Merge pull request #295 from milancurcic/newsletter-august-2021

Initial draft of the August newsletter

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+title: "Fortran newsletter: August 2021"
+category: newsletter
+author: Milan Curcic, Ondřej Čertík, Laurence Kedward
+---
+
+Welcome to the August 2021 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter.
+The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details
+Fortran news from the previous month.
+
+<ul id="page-nav"></ul>
+
+## fortran-lang.org
+
+This month we've had several updates to the website:
+
+* [#281](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/281):
+  July newsletter
+* [#274](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/274):
+  Add `convert_FORTRAN_case` formatter to package index
+* [#277](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/277):
+  Add projects for Fortran-lua interfacing to package index
+* [#284](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/284):
+  PRs script updates
+* [#286](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/286):
+  Installation process for GFortran on OpenBSD
+* [#288](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/288):
+  Add Flatiron institute multipole libraries to the package index
+* [#289](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/289):
+  Small fix in packages index
+* [#291](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/291):
+  Bump addressable from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0
+* [#293](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/293):
+  add Apogee and Edinburgh compilers
+* [#290](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/290):
+  Add arrayfire-fortran to package index
+* [#294](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/294):
+  compilers: use more objective tone
+* [#296](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/296):
+  my software with at least 5 stars
+* [#297](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/297):
+  Fix insecure workflow.
+
+Ongoing work:
+
+* [#246](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/246) (WIP):
+  Transferring fortran90.org "Fortran Best Practices" into a mini-book
+* [#201](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/201) (WIP):
+  Draft: Internationalization for fortran-lang
+
+[Let us know](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/issues) if you have any suggestions for the website and its content.
+We welcome any new contributors to the website and the tutorials page in particular - see the [contributor guide](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to get started.
+
+## Fortran Standard Library
+
+Here's what's new in stdlib:
+
+* [#436](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/436):
+  implemented low-level `replace_all` function
+* [#454](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/454):
+  added `stdlib_math` to specs/index.md
+* [#453](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/453):
+  implemented count function
+* [#441](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/441):
+  implemented pad function
+* [#456](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/456):
+  slice function's documentation made user friendly
+* [#459](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/459):
+  Fix CMake variable usage
+* [#420](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/420):
+  First implementation of real-valued linspace.
+* [#468](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/468):
+  Update CI
+* [#469](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/469):
+  CMake: corrections and updates
+* [#426](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/426):
+  Addition of a subroutine to compute the median of array elements
+* [#474](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/474):
+  Bug fix: Allocatable argument 'x' is not allocated #472
+
+Work in progress:
+
+* [#481](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/481) (WIP):
+  [`stdlib_linalg`] Update eye function.
+* [#480](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/480) (WIP):
+  [`stdlib_math`] Add seq function.
+* [#478](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/478) (WIP):
+  [`stdlib_linalg`] Add zeros, ones, ex function.
+* [#477](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/477) (WIP):
+  [`stdlib_linalg`] Add empty function.
+* [#475](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/475) (WIP):
+  Generating sorting subroutines specific to character type with fypp
+* [#473](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/473) (WIP):
+  Error stop improvements
+* [#470](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/470) (WIP):
+  Revival string list 
+* [#467](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/467) (WIP):
+  implemented `move_alloc` for `string_type`
+* [#455](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/455) (WIP):
+  `stdlib_hash`: waterhash algorithm
+* [#452](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/452) (WIP):
+  Implementation of a map data type
+* [#445](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/445) (WIP):
+  [feature] `disp`(display your data) & `format_string`(format other type to string, see #444)
+* [#444](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/444) (WIP):
+  Add `format_string` routine to format other types to strings
+* [#437](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/437) (WIP):
+  [FPM] add fpm support
+* [#363](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/363) (WIP):
+  Sorting string's characters according to their ASCII values
+* [#353](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/353) (WIP):
+  Initial checkin for a module for tolerant comparison of reals
+* [#286](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/286) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Beta Distribution Module
+* [#278](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/278) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Gamma Distribution Module
+* [#276](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/276) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Exponential Distribution Module
+* [#273](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/273) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Normal Distribution Module 
+* [#272](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/272) (WIP):
+  Probability Distribution and Statistical Functions -- Uniform Distribution Module
+* [#189](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/189) (WIP):
+  Initial implementation of COO / CSR sparse format
+* [#157](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/pull/157) (WIP):
+  Update CMAKE files
+
+Please help improve stdlib by testing and [reviewing pull requests](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22reviewers+needed%22)!
+
+The candidate for file system operations to be included in stdlib is being developed by
+[@MarDiehl](https://github.com/MarDiehl) and [@arjenmarkus](https://github.com/arjenmarkus)
+in [this repository](https://github.com/MarDiehl/stdlib_os).
+Please try it out and let us know how it works, if there are any issues, or if the API can be improved.
+
+## Fortran Package Manager
+
+Here's what's new in fpm:
+
+* [#507](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/507):
+  optimize file listing
+* [#511](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/511):
+  check name used for package, executable, test, or example
+* [#516](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/516):
+  initialize allocatable strings before using in a comparison
+* [#517](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/517):
+  Fix run
+* [#522](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/522):
+  remove warnings and fix truncated help text
+* [#523](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/523):
+  Fix compilation error in ifort
+
+Work in progress:
+
+* [#525](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/525) (WIP):
+  proposal to close #525 by generating build/.gitignore
+* [#527](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/527) (WIP):
+  Add objects for handling compiler and archiver
+* [#521](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/521) (WIP):
+  expand tabs
+* [#506](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/506) (WIP):
+  Draft: initial implementation of `implicit_none`
+* [#498](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/pull/498) (WIP):
+  Draft - Compiler flags profiles
+
+`fpm` is still in early development and we need as much help as we can get.
+Here's how you can help today:
+
+* Use it and let us know what you think! Read the [fpm packaging guide](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/blob/master/PACKAGING.md) to learn how to build your package with fpm, and the [manifest reference](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/blob/master/manifest-reference.md) to learn what are all the things that you can specify in the fpm.toml file.
+* Browse existing *fpm* packages on the [fortran-lang website](https://fortran-lang.org/packages/fpm)
+* Browse the [open issues](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/issues) and see if you can help implement any fixes or features.
+* Adapt your Fortran package for fpm and submit it to the [Registry](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-registry).
+* Improve the documentation.
+
+The short-term goal of fpm is to make development and installation of Fortran packages with dependencies easier.
+Its long term goal is to build a rich and decentralized ecosystem of Fortran packages and create a healthy
+environment in which new open source Fortran projects are created and published with ease.
+
+## Compilers
+
+### LFortran
+
+Updates for July 2021:
+
+* 90 [merged](https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=merged) MRs, this month we have crossed 1000 total merged MRs, 12 total contributors
+* Parser: we asked the community to test it, several people have reported about
+  15 bugs, we have fixed all of them (AST)
+* Initial fixed form parser (AST)
+* Classes and class procedures (ASR, LLVM)
+* Many common array usage now works, including allocatable (ASR, LLVM)
+* Associate construct (ASR, LLVM)
+* Compile time evaluation of constant expressions (ASR)
+* 7 people contributed code:
+    * Ondřej Čertík
+    * Thirumalai Shaktivel
+    * Gagandeep Singh
+    * Rohit Goswami
+    * Dominic Poerio
+    * Andrew Best
+    * Sebastian Ehlert
+
+We are looking for new contributors, so if you are interested, please [get in
+touch with us](https://lfortran.org/)!
+
+
+## Events
+
+* We had our 14th Fortran Monthly call on July 20.
+You can watch the recording below:
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9goA20JAHls" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+* FortranCon 2021 will be held virtually from September 23-24, 2021.
+Registration is free of charge and is due by September 15.
+The first call for abstracts is due August 1, and the second is due September 1.
+For more information, visit the [FortranCon website](https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/).
+
+* Work is well under way started for our Google Summer of Code program. Read about our students and their progress so far on Discourse: <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/c/gsoc-2021/11>
+  
+As usual, subscribe to the [mailing list](https://groups.io/g/fortran-lang) and/or
+join the [Discourse](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group) to stay tuned with the future meetings.
+
+## Contributors
+
+We thank everybody who contributed to fortran-lang in the past month by
+commenting in any of these repositories:
+
+* [fortran-lang/stdlib](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib)
+* [fortran-lang/stdlib-cmake-example](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib-cmake-example)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm-registry](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-registry)
+* [fortran-lang/setup-fpm](https://github.com/fortran-lang/setup-fpm)
+* [fortran-lang/fpm-haskell](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm-haskell)
+* [fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org)
+* [fortran-lang/benchmarks](https://github.com/fortran-lang/benchmarks)
+* [fortran-lang/fortran-forum-article-template](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-forum-article-template)
+* [j3-fortran/fortran\_proposals](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals)
+
+<div id="gh-contributors" data-startdate="June 01 2021" data-enddate="June 30 2021" height="500px"></div>