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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 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 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 +11,88 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 1.0.0 (since 0.16.0) +** Package management +*** New ‘-v’/‘--verbosity’ option for all commands +*** Most commands now default to verbosity level 1 (“quiet”) +*** New ‘guix package’ aliases: ‘install’, ‘remove’, ‘upgrade’, and ‘search’ +*** ‘guix pack -RR’ produces PRoot-enabled relocatable binaries +*** New ‘--save-provenance’ option for ‘guix pack’ +*** CLI diagnostics use colors; more operations show progress bars +*** New ‘--news’ option for ‘guix pull’ +*** New ‘--preserve’ option for ‘guix environment’ +*** ‘guix environment -C’ creates containers with a non-zero UID +*** Channels can now specify dependencies in a ‘.guix-channel’ file +*** New ‘reverse-bag’ graph type for ‘guix graph’ +*** New ‘--with-git-url’ package transformation option +*** The ‘--with-branch’ package transformation option fetches Git sub-modules +*** New ‘guix system delete-generations’ command +*** New ‘--list-roots’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options for ‘guix gc’ +*** New ‘--coverage’ option for ‘guix weather’ +*** ‘guix pull’ computes a package cache to speed up package lookups by name +*** ‘guix pull’ now embeds ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ +*** ‘guix refresh -l’ better estimates dependents +*** ‘guix build’ can take multiple ‘--system’ flags +*** ‘guix offload’ avoids build machines with too little free disk space +*** ‘guix offload’ now uses (guix inferior) to communicate with remote hosts +*** Guix can no longer be built with Guile 2.0 +** Distribution +*** New text-mode graphical installer +*** New virtual machine (VM) image +*** New ‘keyboard-layout’ field for the OS, bootloader, and Xorg configuration +*** New ‘xorg-configuration’ record type for Xorg server configuration +*** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes GDM instead of SLiM for graphical log-in +*** New ‘label’ and ‘essential-services’ fields for <operation-system> +*** The manual has been restructured for clarity +*** New ‘remote-inferior’ procedure in (guix ssh) +*** New (gnu ci) module for continuous integration jobs +*** (gnu services shepherd) now supports one-shot services +*** New services + +cups-pk-helper, imap4d, inputattach, localed, nslcd, zabbix-agent, +zabbix-server + +*** XXX new packages +*** XXX package updates +** Programming interfaces +*** New ‘this-package’, ‘this-origin’, and ‘this-operating-system’ macros +*** The ‘self-native-input?’ field was removed from <package> +*** New ‘package-input-rewriting/spec’ procedure for graph rewriting +*** New ‘package-closure’ procedure in (guix packages) +*** New UI helper modules (guix colors) and (guix deprecation) +*** New (gnu build accounts) module to manage /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} +*** ‘nix-*’ bindings in (guix store) replaced by ‘store-connection-*’ +*** Records created by ‘define-record-type*’ report duplicate fields +** Noteworthy bug fixes +*** ISO images produced by ‘guix system’ are now reproducible bit-for-bit + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35283>) +*** ‘guix pack -f squashfs’ produces relative symlinks + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/34913>) +*** ‘guix package -r something-not-installed’ now raises an error +*** Fix multi-threaded miscompilation issue with syntax parameters + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/27476>) +*** file-systems: Spawn a REPL only when interaction is possible + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/23697>) +*** ‘guix environment’ supports package transformation options + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33776>) +*** ‘guix substitute’ now ignores irrelevant narinfo signatures + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33733>) +*** On Guix System, guix-daemon now runs in a UTF-8 locale + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32942>) +*** Fix relative file name canonicalization for '--root' + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35271>) +*** vm: Do not mount /xchg with "cache=loose" + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33639>) +*** build-system/go: Build with a filesystem union of Go dependencies + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33620>) +*** 'containerized-operating-system' removes "useless" services + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/34211>) +** Native language support +*** The manual is now fully translated in French and Spanish +*** The manual is also partly translated in German and in Simplified Chinese +*** Updated translations: da, de, es, fr +*** New translations: sv + * Changes in 0.16.0 (since 0.15.0) ** Package management |