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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
** Package management
*** New --list-generations and --delete-generations options
The guix package command has these two new options, which make it easier to
deal with a profiles generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
*** New guix-register program
This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
** Programming interfaces
*** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
The (guix build-system gnu) has a new dist-package procedure that takes a
package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
runs ./bootstrap && make dist or anything similar.
*** derivation and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivations build
tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
*** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the qemu-image
procedure can now populate and initialize the images store; the new
system-qemu-image procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
system, has login running on several consoles, has a set of installed
packages, and where Guix can be used.
New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
PAM configuration; and so on.
*** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
derivation and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
<derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
** GNU distribution
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
*** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
*** More GUI applications
The emacs and racket packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
applications have been added (see above.)
*** Packaging guidelines
The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
under “GNU Distribution”.
*** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
section of the manual for details.
** Internationalization
Updated translations: eo.
** Bugs fixed
*** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
*** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
* Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)