v0.2.7 - Package Revival and Modernization

Major improvements after 4+ years of dormancy.

🎉 New Features

• String-based parsing API: abaqus_parse_mesh() and abaqus_parse_model()
  • Parse directly from string buffers without file I/O
  • Better for testing and programmatic use
• Element database externalization: Moved to data/abaqus_elements.toml
  • Easy to extend without code changes
  • Simple TOML format for adding new element types

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed parser to properly handle ABAQUS boolean flags (NLGEOM, PERTURBATION)
• Fixed FREQUENCY parser to handle optional parameters with NaN
• Changed parse_abaqus() to accept any IO type instead of just IOStream

🧪 Testing & Quality

• Increased test coverage: 192 tests (up from 140)
• Added comprehensive test suites:
  • test_element_database.jl (36 tests)
  • test_model_sections.jl (55 tests)
• String-based tests eliminate need for temporary files
• New coverage analysis scripts for developers

📚 Documentation

• Fixed documentation deployment (broken since 2020)
• Documentation now auto-deploys: https://ahojukka5.github.io/AbaqusReader.jl/dev/
• Added API documentation for new parsing functions
• Modernized project structure and workflows

🏗️ Infrastructure

• Updated LICENSE copyright to Jukka Aho (2017-2025)
• Migrated to modern Julia practices (Julia 1.0+)
• Removed deprecated dependencies (Nullables.jl)
• CI improvements: Julia 1.6 LTS allowed to fail gracefully
• Modernized TagBot workflow with proper permissions

📦 Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add("AbaqusReader")

🚀 Quick Start

using AbaqusReader

# For mesh-only parsing (simple Dict)
mesh = abaqus_read_mesh("model.inp")

# For complete model parsing (structured Model object)
model = abaqus_read_model("model.inp")

# New: Parse from string buffer
inp_content = read("model.inp", String)
model = abaqus_parse_model(inp_content)

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This release brings the package back to life with modern Julia idioms, better testing, working documentation, and a cleaner API. 🎊

v0.2.6

What's Changed

New Features

• Added verbose option for controlling output verbosity (#71)
• Changed @info to @debug for quieter default behavior (#65)

Element Support

• Added support for C3D8R, COH3D8, CPS4R elements (#69)
• Added support for C3D6 (Wedge6) and CPS3 elements (#68)

Infrastructure

• Migrated CI from Travis to GitHub Actions
• Updated TagBot configuration

Full Changelog: v0.2.5...v0.2.6

v0.2.5

AbaqusReader v0.2.5

Diff since v0.2.4

Closed issues:

• Make a package ready for a new release (#49)
• No support for set names in quotes (#61)

Merged pull requests:

• Make parse_numbers function type stable (#60) (@benzwick)
• Add support for quoted names with spaces (#63) (@sebastianpech)

v0.2.4

v0.2.4 (2020-02-24)

Diff since v0.2.3

Closed issues:

• Improve performance by replacing abstract Integer with concrete Int in arrays and dicts (#50)

Merged pull requests:

• Replace abstract Integer with concrete Int type (#58) (benzwick)

v0.2.3

v0.2.3 (2019-12-22)

Diff since v0.2.2

Closed issues:

• mesh = aster_read_mesh(meshfile) doesn't work in my case... (#51)
• Error due to lowercase elset and nset (#48)

Merged pull requests:

• Make some changes how documentation is generated (#54) (ahojukka5)
• Parse lower/mixed case input files (#47) (benzwick)
• Read element types C3D4H and C3D10H (#46) (benzwick)

v0.2.2: Added element type :Hex20 (#44)

Allows reading of model with ABAQUS C3D20 elements.

v0.1.3: Fix tests with downloads

Skip tests which downloads models from internet if
`ABAQUS_DOWNLOAD_URL` is not defined.

v0.2.1: Implement reading of B33 elements (#42)

* Parse beam B33 topology.
* Modify regexp to handle lowercase definition line.
* Fix incorrect comparison by length of `has_set_def`.

v0.2.0

Make AbaqusReader 1.0 ready (#41)

v0.1.2

Run tests also for julia 0.7 and nightly (#38)