The Coq development team is announcing the release version 7.2 of Coq. This release fixes several bugs of version 7.1 and offers the following novelties or improvements - Coercions allowed in Cases patterns - Extended standard library - Extended tactic "Assert H := P" for forward reasoning - New tactic "ClearBody H" to clear the body of definitions in local context - New declaration "Canonical Structure id = t : I" to help resolution of implicits in developments using Record/Structure (contributed by A. Saïbi) Coq V7.2 is available in several formats from http://coq.inria.fr and ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/coq/V7.2. We currently provide the following versions package for sources rpm package for sources rpm packages for linux binary package for Sun-Solaris binary version for Windows binary version for MacOS X (Darwin) The documentation is available in postscript, pdf and html format. Please refer to the accompanying document CHANGES or the location ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/coq/V7.2/doc/Changes.html for a full list of changes including sources of incompatibilities. Users are kindly invited to report bugs to coq-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr and to mail Coq-Club@pauillac.inria.fr for general questions or remarks. The Coq development team