Rodin Platform 2.5 Release Notes

RODIN 2.5 is planned for April 30th.

N.B. Release notes are commented in this page.

What's New in Rodin 2.5?

• General changes

This release mainly contains bug fixes and code consolidation.

• Changes for plugin-developers

• Dynamic auto tactic providers: enables to programmatically contribute additional auto tactics, making them available for selection in the combined profile editor. See extension point org.eventb.core.seqprover.autoTactics, element dynTacticProvider and interface org.eventb.core.seqprover.IDynTacticProvider.

• IUserSupport API simplification: some operations of the user support work only on the proof tree in main memory. Therefore, they cannot raise any RodinDBException, as they are not accessing the Rodin database at all. Therefore, all throws declaration for these methods have been removed. This change is fully binary compatible, as stated in §13.4.21 of the Java Language Specification 3.0, as throws declaration are checked only at compile time.

However, the default settings of the Java compiler will produce errors where one attempts to catch RodinDBException in places where these exceptions cannot occur. Consequently, when compiling against the new version of IUserSupport, you will have to remove catch blocks around these exceptions.

• Math Syntactical Groups: published enum org.eventb.core.ast.extension.StandardGroup that lists the syntactical groups in the mathematical language. Prefer referencing them instead of their ids as bare strings.

Requirements - Compatibility

• Configurations supported (and for which binaries are provided)
  • Linux 32-bit
  • Linux 64-bit
  • Windows 32-bit
  • Windows 64-bit
  • Mac 64-bit

• 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 run Rodin 64-bit, you need a 64-bit JRE.

• 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 and the Pretty Printer does not work); xulrunner-1.9.x must be installed.

• Linux 64-bit:

package 'libc6:i386' (and its dependencies) must be installed. For some distributions (Ubuntu <= 11.04 for instance), the package is 'ia32-libs'.

• Windows 64-bit:

Atelier B provers work more slowly; it can cause ML to not automatically discharge some sequents that it discharges on windows 32-bit, due to its timeout. A workaround is to download a custom profile: DefaultAuto_ML800, then Window > Preferences > Event-B > Sequent Prover > Auto/Post Tactic > Profiles (tab) > Import..., point to the downloaded file, 'Select All' profiles (there are 2), OK. Then in 'Auto/Post Tactic' tab, select 'Default Auto Tactic Profile (ML 800)' profile for auto-tactics. It is the same as the 'Default Auto Tactic Profile', except ML has a longer timeout (800 ms). You can of course change this timeout by editing the 'ML (800)' profile.

We have not noticed this problem for Linux 64-bit, nor for other platforms; however if you do, the same workaround applies.

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External plug-ins

Rodin Update Site

	Plug-in name	Version	Status	MCV*	Release Date	Contact	Additional info
	UML-B	2.2.0	not checked		9th Feb. 2011	email
	UML-B Statemachine Animation	1.1.0	not checked		15th Feb. 2011	email	Compatible with UML-B 2.2 and ProB 2.1.
	Event-B EMF framework	3.5.3	not checked		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	not checked		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		not checked	2.x.x
	Rose	1.3.0	not checked		25th Aug. 2011	email
	Records	1.0.1	not checked			email	This release includes EMF and Refactory support for records.
	Teamwork		not checked
	Shared Event Composition	1.5.1	available	2.5.x	25th June 2012	email	Compatible with Rodin 2.5.
	Refactory	1.2.2	available	2.5.x	25th June 2012	email	Version compatible with Rodin 2.5 . Fixed bug related with waiting for the rodin indexer to update. Added option to rename without having to wait for the rodin indexer to update.
	Decomposition	1.2.3	available	2.5.x	25th June 2012	email	Compatible with Rodin 2.5 . Typing guards (automatically generated) are marked as theorems; Static checks were added to the decomposition file according to the decomposition style chosen ; Improved UI interface: removed dialog requesting confirmation to delete possible existing sub-components (generated sub-components are marked as read-only); Changed suffix of decomposition file to "_DCMP"
	Project Diagram	1.0.0	not checked			email
	Relevance Filter	1.1.1	not checked	2.x.x
	Theory Plug-in	v1.0	not checked	2.2	8th July 2011	email	Compatible with Rodin 2.2 only.
	Code Generation Feature	0.2.3	available		22nd Mar. 2012	email
	SMT Solvers	0.8.0	not checked	2.4	17th Feb. 2012	Yoann Guyot or Laurent Voisin
	Qualitative Probability	0.2.1	available	2.3.x	23rd November 2011	email
	Generic Instantiation	0.2.2	available	2.3.x	11th May 2012	email
	B2Latex export	0.5.3	available	2.5.x	16th April 2012	email

B Method Update Site

	Plug-in name	Version	Status	MCV*	Release Date	Contact	Additional info
	Atelier-B provers	2.0.1	available	2.4.x	5th Oct. 2011	email	Read the instructions concerning 64-bit compatibility : here

Other Update Sites

	Plug-in name	Version	Status	MCV*	Release Date	Contact	Additional info
	AnimB		not checked			Christophe Métayer	Use the update site http://www.animb.org/updatesite
	Camille	2.1.5	available	2.5.x	27th July 2011	Michael Jastram	Use the Camille update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/camille_updates Make sure to install the Event-B EMF Framework version 3.7.0 or greater.
	Modularisation		available	2.x.x		email	Use the update site http://www.iliasov.org/modplugin
	Group refinement		not checked	2.6.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	2.3.1	available	2.5.x	04/25/2012	Jens Bendisposto	Use the ProB update site. http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/prob_updates The Plug-in includes BMotion Studio
	ProR	0.2.0	available	2.5.x	04/25/2012	Michael Jastram	Update site: http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/pror_updates Project web site: http://eclipse.org/rmf
	MBT plugin	2.0	available	2.5.x	5th of March 2012	Alin Stefanescu	Use the update site http://fmi.upit.ro/mbt_plugin
	Mode/FT Views	1.0.2	not checked	2.4.x	4th July 2011	Ilya Lopatkin	Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/
	Transformation patterns	1.0	not checked	2.x.x	4th July 2011	Ilya Lopatkin	Update site: http://rodinmodeftview.sourceforge.net/
	VHDL code generator	2.0.5	not checked	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

Installing

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Downloading

Download Rodin 2.5 now !

Upgrading from Rodin 2.4.x

Use the core update site:

• Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites:

remove Scala update site (no more exists): click "Scala" then "Remove" button, click "Yes" on the popup to confirm

add Core Rodin update site: click "Add..." button, enter a name ("Core Rodin Updates" for instance), then in "Location" put "http://rodin-b-sharp.sourceforge.net/core-updates"

click "OK"

• Help > Check for Updates:

"Checking for updates" appears with a progress bar, it can take a few minutes

Available updates lists the Handbook and the Rodin Platform, click "Next" twice

accept license agreements then click "Finish": the software is updating, which can take a few minutes

click "OK" if the security warning appears, then accept to "Restart Now"

Fixed Bugs

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Known Issues

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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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