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+                Oct 12 2015
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+The Facelift Release. Major changes:
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+ * 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.
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+ * Energy plugin: major cleanups/rewrites.
+   http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-energy-101.pdf
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+ * 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
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+ * 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
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+Upcoming v3.13 will introduce new interfaces, toward SimGrid 4.
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+                May 31 2014
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+The Class Release. Major changes:
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+ * 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
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+                Nov 17 2013
 
-The "to be named" release. Major changes:
+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).
- * Verification and model checking further improved: 
+ * 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
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@@ -26,6 +73,7 @@ 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
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@@ -37,6 +85,7 @@ The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
 framework" release.
 
  * Add missing manpage to the archive.
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@@ -54,6 +103,7 @@ Major changes:
  * SMPI now covers more of the MPI interface.
    More datatypes, more functions, more robust.
  * Model-checking: mmalloc is more robust to user errors.
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@@ -65,6 +115,7 @@ The "cleaning the cleanup" release. Major changes:
 
  * Portability fixups for Mac OSX and Windows
  * Some other bug fixing and various polishing.
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@@ -80,6 +131,7 @@ Major changes:
  * 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)
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 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
 This is a bug fixes release only.
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@@ -218,6 +271,7 @@ Most important changes:
 
 On the way, we gained a bit more than 5% on the classical master/slave
 example. More to come on this in future releases.
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