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January, 1st, 2022

    Uploaded DES 6.7 macOS binaries.

September, 4th, 2021

    DES 6.7 released with enhanced semantic analysis, its TAPI interface for external systems, a bunch of new functions, predicates and commands, and bug fixing.

January, 25th, 2021

    DES 6.6 released with a graphical interface to SQL debugger, new commands for TAPI communication, more Datalog and SQL features, and bug fixing.

April, 10th, 2020

    DES 6.5 released with extended type casting, SQL features, better compilations, and new built-in functions and predicates.

January, 20th, 2020

    DES 6.4 released with a reactive connection to the on-line front-end DESWeb, and new built-in functions and predicates.

October, 14th, 2019

    DES 6.3 released with fuzzy hypothetical Datalog.

January, 21st, 2019

    DES 6.2 released with several SQL improvements, commands, and user flags.

May, 24th, 2018

    DES 6.1 released with updated date/times data types and scripting system with bidirectional communication with SQL.

April, 9th, 2018

    DES 6.0 released with SQL semantic checking and complete fuzzy unification and resolution algorithms for proximity relations.

May, 29th, 2017

    DES 5.0.1 released with some tweaks on fuzzy Datalog and commands for statistics and CSV output.

February, 24th, 2017

    DES 5.0 released with fuzzy Datalog as a new query language for fuzzy deductive databases.

September, 25th, 2016

    DES 4.2 released with date/time types, functions, operators and predicates.

April, 20th, 2016

    Source distributions for the ACIDE bundle are available.

April, 19th, 2016

    DES 4.1 released with safe mode for web applications and autosaving.

February, 29th, 2016

    DES 4.0 released with two new formal languages: Tuple Relational Calculus and Domain Relational Calculus.

February, 25th, 2016

    DES Devel published for a preview on TRC and DRC.

January, 17th, 2016

    Homebrew formula to install DES on OS X has been included in homebrew-science (due to University of Udine).

December, 21st, 2015

    ACIDE bundles for SICStus and SWI-Prolog source distributions.

December, 19th, 2015

    Executables for Mac OS X Mavericks built with SICStus Prolog. Requires iODBC.

December, 17th, 2015

    DES 3.12 released with a new ACIDE version 0.17 and improved syntax error messaging system.

August, 5th, 2015

    DES 3.11 released with a brand new Datalog debugger.

January, 21st, 2015

    DES 3.10 released and capable of tracing and debugging external databases.

December, 1st, 2014

November, 26th, 2014

    DES 3.9 released with improved SQL and RA languages, and syntax colouring updated for ACIDE.

July, 30th, 2014

    DES 3.8 released with automatic type casting, better SQL to Datalog compilations, and a new ACIDE version 0.16 with improved panels.

April, 28th, 2014

    DES 3.7 released with negative assumptions in SQL, compilations to implications, and a new ACIDE version 0.15 with graphical tracers.

March, 12th, 2014

    DES 3.6 released with restricted predicates, negative assumptions in Datalog, and a new ACIDE version 0.14.

February, 3rd, 2014

    DES 3.5 released with a new ACIDE version 0.13 and several enhancements for SQL, commands, and syntax checking.

January, 22nd, 2014

    More than 50K downloads since DES first release.

December, 10th, 2013

    Celebrating 10 years since the first public release 1.0.

December, 18th, 2013

    DES 3.4 released with a new ACIDE version 0.12 and several enhancements for RA, SQL, safety and constraints.

October, 22nd, 2013

    DES 3.3.2 released with several enhancements for modes and SQL, changes and bug fixings.

July, 28th, 2013

    DES 3.3.1 released fixing a critical bug, adding modes to unsafe predicates, and enhancing the Datalog debugger.

July, 12th, 2013

    DES 3.3 released including a new ACIDE version featuring a database management panel. Also, some performance tweaks, new commands, and several enhancements.

February, 7th, 2013

    New distros for Mac OS X Snow Leopard are released, built with SICStus Prolog.

February, 4th, 2013

    Uploaded new binaries built with SWI-Prolog for Mac OS X as there was an initialization error.

February, 3rd, 2013

    The entire distribution was not available until this day due to hosting problems.

February, 2nd, 2013

    DES 3.2 released adding hypothetical Datalog queries, SQL functional dependencies and CHECK clauses, ordering of Datalog and SQL answers.

December, 23th, 2012

    Added 64 bit binaries built with SICStus Prolog.

December, 20th, 2012

    DES 3.1 released adding deductive query solving for external databases, new SQL and RA features, and a new version of ACIDE running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS’s.

