News
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* **21.11.2012** Version 2012.4 released (initial support for hierarchical
  basis on quadrilateral and brick elements, unified C/Cython structures for
  reference mappings, new linear combination boundary condition: edge
  direction, new examples showing some advanced features, etc.), see
  :ref:`release notes <2012.3-2012.4>`.

* **12.09.2012** Version 2012.3 released (several new terms, material
  parameters can be defined per region using region names, base function values
  can be defined per element, support for global options, etc.), see
  :ref:`release notes <2012.2-2012.3>`.

* **29.05.2012** Version 2012.2 released (reimplement acoustic band gaps code
  using the homogenization engine, high order quadrature rules, unify dot
  product and mass terms, lots of other term updates/fixes, update the PDE
  solver application, etc.), see :ref:`release notes <2012.1-2012.2>`.

* **27.02.2012** Version 2012.1 released (initial version of linearizer of
  higher order solutions, rewrite variable and evaluate cache history handling,
  lots of term updates/fixes/simplifications, move web front page to sphinx
  docs, etc.), see :ref:`release notes <2011.4-2012.1>`.

* **05.12.2011** Version 2011.4 released (cython used instead of swig to
  interface C code, many terms unified thanks to new optional material
  term argument type, updated Lagrangian formulation for large
  deformations, automatic generation of gallery of examples, etc.), see
  :ref:`release notes <2011.3-2011.4>`.

For historians: see :ref:`archived_news`.
