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@@ -14,8 +14,94 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. ** Package management +*** Substitute display adjusts to client locale and terminal width +*** New ‘--free-space’ option for ‘guix gc’ +*** ‘guix gc’ shows the amount of disk space freed +*** Source code downloads fall back to content-addressed mirrors +*** ‘guix graph’ can now be passed a store file name +*** Building the profile is faster, noticeably so on slow file systems +*** Profiles now include XDG desktop and MIME databases +*** ‘guix size’ can be passed more than one package +*** ‘--check’ and ‘--rounds’ save the differing build output upon failure *** New Emacs interface for package locations: M-x guix-locations +See “Package Source Locations” in the manual. +*** Emacs modes show the full profile name in buffer names +*** Emacs “Package Info” buffer now have a “Build Log” button +*** ‘guix environment’ sets $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT to the environment’s profile +*** New ‘--ttl’ option for ‘guix publish’ +*** New ‘--compression’ option for ‘guix publish’ +*** ‘guix publish’ serves source files over content-address “/file” URLs +*** New ‘hackage’ updater for ‘guix refresh’ +*** ‘guix lint -c cve’ uses a faster caching method +*** ‘guix lint -c cve’ now reports up to 3-year-old vulnerabilities +*** ‘guix lint -c source,home-page’ reports suspiciously small HTTP replies +*** ‘guix lint -c inputs-should-be-native’ makes more suggestions + +** Distribution + +*** New services + +urandom-seed-service, dicod-service, gc-root-service-type, mcron-service, +rngd-service, dropbear-service, pam-limits-service (See “Services” in the +manual for details.) + +*** ‘mapped-device’ can refer to partitions using a LUKS UUID +*** New ‘raid-device-type’, for RAID devices using mdadm +*** ‘console-keymap-service’ can be given several file names +*** Java package names are now prefixed with “java-” +*** New modular Qt packages, to replace the monolithic ‘qt’ package +*** The ‘gnupg’ 2.0/2.1 packages provide the ‘gpg’ command instead of ‘gpg2’ +*** More packages are bit-reproducible: vlc, libxslt, nasm +*** XXX new packages +*** XXX package updates + +** Programming interfaces + +*** New ‘with-imported-modules’ form provided by (guix gexp) + +It supersedes the #:modules parameter of ‘gexp->derivation’, ‘compute-file’, +‘gexp->script’, ‘program-file’, etc, as well as the ‘imported-modules’ fields +of <origin> and <shepherd-service>. See “G-Expressions” in the manual. + +*** New (gnu tests) and (gnu build marionette) modules for system tests + +See <http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8605> for background. + +*** New (guix zlib) module +*** New (guix hg-download) module, for Mercurial checkouts +*** (guix download) supports HTTP basic authentication +*** (guix svn-download) supports authentication +*** The ‘source’ of packages can be a ‘local-file’ or any lowerable object +*** Part of (guix utils) moved to the new (guix combinators) +*** GNU updater honors the ‘ftp-server’ and ‘ftp-directory’ package properties +*** CVE linter honors the ‘cpe-name’ and ‘cpe-version’ package properties +*** ‘add-to-store’ and ‘local-file’ have a new #:select? parameter + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** Perl no longer references GCC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23077>) +*** Grafting now fails upon I/O errors (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23581>) +*** GuixSD random source is now properly seeded (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23605>) +*** ‘call-with-container’ gracefully reports mount errors + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23306>) +*** ‘herd start cow-store’ now bind-mounts the target /tmp +*** ‘guix environment’ now honors ‘--system’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23682>) +*** ‘guix publish’ properly encodes archive URIs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21888>) +*** ‘NIX_CONF_DIR’ is now ignored (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22459>) +*** The shell of user ‘nobody’ is ‘nologin’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23971>) +*** Source code location is more precise in error messages involving records + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23969>) +*** ‘guix --version’ is correct in the presence of ‘guix pull’ + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19278>) +*** Git commits are now signed, for eventual authentication by ‘guix pull’ + (in preparation of a fix for <http://bugs.gnu.org/22883>) + +** Native language support + +*** New translation: zh_CN (Simplified Chinese) +*** Updated translations: fr + * Changes in 0.10.0 (since 0.9.0) ** Community |