpolate() now takes a ComponentMask to select the
-components to interpolate.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Robey, 2016/07/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721JonathanRobey_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721JonathanRobey_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bc422928b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721JonathanRobey_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: Split out pattern descriptions for LaTeX and Description
-ParameterHandler OutputStyles, and add better description text.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Robey, 2016/07/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721RyanGroveDanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721RyanGroveDanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b518b16db..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160721RyanGroveDanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: Allow for including dofs for individual components on
-boundary in DoFTools::make_vertex_patches().
-<br>
-(Ryan Grove, Daniel Arndt, 2016/07/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160724JonathanRobey b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160724JonathanRobey
deleted file mode 100644
index b7fe025e73..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160724JonathanRobey
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: VectorTools::interpolate() may now be used on FESystems with mixed
-interpolating and non-interpolating FEs, if all of the selected components for
-interpolation originate from interpolating FEs.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Robey, 2016/07/24)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160725SamCox b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160725SamCox
deleted file mode 100644
index cfc69cb7b1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160725SamCox
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-New: There is now a new DoFTools::make_flux_sparsity_pattern()
-which takes a constraint matrix and flux and internal dof masks, in
-parallel. This is useful in the case where some components of a
-finite element are continuous and some discontinuous, allowing
-constraints to be imposed on the continuous part while also building
-building the flux terms needed for the discontinuous part.
-<br>
-(Sam Cox, 2016/07/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160727MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160727MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index eac918d483..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160727MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Level indices for geometric multigrid queried through
-DoFAccessor::get_mg_dof_indices() would return wrong indices on lines
-and faces in non-standard orientation in 3D. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/07/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160728MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160728MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 80bcad23d8..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160728MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: CMake now tries to pick up the full link interface for gsl.
-This works around an underlinkage issue with libgsl.so not correctly
-stating all shared object dependencies.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/07/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160730MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160730MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c5fc23fb2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160730MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The TrilinosWrappers::SparsityPattern::print() and
-TrilinosWrappers::SparsityPattern::print_gnuplot() methods did not produce
-correct output on distributed computations. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/07/30)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160801JoschaGedicke b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160801JoschaGedicke
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c8ddd8bcc..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160801JoschaGedicke
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: (P)ARPACK interface for non-symmetric matrices.
-<br>
-(Joscha Gedicke, 2016/08/01)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802DavidWells2016 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802DavidWells2016
deleted file mode 100644
index c72bf375a6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802DavidWells2016
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The regular and hp versions of
-DoFTools::make_flux_sparsity_pattern() no longer use the user flags of the
-underlying triangulation to determine if entries along a certain face have been
-added to the sparsity pattern.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/03/02 - 2016/08/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802GuidoKanschat b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802GuidoKanschat
deleted file mode 100644
index c314b5224c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802GuidoKanschat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: DoFTools::make_cell_patches() can create block lists
-only extending over local cells of distributed triangulations.
-<br>
-(Guido Kanschat, 2016/08/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat
deleted file mode 100644
index aebb93ccd0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160802TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Introduce operators for residuals and interior penalty terms for
-the Grad-Div operator in LocalIntegrators::GradDiv.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, 2016/08/02)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160804LucaHeltaiMauroBardelloni b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160804LucaHeltaiMauroBardelloni
deleted file mode 100644
index ae63067bf7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160804LucaHeltaiMauroBardelloni
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Added a new PolarManifold descriptor, that uses a polar coordinate
-system to compute new points, and modified the existing SphericalManifold
-descriptor to use geodesics on the surface of the sphere.
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, Mauro Bardelloni, 2016/08/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160808TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160808TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat
deleted file mode 100644
index ba5d5a68f1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160808TimoHeisterGuidoKanschat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: RelaxationBlock classes for geometric multigrid now support parallel
-computations using Trilinos.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, 2016/08/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160809DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160809DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d136065af..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160809DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Implement MGCoarseGridApplySmoother class to do a few steps of a
-smoother at the coarsest level.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/08/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160809DenisDavydov_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160809DenisDavydov_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d8ecc7876..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160809DenisDavydov_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: PreconditionMG can now be used as a LinearOperator.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/08/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160811WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160811WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 112a591e99..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160811WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Rank-4 symmetric tensors of type SymmetricTensor can now
-be converted to rank-4 tensors of type Tensor.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/08/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160817ReneGassmoeller b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160817ReneGassmoeller
deleted file mode 100644
index 32caa25df8..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160817ReneGassmoeller
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-New: It is now possible to generate a cell_iterator to a cell
-that is identified by a CellId. CellIds are unique even across
-processes in distributed computations, therefore this change allows
-to identify a particular cell (e.g. a ghost cell of the local process) in
-another domain.
-<br>
-(Rene Gassmoeller, 2016/08/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160824ReneGassmoellerJulianeDannberg b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160824ReneGassmoellerJulianeDannberg
deleted file mode 100644
index 136a78c48d..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160824ReneGassmoellerJulianeDannberg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: There is now the possibility to store information about the
-time of an output time step within the .visit file created by
-the DataOutInterface<dim,spacedim>::write_visit_record function.
-<br>
-(Rene Gassmoeller, Juliane Dannberg, 2016/08/24)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831DustinKumorMartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831DustinKumorMartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 56c29833dc..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831DustinKumorMartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: SparsityPattern::copy_from() copying from a
-DynamicSparsityPattern argument had quadratic complexity in the number of
-rows for sparsity patterns where most of the rows are of length zero. The bad
-algorithm has been replaced by a linear complexity one.
-<br>
-(Dustin Kumor, Martin Kronbichler, 2016/08/31)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831JonathanPerry-Houts b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831JonathanPerry-Houts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7271749052..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831JonathanPerry-Houts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Fix MPI_InitFinalize by correctly initializing and destroying
-all p4est/libsc related objects by calls to sc_init(), p4est_init(), and
-sc_finalize(); compatibility with p4est versions >1.1.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Perry-Houts, 2016/08/31)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index ac19662dba..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160831MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The build system now uses -fPIC instead of -fpic
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/08/31)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160905CeQin b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160905CeQin
deleted file mode 100644
index d594aabc41..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160905CeQin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Reimplement copy_triangulation and load in
-dealii::parallel::shared::Triangulation, this avoids the loss of
-partition information which causes parallel::shared::Triangulation to be in an invalid state.
-<br>
-(Ce Qin, 2016/09/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160908MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160908MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 14d6249567..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160908MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FE_TraceQ now provides unit support points.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/09/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160908MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160908MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index f86eacf015..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160908MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The CMake macros <code>DEAL_II_(ADD_TEST|SETUP_TARGET)</code>
-now enforce a stricter <code>CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE</code> handling. This helps
-to avoid situations where targets with different build flavors might
-accidentally get linked against each other.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2016/09/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160911DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160911DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 31f79ebdda..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160911DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: IndexSet::make_trilinos_map now treats non-ascending but
-contiguous IndexSets correctly. It creates a linear EpetraMap only
-if the IndexSets are ascending and 1:1.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/09/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160911DanielArndt_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160911DanielArndt_1
deleted file mode 100644
index ddaed512ec..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160911DanielArndt_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: IndexSet::is_ascending_and_one_to_one allows to find out
-whether the nth range of indices is stored on the nth process in case
-the IndexSets are contiguous.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/09/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914DraganNikolic b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914DraganNikolic
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a021f1cc4..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914DraganNikolic
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Instantiating class Vector with non-standard template
-arguments did not work because of duplicate function symbols. This
-is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Dragan Nikolic, 2016/09/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914JonathanRobey b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914JonathanRobey
deleted file mode 100644
index 60918c9b96..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914JonathanRobey
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: FEValues no longer generates the mapping's internal database if
-the mapping will not be required for the set of update flags specified.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Robey, 2016/09/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index e432bbd531..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160914TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The class MGCoarseGridIterativeSolver is replacing
-MGCoarseGridLACIteration with a simpler interface.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/09/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160915BrunoTurcksin b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160915BrunoTurcksin
deleted file mode 100644
index 91a6673cc8..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160915BrunoTurcksin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: LinearAlgebra::Vector is now instantiated for float and double.
-<br>
-(Bruno Turcksin, 2016/09/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c1503f4c6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector::locally_owned_elements()
-now returns the correct IndexSet also if initialized with two
-IndexSets.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/09/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 95ab50565e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The multigrid V-cycle has been rewritten for performance on
-large-scale machines. Rather than transferring parts of the defect
-immediately to all coarser levels with a complexity of O(n_levels) global
-communication steps per V-cycle, we now transfer the full defect once to the
-next coarser level only, resulting in crossing all processors only once.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/09/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916MartinKronbichler_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916MartinKronbichler_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 0514997366..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916MartinKronbichler_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The Multigrid W-cycle and F-cycle have been fixed (for uniform
-grids).
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/09/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index f2d6a76502..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: DoFTools::write_gnuplot_dof_support_point_info outputs
-support point locations and dof indices to a format readable by
-gnuplot.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/09/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916VaibhavPalkarBrunoTurcksin b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916VaibhavPalkarBrunoTurcksin
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d23ae8b8b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160916VaibhavPalkarBrunoTurcksin
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: EmbeddedRungeKutta methods now correctly increase delta_t_guess
-when the error is below coarsen_tol.
-<br>
-(Vaibhav Palkar, Bruno Turcksin, 2016/09/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160921JonathanRobey b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160921JonathanRobey
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ef98f91be..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160921JonathanRobey
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: MGSmootherBlock is now able to use the shared memory pool for
-temporary vector allocation. The constructor requiring an external memory
-allocation has therefore been deprecated.
-<br>
-(Jonathan Robey, 2016/09/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160927WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160927WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index c5291a3c62..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160927WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Improved: Some parts of mesh refinement are now parallelized.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/09/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160928DanielArndtMartinSteigemann b/doc/news/changes/minor/20160928DanielArndtMartinSteigemann
deleted file mode 100644
index 91d9a810c7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20160928DanielArndtMartinSteigemann
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: FETools::extrapolate allows for using the
-extrapolate algorithm on parallel::distributed::Triangulations.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, Martin Steigemann, 2016/09/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161001LucaHeltai b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161001LucaHeltai
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d05636c41..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161001LucaHeltai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: SphericalManifold now behaves correctly also when R>>1
-and the center is not the origin.
-<br>
-(Luca Heltai, 2016/10/01)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161004TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161004TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index 23b24454cb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161004TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: GridGenerator::hyper_cube_slit() with colorized set to
-true is now working correctly.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2016/10/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161014MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161014MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 07b3f43a48..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161014MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: There is now a function FEEvaluation::JxW() to return the Jacobian
-determinant times the quadrature weight in the matrix-free evaluation
-routines similary to FEValues.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/10/14)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161016DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161016DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b5a6c6a3e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161016DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Add a base class for matrix-free operators MatrixFreeOperators::Base.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/10/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161020WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161020WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index ddd0856b6f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161020WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: GridIn::read_vtk() accidentally only read material ids of
-input cells correctly if the file listed them as integers. If they were
-listed them as floating point numbers, then unpredictable numbers were used.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/10/20)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161021MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161021MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 55c0c6727d..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161021MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: PreconditionChebyshev now offers a PreconditionChebyshev::step()
-and PreconditionChebyshev::Tstep() methods for usage in relaxation smoothers.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/10/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index e1bd597ae4..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: VectorTools::create_right_hand_side can be used for parallel
-Triangulations and homogeneous constraints using a ConstraintMatrix.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/10/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c35669763..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Add ArpackSolver::set_shift() to set the shift value in spectral
-transformation.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/10/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025MayankSabharwalWolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025MayankSabharwalWolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ceedb8bb7..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161025MayankSabharwalWolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: GridIn::read_vtk() had off-by-one errors in reading face
-boundary indicators from VTK files. Consequently, not all boundary indicators
-were correctly set.
-<br>
-(Mayank Sabharwal, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/10/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 617a1d7391..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Add MatrixFreeOperators::MassOperator representing a mass matrix.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/10/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 93108d868f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: There is a new class DiagonalMatrix which represents a diagonal
-matrix via a vector. This is useful for representing Jacobi preconditioners
-with matrix-free methods.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/10/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027MartinKronbichler_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027MartinKronbichler_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 01efe7c7fe..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161027MartinKronbichler_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: The class PreconditionChebyshev now offers a third template
-parameter PreconditionerType that is passed to the preconditioner setup via
-AdditionalData::preconditioner. This allows using other preconditioners than
-the default (and previous) selection of a point-Jacobi preconditioner.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2016/10/27)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161028DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161028DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index ae353a91c0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161028DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Add VectorTools::project() to do L2 projection
-of scalar-valued quadrature point data in parallel.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/10/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161029RajatArora b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161029RajatArora
deleted file mode 100644
index 71c8b549e4..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161029RajatArora
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Increased precision of timesteps in DataOutInterface::write_pvd_record().
-<br>
-(Rajat Arora, 2016/10/29)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161030DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161030DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3835248089..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161030DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: VectorTools::project can be used for parallel Triangulations in
-specific cases.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/10/30)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161030DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161030DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 31bd23b24e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161030DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: Add MatrixFreeOperators::LaplaceOperator representing a Laplace matrix.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/10/30)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161031DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161031DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 097a458a39..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161031DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Add PArpackSolver::reinit(const VectorType &distributed_vector) to
-initialize internal data structures based on a vector. This makes PArpack
-usable with MatrixFree operators.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/10/31)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161110WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161110WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b82902f7f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161110WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: There was a memory leak if a previously used SparsityPattern
-object was re-used by reading from a serialization archive via
-SparsityPattern::load(). This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/11/10)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115SebastianGonzalez-PintorWolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115SebastianGonzalez-PintorWolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e6873a65a..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115SebastianGonzalez-PintorWolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Calling MappingQ::clone() did not copy the
-<code>use_mapping_q_on_all_cells</code> flag that this
-mapping class gets passed to its constructor. This leads
-to wrong results if you wanted to use curved cells on
-interior cells and if such an object was used inside an
-hp::MappingCollection, for example. There are, in addition,
-several places in the library where one would pass a mapping,
-and the library would clone it into a member of such a collection,
-and these would also yield wrong results. An example is the use
-of DataOut::build_patches with a mapping that had this flag set
-upon construction.
-<br>
-(Sebastian Gonzalez-Pintor, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/11/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 19f8f38ea6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: DataOut::build_patches() ignored a higher order
-or Eulerian mapping if no data had previously been attached
-via DataOut::add_data_vector(), i.e., if all that was to be output
-is the mesh itself. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/11/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115WolfgangBangerth_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115WolfgangBangerth_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 6405bcb9bc..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161115WolfgangBangerth_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Objects of type TrilinosWrappers::SparsityPattern::const_iterator
-were entirely unusable due to a bug. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/11/15)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161118DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161118DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 694fbe9c47..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161118DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Automatically recreate changes.h from files in 
-subfolders of ./doc/news
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/11/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161125DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161125DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 231a03d6c2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161125DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The trait class has_vmult_add in linear_operators.h
-has been restricted to test if there is a vmult_add and a Tvmult_add
-method that takes two arguments. This check now also works with
-ICC 13 and ICC 14.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2016/11/25)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161203WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161203WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 509ffa90ea..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161203WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Changed: To improve readability, TimerOutput::print_summary()
-now simply outputs "0%" if a particular section's time requires
-less than 0.1 per cent of the overall run time.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 64dcbe813e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The run time for the method hp::DoFHandler::distribute_dofs was
-quadratic in the total number of dofs for some grids. This has been fixed.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/12/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f3ef5015b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: The inverse of a rank-2 SymmetricTensor can now be directly computed
-with SymmetricTensor::invert() instead of having to use the
-Tensor::invert() function.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/12/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 61396670be..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161207WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: ArrayView objects to empty views could not be copied.
-This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161208WolfgangBangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161208WolfgangBangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 68ca20c5d9..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161208WolfgangBangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The ArrayView class now has a default constructor that creates
-an invalid object.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161215Kauffman b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161215Kauffman
deleted file mode 100644
index bad9fb57ab..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161215Kauffman
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
- Fixed: The DataOutFaces class did not work with parallel triangulations
- if a process had no faces to deal with.
- <br>
- (Justin Kauffman, Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/15)
-
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161216Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161216Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 41a2252469..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161216Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The SymmetricTensor copy constructor that accepted another
-SymmetricTensor of a different number type had an error in its internal data
-initialization loop range. This bug was only triggered when copying rank-4
-tensors.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2016/12/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161219Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161219Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index d0b7226e25..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161219Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
- Changed: IndexSet::nth_index_in_set() can now be called without
- calling IndexSet::compress() first.
- <br>
- (Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/19)
-
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161220Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161220Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index e469f9ea56..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161220Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
- Changed: IndexSet::compress() and, by extension, all of the
- "const" member functions of the IndexSet class, are now thread-safe.
