Merge pull request #112 from ComputationalRadiationPhysics/master

Merge Master ChangeLog

CHANGELOG.md

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 Change Log / Release Log for PIConGPU
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+Open Beta RC2
+-------------
+**Date:** 2013-11-27
+
+This is the second release candidate, a *pre-beta* version.
+
+### Changes to "Open Beta RC1"
+
+**.param file changes:**
+ - gasConfig.param:
+   - add gasFreeFormula #96
+     (example how to update your existing gasConfig.param, see
+     [https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/pull/96/files#diff-1])
+   - add inner radius to gasSphereFlanks #66
+     (example how to update your existing gasConfig.param, see
+     [https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/pull/66/files#diff-0])
+
+**New Features:**
+ - A change log was introduced for master releases #93
+ - new gas profile "gasFreeFormula" for user defined profiles #96
+ - CMake (config) #79
+   - checks for minimal required versions of dependent libraries #92
+   - checks for libSplash version #85
+   - update to v2.8.5+ #52
+   - implicit plugin selection: enabled if found #52
+   - throw more warnings #37
+   - experimental support for icc 12.1 and PGI 13.6 #37
+ - libPMacc
+   - full rewrite of the way we build particle frames # 86
+   - cuSTL: ForEach works on host 1D and 2D data now #44
+   - math::pow added #54
+   - compile time ForEach added #50
+ - libSplash
+   - dependency upgraded to beta (v1.0) release #80
+   - type traits for types PIConGPU - libSplash #69
+   - splash2txt update to beta interfaces #83
+ - new particle to grid routines calculating the Larmor energy #68
+ - dumping multiple FieldTmp to hdf5 now possible #50
+ - new config for SLURM batch system (taurus) #39
+
+**Bug fixes:**
+ - libPMacc
+   - cuSTL
+     - assign was broken for deviceBuffers #103
+     - lambda expressions were broken #42 #46 #100
+     - icc support was broken #100 #101
+     - views were broken #62
+   - InheritGenerator and deselect: icc fix #101
+   - VampirTrace (CUPTI) support: cudaDeviceReset added #90
+   - GameOfLife example fixed #53 #55
+   - warnings in __cudaKernel fixed #51
+ - picongpu
+   - removed all non-ascii chars from job scripts #95 #98
+   - CMake
+     - keep ptx code was broken #82
+     - PGI: string compare broken #75
+     - MPI: some libs require to load the C++ dependencies, too #64
+     - removed deprecated variables #52
+     - Threads: find package was missing #34
+   - various libSplash bugs #78 #80 #84
+   - current calculation speedup was broken #72
+   - Cell2Particle functor missed to provide static methods #49
+ - tools
+   - compile: script uses -q now implicit for parallel (-j N) tests
+   - plotDensity: update to new binary format #47
+ - libraries
+   - boost 1.55 work around, see trac #9392 (nvcc #391854)
+
+**Misc:**
+ - new reference: SC13 paper, Gordon Bell Finals #106
+ - new flavoured logo for alpha
+ - Compile Suite: GitHub integration #33 #35
+ - dropped CUDA sm_13 support (now sm_20+ is required) #42
+
+
 Open Beta RC1
 -------------
 **Date:** 2013-09-05 07:47:03 -0700