Documentation: Changes: 2.3.1

General:

• -log_info is now just -info; PetscLogInfo...() is now PetscInfo...()
• Added TOPS solver components. [requires CCA tools like babel]
• Added supported for IBM BGL with optimzed fortran kernels
• bin/petscarch is removed. Use can give any name to PETSC_ARCH. [if not - configure picks a default name]
• PetscMap is no longer a public PETSc object

Vec:

• Changed prototypes for VecMDotBegin(), VecMDotEnd(), VecMTDotBegin(), VecMTDotEnd() to confirm with PETSc prototype style
• ISColoringCreate() takes another argument

Mat:

• MatScaleSystem() and MatUnscaleSystem() now take arguments b,x instead of x,b
• Added MatSeqAIJSetPreallocationCSR(), MatGetSubMatrixRaw()
• Added MatSolveTranspose() for superlu
• Added support for matrix types MATCSRPERM, MATCRL - for vector based machines.
• Added MatMatMult for seqdense
• Added MatRealPart, ImaginaryPart for AIJ, BAIJ, SBAIJ matrices
• Added MatGetRowUpperTriangular() to mpisbaij matrix

PC:

• PCPrometheusSetCoordinates() changed to PCSetCoordinates()
• Moved src/ksp/pc/pcimpl.h to include/petsc/private/pcimpl.h
• PCPreSolve() and PCPostSolve() now consistently take arguments b,x before sometimes they took x,b
• PCXXXSetYYY() and -pc_xxx_yyyy are now changed to PCFactorSetYYY() and -pc_factor_yyyy for XXX LU, ILU, Cholesky, and ICC

KSP:

• -ksp_view, -ksp_monitor now take an optional filename argument
• Added PetscLLAddPerm() to symbolic LU factorization

config/configure.py:

• Changed --with-64-bit-ints to --with-64-bit-indices
• config/configure.py now supports the arguments --with-precision=longdouble and --with-precision=int, these currently have limited functionality and certain things like binary IO does not work.
• Option --LIBS=<extra libs> for some broken compilers that require that require extra system libraries to be linked with
• Changed --with-fortran-kernels=<0,1> option to --with-fortran-kernels=<none,generic,bgl>
• Support --with-large-file-io=<bool> which indicates using files larger than 2GB
• --with-f90-header, --with-f90-source options merged into a single option - for eg: --with-f90-interface=intel8
• Added --with-is-color-value-type=<char,short>: char gives max of 256 colors, short gives max of 65536 colors
• Configure always tries to build libraries with PIC [or equivalent flag] To disable this, use: --with-pic=0
• Added --with-c-language-support for comiling PETSc with 'c' linkage - but with a c++ compiler.
• ---download-mpich option now defaults to pm=gforker. To use mpd - use the additional option --download-mpich-pm=mpd
• --with-timer option is added [if the user knows MPI_Wtime() is accurate/low-overhead on a machine - then use: --with-timer=mpi]

SNES:

• -snes-view, -snes_monitor now take an optional filename argument

TS:

• -ts_view, -ts_monitor now take an optional filename argument

DA:

DMMG:

• Arguments to DMMGSetKSP() changed. Now the callback which forms the linear system matrix can optionally fill also an alternate matrix for the preconditioner.

SYS:

• PetscViewerFileType changed to PetscFileMode
• PetscViewerSetFileType() changed to PetscViewerFileSetMode()

Fortran:

• remove the special libpetscfortran.a [fortran interface & c interface now go into the same library]
• With some f90 compilers - PETSc datatypes [like PetscScalar,PetscInt] will use f90 KIND declaration - so if this code is in fixed form - there could be errors with lines exceeding 72 char limit

ExternalPackages:

• PLAPACK support added
• BLOPEX support added
• Updated Pvode interface to the newer Sundials package [configure option --download-sundials=1
• Added --download-mpe=1
• fblaslapack now has complete blas - as required by some external packages