November, 15th, 2012

    DES 3.1 beta 1.0 released adding new features and fixing some bugs. Only Windows 32bit distros. A stable release will be ready soon.

September, 19th, 2012

    "Tabling with Support for Relational Features in a Deductive Database System", Presented at PROLE2012 (SISTEDES). Best paper award.

May, 10th, 2012

    DES 3.0 released with persistency via ODBC connections, a new SQL debugger and relaxed license to LGPL v3.

February, 10th, 2012

February, 7th, 2012

    “Declarative Debugging of Wrong and Missing Answers for SQL Views”, Accepted for publication in the 11th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2010).

January, 9th, 2012

    Reworked web site.

January, 3rd, 2012

    DES 2.7 released with Extended Relational Algebra processor, switchable multi-line input, and SQL extensions.

October, 26th, 2011

    DES 2.6 released with SQL hypothetical queries, top-n SQL and Datalog queries, new commands and syntax error enhancing.

September, 14th, 2011

    Releases for MS Windows 64bit built with SWI-Prolog 5.10.5, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard built with SWI-Prolog 5.10.4 are also available.

September, 13th, 2011

    DES 2.5 released with a textual API (TAPI) for communication with external programs, a bundle of new commands and SQL statements, type inferencing for SQL queries, and new ports.

July, 7th, 2011

    DES 2.4 released with safety and computability revisited for metapredicates, enhanced syntax error reporting, and a new GUI version: ACIDE 0.8.

May, 24th, 2011

    DES 2.3 released with a SQL declarative debugger, Datalog distinct operator and SQL distinct clause for projection list and aggregates.

March, 25th, 2011

    Stand-alone executables for MacOSX Snow Leopard (built with SWI-Prolog) and Linux (built under Ubuntu 10.04.1 with SICStus Prolog) uploaded. Added instructions on how to build binaries with SICStus Prolog, and updated instructions for SWI-Prolog.

March, 24th, 2011

    DES 2.2 released with enhanced type system, connections to ODBC data sources and new ports to SICStus Prolog 4.2.0 and Ciao Prolog 1.13.0.

November, 30th, 2010

    DES 2.1 released with strong integrity constraints and enabled access from SQL statements to Datalog relations via type constraints.

October, 7th, 2010

    DES 2.0.1 SICStus source version patched Datalog queries against ODBC connections (no advertisements were made for this release as it was a minor one).

September, 22nd, 2010

    DES 2.0.1 executable for Mac OS X Leopard (32bit, Intelx86).

    (Easy) Instructions on how to build your own executable.

    ODBC connections successfully tested on Ubuntu 10.04.1.

    Updated list of Publications.

September, 13th, 2010

    DES 2.0.1 patches to SWI source distributions in order to support SWI-Prolog 5.10.1 (no advertisements were made for this DES release as it was a minor one).

August, 31st, 2010

    DES 2.0 released, allowing access to relational DBMS via ODBC and including Datalog and SQL query tracers.

March, 17th, 2010

    DES 1.8.1 released, fixing errors in the binary distributions.

December, 21st, 2009

December, 18th, 2009

    DES 1.8.0 released with a more mature test case generator

October, 30th, 2009

    DES 1.7.0 released with Datalog and SQL aggregates, types, constraints and test case generation

March, 10th, 2009

    DES 1.6.2 released with null values, Datalog outer join operators and SQL outer join clauses

November, 10th, 2008

    DES 1.6.1 released with arithmetic expressions and subqueries in SQL comparisons

July, 28th, 2008

    DES 1.6.0 released with SQL integrated

December, 30th, 2007

    DES 1.5.0 released with new features and Linux executable fixed

September, 2nd, 2007

    DES 1.4.0 released and equipped with arithmetic

August, 20th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.6 released

June, 4th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.5 released

May, 18th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.4 released

    ACIDE 0.4 tested with DES 1.3.0. No changes are now required on DES

April, 25th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.3 released

April, 16th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.2 released

April, 9th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.1 released

May, 2nd, 2007

    DES 1.3.0 released and equipped with a declarative debugger

March, 16th, 2007

    ACIDE 0.0 released, a configurable integrated development environment tested for DES

February, 22th, 2007

February, 9th, 2007

    DES 1.2.0 released with many improvements

December, 20th, 2006

    DES 1.1.2 released, fixing some bugs

February, 21st, 2005

    DES 1.1.1 released, containing a Linux executable version

March, 4th, 2004

    DES 1.1 released and published by sourceforge.net

December, 10th, 2003

    DES 1.0 launched