Elmer version 8.2. is published
Posted: 15 Mar 2016, 17:31
Dear Elmer Users,
We are happy to announce a new Elmer minor release 8.2.
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-8.2". There is also a fresh Windows installer for version 8.2 available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/.
The release notes list the most important new features of Elmer since the last official version 8.1 published on 29 October 2015. There has been around 300 code commits after that time.
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.
Still the most active application fields have been computational electromagnetics and computational glaciology (Elmer/Ice). For the latter community the information of recent developments is made available via Elmer/ICE user community. Note that there are some large active branches that will be merged to devel after this release to gradually make it to the next official release.
Elmer documentation has also been modified to better follow the features of version 8.2. 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. The contributors for this release based on the git log information have
been: Eelis T., Joe T., Juha R., Juhani K., Laure T., Mika M., Mikko B., Pavel P., Peter R., Rupert G., Sami I., and Thomas Z.
If your name is not on the list even though you have contributed your contribution may be waiting in some of the branches.
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 8.2.
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-8.2". There is also a fresh Windows installer for version 8.2 available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/.
The release notes list the most important new features of Elmer since the last official version 8.1 published on 29 October 2015. There has been around 300 code commits after that time.
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.
Still the most active application fields have been computational electromagnetics and computational glaciology (Elmer/Ice). For the latter community the information of recent developments is made available via Elmer/ICE user community. Note that there are some large active branches that will be merged to devel after this release to gradually make it to the next official release.
Elmer documentation has also been modified to better follow the features of version 8.2. 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. The contributors for this release based on the git log information have
been: Eelis T., Joe T., Juha R., Juhani K., Laure T., Mika M., Mikko B., Pavel P., Peter R., Rupert G., Sami I., and Thomas Z.
If your name is not on the list even though you have contributed your contribution may be waiting in some of the branches.
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