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preCICE v2.3.0 Release Notes

    • ➕ Added isMeshConnectivityRequired(meshID) to the SolverInterface API. This is useful to generate connectivity information only if required by preCICE.
    • ➕ Added a configuration option to enable experiemental API functions.
    • ➕ Added bindings to doxygen.
    • ➕ Added check of user-written data to be finite.
    • ➕ Added convergence information for linear solvers of PETSc-based RBF mappings. Reports of converged solvers are logged as DEBUG, stopped solvers as WARNING and diverged solvers as ERROR messages.
    • ➕ Added experimental support for direct mesh access of meshes.
    • ➕ Added fmtlib for more readable and maintainable message formatting.
    • ➕ Added support for 3D meshes in ScaleByAreaAction.
    • ➕ Added the Rank of partitions in VTK exports.
    • ➕ Added the associated data name when printing convergence information.
    • ➕ Added the constraint scaled-consistent to mapping methods, which scales a consistent mapping such that the surface integral is equal on both sides of the interface.
    • ➕ Added the experimental API functions setMeshAccessRegion and getMeshVerticesAndIDs.
    • ➕ Added the xml configuration option '' for this feature.
    • Adopted the Contributor Covenant code of conduct (see CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
    • 🔄 Change m2n:mpi to use the more efficient single-ports implementation. To use the old implementation, use m2n:mpi-mulitple-ports.
    • 🔄 Changed edge and triangle normals to be computed on-demand.
    • 🔄 Changed formatting scripts to use git ls-files. This simplifies handling of edge cases.
    • 🔄 Changed linear solvers of PETSc-based RBF mappings now issue a warning when they reach the maximum iterations. This used to result in an ERROR.
    • 🔄 Changed the convergence measures INFO print to a fixed width scientific format. (issue #975)
    • 🔄 Changed the default build type of the library from static to shared.
    • 🔄 Changed the precice log files to print a fixed width scientific notation using 8 digits after the comma for floating point numbers and a fixed width for integer values. (issue #975)
    • 🔄 Changed the watch-point calculation algorithm to use already built index trees.
    • 🗄 Deprecated the flip-normals attribute of meshes. This is not functional anymore.
    • 🗄 Deprecated vertex normals in the vertexCallback() of the python actions. preCICE will pass None if the normal parameter is defined.
    • 🛠 Fixed FindNumPy using fallback of find_path.
    • 🛠 Fixed FindPETSc to also find PETSc if the include directory is in CPATH, which occured with some versions of pkg-config.
    • 🛠 Fixed socket communication to fail without a network connection.
    • 🛠 Fixed wrong error in tightly converging QN coupling. (Issue #976)
    • Implement a simplified interface to query index trees of meshes.
    • 👌 Improved memory consumption and data locality of vertices.
    • 👌 Improved mesh memory usage of vertices by ~41% and of connectivity by ~55%.
    • 👌 Improved usabilty and readability of logging macros and assertions.
    • 📦 Introduced package time and moved functionality related to extrapolation there.
    • Migrated PRECICE_XXX macros to fmtlib.
    • 🚀 Modifying release PR templates according to restructured tutorials.
    • ✂ Removed limitation of multi-coupling scheme for coupling topologies without a central participant. A non-centric controlling participant still needs to run in serial.
    • ✂ Removed obsolete query package functionality. Interpolation is refactored into mapping package.
    • ✂ Removed the FASTEST fortran bindings.
    • ✂ Removed vertex normals from the vtk exporters.
    • 🖨 Replaced prettyprint with fmtlib.