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Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@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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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8)
** Package management
*** New --share and --expose options for guix system vm
See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
*** Emacs mode now automatically loads newly installed Emacs packages
See “Emacs Initial Setup” in the manual.
*** guix-daemon now defaults to --cores=0 --jobs=1
In other words, at any given time, only one derivation is being built or
substituted, and it can use as many cores as available. Before, there could
be N derivations using N cores, which was obviously not desirable.
*** Command-line tools support the GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable
See “Invoking guix build” in the manual.
*** guix environment is faster
*** New --recursive option for guix archive
See “Invoking guix archive” in the manual.
*** Missing patches required by a package definition are gracefully reported
*** guix lint supports additional checkers
The new checkers are gnu-description, home-page, and source.
See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
*** New CPAN importer for guix import
See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
** Distribution
*** USB installation image has more tools
Tools added since 0.8: wpa_supplicant, cryptsetup, and iw.
*** Linux kernel module dependencies are automatically handled
Before that, all the modules needed in the initrd would need to be explicitly
listed, including their dependencies, and in topological order.
*** Font packages now all have a name starting with font-
See “Fonts” in the manual.
*** Shell startup files have been cleaned up
/etc/profile contains only environment variable definitions, which may also be
used when running a different shell. The skeletons for users .bash_profile
and .bashrc files behave as documented in the Bash manual. Zsh is supported.
*** The root account gets a copy of the account skeleton files
Before that, the skeleton files would only be copied to non-root accounts.
*** The name service cache daemon (nscd) is configurable
By default it aggressively caches host and service lookups. See “Base
Services” in the manual.
*** Available locale definitions are now declared in operating-system
Before, the glibc package would contain all the existing locales, as well as
the locale-archive file, amounting to 110 MiB. See “Locales” in the manual.
*** SLiM sessions are configurable
Pressing F1 in the SLiM graphical log-in screen allows users to choose among
the pre-configured session types. See “X Window” in the manual.
*** Man pages and Info files are systematically gzip-compressed
*** gnu-build-system ensures that documentation is in share/{man,info}
If a package installs to $prefix/{man,info}, this is automatically fixed to be
$prefix/share/{man,info}.
*** strip is invoked only on ELF files and ar archives
*** libtool and libltdl are now separate packages
*** Emacs mode is readily usable on the Guix System Distribution
*** Substitutes are now enabled by default on freshly installed systems
** Programming interfaces
*** New (guix elf) and (gnu build linux-modules) modules
These provide resolution of Linux kernel module dependencies. See
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html>.
*** glib-or-gtk-build-system has been extended
It now handles GIO and XDG themes, takes care of generating the icon cache,
and has a new #:glib-or-gtk-wrap-excluded-outputs parameter.
*** search-path-specification can now specify non-directory items
For example, the search-path-specification attached to libxml2 specifies a
file pattern, which allows all the catalog.xml files to be added to the
XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable.
*** (guix build syscalls) has more network-related procedures
set-network-interface-flags, set-network-interface-address,
network-interface-address, and configure-network-interface are ioctl
bindings used by network-handling dmd services.
*** (guix monads) refactoring
%store-monad is now in (guix store) and is an alias for the new
%state-monad provided by (guix monads). Monadic procedures dealing with the
store, with derivations, and with packages have been moved from (guix monads)
to (guix store), (guix derivations), and (guix packages). See “The Store
Monad” in the manual.
*** (guix build utils) provides parallel-job-count
*** wrap-program preserves the original argv[0]
*** New (guix sets) module
*** define-record-type* now support “delayed” fields
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>)
*** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>)
*** Substituter progress report properly formatted
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>)
*** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>)
*** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19317>)
*** Emacs knows where to find its GLib schemas (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19138>)
*** Adjust 'grub.cfg' to work on systems with a separate /boot
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19220>)
*** Fix removal of next-to-last item in a profile
(<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00292.html>)
*** Apply patches with "patch --force" (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19402>)
*** Extend search-path-specification for libxml2-style use cases
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18033>)
*** Search for patches under $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19364>)
*** Use executables from the target inputs in 'patch-shebangs'
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18895>)
*** guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>)
*** Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19491>)
*** Don't build the mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 cross-compiler on i686
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19598>)
*** Read archive signatures as Latin-1 strings (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19610>)
*** Raise an error for references to non-existent outputs
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19630>)
*** Initialize libgcrypt before use (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19677>)
** Native language support
*** New translations: fr (French), hu (Hungarian)
*** Updated translation: eo
* Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
** Package management