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+ _ _____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / | ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |___ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/
+
+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
+ * Visualization:
+ - now covers the whole framework
+ - major usability improvements
+ * SURF:
+ - scalable platform management through hiearchical description
+ - new efficient way to bypass the XML parser
+ * MSG: at last asynchronous functions are available
+ * SIMDAG: many usability improvements (dotloader, ...)
+ * GRAS: finally catch up with latest internal evolutions
+ * Build chain:
+ - Windows port: should be usable now but still considered experimental
+ - Autotools have now been completely removed
+
+
+ _ _____ _ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /| || | / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| || |_ | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|(_)_|
+
+The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
+This is a bug fixes release only.
+ _ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|
+
+
+The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
+
+ * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
+ ~> bindings were greatly improved
+ ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
+
+ * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
+ ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
+
+ _ _____ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \| || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_) |_|
+
+The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called "Xmas release").
+Most important changes:
+ * Big speedup through lazy evaluation of the linear models
+ * Supernovae mode: Compile everything in one unit to improve inlining
+ * Simix network module for internal cleanups
+ * Load DAX of applications into SimDag
+ * Lot of small cleanups and other bug fixes
+
+ _ _____ _____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / |___ /
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \ |_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)____/
+
+The "Need for Speed" release.
+Big speedup through some function inlining.
+
+ _ _____ _____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / |___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \ __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) | / __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_____|
+
+The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
+Most important changes:
+ * surf and simix modules reworked for simplification.
+ It lays the ground for future extensions and improvements of SimGrid
+ * SMPI was further improved, altrough not ready for production use yet.
+
+On the way, we gained a bit more than 5% on the classical master/slave
+example. More to come on this in future releases.
+ _ _____ _____ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \ | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) || |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_|
+
+
+This dot release is mainly a maintainance one. Most important changes:
+ * We fixed a large amount of bugs all around
+
+ * We sanitized the way configuration is handled internally.
+ Try passing --cfg-help to binaries compiled against this version.
+
+ * SMPI is in better shape: lot of bugs fixing & usability improvements
+ It may be worth trying it (even if all bugs are not gone yet)
+
+This version may have a bit more of memleaks than 3.3. This will be
+fixed in a latter release.
+
+
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homepage: http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/
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We hope you'll enjoy this new version, and please report any feedback
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-Martin Quinson (for Da SimGrid Team)
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+Martin Quinson (for Da SimGrid Team)
