1.11.1openmpi
	- new 'OTF_MasterControl_clone()' function to simplify making a copy
	  of a master control object
	- otfaux:
		- keep the stream assignments of the input trace,
		  when using the '-o' option
	- otfmerge[-mpi]:
		- keep inline snapshots

1.11goldfish
	- added support for highly parallel trace writing using the
	  I/O Forwarding Scalability Layer (IOFSL) with atomic append
	  aggregation
	- added unique id record
	- added new snapshot records which complete them by now
	- added new definition record to indicates at which
	  timestamps are snapshots or statistics available
	- new 'OTF_KeyValueList_clone()' function to simplify making a copy
	  of a key-value list
	- updated python interface
	- lib OTFAUX:
		- learned to generate and read a thumbnail
		- learned to generate snapshots
	- otfaux:
		- uses the new snapshot and thumbnail generating features
		  from lib OTFAUX
		- does not generate statistics by default now (use the new
		  '--all' option to get the old behavior)
		- new '-o' option to make a copy of the trace
		- can attach message matching information suitable for Vampir
		  (requires the '-o' option)
		- can produce the new inline snapshots
		  (requires the '-o' option)
	- otfcompress:
		- fixed link error using the GNU gold linker
	- otfdump:
		- fixed '-o' option
	- otfmerge[-mpi]:
		- fixed merging markers
	- otfshrink:
		- do not remove definitions of replaced processes
		- keep original name of representing process
        - otfprofile:
                - added support for detecting irregularities and to present
		  them as markers

1.10.2coelacanth
	- otfdump:
		- don't abort when reading events fails - the input tracefile
		  might only have statistics
	- otfinfo:
		- fixed file size calculation
	- otfprofile:
		- removed leading '=' from CSV lines to make it loadable into
		  spreadsheets (e.g. Open Office) 
		- fixed process naming in CSV output of collective operation
		  statistics

1.10.1coelacanth
	- fixed build issues in otfprofile[-mpi]:
		- added missing header includes for WEXITSTATUS
		- moved 'using namespace std' under the header includes to solve
		  compile error with PGI compiler

1.10coelacanth
	- added process substitute record
	- added process group attribute 'OTF_ATTR_IsCommunicator'
	- renamed OTF_fprintf to OTF_Error which sets the error variables
	  otf_errno and otf_strerr
	- added OTF_Warning which prints warning messages if verbosity
	  (--with-verbose) is enabled
	- fixed detection of C compiler flags for compiling the python interface
	- corrected return value of OTF_WStream_write* functions
	- fixed parsing of process[group] attributes record
	- otfmerge-mpi:
		- build sequential version; replaces the old otfmerge
	- otfprofile-mpi:
		- added process clustering based on feature vectors from every
		  process trace
		  (see docu/tools/otfprofile_clustering.pdf for more details)
		- added CSV output
		- changeable number of process groups for LaTeX output
		- build sequential version; replaces the old otfprofile
		- fixed problem with pgfplots 1.5
		- improved y axis labeling for message length charts
	- otfshrink:
		- added mapping mode where all but one members per group are
		  removed with multiple groups
		- reworked parameter parsing, <from>-<to> ranges no longer
		  supported
		- fixed creation of symbolic links when non-contiguous
		  stream IDs are used
		- disable 'parent' in a remaining process definition in case
		  the parent is removed

1.9.2sawfish
	- otfprofile-mpi:
		- ignore "backward-running" P2P-messages when calculating
		  durations
		- removed '0' in message length charts and added '1' as
		  extra label
		- added thousands separator for large integer numbers in
		  latex output

1.9.1sawfish
	- improved zlib compression
	- added progress display to otfprofile-mpi
	- use pdf[la]tex instead of latex/dvipdf to convert otfprofile-mpi's
	  TeX output to PDF
	- fixed function invocation statistics in otfprofile-mpi generated
	  from summarized information (--stat)

1.9sawfish
	- added MPI-parallel version of otfprofile (otfprofile-mpi)
	- added library 'libotfaux' for matching message events
	- added time range record
	- added counter process assignment record
	- minor extensions on API for handling key-value lists
	- define PATH_MAX under Windows if it is not defined yet
	- fixed incorrect execution mode when using otfdecompress under Windows

1.8.1sturgeon
	- added option to 'otfdump' for specifying the maximum number of files
	  that are allowed to be open simultaneously
	- fixed compile error in 'otfmerge-mpi' due to a missing header include
	- extended the 'hello' example source code to show the usage of
	  key-values

1.8sturgeon
	- extended API for reading definitions from an external memory buffer
	  instead of a file
	- added copy handlers for single trace streams
	- added support for Python 3
	- temporary disabled OpenMP support completely if the PGI compiler is
	  used to work around some uncleared compile errors

1.7.1catfish
	- removed size limit of key-value byte arrays
	- disable OpenMP support in otfprofile if the PGI compiler
	  is used to work around some compiler errors
	- fixed bug while reading an empty process group definition record
	- fixed composition of output file name in otf[de]compress
	- fixed a memory leak in python interface

1.7catfish
	- added second version of each record that contains a Key-Value
  	  list to store individual data
	- two new definition records which can be used to assign
	  attributes to processes
	- two new snapshot record types: BeginCollopSnapshot,
	  BeginFileOpSnapshot
	- API changes in EndFileOP record and SendSnapshot record because
	  of a flawed design
	- added MPI-parallel version of otfmerge (otfmerge-mpi)
	- otfprofile has a lite mode usefuly for highly parallel traces
	- added option to otf[de]compress for specifying an output directory
	- try to open files with 'O_NOATIME' for reading for increased speed 
	- try to handle ESTALE errors on NFS gracefully 
	- fixed OTF long format for several records
	- fixed error handling in OTF reader
	- fixed bug in otfshrink: a process number can be between
	  0 and 4294967296 now

1.6.5stingray
	- enforce building position independent code (PIC) for the static
	  version of the OTF library
	  (so it's possible to add these objects to 3rd-party shared libraries)
	- fixed and enhanced calculation of trace file size in otfinfo
	- patched libtool:
	  - to avoid a bug in detection of the PGI 10 C++ compiler
	  - to detect IBM cross compilers on BlueGene/P

1.6.4stingray
	- enhanced reading of process group definition records

1.6.3stingray	
	- fixed errors while reading the long OTF format
	- updated python interface

1.6.2stingray
	- fixed build errors on SUN Solaris with older GNU compilers
	- fixed skewed arguments for OTF_WStream_writeEndFileOperation
	- fixed progress calculation of otfprofile
	- improved performance of otfprofile - especially handling of huge
	  tracefiles

1.6.1stingray
	- added tool 'otfinfo' which can be used to get basic information of
	  a trace
	- fix invalid pointer dereferences in OTF_stripFilename() and 
	  OTF_File_open_zlevel()
	- fixed doxygen documentation: add OTF_Handler.h to package

1.6stingray
	- added tool 'otfshrink' which can be used to reduce a trace to
	  specified processes
	- introduced an error variable (otf_errno, otf_strerr) that indicates
	  whether an error occurred or not
	- fixed build dependencies of otfprofile
	- added file operation types OTF_FILEOP_DUP, OTF_FILEOP_SYNC,
	  OTF_FILEOP_LOCK, and OTF_FILEOP_UNLOCK
	- changed datatype for sent/received data volume of collective
	  operation begin/end records from 'uint32_t' to 'uint64_t'
	- replaced usage of PATH_MAX by VT_PATH_MAX to avoid compile errors

1.5.2dolphin
	- adapted python bindings to the current API (related to new record
	  types)
	- if possible, otfprofile creates a PS-file
	- fixed VPATH issue, when using python bindings
	- fixed infinite recursion in python wrappers
	  pyOTF_COUNTER_VARTYPE_ISSIGNED and pyOTF_COUNTER_VARTYPE_ISUNSIGNED

1.5.1dolphin
	- corrected package preparation for libtool
	- build shared OTF library by default
	- added version information to shared OTF library

1.5
	- added file operation begin/end records
	- added file operation types OTF_FILEOP_UNLINK, OTF_FILEOP_RENAME,
	  and OTF_FILEOP_OTHER
	- use part of fileop for I/O flags (e.g. async, coll.)
	- added collective operation begin/end records
	- added remote memory access (RMA) operation records
	- added marker records

1.4.1
	- bugfix: removed included system headers inside 'extern "C" {}'
	- bugfix: added configure check for functions 'fseeko()' and 'ftello()'
	  (these functions are not available on NEC SX platforms)
	- bugfix in otfprofile: fixed infinite loop while drawing the
	  statistics for "top 50 of counters"

1.4
	- added tool 'otfprofile' which can be used to generate CSV/Latex-
	  summaries about functions and P2P-messages of a trace
	- build/install tool 'otfdump' by default
	- install documentation

1.3.10
	- added configure option '--[enable|disable]-binaries' to control
	  building of binaries (useful for multi-lib installations)

1.3.9
	- fixed a portability bug: use own implementation of function
	  'strdup()'
	- install a symbolic link 'otfdecompress' which is a synonym for
	  'otfcompress -d'

1.3.8
	- generate OTF_inttypes.h during configuring which provides
	  the integer types like int64_t, int8_t,...
	- shared OTF library will be linked with zlib, thus additionally
	  linking with zlib is not necessary
	- bugfix in otf2vtf: correctly handle function leave records with id 0

1.3.7
	- added example for using OTF_MasterControl to the doxygen documentation
	- general improvement of the documentation
	- improved autoconf's m4 scripts for cross buildings

1.3.6
	- OTF_{Keywords.h,Parse.h,Platform.h} will no longer be installed
	- added a compile time assert making sure the correct sizes of the
	  integer types ([u]int*_T)
	- OTF is now Windows Visual Studio compatible

1.3.5
	- added doxygen html documentation (docu/doxygen/html/index.html)
	- fixed issue, where newlines were forbidden in def, stats and snaps
	- added missing const to OTF_WStream_writeDefProcessGroup()

1.3.4
	- bug fix in otfmerge: missing handling of DefCollectiveOperation
	- bugfix in the documentation: overview.eps was broken

1.3.3
	- fixed configure bug when searching for zlib on mac
	- fixed bug in otfmerge, where the parameter "-n 0" caused an error
	- added macros for specifing the data type of the counter
	  (OTF_COUNTER_VARTYPE_*)
	- fixed otfconfig help text
	- fixed bugs when using make dist
	- python bindings disabled by default
	- fixed configure bug, when using python bindings
	- updated python bindings to support user defined counters

1.3.2
	- added small functions to convert various variable types to common 
	  counter type uint64_t. By this means, other types can be transported 
	  as uint64_t and re-casted during reading.
	  This requires type information as additional counter property flags!

1.3.1
	- if an fopen() call fails an error is now printed out every time
	- OTF_READ_ERROR was introduced as an error return value for all
	  OTF_Reader_readXXX and OTF_RStream_readXXX functions. So (uint64_t)-1 is
	  now a reserved value, thus cannot be used as record limit.
	  The record limit always has to be smaller than or equal to
	  OTF_READ_MAXRECORDS.
	- fixed issue in otfmerge, when using many streams

1.3
	- integrated libtool for shared and static linkage to otf
	- removed the possibility to include zlib symbols into otf
	- fixed warning which appeared when not using zlib
	- added python bindings to the otf library

1.2.25
	- added doxygen html documentation (docu/doxygen/html/index.html)

1.2.24
	- minor change in otf[de|un]compress
	- strictly avoid writing of unsorted time stamps. Now, there will be an
	  error message and the corresponding buffer/stream will be disabled for
	  further writing. The write routines provide an invlaid return code but
	  currently there is no way to "repair" the buffer/stream after an
	  unsorted time stamp has been issued.

