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[Maxime Dénès <maxime.denes AT inria.fr>]

Dear Coq clubbers,

  The Coq development team is pleased to announce the release of the
first beta version of Coq 8.7, available at:

http://coq.inria.fr/coq-87

Source, Windows and OS X packages are available at:

https://github.com/coq/coq/releases/tag/V8.7%2Bbeta1

This release includes:

- A large amount of work on cleaning and speeding up the code base,
notably the work of Pierre-Marie Pédrot on making the tactic-level
system insensitive to existential variable expansion, providing a safer
API to plugin writers and making the code more robust.

- New tactics:
  Variants of tactics supporting existential variables eassert, eenough,
etc. by Hugo Herbelin;
  Tactics extensionality in H and inversion_sigma by Jason Gross;
  specialize with accepting partial bindings by Pierre Courtieu.

- Cumulative Polymorphic Inductive Types, allowing cumulativity of
universes to go through applied inductive types, by Amin Timany and
Matthieu Sozeau.

- The SSReflect plugin by Georges Gonthier, Assia Mahboubi and Enrico
Tassi was integrated (with its documentation in the reference manual) by
Maxime Dénès, Assia Mahboubi and Enrico Tassi.

- The coq_makefile tool was completely redesigned by Enrico Tassi to
improve its maintainability and the extensibility of generated
Makefiles, and to make _CoqProject files more palatable to IDEs.

A lot of other changes are described in the CHANGES file.

This is the second release of Coq developed on a time-based development
cycle. Its development spanned 9 months from the release of Coq 8.6 and
was based on a public road-map. It attracted many external
contributions. Code reviews and continuous integration testing were
systematically used before integration of new features, with an
important focus given to compatibility and performance issues.

The Coq Development Team

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