X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/4b05942738c0bd710e2b651d44be3a06fa50bc10..92cbaa683aa7824d7ad1b7f1702dec27e1c6eefb:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0f4a4b6bd3..7e70afe3c6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,535 @@ -This is a shortened version of the changelog. + _ _____ ____ _____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ / +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | |_ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ ___) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|____/ + (not released) -0.2 (2004-07-24) - - Bug fixes, API and build process polishing, documentation improvement - - build shared libs + _ _____ ____ ____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | __) | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ / __/ + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_____| + April 1. 2019 -0.1 (2004-07-13) - - No major issue discovered, time to change the versionning schema +The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late). -0.0.4 (2004-07-11) - - compute the inter-field paddings of structure correctly - - macro to parse [simple] datatypes w/o the pain of declaring them manually - - toysuite to automatize remote compilation + * Introducing the Python bindings (still beta) + * Doc: SMPI tutorial and platform description ported to RTD + * Many internal cleanups leading to some user-level speedups + * (+ the classical bug fixes and internal refactorings) + _ _____ ____ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \/ | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/| | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_| + October 3. 2018 -0.0.3 (2004-07-07) - - implement convertion between +The Restarting Documentation (TRD) release. -0.0.2 (2004-07-05) - - ping test works in SG + * Start to overhaul the documentation, and move to Sphinx + RTD. + * Allow dynamic replay of MPI apps, controlled by S4U actors + * Rewrite the support for auto-restarted actors (was utterly broken) + * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement) -0.0.1 (2004-06-21) - - ping test works in RL + _ _____ ____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \ / _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | | | | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/| |_| | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|\___/ + June 24. 2018 -Begin of the coding back in june 2003. The first prototype was completely -rewriten /at least once/ since then. +The proxy snake_case() release. + + * Sanitize the public API. Compatibility wrappers in place for one year. + * More CI: ~45 Proxy Apps + BigDFT + StarPU now tested nightly + * MPI: Port the trace replay engine to C++, fix visualization + * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement) + + _ _____ _ ___ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \ / | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | (_) || | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |\__, || | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| /_(_)_| + March 22 2018 + +The Fixed ABI release. + + * Reduce the changes to the binary interface of MSG, + accidentally introduced by v3.19. + _ _____ _ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | (_) | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |\__, | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| /_/ + March 20 2018 + +The Moscovitly-cold Spring release. + + * SMPI: Allow to start new actors and ranks after simulation start. + * SMPI: Support ICC, better testing on classical proxy apps. + * Some kernel headers are now installed, allowing external plugins. + * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement) + _ _____ _ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |( _ ) +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | |/ _ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | (_) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/ + December 24 2017 + +The "Ho Ho Ho! SimGrid 4 beta is coming to town" release. + SimGrid 4 *may* be there by the next solstice. + + * Convert almost all interesting MSG examples to S4U. + * New model: energy consumption due to the network. + * Major cleanups in the disk and storage subsystems. + * (+ further deprecate XBT, bug fixes and doc improvement) + _ _____ _ _____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | / / + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | / / + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|/_/ + October 8 2017 + +The Drained Leaks release: (almost) no known leaks despite the tests. + + * Many many internal cleanups (almost 700 commits since 3.16). + * The coverage of our tests is above 80%. + * All memleaks but one plugged; A dozen of bugs fixed. + * XBT: Further replace XBT with std::* constructs. + _ _____ _ __ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ /_ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | '_ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | (_) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/ + June 22 2017 + +The Blooming Spring Release: developments are budding. + + * S4U: Progress; Activity refcounting is now automatic. + * XML: can now be named as they should. + * SMPI: Further performance improvements; RMA support. + * Cloud: Multi-core VMs (do not overcommit them yet) + * (+ bug fixes, cleanups and documentation improvements) + _ _____ _ ____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / | ___| +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | |___ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |___) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/ + Mar 22 2017 + +The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green. + + * S4U: progress, integrating more parts of SimDag; New examples. + * SMPI: Support MPI 2.2; Convert internals to C++ (TBC). + * Java: Massive memleaks and performance issues fixed. + * (+ bug fixes, cleanups and documentation improvements) + _ _____ _ _ _ _ ____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / | || | / | ___|/ _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | || |_ | |___ \ (_) | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |__ _|| |___) \__, | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| |_|(_)_|____/ /_/ + Dec 28 2016 + +The Christmas Pi Release (better approximation). + + * Fix various glitches in the previous release. + _ _____ _ _ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / | || | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | || |_ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |__ _| + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_| |_| + Dec 24 2016 + +The Christmas Pi Release. + + * Documentation reorganized and improved + + * S4U interface further rising, toward SimGrid 4 + - Routing code rewritten for readability + - Virtual Machines almost turned into a plugin + - MSG, SimDag, MPI interfaces mostly unchanged + + * The model-checker now works on FreeBSD too. + _ _____ _ _____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ / +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | |_ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |___) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/ + Apr 27 2016 + +The Half Release, a.k.a. the Zealous Easter Trim. + + * Half of the lines of code are gone. + - v3.12: 286k lines; v3.13: 142k lines (+ comments) + - Experimental untested unused "features" removed + - We rewrote several parts in C++ instead of C + + * Introducing v4 of the XML platform format + - Many long-due cleanups (details in the Changelog) + + * MSG examples fully reorganized (in C and Java) + + * The S4U interface is rising, toward SimGrid 4 + - All host manipulations now done in S4U + - SimDag was mostly rewritten on top of S4U + - MSG & SimDag interfaces mostly unchanged + _ _____ _ ____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |___ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | __) | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || |/ __/ + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_____| + Oct 12 2015 + +The Facelift Release. Major changes: + + * Many interface glitches addressed, everywhere. + - Require g++-4.7, Java 7 and boost 1.48 + - Builds on Linux, OS X, Windows and FreeBSD + - See ChangeLog for renamed functions and options. + + * Energy plugin: major cleanups/rewrites. + http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-energy-101.pdf + + * Model-Checker progresses toward production use: + - More robust (now runs in a separate process). + - More efficient (with snapshots' memory compaction). + - More usable (execution paths replayed out of MC) + http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-mc-101.pdf + + * SMPI improvements: + - Better standard coverage - SMP-aware collectives + - InfiniBand model - Early support for RMA + - Replay: Dynamic selector - MVAPICH2 selector + http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-smpi-101.pdf + +Upcoming v3.13 will introduce new interfaces, toward SimGrid 4. + + _ _____ _ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / / | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_| + May 31 2014 + +The Class Release. Major changes: + + * Surf is now in C++ (and documented!) + * Virtual Machine model for Cloud Simulation + * Surf callbacks: plug your code directly in Surf! + * Simcalls are script-generated to clean the mess + + _ _____ _ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | | | | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | |_| | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/ + Nov 17 2013 + +The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free. 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). + * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release. + * Verification and model checking further improved: + liveness+SMPI works; reduction through state equality detection + Plus the usual load of bug fixes and small improvements + + _ _____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ // _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ (_) | + \ 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 + + _ _____ ___ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) / | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ | | + \ 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. + + _ _____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ + \ 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. + + _ _____ _____ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ / | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /| | + \ 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 is now very usable. + * 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. + + + ____ _ ____ _ _ + / ___|(_)_ __ ___ / ___|_ __(_) __| | + \___ \| | '_ ` _ \| | _| '__| |/ _` | + ___) | | | | | | | |_| | | | | (_| | + |____/|_|_| |_| |_|\____|_| |_|\__,_| + _ _____ _____ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/ + _ _ _ + _ _ _ _ | |___ __ _ __| |_ ___ __| | + | || | ' \| / -_) _` (_-< ' \/ -_) _` | + \_,_|_||_|_\___\__,_/__/_||_\___\__,_| + Mar 16 2007 + +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 thoroughly 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 definitely 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 coming (I don't say +much here for the suspense ;) + +We hope you'll enjoy this new version, and please report any feedback +on the list. + +Martin Quinson (for Da SimGrid Team)