New in spot 1.99.8a (not yet released)

  Library:

  * twa::ap_var() renamed to twa::ap_vars().

  Documentation:

  * The page https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/upgrade2.html should help
    people migrating old C++ code written for Spot 1.2.x, and update
    it for Spot 2.0.

New in spot 1.99.8 (2016-02-18)

  Command-line tools:

  * ltl2tgba now also support the --generic option (already supported
    by ltldo and autfilt) to lift any restriction on the acceptance
    condition produced.  This option now has a short version: -G.

  * ltl2tgba and autfilt have learnt how to determinize automata.
    For this to work, --generic acceptance should be enabled (this
    is the default for autfilt, but not for ltl2tgba).

    "ltl2tgba -G -D" will now always outpout a deterministic automaton.
    It can be an automaton with transition-based parity acceptance in
    case Spot could not find a deterministic automaton with (maybe
    generalized) Büchi acceptance.

    "ltl2tgba -D" is unchanged (the --tgba acceptance is the default),
    and will output a deterministic automaton with (generalized) Büchi
    acceptance only if one could be found.  Otherwise a
    non-deterministic automaton is output, but this does NOT mean that
    no deterministic Büchi automaton exist for this formula.  It only
    means Spot could not find it.

    "autfilt -D" will determinize any automaton, because --generic
    acceptance is the default for autfilt.

    "autfilt -D --tgba" will behave like "ltl2tgba -D", i.e., it may
    fail to find a deterministic automaton (even if one exists) and
    return a nondeterministic automaton.

  * "autfilt --complement" now also works for non-deterministic
    automata but will output a deterministic automaton.
    "autfilt --complement --tgba" will likely output a
    nondeterministic TGBA.

  * autfilt has a new option, --included-in, to filter automata whose
    language are included in the language of a given automaton.

  * autfilt has a new option, --equivalent-to, to filter automata
    that are equivalent (language-wise) to a given automaton.

  * ltlcross has a new option --determinize to instruct it to
    complement non-deterministic automata via determinization.  This
    option is not enabled by default as it can potentially be slow and
    generate large automata.  When --determinize is given, option
    --product=0 is implied, since the tests based on products with
    random state-space are pointless for deterministic automata.

  * ltl2tgba and ltldo now support %< and %> in the string passed
    to --stats when reading formulas from a CSV file.

  * ltlfilt's option --size-min=N, --size-max=N, --bsize-min=N, and
    --bsize-max=N have been reimplemented as --size=RANGE and
    --bsize=RANGE.  The old names are still supported for backward
    compatibility, but they are not documented anymore.

  * ltlfilt's option --ap=N can now take a RANGE as parameter.

  * autfilt now has a --ap=RANGE option to filter automata by number
    of atomic propositions.

  Library:

  * Building products with different dictionaries now raise an
    exception instead of using an assertion that could be disabled.

  * The load_ltsmin() function has been split in two.  Now you should
    first call ltsmin_model::load(filename) to create an ltsmin_model,
    and then call the ltsmin_model::kripke(...) method to create an
    automaton that can be iterated on the fly.  The intermediate
    object can be queried about the supported variables and their
    types.

  * print_dot() now accepts several new options:
    - use "<N" to specify a maximum number of states to output.
      Incomplete states are then marked appropriately.  For a quick
      example, compare
	ltl2tgba -D 'Ga | Gb | Gc' -d'<3'
      with
        ltl2tgba -D 'Ga | Gb | Gc' -d
    - use "C(color)" to specify the color to use for filling states.
    - use "#" to display the internal number of each transition
    - use "k" to use state-based labels when possible.  This is
      similar to the "k" option already supported by print_hoa(), and
      is useful when printing Kripke structures.

  * Option "k" is automatically used by print_dot() and print_hoa()
    when printing Kripke structures.

  * print_dot() also honnor two new automaton properties called
    "highlight-edges" and "highlight-states".  These are used to color
    a subset of edges or transitions.

  * There is a new tgba_determinize() function.  Despite its name, it
    in facts works on transition-based Büchi automaton, and will first
    degeneralize any automaton with generalized Büchi acceptance.

  * The twa_safra_complement class has been removed.  Use
    tgba_determinize() and dtwa_complement() instead.

  * The twa::transition_annotation() and
    twa::compute_support_conditions() methods have been removed.

  * The interface for all functions parsing formulas (LTL, PSL, SERE,
    etc.) has been changed to use an interface similar to the one used
    for parsing automata.  These function now return a parsed_formula
    object that includes both a formula and a list of syntax errors.

    Typically a function written as

       spot::formula read(std::string input)
       {
	  spot::parse_error_list pel;
	  spot::formula f = spot::parse_infix_psl(input, pel);
	  if (spot::format_parse_errors(std::cerr, input, pel))
	    exit(2);
	  return f;
       }

    should be updated to

       spot::formula read(std::string input)
       {
	  spot::parsed_formula pf = spot::parse_infix_psl(input);
	  if (pf.format_errors(std::cerr))
	    exit(2);
	  return pf.f;
       }

  Python:

  * The ltsmin interface has been binded in Python.  It also
    comes with a %%dve cell magic to edit DiVinE models in the notebook.
    See https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/ltsmin.html for a short example.

  * spot.setup() sets de maximum number of states to display in
    automata to 50 by default, as more states is likely to be
    unreadable (and slow to process by GraphViz).  This can be
    overridden by calling spot.setup(max_states=N).

  * Automata now have methods to color selected states and
    transitions.  See
    https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/highlighting.html for an example.

  Documentation:

  * There is a new page giving informal illustrations (and extra
    pointers) for some concepts used in Spot.
    See https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/concepts.html

  Bug fixes:

  * Using ltl2tgba -U would fail to output the unambiguous property
    (regression introduced in 1.99.7)
  * ltlfilt, autfilt, randltl, and randaut could easily crash when
    compiled statically (i.e., with configure --disable-shared).
  * "1 U (a | Fb)" was not always simplified to "F(a | b)".
  * destroying the operands of an otf_product() before the product
    itself could crash.

New in spot 1.99.7 (2016-01-15)

  Command-line tools:

  * BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: All tools that output automata now
    use the HOA format by default instead of the GraphViz output.
    This makes it easier to pipe several commands together.

    If you have an old script that relies on GraphViz being the default
    output and that you do not want to update it, use
       export SPOT_DEFAULT_FORMAT=dot
    to get the old behavior back.

  * Tools that output automata now accept -d as a shorthand for --dot
    since requesting the GraphViz (a.k.a. dot) output by hand is now
    more frequent.
    randaut's short option for specifying edge-density used to be -d:
    it has been renamed to -e.

  * The SPOT_DEFAULT_FORMAT environment variable can be set to 'dot'
    or 'hoa' to force a default output format for automata.  Additional
    options may also be added, as in SPOT_DEFAULT_FORMAT='hoa=iv'.

  * autfilt has a new option: --is-inherently-weak.

  * The --check=strength option of all tools that produce automata
    will also test if an automaton is inherently weak.

  Library:

  * Installed headers now assume that they will be included as
    #include <spot/subdir/header.hh>
    instead of
    #include <subdir/header.hh>

    This implies that when Spot headers are installed in
    /usr/include/spot/... (the default when using the Debian packages)
    or /usr/local/include/spot/... (the default when compiling from
    source), then it is no longuer necessary to add
    -I/usr/include/spot or -I/usr/local/include/spot when compiling,
    as /usr/include and /usr/local/include are usually searched by
    default.

    Inside the source distribution, the subdirectory src/ has been
    renamed to spot/, so that the root of the source tree can also be
    put on the preprocessor's search path to compile against a
    non-installed version of Spot.  Similarly, iface/ltsmin/ has been
    renamed to spot/ltsmin/, so that installed and non-installed
    directories can be used similarly.

  * twa::~twa() is now calling
      get_dict()->unregister_all_my_variable(this);
    so this does not need to be done in any subclass.

  * is_inherently_weak_automaton() is a new function, and
    check_strength() has been modified to also check inherently weak
    automata.

  * decompose_strength() is now extracting inherently weak SCCs
    instead of just weak SCCs.  This gets rid of some corner cases
    that used to require ad hoc handling.

  * acc_cond::acc_code's methods append_or(), append_and(), and
    shift_left() have been replaced by operators |=, &=, <<=, and for
    completeness the operators |, &, and << have been added.

  * Several methods have been removed from the acc_cond
    class because they were simply redundant with the methods of
    acc_cond::mark_t, and more complex to use.

       acc_cond::marks(...)      -> use acc_cond::mark_t(...)
       acc_cond::sets(m)         -> use m.sets()
       acc_cond::has(m, u)       -> use m.has(u)
       acc_cond::cup(l, r)       -> use l | r
       acc_cond::cap(l, r)       -> use l & r
       acc_cond::set_minus(l, r) -> use l - r

    Additionally, the following methods/functions have been renamed:

       acc_cond::is_tt() -> acc_cond::is_t()
       acc_cond::is_ff() -> acc_cond::is_f()
       parse_acc_code()  -> acc_cond::acc_code(...)

  * Automata property flags (those that tell whether the automaton is
    deterministic, weak, stutter-invariant, etc.) are now stored using
    three-valued logic: in addition to "maybe"/"yes" they can now also
    represent "no".  This is some preparation for the upcomming
    support of the HOA v1.1 format, but it also saves time in some
    algorithms (e.g, is_deterministic() can now return immediately on
    automata marked as not deterministic).

  * The automaton parser now accept negated properties as they will be
    introduced in HOA v1.1, and will check for some inconsistencies.
    These properties are stored and used when appropriate, but they
    are not yet output by the HOA printer.

  Python:

  * Iterating over the transitions leaving a state (the
    twa_graph::out() C++ function) is now possible in Python.  See
    https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut21.html for a demonstration.

  * Membership to acceptance sets can be specified using Python list
    when calling for instance the Python version of twa_graph::new_edge().
    See https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut22.html for a demonstration.

  * Automaton states can be named via the set_state_names() method.
    See https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/product.html for an example.

  Documentation:

  * There is a new page explaining how to compile example programs and
    and link them with Spot.  https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/compile.html

  * Python bindings for manipulating acceptance conditions are
    demonstrated by https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/acc_cond.html,
    and a Python implementation of the product of two automata is
    illustrated by https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/product.html

  Source code reorganisation:

  * A lot of directories have been shuffled around in the
    distribution:
      src/                   ->  spot/    (see rational above)
      iface/ltsmin/  (code)  ->  spot/ltsmin/
      wrap/python/           ->  python/
      src/tests/             ->  tests/core/
      src/sanity/            ->  tests/sanity/
      iface/ltsmin/  (tests) ->  tests/ltsmin/
      wrap/python/tests      ->  tests/python/

  Bug fixes:

  * twa_graph would incorrectly replace named-states during
    purge_dead_states and purge_unreachable_states.
  * twa::ap() would contain duplicates when an atomic proposition
    was registered several times.
  * product() would incorrectly mark the product of two
    sttuter-sensitive automata as stutter-sensitive as well.
  * complete() could incorrectly reuse an existing (but accepting!)
    state as a sink.

New in spot 1.99.6 (2015-12-04)

  Command-line tools:

  * autfilt has two new filters: --is-weak and --is-terminal.

  * autfilt has a new transformation: --decompose-strength,
    implementing the decomposition of our TACAS'13 paper.
    A demonstration of this feature via the Python bindings
    can be found at https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/decompose.html

  * All tools that output HOA files accept a --check=strength option
    to request automata to be marked as "weak" or "terminal" as
    appropriate.  Without this option, these properties may only be
    set as a side-effect of running transformations that use this
    information.

  Library:

  * Properties of automata (like the "properties:" line of the HOA
    format) are stored as bits whose interpretation is True=yes,
    False=maybe.  Having getters like "aut->is_deterministic()" or
    "aut->is_unambiguous()" was confusing, because there are separate
    functions "is_deterministic(aut)" and "is_unambiguous(aut)" that
    do actually check the automaton.  The getters have been renamed to
    avoid confusion, and get names more in line with the HOA format.

    - twa::has_state_based_acc() -> twa::prop_state_acc()
    - twa::prop_state_based_acc(bool) -> twa::prop_state_acc(bool)
    - twa::is_inherently_weak() -> twa::prop_inherently_weak()
    - twa::is_deterministic() -> twa::prop_deterministic()
    - twa::is_unambiguous() -> twa::prop_unambiguous()
    - twa::is_stutter_invariant() -> twa::prop_stutter_invariant()
    - twa::is_stutter_sensitive() -> twa::prop_stutter_sensitive()

    The setters have the same names as the getters, except they take a
    Boolean argument.  This argument used to be optionnal (defaulting
    to True), but it no longer is.

  * Automata now support the "weak" and "terminal" properties in
    addition to the previously supported "inherently-weak".

  * By default the HOA printer tries not to bloat the output with
    properties that are redundant and probably useless.  The HOA
    printer now has a new option "v" (use "-Hv" from the command line)
    to output more verbose "properties:".  This currently includes
    outputing "no-univ-branch", outputting "unambiguous" even for
    automata already tagged as "deterministic", and "inherently-weak"
    or "weak" even for automata tagged "weak" or "terminal".

  * The HOA printer has a new option "k" (use "-Hk" from the command
    line) to output automata using state labels whenever possible.
    This is useful to print Kripke structures.

  * The dot output will display pair of states when displaying an
    automaton built as an explicit product.  This works in IPython
    with spot.product() or spot.product_or() and in the shell with
    autfilt's --product or --product-or options.

  * The print_dot() function supports a new option, +N, where N is a
    positive integer that will be added to all set numbers in the
    output.  This is convenient when displaying two automata before
    building their product: use +N to shift the displayed sets of the
    second automaton by the number of acceptance sets N of the first
    one.

  * The sat minimization for DTωA now does a better job at selecting
    reference automata when the output acceptance is the the same as
    the input acceptance.  This can provide nice speedups when tring
    to syntethise larged automata with different acceptance
    conditions.

  * Explicit Kripke structures (i.e., stored as explicit graphs) have
    been rewritten above the graph class, using an interface similar
    to the twa class.  The new class is called kripke_graph.  The ad
    hoc Kripke parser and printer have been removed, because we can
    now use print_hoa() with the "k" option to print Kripke structure
    in the HOA format, and furthermore the parse_aut() function now
    has an option to load such an HOA file as a kripke_graph.

  * The HOA parser now accepts identifier, aliases, and headernames
    containing dots, as this will be allowed in the next version of
    the HOA format.

  * Renamings:
    is_guarantee_automaton() -> is_terminal_automaton()
    tgba_run -> twa_run
    twa_word::print -> operator<<
    dtgba_sat_synthetize() -> dtwa_sat_synthetize()
    dtgba_sat_synthetize_dichotomy() -> dtwa_sat_synthetize_dichotomy()

  Python:

  * Add bindings for is_unambiguous().
  * Better interface for sat_minimize().

  Bug fixes:

  * the HOA parser was ignoring the "unambiguous" property.
  * --dot=Bb should work like --dot=b, allowing us to disable
    a B option set via an environment variable.

New in spot 1.99.5 (2015-11-03)

  Command-line tools:

  * autfilt has gained a --complement option.
    It currently works only for deterministic automata.

  * By default, autfilt does not simplify automata (this has not
    changed), as if the --low --any options were used.  But now, if
    one of --small, --deterministic, or --any is given, the
    optimization level automatically defaults to --high (unless
    specified otherwise).  For symmetry, if one of --low, --medium, or
    --high is given, then the translation intent defaults to --small
    (unless specified otherwise).

  * autfilt, dstar2tgba, ltlcross, and ltldo now trust the (supported)
    automaton properties declared in any HOA file they read.  This can
    be disabled with option --trust-hoa=no.

  * ltlgrind FILENAME[/COL] is now the same as
    ltlgrind -F FILENAME[/COL] for consistency with ltlfilt.

  Library:

  * dtgba_complement() was renamed to dtwa_complement(), moved to
    complement.hh, and its purpose was restricted to just completing
    the automaton and complementing its acceptance condition.  Any
    further acceptance condition transformation can be done with
    to_generalized_buchi() or remove_fin().

  * The remove_fin() has learnt how to better deal with automata that
    are declared as weak.  This code was previously in
    dtgba_complement().

  * scc_filter_states() has learnt to remove useless acceptance marks
    that are on transitions between SCCs, while preserving state-based
    acceptance.  The most visible effect is in the output of "ltl2tgba
    -s XXXa": it used to have 5 accepting states, it now has only one.
    (Changing removing acceptance of those 4 states has no effect on
    the language, but it speeds up some algorithms like NDFS-based
    emptiness checks, as discussed in our Spin'15 paper.)

  * The HOA parser will diagnose any version that is not v1, unless it
    looks like a subversion of v1 and no parse error was detected.

  * The way to pass option to the automaton parser has been changed to
    make it easier to introduce new options.  One such new option is
    "trust_hoa": when true (the default) supported properties declared
    in HOA files are trusted even if they cannot be easily be verified.
    Another option "raise_errors" now replaces the method
      automaton_stream_parser::parse_strict().

  * The output of the automaton parser now include the list of parse
    errors (that does not have to be passed as a parameters) and the
    input filename (making the output of error messages easier).

  * The following renamings make the code more consistent:
    ltl_simplifier -> tl_simplifier
    tgba_statistics::transitions -> twa_statistics::edges
    tgba_sub_statistics::sub_transitions -> twa_sub_statistics::transitions
    tgba_run -> twa_run
    reduce_run -> twa_run::reduce
    replay_tgba_run -> twa_run::replay
    print_tgba_run -> operator<<
    tgba_run_to_tgba -> twa_run::as_twa
    format_parse_aut_errors -> parsed_aut::format_errors
    twa_succ_iterator::current_state -> twa_succ_iterator::dst
    twa_succ_iterator::current_condition -> twa_succ_iterator::cond
    twa_succ_iterator::current_acceptance_conditions -> twa_succ_iterator::acc
    ta_succ_iterator::current_state -> ta_succ_iterator::dst
    ta_succ_iterator::current_condition -> ta_succ_iterator::cond
    ta_succ_iterator::current_acceptance_conditions -> ta_succ_iterator::acc

  Python:

  * The minimum supported Python version is now 3.3.
  * Add bindings for complete() and dtwa_complement()
  * Formulas now have a custom __format__ function.  See
    https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut01.html for examples.
  * The Debian package is now compiled for all Python3 versions
    supported by Debian, not just the default one.
  * Automata now have get_name()/set_name() methods.
  * spot.postprocess(aut, *options), or aut.postprocess(*options)
    simplify the use of the spot.postprocessor object.  (Just like we
    have spot.translate() on top of spot.translator().)
  * spot.automata() and spot.automaton() now have additional
    optional arguments:
    - timeout: to restrict the runtime of commands that
      produce automata
    - trust_hoa: can be set to False to ignore HOA properties
      that cannot be easily verified
    - ignore_abort: can be set to False if you do not want to
      skip automata ended with --ABORT--.

  Documentation:

  * There is a new page showing how to use spot::postprocessor
    to convert any type of automaton to Büchi.
    https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut30.html

  Bugs fixed:

  * Work around some weird exception raised when using the
    randltlgenerator under Python 3.5.
  * Recognize "nullptr" formulas as None in Python.
  * Fix compilation of bench/stutter/
  * Handle saturation of formula reference counts.
  * Fix typo in the Python code for the CGI server.
  * "randaut -Q0 1" used to segfault.
  * "ltlgrind -F FILENAME/COL" did not preserve other CSV columns.
  * "ltlgrind --help" did not document FORMAT.
  * unabbreviate could easily use forbidden operators.
  * "autfilt --is-unambiguous" could fail to detect the nonambiguity
    of some automata with empty languages.
  * When parsing long tokens (e.g, state labels representing
    very large strings) the automaton parser could die with
    "input buffer overflow, can't enlarge buffer because scanner uses REJECT"

New in spot 1.99.4 (2015-10-01)

  New features:

  * autfilt's --sat-minimize now takes a "colored" option to constrain
    all transitions (or states) in the output automaton to belong to
    exactly one acceptance sets.  This is useful when targeting parity
    acceptance.

  * autfilt has a new --product-or option.  This builds a synchronized
    product of two (completed of needed) automata in order to
    recognize the *sum* of their languages.  This works by just using
    the disjunction of their acceptance conditions (with appropriate
    renumbering of the acceptance sets).

    For consistency, the --product option (that builds a synchronized
    product that recognizes the *intersection* of the languages) now
    also has a --product-and alias.

  * the parser for ltl2dstar's format has been merged with the parser
    for the other automata formats.  This implies two things:
    - autfilt and dstar2tgba (despite its name) can now both read
      automata written in any of the four supported syntaxes
      (ltl2dstar's, lbtt's, HOA, never claim).
    - "dstar2tgba some files..." now behaves exactly like
      "autfilt --tgba --high --small some files...".
      (But dstar2tgba does not offer all the filtering and
      transformations options of autfilt.)

  Major code changes and reorganization:

  * The class hierarchy for temporal formulas has been entirely
    rewritten.  This change is actually quite massive (~13200 lines
    removed, ~8200 lines added), and brings some nice benefits:
    - LTL/PSL formulas are now represented by lightweight formula
      objects (instead of pointers to children of an abstract
      formula class) that perform reference counting automatically.
    - There is no hierachy anymore: all operators are represented by
      a single type of node in the syntax tree, and an enumerator is
      used to distinguish between operators.
    - Visitors have been replaced by member functions such as map()
      or traverse(), that take a function (usually written as a
      lambda function) and apply it to the nodes of the tree.
    - As a consequence, writing algorithms that manipulate formula
      is more friendly, and several algorithms that spanned a few
      pages have been reduced to a few lines.
    The page https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut03.html illustrates the
    new interface, in both C++ and Python.

  * Directories ltlast/, ltlenv/, and ltlvisit/, have been merged into
    a single tl/ directory (for temporal logic).  This is motivated by
    the fact that these formulas are not restricted to LTL, and by the
    fact that we no longuer use the "visitor" pattern.

  * The LTL/PSL parser is now declared in tl/parse.hh (instead of
    ltlparse/public.hh).

  * The spot::ltl namespace has been merged with the spot namespace.

  * The dupexp_dfs() function has been renamed to copy(), and has
    learned to preserve named states if required.

  * Atomic propositions can be declared without going through an
    environment using the spot::formula::ap() static function.  They
    can be registered for an automaton directly using the
    spot::twa::register_ap() method.  The vector of atomic
    propositions used by an automaton can now be retrieved using the
    spot::twa::ap() method.

New in spot 1.99.3 (2015-08-26)

  * The CGI script for LTL translation offers a HOA download link
    for each generated automaton.

  * The html documentation now includes a HTML copies of the man
    pages, and HTML copies of the Python notebooks.

  * scc_filter(aut, true) does not remove Fin marks from rejecting
    SCCs, but it now does remove Fin marks from transitions between
    SCCs.

  * All the unabbreviation functions (unabbreviate_ltl(),
    unabbreviate_logic(), unabbreviate_wm()) have been merged into a
    single unabbreviate() function that takes a string representing
    the list of operators to remove among "eFGiMRW^" where 'e', 'i',
    and '^' stand respectively for <->, ->, and xor.
    This feature is also available via ltlfilt --unabbreviate.

  * In LTL formulas, atomic propositions specified using double-quotes
    can now include \" and \\.  (This is more consistent with the HOA
    format, which already allows that.)

  * All the conversion routines that were written specifically for
    ltl2dstar's output format (DRA->BA & DRA->TGBA) have been ported
    to the new TωA structure supporting the HOA format.  The DRA->TGBA
    conversion was reimplemented in the previous release, and the
    DRA->BA conversion has been reimplemented in this release (but it
    is still restricted to state-based acceptance).  All these
    conversions are called automatically by to_generalized_buchi()
    or remove_fin() so there should be no need to call them directly.

    As a consequence:
    - "autfilt --remove-fin" or "autfilt -B" is better at converting
      state-based Rabin automata: it will produce a DBA if the input is
      deterministic and DBA-realizable, but will preserve as much
      determinism as possible otherwise.
    - a lot of obsolete code that was here only to support the old
      conversion routines has been removed.  (The number of lines
      removed by this release is twice the number of lines added.)
    - ltlcross now uses automata in ltl2dstar's format directly,
      without converting them to Büchi (this makes the statistics
      reported in CSV files more relevant).
    - ltlcross no longer outputs additional columns about the size
      of the input automaton in the case ltl2dstar's format is used.
    - ltldo uses results in ltl2dstar's format directly, without
      converting them to Büchi.
    - dstar2tgba has been greatly simplified and now uses the
      same output routines as all the other tools that output
      automata.  This implies a few minor semantic changes, for
      instance --stats=%A used to output the number of acceptance
      *pairs* in the input automaton, while it now outputs the
      number of acceptance sets like in all the other tools.

  * Bugs fixed
    - Some acceptance conditions like Fin(0)|Fin(1)|Fin(2)&Inf(3)
      were not detected as generalized-Rabin.
    - Unknown arguments for print_hoa() (i.e., option -H in command-line
      tools) are now diagnosed.
    - The CGI script for LTL translation now forces transition-based
      acceptance on WDBA-minimized automata when TGBA is requested.
    - ltlgrind --help output had some options documented twice, or
      in the wrong place.
    - The man page for ltlcross had obsolete examples.
    - When outputting atomic propositions in double quotes, the
      escaping routine used by the two styles of LaTeX output was
      slightly wrong.  For instance ^ was incorrectly escaped, and
      the double quotes where not always properly rendered.
    - A spurious assertion was triggered by streett_to_generalized_buchi(),
      but only when compiled in DEBUG mode.
    - LTL formula rewritten in Spin's syntax no longer have their ->
      and <-> rewritten away.
    - Fix some warnings reported by the development version of GCC 6.
    - The spot.translate() function of the Python binding had a typo
      preventing the use of 'low'/'medium'/'high' as argument.
    - Fix spurious failure of uniq.test under different locales.
    - ltlcross now recovers from out-of-memory errors during
      state-space products.
    - bitvect.test was failing on 32bit architectures with
      assertions enabled because of a bug in the test case.

New in spot 1.99.2 (2015-07-18)

  * The scc_info object, used to build a map of SCCs while gathering
    additional information, has been simplified and speed up.  One
    test case where ltlcross would take more than 13min (to check the
    translation of one PSL formula) now takes only 75s.

