+ _ _____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ )
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+
+(to complete)
+ _ _____ _____ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /| |
+ \ 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.
+ _ ____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / /
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_/
+ May 15 2012
+
+The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
+Major changes:
+
+ * Major cleanups all around (doc, user options, MSG, Lua, internals)
+ Small backward compatibility glitches may have been introduced
+ * 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)
+ _ _____ __ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ |___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \ __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) | / __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_____|
+ Oct 5 2011
+
+The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
+
+ * Portability to Mac and Windows improved.
+ * Possible misconfigurations (contexts, libPCRE) made impossible by
+ removing the option or providing sane default value.
+ * Experimental support to NS3 simulator as a back-end.
+
+ _ _____ __ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \ | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) || |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_|
+ Jun 27 2011
+
+The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release.
+Bug fix to an issue preventing SimGrid from working on Mac OSX.
+
+ _ _____ __
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+ Jun 21 2011
+
+The "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version. Major changes:
+
+ * Java and Ruby bindings were removed from the main archive
+ - They are now distributed separately
+ * GRAS is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
+ * First support for parallel simulation:
+ - Can run the user code of any simulation in parallel.
+ - Basic support for multi-cores hosts in platform files
+ * Improved P2P support:
+ - Peer tag in platform files for DSL connected nodes
+ - Vivaldi routing scheme for lightweigted yet accurate models
+ * Improved SMPI: Faster Fortran, automatic privatization of C globals
+ * Tracing: trace contains the full platform hierarchy
+ exactly as declared using the ASes of the platform file
+
+Plus numerous other goodies (check the ChangeLog for details)
+
+ _ _____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / | ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |___ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/
+ 01 Dec 2010
+
+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 hierarchical 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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|(_)_|
+ 04 May 2010
+
+The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
+This is a bug fixes release only.
+ _ _____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|
+ 28 Apr 2010
+
+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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_) |_|
+ 24 Dec 2009
+
+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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)____/
+ 20 Aug 2009
+
+The "Need for Speed" release.
+Big speedup through some function inlining.
+
+ _ _____ _____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / |___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \ __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) | / __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_____|
+ 19 Aug 2009
+
+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, although 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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) || |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_|
+ 27 Jun 2009
+
+This dot release is mainly a maintenance 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.
+
+
+ ____ _ ____ _ _