Merge branch 'release-3.5' into src. Close #33.

Author: ivanperez-keera

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 ## News
-**Release 3.4 -- 2021-07-07**
+**Release 3.5 -- 2021-09-07**
 
-We are pleased to announce the release of Copilot 3.4, a stream-based DSL for
+We are pleased to announce the release of Copilot 3.5, a stream-based DSL for
 writing and monitoring embedded C programs, with an emphasis on correctness and
 hard realtime requirements. Copilot is typically used as a high-level runtime
 verification framework, and supports temporal logic (LTL, PTLTL and MTL),
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 Among others, Copilot has been used at the Safety Critical Avionics Systems
 Branch of NASA Langley Research Center for monitoring test flights of drones.
 
-This new release introduces a number of bug fixes and deprecates functions that
-have been superseded.
+This new release introduces a simple but important feature to make Copilot code
+more modular: the name of Copilot's main entry point in the generated C code,
+known as the step function, can now be customized. This will allow
+specifications to be defined in different modules, compiled separately, and
+linked as part of the same C executable. It will also facilitate interoperation
+with other systems that consider 'step' a reserved a global name.
+Additionally, this release introduces other fixes in the code and in the
+documentation, and deprecates definitions that have been superseded.
 
 Current emphasis is on facilitating the use with other systems, and improving
 the codebase in terms of stability and test coverage. Users are encouraged to