RELEASE_NOTES.txt

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Beginning with version 2.06.00, this file records all significant changes
made to the code, with the goal being to let users know if/why they should
migrate from one version to another.

Previous major changes are as follows.

1997 - 1999:
  Initial development, several releases to the ALE3D group at LLNL and
  to the SIERRA group and Sandia. None of these early releases are able to
  be recovered or supported any longer.

Nov 8, 1999: version 1.2.0
  This version had the monogram 'FEI_' prepended to the C wrapper functions.
  The primary point of interaction for a C++ user became the class
  called FEI_Implementation.

Feb 22, 2000: version 1.3.0
  This version remodeled the C wrapper functions to use C structs for context
  rather than an index into a static array of FEI instances.
  Also, all FEI functions began returning integer error codes.

Mar 17, 2000: version 1.4.0
  This version added the 'residualNorm' capability to both the public FEI
  interface and the underlying LinearSystemCore interface.

July 18, 2000: version 1.5.0
  This version added the public FEI methods 'resetMatrix' and 'resetRHSVector'.

December 2000: version 1.5.7
  This was the last of the 1.5 releases.

Dec 11, 2000: version 2.0.0
  This version contained several significant interface changes.
   - Some multi-dimensioned array arguments were replaced with cleaner 1-D
     pointers.
   - The cumbersome 'begin/end' sequence used in many FEI method-calling
     sequences was removed.
   - Added missing 'putIntoSystemMatrix' function implementation in the
     ISIS-support code.

Jan 24, 2002: many minor versions up to 2.0.25
  Many implementation improvements, some performance improvements, several
  bug-fixes related to multi-physics problems (differing element-blocks etc.),
  shared-node and other parallel issues, boundary-condition handling.

March 7, 2002: version 2.1.0
  Added the public FEI method for initializing 'slave variables'. This is
  also otherwise referred to as constraint reduction. It is an
  alternative to using Lagrange-Multiplier constraints. Instead, a dependent
  degree-of-freedom or slave variable is chosen for each constraint, and the
  constraint is essentially projected out of the system. This allows for
  solving constrained problems without producing indefinite matrices. It allows
  some problems to be solved that previously couldn't be solved by iterative
  solvers.
  Around this time the "new" fei interfaces began to be deployed also. This is
  a significant modularization of the fei, where the single monolithic
  interface is broken up into separate classes to handle initialization and
  population of VectorSpaces, MatrixGraphs, etc. An abstraction layer which
  encapsulates general linear-system and linear-solver concepts is preserved,
  but it's no longer an obstruction to the user. Users are now able to
  access and manipulate all underlying solver-library objects and data, if
  they wish to.
  Also, the narrow focus on nodal finite-element formulations has been
  abandoned.
  These new abstract interfaces lie in the "fei::" namespace, and concrete
  implementations of them lie in the "snl_fei::" namespace.
  Starting now, the fei code distribution will carry two version numbers:
  The "old" single large FEI interface will continue to carry the
  version number 2.1.x, and will continue to be maintained and supported but
  not further developed.
  The "new" family of fei:: and snl_fei:: classes will start with the current
  version number but the version number of the code-distribution will be
  incremented as they are developed and changed.

several release versions up to 2.5.0  Dec 11, 2002
  A variety of bug-fixes to the constraint-reduction capability, along with
  performance improvements and general maintenance, and the FEI version is
  now at 2.1.13.
  Several interface changes as the new modular interfaces evolve and stabilize.

