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+The Chrismas Pi Release.
+
+ * Documentation reorganized and improved
+
+ * S4U interface further rising, toward SimGrid 4
+   - Routing code rewritten for readability
+   - Virtual Machines almost changed into a plugin
+   - MSG, SimDag, MPI interfaces mostly unchanged
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+                Apr 27 2016
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+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
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