+ _ _____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ // _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ (_) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) \__, |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)/_/
+
+The "Grasgory" release. Major changes:
+
+ * Gras was completely removed from this version.
+ * Documentation reorganization to ease browsing it.
+
+ _ _____ ___ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) || |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_|
+ Oct 27 2012
+
+The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
+framework" release.
+
+ * Add missing manpage to the archive.
+ _ _____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ )
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+ Oct 25 2012
+
+The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
+Major changes:
+
+ * Experimental interface to manipulate VMs, EC2-style.
+ * Fixes around process restart and stochastic workloads
+ * platf: New C interface to create fixed or random platforms
+ * SimDag: Many fixes and improvements of typed tasks
+ * SMPI now covers more of the MPI interface.
+ More datatypes, more functions, more robust.
+ * Model-checking: mmalloc is more robust to user errors.
+ _ _____ _____ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /| |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / /_| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_/(_)_|
+ June 7 2012
+
+The "cleaning the cleanup" release. Major changes:
+
+ * Portability fixups for Mac OSX and Windows
+ * Some other bug fixing and various polishing.
+ _ ____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / /
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_/
+ May 15 2012
+
+The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
+Major changes:
+
+ * Major cleanups all around (doc, user options, MSG, Lua, internals)
+ Small backward compatibility glitches may have been introduced
+ * Parallel execution of user code should be stable and efficient now
+ * SMPI is now considered stable
+ * Add temporals to Model-Checking (highly experimental right now)
+ _ _____ __ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ |___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \ __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) | / __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_____|
+ Oct 5 2011
+
+The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
+
+ * Portability to Mac and Windows improved.
+ * Possible misconfigurations (contexts, libPCRE) made impossible by
+ removing the option or providing sane default value.
+ * Experimental support to NS3 simulator as a back-end.
+
+ _ _____ __ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \ | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) || |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_|
+ Jun 27 2011
+
+The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release.
+Bug fix to an issue preventing SimGrid from working on Mac OSX.
+
+ _ _____ __
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+ Jun 21 2011
+
+The "OMG! 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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/
+ 01 Dec 2010
+
+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 hierarchical 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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|(_)_|
+ 04 May 2010
+
+The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
+This is a bug fixes release only.
+ _ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|
+ 28 Apr 2010
+
+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
+
+ _ _____ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \| || |_