NanoComp · stevengj · Aug 11, 2021 · Aug 7, 2021 · Aug 8, 2021 · Aug 11, 2021
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 # Meep Release Notes
 
+## Meep 1.20.0
+
+8/11/2021
+
+* Support for decimation of the DFT time-series updates ([#1684], [#1720], [#1722]).
+
+* Support for optional single-precision floating point for the DFT fields arrays ([#1675]).
+
+* Support for cache-oblivious loop tiling of the step-curl field updates ([#1655]).
+
+* Performance improvements in chunk-to-chunk communication ([#1656], [#1721]).
+
+* Code coverage for Python API via GitHub Actions ([#1651]).
+
+* Various bugfixes ([#1692], [#1704]), minor improvements, and additional documentation.
+
 ## Meep 1.19.0
 
 7/6/2021
@@ -424,7 +440,7 @@
 
   * Bug fixes in LDOS computation.
 
-  * Work around gcc bug [#54498], which caused a spurious PML test
+  * Work around gcc bug #54498, which caused a spurious PML test
     failure with gcc 4.7 and 4.7.1; thanks to Brahmanand Jogai and
     Thorsten Alteholz for the bug reports.
 
@@ -551,7 +567,7 @@ Meep 1.0.1
   * Fix failure in flux test under gcc 4.3.1 in some cases; thanks
     to Alex Prengel for the bug report.
 
-  * Fix compilation problem with gcc 4.4, correcting Debian bug [#505002].
+  * Fix compilation problem with gcc 4.4, correcting Debian bug #505002.
 
 ## Meep 1.0
 
@@ -779,171 +795,6 @@ Meep 1.0.1
   * Initial public release.
 
 <!--- generated links: -->
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@@ -1117,6 +968,14 @@ Meep 1.0.1
 [#1623]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1623
 [#1634]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1634
 [#1635]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1635
+[#1651]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1651
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-[#54498]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/54498
-[#505002]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/505002
+[#1655]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1655
+[#1656]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1656
+[#1675]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1675
+[#1684]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1684
+[#1692]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1692
+[#1704]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1704
+[#1720]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1720
+[#1721]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1721
+[#1722]: https://github.com/NanoComp/meep/issues/1722
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 -   Simulation in **1d, 2d, 3d**, and **cylindrical** coordinates.
 -   Distributed memory [parallelism](https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Parallel_Meep) on any system supporting [MPI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPI).
 -   Portable to any Unix-like operating system such as [Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux), [macOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/macOS), and [FreeBSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD).
--   **Precompiled binary packages** of official releases and nightly builds of the master branch via [Conda](https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation/#conda-packages).
+-   **Precompiled binary packages** of official releases via [Conda](https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation/#conda-packages).
 -   Variety of arbitrary [material](https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Materials) types: **anisotropic** electric permittivity ε and magnetic permeability μ, along with **dispersive** ε(ω) and μ(ω) including loss/gain, **nonlinear** (Kerr & Pockels) dielectric and magnetic materials, electric/magnetic **conductivities** σ, **saturable** gain/absorption, and **gyrotropic** media (magneto-optical effects).
 -   [Materials library](https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Materials/#materials-library) containing predefined broadband, complex refractive indices.
 -   [Perfectly matched layer](https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Perfectly_Matched_Layer) (**PML**) absorbing boundaries as well as **Bloch-periodic** and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_INIT([meep],[m4_esyscmd(./version.sh 1.20.0-beta)])
+AC_INIT([meep],[m4_esyscmd(./version.sh 1.20.0)])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/step.cpp)
 
 # Shared-library version number; indicates api compatibility, and is
 # not the same as the "public" version number.  (Don't worry about this
 # except for public releases.) Note that any change to a C++ class
 # definition (in the .hpp file) generally breaks binary compatibility.
-SHARED_VERSION_INFO="24:0:0" # CURRENT:REVISION:AGE
+SHARED_VERSION_INFO="25:0:0" # CURRENT:REVISION:AGE
 
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign color-tests parallel-tests silent-rules 1.11])
 AM_SILENT_RULES(yes)

diff --git a/doc/docs/Acknowledgements.md b/doc/docs/Acknowledgements.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Authors
 -------
 
-Meep originated as part of graduate research at [MIT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) with initial contributions by [Steven G. Johnson](http://math.mit.edu/~stevenj/), [Ardavan Oskooi](http://ab-initio.mit.edu/~oskooi/), [David Roundy](http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~roundyd/), [Mihai Ibanescu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihai-ibanescu-2b147825/), and [Peter Bermel](http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pbermel/). Currently, the Meep project is maintained by [Simpetus](http://www.simpetus.com) and the developer community on [GitHub](https://github.com/NanoComp/meep). [Christopher Hogan](https://github.com/ChristopherHogan) and [M.T. Homer Reid](http://homerreid.dyndns.org/) lead the development of the [Python interface](Python_User_Interface.md), [mode-decomposition feature](Python_Tutorials/Mode_Decomposition.md), and [GDSII import routines](Python_Tutorials/GDSII_Import.md). M.T. Homer Reid and [Alec Hammond](https://github.com/smartalecH/) developed the [adjoint solver](Python_Tutorials/Adjoint_Solver.md). [Alex Cerjan](http://www.alexcerjan.com/) assisted with adding support for saturable absorption via [multilevel atomic gain media](Materials.md#saturable-gain-and-absorption). Alec Hammond developed the [visualization module](Python_User_Interface.md#data-visualization). [Yidong Chong](http://www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~ydchong/bio.html) and Alex Cerjan added support for [gyrotropic media](Materials.md#gyrotropic-media).
+Meep originated as part of graduate research at [MIT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) in the mid 2000s with initial contributions by [Steven G. Johnson](http://math.mit.edu/~stevenj/), [Ardavan Oskooi](http://ab-initio.mit.edu/~oskooi/), [David Roundy](http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~roundyd/), [Mihai Ibanescu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihai-ibanescu-2b147825/), and [Peter Bermel](http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pbermel/). The project has been under continuous development for nearly 20 years. Currently, the Meep project is maintained by an active developer community on [GitHub](https://github.com/NanoComp/meep). [Christopher Hogan](https://github.com/ChristopherHogan) and [M.T. Homer Reid](http://homerreid.dyndns.org/) lead the development of the [Python interface](Python_User_Interface.md), [mode-decomposition feature](Python_Tutorials/Mode_Decomposition.md), and [GDSII import routines](Python_Tutorials/GDSII_Import.md). M.T. Homer Reid and [Alec Hammond](https://github.com/smartalecH/) developed the [adjoint solver](Python_Tutorials/Adjoint_Solver.md). [Alex Cerjan](http://www.alexcerjan.com/) assisted with adding support for saturable absorption via [multilevel atomic gain media](Materials.md#saturable-gain-and-absorption). Alec Hammond developed the [visualization module](Python_User_Interface.md#data-visualization). [Yidong Chong](http://www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~ydchong/bio.html) and Alex Cerjan added support for [gyrotropic media](Materials.md#gyrotropic-media). [Andreas Hoenselaar](https://github.com/ahoenselaar) contributed to several performance enhancements.
 
 Referencing
 -----------
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ General references on the FDTD method include, for example:
 Financial Support
 -----------------
 
-Meep's continued development has been supported by Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 and 2 awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under award numbers [1647206](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647206) and [1758596](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758596). Initial development was supported in part by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program of the NSF under award numbers DMR-9400334 and DMR-0819762, by the Army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies under DAAD-19-02-D0002, and DARPA under N00014-05-1-0700 administered by the Office of Naval Research.
+Meep's development has been supported by Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 and 2 awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under award numbers [1647206](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647206) and [1758596](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758596). Initial development was supported in part by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program of the NSF under award numbers DMR-9400334 and DMR-0819762, by the Army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies under DAAD-19-02-D0002, and DARPA under N00014-05-1-0700 administered by the Office of Naval Research.