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<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.0"><title>Release 1.6.0 (TBA)</title>
<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.0"><title>Release 1.6.0 (September 10, 2013)</title>
<para>In addition to the usual bug fixes, this release has several new
features:</para>
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from your regular shells.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix-env</command> no longer requires a
<literal>*</literal> argument to match all packages, so
<literal>nix-env -qa</literal> is equivalent to <literal>nix-env
-qa '*'</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix-env -i</command> has a new flag
<option>--remove-all</option> (<option>-r</option>) to remove all
previous packages from the profile. This makes it easier to do
declarative package management similar to NixOSs
<option>environment.systemPackages</option>. For instance, if you
have a specification <filename>my-packages.nix</filename> like this:
<programlisting>
with import &lt;nixpkgs> {};
[ thunderbird
geeqie
...
]
</programlisting>
then after any change to this file, you can run:
<screen>
$ nix-env -f my-packages.nix -ir
</screen>
to update your profile to match the specification.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <literal>with</literal> language construct is now more
lazy. It only evaluates its argument if a variable might actually
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<para>This release has contributions from Domen Kožar, Eelco Dolstra,
Florian Friesdorf, Gergely Risko, Ivan Kozik, Ludovic Courtès and Shea
Levy.</para>
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