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(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)))))
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