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+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/
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+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
+
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+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|(_)_|
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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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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \| || |_ 
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) |__   _|
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|  
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+
+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
+   
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   \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_) |_|  
                                            
-The "Need for Speed" release (also called "Xmas release").
+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