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Subject: Announcing Isabelle2009-1
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To: isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk
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Isabelle2009-1 is now available.
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This release improves upon Isabelle2009 in many ways, see the NEWS
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file in the distribution for more details.  Some important changes
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are:
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* Isabelle tool "wwwfind" provides web interface for 'find_theorems'
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on a given logic image.
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* HOL-SMT: proof method "smt" for a combination of first-order logic
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with equality, linear and nonlinear (natural/integer/real) arithmetic,
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and fixed-size bitvectors.
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* HOL-Boogie: an interactive prover back-end for Boogie and VCC.
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* HOL: counterexample generator tool Nitpick based on the Kodkod
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relational model finder.
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* HOL: predicate compiler turning inductive into (executable)
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equational specifications.
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* HOL: refined number theory.
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* HOL: various parts of multivariate analysis.
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* HOL-Library: proof method "sos" (sum of squares) for nonlinear real
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arithmetic, based on external semidefinite programming solvers.
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* HOLCF: new definitional domain package.
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* Revised tutorial on locales.
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* ML: tacticals for subgoal focus.
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* ML: support for Poly/ML 5.3.0, with improved reporting of compiler
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errors and run-time exceptions, including detailed source positions.
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* Parallel checking of nested Isar proofs, with improved scalability
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up to 8 cores.
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You may get Isabelle2009-1 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/