# ASPECT Newsletter #79

**URL:** <https://community.geodynamics.org/t/aspect-newsletter-79/629>\
**Category:** ASPECT\
**Created:** [May 13, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/aspect-newsletter-79/629 "2019-05-13T19:00:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![rgassmoeller](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.geodynamics.org/rgassmoeller/32/49_2.png) [@rgassmoeller](https://community.geodynamics.org/u/rgassmoeller)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/aspect-newsletter-79/629/1 "2019-05-13T19:00:30Z")

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Hello everyone!

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       This is ASPECT newsletter #79.

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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:

[#2928](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2928): Remove some more ifdefs (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2927](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2927): Add missing test results (proposed by [naliboff](https://github.com/naliboff); merged)  
[#2925](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2925): Deduplicate material output postprocessors (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2924](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2924): Remove particle code that is now in deal.II (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2923](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2923): Fix issue 2315 (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2922](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2922): Increase GMRES restart length for advection solver (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2920](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2920): Fix some typos (proposed by [anne-glerum](https://github.com/anne-glerum); merged)  
[#2919](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2919): Simplify test that caused testers to break because of too many MPI processes (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2918](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2918): Update docker instructions to geodynamics/aspect (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2917](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2917): Fix unity build (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller))  
[#2916](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2916): Update dockerfile for new base image (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2914](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2914): [DoNotMerge] Keep build container /home in memory only (proposed by [tjesser-ucdavis-edu](https://github.com/tjesser-ucdavis-edu))  
[#2913](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2913): use emplace\_back (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2912](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2912): update make\_cite\_html.py (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2911](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2911): [www] update database (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2910](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2910): Create anisotropic quadrature for lateral averaging (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2909](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2909): update parameters (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2908](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2908): Convert more shared\_ptr -\> unique\_ptr. (proposed by [bangerth](https://github.com/bangerth); merged)  
[#2907](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2907): Add a changelog entry. (proposed by [bangerth](https://github.com/bangerth); merged)  
[#2906](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2906): Jenkins update (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2905](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2905): Update announcement lists (proposed by [gassmoeller](https://github.com/gassmoeller); merged)  
[#2903](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2903): no temperature matrix for Stokes only (proposed by [tcclevenger](https://github.com/tcclevenger); merged)  
[#2902](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2902): update release tasks (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2901](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2901): [www] update DOI for release (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2900](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2900): update DOI info (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)  
[#2898](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/2898): check constraints are consistent (proposed by [tjhei](https://github.com/tjhei); merged)

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

[#2929](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2929) reorganize folders/scripts in doc/ (opened)  
[#2926](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2926) Tests without result directories pass without notice (opened)  
[#2921](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2921) Remove all occurences of DEAL\_II\_VERSION\_GTE(9,0,0) (opened)  
[#2915](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2915) Free-surface problem: cell giving non-positive volume fraction (opened and closed)  
[#2867](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2867) Release 2.1.0 planning (closed)  
[#2859](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2859) The morency\_doin.prm couldn’t be execute (closed)  
[#2779](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2779) check handling or periodic and hanging node constraints (closed)  
[#2740](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2740) Bug in maximum horizontal compressive stress postprocessor (closed)  
[#2626](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2626) Should we automate indentation? (closed)  
[#2315](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2315) Velocity discontinuity along 0 longitude meridan for GPlates boundary conditions (closed)  
[#2243](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2243) track the location of the rising stokes sphere (closed)  
[#2050](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/2050) Point values postprocessor hits Assert asking for DoFs on artificial cells (closed)  
[#1876](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/1876) Allow prescribed velocities with locally conservative discretization (closed)  
[#1838](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/1838) Update installation instructions for Stampede2 (closed)  
[#1243](https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/1243) pure Neumann temperature solve fails (closed)

A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at [this website](https://aspect.geodynamics.org/doc/doxygen/changes_current.html) .

Thanks for being part of the community!

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