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 #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
 #+STARTUP: content hidestars
 
-Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
@@ -11,6 +11,137 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
 
 Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
 
+* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
+
+** Package management
+
+*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview
+*** New ‘--export-manifest’ and ‘--export-channels’ options of ‘guix package’
+*** New ‘--profile’ option for ‘guix environment’
+*** New ‘--discover’ option of ‘guix-daemon’, for local substitute discovery
+*** New ‘--advertise’ option of ‘guix publish’
+*** New ‘--with-patch’ and ‘--with-latest’ package transformation options
+*** ‘guix system image’ supersedes the ‘disk-image’ and ‘vm-image’ sub-commands
+*** ‘--verbosity=1’ no longer displays download URLs
+*** ‘guix publish -C’ now supports zstd compression via Guile-zstd
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ now supports zstd substitutes, which decompress faster
+*** New ‘guix import go’ command, to import Go packages
+*** ‘guix import opam’ now supports Coq packages and has a ‘--repo’ option
+*** ‘guix import crate’ now honors semantic versioning (“semver”)
+*** ‘guix import nix’ has been removed
+*** New updaters (see ‘guix refresh’): ‘sourceforge’ and ‘generic-html’
+*** Substitute installation has been optimized
+*** ‘guix’ commands suggest alternative sub-commands or options upon typos
+*** Offloading no longer requires ‘guile’ to be in $PATH on build machines
+*** ‘GUIX_EXTENSIONS_PATH’ is honored when looking for extensions such as GWL
+*** New ‘--format’ option for ‘guix processes’
+*** ‘guix upgrade’ can now be passed several regexps
+
+** Distribution
+
+*** The Guix System demonstration VM now supports the SPICE protocol
+*** The installation script can now run in a fully automated manner
+*** ‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’ now relies on statically-linked QEMU
+*** ‘sysctl-service-type’ enables Linux protected hardlinks/symlinks by default
+*** ‘%base-services’ now includes a default ‘sysctl-service-type’ instance
+*** Linux Logical Volumne Manager (LVM) now supported, via ‘lvm-device-mapping’
+*** ‘guix system init’ has been optimized
+*** ‘guix system’ warns when users/groups appear more than once
+*** ‘guix system image -t rock64-raw’ produces images for Rock64 devices
+*** ‘herd discover guix-daemon on’ turns on substitute server discovery
+*** Default initrd now supports bcachefs
+*** CUPS service includes ‘brlaser’ extension by default
+*** “lp” group is no longer included in ‘%base-groups’
+*** New ‘--graph-backend’ option for ‘guix system {extension,shepherd}-graph’
+*** New services
+
+agate, cuirass-remote-worker, ipfs, keepalived, laminar, radicale, syncthing,
+transmission-daemon, wireguard, xorg-server
+
+*** 2009 new packages
+
+*** 3100 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+emacs 27.2, gcc-toolchain 10.3.0, ghc 8.8.3, glibc 2.31, gnome 3.34.5,
+gnupg 2.2.27, go 1.14.15, guile 3.0.5, icecat 78.10.0-guix0-preview1,
+icedtea 3.7.0, inkscape 1.0.2, julia 1.5.3, libreoffice 6.4.7.2,
+linux-libre 5.11.15, ocaml 4.11.1, octave 6.2.0, openjdk 14.0,
+python 3.8.2, racket 8.0, rust 1.51.0, r 4.0.4, sbcl 2.1.3, xfce 4.16.0,
+xorg-server 1.20.10
+
+** Programming interfaces
+
+*** New ‘channel-with-substitutes-available’ procedure in (guix channels)
+*** New modules (guix substitutes), (guix narinfo), and (guix avahi)
+*** <image> records can be passed to ‘guix system image’
+*** New (guix ipfs) module to interact with an IPFS gateway
+
+** Noteworthy bug fixes
+
+*** Risk of local privilege escalation via guix-daemon fixed
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47229>, CVE-2021-27851)
+*** Setuid programs on Guix System are no longer setgid root
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46395>)
+*** Risk of local privilege escalation during reconfigure fixed
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47584>)
+*** Grafting recognizes UTF-16 and UTF-32 store references
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/33848>)
+*** (guix git) honors HTTP/HTTPS proxy settings for Git submodules
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44593>)
+*** Fix ‘guix substitute’ crash when interleaving lzip and gzip
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46967>)
+*** Fix GnuTLS memory corruption when used from Guile
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46330>)
+*** Update GnuTLS to 3.6.15, addressing a time-dependent test failure
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44559>)
+*** Booted system is fully protected from garbage collection
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46767>)
+*** Add MSDOS disk label support on UEFI systems
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)
+*** Installer’s kmscon no longer uses up 100% CPU
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39341>)
+*** Git checkouts can be updated to the remote’s default HEAD
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45187>)
+*** ‘guix pull’ correctly displays early builds and downloads
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41930>)
+*** Fix OpenRC init scripts for ‘guix-daemon’
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46871>)
+*** Activate system when switching generations
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38884>)
+*** ‘guix environment -C’ preserves original mount flags
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46292>)
+*** Remove duplicates in profile transactions
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/23874>)
+*** Fix sound problems with ALSA plugins on foreign distros
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40832>)
+
+** Native language support
+
+*** Updated translations of the manual
+
+The manual is fully translated into French and German, 90% translated into
+Spanish, and has preliminary translations into Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese,
+and Russian.
+
+*** Update translations of the cookbook
+
+The cookbook is fully translated in French and German and has a preliminary
+translation into Korean.
+
+*** Updated translations of messages
+
+This version of Guix is fully translated in French, German, and Slovak; it has
+good translation into Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, and preliminary
+translations in a dozen other languages.
+
+*** Translations now hosted on Fedora’s Weblate instance
+
+Translations are now handled at
+<https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/guix/guix/> (thanks, Fedora!).
+You can join to help improve translations in your native language of messages,
+documentation, package descriptions, and the web site.
+
 * Changes in 1.2.0 (since 1.1.0)
 
 ** Package management