  * streett_to_generalized_buchi() is a new function that implements
    what its name suggests, with some SCC-based optimizations over the
    naive definition.  It is used by the to_generalized_buchi() and
    remove_fin() functions when the input automaton is a Streett
    automaton with more than 3 pairs (this threeshold can be changed
    via the SPOT_STREETT_CONV_MIN environment variable -- see the
    spot-x(7) man page for details).

    This is mainly useful to ltlcross, which has to get rid of "Fin"
    acceptance to perform its checks.  As an example, the Streett
    automaton generatated by ltl2dstar (configured with ltl2tgba) for
    the formula
      !((GFa -> GFb) & (GFc -> GFd))
    has 4307 states and 14 acceptance sets.  The new algorithm can
    translate it into a TGBA with 9754 states and 7 acceptance sets,
    while the default approch used for converting any acceptance
    to TGBA would produce 250967 states and 7 acceptance sets.

  * Bugs fixed:
    - p[+][:*2] was not detected as belonging to siPSL.
    - scc_filter() would incorrectly remove Fin marks from
      rejecting SCCs.
    - the libspotltsmin library is installed.
    - ltlcross and ltldo did not properly quote atomic propositions
      and temporary file names containing a single-quote.
    - a missing Python.h is now diagnosed at ./configure time, with
      the suggestion to either install python3-devel, or run
      ./configure --disable-python.
    - Debian packages for libraries have been split from
      the main Spot package, as per Debian guidelines.

New in spot 1.99.1 (2015-06-23)

  * Major changes motivating the jump in version number

    - Spot now works with automata that can represent more than
      generalized Büchi acceptance.  Older versions were built around
      the concept of TGBA (Transition-based Generalized Büchi
      Automata) while this version now deals with what we call TωA
      (Transition-based ω-Automata).  TωA support arbitrary acceptance
      conditions specified as a Boolean formula of transition sets
      that must be visited infinitely often or finitely often.  This
      genericity allows for instance to represent Rabin or Streett
      automata, as well as some generalized variants of those.

    - Spot has near complete support for the Hanoi Omega Automata
      format.  http://adl.github.io/hoaf/  This formats supports
      automata with the generic acceptance condition described above,
      and has been implemented in a number of third-party tools (see
      http://adl.github.io/hoaf/support.html) to ease their
      interactions.  The only part of the format not yet implemented in
      Spot is the support for alternating automata.

    - Spot is now compiling in C++11 mode.  The set of C++11 features
      we use requires GCC >= 4.8 or Clang >= 3.5.  Although GCC 4.8 is
      more than 2-year old, people with older installations won't be
      able to install this version of Spot.

    - As a consequence of the switches to C++11 and to TωA, a lot of
      the existing C++ interfaces have been renamed, and sometime
      reworked.  This makes this version of Spot not backward
      compatible with Spot 1.2.x.  See below for the most important
      API changes.  Furtheremore, the reason this release is not
      called Spot 2.0 is that we have more of those changes planned.

    - Support for Python 2 was dropped.  We now support only Python
      3.2 or later.  The Python bindings have been improved a lot, and
      include some conveniance functions for better integration with
      IPython's rich display system.  User familiar with IPython's
      notebook should have a look at the notebook files in
      wrap/python/tests/*.ipynb

  * Major news for the command-line tools

    - The set of tools installed by spot now consists in the following
      11 commands.  Those marked with a '+' are new in this release.

      - randltl    Generate random LTL/PSL formulas.
      - ltlfilt    Filter and convert LTL/PSL formulas.
      - genltl     Generate LTL formulas from scalable patterns.
      - ltl2tgba   Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Büchi automata.
      - ltl2tgta   Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Testing automata.
      - ltlcross   Cross-compare LTL/PSL-to-Büchi translators.
      + ltlgrind   Mutate LTL/PSL formula.
      - dstar2tgba Convert deterministic Rabin or Streett automata into Büchi.
      + randaut    Generate random automata.
      + autfilt    Filter and convert automata.
      + ltldo      Run LTL/PSL formulas through other tools.

      randaut does not need any presentation: it does what you expect.

      ltlgrind is a new tool that mutates LTL or PSL formulas.  If you
      have a tool that is bogus on some formula that is too large to
      debug, you can use ltlgrind to generate smaller derived formulas
      and see if you can reproduce the bug on those.

      autfilt is a new tool that processes a stream of automata.  It
      allows format conversion, filtering automata based on some
      properties, and general transformations (e.g., change of
      acceptance conditions, removal of useless states, product
      between automata, etc.).

      ltldo is a new tool that runs LTL/PSL formulas through other
      tools, but uses Spot's command-line interfaces for specifying
      input and output.  This makes it easier to use third-party tool
      in a pipe, and it also takes care of some necessary format
      conversion.

    - ltl2tgba has a new option, -U, to produce unambiguous automata.
      In unambiguous automata any word is recognized by at most one
      accepting run, but there might be several ways to reject a word.
      This works for LTL and PSL formulas.

    - ltl2tgba has a new option, -S, to produce generalized-Büchi
      automata with state-based acceptance.  Those are obtained by
      converting some transition-based GBA into a state-based GBA, so
      they are usually not as small as one would wish.  The same
      option -S is also supported by autfilt.

    - ltlcross will work with translator producing automata with any
      acceptance condition, provided the output is in the HOA format.
      So it can effectively be used to validate tools producing Rabin
      or Streett automata.

    - ltlcross has several new options:

        --grind attempts to reduce the size of any bogus formula it
        discovers, while still exhibiting the bug.

        --ignore-execution-failures ignores cases where a translator
        exits with a non-zero status.

	--automata save the produced automata into the CSV or JSON
        file.  Those automata are saved using the HOA format.

      ltlcross will also output two extra columns in its CSV/JSON
      output: "ambiguous_aut" and "complete_aut" are Boolean
      that respectively tells whether the automaton is
      ambiguous and complete.

    - "ltlfilt --stutter-invariant" will now work with PSL formulas.
      The implementation is actually much more efficient
      than our previous implementation that was only for LTL.

    - ltlfilt's old -q/--quiet option has been renamed to
      --ignore-errors.  The new -q/--quiet semantic is the
      same as in grep (and also autfilt): disable all normal
      input, for situtations where only the exit status matters.

    - ltlfilt's old -n/--negate option can only be used as --negate
      now.  The short '-n NUM' option is now the same as the new
      --max-count=N option, for consistency with other tools.

    - ltlfilt has a new --count option to count the number of matching
      automata.

    - ltlfilt has a new --exclusive-ap option to constrain formulas
      based on a list of mutually exclusive atomic propositions.

    - ltlfilt has a new option --define to be used in conjunction with
      --relabel or --relabel-bool to print the mapping between old and
      new labels.

    - all tools that produce formulas or automata now have an --output
      (a.k.a. -o) option to redirect that output to a file instead of
      standard output.  The name of this file can be constructed using
      the same %-escape sequences that are available for --stats or
      --format.

    - all tools that output formulas have a -0 option to separate
      formulas with \0.  This helps in conjunction with xargs -0.

    - all tools that output automata have a --check option that
      request extra checks to be performed on the output to fill
      in properties values for the HOA format.  This options
      implies -H for HOA output.  For instance
      	ltl2tgba -H 'formula'
      will declare the output automaton as 'stutter-invariant'
      only if the formula is syntactically stutter-invariant
      (e.g., in LTL\X).  With
        ltl2tgba --check 'formula'
      additional checks will be performed, and the automaton
      will be accurately marked as either 'stutter-invariant'
      or 'stutter-sensitive'.  Another check performed by
      --check is testing whether the automaton is unambiguous.

    - ltlcross (and ltldo) have a list of hard-coded shorthands
      for some existing tools.  So for instance running
      'ltlcross spin ...' is the same as running
      'ltlcross "spin -f %s>%N" ...'.   This feature is much
      more useful for ltldo.

    - For options that take an output filename (i.e., ltlcross's
      --save-bogus, --grind, --csv, --json) you can force the file
      to be opened in append mode (instead of being truncated) by
      by prefixing the filename with ">>".  For instance
      	  --save-bogus=">>bugs.ltl"
      will append to the end of the file.

  * Other noteworthy news

    - The web site moved to http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/.

    - We now have Debian packages.
      See http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/install.html

    - The documentation now includes some simple code examples
      for both Python and C++.  (This is still a work in progress.)

    - The curstomized version of BuDDy (libbdd) used by Spot has be
      renamed as (libbddx) to avoid issues with copies of BuDDy
      already installed on the system.

    - There is a parser for the HOA format
      (http://adl.github.io/hoaf/) available as a
      spot::automaton_stream_parser object or spot::parse_aut()
      function.  The former version is able to parse a stream of
      automata in order to do batch processing.  This format can be
      output by all tools (since Spot 1.2.5) using the --hoa option,
      and it can be read by autfilt (by default) and ltlcross (using
      the %H specifier).  The current implementation does not support
      alternation.  Multiple initial states are converted into an
      extra initial state; complemented acceptance sets Inf(!x) are
      converted to Inf(x); explicit or implicit labels can be used;
      aliases are supported; "--ABORT--" can be used in a stream.

    - The above HOA parser can also parse never claims, and LBTT
      automata, so the never claim parser and the LBTT parser have
      been removed.  This implies that autfilt can input a mix of HOA,
      never claims, and LBTT automata.  ltlcross also use the same
      parser for all these output, and the old %T and %N specifiers
      have been deprecated and replaced by %O (for output).

    - While not all algorithms in the library are able to work with
      any acceptance condition supported by the HOA format, the
      following two new functions mitigate that:

      - remove_fin() takes a TωA whose accepting condition uses Fin(x)
	primitive, and produces an equivalent TωA without Fin(x):
	i.e., the output acceptance is a disjunction of generalized
	Büchi acceptance.  This type of acceptance is supported by
	SCC-based emptiness-check, for instance.

      - similarly, to_tgba() converts any TωA into an automaton with
	generalized-Büchi acceptance.

    - randomize() is a new algorithm that randomly reorders the states
      and transitions of an automaton.  It can be used from the
      command-line using "autfilt --randomize".

    - the interface in iface/dve2 has been renamed to iface/ltsmin
      because it can now interface the dynamic libraries created
      either by Divine (as patched by the LTSmin group) or by
      Spins (the LTSmin compiler for Promela).

    - LTL/PSL formulas can include /* comments */.

    - PSL SEREs support a new operator [:*i..j], the iterated fusion.
      [:*i..j] is to the fusion operator ':' what [*i..j] is to the
      concatenation operator ';'.  For instance (a*;b)[:*3] is the
      same as (a*;b):(a*;b):(a*;b).  The operator [:+], is syntactic
      sugar for [:*1..], and corresponds to the operator ⊕ introduced
      by Dax et al. (ATVA'09).

    - GraphViz output now uses an horizontal layout by default, and
      also use circular states (unless the automaton has more than 100
      states, or uses named-states).  The --dot option of the various
      command-line tools takes an optional parameter to fine-tune the
      GraphViz output (including vertical layout, forced circular or
      elliptic states, named automata, SCC information, ordered
      transitions, and different ways to colorize the acceptance
      sets).  The environment variables SPOT_DOTDEFAULT and
      SPOT_DOTEXTRA can also be used to respectively provide a default
      argument to --dot, and add extra attributes to the output graph.

    - Never claims can now be output in the style used by Spin since
      version 6.2.4 (i.e., using do..od instead of if..fi, and with
      atomic statements for terminal acceptance).  The default output
      is still the old one for compatibility with existing tools.  The
      new style can be requested from command-line tools using option
      --spin=6 (or -s6 for short).

    - Support for building unambiguous automata.  ltl_to_tgba() has a
      new options to produce unambiguous TGBA (used by ltl2tgba -U as
      discussed above).   The function is_unambiguous() will check
      whether an automaton is unambigous, and this is used by
      autfilt --is-unmabiguous.

    - The SAT-based minimization algorithm for deterministic automata
      has been updated to work with ω-Automaton with any acceptance.
      The input and the output acceptance can be different, so for
      instance it is possible to create a minimal deterministic
      Streett automaton starting from a deterministic Rabin automaton.
      This functionnality is available via autfilt's --sat-minimize
      option.  See doc/userdoc/satmin.html for details.

    - The on-line interface at http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/trans.html
      can be used to check stutter-invariance of any LTL/PSL formula.

    - The on-line interface will work around atomic propositions not
      supported by ltl3ba.  (E.g. you can now translate F(A) or
      G("foo < bar").)

  * Noteworthy code changes

    - Boost is not used anymore.

    - Automata are now manipulated exclusively via shared pointers.

    - Most of what was called tgba_something is now called
      twa_something, unless it is really meant to work only for TGBA.
      This includes functions, classes, file, and directory names.
      For instance the class tgba originally defined in tgba/tgba.hh,
      has been replaced by the class twa defined in twa/twa.hh.

    - the tgba_explicit class has been completely replaced by a more
      efficient twa_graph class.  Many of the algorithms that were
      written against the abstract tgba (now twa) interface have been
      rewritten using twa_graph instances as input and output, making
      the code a lot simpler.

    - The tgba_succ_iterator (now twa_succ_iterator) interface has
      changed.  Methods next(), and first() should now return a bool
      indicating whether the current iteration is valid.

    - The twa base class has a new method, release_iter(), that can
      be called to give a used iterator back to its automaton.  This
      iterator is then stored in a protected member, iter_cache_, and
      all implementations of succ_iter() can be updated to recycle
      iter_cache_ (if available) instead of allocating a new iterator.

