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+#  Main authors:
+#     Christian Schulte <schulte@gecode.org>
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+#  Copyright:
+#     Christian Schulte, 2005
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+# This file contains entries for changelogs
+#
+# There are two kinds of entries: one marking releases and the others 
+# being actual entries.
+#
+# All the lines for describing entries must start at the beginning.
+#
+# A release is described as follows:
+#   [RELEASE]
+#   Version: <version string>
+#   Date:    <when release>
+#   [DESCRIPTION]
+#   ... All the text up to the next [ENTRY] is included 
+#   as description
+#
+# An entry is described as follows:
+#   [ENTRY]
+#   Module: 
+#     kernel|search|int|set|cpltset|example|minimodel|iter|support|
+#     test|gist|other
+#   What:   bug|documentation|performance|new|removed|change
+#   Rank:   minor|major
+#   Bug:    <optional, for number from bugzilla>
+#   Thanks: <optional, who reported etc>
+#   [DESCRIPTION]
+#   ... All the text up to the next [ENTRY] or [RELEASE] is included 
+#   as description
+#
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version: 2.2.0
+Date: 2008-08-25
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This release adds many domain consistent propagators for
+arithmetic constraints and fixes a number of bugs. Some of these
+bugs fixed are potentially serious, in particular as they occur
+very seldom. Please change to 2.2.0 as soon as possible (in
+particular if you are using the 64bit Microsoft Visual C++
+compiler). And, of course, the usual small fixes and changes.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a bug in the memory alignment on Windows 64bit (very hard to reproduce).
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added configure options for adding a prefix and a suffix to the names of the 
+compiled libraries.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a bug in the domain consistent distinct propagator that would cause
+a stack overflow under rare circumstances.
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The ternary intersection propagator was incorrect if any of the sets had a 
+maximum cardinality of Set::Limits::card.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Raphael Reischuk
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The attempt to access the value of an unassigned integer or
+Boolean variable (IntVar or BoolVar) throws an exception now.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added bounds consistent division/modulo propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All functional linear and arithmetic constraints now put sharp
+bounds on the output variable (eases interfacing to modelling
+languages).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The channel constraint now comes in a version that allows to specify offsets 
+to the array indices.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Example-based support for SAC (singleton arc consistency) has
+been removed. Might be reintroduced later in a more general
+fashion.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The Makefile has a new target, check, which performs a minimal integrity check 
+using some tests from the test suite.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The set selection constraints are now called element.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug for domain-consistent distinct that never occurred in
+practice.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug that could potentially have affected certain staged
+propagators.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	David Rijsman
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed explanation of ES_FIX and ES_NOFIX for advisors
+(description was mixed up).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The configure script now always uses the Microsoft compiler on Windows. Use
+the CC and CXX environment variables to override this if you want to use
+gcc.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added domain consistent multiplication propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+Thanks: Filip Konvicka
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Generated variable stubs were wrong (could only be observed for
+new variable types).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: David Rijsman
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Cumulatives did not do all the pruning it should do.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Decomposition during search (DDS) has been added as a new search engine. DDS 
+is an implementation of And/Or search. It tries to decompose the problem into 
+independent subproblems, potentially reducing the search space dramatically. 
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in element with IntArgs and sharing between the two IntVars.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Jaroslav Mlejnek
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in sqrt.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: David Rijsman
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in ValSplitMin::branchingSpec.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed ViewTuple. Just not useful enough...
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Cleaned up Reflection::Var type, overloading did not conform to the C++ 
+standard.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added domain consistent minimum (min) and maximum (max) propagators.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added domain consistent square root propagator (sqrt).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added domain consistent squaring propagator (sqr).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added documentation for domain consistent absolute value (abs) propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added reified propagators for relations over Boolean variables.
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version: 2.1.1
+Date: 2008-03-06
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This is a bugfix release.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Non-shared copying of dfa was broken (matters only for parallel execution).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The generated med_updated function was incorrect, resulting in potential
+crashes of programs that use SetVars.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: cpltset
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The CpltSet variables are now in the correct documentation group.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: gist
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed redraw artefacts on Windows.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed boost serialization.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Made the constructor of Reflection::Var explicit, otherwise overloading for
+output stream operators does not work as expected.
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version: 2.1.0
+Date:    2008-02-29
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This release makes two essential contributions: a partly
+reimplemented kernel that is faster, is simpler, and uses less
+memory and lots of small and not so small fixes. This release is
+the first release where really everything that we can test
+(rather than everything that we initially believed to matter) has
+been systematically tested. So, better switch now to 2.1.0!
+
+Apart from that, the value range for variables has been increased
+(basically, 32 bits minus three values, so that is 32 bits), the reflection 
+API is now fully functional and no longer considered experimental, and we have
+the usual small additions.
