<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear users,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We are happy to announce a minor release update for MOAB (version 4.9.2). The release tarball can be uploaded from the following link.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/moab-4.9.2.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/moab-4.9.2.tar.gz</a></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The list of feature additions and </font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">contributed</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">enhancements + fixes that are part of the minor release is provided below.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><h2 id="gmail-features" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,"segoe ui",arial,freesans,sans-serif"><a name="user-content-features" href="#features" class="gmail-headeranchor-link" style="font-size:1.75em;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;display:block;padding-right:6px;padding-left:30px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></a><font size="4">Features</font></h2><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,"segoe ui",arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #259</em>: Introduce the new language-agnostic iMOAB interface to MOAB that is oriented towards FEM/FDM/FVM applications codes.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">- This is a ongoing replacement to the ITAPS iMesh interfaces but with much less verbosity and indirection in implementation.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #196</em>: Expose “mhdf” publically to be consumed by advanced visualization (VisIt) and parallel I/O use-cases</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #195</em>: Addition of an optimized parallel mesh resolution algorithm when performing UMR in memory</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #193</em>: Support for Attila RTT finite element mesh files</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #203</em>: Support for the general OBJ triangulation files</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Add support for <u>Bitbucket pipelines</u>, <u>Codeship/Drone.io</u>, <u>CodeCov</u> integration for improving CI and testing infrastructure on a per-commit basis</li></ul><h2 id="enhancements" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,"segoe ui",arial,freesans,sans-serif"><a name="user-content-enhancements" href="#enhancements" class="gmail-headeranchor-link" style="font-size:1.75em;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;display:block;padding-right:6px;padding-left:30px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></a><font size="4">Enhancements</font></h2><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,"segoe ui",arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #229</em>: Add support for polygon and polyhedra in VTK and NetCDF formats</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #246</em>: Improved re-design of the DagMC tool</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #251</em>: Support 64-bit integers with MetisPartitioner</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #247</em>: Better support for configuration/build on BG/Q systems (ANL Vesta/Mira with GNU/XLC compilers)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #258</em>: Redesign of options to control sequence allocation (previously CoreOptions)</li></ul><h2 id="gmail-fixes" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,"segoe ui",arial,freesans,sans-serif"><a name="user-content-fixes" href="#fixes" class="gmail-headeranchor-link" style="font-size:1.75em;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;display:block;padding-right:6px;padding-left:30px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></a><font size="4">Fixes</font></h2><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,"segoe ui",arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #234</em>: Several key fixes found through cppcheck and Coverity (static analysis tools)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #233</em>: Parallel h5m file load of recursive sets</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #213, #230, #255, #253</em>: Autotools/CMake fixes for MPI, HDF5, NetCDF configurations on various architectures</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #231</em>: Remove explicit dependence on Cubit through MOAB</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #227</em>: Several fixes for reading NetCDF and MPAS climate files</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #236</em>: Correctly process mesh files created on Windows architectures</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">PR #242</em>: Make the iterator over SequenceData deterministic (especially when filling holes in entity sequences)</li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We thank our users for the continued feature contributions and bug fixes. Please let us know if you have any questions or issues that occur during the upgrade.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">MOAB Developers</div></div>