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This release mainly adds automated algorithm design capabilities to Paradiseo.

Paradiseo is now requiring a modern compiler handling the C++17 standard (and CMake 3.10).

The main new features are:

• an interface to the IOHexperimenter benchmarking platform (see eoEvalIOH),
• automated operator instantiation and assembling (see classes around eoAlgoFoundry),
• a full example of how this can be used to do automated algorithm selection (of a FastGA over IOH's W-model benchmark) with irace,
• some functions to automatically export irace's configuration files from a Paradiseo code itself,
• eoAlgoRestart: an algorithm that can manage restarts (and automates the necessary state reset),
• Singularity container definition files that scripts how to build Paradiseo.

Since the last release, a lot of small additional features have also been added:

• "fast" bitstring mutation operators (state of the art ones),
• eoEliteSelect: a sequential selector that returns the best individual,
• an accessor to get an eoValueParam by its name,
• eoEvalCmd: an evaluator which calls a system command,
• eoEvalNamedPipe: an evaluator which interacts through named "FIFO" pipes,
• eoEvalNanThrowException: an evaluator which checks for NaN values,
• edoContAdaptiveFinite: a continuator that checks a covariance matrix state.

And the HTML documentation's style is now more beautiful, and one recovered the lost MO tutorials.

Other changes

• fix edoEstimatorNormalAdaptive (used in EDO/CMAES).
• refactor UF_random_generator to fit the new std::shuffle.
• fixed eoSIGContinue under Windows.
• fixed several compilation warnings.

This (pre)release mainly adds automated algorithm design capabilities to Paradiseo.

Paradiseo is now requiring a modern compiler handling the C++17 standard (and CMake 3.10).

The main new features are:

• an interface to the IOHexperimenter benchmarking platform (see eoEvalIOH),
• automated operator instantiation and assembling (see classes around eoAlgoFoundry),
• a full example of how this can be used to do automated algorithm selection (of a FastGA over IOH's W-model benchmark) with irace,
• some functions to automatically export irace's configuration files from a Paradiseo code itself,
• eoAlgoRestart: an algorithm that can manage restarts (and automates the necessary state reset),
• Singularity container definition files that scripts how to build Paradiseo.

Since the last release, a lot of small additional features have also been added:

• "fast" bitstring mutation operators (state of the art ones),
• eoEliteSelect: a sequential selector that returns the best individual,
• an accessor to get an eoValueParam by its name,
• eoEvalCmd: an evaluator which calls a system command,
• eoEvalNamedPipe: an evaluator which interacts through named "FIFO" pipes,
• eoEvalNanThrowException: an evaluator which checks for NaN values,
• edoContAdaptiveFinite: a continuator that checks a covariance matrix state.

Many fixes and improvements are not listed here.

Published in the ECADA workshop of the GECCO 2021 conference.