New Website Announcement

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:11:14 +0000

🚀 Exciting News! We are pleased to announce our new ESBMC website.

ESBMC 🔍 is a mature, permissively licensed open-source SMT-based bounded model checker for C, C++, Python, Rust, and Solidity programs, verifying both single and multi-threaded software and detecting bugs such as division by zero, pointer safety, overflow, memory leaks, and more.

Before this update, the documentation and news was fragmented across several websites:

ssvlab.github.io/esbmc
github.com/esbmc/esbmc/wiki
esbmc.github.io/esbmc

The new site consolidates all documentation, tutorials, news, and downloads into a single, up-to-date location 📚🔗. We aim to keep this website as up-to-date as possible!

Check it out and let us know what you think 🎆!

Old News

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:38:33 +0000

02/09/2022 ESBMC v7.0 released for all platforms.

30/12/2020 ESBMC v6.7 for all platforms.

30/12/2020 ESBMC v6.6 for Linux and MacOS released.

30/12/2020 ESBMC has successfully participated at the 10th Intl. Competition on Software Verification held at TACAS 2021 in Luxembourg. ESBMC won first place in the ReachSafety-XCSP subcategory. Second place in the SoftwareSystems-AWS-C-Common-ReachSafety, ReachSafety-ECA, and ReachSafety-Arrays subcategories. Fourth place in the ReachSafety category. Fifth place in the SoftwareSystems category. Overall, the sixth place among 25 state-of-the-art software verifiers at SV-COMP 2021!

22/12/2019 ESBMC won the 3rd place in the Falsification category at SV-COMP 2020 and 3rd place in the bug-finding category at Test-Comp 2020! ESBMC was also ranked 5th place among 22 state-of-the-art verifiers at SV-COMP 2020!

25/07/2018 Our NIER paper Towards Counterexample-Guided k-Induction for Fast Bug Detection has been accepted at ESEC/FSE 2018.

24/07/2018 ESBMC v5.1.0 for Linux released.

03/07/2018 Our tool paper ESBMC 5.0** An Industrial-Strength C Model Checker has been accepted at ASE 2018.

16/01/2018 ESBMC-kind won the Bronze Medal in the overall ranking of the 7th International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP 2018).

8/05/2017 The talk at FOSDEM 2017 on “Using clang as a Frontend on a Formal Verification Tool” is now available here.

2/03/2017 ESBMC v3.2 won one silver and one bronze medal in the 6th International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP 2017).

22/01/2016 ESBMC v2.1 won one gold and one silver medal in the 5th International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP 2016).

22/06/2015 ESBMC v2.0.0 is now open source

19/12/2014 ESBMC v1.24.1 won two gold and two bronze medals in the 4th International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP 2015).

13/12/2013 20/11/2014 ESBMC v1.24.1 for Linux released for the SV-COMP 2015.

13/12/2013 ESBMC v1.22 won the gold medal in the SequentializedConcurrent category of the Third Intl. Competition on Software Verification (SVCOMP'14).

26/04/2013 ESBMC++ v1.21 for Linux released.

19/02/2013 ESBMC v1.21 for Linux released.

09/01/2013 ESBMC v1.20 won the Bronze Medal in the overall ranking of the second Intl. Competition on Software Verification (SVCOMP'13).

20/01/2012 ESBMC v1.18 for Linux and Windows released.

12/12/2011 ESBMC v1.17 won the Gold Medal in the "SystemC" and "Concurrency" categories and the Bronze Medal in the overall ranking of the first Intl. Competition on Software Verification (SVCOMP'12).

11/01/2011 The collaboration between Southampton and Manaus is now supported by the Royal Society through an International Exchange grant.

10/05/2011 Support for state hashing to reduce the state space exploration (to enable it use the option --state-hashing).

08/11/2010 Preliminary support for writing an SMT formula into a file (use the options --qf_aufbv or --qf_auflira followed by --outfile filename.smt).

18/10/2010 Preliminary support for memory leak detection (use the option --memory-leak-check).

13/10/2010 Support for static partial order reduction (to disable it use the option --no-por).

29/09/2010 We provide an Eclipse plug-in for ESBMC.

17/09/2010 Support for checking atomicity violation at visible statements (use the option --atomicity-check).

19/03/2010 ESBMC v1.3 supports the verification of multi-threaded software with shared variable communication between the threads.

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