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Re: Version 0.7.0 of DOLFIN released

 

PS: A preview of MeshBuilder is now available by

    hg clone http://www.fenics.org/dev/meshbuilder

And here's a screenshot/teaser:

    http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Image:Meshbuilder.png

It may still be a bit rough around the edges but should mostly work.

/Anders


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:17:56AM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> 0.7.0 [2007-06-20]
>  - Move to UFC interface for code generation
>  - Major rewrite, restructure, cleanup
>  - Add support for Brezzi-Douglas-Marini (BDM) elements
>  - Add support for Raviart-Thomas (RT) elements
>  - Add support for Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods
>  - Add support for mesh partitioning (through SCOTCH)
>  - Handle both UMFPACK and UFSPARSE
>  - Local mesh refinement
>  - Mesh smoothing
>  - Built-in plotting (through Viper)
>  - Cleanup log system
>  - Numerous fixes for mesh, in particular MeshFunction
>  - Much improved Python bindings for mesh
>  - Fix Python interface for vertex and cell maps in boundary computation
> 0.6.4 [2006-12-01]
>  - Switch from Python Numeric to Python NumPy
>  - Improved mesh Python bindings
>  - Add input/output support for MeshFunction
>  - Change Mesh::vertices() --> Mesh::coordinates()
>  - Fix bug in output of mesh to MATLAB format
>  - Add plasticty module (experimental)
>  - Fix configure test for Python dev (patch from Åsmund Ødegård)
>  - Add mesh benchmark
>  - Fix memory leak in mesh (data not deleted correctly in MeshTopology)
>  - Fix detection of curses libraries
>  - Remove Tecplot output format
> 0.6.3 [2006-10-27]
>  - Move to new mesh library
>  - Remove dolfin-config and move to pkg-config
>  - Remove unused classes PArray, PList, Table, Tensor	
>  - Visualization of 2D solutions in OpenDX is now supported (3D supported before)
>  - Add support for evaluation of functionals
>  - Fix bug in Vector::sum() for uBlas vectors
> 0.6.2-1 [2006-09-06]
>  - Fix compilation error when using --enable-petsc (dolfin::uBlasVector::PETScVector undefined)
> 0.6.2 [2006-09-05]
>  - Finish chapter in manual on linear algebra
>  - Enable PyDOLFIN by default, use --disable-pydolfin to disable
>  - Disable PETSc by default, use --enable-petsc to enable
>  - Modify ODE solver interface for u0() and f()
>  - Add class ConvectionMatrix
>  - Readd classes LoadVector, MassMatrix, StiffnessMatrix
>  - Add matrix factory for simple creation of standard finite element matrices
>  - Collect static solvers in LU and GMRES
>  - Bug fixes for Python interface PyDOLFIN
>  - Enable use of direct solver for ODE solver (experimental)
>  - Remove demo bistable
>  - Restructure and cleanup linear algebra
>  - Use UMFPACK for LU solver with uBlas matrix types
>  - Add templated wrapper class for different uBlas matrix types
>  - Add ILU preconditioning for uBlas matrices
>  - Add Krylov solver for uBlas sparse matrices (GMRES and BICGSTAB)
>  - Add first version of new mesh library (NewMesh, experimental)
>  - Add Parametrized::readParameters() to trigger reading of values on set()
>  - Remove output of zeros in Octave matrix file format
>  - Use uBlas-based vector for Vector if PETSc disabled
>  - Add wrappers for uBlas compressed_matrix class
>  - Compute eigenvalues using SLEPc (an extension of PETSc)
>  - Clean up assembly and linear algebra
>  - Add function to solve Ax = b for dense matrices and dense vectors
>  - Make it possible to compile without PETSc (--disable-petsc)
>  - Much improved ODE solvers
>  - Complete multi-adaptive benchmarks reaction and wave
>  - Assemble boundary integrals
>  - FEM class cleaned up.
>  - Fix multi-adaptive benchmark problem reaction
>  - Small fixes for Intel C++ compiler version 9.1
>  - Test for Intel C++ compiler and configure appropriately
>  - Add new classes DenseMatrix and DenseVector (wrappers for ublas)
>  - Fix bug in conversion from Gmsh format
> 0.6.1 [2006-03-28]
>  - Regenerate build system in makedist script
>  - Update for new FFC syntax: BasisFunction --> TestFunction, TrialFunction
>  - Fixes for conversion script dolfin-convert
>  - Initial cleanups and fixes for ODE solvers
>  - Numerous small fixes to improve portability
>  - Remove dolfin:: qualifier on output << in Parameter.h
>  - Don't use anonymous classes in demos, gives errors with some compilers
>  - Remove KrylovSolver::solver()
>  - Fix bug in convection-diffusion demo (boundary condition for pressure), use direct solver
>  - LinearPDE and NewonSolver use umfpack LU solver by default (if available) when doing direct solve
>  - Set PETSc matrix type through Matrix constructor 
>  - Allow linear solver and preconditioner type to be passed to NewtonSolver 
>  - Fix bug in Stokes demos (wrong boundary conditions)
>  - Cleanup Krylov solver
>  - Remove KrylovSolver::setPreconditioner() etc. and move to constructors
>  - Remove KrylovSolver::setRtol() etc. and replace with parameters
>  - Fix remaining name changes: noFoo() --> numFoo()
>  - Add Cahn-Hilliard equation demo
>  - NewtonSolver option to use residual or incremental convergence criterion
>  - Add separate function to nls to test for convergence of Newton iterations
>  - Fix bug in dolfin-config (wrong version number)
> 0.6.0 [2006-03-01]
>  - Fix bug in XML output format (writing multiple objects)
>  - Fix bug in XML matrix output format (handle zero rows)
>  - Add new nonlinear PDE demo 
>  - Restructure PDE class to use envelope-letter design
>  - Add precompiled finite elements for q <= 5
>  - Add FiniteElementSpec and factor function for FiniteElement
>  - Add input/output of Function to DOLFIN XML
>  - Name change: dof --> node
>  - Name change: noFoo() --> numFoo()
>  - Add conversion from gmsh format in dolfin-convert script
>  - Updates for PETSc 2.3.1
>  - Add new type of Function (constant)
>  - Simplify use of Function class
>  - Add new demo Stokes + convection-diffusion
>  - Add new demo Stokes (equal-order stabilized)
>  - Add new demo Stokes (Taylor-Hood)
>  - Add new parameter for KrylovSolvers: "monitor convergence"
>  - Add conversion script dolfin-convert for various mesh formats
>  - Add new demo elasticity
>  - Move poisson demo to src/demo/pde/poisson
>  - Move to Mercurial (hg) from CVS
>  - Use libtool to build libraries (including shared)
> 0.5.12 [2006-01-12]
>  - Make Stokes solver dimension independent (2D/3D)
>  - Make Poisson solver dimension independent (2D/3D)
>  - Fix sparse matrix output format for MATLAB
>  - Modify demo problem for Stokes, add exact solution and compute error
>  - Change interface for boundary conditions: operator() --> eval()
>  - Add two benchmark problems for the Navier-Stokes solver 	
>  - Add support for 2D/3D selection in Navier-Stokes solver 
>  - Move tic()/toc() to timing.h
>  - Navier-Stokes solver back online
>  - Make Solver a subclass of Parametrized
>  - Add support for localization of parameters
>  - Redesign of parameter system
> 0.5.11 [2005-12-15]
>  - Add script monitor for monitoring memory usage
>  - Remove meminfo.h (not portable)
>  - Remove dependence on parameter system in log system
>  - Don't use drand48() (not portable)
>  - Don't use strcasecmp() (not portable)
>  - Remove sysinfo.h and class System (not portable)
>  - Don't include <sys/utsname.h> (not portable)
>  - Change ::show() --> ::disp() everywhere
