[CIG-ALL] Gale 1.6.0

[Walter Landry]

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 1.6.0, a finite element
code for the long term tectonics community.  This is a minor update to
the 1.5.0 release.  The release notes are attached below.

You can download binaries or the source code from

   http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/gale/

Installation instructions are in the bundled README and INSTALL files.
Gale 1.6.0 has also been installed on the teragrid machine Lonestar.
For details, see

  http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/csa/instructions/tacc/

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org

1.6.0
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* Then meaning of the 'A' parameter in NonNewtonian has changed to
  match what is commonly seen in the literature.  See UPGRADE for more
  details.

* There is a new family of StandardConditionFunction's named
  File1,...,File10 that allow you to read in a function from a file.

* HydrostaticTerm now has a maximum temperature, useful if you are
  incorporating the asthenosphere in your simulations.

* topo_data now works in 2D

* StressBC's can now handle having a different material underneath the
  computational region.