Rodin Platform 2.2 Release Notes

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What's New in Rodin 2.2?

  • General Interface
Improved general platform performance. The build time has been decreased by about 40% on average since Rodin 2.0.
See: Rodin Performances
  • Modelling
TODO
  • Proving
New Tactics, such as Negation Normal Form, Generalized Modus Ponens, Case distinction from implication.
  • Changes for plugin-developers
Proof storage has evolved with backward compatibility: it is transparent for common proof access (getting the proof tree/skeleton). However, for a plug-in that would access proofs using directly the database - which is highly discouraged, please note that IPRProofRule.getElementName() does no more contain a reasoner id, but instead a reference to a IPRReasoner, a newly introduced proof element type. See Proof Dependencies and Reasoner Conflicts.
  • Signature: optionally, a reasoner may now implement the interface ISignatureReasoner. It is designed for those whose behaviour evolves during a session. A signature represents a single reasoner behaviour. When present, the signature is stored in proofs. These proofs are invalidated when the signature changes (detected at build time).
  • External plug-ins can now contribute to the "Refine" action which produces a new component from an existing one. It replaces the former non extensible actions Refine and Extend.

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-2.2-repo.zip, check "contact all update sites" (because a new version of Eclipse is used).

  • download archive rodin-2.2-repo.zip
  • launch Rodin 2.1.x
  • Help > Install New Software... > Add... > enter a name (for instance "Rodin 2.2") then
Archive... > select the rodin-2.2-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"
    • "Contact all update sites..."
  • uncheck
    • "Group items by category"
the central area should now list 5 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 2.2 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 not available 15th Feb. 2011 email Compatible with UML-B 2.2 and ProB 2.1.
Event-B EMF framework 3.5.0 available 24th Aug. 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 not available email
Relevance Filter 1.0.0 available 2.x.x email
Theory Plug-in v1.0 available 8th July 2011 email Compatible with Rodin 2.2 only.
Code Generation Feature 0.1.5 available 17th May 2011 email
Rodin Editor 0.5.0 available 2.2.x 13th July 2011 Nicolas Beauger or Thomas Muller The versions over 0.5.0 do not install on Rodin Plaforms greater than v.2.2.2 as shown by MCV.

B Method Update Site

Plug-in name Version Status MCV* Release Date Contact Additional info
Atelier-B provers 1.2.2 available 2.2.x 17th Feb. 2011

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 available Michael Jastram Use the Camille update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/camille_updates
Modularisation available 2.x.x email Use the update site http://www.iliasov.org/modplugin
Group refinement available 2.x.x email Use the update site http://iliasov.org/refplugin
Flows/Use case extension available 2.x.x email Use the update site http://iliasov.org/usecase
ProB 2.2 available 2.2.x 1st Jun. 2011 Use the ProB update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/prob_updates
The Plug-in includes BMotion Studio
ProR 8.0.1 available 2.x.x 16th May 2011 Michael Jastram Update site: http://update.pror.org
Project web site: http://pror.org
MBT plugin 1.0 Available 2.2.x 8th of July 2011 Alin Stefanescu Use the update site http://fmi.upit.ro/mbt_plugin
Mode/FT Views 1.0.2 available 2.2.x 4th July 2011 Ilya Lopatkin Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/
Transformation patterns 1.0 available 2.2.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

TODO: Add here a list of the fixed bugs.

Known Issues

TODO: COPY KNOWN ISSUES FROM PREVIOUS PAGES / VERIFY
TODO: Add here a link to the SourceForge Bugs page, after filtering bugs (Assignee Any, Status Open, Category Any, Group 1.2).

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.

About

Rodin Platform up to r11814

Developer Release date : 01/06/2011.

User Release date : 03/06/2011.