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Author: loganharbour

modules/doc/content/newsletter/2025/2025_11.md

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 ## libMesh-level Changes
 
+### `2025.11.14` Update
+
+- A long-deprecated behavior has been removed: code initializing data
+  using an `FE` object now *must* prerequest all data it will later
+  access; it can no longer prerequest nothing and rely on libMesh to
+  interpret that as a potential need for everything.
+- A large number of long-deprecated APIs have been removed:
+   - The `DofObject::set_unique_id()` overload that returns a reference
+    is gone; use the overload that takes an argument instead.
+  - `Elem::centroid()` is gone.  Code that requires an accurate
+    approximation of ths should be using `Elem::true_centroid()`
+    instead; code that requires a non-centroidal but
+    quick-to-calculate internal point should be using
+    `Elem::vertex_average()` instead.
+  - `Elem::which_node_am_i()` is gone.  Use `Elem::local_side_node()`
+    instead.
+  - The `BoundaryInfo::build_*_list()` overloads that fill vector
+    arguments are gone.  Use the overloads that return vectors
+    instead, or use the `multimap` getters.
+  - `CondensedEigenSystem` no longer supports direct access to raw
+    `condensed_matrix_A` and `condensed_matrix_B` pointers; use e.g.
+    `get_condensed_matrix_A()` instead.
+  - The `MeshFunction::init()` overload taking a tree build type is
+    gone.  Use the other `init()` overload instead.
+  - The poorly named `EquationSystems::get_solution()` is gone.  Use
+    `EquationSystems::build_elemental_solution_vector() for elemental
+    data instead.
+  - `System::read_legacy_data()` is gone.  Use libMesh .xda files that
+    postdate 2007, and show your pre-2007 libMesh .xda files to Roy to
+    amuse and delight him.
+  - The old `libmesh/mesh_inserter_iterator.h` header is gone.  Rely
+    on `Node` and `Elem` unpacking specializations to insert
+    communicated objects into a target `UnstructuredMesh`.
+  - The `libmesh_make_unique` macro is gone.  Use `std::make_unique`
+    directly.
+  - The old `libmesh/auto_ptr.h` header and macro is gone.  Use
+    `std::unique_ptr`.
+  - `Utility::iota()` and `Utility::is_sorted()` are gone.  Use
+    `std::iota()` and `std::is_sorted()`
+  - `DynaIO::clear_spline_nodes()` is gone.  Use
+    `MeshTools::clear_spline_nodes()` instead.
+  - `DifferentiableSystem::swap_physics()` is gone.  Use `push_physics()` and
+    `pop_physics()` instead.
+  - `DifferentiableSystem::init_qoi()` is gone.  Override
+    `DifferentiableQoI::init_qoi_count()` in `DifferentiableQoI`
+    subclasses instead.
+  - `RBParameterized::get_parameter_names()` and an
+    `RBEvaluation::eval_output_dual_norm()` overload have been
+    removed.  Use `get_parameters_map()` or the remaining
+    `eval_output_dual_norm()` overload.
+- libMesh now throws `DegenerateMap` exceptions when encountering
+  singularities while evaluating geometric element mappings or
+  factoring dense matrices, not `LogicError` exceptions, which are
+  reserved for errors in logic.  Code catching these exceptions should
+  use the new type, or for compatibility with old libMesh can catch
+  `std::exception & e` and examine `e.what()` to determine the exception
+  details.
+- MetaPhysicL code can now run on accelerator/GPU devices, using Kokkos
+- `VariationalSmoother` now supports meshes with tetrahedral elements.
+- `VariationalSmoother` now supports fine-grained user-controlled
+  verbosity, and emits better error messages in cases where a smoother
+  optimization solve fails.
+- Added `SparseMatrix::print_coreform_hdf5`, to create CSR-structured
+  matrix data in HDF5 files in the Coreform format.
+- `LaplaceMeshSmoother` now has API signatures to match
+  `VariationalSmoother`.
+- `Elem::size_vertex_average_normal()` now supports `Edge3` (and in
+  theory `Edge4`) elements
+- Added `ExodusII_IO::set_unique_ids_from_maps()` to set `unique_id()`
+  rather than `id()` from Exodus file numbering.  This can be useful
+  for efficiency when loading very sparse numberings into a
+  `ReplicatedMesh`.
+- Added `libmesh_assert_valid_point_locator()` method to verify
+  `PointLocator` consistency when debugging with potentially-changed
+  meshes
+- Bug fixes:
+  - The VariationalSmoother is now calculating target elements
+    properly; this gives better-smoothed results for meshes with
+    triangle, prism, and pyramid elements.
+  - libMesh no longer triggers deprecation warnings with PETSc 3.24
+    and newer versions
+  - libMesh no longer triggers compiler warnings from NVidia HPC SDK
+    compilers
+
 ## PETSc-level Changes
 
+- PETSc was updated to v3.24.1
+
 ## Bug Fixes, Minor Changes, and Minor Enhancements
 
 ## Conda Package Changes