+ _ _____ ____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ /
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | |_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|____/
+ (not released)
+
+ _ _____ ____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ / __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_____|
+ April 1. 2019
+
+The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late).
+
+ * Introducing the Python bindings (still beta)
+ * Doc: SMPI tutorial and platform description ported to RTD
+ * Many internal cleanups leading to some user-level speedups
+ * (+ the classical bug fixes and internal refactorings)
+ _ _____ ____ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \/ |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_|
+ October 3. 2018
+
+The Restarting Documentation (TRD) release.
+
+ * Start to overhaul the documentation, and move to Sphinx + RTD.
+ * Allow dynamic replay of MPI apps, controlled by S4U actors
+ * Rewrite the support for auto-restarted actors (was utterly broken)
+ * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement)
+
+ _ _____ ____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \ / _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | | | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/| |_| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|\___/
+ June 24. 2018
+
+The proxy snake_case() release.
+
+ * Sanitize the public API. Compatibility wrappers in place for one year.
+ * More CI: ~45 Proxy Apps + BigDFT + StarPU now tested nightly
+ * MPI: Port the trace replay engine to C++, fix visualization
+ * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement)
+
+ _ _____ _ ___ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \ / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | (_) || |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |\__, || |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| /_(_)_|
+ March 22 2018
+
+The Fixed ABI release.
+
+ * Reduce the changes to the binary interface of MSG,
+ accidentally introduced by v3.19.
+ _ _____ _ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | (_) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |\__, |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| /_/
+ March 20 2018
+
+The Moscovitly-cold Spring release.
+
+ * SMPI: Allow to start new actors and ranks after simulation start.
+ * SMPI: Support ICC, better testing on classical proxy apps.
+ * Some kernel headers are now installed, allowing external plugins.
+ * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement)
+ _ _____ _ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |( _ )
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | |/ _ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+ December 24 2017
+
+The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release.
+ SimGrid 4 *may* be there by the next solstice.
+
+ * Convert almost all interesting MSG examples to S4U.
+ * New model: energy consumption due to the network.
+ * Major cleanups in the disk and storage subsystems.
+ * (+ further deprecate XBT, bug fixes and doc improvement)
+ _ _____ _ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | / /
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | / /
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|/_/
+ October 8 2017
+
+The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests.
+
+ * Many many internal cleanups (almost 700 commits since 3.16).
+ * The coverage of our tests is above 80%.
+ * All memleaks but one plugged; A dozen of bugs fixed.
+ * XBT: Further replace XBT with std::* constructs.
+ _ _____ _ __
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ /_
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | '_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+ June 22 2017
+
+The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding.
+
+ * S4U: Progress; Activity refcounting is now automatic.
+ * XML: <AS> can now be named <zone> as they should.
+ * SMPI: Further performance improvements; RMA support.
+ * Cloud: Multi-core VMs (do not overcommit them yet)
+ * (+ bug fixes, cleanups and documentation improvements)
+ _ _____ _ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / | ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | |___ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/
+ Mar 22 2017
+
+The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green.
+
+ * S4U: progress, integrating more parts of SimDag; New examples.
+ * SMPI: Support MPI 2.2; Convert internals to C++ (TBC).
+ * Java: Massive memleaks and performance issues fixed.
+ * (+ bug fixes, cleanups and documentation improvements)
+ _ _____ _ _ _ _ ____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / | || | / | ___|/ _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | || |_ | |___ \ (_) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |__ _|| |___) \__, |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| |_|(_)_|____/ /_/
+ Dec 28 2016
+
+The Christmas Pi Release (better approximation).
+
+ * Fix various glitches in the previous release.
+ _ _____ _ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / | || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| |_|
+ Dec 24 2016
+
+The Christmas Pi Release.
+
+ * Documentation reorganized and improved
+
+ * S4U interface further rising, toward SimGrid 4
+ - Routing code rewritten for readability
+ - Virtual Machines almost turned into a plugin
+ - MSG, SimDag, MPI interfaces mostly unchanged
+
+ * The model-checker now works on FreeBSD too.
+ _ _____ _ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ /
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | |_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/
+ Apr 27 2016
+
+The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim.
+
+ * Half of the lines of code are gone.
+ - v3.12: 286k lines; v3.13: 142k lines (+ comments)
+ - Experimental untested unused "features" removed
+ - We rewrote several parts in C++ instead of C
+
+ * Introducing v4 of the XML platform format
+ - Many long-due cleanups (details in the Changelog)
+
+ * MSG examples fully reorganized (in C and Java)
+
+ * The S4U interface is rising, toward SimGrid 4
+ - All host manipulations now done in S4U
+ - SimDag was mostly rewritten on top of S4U
+ - MSG & SimDag interfaces mostly unchanged
+ _ _____ _ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |/ __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_____|
+ Oct 12 2015
+
+The Facelift Release. Major changes:
+
+ * Many interface glitches addressed, everywhere.
+ - Require g++-4.7, Java 7 and boost 1.48
+ - Builds on Linux, OS X, Windows and FreeBSD
+ - See ChangeLog for renamed functions and options.
+
+ * Energy plugin: major cleanups/rewrites.
+ http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-energy-101.pdf
+
+ * Model-Checker progresses toward production use:
+ - More robust (now runs in a separate process).
+ - More efficient (with snapshots' memory compaction).
+ - More usable (execution paths replayed out of MC)
+ http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-mc-101.pdf
+
+ * SMPI improvements:
+ - Better standard coverage - SMP-aware collectives
+ - InfiniBand model - Early support for RMA
+ - Replay: Dynamic selector - MVAPICH2 selector
+ http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-smpi-101.pdf
+
+Upcoming v3.13 will introduce new interfaces, toward SimGrid 4.
+
+ _ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_|
+ May 31 2014
+
+The Class Release. Major changes:
+
+ * Surf is now in C++ (and documented!)
+ * Virtual Machine model for Cloud Simulation
+ * Surf callbacks: plug your code directly in Surf!
+ * Simcalls are script-generated to clean the mess
+
+ _ _____ _ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | | | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | |_| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+ Nov 17 2013
+
+The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free. Major changes:
+
+ * Preliminary DVFS support to track the energy consumption
+ * Java is back in the main package (and is very stable).
+ * The storage sub-modules is now believed to be usable.
+ * SMPI is now very stable (we pass most MPICH tests).
+ * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
+ * Verification and model checking further improved:
+ liveness+SMPI works; reduction through state equality detection
+ Plus the usual load of bug fixes and small improvements
+
+ _ _____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ // _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ (_) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) \__, |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)/_/
+ Feb 5 2013
+
+The "Grasgory" release. Major changes:
+
+ * Gras was completely removed from this version.
+ * Documentation reorganization to ease browsing it.
+ * New default value for the TCP_gamma parameter: 4MiB
+
+ _ _____ ___ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ | |
+ \ 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.
+
