v0.96.22

Oceananigans v0.96.22

Diff since v0.96.21

Merged pull requests:

• Add a performance benchmark pipeline (#4375) (@simone-silvestri)
• Improve z-star tracer conservation tests (#4403) (@NoraLoose)
• Fused multiply add (fma) in stencil operations (#4407) (@simone-silvestri)
• Remove stretched advection (#4411) (@simone-silvestri)
• Don't invoke comm buffers on non-distributed grids and move to DistributedComputations (#4414) (@glwagner)
• Fix summary for PartialCellBottom (#4425) (@tomchor)
• Add CATKE and GPU dycore paper references (#4426) (@navidcy)
• Update CATKE docstring (#4427) (@navidcy)
• Remove trailing spaces part 2 (#4429) (@navidcy)
• Remove trailing white spaces part 3 (#4430) (@tomchor)
• Add operators functions for reciprocals of metrics (#4431) (@simone-silvestri)
• Add newton_div utility for fast (but approximate) mixed-precision computation of divisions (#4432) (@glwagner)
• Ensure user diffusivity NamedTuple have correct ordering (#4437) (@glwagner)
• Use tuple instead of vector in tilted_bottom_boundary_layer.jl (#4439) (@simone-silvestri)
• Compute the difference between the latest main and the PR (#4440) (@simone-silvestri)
• (0.96.22) Make NetCDFWriter work with GPU grids with stretched dimensions (#4441) (@tomchor)
• Improve benchmarks yml (#4442) (@simone-silvestri)
• Making condition size mismatch error a bit more helpful (#4443) (@taimoorsohail)
• Add Souza et al. 2025 + reorder refs chronologically (#4444) (@navidcy)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for MuladdMacro at version 0.2, (keep existing compat) (#4445) (@github-actions[bot])
• Use vertical spacing reciprocal in implicit solver (#4447) (@simone-silvestri)
• Adding the possibility of having dynamical particles (#4448) (@simone-silvestri)

Closed issues:

• Tracer conservation is broken in ZStar with Julia 1.11.4 (#4340)
• Improve and Verify Z-Star Tracer Conservation Tests (#4395)
• NetCDFWriter scalar indexing error on GPU (#4397)
• Tilted BBL example not working on GPU (#4438)

v0.96.21

Oceananigans v0.96.21

Diff since v0.96.20

Merged pull requests:

• Implement an interface for writing output with Simulation (#4271) (@glwagner)
• Remove trailing white spaces in code (#4304) (@tomchor)
• Reduce turbulence closure tests cost (#4380) (@simone-silvestri)
• Minor cosmetic improvements to internal tide example (#4400) (@glwagner)
• Intersect indices in output_construction (#4401) (@glwagner)
• Clean up buildkite pipeline slightly (#4404) (@glwagner)
• Mask implicit linear coefficient if inside an immersed boundary (#4405) (@simone-silvestri)
• Further clean up the buildkite yml (#4408) (@glwagner)
• Fix rendering + reference default_checkpointed_properties in Checkpointer docstring (#4410) (@jbisits)
• Clean up extra code in test_turbulence_closures.jl (#4415) (@tomchor)
• Add link to docstring of ConditionalOperations in the docs for various reductions (#4418) (@navidcy)
• Support Krylov.jl v0.10 (#4419) (@amontoison)
• Fix adapt for TKEDissipationDiffusivityFields (#4421) (@wsmoses)
• Bump to 0.96.21 (#4424) (@glwagner)

Closed issues:

• Turbulence closure tests taking a very long time (#4379)
• AMDGPU CI (#4398)
• Simulation callback: Error encountered when updating u_s with time (#4422)

v0.96.20

Oceananigans v0.96.20

Diff since v0.96.19

Merged pull requests:

• Replace IncompleteLU.jl by KrylovPreconditioners.jl (#3789) (@amontoison)
• Interface to Krylov.jl solvers (#4041) (@amontoison)
• Test zstar on a tripolar grid (#4360) (@simone-silvestri)
• Fix summary() for ConjugateGradientPoissonSolver (#4373) (@tomchor)
• Refactor implicit vertical diffusion solver to avoid passing diffusivity functions to kernel (#4377) (@glwagner)
• Clean up notation in compute_w kernel (#4378) (@glwagner)
• Add extensions for AMDGPU.jl and oneAPI.jl (#4381) (@amontoison)
• add bulidkite pipeline-juliagpu for AMD and oneAPI testing (#4389) (@glwagner)
• fix: better sharding constructs (#4390) (@avik-pal)
• Add topology-aware and conditional ops for AbstractArray (#4391) (@glwagner)
• Change isopycnal_skew_symmetric_diffusivity.jl to use DiffusiveFormulation (#4392) (@glwagner)

v0.96.19

Oceananigans v0.96.19

Diff since v0.96.18

Merged pull requests:

• Correctly account for field names in ContinuousBoundaryFunctions (#4008) (@simone-silvestri)
• Zstar test that actually test conservation (#4342) (@simone-silvestri)
• Add validation for condition kwarg in ConditionalOperation for immersed boundary grids (#4353) (@navidcy)
• Respect user condition for ConditionalOperation of reduced fields (#4357) (@glwagner)
• Add special function-set for sharding (#4363) (@glwagner)
• Refactor hydrostatic free surface names (#4366) (@glwagner)
• Require interval::Int in IterationInterval? (#4370) (@glwagner)
• Remove the performance hit from using KernelOffsets (#4372) (@simone-silvestri)
• Bump to 0.96.19 (#4374) (@glwagner)

Closed issues:

• The NotImmersedColumn misses extra user-defined condition (#4352)
• Performance regression issues (#4365)
• Using 1days should throw an error in IterationInterval in OutputWriters (#4369)

v0.96.18

Oceananigans v0.96.18

Diff since v0.96.17

Merged pull requests:

• Correcting split explicit barotropic velocities (#4355) (@simone-silvestri)
• (0.96.18) Update Project.toml (#4356) (@simone-silvestri)

Closed issues:

• CumulativeIntegral throws error when integrated over a reduced Field (#4078)

v0.96.17

Oceananigans v0.96.17

Diff since v0.96.16

Merged pull requests:

• Massive clean up for conditional operations (#3794) (@glwagner)
• Use polar criteria to build PolarBoundaryCondition (#4350) (@glwagner)
• Bump to 0.96.17 (#4351) (@glwagner)

v0.96.16

Oceananigans v0.96.16

Diff since v0.96.15

Merged pull requests:

• Build sharded coordinates on the CPU (#4343) (@simone-silvestri)
• fix: sharding dropped on LatLon Grid (#4344) (@avik-pal)
• Fix allocation of diffusion solver scratch field (#4345) (@glwagner)
• Bump to 0.96.16 (#4346) (@glwagner)

v0.96.15

Oceananigans v0.96.15

Diff since v0.96.14

Merged pull requests:

• More fixes for z sharding on vertically Flat grids (#4338) (@glwagner)
• Throw an error when the partitioning seems wrong (#4339) (@glwagner)
• Bump to 0.96.15 (#4341) (@glwagner)

v0.96.14

Oceananigans v0.96.14

Diff since v0.96.13

Merged pull requests:

• Fix a memory allocation issues (#4336) (@simone-silvestri)
• (0.96.14) Support Flat vertical dir: sharded_z for z::Nothing (#4337) (@glwagner)

v0.96.13

Oceananigans v0.96.13

Diff since v0.96.12

Merged pull requests:

• fix: create the grid directly on device (#4334) (@avik-pal)
• Bump 0.96.13 (#4335) (@glwagner)