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 * '''Jul 07, 2014'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.3.1 released'''[[BR]]
   Maintenance release. Please visit the [source:NEWS@bdabbf66b2ad NEWS] files for more details on the changes.
 * '''Aug 10, 2013'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.3 released'''[[BR]]
   Major release with several new features and improvements. Please visit the [source:NEWS@57ab090b6109 NEWS] file for more details.
 * '''Aug 10, 2013'''[[BR]]
   '''LEMON 1.2.4 and 1.1.6 released'''[[BR]]
   Maintenance releases. Please visit the [source:NEWS@e13061207f85 NEWS(1.2.4)] and [source:NEWS@44670dddcfcb NEWS(1.1.6)] files for more details on the changes

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= Welcome to [http://www.coin-or.org/ COIN-OR]::[wiki:WikiStart LEMON] =

'''LEMON''' stands for '''L'''ibrary for '''E'''fficient '''M'''odeling and '''O'''ptimization in '''N'''etworks.
It is a C++ template library providing efficient implementations of common data structures and algorithms with focus on combinatorial optimization tasks connected mainly with graphs and networks.

'''LEMON''' is a member of the '''[http://www.coin-or.org/ COIN-OR initiative]''', a collection of [WikiPedia:Operations_Research OR] related [http://opensource.org/ open source] projects. You are free to use it in your commercial or non-commercial applications under very permissive [wiki:License license terms].

The project was launched by the [http://www.cs.elte.hu/egres/ Egerváry Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization (EGRES)] at the Department of Operations Research, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary in 2003. Up to this point, the developers of the library work at the [http://www.elte.hu/en/ Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest] and at the [http://portal.bme.hu/langs/en/default.aspx Budapest University of Technology and Economics].

== Starting Points ==

 * [wiki:Documentation] -- Installation guide, tutorial and reference manual.
 * [wiki:Downloads] -- Download LEMON.
 * [wiki:LocalSite Local site] -- Some local information related to the LEMON team.

== Related Projects ==

 * [http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/hg/glemon gLemon] -- A graph editor for LEMON.
 * [http://lime.cs.elte.hu/~alpar/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/pylemon/ pyLemon] -- A [http://www.python.org/ Python] language binding for LEMON.
 * [wiki:ContribProjects Other projects] -- Unofficial contribution projects for LEMON.

== Sponsors ==

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