>  - Clean out old quadrature classes on triangles and tetrahedra
>  - Clean out old sparse matrix code
>  - Update chapter on Functions in manual
>  - Use std::map to store parameters
>  - Implement class KrylovSolver 
>  - Name change: Node --> Vertex
>  - Add nonlinear solver demos
>  - Add support for picking sub functions and components of functions
>  - Update interface for FiniteElement for latest FFC version
>  - Improve and restructure implementation of the Function class
>  - Dynamically adjust safety factor during integration
>  - Improve output Matrix::disp()
>  - Check residual at end of time step, reject step if too large
>  - Implement Vector::sum()
>  - Implement nonlinear solver
>  - New option for ODE solver: "save final solution" --> solution.data
>  - New ODE test problem: reaction
>  - Fixes for automake 1.9 (nobase_include_HEADERS)
>  - Reorganize build system, remove fake install and require make install
>  - Add checks for non-standard PETSc component HYPRE in NSE solver
>  - Make GMRES solver return the number of iterations
>  - Add installation script for Python interface
>  - Add Matrix Market format (Haiko Etzel)
>  - Automatically reinitialize GMRES solver when system size changes
>  - Implement cout << for class Vector
> 0.5.10 [2005-10-11]
>  - Modify ODE solver interface: add T to constructor
>  - Fix compilation on AMD 64 bit systems (add -fPIC)
>  - Add new BLAS mode for form evaluation
>  - Change enum types in File to lowercase
>  - Change default file type for .m to Octave
>  - Add experimental Python interface PyDOLFIN
>  - Fix compilation for gcc 4.0
> 0.5.9 [2005-09-23]
>  - Add Stokes module
>  - Support for arbitrary mixed elements through FFC
>  - VTK output interface now handles time-dependent functions automatically
>  - Fix cout for empty matrix
>  - Change dolfin_start() --> dolfin_end()
>  - Add chapters to manual: about, log system, parameters, reference elements,
>    installation, contributing, license
>  - Use new template fenicsmanual.cls for manual
>  - Add compiler flag -U__STRICT_ANSI__ when compiling under Cygwin 
>  - Add class EigenvalueSolver
> 0.5.8 [2005-07-05]
>  - Add new output format Paraview/VTK (Garth N. Wells)
>  - Update Tecplot interface
>  - Move to PETSc 2.3.0
>  - Complete support for general order Lagrange elements in triangles and tetrahedra
>  - Add test problem in src/demo/fem/convergence/ for general Lagrange elements
>  - Make FEM::assemble() estimate the number of nonzeros in each row
>  - Implement Matrix::init(M, N, nzmax)
>  - Add Matrix::nz(), Matrix::nzsum() and Matrix::nzmax()
>  - Improve Mesh::disp()
>  - Add FiniteElement::disp() and FEM::disp() (useful for debugging)
>  - Remove old class SparseMatrix
>  - Change FEM::setBC() --> FEM::applyBC()
>  - Change Mesh::tetrahedrons --> Mesh::tetrahedra
>  - Implement Dirichlet boundary conditions for tetrahedra
>  - Implement Face::contains(const Point& p)
>  - Add test for shape dimension of mesh and form in FEM::assemble()
>  - Move src/demo/fem/ demo to src/demo/fem/simple/
>  - Add README file in src/demo/poisson/ (simple manual)
>  - Add simple demo program src/demo/poisson/
>  - Update computation of alignment of faces to match FFC/FIAT
> 0.5.7 [2005-06-23]
>  - Clean up ODE test problems
>  - Implement automatic detection of sparsity pattern from given matrix
>  - Clean up homotopy solver
>  - Implement automatic computation of Jacobian
>  - Add support for assembly of non-square systems (Andy Terrel)	
>  - Make ODE solver report average number of iterations
>  - Make progress bar write first update at 0%
>  - Initialize all values of u before solution in multi-adaptive solver,
