Libmesh update 20250205

conda/libmesh/meta.yaml

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 # As well as any directions pertaining to modifying those files.
 # ALSO: Follow the directions in scripts/tests/versioner_hashes.yaml
-{% set build = 1 %}
-{% set version = "2024.12.02" %}
+{% set build = 0 %}
+{% set version = "2025.02.25" %}
 
 package:
   name: moose-libmesh

conda/moose-dev/conda_build_config.yaml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ mpi:
   - openmpi
 
 moose_libmesh:
-  - moose-libmesh 2024.12.02 mpich_1
-  - moose-libmesh 2024.12.02 openmpi_1
+  - moose-libmesh 2025.02.25 mpich_0
+  - moose-libmesh 2025.02.25 openmpi_0
 
 moose_wasp:
   - moose-wasp 2025.02.25

conda/moose-dev/meta.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # REMEMBER TO UPDATE the .yaml files for the following packages:
 #   moose/conda_build_config.yaml
 # As well as any directions pertaining to modifying those files.
-{% set version = "2025.02.27" %}
+{% set version = "2025.03.03" %}
 
 package:
   name: moose-dev

conda/moose/conda_build_config.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ mpi:
   - openmpi
 
 moose_dev:
-  - moose-dev 2025.02.27
+  - moose-dev 2025.03.03
 
 #### Darwin SDK SYSROOT
 CONDA_BUILD_SYSROOT:                                        # [osx]

modules/doc/content/newsletter/2025/2025_02.md

@@ -11,6 +11,76 @@ for a complete description of all MOOSE changes.
 
 ## libMesh-level Changes
 
+### `2025.02.25` Update
+
+- Bug fix: `normals` vectors at the sides of edge elements in 3D,
+  which were previously hard-coded to return `(-1,0,0)` and `(1,0,0)`
+  at points 0 and 1 respectively (the correct solution only for
+  x-axis-aligned edges), are now correctly calculated for all edges in
+  2D/3D.  Compatibility with this fix required a corresponding fix in
+  one MOOSE application; developers of any applications not in MOOSE
+  CI who use non-x-axis-aligned edge elements may wish to test their
+  codes for result changes with this update.
+- Bug fix: H(curl) and H(div) element calculations are now correct on
+  2D elements embedded in 3D space and not parallel to the xy plane.
+- Bug fix: Some TIMPI communications of "packed-range" data (data with
+  variable-size data types), when given enough input data (typically
+  ~4MB by default) to split between multiple buffers and given an
+  output iterator that requires correct incrementation, were not
+  correctly preserving that iterator from one buffer to the next.
+  This has been fixed.
+- Fix for a multithreading error in applications where multiple
+  threads are encountering elements with negative mapping Jacobians
+- Preconditioning option, to scale new raw degrees of freedom, when
+  importing mesh constraint rows from a sparse matrix.  This can
+  greatly improve solver robustness on such constrained systems.
+- Support for the combination of subdomain-restricted variables with
+  subdomain-spanning mesh constraints.  This fixes errors from certain
+  use cases of subdomain-restricted variables on IsoGeometric
+  Analysis meshes.
+- Command line option `--mpi-thread-type` to manually choose between
+  "single", "funneled", "serialized", and "multiple" MPI
+  initialization threading options.  Initialization still defaults to
+  "funneled" (for maximum compatibility with older MPI
+  implementations), but users of slate/strumpack may need to specify
+  "multiple" for compatibility with those packages.
+- PetscMatrix support for hash-table-based matrices with newer PETSc
+  versions.  This will allow MOOSE much more flexibility in problems
+  (e.g. contact) where a priori determination of matrix sparsity
+  patterns is difficult.
+- Fixes for `HYPRE_SetMemoryLocation` in more complicated (e.g. field
+  split) configurations
+- Removed `contrib/boost`, which was a version incompatible with
+  C++17.  libMesh codes (including MOOSE) which require boost now must
+  have an external boost installation to use.
+- Support for and compiler flag selection for configuring libMesh with
+  newer Intel compilers
+- Bug fixes and first-order two-dimensional test coverage for
+  VariationalMeshSmoother.
+- `MeshTools::n_connected_components()` function to count the number
+  of connected components in a mesh
+- Added operator[] for DenseVector.  This is more consistent with
+  other vector/map container types, and enables more compatibility
+  with generic templated algorithms.
+- `PetscMatrix::frobenius_norm()` method, and refactoring of other
+  norm calculations
+- New `transient_ex3` example application demonstrating a explicit
+  DG/FV formulation of the 2D advection equation
+- Improvements and more options in `calculator` app
+- Improvements and bug fixes in reduced-basis code
+- New grad(div()) problem example code with Raviart-Thomas elements
+- Support for "packing" for Cap'n'Proto users
+- Bug fix in FParser optimized JIT output
+- Bug fix for `elem_default_orders()` print style in
+  `MeshBase::get_info()` and `print_info()`.
+- Bug fix for corrupt time stamps in Exodus outputs with a single time
+  step
+- Bug fixes in programmatic setting of PETSc preconditioners
+- Workarounds for older PETSc error-checking macros are now removed;
+  raw PETSc code should use `LibmeshPetscCall` for error checking.
+- General cleanup in autoconf (`./configure` source) code
+- General refactoring in `FEInterface`
+
 ## PETSc-level Changes
 
 ## Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

scripts/tests/versioner_hashes.yaml

@@ -832,3 +832,34 @@ fd5f7bc651f0d6a8e2d23e5d4c2c2dadca58aa0b: #29978
   wasp:
     full_version: 2025.02.25_0
     hash: 46ea1c0
+2d9ff14e1bf085cdf3219d5a477d7ed017b600a6: #29817
+  libmesh:
+    full_version: 2025.02.25_0
+    hash: dabc922
+  libmesh-vtk:
+    full_version: 9.3.0_5
+    hash: 9a4dbab
+  moose-dev:
+    full_version: 2025.03.03
+    hash: fcaa73c
+  mpi:
+    full_version: 2024.12.23
+    hash: 82bbd28
+  peacock:
+    full_version: 2024.12.23
+    hash: ef44cb6
+  petsc:
+    full_version: 3.22.1.193.g72c1e49ee3d_1
+    hash: e78a9a4
+  pprof:
+    full_version: 2024.12.23_0
+    hash: fe051bc
+  seacas:
+    full_version: 2024.08.15_2
+    hash: 2dd352c
+  tools:
+    full_version: 2024.12.23
+    hash: 5abb5f2
+  wasp:
+    full_version: 2025.02.25_0
+    hash: 46ea1c0

scripts/versioner.yaml

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ packages:
       - scripts/apple-silicon-hdf5-autogen.patch
   # dependers: moose-dev
   libmesh:
-    version: 2024.12.02
-    build_number: 1
+    version: 2025.02.25
+    build_number: 0
     conda: conda/libmesh
     templates:
       conda/libmesh/conda_build_config.yaml.template: conda/libmesh/conda_build_config.yaml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ packages:
       - python/pyhit/pyhit.py
   # dependers: none
   moose-dev:
-    version: 2025.02.27
+    version: 2025.03.03
     conda: conda/moose-dev
     templates:
       conda/moose-dev/conda_build_config.yaml.template: conda/moose-dev/conda_build_config.yaml