Documentation: Changes: 2.1.2

General:

• Win32fe now takes --nt4 option for compatibility on NT4
• Supports cygwinpaths in win32fe
• Better support for borland tools
• Added PetscOptionsInsertString()
• Allow full path of debugger to be specified using -start_in_debugger option
• Better hyperlinks across documentation (including users manual)

ADIC:

• Support for global reductions on local functions
• Allow coloring of periodic grids

AO (Application Orderings):

TS (Timestepping Solvers):

DMMG:

SNES (Nonlinear Solvers):

• Removed all minimization support in PETSc. TAO package should be used for this functionality.

SLES (Linear Solvers):

KSP (Krylov Subspace Methods):

• Support -ksp_unpreconditioned_norm in -ksp_type cr

PC (Preconditioners):

• Added support for PCType PCMAT (PC based on a matvec)
• Added support for PCType PCHYPRE (includes PILUT, EUCLID, and BoomerAMG)
• Cholesky - additional info from factorization

MAT (Matrices):

• SBAIJ matmult - improve performance by optimizing communication.
• markdiagonal - performance optimization.
• SuperLU interface improved (check page 75 in the user's manual)
• DSCPACK interface inproved
• Spooles interface added

DA (Distributed Arrays):

VEC (Vectors):

IS (Index Sets):

Draw (Graphics):

• Added flag to support turning off axis resizing

Viewers:

• Allow drawing rectangles in postscript

System:

Error Handling:

Event Logging:

Fortran Interface: