Elmer version 8.1. is out
Posted: 04 Nov 2015, 17:31
Dear Elmer Users,
We are happy to announce a new Elmer minor release 8.1.
The source code of the release is available in "release" branch of GitHub at https://github.com/ElmerCSC/elmerfem. You may retrieve the release at any later date using its tag by "git checkout release-8.1". There is also a fresh Windows installer for version 8.1 available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/.
The release notes list the most important new features of Elmer since the last official version 8.0 published on 29 April 2015. There has been around 500 code commits after that time.
For version 8.0 Elmer was already transferred to use cmake and being hosted by git (at github). These changes have already benefited the development of Elmer a great deal. We are now working with several development branches. Also the use of ctest has been improved as we have started to use labels in testing and quite recently also extended the testing to parallel cases. These are important steps in ensuring the quality of the software. Until recently it could still happen that the parallel code broke down during development even though the serial operation was intact.
For most parts the release notes cover only features that are visible for the end-user, or a developer utilizing only some default routines. Beyond that there has been numerous improvements and fixes to the code that are not directly accessible concern to the end-user. Therefore we have not covered them in the notes.
The most active application field during the last sprint has been computational electromagnetics. This is due to the strong project portfolio of the main developer team in that area. Also significant developments in contact mechanics have been made. However, these are still partially under development and are therefore not fully covered in this release.
This release is up-to-date with almost all branches. It therefore also includes latest developments of Elmer/ICE branch also, for example.
Concerning these features the coverage is, however, very limited. More information is available on the Elmer/ICE user community.
Elmer documentation has also been modified to better follow the features of version 8.1. Unfortunately the documentation is never quite complete and is still lacking behind in some developments.
We would like to thank the developers outside CSC for many important contributions. Also there has been many users testing Elmer and sending bug reports. Without these efforts development of Elmer could not have been as fast.
The release notes are attached here for convenience.
Best regards,
ElmerTeam
CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
http://www.csc.fi/elmer
We are happy to announce a new Elmer minor release 8.1.
The source code of the release is available in "release" branch of GitHub at https://github.com/ElmerCSC/elmerfem. You may retrieve the release at any later date using its tag by "git checkout release-8.1". There is also a fresh Windows installer for version 8.1 available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/.
The release notes list the most important new features of Elmer since the last official version 8.0 published on 29 April 2015. There has been around 500 code commits after that time.
For version 8.0 Elmer was already transferred to use cmake and being hosted by git (at github). These changes have already benefited the development of Elmer a great deal. We are now working with several development branches. Also the use of ctest has been improved as we have started to use labels in testing and quite recently also extended the testing to parallel cases. These are important steps in ensuring the quality of the software. Until recently it could still happen that the parallel code broke down during development even though the serial operation was intact.
For most parts the release notes cover only features that are visible for the end-user, or a developer utilizing only some default routines. Beyond that there has been numerous improvements and fixes to the code that are not directly accessible concern to the end-user. Therefore we have not covered them in the notes.
The most active application field during the last sprint has been computational electromagnetics. This is due to the strong project portfolio of the main developer team in that area. Also significant developments in contact mechanics have been made. However, these are still partially under development and are therefore not fully covered in this release.
This release is up-to-date with almost all branches. It therefore also includes latest developments of Elmer/ICE branch also, for example.
Concerning these features the coverage is, however, very limited. More information is available on the Elmer/ICE user community.
Elmer documentation has also been modified to better follow the features of version 8.1. Unfortunately the documentation is never quite complete and is still lacking behind in some developments.
We would like to thank the developers outside CSC for many important contributions. Also there has been many users testing Elmer and sending bug reports. Without these efforts development of Elmer could not have been as fast.
The release notes are attached here for convenience.
Best regards,
ElmerTeam
CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
http://www.csc.fi/elmer