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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 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 @@ -10,11 +10,14 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. -* Changes in 0.9.1 (since 0.9.0) +* Changes in 0.10.0 (since 0.9.0) + +GNU Guix adopted a contributor code of conduct, see ‘CODE-OF-CONDUCT’ in the +source tree. ** Package management -*** New syntax for separating package names and version numbers +*** New command-line syntax for separating package names and version numbers Use ‘@’ instead of ‘-’ as a separator, as in ‘gnupg@2.0’. This new separator is a reserved character which is not allowed both in package names and version @@ -23,9 +26,31 @@ numbers. The old syntax to specify a package’s version—e.g., as “gnupg-2.0”—is obsolete and support for it will be removed in the future. -*** Emacs interface for licenses -*** Emacs interface for system generations -*** Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org +*** “Grafts” apply recursively, based on run-time dependencies + +“Grafts” is the mechanism by which we can apply security updates of core +packages without rebuilding or re-downloading the entire set of dependent +packages. See “Security Updates” in the manual, as well as +<https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8470> and +<http://bugs.gnu.org/22139> for more info. + +*** Substitutes are fetched over HTTPS by default +*** Substitutes are cached for the duration reported in ‘Cache-Control’ headers +*** Default substitute URL list includes a faster mirror, mirror.hydra.gnu.org +*** New ‘--with-input’ and ‘--with-source’ for ‘guix package’ and ‘guix build’ + +See “Package Transformation Options” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix package --search-paths -p X -p Y’ combines search paths for X and Y +*** ‘guix package’ can be passed several ‘--search’ options +*** New ‘--rounds’ and ‘--check’ for ‘guix build’, for bit-reproducibility +*** New ‘--rounds’ option for ‘guix-daemon’ +*** New ‘--quiet’ option for ‘guix build’ +*** ‘guix package -u’ no longer checks for upstream GNU releases +*** ‘guix-daemon’ always uses /tmp in chroots, regardless of $TMPDIR +*** New Emacs interface to browse licenses: M-x guix-licenses +*** New Emacs interface to list system generations: M-x guix-system-generations +*** New Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org: M-x guix-hydra-… *** Changes in Emacs interface variables and faces In the following names, BUFFER-TYPE means "info" or "list"; @@ -57,9 +82,72 @@ ENTRY-TYPE means "package", "output" or "generation". guix-ENTRY-TYPE-list-describe-warning-count - guix-package-info-fill-heading -> guix-info-fill +*** New ‘cve’ linter: ‘guix lint -c cve’ reports pending vulnerabilities +*** New ‘gnome’, ‘xorg’, and ‘github’ updaters for ‘guix refresh’ +*** ‘guix lint’ times out after 3 seconds when probing URLs +*** ‘guix graph -t bag-with-origins’ includes origins in the graph +*** ‘guix import cran’ can import packages from bioconductor.org + +** Distribution + +*** GuixSD upgraded to GNU Shepherd 0.3.1 and GNU Linux-libre 4.5.0 +*** “System Installation” section of the manual has been expounded +*** Installation image runs GPM and includes more programs +*** GNOME and Xfce desktops are available via services; see "Desktop Services" +*** New ‘tor-hidden-service’ procedure, to declare Tor hidden services +*** New Dovecot service +*** New ‘fstab-service-type’, to populate /etc/fstab +*** New ‘mount?’ field for ‘file-system’ forms +*** Most global environment variables are now set in /etc/environment (pam_env) +*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now loads/starts new services, stops old ones + (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22039>) +*** ‘local-file’ resolves file names relative to the current source file +*** Many reproducibility issues fixed: glibc, perl, bison, emacs-*, python-*, … +*** Initial RAM disk supports ‘modprobe.blacklist’ on the kernel command line +*** New “Running GuixSD in a VM” section in the manual +*** ‘dmd’ changed to ’shepherd’ in ‘guix system’ sub-commands +*** A Bourne-like shell is spawned upon ‘fsck’ failure + (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22588>) +*** XXX new packages +*** XXX package updates + +** Programming interfaces + +*** Build systems always set the ‘SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH’ environment variable +*** New (guix graph) graph manipulation module, abstracted from ‘guix graph’ +*** New (guix cve) module, to navigate the CVE database +*** ‘build-things’ procedure takes a new ‘mode’ parameter +*** Mass rename of ‘dmd’ to ‘shepherd’ in the (gnu …) modules +*** New ‘gnome-desktop-service’ and ‘xfce-desktop-service’ procedures +*** ‘pam-root-service-type’ can be extended with cross-cutting transformations +*** ‘package-with-python2’ honors the ‘python2-variant’ package property + (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22437>) + ** Noteworthy bug fixes -*** Numbers in package names are correctly handled (http://bugs.gnu.org/19219) +*** Grafts are applied recursively (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22139>) +*** Commands correctly handle numbers in package names + (http://bugs.gnu.org/19219) +*** ‘guix-daemon’ deduplication code detects corrupt items +*** eudev now populates /dev/disk/by-{id,label} +*** Selected locale is automatically built (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22572>) +*** Substitutes can be downloaded over HTTPS (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22937>) +*** umask explicitly set in /etc/profile (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22650>) +*** ‘guix system init’ writes GC root on the target file system + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22802>) +*** ‘guix system vm’ now works in the absence of KVM support + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22633>) +*** GuixSD includes an Info reader by default (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22598>) +*** MacBook keyboards are now properly detected (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20433>) +*** GRUB searches root by label or UUID (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22281>) +*** ‘guix package --search-paths’ honors propagated inputs + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22073>) +*** GCC uses ‘C_INCLUDE_PATH’ et al. instead of ‘CPATH’ + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22186>) +*** ‘ld-wrapper’ computes library search path based on all ‘-L’ flags + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21941>) +*** ‘guix environment --container’ gracefully handles abnormal exists + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21958>) * Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3) |