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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c1ca2ab54f..75131eef6a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,77 @@ Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4) +** Package management +*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository + +In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync +with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package +meta-data. + +** Programming interfaces +*** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’ + +The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and +‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running +‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual. + +*** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store + +See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been +rewritten to use this monadic interface. + +*** New (guix profiles) module + +It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’ +command. + +*** New (gnu system) module + +This module provides generic way to describe the system’s configuration, and +to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.) +See “System Configuration” in the manual. + +This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org! + +*** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters + +Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters. +See “Derivations” in the manual. + +** GNU distribution +*** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’) + +Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, as several +Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core +packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual. + +Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will +build by itself on this platform. + +*** XXX new packages + +*** XXX package updates + +*** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3) + +** Native language support +*** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation +*** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation +*** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation +** Bugs fixed +*** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022 + (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html) +*** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix in a deterministically and correctly + +Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’ +calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 . + +*** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756) +*** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC +*** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640) + * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3) ** Package management |