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* NEWS: Update entries for v1.4.0
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Mathieu Othacehe 2022-09-16 09:39:04 +02:00
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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Copyright © 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Copyright © 2022 Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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** Package management
*** New guix home command, for home environment management
*** New guix shell command, the successor to guix environment
*** New guix system edit command, to edit services
*** New deb format for the guix pack command
*** New guix import minetest command, to import Minetest extensions
*** New guix import elm command, to import Elm packages
*** New guix import egg command, to import CHICKEN egg packages
*** New guix import hexpm command, to import Erlang and Elixir packages
*** New 'guix style' command, to auto-format package definitions
*** guix import texlive rewritten to use the TLPDB as its source
*** guix import elpa now supports the non-GNU ELPA repository
@ -25,12 +30,17 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** guix import cran can now import a specific version
*** New updater (see guix refresh): generic-git
*** guix graph has a new --max-depth option
*** guix deploy has a new --execute option
*** --with-commit option now accepts strings returned by git describe
*** Align tabular data output by commands like guix package --list-available
*** Improved guix import go importer via a new PEG parser
*** Improved Software Heritage downloader
*** New 'web.archive.org download fall-back
*** Various performance enhancements
*** New --tune package transformation option
*** guix refresh -L option is repurposed to load-path modification
*** guix system image supersedes the docker-image sub-command
** Distribution
*** The installation script can now enable local substitute servers discovery
*** More control over boot-time file system checks and repairs
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*** Configuring setuid programs is now more flexible
*** Add support for the XFS file system
*** Add partial support for LUKS2 headers when using GRUB
*** GDM now supports Wayland
*** Guix System static networking support is improved
*** The installer final configuration is prettified
*** The installer external command handling is improved
*** The installer now has a crash dump upload mechanism
*** Emacs now supports native compilation
*** GRUB bootloader now supports chain-loading
** Programming interfaces
*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
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*** New modify-inputs macro to ease customizing a list of package inputs
*** New this-package-input and this-package-native-input macros
*** texlive-union is now deprecated in favor of texlive-updmap.cfg
*** New (guix cpu) module
*** New (guix least-authority) module
*** New (guix plaform) module
*** New (guix read-print) module
It provides a comment-preserving reader and a comment-preserving
pretty-printer smarter than (ice-9 pretty-print).
*** New channel-build-system
This build system lets you build Guix instances from channel specifications,
similar to how 'guix time-machine' would do it, as regular packages.
*** New elm-build-system
*** New rebar-build-system
*** New services
anonip, bitmask, fail2ban, gitile, greetd, jami, lightdm, log-cleanup,
nar-herder, opendht, rasdaemon, seatd, strongswan
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Fall back to Software Heritage when cloning a channel
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44187>)
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*** Build the man database only if man-db is in the profile
*** gdk-pixbuf now discovers pixbuf loaders via a search path
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50957>)
*** Gitolite home directory permissions are fixed
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56444)
*** The man-db database is indexed via man pages names
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38838)
*** chfn can now change the user's full name
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52539)
*** Gnome settings Bluetooth panel is now working
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/32166)
*** Inferiors are now caching store connections
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48007)
*** The installer doesn't segfault when removing an extended partition
*** The installer doesn't ship an older Guix revision
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53210)
*** The installer cannot proceed without any non-root user accounts
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54666)
*** <operating-system> compiler truly honors the 'system' argument
(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55951)
* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
** Package management
*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview