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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 0.9.1 (since 0.9.0)
* Changes in 0.10.0 (since 0.9.0)
GNU Guix adopted a contributor code of conduct, see CODE-OF-CONDUCT in the
source tree.
** Package management
*** New syntax for separating package names and version numbers
*** New command-line syntax for separating package names and version numbers
Use @ instead of - as a separator, as in gnupg@2.0. This new separator
is a reserved character which is not allowed both in package names and version
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The old syntax to specify a packages version—e.g., as “gnupg-2.0”—is obsolete
and support for it will be removed in the future.
*** Emacs interface for licenses
*** Emacs interface for system generations
*** Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org
*** “Grafts” apply recursively, based on run-time dependencies
“Grafts” is the mechanism by which we can apply security updates of core
packages without rebuilding or re-downloading the entire set of dependent
packages. See “Security Updates” in the manual, as well as
<https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8470> and
<http://bugs.gnu.org/22139> for more info.
*** Substitutes are fetched over HTTPS by default
*** Substitutes are cached for the duration reported in Cache-Control headers
*** Default substitute URL list includes a faster mirror, mirror.hydra.gnu.org
*** New --with-input and --with-source for guix package and guix build
See “Package Transformation Options” in the manual.
*** guix package --search-paths -p X -p Y combines search paths for X and Y
*** guix package can be passed several --search options
*** New --rounds and --check for guix build, for bit-reproducibility
*** New --rounds option for guix-daemon
*** New --quiet option for guix build
*** guix package -u no longer checks for upstream GNU releases
*** guix-daemon always uses /tmp in chroots, regardless of $TMPDIR
*** New Emacs interface to browse licenses: M-x guix-licenses
*** New Emacs interface to list system generations: M-x guix-system-generations
*** New Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org: M-x guix-hydra-…
*** Changes in Emacs interface variables and faces
In the following names, BUFFER-TYPE means "info" or "list";
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guix-ENTRY-TYPE-list-describe-warning-count
- guix-package-info-fill-heading -> guix-info-fill
*** New cve linter: guix lint -c cve reports pending vulnerabilities
*** New gnome, xorg, and github updaters for guix refresh
*** guix lint times out after 3 seconds when probing URLs
*** guix graph -t bag-with-origins includes origins in the graph
*** guix import cran can import packages from bioconductor.org
** Distribution
*** GuixSD upgraded to GNU Shepherd 0.3.1 and GNU Linux-libre 4.5.0
*** “System Installation” section of the manual has been expounded
*** Installation image runs GPM and includes more programs
*** GNOME and Xfce desktops are available via services; see "Desktop Services"
*** New tor-hidden-service procedure, to declare Tor hidden services
*** New Dovecot service
*** New fstab-service-type, to populate /etc/fstab
*** New mount? field for file-system forms
*** Most global environment variables are now set in /etc/environment (pam_env)
*** guix system reconfigure now loads/starts new services, stops old ones
(see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22039>)
*** local-file resolves file names relative to the current source file
*** Many reproducibility issues fixed: glibc, perl, bison, emacs-*, python-*, …
*** Initial RAM disk supports modprobe.blacklist on the kernel command line
*** New “Running GuixSD in a VM” section in the manual
*** dmd changed to shepherd in guix system sub-commands
*** A Bourne-like shell is spawned upon fsck failure
(see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22588>)
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
** Programming interfaces
*** Build systems always set the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable
*** New (guix graph) graph manipulation module, abstracted from guix graph
*** New (guix cve) module, to navigate the CVE database
*** build-things procedure takes a new mode parameter
*** Mass rename of dmd to shepherd in the (gnu …) modules
*** New gnome-desktop-service and xfce-desktop-service procedures
*** pam-root-service-type can be extended with cross-cutting transformations
*** package-with-python2 honors the python2-variant package property
(see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22437>)
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Numbers in package names are correctly handled (http://bugs.gnu.org/19219)
*** Grafts are applied recursively (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22139>)
*** Commands correctly handle numbers in package names
(http://bugs.gnu.org/19219)
*** guix-daemon deduplication code detects corrupt items
*** eudev now populates /dev/disk/by-{id,label}
*** Selected locale is automatically built (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22572>)
*** Substitutes can be downloaded over HTTPS (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22937>)
*** umask explicitly set in /etc/profile (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22650>)
*** guix system init writes GC root on the target file system
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22802>)
*** guix system vm now works in the absence of KVM support
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22633>)
*** GuixSD includes an Info reader by default (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22598>)
*** MacBook keyboards are now properly detected (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20433>)
*** GRUB searches root by label or UUID (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22281>)
*** guix package --search-paths honors propagated inputs
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22073>)
*** GCC uses C_INCLUDE_PATH et al. instead of CPATH
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22186>)
*** ld-wrapper computes library search path based on all -L flags
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/21941>)
*** guix environment --container gracefully handles abnormal exists
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/21958>)
* Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3)