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XSB is a Logic Programming and Deductive Database system for Unix and Windows. It has been developed at a number of institutions, including he Computer Science Department of Stony Brook University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, XSB Inc., Coherent Knowledge Systems, Inc., and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.

XSB is kindly hosted by Sourceforge. You can directly access the following resources from here:

  • XSB Portal
  • GIT repository
  • Mailing Lists
  • Bug tracking
  • If you are new to XSB, please read the XSB Technical Summary for a (somewhat outdated) overview of its main features.

    Latest Releases

    The latest stable version of XSB 5.1 has been fully tested and is available (October 13, 2026). See the release notes here.

    While XSB is constantly updated we are lazy about putting out releases. Until we reform, you can also get the latest version of the code from the Sourceforge GIT repo.

    The XSB download includes the manuals in pdf format, but they may also be downloaded separately: Volume 1 and Volume 2

    Third-Party Interfaces and IDEs

  • InterProlog distributed by Declarativa, provides a means of interfacing XSB with Java programming.
  • Prolog Studio is a new IDE specifically written for Prolog programmers, and distributed by InterProlog Consulting. It arose out of a Coherent Knowledge Systems software project, so it has many XSB-specific features.

    Active Related Projects

    These are a few of many projects that use XSB (contact us if you would like yours added).

  • ErgoAI is a next-generation Knowledge Representation and Reasoning System..
  • Logtalk is an open source object-oriented logic programming language that can make use of multi-threading.

  • Email: xsb-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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