1.2.23
	- removed libtool from autoconf to make configure much faster, 
	  libtool was not used by automake anyhow
	- removed some autoconf-generated files from CVS, 
	  you might need to re-run 'sh bootstrap' yourself

1.2.22
	- fixed inttypes/stdint bug

1.2.21
	- fixed "--with-zlib-symbols"-bug

1.2.20
	- added own inttypes definitions in case there is no on the platform 
	  (necessary on NEC SX6)

1.2.19
	- finished otfdump
	- removed debug output in OTF_Reader.c
	- re-introduced DefVersion record as read only

1.2.18
	- added fwrite check for writting less bytes than expected
	- re-write of otfdump. Now, it uses OTF read lib instead of plain
	  scanf. It produces nicer output and numbers records in read order.

1.2.17
	- bugfixed parser (wrong treatment of unknown records)
	- added FileGroupOperationSummary record
	- changed FileOperation-, OpenFileSnapshot- and FileOperationSummary-
	  record NOTE: these records are still experimental
	- included file operation records into all tools
	  NOTE: some parameters were added/changed
	- the byte-parameter in the FileOperation record does now contain the
	  new position in the file file after the seek operation
	- bugfixed otfmerge

1.2.16
	- fixed a problem with comments in otfmerge
	- 2 new records introduced (NOTE: these are experimental):
	  - OpenFileSnapshot
	  - FileOperationSummary

1.2.15
	- 3 new records introduced (NOTE: these are experimental):
	- DefFile
	  - DefFileGroup
	  - FileOperation

1.2.14
	- do not linke with '-lz' if '--with-zlibsymbols' was specified
	- added zlib include line to otflib/Makefile.am

1.2.13
	- removed intel compiler warnings
	- changed OTF_FILETYPE_*-macros
	- fixed issues with OTF_getFilename()

1.2.12
	- removed intel compiler warnings in otfmerge
	- removed debug output
	- fixed 64bit issue

1.2.11
	- changed OTF_RETURN*( 0=success, !0 = error )
	- added these macros to all internal functions and tools for better
	  consistency
	- fixed various memoryleaks in otf and otfmerge
	- added otfconfig to tools. otfconfig shows installationparameters
	  important for developers
	- updated documentation

1.2.10
	- bugfix: otfmerge does no longer accept traces with local streams

1.2.9
	- changeable zlevel
	- changeable zbuffersize

1.2.8
	- allow suffix '.dylib' for zlib library file (from Mac OS X)
	- removed configure warning

1.2.7
	- added progress functions to OTF_RStream
	- added a progress counter to otfmerge

1.2.6
	- support shared libraries

1.2.5
	- bugfix: correctly handle process groups with more than 1000 entries

1.2.4
	- bugfix: zlib compression bug, wrong sanity check fixed

1.2.3
	- bugfix: provided copy handlers returned wrong value

1.2.2
	- important bugfix: definitionstream 0 was ignored since version 1.2

1.2.1
	- added progress functions using read bytes instead of timestamps

1.2
	- introduce transparent zlib compression

1.1.7
	- really did the bugfix for 1.1.6, was missing for some reasons

1.1.6
	- bugfix: correctly handle process groups with more than 1000 entries

1.1.5
	- have UnknownRecord report handle incomplete records or additional
	  bytes at the end of a file.

1.1.4
	- fixed a bug in OTF_Reader which might have caused the very first 
	  time stamp of a trace to be not properly sorted
	- introduced '--snapshots' and '--statistics' switches to do only 
	  snapshots or statistics. for statistics a selective mode is allowed
	  which regards only some streams. By this means statistics can be
	  created in parallel by calling otfaux multiple times.

1.1.3
	- fixed a minor bug in otfaux

1.1.2
	- inverted return value of call-back handlers: 
	  '0' is non-error, '!= 0' is regarded as an error, now!
	  (this makes OTF conform with the VTF3 scheme.)

1.1.1
	- OTF_Reader now considers the return values of the handlers
	- added OTF_VERBOSE, OTF_DEBUG macro for error treatment
	- introduced 'UnknownRecord' handler which allows to catch
	  unknown record types

1.0
	- initial version
