Release 24.03

Release 24.03

Date: 2024-03-21

Added (new features/APIs/variables/...)

• [PR 852] Add Mesh version of UserWorkBeforeOutput
• [PR 998] tensor indices added to sparse pack
• [PR 999] Add a post-initialization hook
• [PR 987] New tasking infrastructure and capabilities
• [PR 969] New macro-based auto-naming of profiling regions and kernels
• [PR 981] Add IndexSplit
• [PR 983] Add Contains to SparsePack
• [PR 968] Add per package registration of boundary conditions
• [PR 948] Add solver interface and update Poisson geometric multi-grid example
• [PR 996] Remove dynamic allocations from swarm particle creation

Changed (changing behavior/API/variables/...)

• [PR 973] Multigrid performance upgrades

Fixed (not changing behavior/API/variables/...)

• [PR1023] Fix broken param of a scalar bool
• [PR1012] Remove accidentally duplicated code
• [PR992] Allow custom PR ops with sparse pools
• [PR988] Fix bug in neighbor finding routine for small, periodic, refined meshes
• [PR986] Fix bug in sparse boundary communication BndInfo cacheing
• [PR978] remove erroneous sparse check

Infrastructure (changes irrelevant to downstream codes)

• [PR 1017] Make regression tests more verbose on failure
• [PR 1007] Split template instantiations for HDF5 Read/Write attributes to speed up compile times
• [PR 990] Partial refactor of HDF5 I/O code for readability/extendability
• [PR 982] add some gut check testing for parthenon-VIBE

Incompatibilities (i.e. breaking changes)

• [PR 987] Change the API for what was IterativeTasks
• [PR 974] Change GetParentPointer to always return T*
• [PR 996] Remove dynamic allocations from swarm particle creation

New Contributors

• @mari2895 made their first contribution in #998

Full Changelog: v23.11...v24.03