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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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#+STARTUP: content hidestars
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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 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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@ -10,11 +10,14 @@ Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 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 0.9.1 (since 0.9.0)
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* Changes in 0.10.0 (since 0.9.0)
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GNU Guix adopted a contributor code of conduct, see ‘CODE-OF-CONDUCT’ in the
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source tree.
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** Package management
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*** New syntax for separating package names and version numbers
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*** New command-line syntax for separating package names and version numbers
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Use ‘@’ instead of ‘-’ as a separator, as in ‘gnupg@2.0’. This new separator
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is a reserved character which is not allowed both in package names and version
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@ -23,9 +26,31 @@ numbers.
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The old syntax to specify a package’s version—e.g., as “gnupg-2.0”—is obsolete
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and support for it will be removed in the future.
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*** Emacs interface for licenses
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*** Emacs interface for system generations
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*** Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org
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*** “Grafts” apply recursively, based on run-time dependencies
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“Grafts” is the mechanism by which we can apply security updates of core
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packages without rebuilding or re-downloading the entire set of dependent
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packages. See “Security Updates” in the manual, as well as
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<https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8470> and
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<http://bugs.gnu.org/22139> for more info.
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*** Substitutes are fetched over HTTPS by default
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*** Substitutes are cached for the duration reported in ‘Cache-Control’ headers
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*** Default substitute URL list includes a faster mirror, mirror.hydra.gnu.org
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*** New ‘--with-input’ and ‘--with-source’ for ‘guix package’ and ‘guix build’
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See “Package Transformation Options” in the manual.
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*** ‘guix package --search-paths -p X -p Y’ combines search paths for X and Y
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*** ‘guix package’ can be passed several ‘--search’ options
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*** New ‘--rounds’ and ‘--check’ for ‘guix build’, for bit-reproducibility
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*** New ‘--rounds’ option for ‘guix-daemon’
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*** New ‘--quiet’ option for ‘guix build’
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*** ‘guix package -u’ no longer checks for upstream GNU releases
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ always uses /tmp in chroots, regardless of $TMPDIR
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*** New Emacs interface to browse licenses: M-x guix-licenses
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*** New Emacs interface to list system generations: M-x guix-system-generations
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*** New Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org: M-x guix-hydra-…
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*** Changes in Emacs interface variables and faces
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In the following names, BUFFER-TYPE means "info" or "list";
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@ -57,9 +82,72 @@ ENTRY-TYPE means "package", "output" or "generation".
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guix-ENTRY-TYPE-list-describe-warning-count
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- guix-package-info-fill-heading -> guix-info-fill
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*** New ‘cve’ linter: ‘guix lint -c cve’ reports pending vulnerabilities
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*** New ‘gnome’, ‘xorg’, and ‘github’ updaters for ‘guix refresh’
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*** ‘guix lint’ times out after 3 seconds when probing URLs
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*** ‘guix graph -t bag-with-origins’ includes origins in the graph
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*** ‘guix import cran’ can import packages from bioconductor.org
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** Distribution
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*** GuixSD upgraded to GNU Shepherd 0.3.1 and GNU Linux-libre 4.5.0
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*** “System Installation” section of the manual has been expounded
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*** Installation image runs GPM and includes more programs
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*** GNOME and Xfce desktops are available via services; see "Desktop Services"
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*** New ‘tor-hidden-service’ procedure, to declare Tor hidden services
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*** New Dovecot service
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*** New ‘fstab-service-type’, to populate /etc/fstab
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*** New ‘mount?’ field for ‘file-system’ forms
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*** Most global environment variables are now set in /etc/environment (pam_env)
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*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now loads/starts new services, stops old ones
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(see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22039>)
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*** ‘local-file’ resolves file names relative to the current source file
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*** Many reproducibility issues fixed: glibc, perl, bison, emacs-*, python-*, …
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*** Initial RAM disk supports ‘modprobe.blacklist’ on the kernel command line
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*** New “Running GuixSD in a VM” section in the manual
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*** ‘dmd’ changed to ’shepherd’ in ‘guix system’ sub-commands
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*** A Bourne-like shell is spawned upon ‘fsck’ failure
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(see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22588>)
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*** XXX new packages
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*** XXX package updates
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** Programming interfaces
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*** Build systems always set the ‘SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH’ environment variable
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*** New (guix graph) graph manipulation module, abstracted from ‘guix graph’
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*** New (guix cve) module, to navigate the CVE database
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*** ‘build-things’ procedure takes a new ‘mode’ parameter
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*** Mass rename of ‘dmd’ to ‘shepherd’ in the (gnu …) modules
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*** New ‘gnome-desktop-service’ and ‘xfce-desktop-service’ procedures
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*** ‘pam-root-service-type’ can be extended with cross-cutting transformations
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*** ‘package-with-python2’ honors the ‘python2-variant’ package property
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(see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22437>)
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** Noteworthy bug fixes
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*** Numbers in package names are correctly handled (http://bugs.gnu.org/19219)
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*** Grafts are applied recursively (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22139>)
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*** Commands correctly handle numbers in package names
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(http://bugs.gnu.org/19219)
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ deduplication code detects corrupt items
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*** eudev now populates /dev/disk/by-{id,label}
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*** Selected locale is automatically built (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22572>)
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*** Substitutes can be downloaded over HTTPS (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22937>)
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*** umask explicitly set in /etc/profile (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22650>)
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*** ‘guix system init’ writes GC root on the target file system
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22802>)
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*** ‘guix system vm’ now works in the absence of KVM support
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22633>)
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*** GuixSD includes an Info reader by default (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22598>)
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*** MacBook keyboards are now properly detected (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20433>)
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*** GRUB searches root by label or UUID (<http://bugs.gnu.org/22281>)
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*** ‘guix package --search-paths’ honors propagated inputs
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22073>)
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*** GCC uses ‘C_INCLUDE_PATH’ et al. instead of ‘CPATH’
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/22186>)
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*** ‘ld-wrapper’ computes library search path based on all ‘-L’ flags
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/21941>)
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*** ‘guix environment --container’ gracefully handles abnormal exists
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/21958>)
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* Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3)
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