+
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added interface to extensional constraints defined by TupleSets with
+BoolVars.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Reimplemented linear expressions from scratch, they were just
+hopelessly screwed.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added work-around for compiler bug in MSVC.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Support reified linear expressions with Boolean variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Throw an exception if variables occur multiply for array-based
+channel constraints.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed multiplication propagator for x*y=x.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All search engines now take an option value for configuration
+instead of individual arguments for recomputation, stop objects,
+etc.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed scheduling abstractions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed extensional constraints with offset arguments.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All minimodel functionality now understands both IntConLevel and
+PropKind arguments.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bugs in several set constraints:
+rel(Space*,SetVar,IntRelType irt,IntVar) for irt=IRT_NQ,
+rel(Space*,SetVar,SetOpType sot,const IntSet&,SetRelType srt,SetVar) for 
+sot=SOT_MINUS, srt=SRT_SUP, selectDisjoint, selectUnion with constant IntSet 
+arguments, dom with SRT_NQ.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in unreflection of empty VarArrays.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: linear
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed overflow checking error in linear constraints.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added sqrt function.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added sqrt propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added sqr post function.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The overloaded versions of dom for variable arrays could not be
+resolved automatically.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added missing branching for INT_VAR_SIZE_DEGREE_MIN and
+INT_VAR_SIZE_DEGREE_MAX for Boolean variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+Thanks:	Stanimir Dragiev
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in posting linear expressions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+IntSet have been reimplemented for efficiency.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Function prototypes are now highlighted in the detailed function documentation.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The offset arguments for element constraints have been removed, as you can 
+simply add dummy elements to the array to achieve the same effect.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The offset arguments for selection constraints have been removed, as you can 
+simply add dummy elements to the array to achieve the same effect.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The serialization library now contains a registry of all the Gecode post 
+functions. This makes interfacing to Gecode much easier. The registry is 
+automatically generated from the post functions defined in gecode/int.hh and 
+gecode/set.hh.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Cleaned up reflection. Unreflection is now part of the kernel instead of the 
+serialization library. Branchings now provide a human-readable description of 
+a BranchingDesc. The name function of a Propagator has been renamed to ati 
+(actor type identifier). All reflection is now const where possible. 
+Unreflection of variables now checks dynamically that the variable types 
+match. Unreflection of propagators checks the number of arguments. A 
+tutorial-style section on reflection has been added to the documentation.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The limits for set variables have been moved from Limits::Set to
+Set::Limits.
+
+The range of set variables has been adapted to the range of
+integer variables.  For example, on a standard machine
+(regardless of 32 or 64 bits), a set can hold values from -2^30+2
+to 2^30-2, its maximum cardinality therefore is 2^31-3.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The limits for set variables have been moved from Limits::Set to
+Set::Limits.
+
+The range of integer variables have been extended by one bit. For
+example, on a standard machine (regardless of 32 or 64 bits), the
+largest possible integer value for an integer variable is 2^31-2,
+the smallest -2^31+2. With other words, only the integer values
+2^31-1, -2^31, and -2^31+1 are missing from the two-complement
+representation (and we will never use these values for the sake
+of mental sanity. We promise.).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Distinct with integer offsets checks accurately for overflow now.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Boolean variables consume 20% less memory.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Only stable and non-failed spaces can be cloned, otherwise
+Space::clone raises an exception. This makes cloning and
+propagation fully orthogonal. To emulate the old behavior, just
+execute Space::status before Space::clone.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The number of propagators and branchings can be accurately
+retrieved from both failed and non-stable spaces.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: examples
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added an example that interprets a JavaScript program and runs a search of the 
+model that the program encodes. This is an example of how to use the 
+JavaScript interpreter. A simple JavaScript model for n-Queens has been added, 
+too.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+A generic variable class has been added that can be used for interfacing. It 
+can store arbitrary Gecode variables (e.g. IntVar and SetVar), and cast them 
+back using a run-time type check. The update, reflection, and output 
+operations are implemented through the reflection registry.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+(De-)Serialization to and from JavaScript added.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Both the cost and propagate function of a propagator take the
+current modification event delta as input. Likewise,
+retrieving the modification event for a particular View must use
+the static function View::me with the passed
+modification event delta. Again, this feature committed the kernel to a
+particular implementation which might not be available in the
+future.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Views and variables do not any longer reveal whether they have
+been modified: this feature committed the kernel to a particular
+implementation which might not be available in the future.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Simple Singleton Arc Consistency pre-processing has been added as an
+optional step for examples.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The kernel has undergone some cleanups and improvements (much of
+it got actually reimplemented):
+ - Automatically generated stubs for variable implementations are directly
+   inlined into the kernel. This improves performance, but more
+   importantly, lifts some limits on the number of variables. Now, the
+   only limit is that the sum of the ceiling of the logarithms of the 
+   number of modification events of all variables does not exceed 32
+   (as an estimate, the kernel now can handle around 10 to 16 variable
+   types). Moreover, if the need for more variable types arises this is 
+   straightforward to do.
