+
+ _ _____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / /
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_/
+
+
+(still to be done)
+
+ _ _____ __
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+
+
+The "F*! They Killed Kenny!" version. Major changes:
+
+ * Java and Ruby bindings were removed from the main archive
+ - They are now distributed separately
+ * GRAS is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
+ * First support for parallel simulation:
+ - Can run the user code of any simulation in parallel.
+ - Basic support for multi-cores hosts in platform files
+ * Improved P2P support:
+ - Peer tag in platform files for DSL connected nodes
+ - Vivaldi routing scheme for lightweigted yet accurate models
+ * Improved SMPI: Faster Fortran, automatic privatization of C globals
+ * Tracing: trace contains the full platform hierarchy
+ exactly as declared using the ASes of the platform file
+
+Plus numerous other goodies (check the ChangeLog for details)
+
+ _ _____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / | ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |___ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/
+
+The "Winter in Frejus" release. Also known as "ANR/ADT funding helps"
+Major changes are:
+
+ * New feature: Model check any simgrid simulation
+ * SMPI: now considered stable
+ * Visualization:
+ - now covers the whole framework
+ - major usability improvements
+ * SURF:
+ - scalable platform management through hiearchical description
+ - new efficient way to bypass the XML parser
+ * MSG: at last asynchronous functions are available
+ * SIMDAG: many usability improvements (dotloader, ...)
+ * GRAS: finally catch up with latest internal evolutions
+ * Build chain:
+ - Windows port: should be usable now but still considered experimental
+ - Autotools have now been completely removed
+
+
+ _ _____ _ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /| || | / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| || |_ | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|(_)_|
+
+The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
+This is a bug fixes release only.
+ _ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|
+
+
+The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
+
+ * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
+ ~> bindings were greatly improved
+ ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
+
+ * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
+ ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
+
_ _____ _____ _ _
__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ /| || |
\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \| || |_
\ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |__ _|
\_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_) |_|
-The "Need for Speed" release (also called "Xmas release").
+The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called "Xmas release").
Most important changes:
* Big speedup through lazy evaluation of the linear models
* Supernovae mode: Compile everything in one unit to improve inlining