CVC4 1.2 Released

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We are delighted to announce version 1.2 of CVC4, the open-source flagship SMT solver developed at New York University and the University of Iowa, available at http://cvc4.cs.nyu.edu.

In version 1.2, real arithmetic now has three simplex solvers for exact precision linear arithmetic: the classical dual solver and two new solvers based on techniques for minimizing the sum of infeasibilities. GLPK can now be used as a heuristic backup to the exact precision solvers. See cvc4 --help for more information on enabling these solvers.

Additionally, this release:

• adds support for “bit0” and “bit1” bitvector constants in SMT-LIB v1.2
• has support for theory “alternates”: new ability to prototype new decision procedures that are selectable at runtime
• includes important bug fixes and performance improvements over the previous stable release (version 1.1)

We welcome feedback, feature requests, contributions, and collaborations. It is our hope that CVC4 will become a research platform for a broad and diverse set of users and developers. If you are interested in getting involved with the project, please contact a member of the development team:

• Clark Barrett (NYU, project leader)
• Cesare Tinelli (U Iowa, project leader)
• Kshitij Bansal (NYU)
• François Bobot (Paris-Diderot University)
• Chris Conway (Google)
• Morgan Deters (NYU)
• Liana Hadarean (NYU)
• Dejan Jovanović (NYU)
• Tim King (NYU)
• Tianyi Liang (U Iowa)
• Andrew Reynolds (U Iowa)

The development of CVC4 is supported in part by the following organizations:

• The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (award FA9550-09-1-0596)
• Intel Corporation
• The National Science Foundation (grants 0644299, 0914956, 1049495, 1228765, 1228768)
• The Semiconductor Research Corporation (tasks 1850.001, 1850.002)

Downloads, documentation, tutorials, and more information are available at the CVC4 web site: http://cvc4.cs.nyu.edu

-The CVC4 team