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7.2 (development version)
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* Raviart-Thomas element (started)
* Bernstein & Dubiner elements (TODO)
* periodic boundary conditions (TODO)
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7.1 (stable version)
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* reference manual renewed & new web site with doxygen
* user's manual: zalesak & leveque examples: discontinuous Galerkin
* user's manual: slip boundary conditions by regularization
* hybrid discontinuous Galerkin (HDG & HHO) method
* branch: animation with paraview
* paraview & gmsh visualizations for high-order FEM
* eigen sparse solver (sequential)
* mac-osx porting with clang
* two minor bug fixes: see form_assembly_iopt_order_tst.cc field_comp_mpi_tst.cc
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7.0 (oldstable version)
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* complex fluids examples and documentation 
* continuation nonlinear solver 
* high order Pk Lagrange with Warburton non-equispaced nodes 
* mesh file re-load suppressed by managing previously loaded meshes 
* memory management improved in the parallel/distributed case 
* clang porting 
* bug fix for mesh adaptation with bamg & gmsh in the distributed case  
* bug fix for reinterpolate between two meshes in the distributed case  
* bug fix for DG method when computing boundary integrals 
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6.7
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* nonlinear hyperbolic equations: with DG and limiters
* direct distributed solver: new mumps+scotch combined support
* float128 support : quadruple precision
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6.6 
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* direct sequential  solver: enhanced umfpack/cholmod support
* variadic support for i/o with branch class and compose(f,u1..uN)
* visualization: paraview support
* Q2-P1d element for Stokes problem on quadrilateral meshes
* piola inverse transformation in nonlinear cases (quadrangles, curved)
  with damped_newton algorithms
* sparse matrix determinant computations in solver (mumps o umfpack)
* write in append mode for gziped parallel output files (branch; etc)
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6.5
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* discontinuous Galerkin method
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6.4 
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* flexible expressions for linear and bilinear forms construction
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6.3
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* porting improved on various massively parallel machines
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6.2
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* sparse matrix*matrix in distributed memory mode
* non-linear solvers improved (see p-laplacian example)
* minor bug fixes
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6.1 
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* intel c++ 12.0 & gnu c++ 4.7 supports
* high order Pk Lagrange interpolation rewritten
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6.0
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* distributed memory and computation support (MPI based)
* high order Lagrange interpolation

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5.93
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* debian packaging upgraded
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5.91
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* "namespace rheolef" added
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5.90
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* official debian packaging started
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5.89
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* mayavi2 support for 2d and 3d rendering (stereo vision, etc)
* generic damped newton method (documented with the p-laplacian)
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5.76
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* paraview support for easy animations
* new preconditioned conjugate gradient and minres for navier-stokes & incompressible elasticity
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5.62
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* mayavi support: see user manual (vtk support replacement)
* advanced support for tensorial fields and visualization as ellipsoids
* fixes for GNU C++ 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 compilers
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5.18 
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* umfpack multifrontal solver library support
* new elementary matrix code, based on GiNaC C++ library
* debian binary and cvs source distributions
* fixes for GNU C++ 4.0 compiler
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4.74
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* characteristic method for transport and time-dependent problems
* animation for time-dependent bidimensional problems
* support for taucs out-of-core sparse direct solver
* support for qmg mesh generator (2d, 3d)
* support for doxygen documentation
* elementary forms uses dynamic loadable modules
* port on compacq/dec alpha 64 bits workstations
* source code honnors ansi c++ standards (headers, namespace std, ...)
* support for dmalloc (runtime memory debug)
