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@@ -241,60 +241,61 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 
 
 1.4.4
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+-----
+
 - Fix to prevent the SM BTL from creating its mmap'd file in
   directories that are remotely mounted.
-- Fixed use of memory barriers in the SM BTL.  This fixed
-  segv's when compiling with Intel 10.0.025 or PBI 9.0-3.
-- When specifying OOB ports, fix to convert the ports into
-  network byte order before binding.
+- Fixed use of memory barriers in the SM BTL.  This fixed segv's when
+  compiling with Intel 10.0.025 or PGI 9.0-3.
+- When specifying OOB ports, fix to convert the ports into network
+  byte order before binding.
 - Removed an extraneous #include from the TCP BTL.
 - Updated SLURM support to 1.5.1.
-- Restored a missing debugger flag to support TotalView.  thanks
-  to David Turner and the TV folks.
-- Fix to detect and avoid overlapping memcpy(). Thanks to
-  Francis Pellegrini.
-- Libtool patch to get around a build problem when using the
-  IBM XL compilers.
-- Added <sys/stat.h> to ptmalloc's hooks.c (It's not always
-  included by default on some systems).
-- Fixed a misleading MPI_Bcast error message.  Thanks to 
-  Jeremiah Willcock for reporting this.
-- Fixed paffinity base MCA duplicate registrations.  Thanks to
-  Gus Correa for bringing this to our attention.
-- Fix for VT rpmbuild on RHEL5
+- Restored a missing debugger flag to support TotalView.  Thanks to
+  David Turner and the TV folks for supplying the fix.
+- Fix to detect and avoid overlapping memcpy().  Thanks to
+  Francis Pellegrini for identifying the issue.
+- Libtool patch to get around a build problem when using the IBM XL
+  compilers.
+- Added <sys/stat.h> to ptmalloc's hooks.c (It's not always included
+  by default on some systems).
+- Fixed a misleading MPI_Bcast error message.  Thanks to Jeremiah
+  Willcock for reporting this.
+- Fixed paffinity base MCA duplicate registrations.  Thanks to Gus
+  Correa for bringing this to our attention.
+- Fix for VT rpmbuild on RHEL5.
 - Man page cleanups.  Thanks to Jeremiah Willcock and Jed Brown.
-- Fix for memchecking buffers during MPI_*_init
-- autogen.sh fixes
-- Fixed a problem in which duplicated libs were being specified
-  for linking.  Thanks to Hicham Mouline for noticing it.
+- Fix for memchecking buffers during MPI_*INIT.
+- Various autogen.sh fixes.
+- Fixed a problem in which duplicated libs were being specified for
+  linking.  Thanks to Hicham Mouline for noticing it.
 - Fixed an indexing problem in precondition_transports.
 - Clarification of MPI_Init_thread man page.
 - Fixed a race condition in osc_rdma_sync.  Thanks to Guillaume
   Thouvenin for finding this issue.
-- Fix for libtool issue when using pgcc to compile ompi in 
-  conjunction with the -tp option.
-- Fix in MPI_Init_thread for C/R.
+- Fix for libtool issue when using pgcc to compile ompi in conjunction
+  with the -tp option.
+- Fix in MPI_Init_thread for checkpoint/restart.
 - Fixed incorrect text in MPI_File_set_view man page.
 - Change in ORTE DPM to get around gcc 4.[45].x compiler wanrings
-  about possibly calling free() on a non-heap variable, even
-  though it will never happen because the refcount will never
-  go to zero.
+  about possibly calling free() on a non-heap variable, even though it
+  will never happen because the refcount will never go to zero.
 - Eliminated the unneeded u_int*_t datatype definitions.
 - Fix for correctly handling multi-token args when using debuggers.
-- Fix for referencing an uninitialized variable in DPM ORTE.
-  Thanks to Avinash Malik for reporting the issue.
+- Fix for referencing an uninitialized variable in DPM ORTE.  Thanks
+  to Avinash Malik for reporting the issue.
 - Fixed undefined symbol error when using the vtf90 profiling tool.
-- Fixed return codes from MPI_Probe & MPI_Iprobe.
-- Fixed a segv in MPI_Comm_create when called with GROUP_EMPTY.  
+- Fixed return codes from MPI_PROBE and MPI_IPROBE.
+- Fixed a segv in MPI_Comm_create when called with GROUP_EMPTY.
   Thanks to Dominik Goeddeke for finding this.
 - Exclude opal/libltdl from "make distclean" when --disable-dlopen is
-  used. Thanks to David Gunter for reporting the issue.
-- Fixed the types of the sendcounts and displs parameters to MPI_Scatterv. 
-  Thanks to Stanislav Sazykin for identifying the issue.
-- Fixed memory leaks associated with indexed datatypes.  Thanks to
-  Pascal Deveze for finding this and providing a patch.
-- Fix for deadlock when handling recursive attribute keyval deletions.
+  used.  Thanks to David Gunter for reporting the issue.
+- Fixed the F90 types of the sendcounts and displs parameters to
+  MPI_SCATTERV.  Thanks to Stanislav Sazykin for identifying the
+  issue.
+- Fixed memory leaks associated with indexed datatypes.
+- Fix for deadlock when handling recursive attribute keyval deletions
+  (e.g., when using ROMIO with MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE).
 
 
 1.4.3