From: Axel Huebl <a.huebl@hzdr.de>
Subject: PIConGPU 0.3.0-rc4: Bremsstrahlung, EmZ, Thomas-Fermi, Improved
 Lasers, C++11
To: picongpu-users@hzdr.de
Organization: HZDR
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 13:39:14 +0200
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Dear PIConGPU-Users,


We invite you to test our upcoming release, PIConGPU 0.3.0!

Before releasing a new version of PIConGPU in the branch "master", we
open so called "release branches" which are feature-frozen versions from
our mainline "dev" branch that only receive bugfixes. After finishing
all the documentation and adding four large rounds of fixes within the
last month we are confident you can now test it yourself!

This is the first release of PIConGPU requiring C++11. We added a newly
developed current solver (EmZ), support for the generation of
Bremsstrahlung, Thomas-Fermi Ionization, Laguerre-modes in the
Gaussian-Beam laser, in-simulation plane for laser initialization, new
plugins for in situ visualization (ISAAC), a generalized particle
calorimeter and a GPU resource monitor. Initial support for clang (host
and device) has been added and our documentation has been streamlined to
use Sphinx from now on.

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

We also started continuous documentation ("a manual") with Sphinx:

  https://picongpu.readthedocs.io

This page will in the mid time frame replace our wiki and will allow you
to select a specific version of PIConGPU. Such a "release-aware
documentation" is important to us since our tools, workflows and models
naturally change over time (for the better). Also, you can contribute to
it via pull requests!

You can now check out the `release-0.3.0` branch [2] on our mainline
(via git) and start testing it today! Please report any issues that you
might encounter either on this list or (preferably) on GitHub.


Best regards,
Axel Huebl

[1]
https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/blob/release-0.3.0/CHANGELOG.md
[2]
https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/tree/release-0.3.0
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Axel Huebl
Phone +49 351 260 3582
https://www.hzdr.de/crp
Computational Radiation Physics
Laser Particle Acceleration Division
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V.

Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden
POB 510119, D-01314 Dresden
Vorstand: Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. R. Sauerbrey
          Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. P. Joehnk
VR 1693 beim Amtsgericht Dresden