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Revision: 308
          http://simspark.svn.sourceforge.net/simspark/?rev=308&view=rev
Author:   hedayat
Date:     2012-05-16 17:01:57 +0000 (Wed, 16 May 2012)
Log Message:
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First draft of release notes for simspark 0.2.3

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/spark/ChangeLog
    trunk/spark/RELEASE

Modified: trunk/spark/ChangeLog
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--- trunk/spark/ChangeLog	2012-05-16 12:20:35 UTC (rev 307)
+++ trunk/spark/ChangeLog	2012-05-16 17:01:57 UTC (rev 308)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-05-16  Hedayat Vatankhah  <hed...@gm...>
+
+	* RELEASE: 
+	- initial version for 0.2.3 release
+
 2012-04-12  Hedayat Vatankhah  <hed...@gm...>
 
 	* spark/spark.cpp (Spark::Init): 

Modified: trunk/spark/RELEASE
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--- trunk/spark/RELEASE	2012-05-16 12:20:35 UTC (rev 307)
+++ trunk/spark/RELEASE	2012-05-16 17:01:57 UTC (rev 308)
@@ -1,23 +1,30 @@
-RELEASE News of simspark-0.2.2
+RELEASE News of simspark-0.2.3
 
-This release features many small enhancements which will benefit users.
-It contains many bug fixes and performance improvements, in addition to
-fixing some compilation issues. The behavior of ACC perceptor has been slightly
-changed, and the multi-threaded mode should work without any known bugs. 
-Support for the camera sensor is improved too. More details are as follows:
+Finally, a new release of simspark has come! The most exciting feature of this
+release is probably the multi-threaded agent control (thanks to Andreas from
+RoboCanes for the initial patch). Previously, this part of the code was 
+sequential even in multi-threaded mode, but now it can manage several agnets in
+parallel which should (hopefully!) increase performance. Besides, there are 
+a number of compilation and bug fixes here and there and also better Windows
+support. Small enhancements are also available. You can find more details below:
 
-- ACC sensor provides raw data without any pre-processing
- -- You can apply the following filter to 'RawACC' value received from the 
-    simulator to get ACC value as what you'd receive in previous versions:
-    ACC = 0.9 * ACC + (0.1) * RawACC
-- Using base64 encoding for camera perceptor
-- Fixed bugs in multi-threaded mode.
+- Multi-threaded Agent Control
+ -- AgentControl multi-threaded implementation added and enabled by default.
+    It can be disabled using $threadedAgentControl variable inside spark.rb.
+- OpenGL System can now request the end of simulation (makes it possible to
+  close spark monitor's window to quit!
+- The location of init scripts (e.g. zeitgeist.rb) can now be specified using
+  --init-script-prefix (you still can put most of the scripts and data files
+  like rsg/ directory inside your ~/.simspark/ instead).
 - Compilation fixes
-- HingePerceptor can report torque
-- Better Performance
-- New timing system result in more cleaner code and prevent wasting CPU time
-- Do not block on sending data to clients. Previously, simulator would block on
-  send() until it can send all data to clients.
+- Support more recent Ruby versions
+- Windows Compilation fixes, and few enhancements for better Windows support
+- Support for building Windows binary in GNU/Linux using Mingw32
+ -- Notice: Windows related changes were already used in 0.2.2 simspark
+    installer
+- Several bug fixes     
 
+Thanks to Yuan Xu and Sander van Dijk for their contributions in this release.
+
 You can get the package on the Simspark page on SourceForge
 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/simspark/

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