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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 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 +11,150 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 1.1.0 (since 1.0.1) +** Package management +*** New ‘guix deploy’ command to deploy several machines at once +*** Channels can now provide news, viewed with ‘guix pull --news’ +*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ saves provenance data +*** New ‘guix system describe’ command to view system provenance info +*** New /run/current-system/{channels,configuration}.scm files +*** New ‘guix time-machine’ command +*** ‘guix pack’ has a new ‘--entry-point’ option +*** ‘guix pack’ saves environment variables for ‘docker’ and ‘singularity’ +*** ‘guix pack’ provides a meaningful repository name for ‘docker’ +*** New ‘--target’ option for ‘guix system’ +*** ‘--no-build-hook’ was renamed to ‘--no-offload’ +*** ‘--keep-failed’ now implies ‘--no-offload’ +*** ‘--dry-run’ no longer implies ‘--no-grafts’ +*** ‘guix import crate’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option +*** ‘guix import crate’ can import a specific package version +*** ‘guix pull’ returns Guix on Guile 3.0 +*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ can clone repositories over SSH +*** ‘--with-commit’ now accepts tags +*** ‘guix challenge’ has a new ‘--diff’ option to show differences +*** ‘guix weather’ has a new ‘--display-missing’ option +*** Guix can now fetch lzip-compressed substitutes in addition to gzip +*** ‘guix publish’ supports lzip compression via ‘-C’ +*** ‘guix lint -c archival’ queries Software Heritage +*** ‘guix archive’ has a new ‘-t’ option to list archive contents +*** ‘guix describe’ and similar commands emit terminal hyperlinks +*** ‘guix build’ now attempts to substitute missing .drv files +*** ‘guix package’ etc. now lock the profile they operate on +*** ‘guix pull’ honors /etc/guix/channels.scm when it exists +*** New ‘guix show’ command, synonymous with ‘guix package --show’ +*** The ‘--manifest’ option can be repeated to combine manifests +*** Some commands previously lacking ‘--load-path’ now support it +** Distribution +*** The set of pre-built bootstrap “binary seeds” has been halved +*** Graphical installer has better support for non-Latin keyboard layouts +*** Graphical installer allows users to choose an HTTP/HTTPS proxy +*** Graphical installer allows users to edit the system configuration +*** New ‘kernel-loadable-modules’ field in ‘operating-system’ +*** rottlog service is now part of ‘%base-services’ +*** ‘%base-services’ now includes /usr/bin/env as a “special file” +*** ‘herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon URL’ can be used to set a proxy +*** ‘qemu-binfmt’ service now supports riscv32 and riscv64 +*** File system UUIDs and labels are now supported for JFS +*** New services + +auditd, fontconfig-file-system, getmail, gnome-keyring, kernel-module-loader, +knot-resolver, mumi, nfs, nftables, nix, pagekite, pam-mount, patchwork, +polkit-wheel, provenance, pulseaudio, sane, singularity, usb-modeswitch + +*** 3514 new packages + +*** 3368 package updates + +Noteworthy updates: +bash 5.0.7, binutils 2.32, cups 2.3.1, emacs 26.3, enlightenment 0.23.1, +gcc-toolchain 9.3.0, gdb 9.1, ghc 8.6.5, gimp 2.10.18, glibc 2.29, +gnome 3.32.2, gnupg 2.2.20, go 1.13.9, guile 2.2.7, +icecat 68.7.0-guix0-preview1, icedtea 3.7.0, julia 1.3.1, +libreoffice 6.4.2.2, linux-libre 5.4.31, mate 1.24.0, ocaml 4.09.0, +octave 5.2.0, openjdk 12.33, perl 5.30.0, python2 2.7.16, python 3.7.4, +racket 7.6, rust 1.39.0, r 3.6.3, sbcl 2.0.3, shepherd 0.7.0, xfce 4.14.0, +xorg-server 1.20.7 + +** Programming interfaces +*** New build systems + +copy-build-system, julia-build-system, node-build-system, qt-build-system + +*** New ‘with-build-handler’ and ‘map/accumulate-builds’ in (guix store) +*** (guix gexp) has a new ‘with-parameters’ form +*** New (guix remote) module for remote evaluation of gexps +*** New ‘eval/container’ procedure in (gnu system linux-container) +*** (guix inferior) now reifies exceptions as ‘&inferior-exception’ +*** (guix cve) uses the new NIST-provided JSON files instead of XML +*** New (guix json) module to map JSON objects to Scheme records +*** New (gnu installer tests) module to drive the graphical installer +*** New (guix diagnostics) module for consistent diagnostic messages +*** “Checkers” now live in (guix lint) +** Notewothy bug fixes +*** Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22990>) +*** Grafting prevents build plan from being displayed upfront + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28310) +*** Changing the HTTP/FTP proxy used by the daemon is inconvenient + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/25569>) +*** ‘guix system disk-image’ successfully builds a bad image + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34276>) +*** Installer cannot be restarted after a failed install + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35543>) +*** Null pointer error when partitioning with the graphical installer + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35858>) +*** 'guix upgrade' misdiagnoses upgrades in the presence of propagated inputs + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35872>) +*** mcron randomly stops running jobs + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37237>) +*** Mistaken warning "guix pull was never run" + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38196>) +*** `guix pack --format=squashfs` fails on CentOS7 + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40043>) +*** installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40273>) +*** installer: Always add '%base-initrd-modules' to 'initrd-modules' + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36099>) +*** [MATE] shutdown and reboot not possible from UI + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40327>) +*** 'guix-daemon' honors %localstatedir, %sysconfdir, and %storedir + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35874>) +*** Fix ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ quoting in ‘guix-daemon.service’ (systemd) + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36074>) +*** Include USB_ModeSwitch in %desktop-services + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35640>) +*** linux-container: Mount a new /dev/pts instance in the container + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36463>) +*** system: Write the timezone to /etc/timezone + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746>) +*** linux-modules: Define and use a module name database + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34902>) +*** pack: Create /tmp in Docker images + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37161>) +*** guix system: Reinstalling the bootloader preserves extra menu entries + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36876>) +*** system: Add 'mount' and 'umount' to '%setuid-programs' + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37569>) +*** linux-libre: Try to aggressively gather entropy during boot + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37501>) +*** daemon: Make 'profiles/per-user' non-world-writable + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37744>) +*** linux-boot: Don't ignore options when mounting root file system + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37977>) +*** Files produced by syslogd are no longer world-readable + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40405>) + +** Native language support +*** Updated translations of the manual + +The manual is fully translated into Spanish, more than 85% complete in French +and German, and has preliminary translations into Russian and Chinese. + +*** Updated translations of messages + +This version of Guix is fully translated in Brazilian Portuguese, French, +German, and Spanish, and partially translated in 10 other languages. + * Changes in 1.0.1 (since 1.0.0) ** Package management *** The ‘https_proxy’ environment variable is now honored |