Rodin Platform 2.4 Release Notes
From Event-B
What's New in Rodin 2.4?
- General Interface
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- Modelling
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- Proving
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- Changes for plugin-developers
- switch to Eclipse 3.7.1 (no impact expected)
- new XProver API: external prover providers can now extend XProverReasoner2 along with the ISimpleSequent framework. ProcessMonitor also provides a wrapCommand method to properly handle external prover process interruption.
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 2.3.x
Use rodin-2.4-repo.zip:
- download archive rodin-2.4-repo.zip
- launch Rodin 2.3.x
- Help > Install New Software... > Add... > enter a name (for instance "Rodin 2.4") then
- Archive... > select the rodin-2.4-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..."
- check
- 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
External plug-ins
Rodin Update Site
| Plug-in name | Version | Status | MCV* | Release Date | Contact | Additional info | |
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UML-B | 2.2.0 | available | 9th Feb. 2011 | |||
| UML-B Statemachine Animation | 1.1.0 | available | 15th Feb. 2011 | 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. | |||
| Isabelle for Rodin | available | 2.x.x | |||||
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Rose | 1.3.0 | available | 25th Aug. 2011 | |||
| Records | 1.0.1 | available | This release includes EMF and Refactory support for records. | ||||
| Teamwork | available | ||||||
| Shared Event Composition | 1.4.0 | available | 26th June 2011 | 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 | 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). | |||
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Decomposition | 1.2.2 | available | 4th July 2011 | Compatible with Rodin 2.2.x. Optimisation: parameters not used in a decomposed event are not created at all. | ||
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Project Diagram | 1.0.0 | not checked | ||||
| Relevance Filter | 1.1.1 | available | 2.x.x | ||||
| Theory Plug-in | v1.0 | not available | 2.2 | 8th July 2011 | Compatible with Rodin 2.2 only. | ||
| Code Generation Feature | 0.2.2 | available | 22nd Mar. 2012 | ||||
| SMT Solvers | 0.8.0 | available | 2.4 | 17th Feb. 2012 | Yoann Guyot or Laurent Voisin | ||
| Qualitative Probability | 0.2.1 | available | 2.3.x | 23rd November 2011 | |||
| B2Latex export | 0.5.3 | available | 2.4.x | 16th April 2012 |
B Method Update Site
| Plug-in name | Version | Status | MCV* | Release Date | Contact | Additional info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Atelier-B provers | 2.0.1 | available | 2.4.x | 5th Oct. 2011 | Read the instructions concerning 64-bit compatibility : here |
Other Update Sites
| Plug-in name | Version | Status | MCV* | Release Date | Contact | Additional info | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AnimB | available | Christophe Métayer | Use the update site http://www.animb.org/updatesite | ||||
| Camille | 2.1.5 | available | 2.1.5 | 27th July 2011 | Michael Jastram | Use the Camille update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/camille_updates Warning: You should not edit models using other plug-ins. You might lose data contributed by plug-ins to the model. | ||
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Modularisation | not available | 2.x.x | Use the update site http://www.iliasov.org/modplugin | ||||
| Group refinement | not available | 2.x.x | Use the update site http://iliasov.org/refplugin | |||||
| Flows/Use case extension | not available | 2.x.x | Use the update site http://iliasov.org/usecase | |||||
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ProB | 2.3.0 | available | 2.4.x | 01/20/2012 | Jens Bendisposto | Use the ProB update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/prob_updates The Plug-in includes BMotion Studio | |
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ProR | 0.2.0 | available | 2.x.x | 30th April 2012 | Michael Jastram | Update site: http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/pror_updates/ Project web site: http://eclipse.org/rmf/pror | |
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MBT plugin | 2.0 | available | 2.3.x | 5th of March 2012 | Alin Stefanescu | Use the update site http://fmi.upit.ro/mbt_plugin | |
| Mode/FT Views | 1.0.2 | available | 2.4.x | 4th July 2011 | Ilya Lopatkin | Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Transformation patterns | 1.0 | not available | 2.x.x | 4th July 2011 | Ilya Lopatkin | Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/ | ||
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VHDL code generator | 2.0.4 | available | 2.x.x | 12th March 2012 | Sergey Ostroumov | Update site: http://www.eventb-to-vhdl.tk/ |
*MCV stands for the Rodin's Maximum Compatible Version
Known plug-in incompatibilities
It unfortunately might 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 |
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Fixed Bugs and Implemented Feature Requests
Known Issues
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.
About
Rodin Platform up to rXXXXX.
Developer Release date : 2012/01/12.
User Release date : 2012/01/31.
