Dear PIConGPU-Users,


I am honored to present you on behalf of all PIConGPU developers the
"0.2.5" release of PIConGPU. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.583657

The absorbing boundary conditions for fields in 3D3V simulations were
not enabled in z direction. This caused unintended reflections of
electro-magnetic fields in z since the 0.1.0 (beta) release. ADK
ionization was fixed to the correct charge state (principal quantum
number) which caused wrong ionization rates for all elements but Hydrogen.

All fixes are backported to work in C++98 (and C++11) mode.

Please refer to our ChangeLog [1] for a full list of features, fixes and
user interface changes.

Thanks to Marco Garten, Richard Pausch, René Widera and Axel Huebl for
spotting the issues and providing fixes!

You can now check out the 0.2.5 tag [2] or our mainline branch "master"
(via git) and start using it today!


Best regards,
Axel Huebl

[1]
https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/blob/0.2.5/CHANGELOG.md#025
[2] https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/releases
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Axel Huebl
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https://www.hzdr.de/crp
Computational Radiation Physics
Laser Particle Acceleration Division
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V.

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