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@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ SimGrid (3.8) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
 
  The "SimGrid makes psssshiiiit and jumps into the cloud" release.
 
- CMAKE:
+ Cmake:
  * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
    and LDFLAGS.
  * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
+ * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
+
+ Documentation:
+ * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
 
  MSG:
  * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
@@ -13,33 +17,64 @@ SimGrid (3.8) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
    allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
  * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
  * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
-   Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry 
+   Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
    points in the library helps us).
  * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
+ * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
+ * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
+   executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file, 
+   MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
+ * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
+   please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
+ * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
 
  Simix:
  * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
-   survive the host they are running onto
+   survive the host they are running onto.
+ * Add an interface to execute cleanup functions when a process is killed,
+   to avoid memory leaks.
+ * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
+   executing comes back.
+ * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
+   the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
 
  SimDag:
  * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
    parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
    to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
-   that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation. 
-   SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution 
-   between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each 
-   workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides. 
+   that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
+   SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
+   between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
+   workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
 
-   These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev. 
-   Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child 
+   These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
+   Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
    are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
    communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
    assumptions.
  * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
-
+ * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used 
+   by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal 
+   bandwidth on the route onto which the task is  scheduled and the amount of 
+   data to transfer.
+   To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
+                     rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
+ * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
+   (from their beginning)
+ * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
+   on average)
+   
+ SMPI:
+ * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
+   smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
+   examples/msg/actions/actions.c
+ * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
+   [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
+   
  XBT:
  * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
-  and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_ext()._
+   and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
+ * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
 
  -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
 
@@ -187,7 +222,7 @@ SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
     - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
       to display informations about supported logging parameters and
       categories.
-    - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg.simix,xbt}-log=...
+    - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
       don't exists anymore.
   * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
   * Dicts: