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* NEWS: Update entries for v1.4.0.
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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Copyright © 2021 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Copyright © 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** New guix shell command, the successor to guix environment
*** New deb format for the guix pack command
*** New guix import minetest command, to import Minetest extensions
*** New 'guix style' command, to auto-format package definitions
*** guix import texlive rewritten to use the TLPDB as its source
*** guix import elpa now supports the non-GNU ELPA repository
*** guix import pypi can now import a specific version
@ -30,6 +31,18 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** More control over boot-time file system checks and repairs
*** XFS file systems can be created by the installer and mounted by label/UUID
*** New interface for declaring swap space
*** GNOME is now at version 42
*** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19
*** Most Python 2 packages have been removed
*** Guix now makes use of parallel xz compression
*** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache
*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
*** Package inputs can now be provided without explicit labels
*** A package origin can now be a single file rather than an archive
*** Multiple Tex Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF
*** A new sanity-check phase detects packaging problems at build time
*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
*** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive
** Programming interfaces
*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
** Noteworthy bug fixes
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(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937>)
*** File system flags are validated before system instantiation
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>)
*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile
*** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH
*** Various Python reproducibility fixes
*** Installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)
*** Emacs handles major upgrades better without a re-login
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/47458>)
* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
** Package management
*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview