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 1.3 (not released yet)
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+- Increased the size of MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME to 1024 from 36. See ticket #1533.
 - Added "notify debugger on abort" feature. See tickets #1509 and #1510.
   Thanks to Seppo Sahrakropi for the bug report.
 - Upgraded Open MPI tarballs to use Autoconf 2.63, Automake 1.10.1,