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@ -11,28 +11,38 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes since 0.15.0
* Changes in 0.16.0 (since 0.15.0)
** Package management
*** Default substitute URL changed to https://ci.guix.info
*** ‘guix pull -l’ lists new and upgraded packages
*** ‘guix pull’ now supports channels via ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
*** New ‘--profile’ or ‘-p’ option for ‘guix pull’
*** ~/.config/guix/current is now a symlink to /var/guix/profiles
*** New ‘guix describe’ command
*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows build logs by default
*** ‘guix’ commands now produce colored output by default
*** User interface now reports grafts separately
*** Manifests can now refer to arbitrary Guix commits using “inferiors”
*** New ‘--with-branch’ and ‘--with-commit’ package transformation options
*** ‘guix build -f’ now accepts any kind of “file-like object”
*** Git checkouts may now be fetched from Software Heritage
*** New ‘guix repl’ command for use by inferiors
*** New ‘guix processes’ command
*** ‘guix pack’ now honors ‘--localstatedir’ for all its backends
*** New ‘opam’ importer for ‘guix import’
*** ‘guix import pypi’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
*** ‘guix import hackage’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
*** ‘guix import stackage’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
The short option for ‘--lts-version’ is now ‘-l’ (used to be ‘-r’).
*** ‘guix refresh’ now stores upstream keys in ~/.config/guix/upstream
*** Guix now depends on Guile-Gcrypt
*** Guix now requires Guile-JSON
** Distribution
*** Rust is now bootstrapped from mrustc
*** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.5.0
*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now loads Shepherd service replacements
*** ‘herd schedule mcron’ now displays mcron’s job schedule
@ -40,21 +50,50 @@ The short option for ‘--lts-version’ is now ‘-l’ (used to be ‘-r’).
*** ‘herd invalidate nscd TABLE’ instructs nscd to invalidate TABLE
*** New services
gitolite, iptables, pcscd, prometheus-node-exporter, varnish
ddclient, gitolite, iptables, pcscd, prometheus-node-exporter, varnish
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
** Programming interfaces
*** New (guix channels) module
*** New (guix inferior) module
*** New (guix status) module
*** New (guix channels) module, see “Channels” in the manual
*** New (guix inferior) module, see “Inferiors” in the manual
*** New (guix describe) module, used by ‘guix describe’
*** New (guix status) module, for build progress reporting
*** ‘packages->manifest’ now accepts inferior packages
*** New build systems: ‘clojure’, ‘guile’
*** New ‘git-checkout’ record constructor in (guix git)
*** Shepherd services can now declare custom actions
*** More of the (gnu system …) APIs are now non-monadic
*** New ‘add-file-tree-to-store’ procedure in (guix store)
*** New (guix swh) module to access Software Heritage
*** New (guix build debug-link) module, for ELF ‘.gnu_debuglink’ sections
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Fix GCC crashes caused by a patch of ours (<https://bugs.gnu.org/31708>)
*** ‘guix import hackage’ now supports ‘custom-setup’ field
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/23961>)
*** ‘guix-daemon’ taken from ‘guix pull’ looks up ‘guix’ in the right place
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/32183>)
*** Try several file names when looking up kernel modules
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/31714>)
*** ‘file-system-*’ services are now always started after ‘udev’
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/32313>)
*** Racket now ignores bytecode checksums for files in the store
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/30680>)
*** Grafting now updates CRCs in ‘.gnu_debuglink’ ELF sections
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/19973>)
*** UUID computation for VMs is now deterministic (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32652>)
*** ‘git-predicate’ from (guix git) now uses Guile-Git, which fixes corner cases
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/27925>)
*** (guix store database) registers each store item only once
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/32600>)
*** The File > Open dialog in LibreOffice no longer triggers a crash
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/30642>)
*** Account home directory is always honored (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33422>)
** Native language support
*** The manual is now partially translated into German, in addition to French