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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7cc5e9433f..aa5e233015 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,82 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2) + +** Package management + +*** New ‘guix edit’ and ‘guix size’ commands +*** New ‘--manifest’ option for ‘guix package’, for declarative profiles +*** Similarly, new ‘M-x guix-apply-manifest’ for the Emacs UI +*** Emacs support now includes completion for ‘guix’ commands in shell-mode +*** ‘guix package --search-paths’ now takes an optional argument +*** ‘guix environment --ad-hoc’ creates a custom development environment +*** New ‘--system’ option for ‘guix environment’ +*** ‘guix environment’ defines $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, useful to adjust ‘PS1’ +*** New ‘--optimize’ and ‘--verify’ options to ‘guix gc’ +*** ‘guix build --with-source’ can now be passed a directory +*** New ‘elpa’ importer for ‘guix import’ +*** ‘guix import pypi’ determines the list of dependencies +*** New ‘--substitute-urls’ option for ‘guix build’ and other commands +*** ‘guix substitute’ can now alternate between different substitute URLs +*** New “Running Guix Before It Is Installed” section in the manual +*** Basic manual pages for the ‘guix’ commands are now shipped +*** Building the daemon now necessitates a C++11 compiler + +** Distribution + +*** New ‘%base-user-accounts’ variable, for common system accounts +*** New ‘--on-error’ option for ‘guix system’ +*** New ‘plain-file’ construct, for use in ‘operating-system’ declarations +*** ‘sudoers’ field of ‘operating-system’ renamed to ‘sudoers-file’ +*** ‘sudoers-file’ and ‘hosts-file’ fields now take file-like objects +*** File systems under /sys/fs/cgroup are now mounted by default +*** Default compiler is now GCC 4.9.3 (was 4.8.4) +*** ARMv7 port now requires NEON +*** The disk footprint of a dozen key packages has been reduced + +*** XXX new packages + +*** XXX package updates + +** Programming interfaces + +*** New “package Reference” and “origin Reference” sections in the manual +*** monads: ‘foldm’, ‘mapm’, and ‘anym’ now take a list of regular values +*** monads: Allow n-ary ‘>>=’ expressions +*** New (guix cpio) module, used to produce Linux initrds deterministically +*** New ‘clone’, ‘setns’, and ‘pivot_root’ bindings in (guix build syscalls) +*** New ‘dependencies’ field in <file-system> +*** New #:gem-flags parameter for ‘ruby-build-system’ + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** Binary installation tarball now has files root-owned, with zeroed mtime +*** GRUB background image is always available (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20591>) +*** ‘guix system’ catches references to non-existent user groups +*** Ignore trailing components for ‘guix gc -d’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19757>) +*** ‘guix lint’ warns only when all the URIs are unreachable +*** ‘guix system init’ overwrites the items in the target store + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20722>) +*** ‘guix-register’ performs deduplication even when --prefix is passed + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19044>) +*** The ‘location’ of packages is no longer preserved by ‘inherit’ +*** GuixSD installation image has udev rules for device-mapper + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20791>) +*** Daemon distinguishes between “substitutable” and “offloadable” derivations + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>) +*** Avoid infinite loop in ‘guix substitute’ +*** ‘guix environment’ now returns the exit code of its command +*** ‘file-system’ declarations can now really use UUIDs + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19778>) +*** Daemon preserves build user groups (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18994>) +*** Fix quadratic behavior when building packages with many propagated inputs +*** Tarballs for origins with patches/snippet are now build deterministically + +** Native language support + +*** Updated translations: da, eo + * Changes in 0.8.2 (since 0.8.1) ** Package management |