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     1 2006-10-31  Version 0.6 Released
     2 	    * New Features
     3   	      - Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) support
     4     	      	- interface to GLPK and CPLEX MIP solvers
     5   	      - Data structures
     6 	        - Bipatrite graph concepts and implementations
     7     		- a Polinomial template class
     8     		- RefPtr: a reference counted pointer class
     9     		- SimpleBucketHeap  
    10 	      - random.h: Mersenne Twister random number generator
    11               - EdgeLookUp and AllEdgeLookUp
    12 	        - Tools to find edges between to nodes in time O(log d) 
    13     	      - new matching algorithms
    14       	        - Bipartite Graph Max Cardinality Matching (Hopcroft-Karp)
    15       	      	- MaxWeightedBipartiteMatching
    16 	      	- MinCostMaxBipartiteMatching
    17 	      	- MaxCardinalitySearch
    18     	      	- MinimalCut in UGraph
    19     	      - Tabu Search framework 
    20     	      - Minimum Cost Arborescence algorithm 
    21       	      - Edmonds-Karp MaxFlow
    22     	      - Hao-Orlin algorithm
    23 	      - eps.h: A simple tool to create .eps pictures.
    24 	    * Backward incompatibilities/changed namings:
    25 	      - UndirXyz -> UXyz
    26 	      - UNDIRGRAPH_TYPEDEFS -> UGRAPH_TYPEDEFS
    27 	      - GridGraph -> GridUGraph
    28   	      - LinearHeap -> BucketHeap
    29   	      - ColorSet -> Palette
    30   	      - xy -> dim2::Point
    31   	      - DirPath -> Path
    32     	      - concept -> concepts (namespace & directory)
    33 	      - LpSolverBase
    34 	        - ColName() -> colName
    35 		- Coeff() -> coeff()
    36 	      - MinCostFlow -> SspMinCostFlow
    37 	    * Repository reorganization:
    38   	      - glemon has moved to an separate repository
    39   	      - compilation is conducted by a single makefile
    40 	      - internal building blocks are now in a separate directory
    41                 (lemon/bits)
    42 	    * Major improvements many algorithms and data structures.
    43 	    * Several bugfixes
    44 	    * Compatibility issues:
    45 	      - known to compile with
    46 	        - GCC 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1 
    47 		- MinGW, MinGW32
    48 		- Intel C++ 9.x support
    49 
    50 2006-02-03  Version 0.5 Released
    51 	* New features:
    52 	  - Bfs/Dfs/Dijkstra
    53 	    + query functions for the next node/edge to be processed
    54 	    + visitor interface for dfs
    55 	  - topology.h: small functions for discovering graph topology
    56 	    + connected components, strongly connected components
    57 	    + bipartiteness testing
    58 	  - Shortest paths algorithms:
    59 	    bellman_ford.h, floyd_warshall.h, johnson.h
    60 	  - Euler tour iterator for directed and undirected graphs
    61 	  - Other algorithms:
    62 	    + dag_shortest_path.h
    63 	    + fredman_tarjan.h and prim.h for min cost trees
    64 	  - Bipartite graph concept and implementations
    65 	  - Graph maps:
    66 	    + template assign operator
    67 	    + specialized iterable bool map
    68 	    + potential difference map
    69 	    + NodeMatrixMap -- Matrix over the nodes
    70 	  - Maps:
    71 	    + IterableIntMap
    72 	  - GUI:
    73 	    + NewMap window in MapSelector
    74 	    + Algorithm window and some algorithms (eg. Kruskal) added
    75 	  - LemonReader:
    76 	    + exception on non-existent files
    77 	  - LP interface:
    78 	    + (Dual)Expr::simplify(double tolerance) added
    79 	    + getDual()
    80 	  - GraphToEps:
    81 	    + negateY() opt
    82 	    + male/female node shapes :)
