NEWS

   1 This file contains a summary of important user-visible changes.
   2
   3 Changes since 1.2
   4 =================
   5
   6 New features:
   7 * SMT-LIB-compliant support for abs, to_real, to_int, is_int, which were
   8   previously missing
   9 * New bv2nat/int2bv operators for bitvector/integer inter-compatibility.
  10 * Support in linear logics for /, div, and mod by constants (with the
  11   --rewrite-divk command line option).
  12 * Parsing support for TPTP's TFF and TFA formats.
  13 * A new theory of strings: word (dis-)equations, length constraints,
  14   regular expressions.
  15 * Increased compliance to SMT-LIBv2, numerous bugs and usability issues
  16   resolved.
  17 * New :command-verbosity SMT option to silence success and error messages
  18   on a per-command basis, and API changes to Command infrastructure to
  19   support this.
  20
  21 Behavioral changes:
  22 * It is no longer permitted to request model or proof generation if there's
  23   been an intervening push/pop.
  24 * User-defined symbols (define-funs) are no longer reported in the output
  25   of get-model commands.
  26 * Exit codes are now more standard for UNIX command-line tools.  Exit code
  27   zero means no error---but the result could be sat, unsat, or unknown---and
  28   nonzero means error.
  29
  30 API changes:
  31 * Expr::substitute() now capable of substituting operators (e.g.,
  32   function symbols under an APPLY_UF)
  33 * Numerous improvements to the Java language bindings
  34
  35 Changes since 1.1
  36 =================
  37
  38 * Real arithmetic now has three simplex solvers for exact precision linear
  39   arithmetic: the classical dual solver and two new solvers based on
  40   techniques for minimizing the sum of infeasibilities. GLPK can now be used
  41   as a heuristic backup to the exact precision solvers.  GLPK must be enabled
  42   at configure time. See --help for more information on enabling these solvers.
  43 * added support for "bit0" and "bit1" bitvector constants in SMT-LIB v1.2
  44 * support for theory "alternates": new ability to prototype new decision
  45   procedures that are selectable at runtime
  46 * various bugfixes
  47
  48 Changes since 1.0
  49 =================
  50
  51 * bit-vector solver now has a specialized decision procedure for unsigned bit-
  52   vector inequalities
  53 * numerous important bug fixes, performance improvements, and usability
  54   improvements
  55 * support for multiline input in interactive mode
  56 * Win32-building support via mingw
  57 * SMT-LIB get-model output now is easier to machine-parse: contains (model...)
  58 * user patterns for quantifier instantiation are now supported in the
  59   SMT-LIBv1.2 parser
  60 * --finite-model-find was incomplete when using --incremental, now fixed
  61 * the E-matching procedure is slightly improved
  62 * Boolean terms are now supported in datatypes
  63 * tuple and record support have been added to the compatibility library
  64 * driver verbosity change: for printing all commands as they're executed, you
  65   now need verbosity level >= 3 (e.g., -vvv) instead of level 1 (-v).  This
  66   allows tracing the solver's activities (with -v and -vv) without having too
  67   much output.
  68 * to make CVC4 quieter in abnormal (e.g., "warning" conditions), you can
  69   use -q.  Previously, this would silence all output (including "sat" or
  70   "unsat") as well.  Now, single -q silences messages and warnings, and
  71   double -qq silences all output (except on exception or signal).
  72
  73 -- Morgan Deters <mdeters@cs.nyu.edu>  Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:22:26 -0500