<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><div style="font-size: 10pt; ">Please checkout and test the release candidate 1 tarball for MOAB version 4.6.0 from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1359666056_0">http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/moab-4.6.0RC1.tar.gz</span></a></div><div><span>If we don't find any bugs, the tarball linked above will be the exact tarball for the final release.</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span>The notable changes to this version are as follows:</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size:
13px; "><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Added new iMeshP extension function iMeshP_getCommunicator, converting fortran integer to MPI C communicator</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span><div style="background-color: transparent; "><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Various bug fixes and improvements of mbcoupler (parallel mesh to mesh transfer): handling of spectral elements, works in</span><br><span style="background-color: transparent; "> serial now, better tolerancing for point searches</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Major enhancements, efficiency improvements for NC data reader, including going mostly to a 2.5D representation, addition</span><br><span style="background-color: transparent; "> of a HOMME data reader, bug fixes in representing periodic meshes in
parallel</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Added Interface::adjacencies_iterate, whose behavior is much like tag_iterate.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Removed deprecated functions from the Interface: (some overloaded variants of) query_interface, release_interface, </span><br><span style="background-color: transparent; "> tag_get_data, tag_set_data, tag_get_size.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Initial implementation of Damsel reader/writer</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Initial implementation of a GCRM data reader, and a better ReadTemplate class (skeleton for writing new readers)</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Add new metadata and properties handling to DAGMC</span><br><br><span style="background-color: transparent; ">* Support for 1D in structured mesh interface</span><br><br><span
style="background-color: transparent; ">* Alternative vtkMOABReaderNew & paraview plugin (in tools directory)</span><br></div></span></div></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><font style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " size="2">Rajeev</font><br></div></div></body></html>