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@@ -10,6 +10,79 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3) + +** Package management + +*** New ‘guix graph’ command, to draw package graphs +*** New ‘guix challenge’ command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries +*** ‘guix environment’ has a new ‘--container’ option +*** ‘guix substitute’ now honors all the specified substitute URLs +*** New ‘guix import cran’ command, to import R packages from CRAN +*** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly +*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--install-from-file’ option +*** ‘guix package --search’ shows package outputs +*** ‘guix refresh’ can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions +*** The ‘--ad-hoc’ option of ‘guix environment’ is now positional +*** The ‘--exec’ option of ‘guix environment’ is deprecated; use ‘--’ instead +*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--file’ option +*** ‘guix build --log-file’ can now return URLs +*** ‘guix size’ now has a ‘--substitute-urls’ option and is much faster +*** New ‘guix lint’ checkers: ‘formatting’, ‘license’, ‘source-file-name’ +*** Download progress report has been improved +*** Emacs shell-mode completions for ‘guix’ commands updated +*** Emacs: New ‘M-x guix’ popup interface + +** Distribution + +*** New extensible service composition API + +The operating system service API in (gnu services) has been completely +rewritten, significantly improving extensibility and modularity, while +providing a framework that makes it easy to reason about service composition. +Consequently, several sources of redundancy and confusion in +‘operating-system’ declarations have been eliminated. See “Service +Composition” in the manual. + +*** New ‘extension-graph’ and ‘dmd-graph’ sub-commands for ‘guix system’ +*** New ‘container’ sub-command for ‘guix system’ +*** New ‘guix container’ command, to deal with GuixSD containers +*** New ‘list-generations’ sub-command for ‘guix system’ +*** ‘operating-system’ has a new ‘locale-libcs’ field +*** New services: ‘nginx-service’, ‘udisks-service’, ‘guix-publish-service’ +*** ‘dbus-daemon’ now has proper support for lazy service activation +*** ‘wicd-service’ automatically adds Wicd to the system profile +*** ‘slim-service’ automatically adds xterm to the system profile +*** hydra.gnu.org now provides substitutes for ‘armhf-linux’ +*** /run/systemd is mounted as tmpfs by default, for use by elogind +*** ‘glibc’ package no longer contains Bash in its bin/ directory +*** libc now looks for locale data in a versioned sub-directory +*** libc honors the new ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ environment variable +*** Xfce now defaults to the GNOME icon theme + +** Programming interfaces + +*** Rewritten (gnu services) module; (gnu services …) modules adjusted +*** New Emacs development tools, see “Development” in the manual +*** (guix gexp) provides the declarative ‘computed-file’, ‘program-file’, etc. +*** New (guix upstream) module, for generalized upstream release tracking + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** Passwords in /etc/shadow are SHA512-hashed (http://bugs.gnu.org/21318) +*** daemon: Require a signature for imports made by root + (http://bugs.gnu.org/21354) +*** emacs: Fix guix-guile-program default value (http://bugs.gnu.org/21127) +*** Compressed initrds no longer include timestamps +*** Fix handling of encrypted root partitions (http://bugs.gnu.org/19190) +*** Python now includes tkinter (http://bugs.gnu.org/20889) +*** Memoize the results of ‘package-with-python2’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/21675) +*** Use the daemon's substitute URLs by default (http://bugs.gnu.org/20217) + +** Native language support + +*** Updated translations: da + * Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2) ** Package management |