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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e33e2ac179..922265cffa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,265 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3) + +** Package management + +*** New ‘guix graph’ command, to draw package graphs +*** New ‘guix challenge’ command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries +*** ‘guix environment’ has a new ‘--container’ option +*** ‘guix substitute’ now honors all the specified substitute URLs +*** New ‘guix import cran’ command, to import R packages from CRAN +*** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly +*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--install-from-file’ option +*** ‘guix package --search’ shows package outputs +*** ‘guix refresh’ can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions +*** The ‘--ad-hoc’ option of ‘guix environment’ is now positional +*** The ‘--exec’ option of ‘guix environment’ is deprecated; use ‘--’ instead +*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--file’ option +*** ‘guix build --log-file’ can now return URLs +*** ‘guix size’ now has a ‘--substitute-urls’ option and is much faster +*** New ‘guix lint’ checkers: ‘formatting’, ‘license’, ‘source-file-name’ +*** Download progress report has been improved +*** Emacs shell-mode completions for ‘guix’ commands updated +*** Emacs: New ‘M-x guix’ popup interface +*** Emacs: modes for viewing build logs (‘guix-build-log-mode’) + +** Distribution + +*** New extensible service composition API + +The operating system service API in (gnu services) has been completely +rewritten, significantly improving extensibility and modularity, while +providing a framework that makes it easy to reason about service composition. +Consequently, several sources of redundancy and confusion in +‘operating-system’ declarations have been eliminated. See “Service +Composition” in the manual. + +*** New ‘extension-graph’ and ‘dmd-graph’ sub-commands for ‘guix system’ +*** New ‘container’ sub-command for ‘guix system’ +*** New ‘guix container’ command, to deal with GuixSD containers +*** New ‘list-generations’ sub-command for ‘guix system’ +*** ‘operating-system’ has a new ‘locale-libcs’ field +*** New services: ‘nginx-service’, ‘udisks-service’, ‘guix-publish-service’ +*** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes Polkit, GeoClue, elogind, UDisks, and more +*** ‘dbus-daemon’ now has proper support for lazy service activation +*** ‘wicd-service’ automatically adds Wicd to the system profile +*** ‘slim-service’ automatically adds xterm to the system profile +*** hydra.gnu.org now provides substitutes for ‘armhf-linux’ +*** /run/systemd is mounted as tmpfs by default, for use by elogind +*** ‘glibc’ package no longer contains Bash in its bin/ directory +*** libc now looks for locale data in a versioned sub-directory +*** libc honors the new ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ environment variable +*** Xfce now defaults to the GNOME icon theme +*** 543 new packages + +abduco, accountsservice, american-fuzzy-lop, ansible, arandr, attic, +autobuild, bash-minimal, bash-static, bio-blastxmlparser, bio-locus, +bioperl-minimal, bioruby, bitcoin-core, bspwm, byobu, cabal-install, cityhash, +clang-runtime, clang-runtime, cm, cmus, conky, coreutils-minimal, cpphs, +cvs-fast-export, d-feet, deeptools, diffoscope, dosbox, dvtm, emacs-butler, +emacs-dash, emacs-debbugs, emacs-deferred, emacs-f, emacs-flycheck, +emacs-let-alist, emacs-ob-ipython, emacs-s, emacs-typo, enblend-enfuse, +epiphany, esmtp, ethtool, evilwm, exfat-utils, express-beta-diversity, +extra-cmake-modules, extundelete, fastcap, fasthenry, figlet, file-roller, +flann, font-anonymous-pro, font-gnu-unifont, font-inconsolata, font-tex-gyre, +font-ubuntu, frescobaldi, fuse-exfat, gajim, gamine, gerbv, gexiv2, +ghc-adjunctions, ghc-aeson, ghc-alex, ghc-annotated-wl-pprint, +ghc-ansi-terminal, ghc-ansi-wl-pprint, ghc-appar, ghc-async, ghc-attoparsec, +ghc-auto-update, ghc-base-compat, ghc-base-orphans, ghc-base64-bytestring, +ghc-bifunctors, ghc-blaze-builder, ghc-blaze-html, ghc-blaze-markup, +ghc-byteorder, ghc-bytestring-builder, ghc-cereal, ghc-cgi, ghc-charset, +ghc-cheapskate, ghc-clock, ghc-cmdargs, ghc-comonad, ghc-contravariant, +ghc-cookie, ghc-css-text, ghc-data-default, ghc-data-default-class, +ghc-data-default-instances-base, ghc-data-default-instances-containers, +ghc-data-default-instances-dlist, ghc-data-default-instances-old-locale, +ghc-digest, ghc-distributive, ghc-dlist, ghc-doctest, ghc-easy-file, +ghc-exceptions, ghc-extensible-exceptions, ghc-extra, ghc-fast-logger, +ghc-fingertree, ghc-free, ghc-generic-deriving, ghc-gluraw, ghc-glut, +ghc-haddock, ghc-haddock-api, ghc-haddock-library, ghc-half, ghc-happy, +ghc-haskell-src, ghc-haskell-src-exts, ghc-hspec, ghc-hspec-core, +ghc-hspec-expectations, ghc-hspec-meta, ghc-html, ghc-http-types, ghc-iproute, +ghc-kan-extensions, ghc-lens, ghc-lifted-base, ghc-logict, ghc-mmorph, +ghc-monad-control, ghc-multipart, ghc-nats, ghc-objectname, ghc-old-locale, +ghc-old-time, ghc-opengl, ghc-openglraw, ghc-optparse-applicative, +ghc-parsers, ghc-pcre-light, ghc-polyparse, ghc-prelude-extras, +ghc-profunctors, ghc-quickcheck-instances, ghc-quickcheck-io, +ghc-quickcheck-unicode, ghc-reducers, ghc-reflection, ghc-regex-base, +ghc-regex-compat, ghc-regex-posix, ghc-regex-tdfa-rc, ghc-resourcet, ghc-safe, +ghc-scientific, ghc-sdl, ghc-sdl-image, ghc-sdl-mixer, ghc-semigroupoids, +ghc-semigroups, ghc-setenv, ghc-silently, ghc-simple-reflect, ghc-smallcheck, +ghc-statevar, ghc-streaming-commons, ghc-stringbuilder, ghc-stringsearch, +ghc-tagged, ghc-tagsoup, ghc-tasty, ghc-tasty-ant-xml, ghc-tasty-golden, +ghc-tasty-hunit, ghc-tasty-quickcheck, ghc-tasty-smallcheck, ghc-temporary, +ghc-temporary-rc, ghc-transformers-base, ghc-transformers-compat, +ghc-trifecta, ghc-unbounded-delays, ghc-uniplate, ghc-unix-compat, +ghc-unix-time, ghc-utf8-string, ghc-vault, ghc-vector-binary-instances, +ghc-void, ghc-wai, ghc-wai-extra, ghc-wai-logger, ghc-word8, ghc-x11, +ghc-x11-xft, ghc-xhtml, ghc-xml, ghc-xmonad-contrib, ghc-xss-sanitize, +ghc-zip-archive, glibc-hurd, glibc-hurd-headers, gmtp, graphios, gtk-doc, +guile-next, guile-present, guile-redis, guile-rsvg, guile-wisp, gusb, gvfs, +gzochi, haunt, hlint, hscolour, hspec-discover, hurd-minimal, i3-wm, i3status, +ibus-libpinyin, idris, ifstatus, keepassx, klick, kwindowsystem, lablgtk, +libatasmart, libchamplain, libchop, libconfuse, libcue, libesmtp, libev, +libfm, libfm-extra, libgee, libgudev, liblxqt, libndp, libpano13, libpinyin, +libraw, libusb-compat, libyajl, lxqt-common, lxqt-session, lxrandr, lxtask, +lxterminal, lz4, mafft, manaplus, mars, menu-cache, minixml, mosaik, +nestopia-ue, newt, non-sequencer, ntk, openimageio, opusfile, patches, pbzip2, +pcmanfm, pcre2, pd, pelican, perl-czplib, perl-date-manip, perl-finance-quote, +perl-html-element-extended, perl-html-tableextract, perl-pod-simple, physfs, +pidgin, pidgin-otr, pigz, po4a, poppler-qt4, pwgen, python-appdirs, +python-bandit, python-blinker, python-ccm, python-chardet, +python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-debian, +python-debtcollector, python-ecdsa, python-file, python-fonttools, +python-gnupg, python-hacking, python-httplib2, python-idna, +python-ipython-genutils, python-iso8601, python-joblib, python-libarchive-c, +python-llfuse, python-ly, python-minimal, python-minimal, python-mistune, +python-monotonic, python-mox3, python-msgpack, python-nbxmpp, python-netaddr, +python-numexpr, python-os-client-config, python-os-testr, python-oslo.config, +python-oslo.context, python-oslo.i18n, python-oslo.log, +python-oslo.serialization, python-oslo.utils, python-oslosphinx, +python-oslotest, python-paramiko, python-passlib, python-pathpy, python-patsy, +python-pbr, python-pbr, python-pexpect, python-pickleshare, python-pip, +python-poppler-qt4, python-pretend, python-prettytable, python-ptyprocess, +python-py-bcrypt, python-pyasn1, python-pyopenssl, python-pytest-runner, +python-requests-mock, python-setuptools-scm, python-simplegeneric, +python-statsmodels, python-stevedore, python-tempest-lib, python-terminado, +python-tlsh, python-traitlets, python-webob, python-wrapt, python-xlrd, +python2-appdirs, python2-bandit, python2-blinker, python2-ccm, +python2-chardet, python2-cryptography, python2-cryptography-vectors, +python2-debian, python2-debtcollector, python2-ecdsa, python2-file, +python2-fonttools, python2-gnupg, python2-hacking, python2-httplib2, +python2-idna, python2-ipaddress, python2-ipython-genutils, python2-iso8601, +python2-joblib, python2-keyring, python2-libarchive-c, python2-llfuse, +python2-mistune, python2-monotonic, python2-mox3, python2-msgpack, +python2-nbxmpp, python2-netaddr, python2-notmuch, python2-numexpr, +python2-os-client-config, python2-os-testr, python2-oslo.config, +python2-oslo.context, python2-oslo.i18n, python2-oslo.log, +python2-oslo.serialization, python2-oslo.utils, python2-oslosphinx, +python2-oslotest, python2-paramiko, python2-passlib, python2-pathpy, +python2-patsy, python2-pbr, python2-pbr, python2-pexpect, python2-pickleshare, +python2-pip, python2-pretend, python2-prettytable, python2-ptyprocess, +python2-py-bcrypt, python2-pyasn1, python2-pycrypto, python2-pyopenssl, +python2-pytest-runner, python2-requests-mock, python2-setuptools-scm, +python2-simplegeneric, python2-statsmodels, python2-stevedore, +python2-tempest-lib, python2-terminado, python2-tlsh, python2-traitlets, +python2-webob, python2-wrapt, python2-xlrd, r-assertthat, r-bh, r-chron, +r-codetools, r-colorspace, r-crayon, r-data.table, r-dbi, r-dichromat, +r-digest, r-dplyr, r-evaluate, r-formatr, r-ggplot2, r-gtable, r-highr, +r-htmltools, r-htmlwidgets, r-httpuv, r-jsonlite, r-knitr, r-labeling, +r-lazyeval, r-magrittr, r-markdown, r-memoise, r-microbenchmark, r-mime, +r-munsell, r-plyr, r-proto, r-pryr, r-qtl, r-r6, r-rcolorbrewer, r-rcpp, +r-reshape2, r-scales, r-servr, r-stringi, r-stringr, r-testthat, r-yaml, rage, +raincat, redis, rest, rfkill, rpm, ruby-activesupport, ruby-atoulme-antwrap, +ruby-bio-logger, ruby-builder, ruby-byebug, ruby-coderay, ruby-cucumber-core, +ruby-diff-lcs, ruby-docile, ruby-ffi, ruby-formatador, ruby-gherkin3, +ruby-json, ruby-libxml, ruby-listen, ruby-log4r, ruby-lumberjack, +ruby-method-source, ruby-mini-portile, ruby-minitar, ruby-nenv, ruby-nokogiri, +ruby-notiffany, ruby-orderedhash, ruby-ox, ruby-permutation, ruby-pg, +ruby-pry, ruby-rack, ruby-rb-inotify, ruby-rjb, ruby-rubygems-tasks, +ruby-shellany, ruby-shindo, ruby-simplecov-html, ruby-thor, ruby-thread-safe, +ruby-tzinfo, ruby-xml-simple, ruby-yard, sassc, scmutils, seqmagick, shotwell, +shroud, simple-scan, squashfs-tools, sxhkd, tinc, udisks, unison, vsearch, +webkitgtk-gtk2, wesnoth, wpa-supplicant-minimal, xcb-util-cursor, xcompmgr, +xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, xjackfreak, xlsfonts, xmonad, yapet, yelp, +yelp-tools, yelp-xsl, znc, zynaddsubfx + +*** 268 package updates + +abcde-2.7, arb-2.7.0, ardour-4.2, at-spi2-atk-2.18.1, at-spi2-core-2.18.1, +ath9k-htc-firmware-1.4.0, atk-2.18.0, atkmm-2.24.1, autogen-5.18.6, +avidemux-2.6.10, bedtools-2.24.0, binutils-2.25.1, +binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.25.1, bison-3.0.4, bluez-5.35, +bundler-1.10.6, c-reduce-2.3.0, cairomm-1.12.0, calcurse-4.0.0, +calibre-2.41.0, camlp5-6.14, cgal-4.6.3, chess-6.2.2, clang-3.6.2, +claws-mail-3.13.0, cmake-3.3.2, complexity-1.3, conkeror-1.0pre1.20150730, +cpio-2.12, crossmap-0.2.1, csound-6.05, cups-2.1.0, cups-filters-1.0.75, +cups-minimal-2.1.0, curl-7.45.0, dbus-1.10.0, dbus-1.10.0.a, ddrescue-1.20, +dmd-0.2.01, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xml-4.5, dosfstools-3.0.28, +e2fsck-static-1.42.13, e2fsprogs-1.42.13, efl-1.15.2, eigen-3.2.6, +elementary-1.15.2, emotion-generic-players-1.15.0, enlightenment-0.19.12, +eudev-3.1.5, 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module, for generalized upstream release tracking + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** Passwords in /etc/shadow are SHA512-hashed (http://bugs.gnu.org/21318) +*** daemon: Require a signature for imports made by root + (http://bugs.gnu.org/21354) +*** emacs: Fix guix-guile-program default value (http://bugs.gnu.org/21127) +*** Compressed initrds no longer include timestamps +*** Partly fix handling of encrypted root partitions + (http://bugs.gnu.org/19190) +*** Python now includes tkinter (http://bugs.gnu.org/20889) +*** Memoize the results of ‘package-with-python2’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/21675) +*** Use the daemon's substitute URLs by default (http://bugs.gnu.org/20217) +*** ‘guix system --no-grub’ works correctly for ‘init’ and ‘reconfigure’ + (http://bugs.gnu.org/21068) + +** Native language support + +*** Updated translations: da + * Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2) ** Package management |