From 08439fe3081f69b5207766720f6516b0f63200cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wolf Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:44:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Draft release notes. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@11384 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.2 | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.2 diff --git a/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.2 b/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..27560b65bf --- /dev/null +++ b/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.2 @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Version 5.2 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/ + +Version 5.2 offers a number of improvements over previous versions. In +particular, it contains a version of the sparse direct solver package UMFPack, +as well as corresponding interfaces to use it from within deal.II. + +In addition to this, the most noteworthy changes are: +- There are two more tutorial programs that demonstrate solving 3d, quasi- + static elasticity problemsin parallel as well as some data handling + techniques +- Support for parsing and evaluating functions given in text, rather than + in program form +- A new graphical output format that can later be converted to the file + formats understood by a large number of visualization packages +- Optimization of the interface to PETSc, in particular for distributed + sparse matrices +- Full support for computations with symmetric tensors +- Many improvements in the generation of our 4000+ page documentation + +A comprehensive list of almost 100 new features and fixed bugs can be found at + http://www.dealii.org/5.2.0/news/5.1.0-vs-5.2.0.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 +- A zoo of different finite elements +- 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 -- 2.39.5