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Subject: Announcing Isabelle2008
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To: isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk
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Isabelle2008 is now available.
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This release consolidates Isabelle2007, see the NEWS file in the
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distribution for more details.  Some notable improvements are:
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* HOL: significant speedup of Metis prover; proper support for
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multithreading.
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* HOL: new version of 'primrec' command supporting type-inference and
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local theory targets.
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* HOL: improved support for termination proofs of recursive function
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definitions.
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* New local theory targets for class instantiation and overloading.
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* Support for named dynamic lists of theorems.
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* Simple TTY interface with command-line editing.
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* Improved support for the Cygwin platform (Windows).
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* Support for Poly/ML 5.2 with improved handling of multithreading and
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external processes.
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* Reorganized and updated version of Isabelle/Isar Reference Manual.
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You may get Isabelle2008 from the following mirror sites:
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  Cambridge (UK)       http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/
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  Munich (Germany)     http://isabelle.in.tum.de/
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  Sydney (Australia)   http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/isabelle/
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