Prepare release candidate rc1 for ELPA 2018.05.001

Changelog

+Changelog for ELPA 2018.05.001.rc1
+
+- significant improved performance on K-computer
+- added interface for the generalized eigenvalue problem
+- extended autotuning functionality
+
 Changelog for ELPA 2017.11.001
 
 - significant improvement of performance of GPU version

ISSUES.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 For more details and recent updates please visit the online [issue system] (https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/elpa/elpa/issues)
 Issues which are not mentioned in a newer release are (considered as) solved.
 
+### ELPA 2018.05.001.rc1 release ###
+- same issues as in ELPA 2017.11.001
+
 ### ELPA 2017.11.001 release ###
 - the elpa autotune print functions cannot print at the moment
 - on (officially not supported) 32bit systems hangs in MPI can occur

LIBRARY_INTERFACE

@@ -79,3 +79,7 @@ https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
   removed). For the current interface all changes since 2017.05.001 are
   compatible, since only some functions have been added. 
   The state of release 2017.11.001.(rc1) defines this interface
+
+- 12
+  No incompatible API changes w.r.t. the previous version. Some functions have been
+  added

RELEASE_NOTES

-This file contains the release notes for the ELPA 2017.11.001 version
+This file contains the release notes for the ELPA 2018.05.001.rc1 version
 
 What is new?
 -------------
-For detailed information about changes since release ELPA 2017.05.03 please have a look at the Changelog file
+For detailed information about changes since release ELPA 2017.11 please have a look at the Changelog file
 
-- This release contains new compute kernels for IBM Power 8 and Fujistu Sparc64 processors
-- A first version of autotuning has been implemented
+- This release improves the performance on the K-computer
+- The autotuning has been extended
+- an interface to solve the generalized eigenvalue problem has been added
 
 
 ABI change
 ---------------------
 
-Since release 2017.05.003 the ABI has changed.
+Since release 2018.11.001 the ABI has changed.
 
 Any incompatibilities to previous version?
 ---------------------------------------
 
 As mentioned before, the ABI of ELPA was changed; 
-This change only affectes the  old "lecgacy interface", since as 
-anounced some deprecated function aliases have been removed.
-For the current interface there is no incompatibility with the
-previous version ELPA 2017.05.003.
-
+Some new functions (for the generalized eigenvalue problem) have been added

configure.ac

@@ -27,13 +27,14 @@ AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
 #    by the current interface, as they are ABI compatible (e.g. only new symbols
 #    were added by the new interface)
 #
-AC_SUBST([ELPA_SO_VERSION], [11:0:0])
+AC_SUBST([ELPA_SO_VERSION], [12:0:1])
 
 # API Version
 AC_DEFINE([EARLIEST_API_VERSION], [20170403], [Earliest supported ELPA API version])
-AC_DEFINE([CURRENT_API_VERSION], [20180301], [Current ELPA API version])
+AC_DEFINE([CURRENT_API_VERSION], [20180525], [Current ELPA API version])
 # Autotune Version
 AC_DEFINE([EARLIEST_AUTOTUNE_VERSION], [20171201], [Earliest ELPA API version, which supports autotuning])
+AC_DEFINE([CURRENT_AUTOTUNE_VERSION], [20180525], [Current ELPA autotune version])
 
 AX_CHECK_GNU_MAKE()
 if test x$_cv_gnu_make_command = x ; then