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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 977c6e83e5..bb3a101ece 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,160 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.8.2 (since 0.8.1) + +** Package management + +*** New “binary tarball” installation method is available + +See “Binary Installation” in the manual. + +*** New ‘guix publish’ command, to publish one’s store + +See “Invoking guix publish” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix package’ runs “profile creation hooks” as needed + +It creates X.509 certificate bundles in the profile’s etc/ssl directory, if +needed, generates a package database cache for GHC if the profile includes GHC +(the Haskell compiler), and generates an Info ‘dir’ file (this part was +already done before.) + +*** ‘guix package’ creates an ‘etc/profile’ file in the profile + +See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. + +*** Commands understand version prefixes, such as ‘gcc-5’ for ‘gcc-5.1.0’ + +*** ‘guix package --search’ now sorts packages by name and version + +*** Substitute information is now fetched using HTTP pipelining + +Before that the “substituter” used threads. Using HTTP pipelining means that +resource consumption is reduced on both the client and server sides. As a +side effect, a progress report is displayed as substitute info is downloaded. + +*** ‘guix package’ warns when a $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH module cannot be loaded + +*** New ‘--sources’ option to ‘guix build’ + +*** New Bash completion file, installed in $sysconfdir/bash_completion.d + +*** New ‘guix import hackage’ command + +See “Invoking guix import” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix lint’ supports FTP for the ‘source’ and ‘home-page’ checkers + +*** ‘guix lint’ has a new ‘derivation’ checker + +*** ‘guix import cpan’ better handles dependencies and licenses + +*** Packages are now build in an environment with a UTF-8 locale + +** Distribution + +*** C library's name service switch (NSS) is now fully configurable + +See “Name Service Switch” in the manual. + +*** New services: wicd, lirc, colord, upower, console-keymap + +*** Xorg service supports new drivers, such as Nouveau + +*** lsh service has new options, initializes its seed by default + +*** /etc/ssl symlink is created, for X.509 certificates + +See “X.509 Certificates” in the manual. + +*** ‘guix system’ reports duplicate service identifiers + +*** New /etc/bashrc file that loads Bash completion when available + +*** SLiM service uses sessions from /run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions + +See “X Window” in the manual. + +*** The Linux “YAMA” restricting policy on PTRACE_ATTACH is now disabled + +*** /etc/shells now lists all the user accounts’ shells + +*** /gnu/store is now remounted read-only, to avoid accidental modification + +*** /etc/profile is sources each profile’s ‘etc/profile’ file + +*** XXX new packages + +*** XXX package updates + +** Programming interfaces + +*** New (guix build gremlin) to parse and validate ELF dynamic link info + +*** (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘validate-runpath’ phase + +This phase reads the dynamic entries of ELF files and reports libraries listed +as NEEDED that are not found in the RUNPATH. + +*** New (gnu services desktop) module and ‘%desktop-services’ variable + +*** New (guix cvs-download) module, for CVS checkouts + +*** New (guix build-system waf) module, for the Waf build system + +*** New (guix build-system haskell) module, to build Haskell packages + +*** (guix build-system gnu) now supports zip archives + +*** New convenience syntax ‘modify-phases’ added in (guix build utils) + +*** The ‘ld’ wrapper more finely determines whether to use ‘-rpath’ + +*** (guix gexp) exports ‘gexp-input’ to describe input unambiguously + +*** The ‘define-gexp-compiler’ form allows (guix gexp) to be extended + +*** New ‘local-file’ constructor exported by (guix gexp) + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** Profiles created with ‘guix package -p’ as indirect GC roots + +Before that they were made permanent GC roots–i.e., uncollectable. + +*** ‘guix package’ distinguishes downgrades from upgrades + +*** Handle HTTP redirects to relative URI references + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19840>) + +*** Downloads now honor the ‘http_proxy’ environment variable + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20402>) + +*** ‘--no-*’ options are now always correctly handled + (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00702.html>) + +*** SLiM no longer leaks open file descriptors + +*** Don't compare <pam-service> objects with 'equal?' + (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20037>) + +*** x86_64 and i686 bootstrap binaries updated (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19780>) + +*** ‘find-files’ no longer follows symlinks (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20081>) + +*** libc message catalog (‘libc.mo’) is now installed + +*** libstdc++ has appropriate RUNPATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20358>) + +*** ‘dhcp-client-service’ now correctly tracks dhclient’s PID + +** Native language support + +*** New translations: da (Danish) + +*** Updated translations: eo + * Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8) ** Package management |