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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -10,6 +10,53 @@ Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5) +** Package management +*** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store + +Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store +directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store. + +*** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized +*** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH +*** New ‘guix archive’ command +*** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images +*** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u +*** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster +*** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’ +*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option +*** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options +*** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option +*** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility) +** Programming interfaces +*** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography +*** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded +*** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store +*** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads) +*** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules +*** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg) +*** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts +** GNU distribution +*** FIXME new packages +*** FIXME package updates +*** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain +*** libc’s Info manual is now installed +*** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives +*** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man* +*** Many other packaging improvements +** Bugs fixed +*** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel +*** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline +*** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory + (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083) +*** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703) +*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number + (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484) +*** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289) +*** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569) +*** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884) +*** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733) + * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4) ** Package management *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository |