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