X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/8f9428efbe09c757e9bae81e70476c6e6824627f..8ef37a2e313de8c48edbd49a643d500dd76cebc1:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3e57137700..feb3de444b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ + _ _____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ + \ 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. _ ____ _____ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ | \ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / / @@ -5,10 +23,10 @@ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ | \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_/ May 15 2012 -The "sprint cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release. +The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release. Major changes: - * Major cleanups all around (doc, user options, MSG, lua, internals) + * 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 @@ -23,9 +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. - * Experimental support to NS3 simulator as a backend. + * Experimental support to NS3 simulator as a back-end. _ _____ __ _ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ / | @@ -77,7 +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, ...) @@ -147,7 +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. @@ -158,7 +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. @@ -207,7 +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 @@ -226,10 +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