From: wolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:01:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Announcement for 3.3. First draft.
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Announcement for 3.3. First draft.


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+Version 3.3  of the well-known deal.II  object-oriented finite element
+library has been released. It  is available from the deal.II home-page
+at
+      http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~deal
+
+The most important improvements over the previous version are:
+- Support for the graphical file formats used by Tecplot and OpenDX.
+- An example program demonstrating the Discontinuous  Galerkin  Finite
+  Element Method (DGFEM).
+- Support for subdomains, thus simplifying the  creation  of  programs
+  that run on clusters of computers.
+
+Beside  these,  the  list  of  changes  comprises  more  than  50  new
+functions, classes, and bug fixes.  A concise list with respect to the
+previous version can be found at
+ http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~deal/news/2002/3.2.0-vs-3.3.0.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 is  distributed under an Open  Source license and  is free for
+non-commercial use.
+
+
+Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat, the deal.II team