grackle-3.3.0

Grackle 3.3 is released!

Grackle is a chemistry and radiative cooling solver for astrophysical simulations and models.

The Grackle 3.3 release consists of 20 pull requests from 5 contributors, 2 of them new to the project. It contains 1 new feature, 2 minor enhancements, 5 bugfixes, and some documentation improvements. 8 previously deprecated functions have also been removed. See below for further details.

This also marks the release of version 1.0.1 of Pygrackle (the Python interface to Grackle).

New Features

• Add temperature floor field #159

Minor Enhancements

• Refactor the cloudy_data struct so that the grid_{dimension,parameters} members are fixed-size arrays #167
• Add error-check on grackle_field_data.grid_dx #190, #191

Bugfixes

• Minor tweaks to initialize_rates.c #168
• explicitly initialize all struct members to solve plethora of issues #166
• Fix memory leak #169
• Add missing fields to pygrackle #173
• Fix pygrackle H number density and mean molecular weight calculations in #180

Documentation Updates

• Add mention of c_local_example to docs #174
• Fix a minor typo in documentation related to grid_dx #176
• Document release procedure and describe versioning policy #194

Infrastructure Updates

• Introduce c_local_example and fixed inconsistencies in c_example #170
• Update linux-gnu makefile #183
• Add c_local_example to list of executable removed by make clean #186
• Factor out some file-generation machinery #181

Removed Functions

All functions deprecated in the 3.2 release were fully removed in #184. The functions include:

• functions taking all field arrays as arguments: _solve_chemistry, _calculate_cooling_time, _calculate_gamma, _calculate_pressure, _calculate_temperature
• other functions prefixed with a "_": _set_default_chemistry_parameters, _initialize_chemistry_data, _free_chemistry_data

Contributors

• @brittonsmith
• @EwanBJones98
• @mabruzzo
• @mladenivkovic (new!)
• @tiapac (new!)

Full Changelog: grackle-3.2.1...grackle-3.3.0