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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
#+STARTUP: content hidestars
Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
** Package management
*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview
*** New ‘--export-manifest’ and ‘--export-channels’ options of ‘guix package’
*** New ‘--profile’ option for ‘guix environment’
*** New ‘--discover’ option of ‘guix-daemon’, for local substitute discovery
*** New ‘--advertise’ option of ‘guix publish’
*** New ‘--with-patch’ and ‘--with-latest’ package transformation options
*** ‘guix system image’ supersedes the ‘disk-image’ and ‘vm-image’ sub-commands
*** ‘--verbosity=1’ no longer displays download URLs
*** ‘guix publish -C’ now supports zstd compression via Guile-zstd
*** ‘guix-daemon’ now supports zstd substitutes, which decompress faster
*** New ‘guix import go’ command, to import Go packages
*** ‘guix import opam’ now supports Coq packages and has a ‘--repo’ option
*** ‘guix import crate’ now honors semantic versioning (“semver”)
*** ‘guix import nix’ has been removed
*** New updaters (see ‘guix refresh’): ‘sourceforge’ and ‘generic-html’
*** Substitute installation has been optimized
*** ‘guix’ commands suggest alternative sub-commands or options upon typos
*** Offloading no longer requires ‘guile’ to be in $PATH on build machines
*** ‘GUIX_EXTENSIONS_PATH’ is honored when looking for extensions such as GWL
*** New ‘--format’ option for ‘guix processes’
** Distribution
*** ‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’ now relies on statically-linked QEMU
*** ‘guix system init’ has been optimized
*** New ‘--graph-backend’ option for ‘guix system {extension,shepherd}-graph’
** Programming interfaces
*** New ‘channel-with-substitutes-available’ procedure in (guix channels)
*** New modules (guix substitutes), (guix narinfo), and (guix avahi)
*** <image> records can be passed to ‘guix system image’
*** New (guix ipfs) module to interact with an IPFS gateway
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Risk of local privilege escalation via guix-daemon fixed
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47229>, CVE-2021-27851)
*** Setuid programs on Guix System are no longer setgid root
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46395>)
*** Risk of local privilege escalation during reconfigure fixed
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47584>)
*** Grafting recognizes UTF-16 and UTF-32 store references
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/33848>)
*** (guix git) honors HTTP/HTTPS proxy settings for Git submodules
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44593>)
*** Fix ‘guix substitute’ crash when interleaving lzip and gzip
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46967>)
*** Fix GnuTLS memory corruption when used from Guile
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46330>)
*** Update GnuTLS to 3.6.15, addressing a time-dependent test failure
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44559>)
** Native language support
*** Updated translations of the manual
The manual is fully translated into French and German, 90% translated into
Spanish, and has preliminary translations into Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese,
and Russian.
*** Update translations of the cookbook
The cookbook is fully translated in French and German and has a preliminary
translation into Korean.
*** Updated translations of messages
This version of Guix is fully translated in French, German, and Slovak; it has
good translation into Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, and preliminary
translations in a dozen other languages.
*** Translations now hosted on Fedora’s Weblate instance
Translations are now handled at
<https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/guix/guix/> (thanks, Fedora!).
You can join to help improve translations in your native language of messages,
documentation, package descriptions, and the web site.
* Changes in 1.2.0 (since 1.1.0)
** Package management