2025.10.3

What's Changed

• Use PETSc.ScalarType(0) in Function.zero by @JHopeCollins in #4720
• Automatically update notebooks repository on push to release by @connorjward in #4639
• default firedrake options prefix for petsctools by @JHopeCollins in #4727
• Fix linkcheck by @connorjward in #4733
• BUG: Fix EquationBC + matfree + fieldsplit by @pbrubeck in #4734
• Multicomponent demo sub bcs for EquationBC by @KarsKnook in #4695
• BUG: use native prolongation for KMV elements by @pbrubeck in #4747
• Add HDF5 test to firedrake-check by @connorjward in #4759
• BUG: fix Function._ad_dot for H1 (#4590) by @stephankramer in #4760
• FML: fix dunder methods and support BaseForm by @pbrubeck in #4768
• Zenodo fixes by @connorjward in #4758
• BUG: Fix symmetry in supermeshing by @pbrubeck in #4764
• Add webpage about March tutorial by @pefarrell in #4793
• Fix docs for sphinx 9 by @connorjward in #4802
• Add a registration link for Oxford training event by @pefarrell in #4796
• FunctionSpace: enable variant and quad_scheme and docs by @pbrubeck in #4607
• Enable solve(a == 0, u) by @pbrubeck in #4805
• Update Firedrake 26 organising committee by @connorjward in #4813
• Skip timing out backwards compat io tests on CI by @JHopeCollins in #4818
• Fix for numpy 2.4.1 by @pbrubeck in #4824
• Fix typo in patch demos by @pbrubeck in #4826
• Purge the pip cache in CI by @connorjward in #4858
• More numpy 2.4.1 fixes by @pbrubeck in #4862
• MG: force injection into all levels with Real space unknown by @pbrubeck in #4864
• Fix for petsc4py/slepc4py+setuptools 81 by @connorjward in #4871
• setuptools fix for petsc4py+slepc4py in docker file by @JHopeCollins in #4875
• Speed up test collection by @connorjward in #4880
• PETSc/Firedrake meeting webpage by @dham in #4872
• fix accommodation dates by @dham in #4885
• Add contributing guide to website by @connorjward in #4877
• Draft schedule (#4894) by @pbrubeck in #4897
• Remove broken team member link by @connorjward in #4898
• Link to AI policy in contrib docs by @connorjward in #4910
• convert incorrect use of single backicks to double by @j-bowhay in #4916
• Fix dumpdir fixture by @connorjward in #4922
• Remove broken submesh example from docstring by @connorjward in #4928
• Improvements for plotting tests by @connorjward in #4927
• Fix deadlock when the compiler crashes internally by @connorjward in #4913
• Bugfix with deflation: only deflate successful solves by @pefarrell in #4933
• Trivial change to tutorial website: specify rooms by @pefarrell in #4936
• Fix stochastic PyOP2 test hang by @connorjward in #4937
• update adjoint notebook for api changes by @dham in #4945
• firedrake-zenodo 'fixes' by @connorjward in #4939
• Website edits: close registration by @pefarrell in #4947
• Use latest PETSc patch release by @connorjward in #4938

Full Changelog: 2025.10.2...2025.10.3