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Changes: 2.3.1
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.. rubric:: General:

-  -log_info is now just -info; PetscLogInfo...() is now
   PetscInfo...()
-  Added TOPS solver components. [requires CCA tools like babel]
-  Added supported for IBM BGL with optimzed fortran kernels
-  bin/petscarch is removed. Use can give any name to PETSC_ARCH. [if
   not - configure picks a default name]
-  PetscMap is no longer a public PETSc object

.. rubric:: Vec:

-  Changed prototypes for VecMDotBegin(), VecMDotEnd(),
   VecMTDotBegin(), VecMTDotEnd() to confirm with PETSc prototype
   style
-  ISColoringCreate() takes another argument

.. rubric:: Mat:

-  MatScaleSystem() and MatUnscaleSystem() now take arguments b,x
   instead of x,b
-  Added MatSeqAIJSetPreallocationCSR(), MatGetSubMatrixRaw()
-  Added MatSolveTranspose() for superlu
-  Added support for matrix types MATCSRPERM, MATCRL - for vector
   based machines.
-  Added MatMatMult for seqdense
-  Added MatRealPart, ImaginaryPart for AIJ, BAIJ, SBAIJ matrices
-  Added MatGetRowUpperTriangular() to mpisbaij matrix

.. rubric:: PC:

-  PCPrometheusSetCoordinates() changed to PCSetCoordinates()
-  Moved src/ksp/pc/pcimpl.h to include/petsc/private/pcimpl.h
-  PCPreSolve() and PCPostSolve() now consistently take arguments b,x
   before sometimes they took x,b
-  PCXXXSetYYY() and -pc_xxx_yyyy are now changed to PCFactorSetYYY()
   and -pc_factor_yyyy for XXX LU, ILU, Cholesky, and ICC

.. rubric:: KSP:

-  -ksp_view, -ksp_monitor now take an optional filename argument
-  Added PetscLLAddPerm() to symbolic LU factorization

.. rubric:: config/configure.py:

-  Changed --with-64-bit-ints to --with-64-bit-indices
-  config/configure.py now supports the arguments
   --with-precision=longdouble and --with-precision=int, these
   currently have limited functionality and certain things like
   binary IO does not work.
-  Option --LIBS=<extra libs> for some broken compilers that require
   that require extra system libraries to be linked with
-  Changed --with-fortran-kernels=<0,1> option to
   --with-fortran-kernels=<none,generic,bgl>
-  Support --with-large-file-io=<bool> which indicates using files
   larger than 2GB
-  --with-f90-header, --with-f90-source options merged into a single
   option - for eg: --with-f90-interface=intel8
-  Added --with-is-color-value-type=<char,short>: char gives max of
   256 colors, short gives max of 65536 colors
-  Configure always tries to build libraries with PIC [or equivalent
   flag] To disable this, use: --with-pic=0
-  Added --with-c-language-support for compiling PETSc with 'c'
   linkage - but with a c++ compiler.
-  ---download-mpich option now defaults to pm=gforker. To use mpd -
   use the additional option --download-mpich-pm=mpd
-  --with-timer option is added [if the user knows MPI_Wtime() is
   accurate/low-overhead on a machine - then use: --with-timer=mpi]

.. rubric:: SNES:

-  -snes-view, -snes_monitor now take an optional filename argument

.. rubric:: TS:

-  -ts_view, -ts_monitor now take an optional filename argument

.. rubric:: DA:

.. rubric:: DMMG:

-  Arguments to DMMGSetKSP() changed. Now the callback which forms
   the linear system matrix can optionally fill also an alternate
   matrix for the preconditioner.

.. rubric:: SYS:

-  PetscViewerFileType changed to PetscFileMode
-  PetscViewerSetFileType() changed to PetscViewerFileSetMode()

.. rubric:: Fortran:

-  remove the special libpetscfortran.a [fortran interface & c
   interface now go into the same library]
-  With some f90 compilers - PETSc datatypes [like
   PetscScalar,PetscInt] will use f90 KIND declaration - so if this
   code is in fixed form - there could be errors with lines exceeding
   72 char limit

.. rubric:: ExternalPackages:

-  PLAPACK support added
-  BLOPEX support added
-  Updated Pvode interface to the newer Sundials package [configure
   option --download-sundials=1
-  Added --download-mpe=1
-  fblaslapack now has complete blas - as required by some external
   packages