    - The tgba (now called twa) base class has a new method, succ(),
      to support C++11' range-based for loop, and hide all the above
      change.

      Instead of the following syntax:

	tgba_succ_iterator* i = aut->succ_iter(s);
	for (i->first(); !i->done(); i->next())
	  {
	     // use i->current_state()
	     //     i->current_condition()
	     //     i->current_acceptance_conditions()
	  }
	delete i;

      We now prefer:

	for (auto i: aut->succ(s))
	  {
	    // use i->current_state()
	    //     i->current_condition()
	    //     i->current_acceptance_conditions()
	  }

      And the above syntax is really just syntactic suggar for

	twa_succ_iterator* i = aut->succ_iter(s);
	if (i->first())
	  do
	    {
	      // use i->current_state()
	      //     i->current_condition()
	      //     i->current_acceptance_conditions()
	    }
	  while (i->next());
	aut->release_iter(i); // allow the automaton to recycle the iterator

      Where the virtual calls to done() and delete have been avoided.

    - twa::succ_iter() now takes only one argument.  The optional
      global_state and global_automaton arguments have been removed.

    - The following methods have been removed from the TGBA interface and
      all their subclasses:
        - tgba::support_variables()
	- tgba::compute_support_variables()
	- tgba::all_acceptance_conditions()       // use acc().accepting(...)
	- tgba::neg_acceptance_conditions()
	- tgba::number_of_acceptance_conditions() // use acc().num_sets()

    - Membership to acceptance sets are now stored using bit sets,
      currently limited to 32 bits.  Each TωA has a acc() method that
      returns a reference to an acceptance object (of type
      spot::acc_cond), able to operate on acceptance marks
      (spot::acc_cond::mark_t).

      Instead of writing code like
        i->current_acceptance_conditions() == aut->all_acceptance_conditions()
      we now write
        aut->acc().accepting(i->current_acceptance_conditions())
      (Note that for accepting(x) to return something meaningful, x
      should be a set of acceptance sets visitied infinitely often.  So let's
      imagine that in the above example i is looking at a self-loop.)

      Similarly,
        aut->number_of_acceptance_conditions()
      is now
        aut->acc().num_sets()

    - All functions used for printing LTL/PSL formulas or automata
      have been renamed to print_something().  Likewise the various
      parsers should be called parse_something() (they haven't yet
      all been renamed).

    - All test suites under src/ have been merged into a single one in
      src/tests/.  The testing tool that was called
      src/tgbatest/ltl2tgba has been renamed as src/tests/ikwiad
      (short for "I Know What I Am Doing") so that users should be
      less tempted to use it instead of src/bin/ltl2tgba.

  * Removed features

    - The long unused interface to GreatSPN (or rather, interface to
      a non-public, customized version of GreatSPN) has been removed.
      As a consequence, we could get rid of many cruft in the
      implementation of Couvreur's FM'99 emptiness check.

    - Support for symbolic, BDD-encoded TGBAs has been removed.  This
      includes the tgba_bdd_concrete class and associated supporting
      classes, as well as the ltl_to_tgba_lacim() LTL translation
      algorithm.  Historically, this TGBA implementation and LTL
      translation were the first to be implemented in Spot (by
      mistake!) and this resulted in many bad design decisions.  In
      practice they were of no use as we only work with explicit
      automata (i.e. not symbolic) in Spot, and those produced by
      these techniques are simply too big.

    - All support for ELTL, i.e., LTL logic extended with operators
      represented by automata has been removed.  It was never used in
      practice because it had no practical user interface, and the
      translation was a purely-based BDD encoding producing huge
      automata (when viewed explictely), using the above and non
      longuer supported tgba_bdd_concrete class.

    - Our implementation of the Kupferman-Vardi complementation has
      been removed: it was unused in practice beause of the size of
      the automata built, and it did not survive the conversion of
      acceptance sets from BDDs to bitsets.

    - The unused implementation of state-based alternating Büchi
      automata has been removed.

    - Input and output in the old, Spot-specific, text format for
      TGBA, has been fully removed.  We now use HOA everywhere.  (In
      case you have a file in this format, install Spot 1.2.6 and use
      "src/tgbatest/ltl2tgba -H -X file" to convert the file to HOA.)

New in spot 1.2.6 (2014-12-06)

  * New features:

    - ltlcross --verbose is a new option to see what is being done

  * Bug fixes:

    - Remove one incorrect simplification rule for PSL discovered
      via checks on random formulaes.  (The bug was very unlikely
      to trigger on non-random formulas, because it requires a SERE
      with an entire subexpression that is unsatisfiable.)
    - When the automaton resulting from the translation of a positive
      formula is deterministic, ltlcross will compute its complement
      to perform additional checks against other translations of the
      positive formula.  The same procedure should be performed with
      automata obtained from negated formulas, but because of a typo
      this was not the case.
    - the neverclaim parser will now diagnose redefinitions of
      state labels.
    - the acceptance specification in the HOA format output have been
      adjusted to match recent changes in the format specifications.
    - atomic propositions are correctly escaped in the HOA output.
    - the build rules for documentation have been made compatible with
      version 8.0 of Org-mode.  (This was only a problem if you build
      from the git repository, or if you want to edit the
      documentation.)
    - recent to changes to libstd++ (as shipped by g++ 4.9.2) have
      demonstrated that the order of transitions output by the
      LTL->TGBA translation used to be dependent on the implementation
      of the STL.  This is now fixed.
    - some developpement version of libstd++ had a bug (PR 63698) in
      the assignment of std::set, and that was triggered in two places
      in Spot.  The workaround (not assigning sets) is actually more
      efficient, so we can consider it as a bug fix, even though
      libstd++ has also been fixed.
    - all parsers would report wrong line numbers while processing
      files with DOS style newlines.
    - add support for SWIG 3.0.

New in spot 1.2.5 (2014-08-21)

  * New features:

    - The online ltl2tgba translator will automatically attempt to
      parse a formula using LBT's syntax if it cannot parse it using
      the normal infix syntax.  It also has an option to display
      formulas using LBT's syntax.

    - ltl2tgba and dstar2tgba have a new experimental option --hoaf to
      output automata in the Hanoï Omega Automaton Format whose
      current draft is at http://adl.github.io/hoaf/
      The corresponding C++ function is spot::hoaf_reachable() in
      tgbaalgos/hoaf.hh.

    - 'randltl 4' is now a shorthand for 'randltl p0 p1 p2 p3'.

    - ltlcross has a new option --save-bogus=FILENAME to save any
      formula for which a problem (other than timeout) was detected
      during translation or using the resulting automatas.

  * Documentation:

    - The man page for ltl2tgba has some new notes and references
      about TGBA and about monitors.

  * Bug fixes:

    - Fix incorrect simplification of promises in the translation
      of the M operator (you may suffer from the bug even if you do
      not use this operator as some LTL patterns are automatically
      reduced to it).
    - Fix simplification of bounded repetition in SERE formulas.
    - Fix incorrect translation of PSL formulas of the form !{f} where
      f is unsatisifable.  A similar bug was fixed for {f} in Spot
      1.1.4, but for some reason it was not fixed for !{f}.
    - Fix parsing of neverclaims produced by Modella.
    - Fix a memory leak in the little-used conversion from
      transition-based alternating automata to tgba.
    - Fix a harmless uninitialized read in BuDDy.
    - When writing to the terminal, ltlcross used to display each
      formula in bright white, to make them stand out.  It turns out
      this was actually hiding the formulas for people using a
      terminal with white background... This version displays formula
      in bright blue instead.
    - 'randltl -n -1 --seed 0' and 'randltl -n -1 --seed 1' used to
      generate nearly the same list of formulas, shifted by one,
      because the PRNG write reset with an incremented seed between
      each output formula.  The PRNG is now reset only once.

New in spot 1.2.4 (2014-05-15)

  * New features:

    - "-B -x degen-lskip" can be used to disable level-skipping in the
      degeralization procedure called by ltl2tgba and dstar2tgba.
      This is mostly meant for running experiments.
    - "-B -x degen-lcache=N" can be used to experiment with different
      type of level caching during degeneralization.

  * Bug fixes:

    - Change the Python bindings to make them compatible with Swig 3.0.
    - "ltl2tgta --ta" could crash in certain conditions due to the
      introduction of a simulation-based reduction after
      degeneralization.
    - Fix four incorrect formula-simplification rules, three were
      related to the factorization of Boolean subformulas in
      operands of the non-length-matching "&" SERE operator, and
      a fourth one could only be enabled by explicitely passing the
      favor_event_univ option to the simplifier (not the default).
    - Fix incorrect translation of the fusion operator (":") in SERE
      such as {xx;1}:yy[*] where the left operand has 1 as tail.

New in spot 1.2.3 (2014-02-11)

  * New features:

    - The SPOT_SATLOG environment variable can be set to a filename to
      obtain statistics about the different iterations of the
      SAT-based minimization.  For an example, see
      http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/satmin.html
    - The bench/dtgbasat/ benchmark has been updated to use SPOT_SATLOG
      and record more statistics.
    - The default value for the SPOT_SATSOLVER environment
      variable has been changed to "glucose -verb=0 -model %I >%O".
      This assumes that glucose 3.0 is installed.   For older
      versions of glucose, remove the "-model" option.

  * Bug fixes:

    - More fixes for Python 3 compatibility.
    - Fix calculation of length_boolone(), were 'Xa|b|c' was
      considered as length 6 instead of 4 (because it is 'Xa|(b|a)'
      were (b|a) is Boolean).
    - Fix Clang-3.5 warnings.
    - randltl -S did not honor --boolean-priorities.
    - randltl had trouble generating formulas when all unary, or
      all binary/n-ary operators were disabled.
    - Fix spurious testsuite failure when using Pandas 0.13.
    - Add the time spent in child processes when measuring time
      with the timer class.
    - Fix determinism of the SAT-based minimization encoding.
      (It would sometimes produce different equivalent automata,
      because of a different encoding order.)
    - If the SAT-based minimization is asked for a 10-state automaton
      and returns a 6-state automaton, do not ask for a 9-state
      automaton in the next iteration...
    - Fix some compilation issue with the version of Apple's Clang
      that is installed with MacOS X 10.9.
    - Fix VPATH builds when building from the git repository.
    - Fix UP links in the html documentation for command-line tools.

New in spot 1.2.2 (2014-01-24)

  * Bug fixes:

    - Fix compilation *and* behavior of bitvectors on 32-bit
      architectures.
    - Fix some compilation errors observed using the antique G++ 4.0.1.
    - Fix compatibility with Python 3 in the test suite.
    - Fix a couple of new clang warnings (like "unused private member").
    - Add some missing #includes that are not included indirectly
      when the C++ compiler is in C++11 mode.
    - Fix detection of numbers that are too large in the ELTL parser.
    - Fix a memory leak in the ELTL parser, and avoid some unnecessary
      calls to strlen() at the same time.

New in spot 1.2.1 (2013-12-11)

  * New features:

    - commands for translators specified to ltlcross can now
      be given "short names" to be used in the CSV or JSON output.
      For instance
         ltlcross '{small} ltl2tgba -s --small %f >%N' ...
      will run the command "ltl2tgba -s --small %f >%N", but only
      print "small" in output files.

    - ltlcross' CSV and JSON output now contains two additional
      columns: exit_status and exit_code, used to report failures of
      the translator.  If the translation failed, only the time is
      reported, and the rest of the statistics, which are missing,
      area left empty (in CVS) or null (in JSON).  A new option,
      --omit-missing can be used to remove lines for failed
      translations, and remove these two columns.

    - if ltlcross is used with --products=+5 instead of --products=5
      then the stastics for each of the five products will be output
      separately instead of being averaged.

    - if ltlcross is used with tools that produce deterministic Streett
      or Rabin automata (as specified with %D), then the statistics
      output in CSV or JSON will have some extra columns to report
      the size of these input automata before ltlcross converts them
      into TGBA to perform its regular checks.

    - ltlfilt, ltl2tgba, ltl2tgta, and ltlcross can now read formulas
      from CSV files.  Use option -F FILE/COL to read formulas from
      column COL of FILE.  Use -F FILE/-COL if the first line of
      FILE be ignored.

    - when ltlfilt processes formulas from a CSV file, it will output
      each CSV line whose formula matches the given constraints, with
      the rewriten formula.  The new escape sequence %< (text in
      columns before the formula) and %> (text after) can be used
      with the --format option to alter this output.

    - ltlfile, genltl, randltl, and ltl2tgba have a --csv-escape option
      to help escape formulas in CSV files.

    - Please check
            http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/csv.html
      for some discussion and examples of the last few features.

  * Bug fixes:

    - ltlcross' CSV output has been changed to be more RFC 4180
      compliant: it no longuer output useless cosmetic spaces, and
      use double-quotes with proper escaping for strings.  The only
      RFC 4180 rule that it does not follow is that it will terminate
      lines with \n instead of \r\n because the latter cause issues
      with a couple of tools.

    - ltlcross failed to report missing input or output escape sequences
      on all but the first configured translator.

New in spot 1.2 (2013-10-01)

  * Changes to command-line tools:

    - ltlcross has a new option --color to color its output.  It is
      enabled by default when the output is a terminal.

    - ltlcross will give an example of infinite word accepted by the
      two automata when the product between a positive automaton and a
      negative automaton is non-empty.

    - ltlcross can now read the Rabin and Streett automata output by
      ltl2dstar.  This type of output should be specified using '%D':

        ltlcross 'ltl2dstar --ltl2nba=spin:path/to/ltl2tgba@-s %L %D'

      However because Spot only supports Büchi acceptance, these Rabin
      and Streett automata are immediately converted to TGBAs before
      further processing by ltlcross.  This is still interesting to
      search for bugs in translators to Rabin or Streett automata, but
      the statistics (of the resulting TGBAs) might not be very relevant.

    - When ltlcross obtains a deterministic automaton from a
      translator it will now complement this automaton to perform
      additional intersection checks.  This is complementation is done
      only for deterministic automata (because that is cheap) and can
      be disabled with --no-complement.

    - To help with debugging problems detected by ltlcross, the
      environment variables SPOT_TMPDIR and SPOT_TMPKEEP control where
      temporary files are created and if they should be erased.  Read
      the man page of ltlcross for details.

    - There is a new command, named dstar2tgba, that converts a
      deterministic Rabin or Streett automaton (expressed in the
      output format of ltl2dstar) into a TGBA, BA or Monitor.

      In the case of Rabin acceptance, the conversion will output a
      deterministic Büchi automaton if one such automaton exist.  Even
      if no such automaton exists, the conversion will actually
      preserves the determinism of any SCC that can be kept
      deterministic.

      In the case of Streett acceptance, the conversion produces
      non-deterministic Büchi automata with Generalized acceptance.
      These are then degeneralized if requested.

      See http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/dstar2tgba.html for some
      examples, and the man page for more reference.

    - The %S escape sequence used by ltl2tgba --stats to display the
      number of SCCs in the output automaton has been renamed to %c.
      This makes it more homogeneous with the --stats option of the
      new dstar2tgba command.

      Additionally, the %p escape can now be used to show whether the
      output automaton is complete, and the %r escape will give the
      number of seconds spent building the output automaton (excluding
      the time spent parsing the input).

    - ltl2tgba, ltl2tgta, and dstar2tgba have a --complete option
      to output complete automata.

    - ltl2tgba, ltl2tgta, and dstar2tgba can use a SAT-solver to
      minimize deterministic automata.  Doing so is only needed on
      properties that are stronger than obligations (for obligations
      our WDBA-minimization procedure will return a minimimal
      deterministic automaton more efficiently) and is disabled by
      default.  See the spot-x(7) man page for documentation about the
      related options: sat-minimize, sat-states, sat-acc, state-based.
      See also http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/satmin.html for some
      examples.

    - ltlfilt, genltl, and randltl now have a --latex option to output
      formulas in a way that its easier to embed in a LaTeX document.
      Each operator is output as a command such as \U, \F, etc.
      doc/tl/spotltl.sty gives one possible definition for each macro.

    - ltlfilt, genltl, and randltl have a new --format option to
      indicate how to present the output formula, possibly with
      information about the input.

    - ltlfilt as a new option, --relabel-bool, to abstract independent
      Boolean subformulae as if they were atomic propositions.
      For instance "a & GF(c | d) & b & X(c | d)" would be rewritten
      as "p0 & GF(p1) & Xp1".

  * New functions and classes in the library:

    - dtba_sat_synthetize(): Use a SAT-solver to build an equivalent
      deterministic TBA with a fixed number of states.

    - dtba_sat_minimize(), dtba_sat_minimize_dichotomy(): Iterate
      dtba_sat_synthetize() to reduce the number of states of a TBA.

    - dtgba_sat_synthetize(), dtgba_sat_minimize(),
      dtgba_sat_minimize_dichotomy(): Likewise, for deterministic TGBA.

    - is_complete(): Check whether a TGBA is complete.

    - tgba_complete(): Complete an automaton by adding a sink state
      if needed.

    - dtgba_complement(): Complement a deterministic TGBA.

    - satsolver(): Run an (external) SAT solver, honoring the
      SPOT_SATSOLVER environment variable if set.

    - tba_determinize(): Run a power-set construction, and attempt
      to fix the acceptance simulation to build a deterministic TBA.

    - dstar_parse(): Read a Streett or Rabin automaton in
      ltl2dstar's format.  Note that this format allows only
      deterministic automata.

    - nra_to_nba(): Convert a (possibly non-deterministic) Rabin
      automaton to a non-deterministic Büchi automaton.

    - dra_to_ba(): Convert a deterministic Rabin automaton to a Büchi
      automaton, preserving acceptance in all SCCs where this is possible.

    - nsa_to_tgba(): Convert a (possibly non-deterministic) Streett
      automaton to a non-deterministic TGBA.

    - dstar_to_tgba(): Convert any automaton returned by dstar_parse()
      into a TGBA.

    - build_tgba_mask_keep(): Build a masked TGBA that shows only
      a subset of states of another TGBA.

    - build_tgba_mask_ignore(): Build a masked TGBA that ignore
      a subset of states of another TGBA.

    - class tgba_proxy: Helps writing on-the-fly algorithms that
      delegate most of their methods to the original automaton.

    - class bitvect: A dynamic bit vector implementation.

    - class word: An infinite word, stored as prefix + cycle, with a
      simplify() methods to simplify cycle and prefix in obvious ways.

    - class temporary_file: A temporary file.  Can be instanciated with
      create_tmp_file() or create_open_tmpfile().

    - count_state(): Return the number of states of a TGBA.  Implement
      a couple of specializations for classes where is can be know
      without exploration.

    - to_latex_string(): Output a formula using LaTeX syntax.

    - relabel_bse(): Relabeling of Boolean Sub-Expressions.
      Implements ltlfilt's --relabel-bool option describe above.

  * Noteworthy internal changes:

    - When minimize_obligation() is not given the formula associated
      to the input automaton, but that automaton is deterministic, it
      can still attempt to call minimize_wdba() and check the correcteness
      using dtgba_complement().  This allows dstar2tgba to apply
      WDBA-minimization on deterministic Rabin automata.

    - tgba_reachable_iterator_depth_first has been redesigned to
      effectively perform a DFS.  As a consequence, it does not
      inherit from tgba_reachable_iterator anymore.

    - postproc::set_pref() was used to accept an argument among Any,
      Small or Deterministic.  These can now be combined with Complete
      as Any|Complete, Small|Complete, or Deterministic|Complete.

    - operands of n-ary operators (like & and |) are now ordered so
      that Boolean terms come first.  This speeds up syntactic
      implication checks slightly.  Also, literals are now sorted
      using strverscmp(), so that p5 comes before p12.

    - Syntactic implication checks have been generalized slightly
      (for instance 'a & b & F(a & b)' is now reduced to 'a & b'
      while it was not changed in previous versions).

    - All the parsers implemented in Spot now use the same type to
      store locations.

    - Cleanup of exported symbols

      All symbols in the library now have hidden visibility on ELF systems.
      Public classes and functions have been marked explicitely for export
      with the SPOT_API macro.

      During this massive update, some of functions that should not have
      been made public in the first place have been moved away so that
      they can only be used from the library.  Some old of unused
      functions have been removed.

      removed:
	- class loopless_modular_mixed_radix_gray_code

      hidden:
	- class acc_compl
	- class acceptance_convertor
	- class bdd_allocator
	- class free_list

  * Bug fixes:

    - Degeneralization was not indempotant on automata with an
      accepting initial state that was on a cycle, but without
      self-loop.

    - Configuring with --enable-optimization would reset the value of
      CXXFLAGS.


New in spot 1.1.4 (2013-07-29)

  * Bug fixes:
    - The parser for neverclaim, updated in 1.1.3, would fail to
      parse guards of the form (a) || (b) output by ltl2ba or
      ltl3ba, and would only understand ((a) || (b)).
    - When used from ltlcross, the same parser would fail to
      parse further neverclaims after the first failure.
    - Add a missing newline in some error message of ltlcross.
    - Expressions like {SERE} were wrongly translated and simplified
      for SEREs that accept the empty word: they were wrongly reduced
      to true.  Simplification and translation rules have been fixed,
      and the doc/tl/tl.pdf specifications have been updated to better
      explain that {SERE} has the semantics of a closure operator that
      is not exactly what one could expect after reading the PSL
      standard.
    - Various typos.

New in spot 1.1.3 (2013-07-09)

  * New feature:
    - The neverclaim parser now understands the new style of output
      used by Spin 6.24 and later.
  * Bug fixes:
    - The scc_filter() function could abort with a BDD error.  If all
      the acceptance sets of an SCC but the first one were useless.
    - The script in bench/spin13/ would not work on MacOS X because
      of some non-portable command.
    - A memory corruption in ltlcross.

New in spot 1.1.2 (2013-06-09)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Uninitialized variables in ltlcross (affect the count of terminal
      weak, and strong SCCs).
    - Workaround an old GCC bug to allow compilation with g++ <= 4.5
    - Fix several Doxygen comments so that they display correctly.

New in spot 1.1.1 (2013-05-13):

  * New features:

    - lbtt_reachable(), the function that outputs a TGBA in LBTT's
      format, has a new option to indicate that the TGBA being printed
      is in fact a Büchi automaton.  In this case it outputs an LBTT
      automaton with state-based acceptance.

      The output of the guards has also been changed in two ways:
      1. atomic propositions that do not match p[0-9]+ are always
         double-quoted.  This avoids issues where t or f were used as
         atomic propositions in the formula, output as-is in the
         automaton, and read back as true or false.  Other names that
         correspond to LBT operators would cause problem as well.
      2. formulas that label transitions are now output as
         irredundant-sums-of-products.

    - 'ltl2tgba --ba --lbtt' will now output automata with state-based
      acceptance.  You can use 'ltl2tgba --ba --lbtt=t' to force the
      output of transition-based acceptance like in the previous
      versions.

      Some illustrations of this point and the previous one can be
      found in the man page for ltl2tgba(1).

    - There is a new function scc_filter_states() that removes all
      useless states from a TGBA.  It is actually an abbridged version
      of scc_filter() that does not alter the acceptance conditions of
      the automaton.  scc_filter_state() should be used when
      post-processing TGBAs that actually represent BAs.

    - simulation_sba(), cosimulation_sba(), and
      iterated_simulations_sba() are new functions that apply to TGBAs
      that actually represent BAs.  They preserve the imporant
      property that if a state of the BA is is accepting, the outgoing
      transitions of that state are all accepting in the TGBA that
      represent the BA.  This is something that was not preserved by
      functions cosimultion() and iterated_simulations() as mentionned
      in the bug fixes below.

    - ltlcross has a new option --seed, that makes it possible to
      change the seed used by the random graph generator.

    - ltlcross has a new option --products=N to check the result of
      each translation against N different state spaces, and everage
      the statistics of these N products.  N default to 1; larger
      values increase the chances to detect inconsistencies in the
      translations, and also make the average size of the product
      built against the translated automata a more pertinent
      statistic.

    - bdd_dict::unregister_all_typed_variables() is a new function,
      making it easy to unregister all BDD variables of a given type
      owned by some object.

  * Bug fixes:

    - genltl --gh-r generated the wrong formulas due to a typo.
    - ltlfilt --eventual and --universal were not handled properly.
    - ltlfilt --stutter-invariant would trigger an assert on PSL formulas.
    - ltl2tgba, ltl2tgta, ltlcross, and ltlfilt, would all choke on empty
      lines in a file of formulas.  They now ignore empty lines.
    - The iterated simulation applied on degeneralized TGBA was bogus
      for two reasons: one was that cosimulation was applied using the
      generic cosimulation for TGBA, and the second is that
      SCC-filtering, performed between iterations, was also a
      TGBA-based algorithm.  Both of these algorithms could lose the
      property that if a TGBA represents a BA, all the outgoing
      transitions of a state should be accepting.  As a consequence, some
      formulas where translated to incorrect Büchi automata.

New in spot 1.1 (2013-04-28):

  Several of the new features described below are discribed in

    Tomáš Babiak, Thomas Badie, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Mojmír
    Křetínský, Jan Strejček: Compositional Approach to Suspension and
    Other Improvements to LTL Translation.  To appear in the
    proceedings of SPIN'13.

  * New features in the library:

    - The postprocessor class now takes an optional option_map
      argument that can be used to specify fine-tuning options, making
      it easier to benchmark different scenarios while developing new
      postprocessings.

    - A new translator class implements a complete translation chain,
      from LTL/PSL to TGBA/BA/Monitor.  It performs pre- and
      post-processings in addition to the core translation, and offers
      an interface similar to that used in the postprocessor class, to
      specify the intent of the translation.

    - The degeneralization algorithm has learned three new tricks:
      level reset, level caching, and SCC-based ordering.  The former
      two are enabled by default.  Benchmarking has shown that the
      latter one does not always have a positive effect, so it is
      disabled by default.  (See SPIN'13 paper.)

    - The scc_filter() function, which removes dead SCCs and also
      simplify acceptance conditions, has learnt how to simplify
      acceptance conditions in a few tricky situations that were not
      simplified previously.  (See SPIN'13 paper.)

    - A new translation, called compsusp(), for "Compositional
      Suspension" is implemented on top of ltl_to_tgba_fm().
      (See SPIN'13 paper.)

    - Some experimental LTL rewriting rules that trie to gather
      suspendable formulas are implemented and can be activated
      with the favor_event_univ option of ltl_simplifier.  As
      always please check doc/tl/tl.tex for the list of rules.

    - An experimental "don't care" (direct) simulation has been
      implemented.  This simulations consider the acceptance
      of out-of-SCC transitions as "don't care".  It is not
      enabled by default because it currently is very slow.

    - remove_x() is a function that take a formula, and rewrite it
      without the X operator.  The rewriting is only correct for
      stutter-insensitive LTL formulas (See K. Etessami's paper in IFP
      vol. 75(6). 2000) This algorithm is accessible from the
      command-line using ltlfilt's --remove-x option.

    - is_stutter_insensitive() takes any LTL formula, and check
      whether it is stutter-insensitive.  This algorithm is accessible
      from the command-line using ltlfilt's --stutter-insensitive
      option.

    - Several functions have been introduced to check the
      strength of an SCC.
        is_inherently_weak_scc()
	is_weak_scc()
	is_syntactic_weak_scc()
	is_complete_scc()
	is_terminal_scc()
	is_syntactic_terminal_scc()

      Beware that the costly is_weak_scc() function introduced in Spot
      1.0, which is based on a cycle enumeration, has been renammed to
      is_inherently_weak_scc() to match established vocabulary.

  * Command-line tools:

    - ltl2tgba and ltl2tgta now honor a new --extra-options (or -x)
      flag to fine-tune the algorithms used.  The available options
      are documented in the spot-x (7) manpage.  For instance use '-x
      comp-susp' to use the afore-mentioned compositional suspension.

    - The output format of 'ltlcross --json' has been changed slightly.
      In a future version we will offer some reporting script that turn
      such JSON output into various tables and graphs, and these change
      are required to make the format usable for other benchmarks (not
      just ltlcross).

    - ltlcross will now count the number of non-accepting, terminal,
      weak, and strong SCCs, as well as the number of terminal, weak,
      and strong automata produced by each tool.

  * Documentation:

    - org-mode files used to generate the documentation about
      command-line tools (shown at http://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tools.html)
      is distributed in doc/org/.  The resulting html files are also
      in doc/userdoc/.

  * Web interface:

    - A new "Compositional Suspension" tab has been added to experiment
      with compositional suspension.

  * Benchmarks:

    - See bench/spin13/README for instructions to reproduce our Spin'13
      benchmark for the compositional suspension.

  * Bug fixes:

    - There was a memory leak in the LTL simplification code, that could
      only be triggered when disabling advanced simplifications.

    - The translation of the PSL formula !{xxx} was incorrect when xxx
      simplified to false.

    - Various warnings triggered by new compilers.

New in spot 1.0.2 (2013-03-06):

  * New features:
    - the on-line ltl2tgba.html interface can output deterministic or
      non-deterministic monitors.  However, and unlike the ltl2tgba
      command-line tool, it doesn't different output formats.
    - the class ltl::ltl_simplifier now has an option to rewrite Boolean
      subformulaes as irredundante-sum-of-product during the simplification
      of any LTL/PSL formula.  The service is also available as a method
      ltl_simplifier::boolean_to_isop() that applies this rewriting
      to a Boolean formula and implements a cache.
      ltlfilt as a new option --boolean-to-isop to try to apply the
      above rewriting from the command-line:
      	    % ltlfilt --boolean-to-isop -f 'GF((a->b)&(b->c))'
	    GF((!a & !b) | (b & c))
      This is currently not used anywhere else in the library.
  * Bug fixes:
    - 'ltl2tgba --high' is documented to be the same as 'ltl2tgba',
      but by default ltl2tgba forgot to enable LTL simplifications based
      on language containment, which --high do enable.  There are now
      enabled by default.
    - the on-line ltl2tgba.html interface failed to output monitors,
      testing automata, and generalized testing automata due to two
      issues with the Python bindings.  It also used to display
      Testing Automaton Options when the desired output was set to Monitor.
    - bench/ltl2tgba would not work in a VPATH build.
    - a typo caused some .dir-locals.el configuration parameters to be
      silently ignored by emacs
    - improved Doxygen comments for formula_to_bdd, bdd_to_formula,
      and bdd_dict.
    - src/tgbatest/ltl2tgba (not to be confused with src/bin/ltl2tgba)
      would have a memory leak when passed the conflicting option -M
      and -O.  It probably has many other problems.  Do not use
      src/tgbatest/ltl2tgba if you are not writing a test case for
      Spot.  Use src/bin/ltl2tgba instead.

New in spot 1.0.1 (2013-01-23):

  * Bug fixes:
    - Two executions of the simulation reductions could produce
      two isomorphic automata, but with transitions in a different
      order.
    - ltlcross did not diagnose write errors to temporary files,
      and certain versions of g++ would warn about it.
    - "P0.init" is parsed as an atomic even without the double quotes,
      but it was always output with double quotes.  This version will
      not quote this atomic proposition anymore.
    - "U", "W", "M", "R" were correctly parsed as atomic propositions
      (instead of binary operators) when placed in double quotes, but
      on output they were output without quotes, making the result
      unparsable.
    - the to_lbt_string() functions would always output a trailing space.
      This is not the case anymore.
    - tgba_product::transition_annotation() would segfault when
      called in a product against a Kripke structure.
  * Minor improvements:
    - Four new LTL simplifications rules:
        GF(a|Xb) = GF(a|b)
        GF(a|Fb) = GF(a|b)
        FG(a&Xb) = FG(a&b)
        FG(a&Gb) = FG(a&b)
    - The on-line version of ltl2tgba now displays edge and
      transition counts, just as the ltlcross tool.
    - ltlcross will display the number of timeouts at the end
      of its execution.
    - ltlcross will diagnose tools with missing input or
      output %-sequence before attempting to run any of them.
    - The parser for LBT's prefix-style LTL formulas will now
      read atomic propositions that are not of the form p1, p2...
      This makes it possible to process formulas written in
      ltl2dstar's syntax.
  * Pruning:
    - lbtt has been removed from the distribution.  A copy of the last
      version we distributed is still available at
        http://spot.lip6.fr/dl/lbtt-1.2.1a.tar.gz
      and our test suite will use it if it is installed, but the same
      tests are already performed by ltlcross.
    - the bench/ltl2tgba/ benchmark, that used lbtt to compare various
      LTL-to-Büchi translators, has been updated to use ltlcross.  It
      now output summary tables in LaTeX.  Support for Modella (no
      longer available online), and Wring (requires a too old Perl
      version) have been dropped.
    - the half-baked and underdocumented "Event TGBA" support in
      src/evtgba*/ has been removed, as it was last worked on in 2004.

New in spot 1.0 (2012-10-27):

  * License change: Spot is now distributed using GPL v3+ instead
    of GPL v2+.  This is because we started using some third-party
    files distributed under GPL v3+.

  * Command-line tools

    Useful command-line tools are now installed in addition to the
    library.  Some of these tools were originally written for our test
    suite and had evolved organically into useful programs with crappy
    interfaces: they have now been rewritten with better argument
    parsing, saner defaults, and they come with man pages.

    - genltl:   Generate LTL formulas from scalable patterns.
                This offers 20 patterns so far.

    - randltl:  Generate random LTL/PSL formulas.

    - ltlfilt:  Filter lists of formulas according to several criteria
                (e.g., match only safety formulas that are larger than
		some given size).  Besides being used as a "grep" tool
		for formulas, this can also be used to convert
		files of formulas between different syntaxes, apply
		some simplifications, check whether to formulas are
		equivalent, ...

    - ltl2tgba: Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Büchi automata (TGBA,
                BA, or Monitor).  A fundamental change to the
                interface is that you may now specify the goal of the
                translation: do you you favor deterministic or smaller
                automata?

    - ltl2tgta: Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Testing Automata.

    - ltlcross: Compare the output of translators from LTL/PSL to
                Büchi automata, to find bug or for benchmarking.  This
                is essentially a Spot-based reimplementation of LBTT
                that supports PSL in addition to LTL, and that can
                output more statistics.

    An introduction to these tools can be found on-line at
      http://spot.lrde.lip6.fr/tools.html

    The former test versions of genltl and randltl have been removed
    from the source tree.  The old version of ltl2tgba with its
    gazillion options is still in src/tgbatest/ and is meant to be
    used for testing only.  Although ltlcross is meant to replace
    LBTT, we are still using both tools in this release; however this
    is likely to be the last release of Spot that redistributes LBTT.

  * New features in the Spot library:

    - Support for various flavors of Testing Automata.

      The flavors are:
      + "classical" Testing Automata, as used for instance by
	Geldenhuys and Hansen (Spin'06), using Büchi and
	livelock acceptance conditions.
      + Generalized Testing Automata, extending the previous
	with multiple Büchi acceptance sets.
      + Transition-based Generalized Testing Automata moving Büchi
        acceptance to transitions, and getting rid of livelock
        acceptance conditions by expliciting stuttering self-loops.

      Supporting algorithms include anything required to run
      the automata-theoretic approach using testing automata:

      + dedicated synchronized product
      + dedicated emptiness-check for TA and GTA, as these
        may require two passes because of the two kinds of
	acceptance, while a TGTA can be checked for emptiness
	with the same one-pass algorithm as a TGBA.
      + conversion from a TGBA to any of the above kind, with
        options to reduce these automata with bisimulation,
	and to produce a BA/GBA that require a single pass
	(at the expense of determinism).
      + output in dot format for display

      A discussion of these automata, part of Ala Eddine BEN SALEM's
      PhD work, should appear in ToPNoC VI (LNCS 7400).  The web-based
      interface and the aforementioned ltl2tgta tool can be used
      to build testing automata.

    - TGBA can now be reduced by Reverse Simulation (in addition to
      the Direct Simulation introduced in 0.9).  A function called
      iterated_simulations() will alternate direct and reverse
      simulations in a loop as long as it diminishes the size of the
      automaton.

    - The enumerate_cycles class implements the Loizou-Thanisch
      algorithm to enumerate elementary cycles in a SCC.  As an
      example of use, is_weak_scc() will tell whether an SCC is
      inherently weak (all its cycles are accepting, or none of them
      are).

    - parse_lbt() will parse an LTL formula expressed in the prefix
      syntax used (at least) by LBT, LBTT and Scheck.
      to_lbt_string() can be used to print an LTL formula using this
      syntax.

    - to_wring_string() can be used to print an LTL formula into
      Wring's syntax.

    - The LTL/PSL parser now has a lenient mode that can be useful
      to interpret atomic proposition with language-specific constructs.
      In lenient mode, any (...) or {...} block that cannot be parsed
      as formula will be assumed to be an atomic proposition.
      For instance the input (a < b) U (process[2]@ok), normally
      flagged as a syntax error, is read as "a < b" U "process[2]@ok"
      in lenient mode.

    - minimize_obligation() has a new option to disable WDBA
      minimization it cases it would produce a deterministic automaton
      that is bigger than the original TGBA.  This can help
      choosing between less states or more determinism.

    - new functions is_deterministic() and count_nondet_states()
      (The count of nondeterministic states is now displayed on
      automata generated with the web interface.)

    - A new class, "postprocessor", makes it easier to apply
      all available simplification algorithms on a TGBA/BA/Monitors.

  * Minor changes:

    - The '*' operator can (again) be used as an AND in LTL formulas.
      This is for compatibility with formula written in Wring's
      syntax.  However inside SERE it is interpreted as the Kleen
      star.

    - When printing a formula using Spin's LTL syntax, we don't
      double-quote complex atomic propositions (that was not valid
      Spin input anyway).   For instance F"foo == 2" used to be
      output as <>"foo == 2".  We now output <>(foo == 2) instead.
      The latter syntax is understood by Spin 6.  It can be read
      back by Spot in lenient mode (see above).

    - The gspn-ssp benchmark has been removed.


New in spot 0.9.2 (2012-07-02):

  * New features to the web interface.
    - It can run ltl3ba (Babiak et al., TACAS'12) where available.
    - "a loading logo" is displayed when result is not instantaneous.
  * Speed improvements:
    - The unicity hash table of BuDDy has been separated separated
      node table for better cache-friendliness.  The resulting speedup
      is around 5% on BDD-intensive algorithms.
    - A new BDD operation, called bdd_implies() has been added to
      BuDDy to check whether one BDD implies another.  This benefits
      mostly the simulation and degeneralization algorithms of Spot.
    - A new offline implementation of the degeneralization (which
      had always been performed on-the-fly so far) available.  This
      especially helps the Safra complementation.
  * Bug fixes:
    - The CGI script running for ltl2tgba.html will correctly timeout
      after 30s when Spot's translation takes more time.
    - Applying WDBA-minimization on an automaton generated by the
      Couvreur/LaCIM translator could lead to an incorrect automaton
      due to a bug in the definition of product with symbolic
      automata.
    - The Makefile.am of BuDDy, LBTT, and Spot have been adjusted to
      accomodate Automake 1.12 (while still working with 1.11).
    - Better error recovery when parsing broken LTL formulae.
    - Fix errors and warnings reported by clang 3.1 and the
      upcoming g++ 4.8.

