From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@colostate.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 22:12:11 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Draft.
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Draft.
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-Version 9.5.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded the
+Version 9.6.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded the
 J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is
 available for free under an Open Source license from the deal.II homepage at
 
                    https://www.dealii.org/
 
 The major changes of this release are:
-  - Substantial updates and extensions to deal.II's interfaces to other
-    libraries. This includes, in particular, the integration of Kokkos
-    additions and updates to the PETSc and Trilinos interfaces.
-  - Improvements to the matrix-free infrastructure
-  - Better support for non-matching grids
-  - Faster or more robust linear solvers and preconditioners
-  - Many changes to the CMake configuration system, as well as more extensive
-    use of modern C++ features
-  - A large number of updates to the tutorials and other documentation.
+  - Much work has gone into writing wrappers for Trilinos' Tpetra
+    stack of linear algebra classes. Tpetra is Trilinos' Kokkos-based
+    replacement for the now-deprecated Epetra stack. While many things
+    already work with the Tpetra wrappers, not everything that is
+    currently available with the Epetra wrappers is implemented with
+    the Tpetra wrappers at this point.
+  - Better tet refinement
+  - Support for hanging nodes in Nedelec-SZ
+  - FERemoteEvaluation
+  - Cubic simplex elements
+  - New tutorials, new code gallery programs
+  
+
 
 For more information see:
-  - The preprint at https://www.dealii.org/deal95-preprint.pdf
+  - The preprint at https://www.dealii.org/deal96-preprint.pdf
   - The list of changes at
-    https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_9_4_0_and_9_5_0.html
+    https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_9_5_2_and_9_6_0.html
 
 The main features of deal.II are:
-  - Extensive documentation and 83 fully-functional example programs
-  - Support for dimension-independent programming
-  - Locally refined adaptive meshes
-  - Multigrid support
-  - A zoo of different finite elements
-  - Fast linear algebra
-  - Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing,
-    scaling from laptops to clusters with 100,000+ processor cores
-  - Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, SUNDIALS, UMFPACK and many other external
-    software packages
-  - Input and output for a wide variety of meshing and visualization platforms.
-
-Wolfgang,
-on behalf of the deal.II developer team and many contributors.