+ - The addition of new variable types for users has been simplified.
+ - The main propagation loop has been entirely rewritten (much much simpler).
+   Now, the kernel does not optimize any longer for the case that a
+   variable is modified more than once during propagator execution.
+   While this changes the asymptotic complexity, it reduces the propagator
+   execution overhead by up to 30%. And a propagator is still free
+   to make sure that a variable is modified only once (many propagators
+   do that already).
+ - Variable implementations became smaller by one word. Now variable
+   implementations are optimal in the sense that no additional memory
+   is needed for cloning or book-keeping, the memory required for 
+   propagation is sufficient.
+ - Spaces have lost some weight as memory for datastructures only used
+   during cloning or propagation are shared (saves some 25% of memory
+   per space).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Propagator modification events have been renamed to modification event
+deltas (because that is what they are).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+To not confuse variable implementations with variables, variable
+implementations are now always called VarImp, and not Variable.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: gist
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The %Gecode Interactive Search Tool (Gist), a Qt-based graphical search 
+engine, is now part of the main %Gecode distribution. It is currently included
+as an experimental beta preview and may not be completely stable yet.
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version: 2.0.1
+Date:    2008-02-07
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This is a bug-fix only release. Very unfortunately, it fixes
+three serious bugs in search (LDS, Restart, and assignment
+branchings). We highly encourage you to switch to Gecode 2.0.1 as
+soon as possible.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: test
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in reflection tests.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in set projection propagators.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in IntSet.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: test
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added comprehensive tests for all search engines.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Assignment branchings wrongly reported that they feature two alternatives
+rather than one.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+Thanks: Stefano Gualandi
+[DESCRIPTION]
+LDS had numerous quirks. It has been fixed and greatly improved:
+it detects when the entire search tree has been probed,
+independent of the maximal discrepancy.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+Thanks: Stefano Gualandi
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Restart was broken in case the problem failed immediately with
+propagation only, both when being initialized or when requesting
+a next solution.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: iter
+What:   fix
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: David Barton
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Changed Ranges::Diff to make older versions of gcc happy.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   fix
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: David Barton
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed linking order so that static linking works again.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Mohamad Rabbath
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Re-added reified linear constraints for Boolean variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Domain-consistent abs could crash in certain (extremely rare) border cases.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Static initialization order was undefined, making reflection work unreliably. 
+In particular, linking Gecode statically did not work.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Initializing an IntVar with an empty IntSet did not throw the appropriate 
+exception but crashed.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Exceptions did not have rtti information when compiled with gcc and 
+visibility, which meant that they could not be caught.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Helmut Simonis
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a bug and quirk in %Kakuro puzzles.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The VarMapIter can now return both a specification and the actual VarBase* of 
+the currently iterated variable.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Revived boost serialization.  The serialization functions will be compiled if 
+Gecode is configured with --with-boost.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Be less aggressive in increasing size of heap chunks.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in documentation of table-based extensional constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a bug in the hash function for pointers, which could return
+negative array indices.
+
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version: 2.0.0
+Date:    2007-11-14
+[DESCRIPTION]
+As witnessed by the version number change, this is a major
+release with too many changes, fixes, and additions to mention
+them all: please consult the changelog.
+
+The highlights are:
+ - New propagators: channeling between Integer variable and array
+   of Boolean variables, circuit, table constraint (extensional),
+   incremental regular constraint (extensional), incremental
+   Boolean linear constraints
+ - Boolean variables have a dedicated implementation: twice as
+   fast, half the memory
+ - Advisors for incremental propagation (see: Lagerkvist,
+   Schulte, Advisors for Incremental Propagation, CP 2007)
+ - Many crucial performance and scalability improvements: memory
+   management, memory footprint of propagators
+ - Many cleanups and more documentation, many new examples
+ - New set variables with complete domain representation
+   (CpltSetVar) [experimental]
+ - A reflection API to query spaces about their propagators
+   [experimental]
+
+The features marked as experimental are all functional, but might
+be revised in the next releases.
+ 
+As %Gecode 2.0.0 is a major release, you might have to adapt your
+programs:  \ref PageHowToChange_2 "How to Change to Gecode 2.0.0".
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added table-based extensional constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+When compiling with gcc, the default visibility of symbols in the
+generated dynamic library is set to hidden.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   removed
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed buggy distinct propagator for finite sets.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Helmut Simonis
+[DESCRIPTION]
+New example: %Kakuro puzzles.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added dist and distdir targets for creating source distribution.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Filip Konvicka
+[DESCRIPTION]
+On windows with MSVC, always build program database files to ease
+debugging of applications using %Gecode (files are also included in
+packages).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added new variable selection based on largest or smallest
+quotient of size and degree.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Variable arrays, view arrays, and argument arrays can directly be
+printed on standard output streams.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The structure of includes has been drastically
+simplified. Support for iterators ("gecode/iter.hh") is
+automatically included with integers ("gecode/int.hh") and sets
+("gecode/set.hh"). Likewise, all support functionality becomes
+available by including "gecode/support.hh" (one can assume that
+this is included in "gecode/kernel.hh").
