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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
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* Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
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** Package management
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*** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
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The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
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deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
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*** New ‘guix-register’ program
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This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
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copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
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The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
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package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
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runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
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*** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
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This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
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tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
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This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
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to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
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*** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
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The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
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procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
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‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
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system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
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packages, and where Guix can be used.
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New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
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various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
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support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
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PAM configuration; and so on.
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*** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
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‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
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<derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
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a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
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file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
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** GNU distribution
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*** XXX new packages
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*** XXX package updates
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*** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
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Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
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based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
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fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
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*** More GUI applications
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The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
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applications have been added (see above.)
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*** Packaging guidelines
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The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
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under “GNU Distribution”.
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*** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
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Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
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it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
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section of the manual for details.
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** Internationalization
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Updated translations: eo.
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** Bugs fixed
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*** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
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*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
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*** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
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*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
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* Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
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