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+                    _               _____  _  ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / |/ _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | | | |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || | |_| |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+
+The "to be named" release. 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: 
+   liveness+SMPI works; reduction through state equality detection
+ Plus the usual load of bug fixes and small improvements
+ 
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+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ // _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ (_) |
+ \ 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
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ / _ \ | |
+ \ 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.
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+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / ( _ )
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ / _ \
+ \ 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.
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  \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | / /_| |
   \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_/(_)_|
+                June 7 2012
+
+The "cleaning the cleanup" release. Major changes:
 
-(to complete)
+ * Portability fixups for Mac OSX and Windows
+ * Some other bug fixing and various polishing.
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@@ -79,7 +139,7 @@ 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
+ * SMPI is now very usable.
  * Visualization:
     - now covers the whole framework
     - major usability improvements