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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 0.8.2 (since 0.8.1)
** Package management
*** New “binary tarball” installation method is available
See “Binary Installation” in the manual.
*** New guix publish command, to publish ones store
See “Invoking guix publish” in the manual.
*** guix package runs “profile creation hooks” as needed
It creates X.509 certificate bundles in the profiles etc/ssl directory, if
needed, generates a package database cache for GHC if the profile includes GHC
(the Haskell compiler), and generates an Info dir file (this part was
already done before.)
*** guix package creates an etc/profile file in the profile
See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
*** Commands understand version prefixes, such as gcc-5 for gcc-5.1.0
*** guix package --search now sorts packages by name and version
*** Substitute information is now fetched using HTTP pipelining
Before that the “substituter” used threads. Using HTTP pipelining means that
resource consumption is reduced on both the client and server sides. As a
side effect, a progress report is displayed as substitute info is downloaded.
*** guix package warns when a $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH module cannot be loaded
*** New --sources option to guix build
*** New Bash completion file, installed in $sysconfdir/bash_completion.d
*** New guix import hackage command
See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
*** guix lint supports FTP for the source and home-page checkers
*** guix lint has a new derivation checker
*** guix import cpan better handles dependencies and licenses
*** Packages are now build in an environment with a UTF-8 locale
** Distribution
*** C library's name service switch (NSS) is now fully configurable
See “Name Service Switch” in the manual.
*** New services: wicd, lirc, colord, upower, console-keymap
*** Xorg service supports new drivers, such as Nouveau
*** lsh service has new options, initializes its seed by default
*** /etc/ssl symlink is created, for X.509 certificates
See “X.509 Certificates” in the manual.
*** guix system reports duplicate service identifiers
*** New /etc/bashrc file that loads Bash completion when available
*** SLiM service uses sessions from /run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions
See “X Window” in the manual.
*** The Linux “YAMA” restricting policy on PTRACE_ATTACH is now disabled
*** /etc/shells now lists all the user accounts shells
*** /gnu/store is now remounted read-only, to avoid accidental modification
*** /etc/profile is sources each profiles etc/profile file
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
** Programming interfaces
*** New (guix build gremlin) to parse and validate ELF dynamic link info
*** (guix build-system gnu) has a new validate-runpath phase
This phase reads the dynamic entries of ELF files and reports libraries listed
as NEEDED that are not found in the RUNPATH.
*** New (gnu services desktop) module and %desktop-services variable
*** New (guix cvs-download) module, for CVS checkouts
*** New (guix build-system waf) module, for the Waf build system
*** New (guix build-system haskell) module, to build Haskell packages
*** (guix build-system gnu) now supports zip archives
*** New convenience syntax modify-phases added in (guix build utils)
*** The ld wrapper more finely determines whether to use -rpath
*** (guix gexp) exports gexp-input to describe input unambiguously
*** The define-gexp-compiler form allows (guix gexp) to be extended
*** New local-file constructor exported by (guix gexp)
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Profiles created with guix package -p as indirect GC roots
Before that they were made permanent GC rootsi.e., uncollectable.
*** guix package distinguishes downgrades from upgrades
*** Handle HTTP redirects to relative URI references
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19840>)
*** Downloads now honor the http_proxy environment variable
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/20402>)
*** --no-* options are now always correctly handled
(<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00702.html>)
*** SLiM no longer leaks open file descriptors
*** Don't compare <pam-service> objects with 'equal?'
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/20037>)
*** x86_64 and i686 bootstrap binaries updated (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19780>)
*** find-files no longer follows symlinks (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20081>)
*** libc message catalog (libc.mo) is now installed
*** libstdc++ has appropriate RUNPATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20358>)
*** dhcp-client-service now correctly tracks dhclients PID
** Native language support
*** New translations: da (Danish)
*** Updated translations: eo
* Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8) * Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8)
** Package management ** Package management