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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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+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) |__   _|| |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_) |_|(_)_|
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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
+   
+                    _               _____  _____ _  _   
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ /| || |  
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \| || |_ 
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) |__   _|
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_) |_|  
+                                           
+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
+ 
+                    _               _____  _____  _____ 
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \   |_ \ 
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) | ___) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)____/ 
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+The "Need for Speed" release.
+Big speedup through some function inlining.
+
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+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \   __) |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) | / __/ 
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_____|
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+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.
+
+On the way, we gained a bit more than 5% on the classical master/slave
+example. More to come on this in future releases.
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