ASPECT Newsletter #106

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #106.
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:

#3617: Enable precompiling headers on CIG testers (implemented by gassmoeller)
#3616: add netcdf cmake module (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#3615: cmake: fix unity build output in detailed.log (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#3614: enable tests that require deal.II 9.2 (implemented by tjhei)
#3613: Update visco plastic is yielding (implemented by gassmoeller)
#3612: Use new particle property interface (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#3611: Enable unity build by default if possible (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#3610: Mark up more occurrences of ‘ln’. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#3609: Add Heron et al 2020 to publication list (implemented by ljhwang; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#3608: Mark up ‘ln’ as a latex operator. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#3607: disable part of mesh smoothing in refine/coarse (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#3606: Update free surface cookbooks (implemented by gassmoeller)
#3603: cmake: update detailed.log (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#3602: Fix the name of a replacement function. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#3601: Fix cmake version check in CMakeLists.txt (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#3583: set required deal.II version to 9.2.0, update testers (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)

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

#3605 CI: test timeout not respected (opened)
#3604 periodic adaptive refinement can cause infinite loop in deal.II 9.2.0 (opened and closed)
#3585 modernize unity builds (closed)
#3577 spack instructions don’t work (closed)
#3526 Could not successfully load shared library <> : No such file or directory (closed)
#3494 Expected template-name before “<” token… (closed)
#3262 Initial global refinement and maximum/minimum refinement function varies with number of cores (closed)

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

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