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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2022-09-15 11:29:02 -0400
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2022-09-15 11:43:21 -0400
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Merge branch 'staging' into core-updates
Conflicts resolved in: gnu/local.mk gnu/packages/cmake.scm gnu/packages/glib.scm gnu/packages/gnome.scm gnu/packages/gtk.scm gnu/packages/sdl.scm pango-next, vala-next and librsvg-bootstrap were removed in the process.
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
-Copyright © 2021 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
+Copyright © 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** New ‘guix shell’ command, the successor to ‘guix environment’
*** New ‘deb’ format for the ‘guix pack’ command
*** New ‘guix import minetest’ command, to import Minetest extensions
+*** New 'guix style' command, to auto-format package definitions
*** ‘guix import texlive’ rewritten to use the TLPDB as its source
*** ‘guix import elpa’ now supports the non-GNU ELPA repository
*** ‘guix import pypi’ can now import a specific version
@@ -30,6 +31,18 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** More control over boot-time file system checks and repairs
*** XFS file systems can be created by the installer and mounted by label/UUID
*** New interface for declaring swap space
+*** GNOME is now at version 42
+*** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19
+*** Most Python 2 packages have been removed
+*** Guix now makes use of parallel xz compression
+*** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache
+*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
+*** Package inputs can now be provided without explicit labels
+*** 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
+*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
+*** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive
** Programming interfaces
*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
** Noteworthy bug fixes
@@ -43,7 +56,13 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937>)
*** File system flags are validated before system instantiation
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>)
-
+*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile
+*** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH
+*** Various Python reproducibility fixes
+*** Installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)
+*** Emacs handles major upgrades better without a re-login
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/47458>)
* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
** Package management
*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview