wenzelm@27005: Subject: Announcing Isabelle2008
wenzelm@9928: To: isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk
wenzelm@9928: 
wenzelm@27005: Isabelle2008 is now available.
wenzelm@17544: 
wenzelm@27007: This release consolidates Isabelle2007, see the NEWS file in the
wenzelm@27007: distribution for more details.  Some notable improvements are:
wenzelm@27007: 
wenzelm@27007: * New version of HOL 'primrec' with local theory support.
wenzelm@27007: 
wenzelm@27007: * New local theory targets for class instantiation and unrestricted
wenzelm@27007: overloading.
wenzelm@27007: 
wenzelm@27007: * Support for dynamic lists of named theorems.
wenzelm@17544: 
wenzelm@27007: * Significant speedup of Metis prover, with proper support for
wenzelm@27007: multithreading.
wenzelm@27007: 
wenzelm@27007: * Simple TTY interface with command-line editing.
wenzelm@27007: 
wenzelm@27007: * Improved support for the Cygwin platform (Windows).
wenzelm@27007: 
wenzelm@27007: * Support for Poly/ML 5.2 with improved handling of multithreading and
wenzelm@27007: external processes.
wenzelm@12927: 
wenzelm@12983: 
wenzelm@27005: You may get Isabelle2008 from the following mirror sites:
wenzelm@9928: 
haftmann@17696:   Cambridge (UK)       http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/HVG/Isabelle/
haftmann@17696:   Munich (Germany)     http://isabelle.in.tum.de/
kleing@14616:   Sydney (Australia)   http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/isabelle/