(begin (use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) `((title . "GNU Guix 0.6 released") (author . "Ludovic Courtès") (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 9 4 2014 7200)) (content div (p "We are pleased to announce the sixth alpha release of " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix")) "GNU Guix") "." (br)) (p "This release provides a bunch of new features, among other things:" (br)) (ul (li (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Substitutes")) "\"Substitutes\"") " (pre-built binaries) must now be signed and authorized to be installed;\n") (li "Builds can be " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Daemon-Offload-Setup")) "offloaded") " to other build machines over SSH; we use this facility for our " (a (@ (href "http://hydra.gnu.org")) "build farm") ".\n") (li "The +guix build+ command has a " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix-build")) "new --with-source option") " that allows a package to be built from a tarball other than that specified in the source. This is notably useful for maintainers who want to test pre-releases of their package.\n") (li (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html")) "91 new packages") ", including GNU Octave, and many upgrades, notably GNU libc 2.19.\n")) (p "An updated QEMU x86_64 image is provided, featuring Guix 0.6 and " (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd")) "dmd") " 0.1. It starts an X server with WindowMaker." (br)) (p "See the " (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-04/msg00160.html")) "original announcement") " for details." (br)))))