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+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || | / /
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+               (unreleased yet)
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | '_ \
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+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+               June 22 2017
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+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)
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | |___ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |___) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/
+               Mar 22 2017
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+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)
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | || |_ | |___ \ (_) |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |__   _|| |___) \__, |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|  |_|(_)_|____/  /_/
+               Dec 28 2016
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+The Christmas Pi Release (better approximation).
+
+ * Fix various glitches in the previous release.
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | || |_
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |__   _|
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|  |_|
+               Dec 24 2016
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+The Christmas Pi Release.
+
+ * Documentation reorganized and improved
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+ * 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.
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+                Apr 27 2016
 
-The Half Release, aka the Zeleous Easter Trim.
+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)
@@ -14,7 +76,7 @@ The Half Release, aka the Zeleous Easter Trim.
  * Introducing v4 of the XML platform format
    - Many long-due cleanups (details in the Changelog)
 
- * MSG examples fully reoganized to help new users
+ * MSG examples fully reorganized (in C and Java)
 
  * The S4U interface is rising, toward SimGrid 4
    - All host manipulations now done in S4U