[MOAB-dev] MOAB v4.8.0 release now available as part of SIGMA v1.1.

[Vijay S. Mahadevan]

Dear users,

The consolidated release of SIGMA v1.1 is available now. Please refer
to the following link to find all changes in the SIGMA components.

http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/sigma/news/sigma-release-1-1/

Download: ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/fathom/moab-4.8.0.tar.gz

The notable changes in MOAB are below:

# MOAB Version 4.8.0:
=========================

## A. FEATURES

1. UMR: Implemented the uniform mesh refinement capabilities for
different entity types for degrees (2,3,5). Tools to load a MOAB mesh
and uniformly refine it based on user inputs is now available
2. Coupler: Improvements in scalability of the spatial coupler and
improved capabilities to perform global and subset based
conservation/normalization
3. Verdict: A new set of API functions to measure quality metrics for
MOAB entities (based on Verdict library)
4. Enhanced error handling support with clean stack traces in both
serial and parallel are now provided natively (examples included)

## B. BUILD

1. Considerably improved CMake-based build support for linux/OSX/Windows
2. Updated autoconf based build system to address all warnings in
different architectures and more robust configuration
   - Improved support for OSX Mavericks
   - Improved 32-bit handle support
   - Support for configuration on ALCF machines out of the box
3. Moved tools/mbzoltan/MBZoltan.* to src/ZoltanPartitioner.*
4. Additional unit tests for testing several finer grained APIs

## C. FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS

1. Several bug fixes and warning removals based on GNU, Clang, PGI and
Intel compilers
   - PR#59: ParallelComm - update the correct partition number when
creating a part
   - PR#54: WriteNCDF - minor bug when writing out side sets
   - PR#94: Exodus Writer - fixes for variable length tags
2. Several updates to the User and Developer guide in documentation to
detail aspects of the new features (UMR, Verdict, Error handling)
3. Overall enhanced Windows support (VS2008) (contributions by Kitware)

Please let us know if you have any questions or encounter any issues
during upgrade.

Best,
The SIGMA team