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+The Olena Team is proud to announce the release of Olena 1.0.
+
+Olena is a platform dedicated to image processing and pattern
+recognition. Its core component is a generic and efficient C++
+library called Milena. Milena provides a framework to implement
+simple, fast, safe, reusable and extensible image processing tool
+chains. The library provides many ready-to-use image data structures
+(regular 1D, 2D, 3D images, graph-based images, etc.) and algorithms.
+Milena's algorithms are built upon classical entities from the image
+processing field (images, points/sites, domains, neighborhoods, etc.).
+This design allows image processing developers and practitioners to
+easily understand, modify, develop and extend new algorithms while
+retaining the core traits of Milena: genericity and efficiency.
+
+The package also features Swilena, an optional component exposing
+Milena to other languages thanks to the Simplified Wrapper and
+Interface Generator (SWIG). For the moment, only some Python bindings
+are provided.
+
+The Olena platform is Free Software. It is distributed under the
+conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See the
+file COPYING shipped with the Olena distribution.
+
+Release notes are available at:
+
http://olena.lrde.epita.fr/Olena100
+
+You can download packages of the Olena 1.0 distribution here:
+
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/dload/olena/1.0/olena-1.0.tar.gz (25MB)
+
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/dload/olena/1.0/olena-1.0.tar.bz2 (21MB)
+
+The SHA1 digests of theses packages are:
+ 33fc3a327db3f4f68c882d3b2462b83841425628 olena-1.0.tar.gz
+ 2c6ba36d4a156156f7d5ea8f2e1f02bbec9c9098 olena-1.0.tar.bz2
+
+Here is a list of major changes since Olena 0.11:
+
+ * The core C++ library, renamed to Milena, has been rewritten from
+ scratch and features numerous additions over the past releases.
+ Some features have also been dropped or disabled, and some of them
+ will be reintegrated in future releases. The programming
+ interface has changed from previous versions, but most programs
+ using Olena 0.11 can be adapted to the Olena 1.0 API.
+
+ * Milena uses a simplified version of the SCOOP 2 paradigm
+ (informally called SCOOP 1.5), to improve the speed of compilation
+ and make developing easier while still providing very good
+ run-time performances.
+
+ * A first (re)implementation of Swilena featuring Python wrappers
+ for a very small subset of Milena is available. The bundled
+ Swilena Python Shell (sps) allows interactive Olena sessions.
+
+ * A reference documentation including a tutorial and a quick
+ reference guide have been started. They do not cover the whole
+ Milena library yet.
+
+ * Olena includes some demos and applications using Milena.
+
+The file NEWS, included in the archive, contains a more complete list
+of user-visible changes.
+
+Please report any problem by mail to <olena-bugs(a)lrde.epita.fr>fr>.
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