We are pleased to announce the release of PETSc version 3.6 at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc The major changes and updates can be found at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/36.html We recommend upgrading to PETSc 3.6 soon. As always please report problems to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov and ask questions at petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov This release includes contributions from Andrew Spott Barry Smith Ce Qin Dave May Dave Nystrom David A Ham Debojyoti Ghosh Dmitry Karpeev Dominic Meiser Ed Bueler Elliott Sales de Andrade Emil Constantinescu Hong Zhang Håkon Strandenes Ian Williamson Jason Sarich Jed Brown Jonathan Guyer Jose Roman Justin Chang Karl Rupp Lawrence Mitchell Lisandro Dalcin Lois Curfman McInnes Mark Adams Matthew Knepley Michael Lange Mr. Hong Zhang Pascal Tremblay Patrick Farrell Patrick Lacasse Patrick Sanan Pierre Jolivet Rémi Lacroix Satish Balay Semih Özmen Shane Stafford Shri Abhyankar Stefano Zampini Surtai Han Tobin Isaac Vasiliy Kozyrev Vijay Mahadevan and bug reports/patches/proposed improvements received from Alejandro Lamas Davina Alirezaa Jalaali Andre Brand Andrew Cramer Andrew McRae Asbjørn Nilsen Riseth Åsmund Ervik Azariah Cornish Ben Liu Brian Yang Christiaan Klaij Constantine Khroulev Dave Nystrom David McWilliams David Moxey Du Yongle Ed D'Azevedo Ehsan Sadrfaridpour Eric Bavier Evan Um Fabian Jakub Francis Poulin Gabel Fabian Garth Wells Gautam Bisht Glenn Hammond Hakon Strandenes Ilmari Karoner Italo Tasso John Blechta Jonas Mairhofer Jorgen Kvalsvik Jose Roman Justin Chang Kai Song Lawrence Mitchell Lisandro Dalcin Mark Lohry Mark Samonds Martin Diehl Michael Souza Michael Welland Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya Mostafa Molaali Patrick Farrell Patrick Lacasse Patrick Sanan Peter Brune Peter Lichtner Pierre Jolivet Pratheek Shanthraj Randall Mackie Robert Nourgaliev Roy Stogner Sascha Schnepp Sean Farley Sebastien Gilles Shao-Ching Huang Stephan Kramer Sven Heinrich Thele German Guiller Tianyi Li Timothée Nicolas Torquil Macdonald Sorensen Victor Eijkhout Xavier Lacoste Yongle Du As always, thanks for your support, Barry