New in spot 0.9.1 (2012-05-23):

  * The version of LBTT we distribute includes a patch from Tomáš
    Babiak to count the number of non-deterministic states, and the
    number of deterministic automata produced.
    See lbtt/NEWS for the list of other differences with the original
    version of LBTT 1.2.1.
  * The Couvreur/FM translator has learned two new tricks.  These only
    help to speedup the translation by not issuing states or
    acceptance conditions that would be latter suppresed by other
    optimizations.
    - The translation rules used to translate subformulae of the G
      operator have been adjusted not to produce useless loops
      already implied by G.  This generalizes the "GF" trick
      presented in Couvreur's original FM'99 paper.
    - Promises generated for formula of the form P(a U (b U c))
      are reduced into P(c), avoiding the introduction of many
      promises that imply each other.
  * The tgba_parse() function is now available via the Python
    bindings.
  * Bug fixes:
    - The random SERE generator was using the wrong operators
      for "and" and "or", mistaking And/Or with AndRat/OrRat.
    - The translation of !{r} was incorrect when this subformula
      was recurring (e.g. in G!{r}) and r had loops.
    - Correctly recognize ltl2tgba's option -rL.
    - Using LTL simplification rules based on syntactic implication,
      or based on language containment checks, caused BDD variables
      to be allocated in an "unnatural" order, resulting in a slower
      translation and a less optimal degeneralization.
    - When ltl2tgba reads a neverclaim, it now considers the resulting
      TGBA as a Büchi automaton, and will display double circles in
      the dotty output.

New in spot 0.9 (2012-05-09):

  * New features:
    - Operators from the linear fragment of PSL are supported.  This
      basically extends LTL with Sequential Extended Regulat
      Expressions (SERE), and a couple of operators to bridge SERE and
      LTL.  See doc/tl/tl.pdf for the list of operators and their
      semantics.
    - Formula rewritings have been completely revamped, and augmented
      with rules for PSL operators (and some new LTL rules as well).
      See doc/tl/tl.pdf for the list of the rewritings implemented.
    - Some of these rewritings that may produce larger formulas
      (for instance to rewrite "{a;b;c}" into "a & X(b & Xc)")
      may be explicitely disabled with a new option.
    - The src/ltltest/randltl tool can now generate random SEREs
      and random PSL formulae.
    - Only one translator (ltl2tgba_fm) has been augmented to
      translate the new SERE and PSL operators.  The internal
      translation from SERE to DFA is likely to be rewriten in a
      future version.
    - A new function, length_boolone(), computes the size of an
      LTL/PSL formula while considering that any Boolean term has
      length 1.
    - The LTL/PSL parser recognizes some UTF-8 characters (like ◇ or
      ∧) as operators, and some output routines now have an UTF-8
      output mode.  Tools like randltl and ltl2tgba have gained an -8
      option to enable such output.  See doc/tl/tl.pdf for the list
      of recognized codepoints.
    - A new direct simulation reduction has been implemented.  It
      works directly on TGBAs.  It is in src/tgbaalgos/simlation.hh,
      and it can be tested via ltl2tgba's -RDS option.
    - unabbreviate_wm() is a function that rewrites the W and M operators
      of LTL formulae using R and U.  This is called whenever we output
      a formula in Spin syntax.  By combining this with the aforementioned
      PSL rewriting rules, many PSL formulae that use simple SERE can be
      converted into LTL formulae that can be feed to tools that only
      understand U and R.  The web interface will let you do this.
    - changes to the on-line translator:
      + SVG output is available
      + can display some properties of a formula
      + new options for direct simulation, larger rewritings, and
        utf-8 output
    - configure --without-included-lbtt will prevent LBTT from being
      configured and built.  This helps on systems (such as MinGW)
      where LBTT cannot be built.  The test-suite will skip any
      LBTT-based test if LBTT is missing.
  * Interface changes:
    - Operators ->, <->, U, W, R, and M are now parsed as
      right-associative to better match the PSL standard.
    - The constructors for temporal formulae will perform some trivial
      simplifications based on associativity, commutativity,
      idempotence, and neutral elements.  See doc/tl/tl.pdf for the
      list of such simplifications.
    - Formula instances now have many methods to inspect their
      properties (membership to syntactic classes, absence of X
      operator, etc...) in constant time.
    - LTL/PSL formulae are now handled everywhere as 'const formula*'
      and not just 'formula*'.  This reflects the true nature of these
      (immutable) formula objects, and cleanups a lot of code.
      Unfortunately, it is a backward incompatible change: you may have
      to add 'const' to a couple of lines in your code, and change
      'ltl::const_vistitor' into 'ltl::visitor' if you have written a
      custom visitor.
    - The new entry point for LTL/PSL simplifications is the function
      ltl_simplifier::simplify() declared in src/ltlvisit/simplify.hh.
      The ltl_simplifier class implements a cache.
      Functions such as reduce() or reduce_tau03() are deprecated.
    - The old game-theory-based implementations for direct and delayed
      simulation reductions have been removed.  The old direct
      simulation would only work on degeneralized automata, and yet
      produce results inferior to the new direct simulation introduced
      in this release.  The implementation of delayed simulation was
      unreliable.  The function reduc_tgba_sim() has been kept
      for compatibility (it calls the new direct simulation whatever
      the type of simulation requested) and marked as deprecated.
      ltl2tgba's options -Rd, -RD are gone.  Options -R1t, -R1s,
      -R2s, and -R2t are deprecated and all made equivalent to -RDS.
    - The tgba_explicit hierarchy has been reorganized in order to
      make room for sba_explicit classes that share most of the code.
      The main consequence is that the tgba_explicit type no longuer
      exists.  However the tgba_explicit_number,
      tgba_explicit_formula, and tgba_explicit_string still do.

New in spot 0.8.3 (2012-03-09):

  * Support for both Python 2.x and Python 3.x.
    (Previous versions would only work with Python 2.x.)
  * The online ltl2tgba.html now stores its state in the URL so that
    history is preserved, and links to particular setups can be sent.
  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix a segfault in the compression code used by the -Z
      option of dve2check.
    - Fix a race condition in the CGI script.
    - Fix a segfault in the CGI script when computing a Büchi run.

New in spot 0.8.2 (2012-01-19):

  * configure now has a --disable-python option to disable
    the compilation of Python bindings.
  * Minor speedups in the Safra complementation.
  * Better memory management for the on-the-fly degeneralization
    algorithm.  This mostly benefits to the Safra complementation.
  * Bug fixes:
    - spot::ltl::length() forgot to count the '&' and '|' operators
      in an LTL formula.
    - minimize_wdba() could fail to mark some transiant SCCs as accepting,
      producing an automaton that was not fully minimized.
    - minimize_dfa() could produce incorrect automata, but it is not
      clear whether this could have had an inpact on WDBA minimization
      (the worse case is that some TGBA would not have been minimized
      when they could).
    - Fix a Python syntax error in the CGI script.
    - Fix compilation with g++ 4.0.
    - Fix a make check failure when valgrind is missing.

New in spot 0.8.1 (2011-12-18):

  * Only bug fixes:
    - When ltl2tgba is set to perform both WDBA minimization and
      degeneralization, do the latter only if the former failed.
      In previous version, automata were (uselessly) degeneralized
      before WDBA minimization, causing important slowdowns.
    - Fix compilation with Clang 3.0.
    - Fix a Makefile setup causing a "make check" failure on MacOS X.
    - Fix an mkdir error in the CGI script.

New in spot 0.8 (2011-11-28):

  * Major new features:
    - Spot can read DiVinE models.  See iface/dve2/README for details.
    - The genltl tool can now output 20 different LTL formula families.
      It also replaces the LTLcounter Perl scripts.
    - There is a printer and parser for Kripke structures in text format.
  * Major interface changes:
    - The destructor of all states is now private.  Any code that looks like
      "delete some_state;" will cause an compile error and should be
      updated to "some_state->destroy();".  This new syntax is supported
      since version 0.7.
    - The experimental Nips interface has been removed.
  * Minor changes:
    - The dotty_reachable() function has a new option "assume_sba" that
      can be used for rendering automata with state-based acceptance.
      In that case, acceptance states are displayed with a double
      circle. ltl2tgba (both command line and on-line) Use it to display
      degeneralized automata.
    - The dotty_reachable() function will also display transition
      annotations (as returned by the tgba::transitition_annotation()).
      This can be useful when displaying (small) state spaces.
    - Identifiers used to name atomic proposition can contain dots.
      E.g.: X.Y is now an atomic proposition, while it was understood
      as X&Y in previous versions.
    - The Doxygen documentation is no longer built as a PDF file.
  * Internal improvements:
    - The on-line ltl2tgba CGI script uses a cache to produce faster
      answers.
    - Better memory management for the states of explicit automata.
      Thanks to the aforementioned ->destroy() change, we can avoid
      cloning explicit states.
    - tgba_product has learned how to be faster when one of the operands
      is a Kripke structure (15% speedup).
    - The reduction rule for "a M b" has been improved: it can be
      reduced to "a & b" if "a" is a pure eventuallity.
    - More useless acceptance conditions are removed by SCC simplifications.
  * Bug fixes:
    - Safra complementation has been fixed in cases where more than
      one acceptance conditions where needed to convert the
      deterministic Streett automaton as a TGBA.
    - The degeneralization is now idempotent.  Previously, degeneralizing
      an already degeneralized automaton could add some states.
    - The degeneralization now has a deterministic behavior.  Previously
      it was possible to obtain different output depending on the
      memory layout.
    - Spot now outputs neverclaims with fully parenthesized guards.
      I.e., instead of
         (!x && y) -> goto S1
      it now outputs
         ((!(x)) && (y)) -> goto S1
      This prevents problems when the model defines `x' as
         #define x flag==0
      because !x then evaluated to (!flag)==0 instead of !(flag==0).

New in spot 0.7.1 (2011-02-07):

  * The LTL parser will accept operator ~ (for not) as well
    as --> and <--> (for implication and equivalence), allowing
    formulae from the Büchi Store to be read directly.
  * The neverclaim parser will accept guards of the form
        :: !(...) -> goto ...
    instead of the more commonly used
        :: (!(...)) -> goto ...
    This makes it possible to read neverclaims provided by the Büchi Store.
  * A new ltl2tgba option, -kt, will count the number of "sub-transitions".
    I.e., a transition labelled by "true" counts for 4 "sub-transitions"
    if the automaton uses 2 atomic propositions.
  * Bugs fixed:
    - Fix segfault during WDBA minimization on automata with useless states.
    - Use the included BuDDy library if the one already installed
      is older than the one distributed with Spot 0.7.
    - Fix two typos in the code of the CGI scripts.

New in spot 0.7 (2011-02-01):

  * Spot is now able to read an automaton expressed as a Spin neverclaim.
  * The "experimental" Kripke structure introduced in Spot 0.5 has
    been rewritten, and is no longer experimental.  We have a
    developement version of checkpn using it, and it should be
    released shortly after Spot 0.7.
  * The function to_spin_string(), that outputs an LTL formula using
    Spin's syntax, now takes an optional argument to request
    parentheses at all levels.
  * src/ltltest/genltl is a new tool that generates some interesting
    families of LTL formulae, for testing purpose.
  * bench/ltlclasses/ uses the above tool to conduct the same benchmark
    as in the DepCoS'09 paper by Cichoń et al.  The resulting benchmark
    completes in 12min, while it tooks days (or exhausted the memory)
    when the paper was written (they used Spot 0.4).
  * Degeneralization has again been improved in two ways:
    - It will merge degeneralized transitions that can be merged.
    - It uses a cache to speed up the improvement introduced in 0.6.
  * An implementation of Dax et al.'s paper for minimizing obligation
    formulae has been integrated.  Use ltl2tgba -Rm to enable this
    optimization from the command-line; it will have no effect if the
    property is not an obligation.
  * bench/wdba/ conducts a benchmark similar to the one on Dax's
    webpage, comparing the size of the automata expressing obligation
    formula before and after minimization.  See bench/wdba/README for
    results.
  * Using similar code, Spot can now construct deterministic monitors.
  * New ltl2tgba options:
    -XN: read an input automaton as a neverclaim.
    -C, -CR: Compute (and display) a counterexample after running the
             emptiness check.  With -CR, the counterexample will be
             replayed on the automaton to ensure it is correct
	     (previous version would always compute a replay a
	     counterexample when emptiness-check was enabled)
    -ks: traverse the automaton to compute its number of states and
         transitions (this is faster than -k which will also count
         SCCs and paths).
    -M: Build a deterministic monitor.
    -O: Tell whether a formula represents a safety, guarantee, or
        obligation property.
    -Rm: Minimize automata representing obligation properties.
  * The on-line tool to translate LTL formulae into automata
    has been rewritten and is now at http://spot.lip6.fr/ltl2tgba.html
    It requires a javascript-enabled browser.
  * Bug fixes:
    - Location of the errors messages in the TGBA parser where inaccurate.
    - Various warning fixes for different versions of GCC and Clang.
    - The neverclaim output with ltl2tgba -N or -NN used to ignore any
      automaton simplification performed after degeneralization.
    - The formula simplification based on universality and eventuality
      had a quadratic run-time.

