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 Sandia OpenSHMEM NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
+1.3.0
+-----
+- Support for OpenSHMEM 1.3 specification, including nonblocking communication,
+  fetch/set atomics, all-to-all collectives, C11 generic bindings, and addition
+  of const/volatile to C API.
+- Improvements to error checking of OpenSHMEM calls and internal debugging
+  enabled through --enable-error-checking option.
+
 1.2.0
 -----
 - Support for OpenSHMEM 1.2 specification