| 27005 |      1 | Subject: Announcing Isabelle2008
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| 9928 |      2 | To: isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk
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| 27005 |      4 | Isabelle2008 is now available.
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| 27007 |      6 | This release consolidates Isabelle2007, see the NEWS file in the
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|  |      7 | distribution for more details.  Some notable improvements are:
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| 27066 |      9 | * HOL: significant speedup of Metis prover; proper support for
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|  |     10 | multithreading.
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|  |     12 | * HOL: new version of 'primrec' command supporting type-inference and
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|  |     15 | * HOL: improved support for termination proofs of recursive function
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|  |     16 | definitions.
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| 27010 |     18 | * New local theory targets for class instantiation and overloading.
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| 27010 |     20 | * Support for named dynamic lists of theorems.
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| 27007 |     22 | * Simple TTY interface with command-line editing.
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|  |     24 | * Improved support for the Cygwin platform (Windows).
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|  |     26 | * Support for Poly/ML 5.2 with improved handling of multithreading and
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|  |     27 | external processes.
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| 27066 |     29 | * Reorganized and updated version of Isabelle/Isar Reference Manual.
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| 27005 |     32 | You may get Isabelle2008 from the following mirror sites:
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| 27085 |     34 |   Cambridge (UK)       http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/
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| 17696 |     35 |   Munich (Germany)     http://isabelle.in.tum.de/
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| 14616 |     36 |   Sydney (Australia)   http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/isabelle/
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