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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