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@@ -1,11 +1,36 @@
+                    _               _____  ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / ( _ )
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ / _ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | (_) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/
+
+(to complete)
+                    _               _____ _____ _
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ /|___  / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   / /| |
+ \ 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 "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
-(still to be done)
+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)
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 __   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / /_  |___ \
 \ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \| '_ \   __) |
@@ -16,9 +41,9 @@ __   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / /_  |___ \
 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
 
  * Portability to Mac and Windows improved.
- * Possible misconfigurations (contextes, libPCRE) made impossible by
+ * Possible misconfigurations (contexts, libPCRE) made impossible by
    removing the option or providing sane default value.
- * Exerimental support to NS3 simulator as a backend.
+ * Experimental support to NS3 simulator as a back-end.
 
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 __   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / /_  / |
@@ -70,7 +95,7 @@ Major changes are:
     - now covers the whole framework
     - major usability improvements
  * SURF:
-    - scalable platform management through hiearchical description
+    - 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, ...)
@@ -140,7 +165,7 @@ 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.
+ * 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.
@@ -151,7 +176,7 @@ __   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ / / |
   \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_|
                 27 Jun 2009
 
-This dot release is mainly a maintainance one. Most important changes:
+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.
@@ -200,7 +225,7 @@ In short:
  * 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
+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
@@ -219,10 +244,10 @@ should work anyway (don't panic):
    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.
+   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 comming (I don't say
+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