>    not only components given by dependencies
>  - Allow user to modify and verify a converging homotopy path
>  - Make homotopy solver save a list of the solutions
>  - Add Matrix::norm()
>  - Add new test problem for CES economy
>  - Remove cast from Parameter to const char* (use std::string)
>  - Make solution data filename optional for homotopy solver
>  - Append homotopy solution data to file during solution
>  - Add dolfin::seed(int) for optionally seeding random number generator
>  - Remove dolfin::max,min (use std::max,min)
>  - Add polynomial-integer (true polynomial) form of general CES system
>  - Compute multi-adaptive efficiency index
>  - Updates for gcc 4.0 (patches by Garth N. Wells)
>  - Add Matrix::mult(const real x[], uint row) (temporary fix, assumes uniprocessor case)
>  - Add Matrix::mult(const Vector& x, uint row) (temporary fix, assumes uniprocessor case)
>  - Update shortcuts MassMatrix and StiffnessMatrix to new system
>  - Add missing friend to Face.h (reported by Garth N. Wells)
> 0.5.6 [2005-05-17]
>  - Implementation of boundary conditions for general order Lagrange (experimental)
>  - Use interpolation function automatically generated by FFC
>  - Put computation of map into class AffineMap
>  - Clean up assembly
>  - Use dof maps automatically generated by FFC (experimental)
>  - Modify interface FiniteElement for new version of FFC
>  - Update ODE homotopy test problems
>  - Add cross product to class Point
>  - Sort mesh entities locally according to ordering used by FIAT and FFC
>  - Add new format for dof maps (preparation for higher-order elements)
>  - Code cleanups: NewFoo --> Foo complete
>  - Updates for new version of FFC (0.1.7)
>  - Bypass log system when finalizing PETSc (may be out of scope)
> 0.5.5 [2005-04-26]
>  - Fix broken log system, curses works again
>  - Much improved multi-adaptive time-stepping
>  - Move elasticity module to new system based on FFC
>  - Add boundary conditions for systems
>  - Improve regulation of time steps
>  - Clean out old assembly classes
>  - Clean out old form classes
>  - Remove kernel module map
>  - Remove kernel module element
>  - Move convection-diffusion module to new system based on FFC
>  - Add iterators for cell neighbors of edges and faces
>  - Implement polynomial for of CES economy
>  - Rename all new linear algebra classes: NewFoo --> Foo
>  - Clean out old linear algebra
>  - Speedup setting of boundary conditions (add MAT_KEEP_ZEROED_ROWS)
>  - Fix bug for option --disable-curses
> 0.5.4 [2005-03-29]
>  - Remove option to compile with PETSc 2.2.0 (2.2.1 required)
>  - Make make install work again (fix missing includes)
>  - Add support for mixing multiple finite elements (through FFC)
>  - Improve functionality of homotopy solver
>  - Simple creation of piecewise linear functions (without having an element)
>  - Simple creation of piecewise linear elements
>  - Add support of automatic creation of simple meshes (unit cube, unit square)
> 0.5.3 [2005-02-26]
>  - Change to PETSc version 2.2.1
>  - Add flag --with-petsc=<path> to configure script
>  - Move Poisson's equation to system based on FFC
>  - Add support for automatic creation of homotopies
>  - Make all ODE solvers automatically handle complex ODEs: (M) z' = f(z,t)
>  - Implement version of mono-adaptive solver for implicit ODEs: M u' = f(u,t)
>  - Implement Newton's method for multi- and mono-adaptive ODE solvers
>  - Update PETSc wrappers NewVector, NewMatrix, and NewGMRES
>  - Fix initialization of PETSc
>  - Add mono-adaptive cG(q) and dG(q) solvers (experimental)
>  - Implementation of new assebly: NewFEM, using output from FFC 
>  - Add access to mesh for nodes, cells, faces and edges
>  - Add Tecplot I/O interface; contributed by Garth N. Wells
> 0.5.2 [2005-01-26]
>  - Benchmarks for DOLFIN vs PETSc (src/demo/form and src/demo/test)
>  - Complete rewrite of the multi-adaptive ODE solver (experimental)
>  - Add wrapper for PETSc GMRES solver
>  - Update class Point with new operators
>  - Complete rewrite of the multi-adaptive solver to improve performance
>  - Add PETSc wrappers NewMatrix and NewVector
>  - Add DOLFIN/PETSc benchmarks
> 0.5.1 [2004-11-10]
>  - Experimental support for automatic generation of forms using FFC
>  - Allow user to supply Jacobian to ODE solver
>  - Add optional test to check if a dependency already exists (Sparsity)
>  - Modify sparse matrix output (Matrix::show())
>  - Add FGMRES solver in new format (patch from eriksv)
>  - Add non-const version of quick-access of sparse matrices
>  - Add linear mappings for simple computation of derivatives
>  - Add check of matrix dimensions for ODE sparsity pattern
>  - Include missing cmath in Function.cpp
> 0.5.0 [2004-08-18]
>  - First prototype of new form evaluation system
>  - New classes Jacobi, SOR, Richardson (preconditioners and linear solvers)
>  - Add integrals on the boundary (ds), partly working
>  - Add maps from boundary of reference cell
>  - Add evaluation of map from reference cell
>  - New Matrix functions: max, min, norm, and sum of rows and columns (erik)
>  - Derivatives/gradients of ElementFunction (coefficients f.ex.) implemented
>  - Enable assignment to all elements of a NewArray
>  - Add functions Boundary::noNodes(), noFaces(), noEdges()
>  - New class GaussSeidel (preconditioner and linear solver)
>  - New classes Preconditioner and LinearSolver
>  - Bug fix for tetrahedral mesh refinement (ingelstrom)
>  - Add iterators for Edge and Face on Boundary
>  - Add functionality to Map: bdet() and cell() 
>  - Add connectivity face-cell and edge-cell
>  - New interface for assembly: Galerkin --> FEM
>  - Bug fix for PDE systems of size > 3
> 0.4.11 [2004-04-23]
>  - Add multigrid solver (experimental)
>  - Update manual
> 0.4.10
>  - Automatic model reduction (experimental)
>  - Fix bug in ParticleSystem (divide by mass)
>  - Improve control of integration (add function ODE::update())
>  - Load/save parameters in XML-format
>  - Add assembly test
>  - Add simple StiffnessMatrix, MassMatrix, and LoadVector
>  - Change dK --> dx
>  - Change dx() --> ddx()
>  - Add support for GiD file format
>  - Add performance tests for multi-adaptivity (both stiff and non-stiff)
>  - First version of Newton for the multi-adaptive solver
>  - Test for Newton for the multi-adaptive solver
> 0.4.9
>  - Add multi-adaptive solver for the bistable equation
>  - Add BiCGSTAB solver (thsv)
>  - Fix bug in SOR (thsv)
>  - Improved visual program for OpenDX
>  - Fix OpenDX file format for scalar functions
>  - Allow access to samples of multi-adaptive solution
>  - New patch from thsv for gcc 3.4.0 and 3.5.0
>  - Make progress step a parameter
>  - New function ODE::sparse(const Matrix& A)
>  - Access nodes, cells, edges, faces by id
>  - New function Matrix::lump()
> 0.4.8
>  - Add support for systems (jansson and bengzon)
>  - Add new module wave
>  - Add new module wave-vector
>  - Add new module elasticity
>  - Add new module elasticity-stationary
>  - Multi-adaptive updates
>  - Fix compilation error in LogStream
>  - Fix local Newton iteration for higher order elements
>  - Init matrix to given type
>  - Add output of cG(q) and dG(q) weights in matrix format
>  - Fix numbering of frames from plotslab script
>  - Add png output for plotslab script
>  - Add script for running stiff test problems, plot solutions
>  - Fix bug in MeshInit (node neighbors of node)
>  - Modify output of sysinfo()
>  - Compile with -Wall -Werror -pedantic -ansi -std=c++98 (thsv)
> 0.4.7
>  - Make all stiff test problems work
>  - Display status report also when using step()
>  - Improve adaptive damping for stiff problems (remove spikes)
>  - Modify Octave/Matlab format for solution data (speed improvement)
>  - Adaptive sampling of solution (optional)
>  - Restructure stiff test problems
>  - Check if value of right-hand side is valid
>  - Modify divergence test in AdaptiveIterationLevel1
> 0.4.6
>  - Save vectors and matrices from Matlab/Octave (foufas)
>  - Rename writexml.m to xmlmesh.m
>  - Inlining of important functions
>  - Optimize evaluation of elements
>  - Optimize Lagrange polynomials
>  - Optimize sparsity: use stl containers
>  - Optimize choice of discrete residual for multi-adaptive solver
>  - Don't save solution in benchmark proble
>  - Improve computation of divergence factor for underdamped systems
>  - Don't check residual on first slab for fixed time step
>  - Decrease largest (default) time step to 0.1
>  - Add missing <cmath> in TimeStepper
>  - Move real into dolfin namespace
> 0.4.5
>  - Rename function.h to enable compilation under Cygwin
>  - Add new benchmark problem for multi-adaptive solver
>  - Bug fix for ParticleSystem
>  - Initialization of first time step
>  - Improve time step regulation (threshold)
>  - Improve stabilization
>  - Improve TimeStepper interface (Ko Project)
>  - Use iterators instead of recursively calling TimeSlab::update()
>  - Clean up ODESolver
>  - Add iterators for elements in time slabs and element groups
>  - Add -f to creation of symbolic links
> 0.4.4
>  - Add support for 3D graphics in Octave using Open Inventor (jj)
> 0.4.3
>  - Stabilization of multi-adaptive solver (experimental) 
>  - Improved non-support for curses (--disable-curses)
>  - New class MechanicalSystem for simulating mechanical systems
>  - Save debug info from primal and dual (plotslab.m)
>  - Fix bug in progress bar
>  - Add missing include file in Components.h (kakr)
>  - New function dolfin_end(const char* msg, ...)
>  - Move numerical differentiation to RHS
>  - New class Event for limited display of messages
>  - Fix bug in LogStream (large numbers in floating point format)
>  - Specify individual time steps for different components
>  - Compile without warnings
>  - Add -Werror to option enable-debug
>  - Specify individual methods for different components
>  - Fix bug in dGqMethods
>  - Fix bug (delete old block) in ElementData
>  - Add parameters for method and order
>  - New test problem reaction
>  - New class FixedPointIteration
>  - Fix bug in grid refinement
> 0.4.2
>  - Fix bug in computation of residual (divide by k)
>  - Add automatic generation and solution of the dual problem
>  - Automatic selection of file names for primal and dual
>  - Fix bug in progress bar (TerminalLogger)
>  - Many updates of multi-adaptive solver
>  - Add class ODEFunction
>  - Update function class hierarchies
>  - Move functions to a separate directory
>  - Store multi-adaptive solution binary on disk with cache
> 0.4.1
>  - First version of multi-adaptive solver working
>  - Clean up file formats
>  - Start changing from int to unsigned int where necessary
>  - Fix bool->int when using stdard in Parameter
>  - Add NewArray and NewList (will replace Array and List)
> 0.4.0
>  - Initiation of the FEniCS project
>  - Change syntax of mesh files: grid -> mesh
>  - Create symbolic links instead of copying files
>  - Tanganyika -> ODE 
>  - Add Heat module
>  - Grid -> Mesh
>  - Move forms and mappings to separate libraries 
>  - Fix missing include of DirectSolver.h
> 0.3.12
>  - Adaptive grid refinement (!)
>  - Add User Manual
>  - Add function dolfin_log() to turn logging on/off
>  - Change from pointers to references for Node, Cell, Edge, Face
>  - Update writexml.m
>  - Add new grid files and rename old grid files
> 0.3.11
>  - Add configure option --disable-curses
>  - Grid refinement updates
>  - Make OpenDX file format work for grids (output)
>  - Add volume() and diameter() in cell
>  - New classes TriGridRefinement and TetGridRefinement
>  - Add iterators for faces and edges on a boundary
>  - New class GridHierarchy
> 0.3.10
>  - Use new boundary structure in Galerkin
>  - Make dolfin_start() and dolfin_end() work
>  - Make dolfin_assert() raise segmentation fault for plain text mode
>  - Add configure option --enable-debug
>  - Use autoreconf instead of scripts/preconfigure
>  - Rename configure.in -> configure.ac
>  - New class FaceIterator
>  - New class Face
>  - Move computation of boundary from GridInit to BoundaryInit
>  - New class BoundaryData
>  - New class BoundaryInit
>  - New class Boundary
>  - Make InitGrid compute edges
>  - Add test program for generic matrix in src/demo/la
>  - Clean up Grid classes
>  - Add new class GridRefinementData
>  - Move data from Cell to GenericCell
>  - Make GMRES work with user defined matrix, only mult() needed
>  - GMRES now uses only one function to compute residual()
>  - Change Matrix structure (a modified envelope/letter)
>  - Update script checkerror.m for Poisson 
>  - Add function dolfin_info_aptr()
>  - Add cast to element pointer for iterators
>  - Clean up and improve the Tensor class
>  - New class: List
>  - Name change: List -> Table
>  - Name change: ShortList -> Array
>  - Make functions in GridRefinement static
>  - Make functions in GridInit static
>  - Fix bug in GridInit (eriksv)
>  - Add output to OpenDX format for 3D grids
>  - Clean up ShortList class
>  - Clean up List class
>  - New class ODE, Equation replaced by PDE
>  - Add Lorenz test problem
>  - Add new problem type for ODEs
>  - Add new module ode
>  - Work on multi-adaptive ODE solver (lots of new stuff)
>  - Work on grid refinement
>  - Write all macros in LoggerMacros in one line
>  - Add transpose functions to Matrix (Erik)
> 0.3.9
>  - Update Krylov solver (Erik, Johan)
>  - Add new LU factorization and LU solve (Niklas)
>  - Add benchmark test in src/demo/bench
>  - Add silent logger
> 0.3.8
>  - Make sure dolfin-config is regenerated every time
>  - Add demo program for cG(q) and dG(q)
>  - Add dG(q) precalc of nodal points and weights
>  - Add cG(q) precalc of nodal points and weights
>  - Fix a bug in configure.in (AC_INIT with README)
>  - Add Lagrange polynomials
>  - Add multiplication with transpose
>  - Add scalar products with rows and columns
>  - Add A[i][j] index operator for quick access to dense matrix
> 0.3.7
>  - Add new Matlab-like syntax like A(i,all) = x or A(3,all) = A(4,all)
>  - Add dolfin_assert() macro enabled if debug is defined
>  - Redesign of Matrix/DenseMatrix/SparseMatrix to use Matrix as common interface
>  - Include missing cmath in Legendre.cpp and GaussianQuadrature.cpp
> 0.3.6
>  - Add output functionality in DenseMatrix
>  - Add high precision solver to DirectSolver
>  - Clean up error messages in Matrix
>  - Make solvers directly accessible through Matrix and DenseMatrix
>  - Add quadrature (Gauss, Radau, and Lobatto) from Tanganyika
>  - Start merge with Tanganyika
>  - Add support for automatic documentation using doxygen
>  - Update configure scripts
>  - Add greeting at end of compilation
> 0.3.5
>  - Define version number only in the file configure.in
>  - Fix compilation problem (missing depcomp)
> 0.3.4
>  - Fix bugs in some of the ElementFunction operators
>  - Make convection-diffusion solver work again
>  - Fix bug in integration, move multiplication with the determinant
>  - Fix memory leaks in ElementFunction
>  - Add parameter to choose output format
>  - Make OctaveFile and MatlabFile subclasses of MFile
>  - Add classes ScalarExpressionFunction and VectorExpressionFunction
>  - Make progress bars work cleaner
>  - Get ctrl-c in curses logger
>  - Remove <Problem>Settings-classes and use dolfin_parameter()
>  - Redesign settings to match the structure of the log system
>  - Add vector functions: Function::Vector
>  - Add vector element functions: ElementFunction::Vector
> 0.3.3
>  - Increased functionality of curses-based interface
>  - Add progress bars to log system
> 0.3.2
>  - More work on grid refinement
>  - Add new curses based log system
> 0.3.1
>  - Makefile updates: make install should now work properly
>  - KrylovSolver updates
>  - Preparation for grid refinement
>  - Matrix and Vector updates
> 0.3.0
>  - Make poisson work again, other modules still not working
>  - Add output format for octave
>  - Fix code to compile with g++-3.2 -Wall -Werror
>  - New operators for Matrix
>  - New and faster GMRES solver (speedup factor 4)
>  - Changed name from SparseMatrix to Matrix
>  - Remove old unused code
>  - Add subdirectory math containing mathematical functions
>  - Better access for A(i,j) += to improve speed in assembling
>  - Add benchmark for linear algebra
>  - New definition of finite element
>  - Add algebra for function spaces
>  - Convert grids in data/grids to xml.gz
>  - Add iterators for Nodes and Cells
>  - Change from .hh to .h
>  - Add operators to Vector class (foufas)
>  - Add dependence on libxml2
>  - Change from .C to .cpp to make Jim happy.
>  - Change input/output functionality to streams
>  - Change to new data structure for Grid
>  - Change to object-oriented API at top level
>  - Add use of C++ namespaces
>  - Complete and major restructuring of the code
>  - Fix compilation error in src/config
>  - Fix name of keyword for convection-diffusion
> 0.2.11-1
>  - Fix compilation error (`source`) on Solaris
> 0.2.11
>  - Automate build process to simplify addition of new modules
>  - Fix bug in matlab_write_field() (walter)
>  - Fix bug in SparseMatrix::GetCopy() (foufas)
> 0.2.10-1
>  - Fix compilation errors on RedHat (thsv)
> 0.2.10
>  - Fix compilation of problems to use correct compiler
>  - Change default test problems to the ones in the report
>  - Improve memory management using mpatrol for tracking allocations
>  - Change bool to int for va_arg, seems to be a problem with gcc > 3.0
>  - Improve input / output support: GiD, Matlab, OpenDX
> 0.2.8
>  - Navier-Stokes starting to work again
>  - Add Navier-Stokes 2d
>  - Bug fixes
> 0.2.7
>  - Add support for 2D problems
>  - Add module convection-diffusion
>  - Add local/global fields in equation/problem
>  - Bug fixes
>  - Navier-Stokes updates (still broken)
> 0.2.6 [2002-02-19]
>  - Navier-Stokes updates (still broken)
>  - Output to matlab format
> 0.2.5
>  - Add variational formulation with overloaded operators for systems
>  - ShapeFunction/LocalField/FiniteElement according to Scott & Brenner
> 0.2.4
>  - Add boundary conditions
>  - Poisson seems to work ok
> 0.2.3
>  - Add GMRES solver
>  - Add CG solver
>  - Add direct solver
>  - Add Poisson solver
>  - Big changes to the organisation of the source tree
>  - Add kwdist.sh script
>  - Bug fixes
> 0.2.2:
>  - Remove curses temporarily
> 0.2.1:
>  - Remove all PETSc stuff. Finally!
>  - Gauss-Seidel cannot handle the pressure equation
> 0.2.0:
>  - First GPL release
>  - Remove all of Klas Samuelssons proprietary grid code
>  - Adaptivity and refinement broken, include in next release

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