-Everything is new or even to be written for now.
+ _ _____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / | ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |___ \
+ \ 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.
+
+
+ ____ _ ____ _ _
+ / ___|(_)_ __ ___ / ___|_ __(_) __| |
+ \___ \| | '_ ` _ \| | _| '__| |/ _` |
+ ___) | | | | | | | |_| | | | | (_| |
+ |____/|_|_| |_| |_|\____|_| |_|\__,_|
+ _ _____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ /
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/
+ _ _ _
+ _ _ _ _ | |___ __ _ __| |_ ___ __| |
+ | || | ' \| / -_) _` (_-< ' \/ -_) _` |
+ \_,_|_||_|_\___\__,_/__/_||_\___\__,_|
+
+
+homepage: http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/
+download: http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=12
+
+At least, after 2 years of hard work, we managed to release the 3.3
+version of the SimGrid framework. There is so many changes that the
+changelog only lists the most important ones, leaving alone the small
+improvements, bug fixing and new gadgets.
+
+In short:
+ * Java bindings
+ * New simulation models, and improvement of the GTNetS wrapper
+
+ * Large memory savings (mainly in parser)
+ * Faster (twice faster is not uncommon, and from 20 hours to 2
+ minutes on very large scenarios)
+ * Much better scalability (tested up to 250,000 processes)
+
+ * Complete regression testing framework so that you can trust the tool
+ * Lot of neat new modules in the XBT toolbox
+
+This version was throughfully tested on linux 32bits and 64bits
+(debian), as well as Mac OSX (leopard).
+
+Unfortunately, our windows-guy left, and we cannot release the windows
+version at the same time than the other archs. Any help would be
+really welcomed here.
+
+Some of the 96 included test suites are known to fail, but everything
+should work anyway (don't panic):
+ * The amok module does not work in real deployment ATM, but I don't
+ see this as release critical since I'm not aware of anyone needing
+ this right now
+ * Some tests about the ability of GRAS to receive messages from
+ exotic platforms fail because I've lost access to these platforms
+ (such as AIX)
+ * the example/gras/pmm sometimes fails (about 1/10 of cases). I'm
+ quite puzzled, but I suspect a bug in the test, not in the lib.
+ * the tesh auto-tests "fail" on Mac OSX. This is because "rm -rf" is
+ sometimes too verbose (when the OS creates hidden files, I
+ suspect), but tesh definitly work as the rest on this arch.
+
+We hope to manage to do more timely releases in the future, even if
+that may turn out difficult since big stuff is comming (I don't say
+much here for the suspense ;)
+
+We hope you'll enjoy this new version, and please report any feedback
+on the <simgrid-user@lists.gforge.inria.fr> list.
+
+Martin Quinson (for Da SimGrid Team)
