Author: Lisandro Dalcin

# CHANGES: PETSc for Python

Author: | Lisandro Dalcin
Contact: | dalcinl@gmail.com

# Release 3.7.0

- Update to PETSc 3.7 release.

# Release 3.6.0

- Update to PETSc 3.6 release.

# Release 3.5.1

- Add `Log.{begin|view|destroy}()`.

- Add `Mat.SOR()` and `Mat.SORType`.

- Add `DMPlex.createCoarsePointIS()`.

- Add `LGMap.createSF()`.

- Add `SNES.getVIInactiveSet()`.

- Add `Vec.isaxpy()`.

- Add `PC.setReusePreconditioner()`.

- Return correct type in `DM.getCoordinateDM()`.

- Fix SWIG wrappers to handle 64bit `PetscInt`.

- Fix linker flags for Python from Fink.

# Release 3.5

- Update to PETSc 3.5 release.

# Release 3.4

- Update to PETSc 3.4 release.

- Add support for `DMComposite` and `DMPlex`.

- Change `Mat.getSizes()` to return `((m,M),(n,N))`.

# Release 3.3.1

- Fix `Options.getAll()` mishandling values with negative numbers.

- Minor backward compatibility fix for PETSc 3.2 .

- Minor bugfix for TSPYTHON subtype.

# Release 3.3

- Update to PETSc 3.3 release.

- Change `Vec.getLocalForm()` to `Vec.localForm()` for use with context manager and add `Vec.setMPIGhost()`.

- Add `AO.createMemoryScalable()` and `LGMap.block()` / `LGMap.unblock()`

- Add `Object.handle` property (C pointer as a Python integer). Can be used with `ctypes` to pass a PETSc handle.

- Add `Comm.tompi4py()` to get a `mpi4py` communicator instance.

# Release 1.2

- Update to PETSc 3.2 release.

- Add new `DM` class , make `DA` inherit from `DM`.

- Better support for inplace LU/ILU and Cholesky/ICC factorization and factor PC subtypes.

- Now the `Mat`/`PC`/`KSP`/`SNES`/`TS` Python subtypes are implemented with Cython.

- Better interaction between Python garbage collector and PETSc objects.

- Support for PEP 3118 and legacy Python's buffer interface.

# Release 1.1.2

This is a new-features and bug-fix release.

- Add support for copying and computing complements in `IS` (`IS.copy()` and `IS.complement()`).

- Add support for coarsening in `DA` (`DA.coarsen()`).

- Support for shallow copy and deep copy operations (use `copy.copy` and `copy.deepcopy`). Deep copy is only supported for a bunch of types (`IS`, `Scatter`, `Vec`, `Mat`)

- Support for `pip install petsc4py` to download and install PETSc.

# Release 1.1.1

This is a new-features and bug-fix release.

- Support for setting PETSC_COMM_WORLD before PETSc initialization.

- Support for coordinates, refinement and interpolation in DA. Many thanks to Blaise Bourdin.

- Workaround build failures when PETSc is built with mpiuni.

- Workaround GIL-related APIs for non-threaded Python builds.

# Release 1.1

- Update for API cleanups, changes, and new calls in PETSc 3.1 and some other missing features.

- Add support for Jed Brown's THETA an GL timestepper implementations.

- Fix the annoying issues related to Open MPI shared libraries dependencies and Python dynamic loading.

- Many minor bug-fixes. Many thanks to Ethan Coon, Dmitry Karpeev, Juha Jaykka, and Michele De Stefano.

# Release 1.0.3

This is a bug-fix release.

- Added a quick fix to solve build issues. The macro __SDIR__ is no longer passed to the compiler in the command line.

# Release 1.0.2

This is a new-features and bug-fix release.

- Now `petsc4py` works against core PETSc built with complex scalars.

- Added support for PETSc logging features like stages, classes and events. Stages and events support the context manager interface (`with` statement).

- Documentation generated with Epydoc and Sphinx is now included in the release tarball.

- Removed enumeration-like classes from the `petsc4py.PETSc` module namespace. For example, now you have to use `PETSc.KSP.Type` instead of `PETSc.KSPType`.

- The `PETSc.IS` to `numpy.ndarray` conversion now works for stride and block index sets.

- Implemented a more robust import machinery for multi-arch `petsc4py` installations. Now a wrong value in the `PETSC_ARCH` environmental variable emit a warning (instead of failing) at import time.

- The unittest-based testsuite now can run under `nose` with its default options.

- Removed the dependency on `numpy.distutils`, just use core Python `distutils`.

# Release 1.0.1

This is a bug-fix release. Compile Cython-generated C sources with `-Wwrite-strings` removed, as this flag (inherited from PETSc) made GCC emit a lot of (harmless but annoying) warnings about conversion of string literals to non-const char pointers.

# Release 1.0.0

This is the fist release of the all-new, Cython-based, implementation of PETSc for Python.