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Release notes for LIGGGHTS-PUBLIC, version 3.8.0

(**) Alexander Podlozhnyuk (DCS Computing) has implemented a major new feature in
LIGGGHTS: <strong> Superquadric shape particles </strong> . There is a new public
tutorial to showcase how to use it
(**) Rahul Mohanty (P&G and University of Edinburgh) and Tomaz Zorec (University
of Ljubljana) added an implementation of the Edinburgh contact model - currently
there is no doc yet, this will hopefully be in the next release.
(**) Rahul Mohanty (P&G and University of Edinburgh) also added an implementation
of the Luding contact model - currently there is no doc yet, this will hopefully be
in the next release.
(**) Rahul Mohanty (P&G and University of Edinburgh) and Tomaz Zorec (University
of Ljubljana) added an implementation of the Thornton/Ning contact model -
currently there is no doc yet, this will hopefully be in the next release.
Josef Kerbl (DCS) extended the feature (fflag & tflag) to deactivate forces or
torques in x,y or z direction for multi-spheres
Arno Mayrhofer and Christoph Kloss (DCS) fixed a potential segfault with mesh
contact history. Thanks to Moritz Höfert (BASF) for providing a test case
Josef Kerbl (DCS) fixed a bug in the argument parsing of compute/coord/atom.
Josef Kerbl (DCS) updated fix/cfd/coupling/force to work with the new trackIO
model from CFDEMcoupling.
Arno Mayrhofer (DCS) and Josef Kerbl (DCS) fixed two issues in parallel reading of
binary STL files. Thanks to user lesscharles for pointing out this issue.
Arno Mayrhofer (DCS) fixed an input issue to viblin. Thanks to user Weijing for
pointing out this issue.
Arno Mayrhofer (DCS) fixed an input issue to vibrot. Thanks to user Weijing for
pointing out this issue.
Arno Mayrhofer (DCS) fixed an issue related to the bounds of Y in CGS. Thanks to
user hrvig for pointing out this issue.
Christoph Goniva (DCS) added 'additional mass' terms to multisphere integration.
Andreas Aigner (DCS) fixed several compiler warnings
Arno Mayrhofer & Josef Kerbl (DCS) changed max number of bins from MAX_INT to 8e6
Arno Mayrhofer added a auto installation for vtk 8.0.1
Arno Mayrhofer added the possibility to compile the libraries with make auto
directly (without -f)
Arno Mayrhofer updated Makefile.auto to add -rpath linking
Arno Mayrhofer added clang compilation capability
Josef Kerbl (DCS) made radius field in read_dump mandatory
Arno Mayrhofer fixed an issue in the jpg compilation tests. Thanks to user JoG for
reporting it.
Arno Mayrhofer modified the numeric and inumeric input parsers to be able to
handle Windows line endings
Arno Mayrhofer added the capability for automatically creating output folders (all
dumps and restart writing)
Arno Mayrhofer rewrote the python documentation and renamed lammps to liggghts for
python. Thanks to user AndresMM for reporting this issue.
Enabled Superquadrics by default, NOOPT in USE_DEBUG renamed to FULL