- <br>
- (Wolfgang Bangerth, 2016/12/20)
-
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161221DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161221DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b037c291d..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161221DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Improved: ContraintMatrix::distribute_local_to_global now does a bulk write of
-all vector values at once. This improves performance with
-PETScWrappers::MPI::Vector by about 10%.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2016/12/21)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161223DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20161223DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 197f9b8c2e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20161223DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Modify IndexSet::index_within_set() to return numbers::invalid_dof_index
-if the global index is not a member of this index set.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2016/12/23)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170103DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170103DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 90fb9d735f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170103DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: ConstraintMatrix::shift also works if the object
-is initialized with an IndexSet object.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2017/01/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170103MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170103MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index d5453efcf5..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170103MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The representation of the two polynomial classes
-Polynomials::Legendre and Polynomials::HermiteInterpolation has been changed
-to the root form, which ensures stable evaluation at high degrees as opposed
-to the coefficient form previously used.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/01/03)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index af5c2c8a66..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: LinearOperator now derive from an arbitrary Payload class. This allows
-their functionality to be extended to support matrix and vector classes
-such as the wrappers to PETSc or Trilinos.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, Matthias Maier, 2017/01/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteret_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteret_1
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b80fcf638..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteret_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: The Trilinos preconditioner classes have been extended to be compatible
-with LinearOperators.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/01/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteret_2 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteret_2
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b2e6b066e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170104Jean-PaulPelteret_2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: Additional solve() functions have been added to the Trilinos solver
-classes, which provide the necessary extension for them to be compatible
-with LinearOperators.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/01/04)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170105DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170105DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 297cc39073..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170105DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: MappingQGeneric, when computing values on a given cell, sometimes reused information computed on a different cell whose faces were curved in a different way. MappingQGeneric now recomputes all values when its order is greater than one (that is, when it can represent curved cells).
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2017/01/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170106Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170106Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index f9c4181bdf..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170106Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: hp::DoFHandler now uses a compressed data structure for its
-internal representation of DoF indices. This saves memory.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/06)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170106MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170106MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a53acb7be..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170106MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The testsuite now handles paths containing spaces correctly.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2017/01/06)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170108DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170108DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 533ffc2aa8..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170108DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The MPI_Comm used in MatrixFree is not configurable via 
-AdditionalData anymore but set to the MPI_Comm of the Triangulation.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2017/01/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index d864470b90..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: PolynomialsABF::compute_n_pols() returned the wrong value in 3d.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Bangerth-2 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Bangerth-2
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f7095284b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Bangerth-2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Copying objects of type PolynomialsABF would lead to memory
-corruption once one of the two copies is destroyed. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109GuidoKanschat b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109GuidoKanschat
deleted file mode 100644
index d32b9203b2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109GuidoKanschat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-New: LocalIntegrators::Laplace::ip_tangential_matrix() and
-LocalIntegrators::Laplace::nitsche_tangential_matrix() implement
-interior penalty and Nitsche boundary conditions for vector valued
-Poisson problems.
-<br>
-(Guido Kanschat, 2017/01/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bddb7b187..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Functions to compute the 2d and 3d rotation matrix have been implemented
-and can be found in the Physics::Transformations::Rotations namespace.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/01/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Jean-PaulPelteret_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Jean-PaulPelteret_1
deleted file mode 100644
index b5d8e58aa3..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170109Jean-PaulPelteret_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: A bug in the rotation matrix used in step-18 has now been corrected.
-This tutorial now uses the function
-Physics::Transformations::Rotations::rotation_matrix_3d to compute the 3d 
-rotation matrix.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, Paul Kuberry, 2017/01/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170110Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170110Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d7bf7fbf5..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170110Jean-PaulPelteretMatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The contract3() function has been extended accommodate both Tensor
-and SymmetricTensors arguments.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, Matthias Maier, 2017/01/10)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ebba8b239..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FE_Q::compare_for_face_domination() did not know how to deal
-with situations where the neighboring cell was an FE_DGQ, even though
-the reverse situation worked just fine. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111Bangerth-2 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111Bangerth-2
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bdf215efb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111Bangerth-2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FE_Q::compare_for_face_domination() could not deal with
-FE_Nothing if <code>dim != spacedim</code>.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index 214782d0bb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New: MatrixFree allows to be asked if a certain FiniteElement is supported.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index cfc786cd17..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-New: The class VectorizedArray has gained two new access functions, gather and
-scatter, that map to more efficient hardware versions on new architectures
-(AVX2 or AVX-512). Furthermore, support for AVX-512 has been improved by
-providing optimized vectorized_load_and_transpose() and
-vectorized_transpose_and_store().
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler-b b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler-b
deleted file mode 100644
index ff05327bbb..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler-b
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector used persistent MPI communicators
-for data exchange, which are not as well-tuned as the usual MPI_Isend and
-MPI_Irecv calls on some implementations, including memory leaks on IBM MPI if
-the communicators are alive over a longer time. Therefore, the communication
-has been changed to non-blocking MPI_Isend and MPI_Irecv calls.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler-c b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler-c
deleted file mode 100644
index 15a56210d1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170111MartinKronbichler-c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-New: There are two new finite elements FE_DGQLegendre and FE_DGQHermite which
-are similar to FE_DGQ but use the class Polynomials::Legendre and
-Polynomials::HermiteInterpolation as shape functions.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/01/11)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170112Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170112Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index 0526cbbfd2..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170112Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The results for step-18 have been updated to reflect the influence of
-the recent corrections to the rotation matrix.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/01/12)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170112MatthiasMaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170112MatthiasMaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ab2ab8a42..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170112MatthiasMaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Various issues with the CMake configuration of the cuda
-configuration have been addressed, including correct handling of compiler
-flags and preprocessor definitions.
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2017/01/12)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index 83cc144a7d..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The FE_ABF class reported the maximal polynomial degree (via
-FiniteElement::degree) for elements of order $r$ as $r+1$, but this is
-wrong. It should be $r+2$ (see Section 5 of the original paper of
-Arnold, Boffi, and Falk). This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113Bangerth-2 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113Bangerth-2
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b10d405da..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113Bangerth-2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The FE_PolyTensor class (and all of its descendants) was not
-thread-safe. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index bf908e201e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170113DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Two ConstraintMatrix objects can be merged even if their
-local_lines are not the same.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2017/01/13)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170116Bangerth-3 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170116Bangerth-3
deleted file mode 100644
index 8cf2ef2f8f..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170116Bangerth-3
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The function FETools::compute_node_matrix() used to return
-its result by reference through its first argument (a reference to a
-FullMatrix object). It now returns this matrix as an object.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170118Bangerth b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170118Bangerth
deleted file mode 100644
index c9900b4128..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170118Bangerth
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: numbers::signaling_nan() can now also be called with Point@<dim@>
-as argument.
-<br>
-(Wolfgang Bangerth, 2017/01/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170128DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170128DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 129c8d12bc..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170128DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Implement Functions::Spherical to represent a function given in spherical
-coordinates.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2017/01/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170128Jean-PaulPelteret b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170128Jean-PaulPelteret
deleted file mode 100644
index b985ce1a2b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170128Jean-PaulPelteret
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Trilinos solvers now respect the convergence criterion specified by
-ReductionControl.
-<br>
-(Jean-Paul Pelteret, 2017/01/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170209-RajatArora b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170209-RajatArora
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e2ef5bdd1..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170209-RajatArora
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Patterns::Selection now ignores spaces at the beginning and the end 
-of the sequence string.
-<br>
-(Rajat Arora, 2017/02/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170209ConradClevenger b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170209ConradClevenger
deleted file mode 100644
index b92ce515b4..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170209ConradClevenger
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The GridOut::write_mesh_per_processor_as_vtu() function now works for a mesh whose multilevel hierarchy is not distributed, as well as a mesh whose level_subdomain_ids do not necessarily match its subdomain_ids for every active cell.  
-<br>
-(Conrad Clevenger, 2017/02/09)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170216MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170216MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index bfacf3cb40..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170216MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The class FEEvaluation can now also be used without compile-time
-knowledge of the polynomial degree. If the template parameter @p fe_degree is
-set to -1, the degree will be deduced from the underlying finite element. Note
-that performance is 2-3 times slower, though.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/02/16)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170217DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170217DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 712b07cf23..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170217DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Fixed a bug in GridTools::laplace_transform() which was previously solving
-for the final position field instead of displacement. The two formulations are
-not equivalent when a non-constant coefficient is provided, which is commonly
-used with displacement formulation.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2017/02/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170219DavidWells b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170219DavidWells
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ae812b83a..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170219DavidWells
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The DoFAccessor specialization for <code>structdim == 0</code> and
-<code>dimension == 1</code> was missing several definitions, which were
-required for use of hp::DoFHandler in 1D. These have now been added.
-<br>
-(David Wells, 2017/02/19)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170222MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170222MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 6118425882..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170222MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The class MGTransferMatrixFree::clear() did not reset all member
-variables, sometimes treating Dirichlet boundary conditions incorrectly if a
-transfer object was reused. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/02/22)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170222MartinKronbichler_1 b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170222MartinKronbichler_1
deleted file mode 100644
index c5f9d298e6..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170222MartinKronbichler_1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The function AlignedVector::push_back did not work correctly for
-types that do not provide a default constructor. This is now fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/02/22)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170228DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170228DenisDavydov
deleted file mode 100644
index 53e1ddef31..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170228DenisDavydov
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Fixed a bug in IndexSet::index_within_set() for the case when an index
-set is empty.
-<br>
-(Denis Davydov, 2017/02/28)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170301MathiasMentler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170301MathiasMentler
deleted file mode 100644
index 77688dd96c..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170301MathiasMentler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-New: Reworked Physics::Elasticity::Kinematics
-so that it is usable with vectorization
-<br>
-(Mathias Mentler, 2017/03/01)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170305DanielArndt b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170305DanielArndt
deleted file mode 100644
index daf28e9009..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170305DanielArndt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Improved: MatrixFreeOperators::Base also supports block vectors.
-Derived operators may act on multiple blocks.
-<br>
-(Daniel Arndt, 2017/03/05)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170307MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170307MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index c2a47f4f42..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170307MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: The CellSimilarity detection was broken on two corner cases involving
-complicated elements such as FE_RaviartThomas inside an FESystem and when
-preserving an FEValues object using GridTools::transform. These have been
-fixed.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/03/07)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170308MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170308MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ddad5327b..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170308MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Changed: The parallel triangulation classes parallel::shared::Triangulation
-and parallel::distributed::Triangulation used to duplicate the MPI
-communicator given to the constructor, which could lead to access-after-free
-problems in Trilinos data structures based on this communicator that stayed
-alive longer than the Triangulation. The new implementation simply uses the
-MPI communicator provided by the user and thus avoids these problems. It is
-the user's responsibility to make sure MPI_Comm_free is only called when all
-data structures initialized with it are deleted.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/03/08)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170312MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170312MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 33f80f75e0..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170312MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: By moving a forward declaration of VectorizedArray to a more central
-place, it is now possible to use the norm() methods of Tensor, Point or
-SymmetricTensor objects of VectorizedArray classes without particular order of
-include files.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/03/12)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170317MartinKronbichler b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170317MartinKronbichler
deleted file mode 100644
index 41f920cfdc..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170317MartinKronbichler
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Improved: The mechanism for placing the additional points of a MappingQ or
-MappingQGeneric between different Manifolds or between an old-style Boundary
-class and the interior StraightBoundary has been reworked. In the new
-implementation, a smoothing algorithm is invoked that interpolates from the
-whole perimeter of a cell's (or a face's) interior in case two or more
-manifolds are adjacent to the cell, like a Boundary object and the
-StraightBoundary in the interior. If only one manifold is present, the new
-points are interpolated from the surrounding vertices only.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/03/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170317MartinKronbichler-b b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170317MartinKronbichler-b
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dbc9b1ee9..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170317MartinKronbichler-b
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-New: The Manifold class and derived classes now provide a function
-Manifold::add_new_points that allows to compute multiple new points according
-to a matrix of weights that are appended to the last argument of the
-function. This function is used in MappingQGeneric and can be much more
-efficient for ChartManifold because ChartManifold::pull_back() calls are
-reused for several interpolation operations.
-<br>
-(Martin Kronbichler, 2017/03/17)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170318TimoHeister b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170318TimoHeister
deleted file mode 100644
index cc9dd24b40..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170318TimoHeister
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: FEFieldFunction now correctly throws ExcPointNotAvailableHere if used in parallel with points not available locally.
-<br>
-(Timo Heister, 2017/03/18)
diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170321Matthiasmaier b/doc/news/changes/minor/20170321Matthiasmaier
deleted file mode 100644
index 79144abd17..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/changes/minor/20170321Matthiasmaier
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed: Configuration and compilation with opencascade 7
-<br>
-(Matthias Maier, 2017/03/21)