May 2, 2003: version 2.06.00
  - Variety of minor bug-fixes, general 'code-tightening'.
  - Further stabilization of new interfaces, improved Factory support.
  - Users can *optionally* now specify that the STL map be used for internal
  fei storage and lookup operations. This is a significant performance increase
  in some cases. This doesn't appear to work correctly on janus at this time
  due to an error in the Rogue Wave STL implementation on that platform. There
  also appears to be a problem in optimized mode on SGI...
  - Fixed minor memory errors and leaks in src/utest/cube.C and cube3.C
  - Fixed minor bug in EqnCommMgr::deepCopy.
  - The new snl_fei:: implementations can now solve complete test problems
  that involve constraint-reduction.
  - Added support for using Epetra_VbrMatrix as the template parameter for the
  snl_fei::Matrix<> class. This needs further work, it contains hotspots and
  parallelization bugs. But the initial capability can run tests in serial.
  - No longer maintain confusing separate version numbers for "old" and "new"
    FEI interfaces. The one-and-only version number is now 2.06.00.

April 21, 2004: version 2.07.00
  - Variety of minor bug-fixes
  - Performance optimizations
  - Improved some interfaces, such as the Factory interfaces.
  - Improved support for Trilinos, including the relatively new packages
    Amesos and ML.

June 17 2004: version 2.08.00
  - Add a method to fei::MatrixGraph so that two matrix-graph objects
    can be compared to see whether they are structurally equivalent.

July 12 2004: version 2.09.00
  - More refinement of capabilities in the "new" interfaces
  - improved support for Amesos and ML packages in Trilinos

July 20 2004: version 2.10.00
  - improved support for ML (ability to control debug output)
  - improvements to comm code
  - fleshed out snl_fei::Super class (eventual replacement for
    FEI_Implementation)

December 09 2004: version 2.11.00
  - restructuring of template code to allow explicit instantiation
  - restructuring of headers containing configuration macros to
    improve portability, and ensure that applications never need to
    provide fei macros when compiling application code
  - improvement of snl_fei::Set to allow std::set implementation
  - addition of performance regression tests
  - further development of snl_fei::Super, to now include aggregate
    solve cases. at this point it can handle most cases that
    FEI_Implementation can handle. (snl_fei::Super implements the FEI
    interface, same as FEI_Implementation, but is based on newer underlying
    implementation code. There are a couple of functions in the FEI
    interface that snl_fei::Super has not implemented...)
  - begin using std::vector and std::string (from <vector> and <string>)
    The C++ standard has been around long enough now that it is reasonable
    to require these.
  - modernizing/improving parameter-setting methods, and I/O/parsing code.
  - begin using exceptions and eliminating antiquated int return-code interfaces
  - continuing improvements to autoconf-configure scripts and portability
  - add a shared-pointer container to improve the memory management model. This
    removes uncertainty regarding life-span of objects created by factories,
    and used by other created objects. i.e., the user will no longer need to
    figure out when objects can be destroyed, etc.
  - significant optimization of slave-constraint-reduction

March 02 2005: version 2.12.00
  - stabilization/consolidation version
  - finish remodeling of interfaces to return useful results rather than
    err-codes
  - finish integration of fei::SharedPtr
  - improve performance regression test mechanisms
  - fix bug in slave-constraint reduction where constraints with nonzero
    right-hand-side values were not being handled correctly.

March 18 2005: version 2.13.00
  - further work on the slave-constraint nonzero right-hand-side fix. Now allow
    caller to reset constraint coefficients for all types of constraints.
  - also update fei/support-Trilinos to use recently released Trilinos 5.0.

July 7 2005: version 2.14.00
  - fix a bug where id-type was hard-wired to 0 in BCManager (where it gets
    indices from fei::VectorSpace).
  - re-organized the getConnectivityIndices methods in fei::MatrixGraph.
    Moved some of them to fei::VectorSpace.
  - fixed some memory leaks in usage of Trilinos/Amesos/ML
  - changed some code in support-Trilinos to use Epetra_MultiVector instead
    of Epetra_Vector
  - added methods to Factory_Trilinos to wrap fei::Vector objects around
    already-existing Epetra_MultiVector objects.
  - substantial performance optimizations in matrix-graph creation and in
    assembly of matrices when there are master-slave constraints
  - removed 'using std' directives from fei headers. (those directives were
    used to allow for some platforms supplying 'std::ostream'  in <iostream>
    while other platforms supplied 'ostream' in <iostream.h>. This is now
    handled via fei macros.

