Rodin Platform 2.3 Release Notes

What's New in Rodin 2.3?

• General Interface

Memory performance improvement: projects now require less memory to build (some projects that required 1200 Mo now build with less than 512 Mo).

• Modelling

Warnings are produced by the builder when unknown configurations are encountered. It helps knowing which plug-ins are missing when a build fails.

Error is produced by the builder when no known configuration is found for a file.

• Proving

Advanced Profile Customisation: a tactic profile can now be a parameterization of a tactic (timeout, ...), or a combination of tactics and profiles (see Preferences_for_the_automatic_tactics).

NOTE: this new feature involves internal changes in preference storage; these changes are backward compatible (one can reuse tactic preferences from Rodin 2.2.x in Rodin 2.3) but NOT forward compatible: tactic preferences from Rodin 2.3 cannot be reused with Rodin less than 2.3. Hence the necessity to backup your workspaces (consider you cannot switch back your workspace and exported projects to Rodin < 2.3 after using them with Rodin 2.3).

New rules implemented, concerning membership in goal, function overridden by maplet (auto), EQL_LR applied at a single position (manual), Generalised Modus Ponens (auto)

• Changes for plugin-developers

switch to Eclipse 3.7

new extension points are available to contribute tactic parameterizers (org.eventb.core.seqprover/schema/tacticParameterizers.exsd) and tactic combinators (org.eventb.core.seqprover/schema/tacticCombinators.exsd).

Requirements

• Configuration
  • Only a 32-bit version of the Rodin platform is provided for PCs
  • Only a 64-bit version of the Rodin platform is provided for MAC

• You need to have a Java JRE (6.0 or later) installed on your computer. The Rodin product will not work with a previous version.

• To enhance your proving experience, the eclipse font settings (size, aspect...) are available from the preferences (General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Rodin). These settings allow you to modify the properties set on the Event-B Keyboard Text Font which is used in many views of the Proving UI. However, to enjoy these functionnalities, you need to install the Brave Sans Mono font on your system. You can download this font from the link here.

• Linux: the internal browser does not work with xulrunner-2.0 (for instance, it causes the welcome page to display a link instead of a html page); xulrunner-1.9.x must be installed.

Installing

Upgrading from Rodin 2.1.x

Use rodin-2.3-repo.zip, uncheck "contact all update sites" (because the new version of Eclipse is already included in the archive).

• download archive rodin-2.3-repo.zip
• launch Rodin 2.1.x
• Help > Install New Software... > Add... > enter a name (for instance "Rodin 2.3") then

Archive... > select the rodin-2.3-repo.zip archive

Mac users may have to use Local... then point to archive root directory, in case the archive was automatically unzipped

• set options in the bottom of the page:

• check
  • "Show only the latest versions of available software"
  • "Hide items that are already installed"
• uncheck
  • "Group items by category"
  • "Contact all update sites..."

the central area should now list many entries

• select "Rodin Platform", click "Next"

a message informs "Your original request has been modified. See the details."

"Rodin Platform" is already installed, so an update will be performed instead.

• click Next, accept license, finish and restart

Downloading

Download Rodin 2.3 now !

External plug-ins

Rodin Update Site

	Plug-in name	Version	Status	MCV*	Release Date	Contact	Additional info
	UML-B	2.2.0	available		9th Feb. 2011	email
	UML-B Statemachine Animation	1.1.0	available		15th Feb. 2011	email	Compatible with UML-B 2.2 and ProB 2.1.
	Event-B EMF framework	3.5.3	available		17th Oct. 2011		Users should not need to install this framework. It will be installed automatically by other plug-ins as required.
	Event-B EMF support for extensions	1.0.3	available		17th Oct. 2011		Users should not need to install this framework. It will be installed automatically by other plug-ins as required.
	Export to Isabelle		available	2.x.x		email
	Rose	1.3.0	available		25th Aug. 2011	email
	Records	1.0.1	not available			email	This release includes EMF and Refactory support for records.
	Teamwork		not available
	Shared Event Composition	1.4.0	available		29th June 2011	email	Compatible with Rodin 2.2.x. When project or machine is changed in the included section, the modification is propagated for the combined events.
	Refactory	1.2.0	available		29th June 2011	email	Version compatible with Rodin 2.2.x. More accurate monitor progress bar. Optimised rewriting of freeIdentifiers when renaming variables and constants. Added an additional wizard step corresponding to the indexer update (avoids the platform to hang while waiting for the indexer to update).
	Decomposition	1.2.1	available		29th June 2011	email	Compatible with Rodin 2.2.x. Optimisation: parameters not used in a decomposed event are not created at all.
	Project Diagram	1.0.0	available			email
	Relevance Filter	1.1.1	available	2.x.x		email
	Theory Plug-in	v1.0	not available	2.2	8th July 2011	email	Compatible with Rodin 2.2 only.
	Code Generation Feature	0.2.1	available		14th Dec. 2011	email
	Rodin Editor	0.6.1	available	2.3.x	2nd December 2011	Nicolas Beauger or Thomas Muller
	SMT Solvers	0.1.0	available	2.3.x	19th October 2011	Yoann Guyot or Laurent Voisin
	Qualitative Probability	0.2.1	available	2.3.x	23rd November 2011	email

B Method Update Site

	Plug-in name	Version	Status	MCV*	Release Date	Contact	Additional info
	Atelier-B provers	2.0.0	available	2.3.x	5th Oct. 2011	email	Contains the prover bundled with Atelier B 4.0.2

Other Update Sites

	Plug-in name	Version	Status	MCV*	Release Date	Contact	Additional info
	AnimB		available			Christophe Métayer	Use the update site http://www.animb.org/updatesite
	Camille		not available			Michael Jastram	Use the Camille update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/camille_updates
	Modularisation		not available	2.x.x		email	Use the update site http://www.iliasov.org/modplugin
	Group refinement		not available	2.x.x		email	Use the update site http://iliasov.org/refplugin
	Flows/Use case extension		not available	2.x.x		email	Use the update site http://iliasov.org/usecase
	ProB	2.2.4	available	2.3.x	2nd Oct. 2011		Use the ProB update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/prob_updates The Plug-in includes BMotion Studio
	ProR	8.0.1	not available	2.x.x	16th May 2011	Michael Jastram	Update site: http://update.pror.org Project web site: http://eclipse.org/rmf
	MBT plugin	1.1	available	2.3.x	4th of November 2011	Alin Stefanescu	Use the update site http://fmi.upit.ro/mbt_plugin
	Mode/FT Views	1.0.2	available	2.x.x	4th July 2011	Ilya Lopatkin	Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/
	Transformation patterns	1.0	available	2.x.x	4th July 2011	Ilya Lopatkin	Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/

*MCV stands for the Rodin's Maximum Compatible Version

Known plug-in incompatibilities

It unfortunately exists some incompatibilities between plug-ins. This list might be non exhaustive and is updated accorded to user experiences. If you encounter some conflict while installing or using plug-ins, please send a mail to the Rodin User List or feel free to complete the following table.

Plug-in name	Incompatible with

Fixed Bugs

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Known Issues

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ClassCastException when uninstalling a feature: this is a known eclipse bug [1]

Disclaimer

Since Rodin is continuously maintained, several unsoundness bugs which have been encountered were investigated and fixed. However, despite the total commitment of our teams to insure the soundness of the platform, some unexpected and unknown soundness issues could remain. We would be grateful if you would report these issues to the development mailing list.

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Rodin Platform up to r13308.
Developer Release date : 2011/09/20.
User Release date : 2011/09/30.