X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/edde8f7fbc1b74a81551bf9eb7bac1935b999296..7a21edf0ad00eee185ec492e9bbf094901fa25fe:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 094dca6631..b4ddce2c9d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,76 @@ + _ _____ _ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / |/ _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ | | | | | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) || | |_| | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_|\___/ + +(to complete) + _ _____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ // _ \ +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ (_) | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) \__, | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)/_/ + Feb 5 2013 + +The "Grasgory" release. Major changes: + + * Gras was completely removed from this version. + * Documentation reorganization to ease browsing it. + * New default value for the TCP_gamma parameter: 4MiB + _ _____ ___ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) / | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ | | + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) || | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_| + Oct 27 2012 + +The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid +framework" release. + + * Add missing manpage to the archive. + _ _____ ___ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / ( _ ) +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / _ \ + \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | (_) | + \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)___/ + Oct 25 2012 + +The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud. +Major changes: + + * Experimental interface to manipulate VMs, EC2-style. + * Fixes around process restart and stochastic workloads + * platf: New C interface to create fixed or random platforms + * SimDag: Many fixes and improvements of typed tasks + * SMPI now covers more of the MPI interface. + More datatypes, more functions, more robust. + * Model-checking: mmalloc is more robust to user errors. + _ _____ _____ _ +__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ /|___ / | +\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ / /| | + \ 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) _ _____ __ ____ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ |___ \ \ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \| '_ \ __) | @@ -16,9 +81,9 @@ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ |___ \ 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. _ _____ __ _ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / / /_ / | @@ -70,7 +135,7 @@ 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 +205,7 @@ 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 +216,7 @@ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / / | \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____(_)_| 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 +265,7 @@ 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 +284,10 @@ 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