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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0ccb0a8112..d287a066c8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 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 +10,177 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8) + +** Package management + +*** New ‘--share’ and ‘--expose’ options for ‘guix system vm’ + +See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. + +*** Emacs mode now automatically loads newly installed Emacs packages + +See “Emacs Initial Setup” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix-daemon’ now defaults to ‘--cores=0 --jobs=1’ + +In other words, at any given time, only one derivation is being built or +substituted, and it can use as many cores as available. Before, there could +be N derivations using N cores, which was obviously not desirable. + +*** Command-line tools support the ‘GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS’ environment variable + +See “Invoking guix build” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix environment’ is faster + +*** New ‘--recursive’ option for ‘guix archive’ + +See “Invoking guix archive” in the manual. + +*** Missing patches required by a package definition are gracefully reported + +*** ‘guix lint’ supports additional checkers + +The new checkers are ‘gnu-description’, ‘home-page’, and ‘source’. +See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual. + +*** New CPAN importer for ‘guix import’ + +See “Invoking guix import” in the manual. + + +** Distribution + +*** USB installation image has more tools + +Tools added since 0.8: wpa_supplicant, cryptsetup, and iw. + +*** Linux kernel module dependencies are automatically handled + +Before that, all the modules needed in the initrd would need to be explicitly +listed, including their dependencies, and in topological order. + +*** Font packages now all have a name starting with ‘font-’ + +See “Fonts” in the manual. + +*** Shell startup files have been cleaned up + +/etc/profile contains only environment variable definitions, which may also be +used when running a different shell. The skeletons for user’s ‘.bash_profile’ +and ‘.bashrc’ files behave as documented in the Bash manual. Zsh is supported. + +*** The ‘root’ account gets a copy of the account skeleton files + +Before that, the skeleton files would only be copied to non-root accounts. + +*** The name service cache daemon (nscd) is configurable + +By default it aggressively caches host and service lookups. See “Base +Services” in the manual. + +*** Available locale definitions are now declared in ‘operating-system’ + +Before, the ‘glibc’ package would contain all the existing locales, as well as +the ‘locale-archive’ file, amounting to 110 MiB. See “Locales” in the manual. + +*** SLiM sessions are configurable + +Pressing F1 in the SLiM graphical log-in screen allows users to choose among +the pre-configured session types. See “X Window” in the manual. + +*** Man pages and Info files are systematically gzip-compressed + +*** ‘gnu-build-system’ ensures that documentation is in share/{man,info} + +If a package installs to $prefix/{man,info}, this is automatically fixed to be +$prefix/share/{man,info}. + +*** ‘strip’ is invoked only on ELF files and ‘ar’ archives + +*** ‘libtool’ and ‘libltdl’ are now separate packages + +*** Emacs mode is readily usable on the Guix System Distribution + +*** Substitutes are now enabled by default on freshly installed systems + +** Programming interfaces + +*** New (guix elf) and (gnu build linux-modules) modules + +These provide resolution of Linux kernel module dependencies. See +<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html>. + +*** ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ has been extended + +It now handles GIO and XDG themes, takes care of generating the icon cache, +and has a new #:glib-or-gtk-wrap-excluded-outputs parameter. + +*** ‘search-path-specification’ can now specify non-directory items + +For example, the ‘search-path-specification’ attached to libxml2 specifies a +file pattern, which allows all the ‘catalog.xml’ files to be added to the +‘XML_CATALOG_FILES’ environment variable. + +*** (guix build syscalls) has more network-related procedures + +‘set-network-interface-flags’, ‘set-network-interface-address’, +‘network-interface-address’, and ‘configure-network-interface’ are ioctl +bindings used by network-handling dmd services. + +*** (guix monads) refactoring + +‘%store-monad’ is now in (guix store) and is an alias for the new +‘%state-monad’ provided by (guix monads). Monadic procedures dealing with the +store, with derivations, and with packages have been moved from (guix monads) +to (guix store), (guix derivations), and (guix packages). See “The Store +Monad” in the manual. + +*** (guix build utils) provides ‘parallel-job-count’ + +*** ‘wrap-program’ preserves the original argv[0] + +*** New (guix sets) module + +*** ‘define-record-type*’ now support “delayed” fields + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>) +*** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>) +*** Substituter progress report properly formatted + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>) +*** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>) +*** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19317>) +*** Emacs knows where to find its GLib schemas (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19138>) +*** Adjust 'grub.cfg' to work on systems with a separate /boot + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19220>) +*** Fix removal of next-to-last item in a profile + (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00292.html>) +*** Apply patches with "patch --force" (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19402>) +*** Extend ‘search-path-specification’ for libxml2-style use cases + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18033>) +*** Search for patches under $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19364>) +*** Use executables from the target inputs in 'patch-shebangs' + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18895>) +*** guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user' + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>) +*** Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19491>) +*** Don't build the mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 cross-compiler on i686 + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19598>) +*** Read archive signatures as Latin-1 strings (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19610>) +*** Raise an error for references to non-existent outputs + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19630>) +*** Initialize libgcrypt before use (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19677>) + +** Native language support + +*** New translations: fr (French), hu (Hungarian) +*** Updated translation: eo + * Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7) ** Package management |