+ _ _____ _____ ___
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ / / _ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ |_ \| | | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | ___) | |_| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)____/ \___/
+ (unreleased)
+
+ * SimDAG is finally removed, fully superseeded by S4U.
+ * New documentation on calibrating MPI.
+ *
+ * (+ 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 / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/| (_) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|\___/
+ 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)
+
+ _ _____ ____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \| ___|
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) |___ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|____/
+ February 2. 2020 (02 02 2020)
+
+The Palindrom Day Release.
+
+ * Improve the Python usability (stability and documentation).
+ * Further deprecate MSG: you now have to pass -Denable-MSG=ON to cmake.
+ * SimDAG++: Automatic dependencies on S4U activities (experimental).
+ * (+ many bug fixes and internal refactoring)
+
+ _ _____ ____ _ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \| || |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | || |_
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/|__ _|
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____| |_|
+ October 9. 2019
+
+The Clean Disk Release.
+
+ * Introduce an experimental Wifi network model.
+ * Introduce <disk> (cleaner logic than <storage>).
+ * SMPI: Implement Errhandlers and some more MPI3.1 calls.
+ * (+ many bug fixes and internal refactorings)
+
+ _ _____ ____ _____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ /
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | |_ \
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ ___) |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|____/
+ June 25. 2019
+
+The Exotic Solstice Release.
+
+ * Support for Solaris and Haiku OSes. Just for fun :)
+ * SMPI: more of MPI3.1; some MPI/IO and async collectives.
+ * Python bindings can now be installed from pip.
+ * (+ a whole load of bug fixes and internal refactorings)
+
+ _ _____ ____ ____
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ \
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | __) |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/ / __/
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_____|
+ April 1. 2019
+
+The Easter Christmas Release (this one is somewhat late).
+
+ * Introducing the Python bindings (still beta)
+ * Doc: SMPI tutorial and platform description ported to RTD
+ * Many internal cleanups leading to some user-level speedups
+ * (+ the classical bug fixes and internal refactorings)
+
+ _ _____ ____ _
+__ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \/ |
+\ \ / / _ \ '__/ __| |/ _ \| '_ \ |_ \ __) | |
+ \ V / __/ | \__ \ | (_) | | | | ___) | / __/| |
+ \_/ \___|_| |___/_|\___/|_| |_| |____(_)_____|_|
+ October 3. 2018
+
+The Restarting Documentation (TRD) release.
+
+ * Start to overhaul the documentation, and move to Sphinx + RTD.
+ * Allow dynamic replay of MPI apps, controlled by S4U actors
+ * Rewrite the support for auto-restarted actors (was utterly broken)
+ * (+ the classical bug fixes and doc improvement)
+