New in spot 0.6 (2010-04-16):

  * Several optimizations to improve some auxiliary steps
    of the LTL translation (not the core of the translation):
    - Better degeneralization
    - SCC simplifications has been tuned for degeneralization
      (ltl2tgba now has two options -R3 and -R3f: the latter will
      remove every acceptance condition that used to be removed
      in Spot 0.5 while the former will leave useless acceptance conditions
      going to accepting SCC.  Experience shows that -R3 is more
      favorable to degeneralization).
    - ltl2tgba will perform SCC optimizations before degeneralization
      and not the converse
    - We added a syntactic simplification rule to rewrite F(a)|F(b) as F(a|b).
      We only had a rule for the more specific FG(a)|FG(b) = F(Ga|Gb).
    - The syntactic simplification rule for F(a&GF(b)) = F(a)&GF(b) has
      be disabled because the latter formula is in fact harder to translate
      efficiently.
  * New LTL operators: W (weak until) and its dual M (strong release)
    - Weak until allows many LTL specification to be specified more
      compactly.
    - All LTL translation algorithms have been updated to
      support these operators.
    - Although they do not add any expressive power, translating
      "a W b" is more efficient (read smaller output automaton) than
      translating the equivalent form using the U operator.
    - Basic syntactic rewriting rules will automatically rewrite "a U
      (b | G(a))" and "(a U b)|G(a)" as "a W b", so you will benefit
      from the new operators even if you do not use them.  Similar
      rewriting rules exist for R and M, although they are less used.
  * New options have been added to the CGI script for
    - SVG output
    - SCC simplifications
  * Bug fixes:
    - The precedence of the "->" and "<->" Boolean operators has been
      adjusted to better match other tools.
      Spot <= 0.5 used to parse "a & b -> c & d" as "a & (b -> c) & d";
      Spot >= 0.6 will parse it as "(a & b) -> (c & d)".
    - The random graph generator was fixed (again!) not to produce
      dead states as documented.
    - Locations in the error messages of the LTL parser were off by one.

New in spot 0.5 (2010-02-01):

  * We have setup two mailing lists:
    - <spot-announce@lrde.epita.fr> is read-only and will be used to
      announce new releases.  You may subscribe at
      https://www.lrde.epita.fr/mailman/listinfo/spot-announce
    - <spot@lrde.epita.fr> can be used to discuss anything related
      to Spot.  You may subscribe at
      https://www.lrde.epita.fr/mailman/listinfo/spot-announce
  * Two new LTL translations have been implemented:
    - eltl_to_tgba_lacim() is a symbolic translation for ELTL based on
      Couvreur's LaCIM'00 paper.  For this translation (available with
      ltl2tgba's option -le), all operators are described as finite
      automata.  A default set of operators is provided for LTL
      (option -lo) and user may add more automaton operators.
    - ltl_to_taa() is a translation based on Tauriainen's PhD thesis.
      LTL is translated to "self-loop" alternating automata
      and then to Transition-based Generalized Automata.  (ltl2tgba's
      option -taa).
    The "Couvreur/FM" translation remains the best LTL translation
    available in Spot.
  * The data structures used to represent LTL formulae have been
    overhauled, and it resulted in a big performence improvement
    (in time and memory consumption) for the LTL translation.
  * Two complementation algorithms for state-based Büchi automata
    have been implemented:
    - tgba_kv_complement is an on-the-fly implementation of the
      Kupferman-Vardi construction (TCS'05) for generalized acceptance
      conditions.
    - tgba_safra_complement is an implementation of Safra's
      complementation.  This algorithm takes a degeneralized Büchi
      automaton as input, but our implementation for the Streett->Büchi
      step will produce a generalized automaton in the end.
  * ltl2tgba has gained several options and the help text has been
    reorganized.  Please run src/tgbatest/ltl2tgba without arguments
    for details.  Couvreur/FM is now the default translation.
  * The ltl2tgba.py CGI script can now run standalone.  It also offers
    the Tauriainen/TAA translation, and some options for SCC-based
    reductions.
  * Automata using BDD-encoded transitions relation can now be pruned
    for useless states symbolically using the delete_unaccepting_scc()
    function.  This is ltl2tgba's -R3b option.
  * The SCC-based simplification (ltl2tgba's -R3 option) has been
    rewritten and improved.
  * The "*" symbol, previously parsed as a synonym for "&" is no
    longer recognized.  This makes room for an upcoming support of
    rational operators.
  * More benchmarks in the bench/ directory:
    - gspn-ssp/    some benchmarks published at ACSD'07,
    - ltlcounter/  translation of a class of LTL formulae used by
                     Rozier & Vardi at SPIN'07
    - scc-stats/   SCC statistics after translation of LTL formulae
    - split-product/ parallelizing gain after splitting LTL automata
  * An experimental Kripke interface has been developed to simplify
    the integration of third party tools that do not use acceptance
    conditions and that have label on states instead of transitions.
    This interface has not been used yet.
  * Experimental interface with the Nips virtual machine.
    It is not very useful as Spot isn't able to retrieve any property
    information from the model.  This will just check assertions.
  * Distribution:
    - The Boost C++ library is now required.
    - Update to Autoconf 2.65, Automake 1.11.1, Libtool 2.2.6b,
      Bison 2.4.1, and Swig 1.3.40.
    - Thanks to the newest Automake, "make check" will now
      run in parallel if you use "make -j2 check" or more.
  * Bug fixes:
    - Disable warnings from the garbage collection of BuDDy, it
      could break the standard output of ltl2tgba.
    - Fix several C++ constructs to ensure Spot will build with
      GCC 4.3, 4.4, and older 3.x releases, as well as with Intel's
      ICC compiler.
    - A very old bug in the hash function for LTL formulae caused Spot
      to sometimes (but very rarely) consider two different LTL formulae
      as equal.

New in spot 0.4 (2007-07-17):

  * Upgrade to Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10, Bison 2.3, and Swig 1.3.31.
  * Better LTL simplifications.
  * Don't initialize Buddy if it has already been initialized (in case
    the client software is already using Buddy).
  * Lots of work in the greatspn interface for our ACSD'05 paper.
  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix the random graph generator not to produce dead states as documented.
    - Fix synchronized product in case both side use acceptance conditions.
    - Fix some syntax errors with newer versions of GCC.

New in spot 0.3 (2006-01-25):

  * lbtt 1.2.0
  * The CGI script for LTL translation also offers emptiness check algorithms.
  * tau03_opt_search implements the "ordering heuristic".
    (Submitted by Heikki Tauriainen.)
  * A couple of bugs were fixed into the LTL or automata simplifications.

New in spot 0.2 (2005-04-08):

  * Emptiness checks:
    - the new spot::option_map class is used to pass options to
      emptiness-check algorithms.
    - the new emptiness_check_instantiator class is used to turn a
      string such as `algorithm(option1, option2)' into an actual
      instance of this emptiness-check algorithm with the given
      options.  All tools use this.
    - tau03_opt_search implements the "condition heuristic".
      (Suggested by Heikki Tauriainen.)
  * Minor bug fixes.

New in spot 0.1 (2005-01-31):

  * Emptiness checks:
    - They all follow the same interface, and gather statistical data.
    - New algorithms: gv04.hh, se05.hh, tau03.hh, tau03opt.hh
    - New options for couvreur99: poprem and group.
    - reduce_run() try to reduce accepting runs produced by emptiness checks.
    - replay_run() ensure accepting runs are actually accepting runs.
  * New testing tools:
    - ltltest/randltl: Generate random LTL formulae.
    - tgbatest/randtgba: Generate random TGBAs.  Optionally multiply them
        against random LTL formulae.  Optionally check them for emptiness
        with all available algorithms.  Optionally gather statistics.
  * bench/emptchk/: Contains scripts that benchmark emptiness-checks.
  * Split the degeneralization proxy in two:
    - tgba_tba_proxy  uses at most max(N,1) copies
    - tgba_sba_proxy  uses at most 1+max(N,1) copies and has a
                      state_is_accepting() method
  * tgba::transition_annotation annotate a transition with some string.
    This comes handy to associate that transition to its high-level name.
  * Preliminary support for Event-based GBA (the evtgba*/ directories).
    This might as well disappear in a future release.
  * LTL formulae are now sorting using their string representation, instead
    of their memory address (which is still unique).  This makes the output
    of the various functions more deterministic.
  * The Doxygen documentation is now organized using modules.

New in spot 0.0x (2004-08-13):

  * New atomic_prop_collect() function: collect atomic propositions
    in an LTL formula.
  * Fix several typos in documentation, and some warnings in the code.
  * Now compiles on Darwin and Cygwin.
  * Upgrade to Automake 1.9.1, and lbtt 1.1.2.
    (And drop support for older lbtt versions.)
  * Support newer versions of Valgrind (>= 2.1.0).

New in spot 0.0v (2004-06-29):

  * LTL formula simplifications using basic rewriting rules,
    a-la Wring syntactic approximations, and Etessami's universal
    and existential classes.
     - Function reduce() in ltlvisit/reduce.hh is the main interface.
     - Can be tested with the CGI script.
  * TGBA simplifications using direct simulation, delayed simulation,
    and SCC-based simplifications.  This is still experimental.
  * The LTL parser will now read LTL formulae written using Wring's syntax.
  * ltl2tgba_fm() now has options for on-the-fly fair-loop approximations,
    and Modella-like branching-postponement.
  * GreatSPN interface:
     - The `declarative_environment' is now part of Spot itself rather than
       part of the interface with GreatSPN.
     - the RG and SRG interface can deal with dead markings in three
       ways (omit deadlocks from the state graph, stutter on the deadlock
       and consider as a regular behavior, or stutter and distinguish the
       deadlock with a property).
     - update SSP interface to Soheib Baarir latest work.
  * Preliminary Python bindings for BuDDy's FDD and BVEC.
  * Upgrade to BuDDy 2.3.

New in spot 0.0t (2004-04-23):

  * `emptiness_check':
      - fix two bugs in the computation of the counter example,
      - revamp the interface for better customization.
  * `never_claim_reachable': new function.
  * Introduce annonymous BDD variables in `bdd_dict', and start
    to use it in `ltl_to_tgba_fm'.
  * Offer never claim in the CGI script.
  * Rename EESRG as SSP, and offer specialized variants of the
    emptiness_check.

New in spot 0.0r (2004-03-08):

  * In ltl_to_tgba_fm:
    - New option `exprop' to optimize determinism.
    - Make the `symbolic indentification' from 0.0p optional.
  * `nonacceptant_lbtt_reachable' new function to help getting
    accurate statistics from LBTT.
  * Revamp the cgi script's user interface.
  * Upgrade to lbtt 1.0.3, swig 1.3.21, automake 1.8.3

New in spot 0.0p (2004-02-03):

  * In ltl_to_tgba_fm:
    - identify states with identical symbolic expansions
      (i.e., identical continuations)
    - use Acc[b] as acceptance condition for Fb, not Acc[Fb].
  * Update and speed-up the cgi script.
  * Improve degeneralization.

New in spot 0.0n (2004-01-13):

  * emptiness_check::check2() is a variant of Couvreur's emptiness check that
    explores visited states first.
  * Build the EESRG supporting code condinally, as the associated
    GreatSPN changes have not yet been contributed to GreatSPN.
  * Add a powerset algorithm (determinize TGBA ignoring acceptance
    conditions, i.e., as if they were used to recognize finite languages).
  * tgba_explicit::merge_transitions: merge transitions with same source,
    destination, and acceptance condition.
  * Run test cases within valgrind.
  * Various bug fixes.

New in spot 0.0l (2003-12-01):

  * Computation of prime implicants.  This simplify the output of
    ltl_to_tgba_fm, and allows conditions to be output as some of
    product in dot output.
  * Optimize translation of GFy in ltl_to_tgba_fm.
  * tgba_explicit supports arbitrary binary formulae on transitions
    (only conjunctions were allowed).

New in spot 0.0j (2003-11-03):

  * Use hash_map's instead of map's almost everywhere.
  * New emptiness check, based on Couvreur's algorithm.
  * LTL propositions can be put inside doublequotes to disambiguate
    some constructions.
  * Preliminary support for GreatSPN's EESRG.
  * Various bug fixes.

New in spot 0.0h (2003-08-18):

  * More python bindings:
    - "import buddy" works (see wrap/python/tests/bddnqueen.py for an example),
    - almost all the Spot API is now available via "import spot".
  * wrap/python/cgi/ltl2tgba.py is an LTL-to-Büchi translator that
    work as as a cgi script.
  * Couvreur's FM'99 ltl-to-tgba translation.

New in spot 0.0f (2003-08-01):

  * More python bindings, still only for the spot::ltl:: namespace.
  * Functional GSPN interface.  (Enable with --with-gspn=directory.)
  * The LTL scanner recognizes /\, \/, and xor.
  * Upgrade to lbtt 1.0.2.
  * tgba_tba_proxy is an on-the-fly degeneralizer.
  * Implements the "magic search" algorithm.
    (Works only on a tgba_tba_proxy.)
  * Tgba's output algorithms (save(), dotty()) now non-recursive.
  * During products, succ_iter will optimize its set of successors
    using information computed from the current product state.
  * BDD dictionnaries are now shared between automata and.  This
    gets rid of all the BDD-variable translating machinery.

New in spot 0.0d (2003-07-13):

  * Optimize translation of G operators occurring at the root
    of a formula (or its immediate children when the root is a
    conjunction).  This saves two BDD variables per G operator.
  * Distribute lbtt, and run it during `make check'.
  * First sketch of GSPN interface.
  * succ_iter_concreate::next() completely rewritten.
  * Transitions are now labelled by boolean formulae (not only
    conjunctions).
  * Documentation:
    - Output collaboration diagrams.
    - Build and distribute PDF manual.
  * Many bug fixes.

New in spot 0.0b (2003-06-26):

  * Everything.
