From e8b9b0fae076a86e2be1dcb87b666d4490bac0aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 16:14:03 +0100 Subject: Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 91739580cb..e5824d7fce 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,15 +20,17 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** New ‘guix git authenticate’ command, to authenticate Git checkouts *** ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system reconfigure’ detect attempts to downgrade *** New ‘--allow-downgrades’ option for ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system’ -*** New ‘guix time-machine’ command, to travel in the revision history +*** Guix build time reduced thanks to Guile 3.0.4’s “baseline compiler” *** New ‘--with-debug-info’ package transformation option *** New ‘--with-c-toolchain’ package transformation option *** New ‘--without-tests’ package transformation option +*** ‘--with-input’ & co. now also apply to implicit dependencies *** Package transformation options are now recorded in profiles *** New fakechroot “execution engine” for packs produced by ‘guix pack -RR’ *** New ‘--cache-bypass-threshold’ option for ‘guix publish’ *** New ‘--diff’ option for ‘guix challenge’, to compare substitutes *** New ‘--exclude’ option for ‘guix lint’, to exclude checkers +*** New ‘check-for-collisions’ checker in ‘guix lint’ *** All of Guix and Guix System now runs on Guile 3.0 *** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ now support authenticated SSH repos *** ‘guix pull’ now honors $http_proxy and $https_proxy @@ -54,6 +56,15 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** ‘rottlog-service-type’ is now part of ‘%base-services’ *** mcron job specs are now statically checked at OS build time *** ‘swap-devices’ field of ‘operating-system’ can contains UUIDs and labels +*** Graphical installer uses UUIDs for unencrypted swap partitions +*** Graphical installer now supports NTFS file systems +*** New services + +autossh, ganeti, gmnisrv, guix-build-coordinator, +guix-build-coordinator-agent, guix-build-coordinator-queue-builds, hostapd, +hurd-console, hurd-getty, hurd-vm, lxqt, rshiny, secret-service, +simulated-wifi, udev-rules, unattended-upgrade, webssh, zram + *** XXX new packages *** XXX package updates @@ -70,6 +81,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** New record type for use in ‘origin’ *** New ‘let-system’ for in (guix gexp), for system-dependent code *** New lowerable record type in (guix profiles) +*** (gnu build secret-service) can share secrets with a guest OS *** “Programming Interface” section of the manual greatly expounded ** Noteworthy bug fixes @@ -84,7 +96,46 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. () *** GCC switched back to C_INCLUDE_PATH & co. from CPATH () -*** TODO add more +*** Graphical installer no longer hangs while connecting to WiFi network + () +*** GNU Aspell truly honors ASPELL_DICT_DIR () +*** Fix overly aggressive memoization of “commencement” packages + () +*** Duplicate /etc entries are now reported () +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper correctly reports exit code + () +*** Fix time travel to pre-Guile 3.0 revisions + () +*** ‘package-grafts’ returns grafts for all the relevant outputs + () +*** ‘guix pull’ and related commands authenticate Git checkouts + () +*** Fix GNU libstdc++ misconfiguration in recent ‘gcc-toolchain’ versions + () +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wraps propagated inputs as well + () +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper leaves root available to child processes + () +*** ‘lib/guix/package.cache’ generated by ‘guix pull’ is now bit-reproducible + () +*** Graphical installer now properly detects disks containing an LVM partition + () +*** Fix possible crash when copying store items over SSH + () +*** ‘gcc’ is now a “deprecated” alias for ‘gcc-toolchain’ + () +*** ‘package-input-rewriting’ & co. no longer yield unnecessary rebuilds + () +*** Offloading better normalizes build machine load + () +*** ‘guix build --check’ now honors ‘--rounds’ + () +*** /dev/disk/by-id file names can now be used with U-Boot + () +*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now installs shell completion files + () +*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now warns about lack of ‘nscd’ + () ** Native language support *** TODO populate -- cgit 1.4.1