Update 'NEWS' for 0.6.

This commit is contained in:
Ludovic Courtès 2014-04-07 23:36:26 +02:00
parent 8de3a57821
commit b0f981f06e

49
NEWS
View file

@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#+TITLE: Guix NEWS history of user-visible changes #+TITLE: Guix NEWS history of user-visible changes
#+STARTUP: content hidestars #+STARTUP: content hidestars
Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@ -10,6 +10,53 @@ Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
** Package management
*** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
*** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
*** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
*** New guix archive command
*** New guix system command; it can currently build VM images
*** guix package accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
*** Updating a profile with guix package is now noticeably faster
*** guix build can override a packages source with the new --with-source
*** guix build has a new --no-build-hook option
*** guix commands that build packages have a common set of options
*** guix hash has a new --recursive option
*** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the hosts /dev (improves reproducibility)
** Programming interfaces
*** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
*** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldnt be offloaded
*** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the hosts store
*** New text-file* procedure in (guix monads)
*** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
*** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
*** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
** GNU distribution
*** FIXME new packages
*** FIXME package updates
*** New gcc-toolchain meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
*** libcs Info manual is now installed
*** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
*** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
*** Many other packaging improvements
** Bugs fixed
*** guix pull consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
*** guix package --list-* gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
*** guix package handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
(http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
*** HTTP downloads provide a User-Agent field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
*** guix package no longer shows misleading installed package number
(http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
*** Manual suggests useradd --system (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
*** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
*** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
*** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4) * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
** Package management ** Package management
*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the gnumaint repository *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the gnumaint repository