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+* current release
+    - alternative implementation of the multi-normal operators using the Eigen3 library
+
+* release 0.0 (2011-09-15)
+    - basic design for estimation of distribution algorithms and, more generally for randomized search heuristics
+    - continuous EDA example
+    - EDA using multi-normal distribution, implementation using the boost::ublas library
+