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Shared arrays are now available in the kernel (where they properly
+belong). This entails that they are available in the Gecode
+namespace and not in Gecode::Support.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The extensional constraint specified by a DFA or a regular
+expression (formerly known as regular) is now named "extensional"
+rather than "regular".
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed small quirk in posting an absolute propagator via a function.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added channeling propagator between a SetVar and a BoolVarArray
+that propagates the characteristic function of the set to the
+Boolean variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Changed the datastructure for set variables to use singly-linked
+lists.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The values (and types) for selecting how to branch have been made
+uniform for all variables types: they start with INT_ (or SET_ or
+CPLTSET_), followed by either VAL or VAR and the respective
+strategy.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The interface for the global cardinality constraint has been simplified.
+The constraint is now called count.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Regular expressions (REG) have been moved from the integer module to
+the minimodel module.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Most examples have been cleaned up.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Parsing of commandline arguments has been completely redone and
+is much more extensible and flexible.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All of %Gecode has been put under the MIT license (which the
+previous license was a simple rewording of).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed huge number of casts that could (only potentially)
+compromise portability.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Finite set projectors can now be specified using formulas, in addition to
+set expressions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: cpltset
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Finite integer set variables with complete domain representation,
+based on binary decision diagrams (BDDs), have been added as a
+new variable type.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+A reflection API has been added, which allows querying spaces 
+about the variables and propagators they contain.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Branching ids were not properly initialized. This was a serious
+problem if you posted branchings in spaces other than the root
+space.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Iterator-based domain operations have been renamed,
+reimplemented, and extended. Now operations for both range and
+value iterators are supported and the operations can be told to
+perform more efficient destructive updates.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Sortedness constraints have been renamed to sorted constraints.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+VarArrays can now be resized dynamically.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Boolean linear equations and inequalities with constant
+right-hand sides use constant time propagators whenever
+appropriate (linear time with less overhead and memory for
+propagators with few variables).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added advisors as an abstraction for incremental propagation:
+advisors are executed for their propagator whenever their view
+changes. Advisors, when not being used, add one word of overhead
+to each variable and slow down the system in the worst case by
+less than 1%. In average, no slowdown can be observed.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a border-case bug for n-ary Boolean conjunction and disjunction.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+A new propagation condition PC_GEN_NONE (and hence, PC_INT_NONE,
+...) has been introduced. Propagator patterns with this
+propagation condition now do not create any subscriptions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The regular constraint has been reimplemented, the new version
+runs more than twice as fast.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added a model for the traveling salesman problem, mostly
+intended to exercise the new circuit constraint (as the model is not
+very competitive).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	kernel
+What:	new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Support for reference-counted shared objects added: they handle
+both reference counting as well as non-shared copying. This fixes
+some bugs with the handling of shared arrays, integer sets, and
+finite automata.
+
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	example
+What:	bug
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Examples reported wrong number of propagator invocations (the
+invocations for problem setup were missing).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	kernel
+What:	new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added classes for shared objects and handles. Handles to shared
+objects allow to either share copies among spaces when being
+copied or to create a new shared copy, if requested.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	new
+Rank:	minor
+Thanks:	Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added a new version of count (and also atleast, atmost, exactly)
+that counts the number of variables equal to integers in an
+array.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	example
+What:	bug
+Rank:	minor
+Bug:	50
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The number of colors in graph-color was off by one.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added channel constraints that channel an integer variable to
+either a single or an array of Boolean variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	bug
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in copying of n-ary or-propagator for a special boundary case.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	new
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Relaxed sharing restrictions for channel, in particular 
+channel(this, x, x) is allowed.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added propagators for the circuit constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	kernel
+What:	performance
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Improved automatic memory management on Windows platforms.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	performance
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Domain consistent distinct and channel allocate memory from the
+space heap now. Much simpler.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	change
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The Boolean tell operations one_none and zero_none now also
+return a ModEvent and hence must be checked for failure. This is
+needed for simpler advisors.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	kernel
+What:	performance
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The memory management policies have been completely reworked. Now
+memory requests are much more regular. Hence, memory is much more
+likely to be returned to the operating system. Furthermore, the
+flush member functions for actors have been removed (they were
+unneeded) and actors and spaces now have allocated member
+functions for returning how much memory is allocated by a space.
+
+Moreover, the memory reported by some propagators has been
+ignored. Note that this flaw did not affect the benchmark figures
+on the %Gecode webpage.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	performance
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The multiplication uses integer precision if possible for better
+performance.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	change
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Integer and Boolean variables are now guaranteed to be
+inspectable (that is, all const member functions work on them),
+even though a space is failed. However, the variables might have
+been modified during a tell operation that has failed.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	minimodel
+What:	change
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Linear expressions and relations can also be created from Boolean
+variables, with the restriction that Boolean relations cannot be
+reified.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	change
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Boolean variables (and hence Boolean views) do not any longer
+share the implementation with integer variables. That has the
+following consequences:
+- Boolean variables are not any longer integer variables. The same
+  holds true for arrays of variables.
