pySMT 0.8.0: Better Install and Great Community

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Marco Gario

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Jan 27, 2019, 8:29:26 PM1/27/19
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pySMT 0.8.0 is out!

This release is way overdue and contains a lot of improvements collected over the past ~1 yr.

The feature I like the most about this release is that the number of PRs from external contributors has surpassed the ones from myself and Andrea! This marks an important milestone for us, and we are very thankful to everybody that has taken the time to report bugs, suggest improvements, and submit code.

Thank you all!

pySMT team

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BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:

Disabled support for interpolation in Z3, since this is not available anymore up-stream

Deprecation Warning:

This release is the last release to support Python 2.7. Starting from 0.9.0 only Python 3+ will be supported.

General:

  • Solver installation within site-package (PR #517). pysmt-install now installs the solvers within the site-package directory (by default). This makes it possible to work with virtual environments, and does not require anymore to export the Python path, greatly simplifying the installation process. Thanks to Radomi Stevanovic for contributing the patch.

  • Simplify shared lib usage (PR #494): Modify z3 and msat installers in order to make their shared binary objects (libraries/dlls) auto-discoverable, without the need for setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH/PATH. Thanks to Radomir Stevanovic for contributing the patch.

  • BV Simplification (PR #531): Multiple improvements on the simplification of BV expressions. Thanks to Haozhong Zhang for contributing the patch.

  • Ackermannization (PR #515): Add support for Ackermannization in pysmt.rewritings. Thanks to Yoni Zohar for contributing the patch.

  • FNode.bv_str: Multiple format for BV printing (PR #468)

  • Examples (PR #507): Extend model_checking example with PDR. Thanks to Cristian Mattarei for contributing the patch.

  • Docs: Tutorial on basic boolean solving (PR #535)

  • Tests: Removed old warning and other clean-ups (PR #532, #512)

  • Warnings (PR #497): Importing pysmt.shortcuts will only raise warnings within pySMT, instead of all warnings from external libraries.

  • Examples (PR #541): Add example for the theory of Strings

  • Top-Level Propagator (PR #544): Add a basic toplevel-propagation functionality to propagate definitions of the form: variable = constant, variable = variable, constant = constant . Thanks to Ahmed Irfan for providing this feature.

  • Clean-up debug print from SMT parser (PR #543): Thanks to Ahmed Irfan for providing this patch.

Solvers:

  • Yices: Upgrade to 2.6.0 (PR #509).

  • Boolector: Upgrade to 3.0.1-pre (7f5d32) (PR #514)

  • CVC4: Upgrade to 1.7-prerelease (PR #552)
    Known issue: Passing options to CVC4 fails sometimes.

  • Z3: Upgrade to 4.8.4 (PR #550).
    Removed support for interpolation.
    Known issue: Some tests on use of tactics exhibit some random failures on Travis.

  • Yices: Add support for OSX (PR #486). Thanks to Varun Patro for contributing the patch.

  • SMTLIB Solver (PR #524): Add support for custom sorts in SMT-LIB interface. Thanks to Yoni Zohar for contributing the patch.

  • MathSAT (PR #526): Add option to support preferred variables with polarity. Thanks to Cristian Mattarei for providing the patch.

Bugfix:

  • SmtLib parser (PR #521): Fix StopIteration error. The error would make it impossible to use the parser with Python 3.7. The fix changes the structure of the parser, in order to separate cases in which we know that there is a token to consume (function consume) and when we want to consume a token only if available (function
    consume_maybe). Thanks to @samuelkolb and Kangjing Huang for reporting this.

  • Boolector: Fixed bug in LShl and LShr conversion (PR #534)

  • Z3 (PR #530, #528): Fixed race condition during context deletion. The race condition would cause pySMT to segfault on certain situations. Thanks to Haozhong Zhang for helping us reproduce the issue and to @Johanvdberg for reporting it.

  • MathSAT (PR #518): Fix installation error on darwin. Thanks to Lenny Truong for contributing the patch.

  • Fix declare-sort bug (PR #501). Thanks to Yoni Zohar for contributing the patch.

  • Fix docstring for BVAShr (PR #503). Thanks to Mathias Preiner for contributing the patch.

  • Fix yices compilation on OSX without AVX2 instruction (PR #491)

  • Fix PysmtTypeError when reusing symbols in SMT-LIB define-fun (PR #502). Thanks to Yoni Zohar for contributing the patch.

  • Fix doublequote escaping (PR #489). Thanks to Lukas Dresel for contributing the patch.

  • Fix pySMT CLI for Python3 (PR #493). Thanks to Radomir Stevanovic for contributing the patch.

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