diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8280902557..e291b65a31 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,82 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 0.14.0 (since 0.13.0) + +** Package management + +*** ‘guix package’ displays how much will be downloaded +*** ‘guix package’ warns about insufficient disk space +*** ‘guix package’ now reports package collisions early on +*** ‘guix package --search’ sorts results by relevance +*** ‘guix pull’ now fetches code directly over Git using Guile-Git +*** Substitutes can be downloaded from servers equivalent to the authorized ones +*** New ‘guix weather’ command +*** ‘guix publish --cache’ now also caches uncompressed items +*** ‘guix publish’ no longer removes live items from its cache +*** ‘guix challenge’ now displays an overall summary +*** ‘guix refresh’ no longer uses FTP for GNU and GNOME packages +*** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘-m’ or ‘--manifest’ option +*** New ‘refresh’ checker for ‘guix lint’ +*** New ‘json’ importer for ‘guix import’ to simplify first packages +*** New ‘texlive’ importer for ‘guix import’ + +** Distribution + +*** GuixSD installation image is now available as ISO-9660 +*** GuixSD installation image now includes an ‘sshd’ service +*** New (gnu bootloaders) API, with support for U-Boot and extlinux +*** ‘grub-configuration’ is deprecated in favor of ‘bootloader-configuration’ +*** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes NetworkManager instead of Wicd +*** The (uuid …) form can now specify FAT32 and ISO-9660 UUIDs +*** ‘guix system’ now reports missing file system UUIDs and labels +*** ‘guix system’ can provide hints when reporting unbound variables +*** New ‘--file-system-type’ option for ‘guix system disk-image’ +*** ‘guix system disk-image’ can now creates ISO-9660 images +*** ‘guix system vm-image’ & co. automatically estimate the image size +*** ‘guix system vm’ now uses overlayfs instead of unionfs +*** TeX Live is now also available as a set of small ‘texlive-’ packages +*** New ‘guix system search’ command to search for services +*** New services + +certbot, fcgiwrap, gdm, git-http, knot, libvirt, memcached, mongodb, mpd, +murmur, rsync, tailon, sysctl + +*** XXX new packages + +*** XXX package updates + +** Programming interfaces + +*** New build systems: ‘font’, ‘meson’, ‘minify’, ‘scons’, ‘texlive’ +*** ‘cmake-build-system’ now supports cross-compilation +*** Various improvements to ‘asdf-build-system’, ‘emacs-build-system’, + ‘ant-build-system’, and ‘go-build-system’ +*** ‘patches’ field of can now contain any lowerable object +*** (gnu system vm) has a new ‘make-iso9660-image’ procedure +*** ‘openssh-service-type’ can now be extended with new authorized keys +*** ‘rottlog-service-type’ can now be extended with new ‘log-rotation’s +*** ‘network-manager-service-type’ now supports VPN plugins +*** now has a ‘description’ field, used by ‘guix system search’ +*** New ‘virtual-machine’ form in (gnu system vm) +*** New (gnu system uuid) module, which defines a disjoint type +*** New (guix progress) module + +** Noteworthy bug fixes + +*** GuixSD no longer creates setuid binaries in /gnu/store + () +*** /root is no longer world-readable () +*** ‘guix publish’ no longer leaks memory () +*** Missing cursor icons in GNOME could cause crashes + () +*** Setuid programs now honor the system timezone + () + +** Native language support + +Updated translations: da (Danish), fr (French) + * Changes in 0.13.0 (since 0.12.0) ** Package management