The Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP) 3.0.0-rc.0

Release candidate for KPP 3.0.0
Release date 13 Jul 2022

Added

• C-language updates
  • Restored driver programs general.c and general_adj.c
  • Updated rate-law functions in util/UserRateLaws.c
  • Added C-I tests for C-language integrators (using the
    small_strato mechanism
  • Now use // instead of /* */ comment strings
• ReadTheDocs documentation updates:
  • Authors in the reference page are now listed alphabetically
  • In-text citations now use the :cite:t style (e.g. "Smith et al [2000]")
  • Corrected several omissions
  • Removed table numbers from tables (to reduce confusion)
  • Now document additional installation steps for MacOS X
  • Added documentation about KPP_FLEX_LIB_DIR
• C-I test additions
  • Added a C-I test for the rosenbrock_autoreduce integrator

Changed

• C-I test updates
  • Renamed CI-test folders for clarity (C_*, F90_*, 'X_*')
  • Abstracted reusable code into the ci-common-defs.sh script
  • Replaced ci-manual-testing-script.sh with ci-testing-script.sh
    (which now works both locally and on Azure Dev Pipelines)
  • Renamed ci-manual-cleanup-script.sh to ci-cleanup-script.sh
  • Updated docs accordingly
• Makefile changes
  • Makefile.defs now uses environment variable KPP_FLEX_LIB_DIR
    when it cannot find the flex library file in standard locations v
  • Removed host-specific if blocks from Makefile.defs
• Other changes
  • DOUBLE_COMPLEX is now replaced by COMPLEX(kind=dp)
  • Fixed incorrect license string in .zenodo.json
  • Added extra free() statements in src/gen.c to avoid memory
    leaks

Removed

• bibtex.json (no longer needed w/ Sphinx 3.5.4)
• Fun() no longer uses Vdotout since it can be retrieved from Vdot