+- All constraints that make sense for both Boolean and integer
+  variables have post functions that support both integer and
+  Boolean variables.
+- Memory for Boolean variables is reduced by 50% and performance
+  increases in problems with many Boolean variables by up to 50%.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added propagators for linear constraints over Boolean variables,
+in particular specialized and efficient versions for non-unit
+coefficients.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	change
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The linear constraints are now more careful (that is, they will
+use more efficient versions more often if it is safe) to
+determine whether overflow occurs and which precision (integer or
+double) should be chosen.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	int
+What:	change
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The element constraints now accept an additional offset argument.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	set
+What:	new
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added selection and reified relation constraints with constant sets.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:	set
+What:	change
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Slightly stronger inferences for the finite set sequence and selection
+constraints.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+New example: the balanced academic curriculum problem (problem 030 from
+CSPlib).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed the n-ary partition propagator to handle overflow of the sum of
+cardinalities correctly.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Subscription to constant views now should use the propagate
+member function from a variable implementation: it guarantees
+execution of a propagator at least once (int and set views have
+been adopted accordingly).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	major
+Bug:	48
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Branching on maximum regret would always crash on non-range domains.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What: 	change
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The finite set selection propagators accept an additional
+argument that specifies where the indexing should start. It
+should make some models more natural to express, and helps in
+porting code from other systems, such as Prolog or Mozart.  In
+addition, the selectUnion propagator is now hand-written again,
+resulting in better performance.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All Boolean constraints got a new and regular interface. Rather
+than providing different post functions for the different
+constraints, the single post function rel is used: the Boolean
+operation then is described by a value of type BoolOpType. In
+addition, all Boolean propagators have been reimplemented for
+better performance and less memory use.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: test
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added simple testing for branchings.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The way how propagators report subsumption and partial fixpoints
+has changed. Now, a propagator must first call dispose (which
+then cancels subscriptions and possibly frees external resources)
+and only then can return that the propagator is subsumed. For
+that purpose a new function Gecode::ES_SUBSUMED has been
+defined. Likewise, ES_FIX_PARTIAL and ES_NOFIX_PARTIAL are
+functions rather than member functions of Gecode::Propagator. The
+benefit is that this saves memory and is more efficient.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The use of the consistency options were a little confusing, now
+the rule is: the level of consistency increases from ICL_VAL to
+ICL_BND to ICL_DOM.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Boolean expressions erroneously decomposed into ternary Boolean
+constraints, while not incorrect rather inefficient for large
+Boolean expressions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Made all macros type safe.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added macro GECODE_REWRITE for rewriting propagators. It is strongly advised
+to always use this macro!
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:    46
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Orientation of Sudokus now match the orientation in the specification-file.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+New example: MineSweeper.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+New example: Domino.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Set projectors could subscribe with bogus propagation conditions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Performance of the tell operations on finite set variables was
+improved.  Especially the intersect operation benefits from this.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The element constraint now also supports integer values as result.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Add a generic class for assignments during search (similar to
+generic branchings for views and values).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All branching classes for value and view selection are now
+parametric.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Boolean variables cannot longer be initialized from an integer 
+variable. If needed, a channel propagator must be posted (added).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The equality constraints have been replaced by a variant of rel.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The propagator abstractions Inhom* have been renamed to Mix*.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The operations t_one, t_one_none, t_zero, t_zero_none for Boolean
+views have been renamed to one, one_none, zero, zero_none.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   performance
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Explicit disposal of actors has been reimplemented (the old
+design was nothing but darn stupid). The memory overhead of
+propagators is reduced by 40% for most propagators and 20% for
+all. That is, a binary propagator takes 30% less memory and a
+ternary propagator takes 25% less memory. Programs with many
+binary or ternary propagators can run up to 20% faster.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Propagators and branchings that require disposal when a space is
+deleted must now be explicitly registered via a force function
+and explicitly deregistered by an unforce function.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in reified dom constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in distinct constraint for sets.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+New example: Pentominoes. The example uses extensional
+constraints specified as regular expressions to place
+irregular-shaped pieces on a board.
+
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.3.1
+Date:		2006-10-25
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This is a minor release which fixes a major bug (the first real
+serious bug). Please update as soon as possible.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+Thanks: Rafael Meneses
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Branch&Bound search with ViewValBranchings (all standard branchings) together 
+with batch recomputation was severely broken. The problems ranged from wrong 
+search trees (missing solutions) to segmentation faults. The fix changes the 
+way assigned variables are removed from the array in a ViewValBranching.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Bounds-consistent distinct catches border case when an assigned variable
+during bounds propagation leads to value removal for value propagation.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Bounds-consistent distinct eliminates assigned variables more 
+aggressively (can save up to 10% runtime in some cases).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Alejandro Arbelaez
+[DESCRIPTION]
+IntVar::init now also raises exceptions for illegal domain specifications.
+
+
+
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.3.0
+Date:		2006-09-19
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This release adds a compiler for finite set projectors and provides new
+infrastructure making it easier to add new variable domains. In addition,
+it contains recent bug fixes and minor improvements.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Compiler for finite set projectors. Given a specification of a finite set
+constraint as a projector set, it generates C++ code for the corresponding
+propagator. Together with the dynamic propagator for finite set projectors,
+this implements the backend of the technique described in the paper
+"Generating Propagators for Finite Set Constraints" (Tack, Schulte,
+Smolka; CP 2006.).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Jorge Marques Pelizzoni
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Also pass options for linking standard libraries for MSVC.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The pkg-config files now contain the correct path if you configured to the
+default prefix (i.e. /usr/local).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added aliases lex, atleast, atmost, and exactly for the count constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Renamed lex constraint to rel (as it also supports equality and disequality).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Make count constraints with integer number of equal occurrences
+more incremental using dynamic subscriptions (gives a 20-30%
+speedup).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added an example for solving Black Hole patience games.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Subscription to variables now features an additional and optional
+Boolean argument whether the propagator is to be processed. This
+allows dynamically creation of subscriptions during propagation.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   new
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+New configure switches: --enable-audit to include audit code, which may
+contain expensive checks of internal invariants or alternative, checked
+implementations of critical parts of %Gecode. --enable-universal and 
+--with-sdk, to support building universal binaries on Mac OS X.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:	new
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Variables can now be deallocated when the Space is deallocated (for example in 
+case of failure). This is important in case a variable implementation needs to 
+reference external resources. Deallocation can be switched on in the 
+high-level description used for generating the variable implementation.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:	bug
+Rank:	minor
+Thanks:	Rafael Meneses
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Under certain conditions (posting in a failed space), the post function 
+returned uninitialized variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	performance
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Variable implementations are now generated from a high-level
+description (taking care of all aspects relating to modification
+events and propagation conditions). While simplifying the
+implementation of new variable domains considerably, this also can, 
+in lucky cases, deliver a speed-up of 5%.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	performance
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Allocate subscriptions in separate memory area. Can speedup execution
+in some (but few) cases by up to 15-20%.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	documentation
+Rank: 	minor
+Bug:	43
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed documentation problem due to doxygen...
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Branch-and-bound search now interleaves recomputation with adding
+bounding constraints. This can prune the search tree much
+earlier: instead of recomputing many nodes from the same copy
+node and then adding a constraint that fails all these nodes, it
+might be possible to already fail the copy node directly. In
+principle, the difference can be exponential, however for
+examples we tried the effect is minor.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Now commits can be interleaved with adding new constraints during
+batch recomputation. This also entails that commit does not raise
+an exception when applied to an already failed space (it is
+simply ignored). The bug could not be observed (unless you did
+some very fancy search engines yourself) and one could actually
+see it as an extension.
+
+
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.2.2
+Date:		2006-07-25
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This release switches recomputation back on and removes some
+experimental code that had sneaked into the system...
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	performance
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Some experimental code had sneaked into the release, slowing down
+the system by more than 10%...
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+With the changes to search in %Gecode 1.2.1 recomputation was
+actually almost switched off...
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	performance
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Improve performance of domain-consistent distinct (by providing
+special ternary version). Can reduce runtime by 10-20% for some
+examples.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	performance
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Cut memory requirements for element (for integer arrays) by half.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added stress test for element constraint (originally due to Neng-Fa Zhou).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added stress test for min constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added possibility to stop the search for solutions in examples based
+on the time taken, the number of fails, or both.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added an example for solving Peacable co-existing armies of %Queens.
+
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.2.1
+Date:		2006-07-19
+[DESCRIPTION]
+In addition to the usual fixes and improvements, the biggest
+change is that all branchings now must support branching
+descriptions. This also entails straightforward changes
+(simplifications) to search-related space operations and to the
+implementation of search engines.
+
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added a macro GECODE_NEVER that assert that this command is never
+executed.  This is preferred over assert(false) as it is used for
+optimization, if supported by a compiler (for example, Microsoft
+Visual C++).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed fixpoint detection bug in n-ary min and max propagators.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Min and max propagators now correctly handle cases such as min(x,y)=x.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	removed
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed bounds-consistent propagation for count constraint (not worth
+the trouble, just use domain-consistent).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What: 	change
+Rank: 	minor
+Thanks:	Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The ViewValBranching class now passes the home space to all member
+functions used in selecting the view and the value.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What: 	bug
+Rank: 	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed fixpoint detection for n-ary partition propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What: 	new
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added finite set projection propagators. They allow to propagate all
+finite set constraints expressible as finite set projectors, including
+negated and reified constraints.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: support
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added simple class encapsulating a linear congruential pseudo-random
+number generator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The interface for branchings has changed considerably, reflecting
+the fact now that all branchings must support branching descriptions.
