ASPECT Newsletter #104

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #104.
It automatically reports recently merged features and discussions about the ASPECT mantle convection code.

Below you find a list of recently proposed or merged features:

#3567: add 2.2 announcement (proposed by tjhei)
#3566: release task: update version and changes.h (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3565: fix benchmarks/viscoelastic_beam_modified (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3564: update copyright (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3563: make_cite_html.py fix formatting in citation (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3562: update link in readme (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3561: www: enable Newton and WorldBuilder (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3559: Add Spiegelman newton solver benchmark check (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#3557: add GWB and Newton to dynamic citation page (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3556: [WIP] disable mesh smoothing on refine/coarsen (proposed by tjhei)
#3555: clang-tidy fixes (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3554: fix several benchmarks (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3553: fix benchmarks/yamauchi_takei_2016_anelasticity (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3552: Fix opendap example (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3551: [WIP] New logo discussion (proposed by gassmoeller)
#3550: use proper namespace for ZeroFunction (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3548: www: support geoid dynamic citation (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3547: support geoid dynamic citation (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3546: Update world builder version to v0.3.0 (proposed by MFraters; merged)
#3545: Add citation (proposed by naliboff; merged)
#3544: phase transition: average phase value (proposed by lhy11009)
#3543: avoid invalid arrary access warnings (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3542: avoid deprecation warning in std_cxx14 with deal.II master (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3541: gravity_point_values: only write on rank 0 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3540: update copyright years (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3539: fix doxygen formula problems (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3538: fix cookbooks/prescribed_velocity/ in 64 bit mode (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3537: [CI] test cookbooks/benchmarks (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3536: bencharmsk/newton_solver_benchmark_set/spiegelman bash weirdness (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3532: use single precision for gmg (proposed by tcclevenger)
#3531: fix geoid warning (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3530: fix benchmarks and cookbooks problems (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3529: Add to citating_aspect Glerum & Muluneh (proposed by ljhwang; merged)
#3528: fix free-surface-with-crust (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#3527: Add geoid citation info (proposed by Shangxin-Liu; merged)
#3523: added Heyn et al. 2020 to pub list (proposed by ljhwang; merged)
#3500: Add Viscoelastic Cantilever Benchmark (proposed by danieldouglas92; merged)
#3495: add Q1 viscosity projection for GMG (proposed by tcclevenger; merged)
#3493: add more tests for reference and start optimizing. (proposed by MFraters; merged)
#3482: Extend particle property update interface (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#3458: Make parameter file update script work on Mac (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#3183: Add more spiegelman benchmark files (proposed by MFraters; merged)

And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:

#3560 Check data file for contrib/opendap (opened)
#3558 Add a test for benchmarks/newton_solver_benchmark_set/spiegelman_et_al_2016 (opened)
#3549 More control on timestepping logic (opened)
#3535 incomplete benchmarks/newton_solver_benchmark_set/spiegelman_et_al_2016 (opened and closed)
#3534 incomplete viscosity-grooves benchmark (opened)
#3533 OSX deal.II 9.2.0 bundle error (opened)
#3526 Could not successfully load shared library <> : No such file or directory (opened)
#3521 various plugins that write files do so on each rank (closed)
#3479 Compiler warnings dangling else (closed)
#3418 libdap example is broken (closed)
#2587 Make sure that the world builder is shipped with the tarball (closed)

A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at this website.

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