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+
+                    _               _____  _____  __
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ / / /_
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \| '_ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) | (_) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/ \___/
+               (not released yet)
+
+
+                    _               _____  _________
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ / ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \___ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) |__) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/____/
+               November 23. 2023
+
+The "Thanks Giving up stateful model-checking" release. Stateless model checking remains.
+
+ * Maint: liveness checking is gone. It was fragile and buggy.
+ * API: ActivitySet make it easier to manage sets of activities.
+ * Plugins chiller, photovoltaic and battery revamped and improved.
+ * Performance improvements, both in time and memory.
+ * (+ internal refactoring, usability improvements and bug fixes)
+                    _               _____  _____ _  _
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ /| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \| || |_
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) |__   _|
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/   |_|
+               June 26. 2023
+
+Save the planet, skip a release: 3.33 was due 6 months ago, so skip directly to 3.34.
+
+ * Maint: MSG and Java are gone (EOL was scheduled for 2020), move to C++17,
+          and drop 32bits support.
+ * Model: Introduce a fluid I/O model, mixing I/O and network, to represent
+          streaming from disk
+ * API: DAG/workflow loader; Introducing Tasks which are activities that can
+        be fired several times.
+ * Doc: Several new documentation sections, and a new tutorial on DAGs.
+ * MC: Safety properties now portable to every OS, activated by default
+       in all builds.
+ * MC: Introduction ODPOR/SDPOR reductions and guiding strategies (better
+       state space traversal).
+ * (+ internal refactoring, bug fixes and documentation improvement)
+
+                    _               _____  _________
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ /___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \ __) |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) / __/
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/_____|
+               October 3. 2022
+
+The Wiedervereinigung release. Germany was reunited 32 years ago.
+
+  * Various cleanups around the virtual machines API
+  * Improved Python platform generation (more robust, easier to use)
+  * Further complete Python bindings (Comm, Engine, ptasks)
+  * (+ internal refactoring, MANY bug fixes and documentation improvement)
+
+                    _               _____  _____ _
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ // |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \| |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) | |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/|_|
+               March 22. 2022
+
+The ненасильство release. We stand against war.
+
+  * Refactoring the model-checker, enabling synchronization objects and future improvements
+  * Introducing BMF sharing, enabling ptasks in regular models (experimental)
+  * Further complete Python bindings (Mutex, Semaphore and Barrier)
+  * (+ internal refactoring, many bug fixes and documentation improvement)
+
+                    _               _____  _____  ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ / / _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   |_ \| | | |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | ___) | |_| |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/ \___/
+               January 30. 2022
+
+The Sunday Bloody Sunday release.
+
+  * SimDAG is finally removed, fully superseded by S4U.
+  * New documentation on calibrating MPI.
+  * The Algorithms tutorial can now be taken in Python.
+  * (+ many bug fixes and internal refactoring)
+
+                    _               _____  ____   ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ \ / _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   __) | (_) |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | / __/ \__, |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|  /_/
+               October 7. 2021
+
+The "Ask a stupid question" release
+
+  * Python bindings for the platform creation API
+  * Introduce non-linear resource sharing, allowing decay models
+  * New documentation section on realistic I/O modeling
+  * (+ many bug fixes and internal refactoring)
+
+                    _               _____  ____  ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ \( _ )
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   __) / _ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | / __/ (_) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____\___/
+               July 14. 2021
+
+The Victoriadagarna Release (birthday of Crown Princess Victoria)
+
+  * Programmatic platform description (only C++ for now).
+  * New plugin to simplify producer/consumer applications.
+  * MC: new tutorial and associated docker image.
+  * SMPI: improve error handling for incorrect advanced usages.
+  * Many internal cleanups and refactoring to prepare the future.
+
+                    _               _____  ____ _____
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ \___  |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   __) | / /
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | / __/ / /
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____/_/
+               March 29. 2021
+
+The Ragnar Release (anniversary of the siege of Paris by Vikings in 845)
+
+  * SMPI: can now report leaks and hint about the mallocs and kernels hindering simulation scalability
+  * Doc: Several new sections in the user manual, and start documenting the internals.
+  * S4U: Direct comms from host to host, without mailboxes.
+  * Many internal cleanups and refactoring to prepare the future.
+
                     _               _____  ____   __
 __   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / |___ \ / /_
 \ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \   __) | '_ \
  \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) | / __/| (_) |
   \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|\___/
-               (unreleased)
+               December 15. 2020
+
+The Release release (the French lockdown was eased).
+
+ * SMPI: improved support of the proxy apps (including those using petsc)
+ * WiFi: easier description in XML; energy plugin; more examples.
+ * ns-3: Many bug fixes, can use the wifi models too.
+ * (+ many bug fixes, documentation improvement and internal refactoring)
 
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@@ -199,7 +336,7 @@ The Christmas Pi Release.
    - Routing code rewritten for readability
    - Virtual Machines almost turned into a plugin
    - MSG, SimDag, MPI interfaces mostly unchanged
-   
+
  * The model-checker now works on FreeBSD too.
 
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