From: wolf Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:24:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: . X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a5a5419ea437b41c9450812be1ccd21f84c4fa6;p=dealii-svn.git . git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@7262 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-4.0 b/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-4.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a7898224a --- /dev/null +++ b/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-4.0 @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Version 4.0 of the deal.II object-oriented finite element library has +been released. It is available from the deal.II home-page at + + http://www.dealii.org + +This versions features many new components. The most outstanding +additions are +- Support for Nedelec edge elements; in general, we now support + vector-valued elements where the vector components are coupled +- An implementation of Q(r) elements with hierarchic shape functions +- A new and simpler-to-use multi-threading scheme +- A much faster scheme to read in grids in 2d +- Support for more compilers and operating systems +- ... + +A complete list of the more than 100 changes in this version with +respect to the previous version can be found at + http://www.dealii.org/news/2003/3.4.0-vs-4.0.0.html + +All main features of the previous versions have been continued and +improved: +- Support for dimension-independent programming +- Extensive documentation and working example programs +- Locally refined grids +- Continuous and discontinuous elements of higher order +- Fast linear algebra +- Built-in support for symmetric multi-processing (SMP) +- Output for a variety of visualization platforms. + +deal.II can be downloaded for free and is distributed under an Open +Source license. + + +Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat, the deal.II team