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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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#+STARTUP: content hidestars
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Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
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* Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
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** Package management
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*** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
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Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
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directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
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*** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
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*** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
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*** New ‘guix archive’ command
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*** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
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*** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
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*** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
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*** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
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*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
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*** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
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*** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
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*** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
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*** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
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*** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
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*** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
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*** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
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*** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
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*** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
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** GNU distribution
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*** FIXME new packages
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*** FIXME package updates
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*** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
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*** libc’s Info manual is now installed
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*** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
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*** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
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*** Many other packaging improvements
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** Bugs fixed
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*** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
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*** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
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*** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
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(http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
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*** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
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*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
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(http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
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*** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
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*** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
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*** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
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*** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
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* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
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* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
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** Package management
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** Package management
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*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
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*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
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