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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear MOAB users,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A major update to the MOAB library is now available. The tarball can be downloaded from [1]. If you are working with release branches in Bitbucket, please use the newly created "5.3.0" tag.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Some significant changes in this new release are given below. Detailed release notes for v5.3.0 can be found here [2].<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">MOAB now requires a minimum of
<b><u>C++11</u></b> standard to be supported by the C++ compiler<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><u>CONTRIBUTING.md</u>: Documentation and guidelines for new users contributing to MOAB<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Verified installation workflows for MOAB using
<u>spack</u>, and <u>conda</u> for new users<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Docker image of MOAB pre-installed using
<u>spack</u> for all TPL dependencies is now available; <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">Additionally, there is also a specialized container for MOAB+TempestRemap to support climate remapping workflows<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">A new gnomonic projection option for partitioning is available using an
<u>inferred</u> strategy with <b>Zoltan RCB</b> algorithm for meshes on a sphere<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Several configuration fixes/updates to support builds on Linux, OSX and Windows<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">We would also like to thank some of our major contributors that made this release happen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt;background:#FFFFFE"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Baptiste Mouginot</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Rafal</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Brzegowy</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Iulian</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Grindeanu</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Vijay Mahadevan</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Patrick</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Shriwise</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Paul</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#202020">Wilson</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:#FFFFFE">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">QingFeng Xia<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">As always, please do let us know if there are any issues with the new release.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Vijay<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">[1] <a href="https://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/moab-5.3.0.tar.gz">
https://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/moab-5.3.0.tar.gz</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">[2] <a href="https://bitbucket.org/fathomteam/moab/src/5.3.0/RELEASE_NOTES.md">
https://bitbucket.org/fathomteam/moab/src/5.3.0/RELEASE_NOTES.md</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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