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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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@ -10,6 +10,177 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
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* Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8)
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** Package management
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*** New ‘--share’ and ‘--expose’ options for ‘guix system vm’
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See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
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*** Emacs mode now automatically loads newly installed Emacs packages
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See “Emacs Initial Setup” in the manual.
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ now defaults to ‘--cores=0 --jobs=1’
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In other words, at any given time, only one derivation is being built or
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substituted, and it can use as many cores as available. Before, there could
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be N derivations using N cores, which was obviously not desirable.
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*** Command-line tools support the ‘GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS’ environment variable
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See “Invoking guix build” in the manual.
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*** ‘guix environment’ is faster
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*** New ‘--recursive’ option for ‘guix archive’
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See “Invoking guix archive” in the manual.
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*** Missing patches required by a package definition are gracefully reported
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*** ‘guix lint’ supports additional checkers
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The new checkers are ‘gnu-description’, ‘home-page’, and ‘source’.
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See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
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*** New CPAN importer for ‘guix import’
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See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
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** Distribution
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*** USB installation image has more tools
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Tools added since 0.8: wpa_supplicant, cryptsetup, and iw.
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*** Linux kernel module dependencies are automatically handled
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Before that, all the modules needed in the initrd would need to be explicitly
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listed, including their dependencies, and in topological order.
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*** Font packages now all have a name starting with ‘font-’
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See “Fonts” in the manual.
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*** Shell startup files have been cleaned up
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/etc/profile contains only environment variable definitions, which may also be
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used when running a different shell. The skeletons for user’s ‘.bash_profile’
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and ‘.bashrc’ files behave as documented in the Bash manual. Zsh is supported.
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*** The ‘root’ account gets a copy of the account skeleton files
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Before that, the skeleton files would only be copied to non-root accounts.
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*** The name service cache daemon (nscd) is configurable
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By default it aggressively caches host and service lookups. See “Base
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Services” in the manual.
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*** Available locale definitions are now declared in ‘operating-system’
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Before, the ‘glibc’ package would contain all the existing locales, as well as
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the ‘locale-archive’ file, amounting to 110 MiB. See “Locales” in the manual.
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*** SLiM sessions are configurable
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Pressing F1 in the SLiM graphical log-in screen allows users to choose among
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the pre-configured session types. See “X Window” in the manual.
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*** Man pages and Info files are systematically gzip-compressed
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*** ‘gnu-build-system’ ensures that documentation is in share/{man,info}
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If a package installs to $prefix/{man,info}, this is automatically fixed to be
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$prefix/share/{man,info}.
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*** ‘strip’ is invoked only on ELF files and ‘ar’ archives
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*** ‘libtool’ and ‘libltdl’ are now separate packages
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*** Emacs mode is readily usable on the Guix System Distribution
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*** Substitutes are now enabled by default on freshly installed systems
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New (guix elf) and (gnu build linux-modules) modules
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These provide resolution of Linux kernel module dependencies. See
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<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html>.
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*** ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ has been extended
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It now handles GIO and XDG themes, takes care of generating the icon cache,
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and has a new #:glib-or-gtk-wrap-excluded-outputs parameter.
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*** ‘search-path-specification’ can now specify non-directory items
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For example, the ‘search-path-specification’ attached to libxml2 specifies a
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file pattern, which allows all the ‘catalog.xml’ files to be added to the
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‘XML_CATALOG_FILES’ environment variable.
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*** (guix build syscalls) has more network-related procedures
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‘set-network-interface-flags’, ‘set-network-interface-address’,
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‘network-interface-address’, and ‘configure-network-interface’ are ioctl
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bindings used by network-handling dmd services.
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*** (guix monads) refactoring
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‘%store-monad’ is now in (guix store) and is an alias for the new
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‘%state-monad’ provided by (guix monads). Monadic procedures dealing with the
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store, with derivations, and with packages have been moved from (guix monads)
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to (guix store), (guix derivations), and (guix packages). See “The Store
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Monad” in the manual.
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*** (guix build utils) provides ‘parallel-job-count’
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*** ‘wrap-program’ preserves the original argv[0]
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*** New (guix sets) module
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*** ‘define-record-type*’ now support “delayed” fields
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** Noteworthy bug fixes
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*** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>)
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*** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>)
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*** Substituter progress report properly formatted
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>)
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*** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>)
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*** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19317>)
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*** Emacs knows where to find its GLib schemas (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19138>)
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*** Adjust 'grub.cfg' to work on systems with a separate /boot
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19220>)
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*** Fix removal of next-to-last item in a profile
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(<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00292.html>)
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*** Apply patches with "patch --force" (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19402>)
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*** Extend ‘search-path-specification’ for libxml2-style use cases
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18033>)
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*** Search for patches under $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19364>)
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*** Use executables from the target inputs in 'patch-shebangs'
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18895>)
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*** guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>)
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*** Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19491>)
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*** Don't build the mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 cross-compiler on i686
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19598>)
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*** Read archive signatures as Latin-1 strings (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19610>)
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*** Raise an error for references to non-existent outputs
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19630>)
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*** Initialize libgcrypt before use (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19677>)
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** Native language support
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*** New translations: fr (French), hu (Hungarian)
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*** Updated translation: eo
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* Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
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