[petsc-announce] Release of PETSc 3.7

[Barry Smith]

We are pleased to announce the release of PETSc version 3.7 at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc

The major changes and updates can be found at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/37.html; we have also updated to the most recent releases of many of the external packages used by PETS.

We recommend upgrading to PETSc 3.7 soon. As always, please report problems to  petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov and ask questions at petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov

I'd also like to welcome our second PETSc developer named Hong Zhang, who has been adding efficient scalable adjoint sensitivities to our ODE solvers over the last year and one half.

A special thanks to PETSc developer Lisandro Dalcin who has done a great deal of refactoring and improvements to large portions of the code base include TS and PetscDraw.


  This release includes contributions from

Alejandro Lamas Daviña
Andrew Cramer
Asbjørn Nilsen Riseth 
Ata Mesgarnejad
Barry Smith
Cameron Smith
Ce Qin
Cian Wilson
Dave May
Debojyoti Ghosh
Derek Mikesell
Dmitry Karpeyev
Dominic Meiser
Eike Mueller
Elliott Sales de Andrade
Emil Constantinescu
Eric Chamberland
Fande Kong
Hong Zhang
Hong Zhang
Jack Poulson
Jason Sarich
Jed Brown
Jose E. Roman
Karl Rupp
Lawrence Mitchell
Lin Dong
Lisandro Dalcin
Mark Adams
Matthew G. Knepley
Michael Lange
Patrick Farrell
Patrick Sanan
Pierre Barbier de Reuille
Ravi Samtaney
Richard Tran Mills
Satish Balay
Shri Abhyankar
Siegfried Cools
Stefano Zampini
Steven G. Johnson
Sylvain Mercier
Thomas Klotz
Tianyi Li
Toby Isaac
Tom Klotz
Vijay Mahadevan
Vincent Le Chenadec
Lilia Zianekhodja

and bug reports/patches/proposed improvements received from 

Abdul Hanan Sheikh
Adrian Croucher
Alfredo Buttari
Alicia Klinvex
Amneet Pal S Bhalla
Andrew McRae
anishi gupta
Anthony Haas
Arne Morten Kvarving
Ashish Kotwal
Bastien Chaudet
Boris Boutkov
Brad Aagaard
Bram Metsch
Carl Steefel
Chris Bradley
Constantine Khroulev
Cyrill Vonplanta
Daniel S. Kokron
Danqing Wu
Dave May
David Ham
David J. Moulton
David Knezevic
David Lorenzetti
David Maxwell
Denis Davydov
Dietzsch Felix
Ed Bueler
ehsan sadrfaridpour
Eike Mueller
Eric Chamberland
Erik Andreassen
E. Tadeu
Ethan Coon
Fahad Hasan
Florian Kleinicke
Florian Lindner
F Torun
Garth N. Wells
George Pau
Gianluca Meneghello
Gilberto Perez
Glenn E. Hammond
Hanqi Guo
Henrik Buesing
Jakub Kruzik
James M. Willenbring
Jared Crean
Jeffrey Johnson
Johannes Ring
John Chrispell
John Mousel
John O'Sullivan
Jose E. Roman
Juan Franco
Julien Langou
Jürgen Zechner
Kathrin Burckhardt
Lars Kielhorn
Lawrence Mitchell
Longyin Cui
Manav Bhatia
Marcus Day
Mark Adams
Mark Filipiak
Mark L. Stowell
Mark McClure
Massimiliano Leoni
Matt Landreman
Max Rudolph
Michele De Stefano
Michele Rosso
Mikhail Artemyev
Morten Nobel-Jørgensen
Mostafa Molaali
Mu-hua Chien
Natacha BEREUX
nirmal rai
Noemi Petra
Ondrej Certík
Patrick Lacasse
Patrick Sanan
Peter Lichtner
Pierre LEDAC
Rajeev Das
Randall Mackie
Richard Mills
Roberto Torres
Robert P Fischer
Roscoe Bartlett
Sander Land
Sebastien Gilles
Shao-Ching Huang
Sophie Blondel
Stephan Kramer
Tabrez Ali
Theler German Guillermo
Tobias Keller
Toby D. Young
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Torquil Sørensen
Ulrike Yang
Václav Hapla
Victor Eijkhout
Vincent Huber
wen zhao
wurunjian
Xujun Zhao

As always, thanks for your support,

  Barry