    83 	    + correct %%BoundingBox handling
    84 	  - Tools:
    85 	    + Timer can be stop()ed and (re)start()ed
    86 	    + radix sort algorithm
    87 	    + tolerance.h for working with imprecise numbers
    88 	* Backward incompatibilities/changed namings:
    89 	  - Access functions of TimeStamp/Timer
    90 	  - Undir graph interface: findUEdge, ConUEdgeIt
    91 	  - pred -> predEdge renaming in search algorithms
    92 	  - SnapShot -> Snapshot in {List,Smart}Graph
    93 	  - NewEdgeSetAdaptor -> ListEdgeSet
    94 	  - LP: set{Obj,Row,Col}() -> {obj,row,col}()
    95 	  - "label" instead of "id" inside the LGF files
    96 	  - UndirGraph -> UGraph, UndirEdge* -> UEdge*
    97 	  - BipartiteGraph -> BpGraph, Lower/UpperNode* -> A/BNode*
    98 	* Bugfixes in
    99 	  - DFS
   100 	  - Preflow
   101 	  - x86_64 connected bugfixes (lemon_reader.h)
   102 	  - lp.h
   103 	* New demos, benchmarks and tools:
   104 	  - graph_orientation.cc: A thoroughly documented demo application
   105 	  - runningTimeTest(): a tool to measure running times more precisely
   106 	  - Demo for topology
   107 	  - counter.h: a tool to measure the number of steps of algorithms
   108 	  - Some useful scripts: check-compiler, check-integrity
   109 	* Other changes:
   110 	  - Demos and benchmarks are not built by default now. They can be
   111 	    enabled with the --enable-demo and --enable-benchmark
   112 	    configure flags.
   113 	  - GCC 4.0.3 and ICC 9.0 compatibility
   114 	  
   115 2005-08-27  Version 0.4 Released
   116 	* List of new features and changes	
   117 	  * Changed namings:
   118 	    Wrapper -> Adaptor
   119 	    kruskalEdgeMap() -> kruskal()
   120 	    kruskalEdgeMap_IteratorOut() -> kruskal()
   121 	  * BoundinBox<>
   122 	    * operator+=() -> add()
   123 	    + clear()
   124 	  + More and better graph I/O functionalities
   125 	  + High level uniform LP solver interface to CPLEX and GLKP
   126 	  * graphToEps()
   127 	    + Automatic node size and edge width scaling
   128 	    + Simple color palette tool (ColorSet)
   129 	  * Bfs/Dfs/Dijkstra
   130 	    + Step-by-step execution
   131 	    + Run from multiple sources
   132 	    + Used define stop condition
   133 	    + Improved "named parameters"
   134 	  * Preflow
   135 	    + Function type interface
   136 	    + Changed interface
   137 	  * ListGraph/SmarGraph
   138 	    + split() splits a node
   139 	    + SnapShot
   140 	  + New map adaptors
   141 	  + New convenience maps
   142 	    + IdMap, DescriptorMap
   143 	    + InDegMap, OutDegMap
   144 	    + XMap, YMap
   145 	  + Default graph maps are iterable
   146 	  + glemon: a graph editor
   147 	  + Some new demo codes added, the old ones got polished.
   148 	  * Better documentation
   149 	  * Several important bugfixes
   150 	  * Now lemon should compile without warnings with
   151 	    * gcc 3.3, 3.4, 4.0
   152 	    * Intel C++ Compiler v9.0 
   153 
   154 2005-03-19  Version 0.3.1 Released
   155 	* This release fixes a compilation failure bug under cygwin. 
   156 
   157 2005-02-21  Version 0.3 released
   158 	* List of new features and changes	
   159 	  * Redesigned Graph infrastructures
   160 	  + Standardized LEMON exceptions
   161 	  + Undirected Graph
   162 	  + Standard graph file format, input and output classes for it.
   163 	  * head() -> target(), tail() -> source()
   164 	  * Some standard namings have changes:
   165 	    ValueType -> Value, 
   166 	    KeyType -> Key,
   167 	    ReferenceType ->Reference,
   168 	    PointerType -> Pointer
   169 	  + GraphToEps: A simple graph drawer
   170 	  * Better documentation
   171 	
   172 2004-09-30  Version 0.2 released
   173