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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -10,6 +10,64 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.13.0 (since 0.12.0) + +** Package management + +*** Guix can now be used on aarch64 GNU/Linux systems +*** New ‘guix pack’ command to create bundles +*** New ‘guix copy’ command to copy store items over SSH +*** New ‘--cache’ option for ‘guix publish’ +*** $GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET can specify remote daemons +*** Guix can now run on Guile 2.2, providing better performance +*** Emacs interface moved to separate Emacs-Guix package +*** New ‘--root’ option for ‘guix environment’ +*** ‘guix pull’ now connects to git.savannah.gnu.org over HTTPS +*** New cross-compilation targets: aarch64-linux-gnu, powerpc-linux-gnu +*** Packages can specify “single-entry search paths” (e.g., ‘GIT_EXEC_PATH’) +*** ‘guix import’ and ‘guix refresh’ now support Stackage +*** Support for the deprecated “PKG-VERSION” syntax has been removed +*** GnuTLS (Guile bindings) is now required + +** Distribution + +*** The GuixSD installation image supports (U)EFI systems +*** GuixSD supports Btrfs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19280>) +*** Some system services are now run in separate namespaces +*** The LXDE desktop environment is now available +*** ‘grub-configuration’ can specify settings for the user interface +*** Service types can now specify a default value for services +*** Create the /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/utmpx databases +*** ‘static-networking’ service can now be extended +*** Configuration of ‘nginx-service-type’ has been greatly improved +*** New ‘gnu-build-system’ phase to always reset gzip timestamps +*** FIXME new services + +exim, mail-aliases, inetd, agetty, openvswitch, special-files, redis, +thermald + +*** FIXME new packages +*** FIXME package updates + +** Programming interfaces + +*** (guix scripts challenge) returns complete reports, not just discrepancies +*** New ‘dub-build-system’ for the D language and Dub +*** New ‘ocaml-build-system’ for software written in OCaml +*** New ‘package-mapping’ procedure to rewrite package dependency graphs +*** New modules: (guix workers), (guix discovery), (guix cache), + (guix memoization), (guix ssh) + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** Create home directories once file systems are mounted + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21108>) +*** FIXME: Add more + +** Native language support + +Updated translations: fr (French), FIXME + * Changes in 0.12.0 (since 0.11.0) ** Package management |