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+                Oct 12 2015
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+The Facelift Release. Major changes:
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+ * 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.
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