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@@ -10,6 +10,121 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6) +** Package management +*** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org + +These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already +provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See +“Substitutes” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option +*** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option + +** Programming interfaces +*** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions” + +G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side +code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual. + +*** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions + +This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries +references to the packages or derivations it uses. + +*** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions +*** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized +*** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images +*** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation” +*** New (guix build syscalls) module +*** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation +*** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system +*** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations +*** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules +*** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field + +This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time. + +** GNU distribution +*** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided + +This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System +Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted +in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome! + +*** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations + +Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list +of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration” +in the manual. + +*** ‘guix system’ supports more actions + +Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’. +See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. + +*** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time +*** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices +*** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs +*** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>) +*** 134 new packages + +abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp, +chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat, +doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi, +fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice, +gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools, +jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui, +libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, +libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt, +libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages, +maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl, +offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc, +petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf, +pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock, +python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto, +python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode, +rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse, +strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy, +transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools, +wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl + +*** 87 package updates + +bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2, +docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6, +ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4, +gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3, +gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3, +gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1, +gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a, +gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20, +gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2, +guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3, +icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e, +libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37, +libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4, +linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6, +neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1, +pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, +qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2, +screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22, +wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304 + +** Native language support +*** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian) +*** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi +*** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’ +** Bugs fixed +*** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>) +*** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>) +*** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed +*** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved +*** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension +*** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook +*** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers + * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5) ** Package management *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store |