Release Notes: FEMhub 0.9.9
Introduction
FEMhub is an open source distribution of finite element codes with a unified Python interface. The current stable version is FEMhub 0.9.9.What's New?
Notable new changes include:- Documentation: added sphinx documentation
- README: simplified README; placed a link to Sphinx documentation
- LibFEMhub: added this collection of FEMhub python modules including python wrappers to mesh editors and FE libraries.
- Download of packages: FEMhub standard packages to be downloaded from femhub.org/stpack
- Platforms: the version builds in Mac OS X
- Sage to FEMhub: changed far more "Sage" to "FEMhub", and added script for that
- FEMhub Lab:
- Update: sagenb updated to 298:6d1e1afd37f0 on 2010-03-25, and the latest version is femhub-lab-2ffaa67.spkg
- Name changed: name of femhub_notebook changed to femhub-lab
- Executing FEMhub: changed notebook() command to lab()
- Improved account settings, for example, option for auto save interval
- Mesh generation in web browser: implementation of JavaScript based Domain Editor and Flex based MeshEditor.
- Hemes2D: support for refinement of curvilinear elements, and simplified plot functions; updated examples (hermes2d-ee3e3ab.spkg)
- FiPy: integration of FiPy (fipy-2.1-51f1360.spkg) and pysparse-1.1-6301cea.spkg
- SfePy: update of SfePy package to sfepy-2010.1.spkg
- Matplotlib: Update of matplotlib which has 3D support (matplotlib-0.99.1.p4.spkg)
- Update of different other standard packages:
- libfemhub-05e3941.spkg
- termcap-1.3.1.p1.spkg
- zlib-1.2.3.p5.spkg
- python-2.6.4.p5.spkg
- cython-0.12.1.spkg
- python_gnutls-1.1.4.p7.spkg
- sphinx-0.6.3.p4.spkg
- lapack-20071123.p1.spkg
- freetype-2.3.5.p2.spkg
- libpng-1.2.35.p0.spkg
- twisted-9.0.p2.spkg
- scipy-0.7.p4.spkg
- sympy-5d78c29.spkg
- setuptools-0.6c11.p0.spkg
- libpng-1.2.35.p1.spkg
Known Issues to be Fixed
- FEMhub does not build with Windows
- Sometimes, especially with Google Chrome and Safari browsers when you try to save any worksheet locally in your computer it gives error.
- Timeout issue of the femhub-lab
- Mayavi in femhub-lab is slow and has issue with colorbar position
- Sometimes when you need to plot many solution or mesh images (about 20 or more) in the femhub-lab, suddenly all images disappear.
Contact
hp-FEM Group
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nevada, Reno
Mailinglist: femhub@googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://femhub.org