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+                    _               _____  _  __
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / |/ /_
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | '_ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || | (_) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+               (not released yet)
+
+                    _               _____  _ ____
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / | ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | |___ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |___) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/
+               Mar 22 2017
+
+The Spring Release: continuous integration servers become green.
+
+ * S4U: progress, integrating more parts of SimDag; New examples.
+ * SMPI: Support MPI 2.2; Convert internals to C++ (TBC).
+ * Java: Massive memleaks and performance issues fixed.
+ * Plus the usual bug fixes, cleanups and documentation improvements
+                    _               _____  _ _  _    _ ____  ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / | || |  / | ___|/ _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | || |_ | |___ \ (_) |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |__   _|| |___) \__, |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|  |_|(_)_|____/  /_/
+               Dec 28 2016
+
+The Christmas Pi Release (better approximation).
+
+ * Fix various glitches in the previous release.
+                    _               _____  _ _  _
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / | || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | || |_
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |__   _|
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|  |_|
+               Dec 24 2016
+
+The Christmas Pi Release.
+
+ * Documentation reorganized and improved
+
+ * S4U interface further rising, toward SimGrid 4
+   - 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.
+                    _               _____  _ _____
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / |___ /
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | |_ \
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |___) |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|____/
+                Apr 27 2016
+
+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
+                    _               _____  _ ____
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / |___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | __) |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || |/ __/
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_____|
+                Oct 12 2015
+
+The Facelift Release. Major changes:
+
+ * Many interface glitches addressed, everywhere.
+   - Require g++-4.7, Java 7 and boost 1.48
+   - Builds on Linux, OS X, Windows and FreeBSD
+   - See ChangeLog for renamed functions and options.
+
+ * Energy plugin: major cleanups/rewrites.
+   http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-energy-101.pdf
+
+ * Model-Checker progresses toward production use:
+   - More robust (now runs in a separate process).
+   - More efficient (with snapshots' memory compaction).
+   - More usable (execution paths replayed out of MC)
+   http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-mc-101.pdf
+
+ * SMPI improvements:
+   - Better standard coverage  - SMP-aware collectives
+   - InfiniBand model          - Early support for RMA
+   - Replay: Dynamic selector  - MVAPICH2 selector
+   http://simgrid.org/tutorials/simgrid-smpi-101.pdf
+
+Upcoming v3.13 will introduce new interfaces, toward SimGrid 4.
+
+                    _               _____  _ _
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / / |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || | |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|_|
+                May 31 2014
+
+The Class Release. Major changes:
+
+ * Surf is now in C++ (and documented!)
+ * Virtual Machine model for Cloud Simulation
+ * Surf callbacks: plug your code directly in Surf!
+ * Simcalls are script-generated to clean the mess
+
+                    _               _____  _  ___
+__   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ / / |/ _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \    |_ \ | | | | |
+ \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) || | |_| |
+  \_/ \___|_|  |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/
+                Nov 17 2013
+
+The Clean Diaper Release, a.k.a. SimGrid is leak-free. Major changes:
+
+ * Preliminary DVFS support to track the energy consumption
+ * Java is back in the main package (and is very stable).
+ * The storage sub-modules is now believed to be usable.
+ * SMPI is now very stable (we pass most MPICH tests).
+ * Lots of memory leaks were corrected in this release.
+ * Verification and model checking further improved:
+   liveness+SMPI works; reduction through state equality detection
+ Plus the usual load of bug fixes and small improvements
+
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  \ V /  __/ |  \__ \ | (_) | | | |  ___) \__, |
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-                Jan 29 2013
+                Feb 5 2013
 
 The "Grasgory" release. Major changes:
 
@@ -22,6 +155,7 @@ The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
 framework" release.
 
  * Add missing manpage to the archive.
+
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@@ -39,6 +173,7 @@ Major changes:
  * SMPI now covers more of the MPI interface.
    More datatypes, more functions, more robust.
  * Model-checking: mmalloc is more robust to user errors.
+
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@@ -50,6 +185,7 @@ The "cleaning the cleanup" release. Major changes:
 
  * Portability fixups for Mac OSX and Windows
  * Some other bug fixing and various polishing.
+
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@@ -65,6 +201,7 @@ Major changes:
  * 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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@@ -124,7 +261,7 @@ 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
+ * SMPI is now very usable.
  * Visualization:
     - now covers the whole framework
     - major usability improvements
@@ -147,6 +284,7 @@ __   _____ _ __ ___(_) ___  _ __   |___ /| || |  / |
 
 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
 This is a bug fixes release only.
+
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@@ -203,6 +341,7 @@ Most important changes:
 
 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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