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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 96f411b4c2..96d4a65fbf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes #+STARTUP: content hidestars -Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013-2022 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> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** New interface for declaring swap space *** GNOME is now at version 42 *** TeX Live is now at version 2021 +*** Multiple TeX Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF *** Python is now faster thanks to being built with optimizations *** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19 *** Most Python 2 packages have been removed @@ -55,8 +56,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache *** Package inputs can now be plain package lists *** A package origin can now be a single file rather than an archive -*** Multiple Tex Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF -*** A new sanity-check phase detects packaging problems at build time +*** New sanity-check phase to detect Python packaging problems at build time *** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive *** Improved CI and infrastructure *** Multiple cross-compilation tooling addition and fixes @@ -71,14 +71,17 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** The installer now has a crash dump upload mechanism *** Emacs now supports native compilation *** GRUB bootloader now supports chain-loading - +*** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.9.2 +*** The init RAM disk honors more arguments—e.g. ‘root’ and ‘rootflags’ +*** ‘guix system image’ can now generate WSL images ** Programming interfaces -*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers” -*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean -*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases -*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration) +*** Package input fields can now plain package lists +*** G-expressions can now be used in build phases *** New ‘modify-inputs’ macro to ease customizing a list of package inputs *** New ‘this-package-input’ and ‘this-package-native-input’ macros +*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean +*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers” +*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration) *** ‘texlive-union’ is now deprecated in favor of ‘texlive-updmap.cfg’ *** New (guix cpu) module *** New (guix least-authority) module @@ -112,7 +115,7 @@ nar-herder, opendht, rasdaemon, seatd, strongswan (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>) *** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile via XDG_DATA_DIRS (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31403>) -*** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH +*** Python modules are searched in GUIX_PYTHONPATH instead of PYTHONPATH *** Various Python reproducibility fixes *** The installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>) |