-SimGrid (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.4-svn) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ OVERALL CHANGES:
+ * Tested successfully on AIX
+
+ GRAS:
+ * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
+ exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
+ - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
+ * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
+ - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
+ - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
+ reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
+ 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
+ - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
+ version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
+ clean on that point too ;)
+ - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
+ * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
+ This helps debugging.
+ * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
+ simulation mode
+
+ MSG:
+ * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
+ New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
+ The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
+ kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
+ triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
+ For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
+ * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
+ * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
+ Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
+ [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
+ bad things happen]
+ * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
+
+ SIMIX:
+ * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
+ process in the log messages.
+
+ XBT:
+ * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
+ * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
+ This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
+ Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
+ * Do not allow malloc(0) since that's not portable
+
+ Build Chain:
+ * Do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
+
+ -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
+
+SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
+
+ OVERALL CHANGES:
+
+ * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
+ [Malek Cherier & Mt]
+
+ * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
+ [Bruno Donassolo]
+
+ Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
+ quite difficult because both interface have several differences
+ (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
+
+ This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
+ up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
+
+ **************************************
+ *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
+ **************************************
+ The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
+ not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
+ may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
+ some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+
+ * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
+ issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
+
+ * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
+ the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
+ output match an expected output [Mt].
+
+ * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
+ is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
+ larger files in SimGrid [AL].
+
+ * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
+ with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
+ [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
+
+ GRAS:
+ * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incomming
+ messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
+ computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
+ to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
+ the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
+ impossible.
+ * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
+ linux ones too) [Mt]
+ * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
+ current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
+ * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
+ not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
+
+ XBT:
+ * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
+ * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
+ a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
+ allocated buffer, trim, etc)
+ * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
+ SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
+ * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
+ synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
+ in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
+ only).
+ * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
+ classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
+ * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
+ (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
+ * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
+ anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
+ thus dropped. [Mt].
+ * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
+ (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
+ root directly) [Mt].
+
+ SURF:
+ * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
+ * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
+ * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
+ the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
+ a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
+ was thus designed [AL].
+ * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
+ gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
+
+ sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
+
+ This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
+ TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
+ tested though [Pedro Velho].
+
+ SIMDAG [AL]:
+ * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
+ used.
+ * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
+ * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
+ * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
+
+ -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
+
+SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
OVERALL CHANGES:
* Port to windows.
- We still experience issues on this platform, but we belive that at
+ We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
least MSG is usable.
GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
-- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
-SimGrid (3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
General:
* Port to gcc 4.x
-- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
-SimGrid (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
XBT:
* Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
-- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
-SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=low
+SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
SURF:
* New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
- Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
its creation for now.
+
+For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
+2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since
+then.
