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@@ -11,28 +11,38 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. -* Changes since 0.15.0 +* Changes in 0.16.0 (since 0.15.0) ** Package management +*** Default substitute URL changed to https://ci.guix.info *** ‘guix pull -l’ lists new and upgraded packages *** ‘guix pull’ now supports channels via ~/.config/guix/channels.scm *** New ‘--profile’ or ‘-p’ option for ‘guix pull’ +*** ~/.config/guix/current is now a symlink to /var/guix/profiles *** New ‘guix describe’ command *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows build logs by default *** ‘guix’ commands now produce colored output by default +*** User interface now reports grafts separately *** Manifests can now refer to arbitrary Guix commits using “inferiors” +*** New ‘--with-branch’ and ‘--with-commit’ package transformation options +*** ‘guix build -f’ now accepts any kind of “file-like object” +*** Git checkouts may now be fetched from Software Heritage +*** New ‘guix repl’ command for use by inferiors *** New ‘guix processes’ command *** ‘guix pack’ now honors ‘--localstatedir’ for all its backends +*** New ‘opam’ importer for ‘guix import’ *** ‘guix import pypi’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option *** ‘guix import hackage’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option *** ‘guix import stackage’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option The short option for ‘--lts-version’ is now ‘-l’ (used to be ‘-r’). *** ‘guix refresh’ now stores upstream keys in ~/.config/guix/upstream *** Guix now depends on Guile-Gcrypt +*** Guix now requires Guile-JSON ** Distribution +*** Rust is now bootstrapped from mrustc *** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.5.0 *** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now loads Shepherd service replacements *** ‘herd schedule mcron’ now displays mcron’s job schedule @@ -40,21 +50,50 @@ The short option for ‘--lts-version’ is now ‘-l’ (used to be ‘-r’). *** ‘herd invalidate nscd TABLE’ instructs nscd to invalidate TABLE *** New services -gitolite, iptables, pcscd, prometheus-node-exporter, varnish +ddclient, gitolite, iptables, pcscd, prometheus-node-exporter, varnish + +*** XXX new packages +*** XXX package updates ** Programming interfaces -*** New (guix channels) module -*** New (guix inferior) module -*** New (guix status) module +*** New (guix channels) module, see “Channels” in the manual +*** New (guix inferior) module, see “Inferiors” in the manual +*** New (guix describe) module, used by ‘guix describe’ +*** New (guix status) module, for build progress reporting *** ‘packages->manifest’ now accepts inferior packages *** New build systems: ‘clojure’, ‘guile’ +*** New ‘git-checkout’ record constructor in (guix git) *** Shepherd services can now declare custom actions *** More of the (gnu system …) APIs are now non-monadic *** New ‘add-file-tree-to-store’ procedure in (guix store) +*** New (guix swh) module to access Software Heritage +*** New (guix build debug-link) module, for ELF ‘.gnu_debuglink’ sections ** Noteworthy bug fixes +*** Fix GCC crashes caused by a patch of ours (<https://bugs.gnu.org/31708>) +*** ‘guix import hackage’ now supports ‘custom-setup’ field + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/23961>) +*** ‘guix-daemon’ taken from ‘guix pull’ looks up ‘guix’ in the right place + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32183>) +*** Try several file names when looking up kernel modules + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/31714>) +*** ‘file-system-*’ services are now always started after ‘udev’ + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32313>) +*** Racket now ignores bytecode checksums for files in the store + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30680>) +*** Grafting now updates CRCs in ‘.gnu_debuglink’ ELF sections + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/19973>) +*** UUID computation for VMs is now deterministic (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32652>) +*** ‘git-predicate’ from (guix git) now uses Guile-Git, which fixes corner cases + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/27925>) +*** (guix store database) registers each store item only once + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32600>) +*** The File > Open dialog in LibreOffice no longer triggers a crash + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30642>) +*** Account home directory is always honored (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33422>) + ** Native language support *** The manual is now partially translated into German, in addition to French |