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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 10041925f1..96f411b4c2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> Copyright © 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> +Copyright © 2022 Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -16,8 +17,12 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. ** Package management *** New ‘guix home’ command, for home environment management *** New ‘guix shell’ command, the successor to ‘guix environment’ +*** New ‘guix system edit’ command, to edit services *** New ‘deb’ format for the ‘guix pack’ command *** New ‘guix import minetest’ command, to import Minetest extensions +*** New ‘guix import elm’ command, to import Elm packages +*** New ‘guix import egg’ command, to import CHICKEN egg packages +*** New ‘guix import hexpm’ command, to import Erlang and Elixir packages *** New 'guix style' command, to auto-format package definitions *** ‘guix import texlive’ rewritten to use the TLPDB as its source *** ‘guix import elpa’ now supports the non-GNU ELPA repository @@ -25,12 +30,17 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** ‘guix import cran’ can now import a specific version *** New updater (see ‘guix refresh’): ‘generic-git’ *** ‘guix graph’ has a new ‘--max-depth’ option +*** ‘guix deploy’ has a new ‘--execute’ option *** ‘--with-commit’ option now accepts strings returned by ‘git describe’ *** Align tabular data output by commands like ‘guix package --list-available’ *** Improved ‘guix import go’ importer via a new PEG parser *** Improved Software Heritage downloader *** New 'web.archive.org’ download fall-back *** Various performance enhancements +*** New ‘--tune’ package transformation option +*** ‘guix refresh’ ‘-L’ option is repurposed to ‘load-path’ modification +*** ‘guix system image’ supersedes the ‘docker-image’ sub-command + ** Distribution *** The installation script can now enable local substitute servers discovery *** More control over boot-time file system checks and repairs @@ -54,6 +64,14 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** Configuring setuid programs is now more flexible *** Add support for the XFS file system *** Add partial support for LUKS2 headers when using GRUB +*** GDM now supports Wayland +*** Guix System static networking support is improved +*** The installer final configuration is prettified +*** The installer external command handling is improved +*** The installer now has a crash dump upload mechanism +*** Emacs now supports native compilation +*** GRUB bootloader now supports chain-loading + ** Programming interfaces *** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers” *** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean @@ -62,6 +80,25 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** New ‘modify-inputs’ macro to ease customizing a list of package inputs *** New ‘this-package-input’ and ‘this-package-native-input’ macros *** ‘texlive-union’ is now deprecated in favor of ‘texlive-updmap.cfg’ +*** New (guix cpu) module +*** New (guix least-authority) module +*** New (guix plaform) module +*** New (guix read-print) module + +It provides a comment-preserving reader and a comment-preserving +pretty-printer smarter than (ice-9 pretty-print). + +*** New ‘channel-build-system’ + +This build system lets you build Guix instances from channel specifications, +similar to how 'guix time-machine' would do it, as regular packages. + +*** New ‘elm-build-system’ +*** New ‘rebar-build-system’ +*** New services +anonip, bitmask, fail2ban, gitile, greetd, jami, lightdm, log-cleanup, +nar-herder, opendht, rasdaemon, seatd, strongswan + ** Noteworthy bug fixes *** Fall back to Software Heritage when cloning a channel (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44187>) @@ -91,6 +128,24 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** Build the man database only if ‘man-db’ is in the profile *** gdk-pixbuf now discovers pixbuf loaders via a search path (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50957>) +*** Gitolite home directory permissions are fixed + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56444) +*** The man-db database is indexed via man pages names + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38838) +*** ‘chfn’ can now change the user's full name + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52539) +*** Gnome settings Bluetooth panel is now working + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/32166) +*** Inferiors are now caching store connections + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48007) +*** The installer doesn't segfault when removing an extended partition +*** The installer doesn't ship an older Guix revision + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53210) +*** The installer cannot proceed without any non-root user accounts + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54666) +*** <operating-system> compiler truly honors the 'system' argument + (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55951) + * Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0) ** Package management *** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview |