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Tom 2.6 has been released. It adds pattern matching primitives constructs to Java, C and Caml.

This release includes: a new alternative syntax for '%match' that is based on atomic constraints and can be combined with the '&&' and '||' operators, algebraic rules that can have any conjunction or disjunction of rules, a new syntax for strategies, simpler dispatching, compiler speedups, improved code generation, and other changes.

Tom 2.6 Release Candidate has been released. It is "an extension of Java designed to manipulate tree structures and XML documents."

Tom 2.5 has been released. "Tom is a pattern matching compiler developed at INRIA. It is particularly well-suited for programming various transformations on trees/terms and XML based documents."

This release includes: a new compiler based on constraint propagation; a new strategy library; support for defining terms with pointers; support for any combination of patterns, anti-patterns and list-operators; and other changes.

Tom 2.4 has been released. "Tom is a complex compiler which adds powerful constructs to C and Java: non linear syntactic matching, associative matching with neutral element (a.k.a. list-matching), XML based pattern matching, string matching, and equational rewriting."

This release includes: support for anti-pattern matching, reflexive strategies, support for Java bytecode analysis and transformation in the runtime library, and other changes.