(begin (use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) `((title . "GNU Guix 0.5 released") (author . "Ludovic Courtès") (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 11 12 2013 3600)) (content div (p "We are pleased to announce the fifth alpha release of " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix")) "GNU Guix") "." (br)) (p "The highlights are:" (br)) (ul (li "Port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, using the n32 ABI.\n") (li "New " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#The-Store-Monad")) "monad interface") " to handle operations on the store.\n") (li "New " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Configuration")) "whole-system configuration API") ", allowing users to declare and instantiate a machine's settings.\n") (li "110 new packages, including \"big ones\" such as " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/")) "GNU IceCat") " and hacker's favorites such as " (a (@ (href "http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html")) "Guile-WM") ". ;-)\n")) (p "An updated QEMU virtual machine is provided, featuring Guix 0.5 and " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd")) "dmd") " 0.1." (br)) (p "See " (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00061.html")) "the original announcement") " for details." (br)))))