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-* current version
+* release 1.3.1
+    - the eo::mpi modules is no longer dependent from boost::mpi
+    - parallel multi-start example
+    - bugfix: an error is now thrown when accessing best_element of an empty population
+
+* release 1.3.0
     - features:
         - delete the deprecated code parts (was marked as deprecated in the release 1.1)
         - eoSignal: a class to handle signal with eoCheckpoint instances