 July 13 2005: minor version 2.14.01
  - minor performance improvement in SNL_FEI_Structure

 Aug 8 2005: minor version 2.14.02
  - fixed compile error in snl_fei_Database_Map.h related to instantiating
    Database template with the second template parameter being a pair.
  - added some #undefs in include/base/fei_autoconf_macros.h to make sure
    that the autoconf-defined macros PACKAGE_NAME, etc., can't be seen by
    calling-code compilation scopes.

 Aug 9 2005: minor version 2.14.03
  - temporarily added '#include <stdio.h>' because a few files still use
    some old C io stuff like sprintf and FILE,fopen, etc. This stuff will
    all be converted to C++ io for version 2.15.

 Aug 23 2005: minor version 2.14.04
  - changes to snl_fei::LinearSystem_General and Solver_AztecOO to respond
    to debug-output parameters to dump matrix and vector files. Solver_AztecOO
    wasn't printing out the solution vector at all, and LinearSystem_General
    was only responding to FEI_OUTPUT_LEVEL but not outputLevel.
  - fix a couple of memory leaks in src/support-Trilinos/Solver_AztecOO.C that
    were related to usage of the Trilinos ML package. At least one of these
    fixes was made in fei version 2.13, but not in the fei votd branch, so it
    hadn't made it into version 2.14.

 Sep 13 2005: minor version 2.14.05
  - fixed fei_hash_map.h and fei_hash_set.h so they would compile using
    the intel compiler. Previously they were erroneously depending on the
    __GNUC__ macro to mean that g++ was being used. Unfortunately, the intel
    compiler also defines that macro.

 Sep 14 2005: minor version 2.14.06
  - minor interface additions:
    + fei::MatrixGraph::getConstrainedIndices fills a vector of global indices
      that are involved in constraint-relations.
    + fei::LinearSystem::eqnIsEssentialBC,
      fei::LinearSystem::getEssentialBC_Eqns,
      fei::LinearSystem::getConstrainedEqns
        The first two methods relate to equations for which essential BCs
        are imposed. The third one is similar to the above MatrixGraph method.
  - also alter the mirrorProcs functions in EqnCommMgr and snl_fei::CommUtils
    to use MPI_Reduce_scatter rather than point-to-point recvs and sends.
  - switch to Trilinos 6.0

 Oct 26 2005: version 2.15.00
  - removed all occurrences of sprintf,fprintf,FILE, and other symbols from
    stdio.h, from all fei sources in include/base and src/base. Some still
    exist in src/utest/cFeiTester.C.
  - fix memory leaks in src/support-Trilinos/Solver_AztecOO.C associated
    with usage of Trilinos ML package.
  - add support for submatrix/elem-matrix format FEI_BLOCK_DIAGONAL_ROW
  - remove executables cube, cube3, poisson, poisson3, feiDriver. These are now
    replaced by running Utst_base with the -main argument to specify one of
    cube_main, cube3_main, poisson_main or poisson3_main, feiDriver_main.
  - performance improvements in FEDataFilter.C, which is the layer that
    passes data to the FETI-DP solver.
  - debug some VBR loading issues, also debugged the HexCubeCR class in utils.

 Dec 22 2005: version 2.16.00
  - eliminate snl_fei::Database (instead using std::map, now that janus is
    no longer supported)
  - eliminate un-needed headers snl_fei_hash_map.h, FEI_SNL.h, LSC.h
  - remove support for the ISIS++ and SPOOLES solver libraries
  - substantial improvements in src/support-Trilinos/Solver_AztecOO, to
    improve parameter parsing, and allow it to detect when the matrix hasn't
    changed since the last solve, and reuse preconditioner data.

 Jan 09 2006: minor version 2.16.01
  - a bug in the loading of lagrange constraint coefficients was causing
    the array in which the coefficients are stored, to be twice too long.
    This bug was exposed only when running the Sierra/eagle application
    with the ML-NOX solver.

 Feb 20 2006: minor version 2.16.02
  - For essential/dirichlet BC enforcement, the column-modification is now
    optional. Pass this parameter to the linear-system:
     BC_ENFORCEMENT_NO_COLUMN_MOD

 Mar 6 2006 minor version 2.16.03
  - Minor bug fix. A temporary string variable in FEI_Implementation::
     allocateInternalFEIs was being referenced after it went out of scope,
     causing purify to flag free-memory-read errors.

 Mar 17 2006 minor version 2.16.04
  - Bug-fix related to slave-constraint reduction. When multiple fields
    at the same (finite-element) node were being slaved, indexing was not
    being done correctly and wrong answers were being produced.

 Mar 30 2006 minor version 2.16.05
  - Fix some minor compiler warnings that were appearing on the sun10
    platform.

 Apr 5 2006 minor version 2.16.06
  - Fix some parameter-handling specific to Trilinos/AztecOO usage.
    (User-specified max-iters and tolerance were sometimes being
    over-ridden by default values.)

 Apr 27 2006 minor version 2.16.07
  - Fix a bug related to rectangular matrix contributions combined with
    slave constraints.

 May 10 2006 version 2.17.00
  - Rename files so that C++ headers have extension .hpp and C++ sources
    have extension .cpp.
  - Extensively improve in-header doxygen documentation.
  - Reorganize directory structure so that headers and sources are not in
    separate 'include' and 'src' directory trees. 'include/base' and 'src/base'
    are now replaced with simply 'base'. 'include/utils' and 'src/utils'
    are now replaced with 'test_utils'.
  - Bug-fix related to slave-constraint reduction. When multiple fields
    at the same (finite-element) node were being slaved, indexing was not
    being done correctly and wrong answers were being produced.
  - Removed the obscure and rarely-used SocketOStream stuff that was for
    sending matrix data to a socket. The code was a portability problem,
    and it's better to just write the matrix to a file for later viewing.

 Jul 24 2006 minor version 2.17.01

 Aug 15 2006 version 2.18.00
  - fix vector->copyOut functions to ignore out-of-range indices
  - add fei_fwd.hpp header, etc.

 Feb 12 2007 version 2.19.00
  - Performance optimizations in AztecDMSR_Matrix class, among several other
    minor changes. Also switch to use Trilinos 7.0.2.
  - Several changes/improvements in the fei/make_distribution directory,
    in files associated with the autoconf/make distribution of fei.

 Apr 12 2007 version 2.20.00
  - Replaced more instances of feiArray with std::vector.
  - Fixed bug in "old-fei", where element-dofs were not being handled
    correctly in parallel. The error was occurring in SNL_FEI_Structure.cpp.
  - Fixed bug in "new-fei", where a seg-fault was occurring if one processor
    in a multi-proc run had no data (no locally-owned eqns). The error
    was occurring in snl_fei_RaggedTable_specialize.cpp.
  - Remove some dead code (related to slave-reduction) from FEDataFilter.cpp.
    Slave-reduction can't be used with FETI. Also removed the check where
    FEDataFilter.cpp decides whether to pass a 'loadComplete' call on through
    to FETI. It should always be passed through.
  - Removed the explicit template instantiation option
    (--enable-explicit-templates). This was a maintenance problem and didn't
    provide a clear benefit.
  - Fixed a bug in snl_fei::Vector_base::copyOut where incorrect indices were
    being obtained and used for slave dofs.
  - All 2.20.00 changes are included in revision 24 of the subversion
    repository, April 16, 2007.

 Apr 19 2007 minor version 2.20.1
  - Fix a bug encountered in Adagio, where FEDataFilter.cpp was creating
    screen-output for inconsequential feiArray out-of-bounds errors.

