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: * HOL: significant speedup of Metis prover; proper support for multithreading. * HOL: new version of 'primrec' command supporting type-inference and local theory targets. * HOL: improved support for termination proofs of recursive function definitions. * New local theory targets for class instantiation and overloading. * Support for named dynamic lists of theorems. * 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. * Reorganized and updated version of Isabelle/Isar Reference Manual. 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/