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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2013-2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Copyright © 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Copyright © 2022 Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
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*** New interface for declaring swap space
*** GNOME is now at version 42
*** TeX Live is now at version 2021
*** Multiple TeX Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF
*** Python is now faster thanks to being built with optimizations
*** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19
*** Most Python 2 packages have been removed
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*** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache
*** Package inputs can now be plain package lists
*** 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
*** New sanity-check phase to detect Python packaging problems at build time
*** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive
*** Improved CI and infrastructure
*** Multiple cross-compilation tooling addition and fixes
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*** Emacs now supports native compilation
*** GRUB bootloader now supports chain-loading
*** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.9.2
*** The init RAM disk honors more arguments, e.g. root and rootflags
*** The init RAM disk honors more argumentse.g. root and rootflags
** Programming interfaces
*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration)
*** Package input fields can now plain package lists
*** G-expressions can now be used in build phases
*** New modify-inputs macro to ease customizing a list of package inputs
*** New this-package-input and this-package-native-input macros
*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
*** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration)
*** texlive-union is now deprecated in favor of texlive-updmap.cfg
*** New (guix cpu) module
*** New (guix least-authority) module
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(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>)
*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile via XDG_DATA_DIRS
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31403>)
*** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH
*** Python modules are searched in GUIX_PYTHONPATH instead of PYTHONPATH
*** Various Python reproducibility fixes
*** The installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)