 May 18 2007 version 2.21.00
  - renamed a couple of fei::VectorSpace methods:
      - getNumLocalIDs becomes getNumOwnedAndSharedIDs
      - getLocalIDs becomes getOwnedAndSharedIDs 
  - long overdue overhaul of the slave-constraint reduction code. This is
    actually pretty major, several classes removed and new classes added.
    Improves robustness, gives more verbose error messages in at least
    some cases. Specifically motivated by errors that were appearing in some
    parallel adaptive SIERRA/Calore cases.
  - Also includes a fix for the utility function snl_fei::removeCouplings
    which had a horrible hot-spot that caused cases with more than a few
    thousand slave constraints to run extremely slowly, and occasionally
    incorrectly.
  - All 2.21.00 changes are included in revision 39 of the subversion
    repository.
  - Additionally, this revision is copied to branch "branches/2.21" in the
    subversion repository.

 Jun 08 2007 minor version 2.21.01
  - Fix bug in remote-bc-enforcement when slave constraints are present.
  - Fix memory leak in fei::MatrixGraph_Impl2::initComplete (in
    createSlaveMatrices, during SSVec::operator=)

 Jun 27 2007 minor version 2.21.02
  - Fix naming/numbering of output files containing matrices/vectors. It
    was incorrect for the Fuego application, which uses several linear systems
    at once, and shares some fei objects among them.

 Oct 5 2007 minor version 2.21.03
  - Fix a compiler error for GC 4.1.2 on reddish, where a template was being
    specialized outside the namespace it had been declared in.
  - Couple other minor tweaks related to building against Trilinos, with some
    packages being missing or disabled.

 Jan 10 2008 version 2.22.00
  - Fix bug in enforcement of remote ess BCs, when slave constraints are
    present. (This bug was encountered by a parallel adaptive aria case.)
  - Fix bug related to element-dofs, where solution values could come out
    in the wrong order, depending on what order the elements were initialized.
    A level of indirection was missing in the equation indexing.
  - Added local-assembly classes fei::Matrix_Local and fei::Vector_Local,
    which simply accumulate subdomain matrices and vectors without assembling
    them into global objects with uniquely owned rows.
  - fei_eps ("arbitrary small number") used to be 1.e-49, has now been
    replaced with std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon() in a couple of places.
    Replacing all occurrences seemed to cause some numerical diffs, which will
    be further investigated in a future release.
  - fix a memory leak which occurred during fei::MatrixGraph_Impl2::initComplete
    (during the SSVec::operator= assignment operator).
  - Significant progress towards removing the feiArray template, replacing it
    with std::vector. This is a big job, not finished yet.
  - Move several classes from the 'snl_fei' namespace to the 'fei' namespace.
    Originally, the intent was to only have abstract interfaces in the fei
    namespace, with concrete implementation classes in the snl_fei namespace.
    It has been decided now that there is really no need to have separate
    namespaces, and so the snl_fei namespace is being eliminated. All classes
    will be moved into the fei namespace. This is a big job, may be spread
    over a couple of fei release versions.
  - Removed the implementation class snl_fei::IdxSet. It was an experimental
    class which turned out to not be worth the effort.
  - Moved FEI code distribution into Trilinos. FEI will now be a Trilinos
    package. This will have several advantages. One dis-advantage is that
    Trilinos uses a CVS repository, so we will lose code-history from the
    FEI subversion repository. But the FEI subversion repository will not be
    immediately deleted, so previous versions can still be retrieved if needed.
  - Fixed constraint-relation bug whereby fei was incorrectly identifying all
    nodes in a slave-constraint as slave nodes. Only one of the nodes in the
    constraint is a slave, the rest are master-nodes.
  - To get a copy of fei which matches what Sierra has for version 2.22, do a
    cvs checkout data 4:30pm on 1/11/2008.