+This is also reflected in the Space::status operation which has its
+arguments reversed and corrected const qualifiers on its arguments.
+But the good news is that it is considerably simpler than before.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Assignment branchings (that is, branchings with a single alternative)
+could possibly take the wrong values for assignment during recomputation.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The status operation does not any longer accept an argument for
+the number of alternatives. The number of alternatives is now
+available from a branching description (where it is passed upon
+creation of the description). This reflects the fact that
+branching descriptions are mandatory now.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a serious bug where during recomputation the search stack
+was always inspected behind the last element: the reason why
+recomputation never crashed has been that stacks always keep one
+element extra for optimization. So, serious bug but looks as if
+no one stumbled over this...
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+As Boolean variables can be derived from integer variables, the
+assumption that a not yet assigned Boolean variable can not be
+modified is wrong.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Generate one page per version released in changelog.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:	41
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Change exceptions thrown by %Gecode to be compliant with C++
+exceptions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:	42
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Renamed macros so as to avoid nameclashes (all macros start with
+GECODE_).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Search engines now correctly count the number of propagation
+steps including propagation that occurs when adaptive
+recomputation creates additional clones.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Branchings now must return branching descriptions and commit
+operations also insist on being provided with branching
+descriptions.  This change reflects that batch recomputation is
+of vital importance for efficiency in %Gecode.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Make Boolean linear constraints with constant right hand sides
+more incremental using dynamic subscriptions (gives a 20-30% speedup).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Take advantage of specialized Boolean propagators in Boolean
+expressions and relations.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Made n-ary Boolean conjunction and disjunction more incremental by
+using dynamic subscriptions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Provide special versions of Boolean propagators optimizing cases
+where n-ary disjunctions are true.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Change implementation of Boolean propagators from conjunction
+to disjunction so that disjunction can be used as special case
+for Boolean sum with inequalities.
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.2.0
+Date:		2006-06-20
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This release makes quite some drastic changes to how propagators
+and branchings are deleted: instead of using destructors they use
+a dispose method that allows passing a home space during deletion
+(we will use this infrastructure measure to speed up cloning
+considerably a little later). Moreover the directory structure
+has changed on popular request so that all include files are to
+be found in a gecode subdirectory. Apart from that, some small
+fixes and extensions due to requests.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Luis Otero
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in finite set distinct propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed memory leak in global cardinality constraint.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in equality tests that could lead to reified (dis)equality
+propagators not achieving domain consistency.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: test
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added --enable-leak-debug configure option. This option causes the test suite
+to call mtrace() under Linux, which can be used to test for memory leaks.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+More aggressive inlining for canceling subscriptions.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:	39
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed linkage of BAB destructor under Cygwin.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The branch member function for branchings now also takes a home space
+as argument.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Canceling subscriptions on views and variable implementations now
+require also a home space (this has become possible due to not using
+destructors but ordinary "dispose" member functions).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Actors (propagators and branchings) do not any longer use destructors
+but a "dispose" member function that takes a home space as argument
+and must return the size of the actor.
+Important: this requires that dispose member functions from super-classes
+and class members are called explicitly!
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Spaces can be queried for number of propagators and branchings.
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Search engines can now be checked whether they have been stopped.
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   documentation
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks:	Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in description of PC_INT_DOM.
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+Thanks:	Martin Mann
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Moved library source code into gecode subdirectory. Facilitates cleaner
+installation. Programs compiling against %Gecode now need to include
+e.g. "gecode/int.hh".
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Sudoku example generalized to arbitrarily sized Sudokus.
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.1.0
+Date:		2006-04-10
+[DESCRIPTION]
+This minor release adds some new constraints (see below), adds support
+for stopping search engines based on definable criteria, and some other
+small fixes. Most notably, the test infrastructure has been extended to
+also check whether propagators correctly claim that they have computed
+a fixpoint (now all invariants a propagator must obey in %Gecode are covered
+by the test infrastructure). This has lead to many small fixes.
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Bug:    37
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Kari Pahula
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added a configure switch --enable-doc-dot. If enabled, this checks for
+presence of the dot tool (used for generating graphs in the documentation)
+	
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added all-interval series using distinct.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added functions returning variables for arithmetic 
+(min, max, abs, mult, plus, minus).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Support for shared views has been removed in 
+sortedness propagator and in the propagator 
+for global cardinality with fixed cardinalities. 
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in fixpoint detection of sortedness and 
+global cardinality propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:	36
+Thanks: Javier Mena
+[DESCRIPTION]
+A non-debug version of %Gecode could not be linked to a program compiled with
+assertions switched on, as BndSet::isConsistent was missing from the library.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Staged propagation for domain-consistent absolute value propagator
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+EqBnd and EqDom now take two template parameters for their view types. This
+supports using different views, e.g. to express x0=-x1 using a MinusView.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+Thanks:	Rafael Meneses
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added functionality to interrupt search engines (introduced
+a Search::Stop class).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed search engines optimizing for copying only (after
+all, one should always use some recomputation).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in fixpoint detection of n-ary maximum/minimum
+propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: kernel
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The status member function now also allows the first
+argument to be optional.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bugs in fixpoint detection of several set propagators (match,
+convexity, sequence, n-ary (disjoint) union).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in fixpoint detection of bounds-consistent 
+element for variables propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in fixpoint detection of bounds-consistent squaring
+propagator (mult with the same variable twice).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed bug in fixpoint detection of bounds-consistent abs
+propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Rewrite n-ary linear, min/max, and Boolean propagators to binary/ternary
+variants during cloning if possible (saves memory).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Stefano Gualandi
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed wrong assertion in gcc-bnd propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   major
+Thanks: Jean-Christophe Godart
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed indexing bug in SupportSet (part of the domain consistent linear
+equation propagator). 
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:	new
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added new constraint channel for variable/value channeling
+between two variable arrays.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:	change
+Rank:	minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+All distinct propagators raise an exception if a variable occurs
+multiply in its arguments.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:	change
+Rank:	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Renamed the set propagators minElement to min, maxElement to max,
+and channelVarVal to channel.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What: 	performance
+Rank: 	major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Improved initialization of domain-consistent distinct propagator,
+in common cases for distinct this can save up to 10% runtime.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: set
+What:	bug
+Rank:	minor
+Thanks: Patrick Pekczynski
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed off-by-one bug in SetVarImp::lubMinN and SetVarImp::lubMaxN.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Olof Sivertsson
+[DESCRIPTION]
+(In-)Equations were still not correct with respect to the sign.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:    33
+Thanks: Olof Sivertsson
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Slice-operation now returns elements in right order.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:    32
+Thanks: Olof Sivertsson
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Possible array-out-of bounds access fixed for MiniModel::Matrix.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: example
+What:   performance
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added redundant constraint to social golfers example.
+
+
+
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.0.1
+Date:		2006-03-01
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Maintenance release including some additions of domain-consistent
+propagators and a fix for a serious bug in reified linear
+inequalities.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: search
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Changed default copying recomputation distance to 8.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Thanks: Olof Sivertsson
+[DESCRIPTION]
+(In-)Equations with an int on the left hand side (like 9==x) were
+translated with a wrong sign (as -9==x).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: other
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:    31
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The preprocessor macro NDEBUG for disabling assertions is no longer
+put into config.icc. Without this fix, user programs could not use
+assert if %Gecode was compiled with NDEBUG.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: minimodel
+What:   new
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The post functions for linear expressions and relations also take
+an integer consistency level as optional argument.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   new
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added domain-consistent linear equalities.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+Bug:	30
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed fixpoint detection for ternary min and max.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   bug
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed subsumption detection for regular with multiple variable occurences.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Cost computation for sortedness has been changed from static to
+dynamic (taking into account the variable reduction the
+propagator can perform).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module: int
+What:   change
+Rank:   major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Global cardinality changed to non-staged version.  Further
+inference for cardinality variables added.  Parts of the graph
+structure for the domain-consistent propagator have been revised
+so as to avoid unnecessary propagation in case of fixed
+cardinalities and to allow better staging for the
+propagator. Revision of propagation for fixed cardinalities has
+also been applied to bounds-consistent propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		int
+What:		new
+Rank:		major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Added domain-consistent version of the absolute value propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		other
+What:		performance
+Rank:		major
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Switch assertions off in optimized builds with Microsoft's C++ compiler.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		int
+What:		bug
+Rank:		major
+Bug:		29
+Thanks:		Dominik Brill
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Fixed a very serious bug in the reified linear inequality propagator.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		other
+What:		bug
+Rank:		minor
+Thanks:		Filip Konvicka
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Removed some compiler warnings for the Microsoft compiler with -W3.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		int
+What:		bug
+Rank:		major
+Bug:		27
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The strongly connected components represented by the permutation
+variables in the extended version of Sortedness has been fixed
+restoring bounds consistency on the permutation variables.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		other
+What:		change
+Rank:		minor
+Bug:		24
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The soname for libraries on Linux is now set properly, as well as the
+version information on Darwin (Mac OS).
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		other
+What:		change
+Rank:		minor
+Bug:		25
+[DESCRIPTION]
+The build system has been updated to support building both static and
+shared libraries at the same time on Unix-like systems.
+
+[ENTRY]
+Module:		example
+What:		change
+Rank:		minor
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Examples now use per default the recomputation settings as
+defined in the search module.
+
+[RELEASE]
+Version:	1.0.0
+Date:		2005-12-06
+[DESCRIPTION]
+Initial release.
+