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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-09-24 18:08:05 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-09-24 18:08:05 +0200
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Update NEWS.
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
#+STARTUP: content hidestars
-Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2013-2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Copyright © 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Copyright © 2022 Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** New interface for declaring swap space
*** GNOME is now at version 42
*** TeX Live is now at version 2021
+*** Multiple TeX Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF
*** Python is now faster thanks to being built with optimizations
*** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19
*** Most Python 2 packages have been removed
@@ -55,8 +56,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache
*** Package inputs can now be plain package lists
*** A package origin can now be a single file rather than an archive
-*** Multiple Tex Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF
-*** A new sanity-check phase detects packaging problems at build time
+*** New sanity-check phase to detect Python packaging problems at build time
*** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive
*** Improved CI and infrastructure
*** Multiple cross-compilation tooling addition and fixes
@@ -72,14 +72,15 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** Emacs now supports native compilation
*** GRUB bootloader now supports chain-loading
*** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.9.2
-*** The init RAM disk honors more arguments, e.g. ‘root’ and ‘rootflags’
+*** The init RAM disk honors more arguments—e.g. ‘root’ and ‘rootflags’
** Programming interfaces
-*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
-*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
-*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
-*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration)
+*** Package input fields can now plain package lists
+*** G-expressions can now be used in build phases
*** New ‘modify-inputs’ macro to ease customizing a list of package inputs
*** New ‘this-package-input’ and ‘this-package-native-input’ macros
+*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
+*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
+*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration)
*** ‘texlive-union’ is now deprecated in favor of ‘texlive-updmap.cfg’
*** New (guix cpu) module
*** New (guix least-authority) module
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ nar-herder, opendht, rasdaemon, seatd, strongswan
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>)
*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile via XDG_DATA_DIRS
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31403>)
-*** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH
+*** Python modules are searched in GUIX_PYTHONPATH instead of PYTHONPATH
*** Various Python reproducibility fixes
*** The installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)