 Jan 28 2008 minor version 2.22.01
  - add a missing end-quote for line 44 of fei_iostream.hpp. This was causing a
    compile error on just one platform surprisingly (intel 8.1).
  - fixed a compile error that only showed up on Mac OS X, where
    fei_Pool_alloc.hpp was missing a templated member 'construct'.

 Feb 21 2008 minor version 2.22.02
  - fixed a bug where the hasSlaveDof_ member of fei::Record wasn't initialized
    in the constructor. This was causing some erroneous is_slave() queries in
    the Aria application.
  - added a call to AZ_manage_memory(AZ_CLEAR_ALL) in fei_Solver_AztecOO's
    destructor, to make sure that Aztec cleans up any memory allocated with
    AZ_keep_info=1. This cured some memory leaks seen by the Aria application.
  - Fixed a compile-error in fei_Pool_alloc.hpp where the max_size() function
    was not defined.

 May 5 2008 minor version 2.22.03
  - Fixed a few method signatures in fei::Matrix and derived classes for
    const-ness. (Some methods which could have been const, weren't.) Also
    fixed similar issues in fei::Vector and derived classes.
  - Fixed some array-bounds-read errors in fei::ctg_set.

 June 12 2008 minor version 2.22.04
  - Fixed a bug in fei_AztecDMSR_Matrix.cpp where sumIntoRow wasn't handling
    the case where an incoming list of column-indices contains repeated
    indices.
  - Minor change in fei::Matrix_Impl::writeToFile to sort column-indices (and
    corresponding coefficients) in each row before writing to file. This
    ensures that matrix entries will be written out in the same order for
    the "old" Aztec DMSR structure as for the Epetra_CrsMatrix. It simply makes
    the resulting matrix-market files diff-able against each other.
  - Re-arranged the OutputLevel enums in fei_fwd.hpp to put MATRIX_FILES
    below BRIEF_LOGS. This changes slightly the debug-output-logging behavior
    in some cases, producing fewer and smaller files when matrix files are all
    that is really wanted.
  - Corrected fei_macros.hpp so that non-MPI builds work correctly. (Respond
    correctly if HAVE_MPI is not set.)
  - Alter the logging behavior so that if multiple linear systems are being
    used, output of matrix files can be specified for some of them rather than
    all or none.

 July 21 2008 minor version 2.22.05
  - Fix insidious memory leak where fei::FillableMat (which uses a pool-
    allocator) wasn't returning its memory to the pool on destruction. This
    resulted in memory leaking during the program's execution, but the memory
    still gets cleaned up at program exit. Thus tools like purify couldn't 
    spot it, but it was exhausting available memory for long runs.
  - Fix a link error on IBM due to fei_Aztec_Vector.cpp containing an explicit
    reference to dcopy_. IBM's fortran symbols don't have trailing underscores.

 July 25 2008 minor version 2.22.06
  - Fix a bug in fei_AztecDMSR_Matrix::sumIntoRow where a certain case of
    input (1 row index, 1 col index, row == col) caused an array-bounds-read.

 Aug 18 2008 minor version 2.22.07
  - Add simplified API functions for dirichlet boundary condition
    specifications. Rather than the confusing previous scheme that took
    alpha/beta/gamma arguments, the new functions simply take lists of
    prescribed values along with the ids and field-ids which specify where
    the prescribed value is to be imposed. This allows the underlying
    implementation code to be greatly simplified also.

 Sep 10 2008 version 2.23.00
  - Removed API functions (and implementations) for the old boundary-condition
    mechanism that involved the alpha/beta/gamma arguments. Replacement
    functions accept lists of prescribed values along with offsets into the
    field for which values are being specified. This is more intuitive, and
    the implementation code is more robust. As part of this, removed the
    fei_BCRecord.* and fei_BCManager.* files.
  - Removed the fei::Exception class. Now use std::runtime_error instead.
    Also removed feiPoolAllocator. Now use fei_Pool_alloc, which is more
    similar to a standard allocator.
  - Fixed a bug in fei_Aztec_LinSysCore.cpp where dirichlet boundary-condition
    enforcement was assuming that the structure of the matrix is symmetric.

 Oct 09 2008 minor version 2.23.01
  - Fixed a bug where fei::VectorSpace::getGlobalIndexOffsets would seg-fault
    if called before any initialization data had been input.
  - Fixed a bug in fei_Reducer.cpp where submatrix contributions were
    assumed to be symmetric.

 Dec 18 2008 minor version 2.23.02
  - Fixed a performance problem in fei_Aztec_LinSysCore.cpp in the method
    enforceEssentialBCs. It now executes much faster in performing the
    column modification.
  - Fixed a bug in base/fei_Reducer.cpp that was erroneously assuming
    matrix symmetry.
  - Fixed a bug in base/fei_Reducer.cpp that was erroneously using the
    projection reduction for solution-vector operations. It should only
    use the projection for right-hand-side and matrix assembly ops.

 Jan 13 2009 minor version 2.23.03
  - Fix a bug in AztecDMSR_Matrix where maxRowLen_ was not calculated
    correctly. This was causing an error in the sumIntoRow method that
    was discovered by a Sierra application. maxRowLen_ is no longer a
    class member. A non-member temporary maxRowLen is now computed and
    used in sumIntoRow.

 Mar 11 2009 version 2.24.00
  - Removed classes fei::CommCore, fei::CommUtilsBase, snl_fei::CommUtils. These
    are replaced by functions in fei_CommUtils.hpp. This is a simplification
    and cleanup of the communications-code infrastructure.
  - Changed several method APIs in fei::VectorSpace and fei::MatrixGraph,
    to replace the three-argument pattern
    (..., int alloc_len, int* array, int& used_len, ...)
    with simply passing in a reference to a std::vector. This is a much
    better mechanism for filling an array to return to the caller.
    There are still occurrences of the cumbersome three-argument pattern in
    various fei API's, but all of them will eventually be replaced.
  - Removed remaining occurences of feiArray, using std::vector instead. This
    effects the API in places where an array is a return value. Specifically
    in the snl_fei::Constraint class, methods like getMasterWeights(), etc.
  - Continued development of fei::FillableMat, fei::CSRMat and fei::CSVec.
  - Removed fei_SSVec.{hpp,cpp} and fei_SSMat.{hpp,cpp}, which have now been
    replaced by fei::Fillable{Mat,Vec} and CSRMat,CSVec.
  - Removed fei_SSGraph.{hpp,cpp}
  - Removed the *CoefAccessPattern* functions from the 'old' FEI interface.
    These methods were ill-conceived and overly cumbersome, and not used by
    any known customers.
  - Removed support for the PETSc library. This support code was extremely
    outdated, tied to a 5-year-old version of PETSc.
  - Remove the 'C' support files. As far as I know these were unused.
  - Fixed bug in fei_Solver_AztecOO.cpp where using ML multiple times led to
    a null pointer read in Aztec.

 Aug 20 2009 minor version 2.24.01
  - Fixed a couple issues of const-ness in fei::Vector_Impl and
    fei::Matrix_Impl, and several other APIs.
  - Removed an unused argument (reducer) from
    fei::Trilinos_Helpers::create_Epetra_CrsGraph.
  - Added matrix diagonal contribution for FiniteElementData interface.
    (Not yet implemented for other objects.)
  - change API for MatrixGraph::definePattern so that patternID is an output
    rather than an input.
  - changed a few (mostly internal) functions to have void return-type instead
    of int error-code.

 ??? ?? ???? minor version 2.24.02
  - Made headers in support-Trilinos self-sufficient; i.e., can be included by
    code that doesn't first include headers like fei_trilinos_macros.hpp.
  - Corrected a constness issue in fei::ReverseMapper.