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** Package management ** Package management
*** guix pull has been overhauled; it now populates ~/.config/guix/current *** guix pull has been overhauled; it now populates ~/.config/guix/current
*** guix pull has a new --list-generations option
*** guix pack now supports building SquashFS images *** guix pack now supports building SquashFS images
*** guix pack can now build tarballs with relocatable executables *** guix pack can now build tarballs with relocatable executables
*** guix system gives more hints for common configuration errors *** guix environment and guix pack have a new --manifest option
*** New guix environment options: --user, --link-profile
*** guix package has a new --allow-collisions option
*** guix package no longer warns about harmless file collisions *** guix package no longer warns about harmless file collisions
*** The --with-source option now accepts “PACKAGE=URI” specs
*** Profiles now include a separate dir.LANGUAGE Info file
*** New profile hook generates a gschemas.compiled file as needed
*** guix build provides hints for unbound variables
*** guix weather now reports continuous integration statistics *** guix weather now reports continuous integration statistics
*** guix gc has a new --derivers option
*** guix publish now publishes build logs at /log URLs
*** guix import elpa has a new --recursive option *** guix import elpa has a new --recursive option
*** guix graph has a new “module” node type
*** New guix offload status command
*** guix-daemon now comes with an SELinux policy
*** guix-daemon now rejects garbage collection requests from remote clients
*** guix-daemon supports ARMv7 builds on AArch64
*** guix-daemon has relaxed tests to allow for binfmt_misc execution
*** guix-daemon has a new --log-compression option, with gzip support
** Distribution ** Distribution
*** New guix system docker-image command
*** guix system reports kernel modules that should be added to the initrd
*** guix system reports invalid mapped device specifications
*** guix system init warns about insufficient disk space
*** guix system search displays Shepherd service names when available
*** Required services missing from the config are automatically instantiated
*** New initrd-modules field of operating-system *** New initrd-modules field of operating-system
*** New file-system-label construct supersedes title field of file-system *** New file-system-label construct supersedes title field of file-system
*** guix system has a new -e option
*** The ld wrappers now allows linking with non-store libraries by default
*** Package for Python 2.x has been renamed from “python” to “python2” *** Package for Python 2.x has been renamed from “python” to “python2”
*** RHEL6 systems based on kernel Linux 2.6 are supported again *** RHEL6 systems based on kernel Linux 2.6 are supported again
*** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.4.0; it now logs to syslogd
*** New services *** New services
enlightenment, qemu-binfmt alsa, cat-avatar-generator, darkstat, dhcpd, dnsmasq, enlightenment, fprintd,
hpcguix-web, httpd, mate, modem-manager, openntpd, php-fpm, qemu-binfmt,
wesnothd
*** bitlbee service now supports plugins
*** nginx service configuration has been enhanced
*** cgit service supports project lists and is more flexible
*** openssh-configuration has a new accepted-environment field
*** dovecot service copies dovecot.conf to /etc
*** prosody service configuration now accepts file-like objects
*** certbot service has been overhauled
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
** Programming interfaces ** Programming interfaces
*** gnu-build-system now includes a bootstrap phase to run autoreconf *** gnu-build-system now includes a bootstrap phase to run autoreconf
*** gnu-build-system dumps contents of test-suite.log upon test failures *** gnu-build-system dumps contents of test-suite.log upon test failures
*** gnu-build-system now copies license files to the output
*** emacs-build-system has an improved check phase
*** New build systems: android-ndk *** New build systems: android-ndk
*** New with-extensions form for G-expressions
*** New (guix self) module, used by guix pull
*** New (guix store database) and (guix store deduplication) modules *** New (guix store database) and (guix store deduplication) modules
*** The guix-register C++ program no longer is *** The guix-register C++ program no longer is
*** package-full-name (guix packages) now uses "@" as its delimiter. *** package-full-name (guix packages) now uses "@" as its delimiter.
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/31088>) (<https://bugs.gnu.org/31088>)
*** invoke from (guix build utils) is now recommended over system*
*** More of the (gnu services …) APIs are now non-monadic
** Noteworthy bug fixes ** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** guix pull doesnt keep rebuilding all of Guix
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/27284>)
*** guix pack now honors package transformation options
*** guix package --search no longer shows superseded packages
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/30566>)
*** guix offload test reports errors more nicely
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/28057>)
*** postgresql service is started through pg_ctl
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/29992>)
*** urandom-seed service is now a dependency of user-processes
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/29773>)
*** fuse kernel module is now automatically loaded on demand
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/22050>)
*** guix pack --localstatedir now produces a bit-reproducible database
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/21073>)
*** Package lookups by name and version correctly honor version prefixes
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/28446>)
*** guix pull --commit now accepts show commit IDs
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/30716>)
** Native language support ** Native language support
*** the manual can now be translated and is partially translated into French *** The manual can now be translated and is partially translated into French
* Changes in 0.14.0 (since 0.13.0) * Changes in 0.14.0 (since 0.13.0)