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** Package management
*** Substitute display adjusts to client locale and terminal width
*** New --free-space option for guix gc
*** guix gc shows the amount of disk space freed
*** Source code downloads fall back to content-addressed mirrors
*** guix graph can now be passed a store file name
*** Building the profile is faster, noticeably so on slow file systems
*** Profiles now include XDG desktop and MIME databases
*** guix size can be passed more than one package
*** --check and --rounds save the differing build output upon failure
*** New Emacs interface for package locations: M-x guix-locations
See “Package Source Locations” in the manual.
*** Emacs modes show the full profile name in buffer names
*** Emacs “Package Info” buffer now have a “Build Log” button
*** guix environment sets $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT to the environments profile
*** New --ttl option for guix publish
*** New --compression option for guix publish
*** guix publish serves source files over content-address “/file” URLs
*** New hackage updater for guix refresh
*** guix lint -c cve uses a faster caching method
*** guix lint -c cve now reports up to 3-year-old vulnerabilities
*** guix lint -c source,home-page reports suspiciously small HTTP replies
*** guix lint -c inputs-should-be-native makes more suggestions
** Distribution
*** New services
urandom-seed-service, dicod-service, gc-root-service-type, mcron-service,
rngd-service, dropbear-service, pam-limits-service (See “Services” in the
manual for details.)
*** mapped-device can refer to partitions using a LUKS UUID
*** New raid-device-type, for RAID devices using mdadm
*** console-keymap-service can be given several file names
*** Java package names are now prefixed with “java-”
*** New modular Qt packages, to replace the monolithic qt package
*** The gnupg 2.0/2.1 packages provide the gpg command instead of gpg2
*** More packages are bit-reproducible: vlc, libxslt, nasm
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
** Programming interfaces
*** New with-imported-modules form provided by (guix gexp)
It supersedes the #:modules parameter of gexp->derivation, compute-file,
gexp->script, program-file, etc, as well as the imported-modules fields
of <origin> and <shepherd-service>. See “G-Expressions” in the manual.
*** New (gnu tests) and (gnu build marionette) modules for system tests
See <http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8605> for background.
*** New (guix zlib) module
*** New (guix hg-download) module, for Mercurial checkouts
*** (guix download) supports HTTP basic authentication
*** (guix svn-download) supports authentication
*** The source of packages can be a local-file or any lowerable object
*** Part of (guix utils) moved to the new (guix combinators)
*** GNU updater honors the ftp-server and ftp-directory package properties
*** CVE linter honors the cpe-name and cpe-version package properties
*** add-to-store and local-file have a new #:select? parameter
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Perl no longer references GCC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23077>)
*** Grafting now fails upon I/O errors (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23581>)
*** GuixSD random source is now properly seeded (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23605>)
*** call-with-container gracefully reports mount errors
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/23306>)
*** herd start cow-store now bind-mounts the target /tmp
*** guix environment now honors --system (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23682>)
*** guix publish properly encodes archive URIs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21888>)
*** NIX_CONF_DIR is now ignored (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22459>)
*** The shell of user nobody is nologin (<http://bugs.gnu.org/23971>)
*** Source code location is more precise in error messages involving records
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/23969>)
*** guix --version is correct in the presence of guix pull
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19278>)
*** Git commits are now signed, for eventual authentication by guix pull
(in preparation of a fix for <http://bugs.gnu.org/22883>)
** Native language support
*** New translation: zh_CN (Simplified Chinese)
*** Updated translations: fr
* Changes in 0.10.0 (since 0.9.0)
** Community