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Update NEWS. 

This covers the commits made between v1.3.0..3eadcdc6^.

* NEWS: New entries for the 1.4.0 upcoming release.
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@ -26,25 +26,42 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** New updater (see ‘guix refresh’): ‘generic-git’
*** ‘guix graph’ has a new ‘--max-depth’ 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
** Distribution
*** The installation script can now enable local substitute servers discovery
*** More control over boot-time file system checks and repairs
*** XFS file systems can be created by the installer and mounted by label/UUID
*** New interface for declaring swap space
*** GNOME is now at version 42
*** TeX Live is now at version 2021
*** Python is now faster thanks to being built with optimizations
*** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19
*** Most Python 2 packages have been removed
*** Guix now makes use of parallel xz compression
*** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache
*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
*** Package inputs can now be provided without explicit labels
*** Package inputs can now be plain package lists
*** A package origin can now be a single file rather than an archive
*** Multiple Tex Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF
*** A new sanity-check phase detects packaging problems at build time
*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
*** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive
*** Improved CI and infrastructure
*** Multiple cross-compilation tooling addition and fixes
*** Many Qt 6 modules are now packaged
*** Configuring setuid programs is now more flexible
*** Add support for the XFS file system
*** Add partial support for LUKS2 headers when using GRUB
** Programming interfaces
*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration)
*** 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’
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Fall back to Software Heritage when cloning a channel
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44187>)
@ -56,13 +73,24 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937>)
*** File system flags are validated before system instantiation
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>)
*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile
*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile via XDG_DATA_DIRS
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31403>)
*** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH
*** Various Python reproducibility fixes
*** Installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
*** The installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)
*** The installer can now properly mount FAT16 partitions
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48419>)
*** The installer no longer crashes when deleting a free space partition
*** Emacs handles major upgrades better without a re-login
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/47458>)
*** The bootloader configuration now accepts multiple targets
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40997>.)
*** A file system mount point is always created when ‘create?’ is true
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40158>)
*** 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>)
* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
** Package management
*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview