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2 | #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes | |
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b0f981f0 | 5 | Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> |
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7 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
8 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
9 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
10 | ||
11 | Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. | |
12 | ||
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13 | * Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7) |
14 | ||
15 | ** Package management | |
16 | ||
17 | *** New visual user interface in Emacs | |
18 | ||
19 | See “Emacs Interface” in the manual. | |
20 | ||
21 | *** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment | |
22 | ||
23 | See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual. | |
24 | ||
29934e02 | 25 | *** The ‘guix import’ command has been extended and documented |
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7b3f6a27 | 27 | It can now import packages from pypi.python.org and from GNU. |
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28 | See “Invoking guix import” in the manual. |
29 | ||
30 | *** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers | |
31 | ||
32 | See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual. | |
33 | ||
34 | *** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies | |
35 | ||
36 | See “Security Updates” in the manual. | |
37 | ||
38 | *** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH | |
39 | ||
40 | This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them | |
41 | visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual. | |
42 | ||
43 | *** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades | |
44 | ||
45 | *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option | |
46 | ||
47 | See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
48 | ||
49 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option | |
50 | ||
51 | See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual. | |
52 | ||
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54 | |
55 | *** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices | |
56 | ||
57 | See “Mapped Devices” in the manual. | |
58 | ||
59 | *** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation | |
60 | ||
61 | New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’. | |
62 | See “operating-system Reference” in the manual. | |
63 | ||
64 | *** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’ | |
65 | ||
66 | See “Services” in the manual. | |
67 | ||
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68 | *** Free firmware can be loaded |
69 | ||
70 | This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.) | |
71 | See “operating-system Reference” in the manual. | |
72 | ||
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73 | *** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme |
74 | ||
75 | See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual. | |
76 | ||
77 | *** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature | |
78 | ||
79 | Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See | |
80 | “Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details. | |
81 | ||
82 | *** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release | |
83 | ||
84 | *** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option | |
85 | ||
86 | See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. | |
87 | ||
88 | *** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment | |
89 | ||
90 | Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’ | |
91 | to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change. | |
92 | ||
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93 | *** 162 new packages |
94 | ||
95 | abiword, acpica, adns, arb, ath9k-htc-firmware, atlas, avrdude, cppunit, | |
96 | dblatex, detox, dfu-programmer, dionysus, direvent, dmidecode, dri3proto, | |
97 | emacs-no-x-toolkit, emacs-w3m, emacs-wget, enchant, eudev, feh, flashrom, | |
98 | flint, fontforge, freedink, freeimage, fribidi, | |
99 | gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf, giblib, gnome-themes-standard, gpsbabel, | |
100 | gpscorrelate, graphite2, gtypist, guile-charting, guile-sdl, imake, imlib2, | |
101 | irrlicht, jbig2dec, libpsl, libspiro, libuninameslist, libwmf, lm-sensors, | |
102 | magit, minetest, miscfiles, mozjs, mupdf, nix, nspr, nss-mdns, ntp, nvi, opam, | |
103 | openal, openjpeg, opus-tools, orpheus, ots, oxygen-icons, paredit, perf, | |
104 | perl-archive-zip, perl-dbd-sqlite, perl-dbi, perl-image-exiftool, | |
105 | perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-net-ssleay, perl-www-curl, perl-zip, polkit, | |
106 | polkit-qt, postgresql, potrace, presentproto, python-certifi, python-coverage, | |
107 | python-cython, python-discover, python-docutils, python-exif-read, | |
108 | python-extras, python-fixtures, python-itsdangerous, python-jinja2, | |
109 | python-jsonschema, python-markupsafe, python-mimeparse, python-nose, | |
110 | python-oauthlib, python-py, python-pygments, python-pyjwt, python-pyld, | |
111 | python-pytest, python-scripttest, python-sphinx, python-subunit, | |
112 | python-testrepository, python-testresources, python-testscenarios, | |
113 | python-testtools, python-unidecode, python-unittest2, python-virtualenv, | |
114 | python2-certifi, python2-coverage, python2-cython, python2-discover, | |
115 | python2-docutils, python2-exif-read, python2-extras, python2-fixtures, | |
116 | python2-itsdangerous, python2-jinja2, python2-jsonschema, python2-markupsafe, | |
117 | python2-mimeparse, python2-nose, python2-oauthlib, python2-py, | |
118 | python2-pygments, python2-pyjwt, python2-pyld, python2-pytest, | |
119 | python2-requests, python2-scripttest, python2-sphinx, python2-subunit, | |
120 | python2-testrepository, python2-testresources, python2-testscenarios, | |
121 | python2-testtools, python2-unidecode, python2-unittest2, python2-virtualenv, | |
122 | rrdtool, ruby, ruby, ruby-i18n, sane-backends, scrot, sound-theme-freedesktop, | |
123 | stress, synergy, tdb, terminus-font, testdisk, texi2html, tiled, transfig, | |
124 | unclutter, unixodbc, weechat, wv, xboing, xf86-video-modesetting, xfig, | |
125 | xsensors, zsh | |
126 | ||
127 | *** 117 package updates | |
128 | ||
129 | acct-6.6.2, acl-2.2.52, apl-1.4, apr-1.5.1, apr-util-1.5.3, autoconf-2.68, | |
130 | autoconf-2.69, autogen-5.18.4, bash-4.3.30, bash-light-4.3.30, bazaar-2.6.0, | |
131 | bison-2.7, calcurse-3.2.1, ccache-3.1.10, chicken-4.9.0.1, coreutils-8.23, | |
132 | curl-7.37.1, datamash-1.0.6, dbus-1.8.8, docbook-xml-4.2, docbook-xml-4.4, | |
133 | docbook-xml-4.5, emacs-24.4, ffmpeg-2.2.10, ffmpeg-2.4.3, file-5.19, | |
134 | file-5.20, freeipmi-1.4.5, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.9.2, gcc-toolchain-4.9.2, | |
135 | gcl-2.6.11, gdb-7.8.1, geiser-0.6, gettext-0.19.3, git-2.1.2, glibc-2.20, | |
136 | glibc-2.20, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.20, global-6.3.2, glpk-4.55, | |
137 | gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.26, gnurl-7.37.0, gnutls-3.2.20, gpgme-1.5.1, | |
138 | gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-3.9.16, | |
139 | guile-1.8.8, guile-json-0.4.0, guile-ncurses-1.6, guile-ssh-0.7.1, guix-0.7, | |
140 | guix-0.7.48bd76e, hello-2.10, help2man-1.46.3, icecat-31.2.0, | |
141 | libart-lgpl-2.3.21, libassuan-2.1.3, libatomic-ops-7.4.2, libdrm-2.4.33, | |
142 | libffi-3.1, libgc-7.2f, libgc-7.4.2, libgcrypt-1.5.4, libgcrypt-1.6.2, | |
143 | libidn-1.29, libjpeg-9a, libotr-4.0.0, libsodium-1.0.0, libtasn1-4.1, | |
144 | libunistring-0.9.4, libwebsockets-1.3, lightning-2.0.5, linux-libre-3.17.3, | |
145 | lsof-4.88, lua-5.2.3, lvm2-2.02.109, lzip-1.16, make-4.1, maxima-5.34.1, | |
146 | mit-scheme-9.2, mysql-5.1.73, neon-0.30.0, net-base-5.3, nettle-2.7.1, | |
147 | notmuch-0.18.1, openssh-6.7p1, openssl-1.0.1j, parallel-20141022, | |
148 | phonon-4.8.2, pspp-0.8.4, python-3.3.5, python-dateutil-1.5, | |
149 | python2-dateutil-1.5, python2-pyicu-1.8, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.3.2, rcs-5.9.3, | |
150 | readline-6.3, subversion-1.7.18, swig-3.0.2, tar-1.28, texinfo-5.2, | |
151 | tor-0.2.5.10, transmission-2.84, ucommon-6.1.11, valgrind-3.10.0, vlc-2.1.5, | |
152 | wget-1.16, windowmaker-0.95.6, xapian-1.2.18, xf86-video-ati-6.14.6, | |
153 | xpdf-3.04, youtube-dl-2014.09.06 | |
154 | ||
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155 | ** Programming interfaces |
156 | ||
157 | *** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages | |
158 | ||
159 | See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
160 | ||
161 | *** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas | |
162 | ||
163 | See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
164 | ||
165 | *** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter | |
166 | ||
167 | This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus | |
168 | preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary. | |
169 | ||
170 | *** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter | |
171 | ||
172 | See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
173 | ||
174 | *** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently | |
175 | ||
176 | This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given | |
177 | architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The | |
178 | ‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of | |
179 | the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies. | |
180 | ||
181 | *** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times | |
182 | ||
183 | *** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures | |
184 | ||
185 | They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual. | |
186 | ||
187 | *** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems | |
188 | ||
189 | “Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages | |
190 | and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
191 | ||
192 | *** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL | |
193 | ||
194 | See “The Store Monad” in the manual. | |
195 | ||
196 | *** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages | |
197 | ||
198 | *** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite | |
199 | ||
200 | *** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items | |
201 | ||
202 | *** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …) | |
203 | ||
204 | Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code | |
205 | typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre. | |
206 | ||
207 | *** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions | |
208 | ||
209 | This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface. | |
210 | ||
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212 | |
213 | ** Bugs fixed | |
214 | ||
215 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default | |
216 | ||
217 | Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only | |
218 | once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now | |
219 | enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been | |
220 | renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’. | |
221 | ||
222 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’ | |
223 | ||
224 | This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel. | |
225 | ||
226 | *** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>) | |
227 | *** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>) | |
228 | *** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>) | |
229 | *** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>) | |
230 | *** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>) | |
231 | *** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root | |
232 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>) | |
233 | *** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>) | |
234 | *** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible | |
235 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>) | |
236 | *** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>) | |
237 | *** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries | |
238 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>) | |
239 | *** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>) | |
240 | *** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers | |
241 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>) | |
242 | *** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR | |
243 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>) | |
244 | *** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command | |
245 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>) | |
246 | *** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>) | |
247 | *** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>) | |
248 | *** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages | |
249 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>) | |
250 | *** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension | |
251 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>) | |
252 | *** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix. | |
253 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>) | |
5c88ac53 | 254 | *** WindowMaker no longer pollutes $PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18698>) |
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256 | ** Native language support |
257 | *** New translation: cs (Czech) | |
258 | *** Updated translations: de, sr, vi | |
259 | ||
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260 | * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6) |
261 | ** Package management | |
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262 | *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org |
263 | ||
264 | These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already | |
265 | provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See | |
266 | “Substitutes” in the manual. | |
267 | ||
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268 | *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option |
269 | *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option | |
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270 | |
271 | ** Programming interfaces | |
272 | *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions” | |
273 | ||
274 | G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side | |
275 | code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual. | |
276 | ||
277 | *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions | |
278 | ||
279 | This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries | |
280 | references to the packages or derivations it uses. | |
281 | ||
282 | *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions | |
283 | *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized | |
284 | *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images | |
285 | *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation” | |
286 | *** New (guix build syscalls) module | |
287 | *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation | |
288 | *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system | |
289 | *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations | |
290 | *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules | |
291 | *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field | |
292 | ||
293 | This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time. | |
294 | ||
295 | ** GNU distribution | |
296 | *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided | |
297 | ||
298 | This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System | |
299 | Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted | |
300 | in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome! | |
301 | ||
302 | *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations | |
303 | ||
304 | Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list | |
305 | of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration” | |
306 | in the manual. | |
307 | ||
308 | *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions | |
309 | ||
310 | Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’. | |
311 | See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. | |
312 | ||
313 | *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time | |
314 | *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices | |
315 | *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs | |
316 | *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>) | |
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317 | *** 134 new packages |
318 | ||
319 | abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp, | |
320 | chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat, | |
321 | doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi, | |
322 | fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice, | |
323 | gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools, | |
324 | jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui, | |
325 | libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, | |
326 | libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt, | |
327 | libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages, | |
328 | maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl, | |
329 | offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc, | |
330 | petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf, | |
331 | pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock, | |
332 | python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto, | |
333 | python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode, | |
334 | rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse, | |
335 | strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy, | |
336 | transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools, | |
337 | wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl | |
338 | ||
339 | *** 87 package updates | |
340 | ||
341 | bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2, | |
342 | docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6, | |
343 | ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4, | |
344 | gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3, | |
345 | gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3, | |
346 | gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1, | |
347 | gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a, | |
348 | gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20, | |
349 | gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2, | |
350 | guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3, | |
351 | icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e, | |
352 | libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37, | |
353 | libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4, | |
354 | linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6, | |
355 | neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1, | |
356 | pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, | |
357 | qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2, | |
358 | screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22, | |
359 | wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304 | |
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360 | |
361 | ** Native language support | |
362 | *** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian) | |
363 | *** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi | |
364 | *** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’ | |
365 | ** Bugs fixed | |
366 | *** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>) | |
367 | *** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout | |
368 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>) | |
369 | *** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed | |
370 | *** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved | |
371 | *** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension | |
372 | *** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook | |
373 | *** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers | |
374 | ||
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375 | * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5) |
376 | ** Package management | |
377 | *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store | |
378 | ||
379 | Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store | |
380 | directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store. | |
381 | ||
382 | *** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized | |
383 | *** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH | |
384 | *** New ‘guix archive’ command | |
385 | *** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images | |
386 | *** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u | |
387 | *** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster | |
388 | *** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’ | |
389 | *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option | |
390 | *** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options | |
391 | *** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option | |
392 | *** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility) | |
393 | ** Programming interfaces | |
394 | *** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography | |
395 | *** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded | |
396 | *** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store | |
397 | *** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads) | |
398 | *** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules | |
399 | *** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg) | |
400 | *** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts | |
401 | ** GNU distribution | |
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402 | *** 91 new packages |
403 | ||
404 | a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es, | |
405 | aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh, | |
406 | corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf, | |
407 | fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik, | |
408 | gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json, | |
409 | guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop, | |
410 | isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec, | |
411 | libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets, | |
412 | ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc, | |
413 | ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk, | |
414 | perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt, | |
415 | source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse, | |
416 | unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm | |
417 | ||
418 | *** 90 package updates | |
419 | ||
420 | apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3, | |
421 | bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24, | |
422 | coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1, | |
423 | gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1, | |
424 | glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54, | |
425 | gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18, | |
426 | gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2, | |
427 | guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11, | |
428 | guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1, | |
429 | imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92, | |
430 | libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1, | |
431 | libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3, | |
432 | linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23, | |
433 | openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2, | |
434 | pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5, | |
435 | python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1, | |
436 | qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3, | |
437 | recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a, | |
438 | tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15, | |
439 | xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11 | |
440 | ||
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441 | *** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain |
442 | *** libc’s Info manual is now installed | |
443 | *** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives | |
444 | *** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man* | |
445 | *** Many other packaging improvements | |
446 | ** Bugs fixed | |
447 | *** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel | |
448 | *** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline | |
449 | *** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory | |
450 | (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083) | |
451 | *** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703) | |
452 | *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number | |
453 | (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484) | |
454 | *** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289) | |
455 | *** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569) | |
456 | *** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884) | |
457 | *** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733) | |
458 | ||
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459 | * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4) |
460 | ** Package management | |
461 | *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository | |
462 | ||
463 | In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync | |
464 | with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package | |
465 | meta-data. | |
466 | ||
467 | ** Programming interfaces | |
468 | *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’ | |
469 | ||
470 | The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and | |
471 | ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running | |
472 | ‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual. | |
473 | ||
474 | *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store | |
475 | ||
476 | See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been | |
477 | rewritten to use this monadic interface. | |
478 | ||
479 | *** New (guix profiles) module | |
480 | ||
481 | It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’ | |
482 | command. | |
483 | ||
484 | *** New (gnu system) module | |
485 | ||
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486 | This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration, |
487 | and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.) | |
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488 | See “System Configuration” in the manual. |
489 | ||
490 | This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org! | |
491 | ||
492 | *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters | |
493 | ||
494 | Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters. | |
495 | See “Derivations” in the manual. | |
496 | ||
497 | ** GNU distribution | |
498 | *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’) | |
499 | ||
4a8c5617 | 500 | Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several |
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501 | Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core |
502 | packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual. | |
503 | ||
504 | Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will | |
4a8c5617 | 505 | build from source on this platform. |
a043ac04 | 506 | |
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507 | *** 110 new packages |
508 | ||
509 | acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen, | |
510 | automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg, | |
511 | fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk, | |
512 | gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm, | |
513 | gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat, | |
514 | icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring, | |
515 | libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh, | |
516 | libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel, | |
517 | pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list, | |
518 | perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies, | |
519 | perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate, | |
520 | perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http, | |
521 | perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple, | |
522 | phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless, | |
523 | qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf, | |
524 | sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig, | |
525 | xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm | |
526 | ||
527 | *** 47 package updates | |
528 | ||
529 | atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2, | |
530 | gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2, | |
531 | gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3, | |
532 | gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16, | |
533 | gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2, | |
534 | harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46, | |
535 | libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2, | |
536 | linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5, | |
537 | pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1, | |
538 | qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0, | |
539 | tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2 | |
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540 | |
541 | *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3) | |
542 | ||
543 | ** Native language support | |
544 | *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation | |
545 | *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation | |
546 | *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation | |
547 | ** Bugs fixed | |
4a8c5617 | 548 | *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly |
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549 | |
550 | Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’ | |
551 | calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 . | |
552 | ||
553 | *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output | |
554 | (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756) | |
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555 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022 |
556 | (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html) | |
a043ac04 | 557 | *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC |
5d6dbd29 | 558 | *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283) |
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559 | *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640) |
560 | ||
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561 | * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3) |
562 | ||
563 | ** Package management | |
564 | ||
565 | *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options | |
566 | ||
567 | The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to | |
568 | deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
569 | ||
570 | *** New ‘guix-register’ program | |
571 | ||
572 | This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by | |
573 | copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool. | |
574 | ||
575 | ** Programming interfaces | |
576 | ||
577 | *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages | |
578 | ||
579 | The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a | |
580 | package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that | |
581 | runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar. | |
582 | ||
583 | *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter | |
584 | ||
585 | This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build | |
586 | tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files. | |
587 | This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies | |
588 | to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image. | |
589 | ||
590 | *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image | |
591 | ||
592 | The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’ | |
593 | procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new | |
594 | ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init | |
595 | system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed | |
596 | packages, and where Guix can be used. | |
597 | ||
598 | New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the | |
599 | various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides | |
600 | support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux | |
601 | PAM configuration; and so on. | |
602 | ||
603 | *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API | |
604 | ||
605 | ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a | |
606 | <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is | |
607 | a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv | |
608 | file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details. | |
609 | ||
610 | ** GNU distribution | |
611 | ||
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612 | *** 60 new packages |
613 | ||
614 | apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail, | |
615 | freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils, | |
616 | gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop, | |
617 | itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt, | |
618 | net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz, | |
619 | python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel, | |
620 | python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite, | |
621 | python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd, | |
622 | qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units, | |
623 | valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm | |
624 | ||
625 | *** 27 package updates | |
626 | ||
627 | bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4, | |
628 | gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18, | |
629 | gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21, | |
630 | imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0, | |
631 | linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python | |
632 | 3.3.2, texlive 2013 | |
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633 | |
634 | *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient | |
635 | ||
636 | Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those | |
637 | based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional | |
638 | fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up. | |
639 | ||
640 | *** More GUI applications | |
641 | ||
642 | The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+ | |
643 | applications have been added (see above.) | |
644 | ||
645 | *** Packaging guidelines | |
646 | ||
647 | The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual | |
648 | under “GNU Distribution”. | |
649 | ||
650 | *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2 | |
651 | ||
652 | Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support | |
653 | it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules” | |
654 | section of the manual for details. | |
655 | ||
656 | ** Internationalization | |
657 | ||
658 | Updated translations: eo. | |
659 | ||
660 | ** Bugs fixed | |
661 | ||
6bf3e5f7 | 662 | *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives |
8f37bf62 | 663 | *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output |
6bf3e5f7 | 664 | *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64 |
8f37bf62 | 665 | *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392) |
bb5f01c5 | 666 | *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187) |
6bf3e5f7 | 667 | *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194) |
85f3a05e | 668 | |
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669 | * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2) |
670 | ||
671 | ** Package management | |
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672 | |
673 | *** Cross-compilation support | |
674 | ||
675 | Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with | |
676 | the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level, | |
677 | the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages | |
678 | of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for | |
679 | details. | |
680 | ||
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681 | *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” |
682 | ||
683 | See the manual for details. | |
684 | ||
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685 | *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” |
686 | ||
687 | This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails | |
688 | to download a substitute. | |
689 | ||
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690 | *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc” |
691 | ||
692 | See the manual for details. | |
693 | ||
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694 | *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh” |
695 | ||
696 | See the manual for details. | |
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697 | |
698 | ** Programming interfaces | |
699 | ||
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700 | *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations) |
701 | ||
702 | See the manual for details. | |
703 | ||
704 | *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter | |
705 | ||
706 | This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It | |
707 | allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know | |
708 | whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is. | |
709 | ||
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710 | *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures |
711 | ||
712 | This improves performance of SHA256 computations. | |
713 | ||
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714 | |
715 | ** GNU distribution | |
716 | ||
3253830d | 717 | *** 33 new packages |
5939006b | 718 | |
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719 | alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd, |
720 | gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2, | |
721 | iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket, | |
722 | rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore | |
5939006b | 723 | |
3253830d | 724 | *** 25 package updates |
5939006b | 725 | |
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726 | automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3, |
727 | glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8, | |
728 | libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error | |
729 | 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu | |
730 | 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0 | |
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731 | |
732 | *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux | |
733 | ||
734 | The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries | |
735 | (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be | |
736 | transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms. | |
737 | ||
738 | *** Debug info packages | |
739 | ||
740 | Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The | |
741 | “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the | |
742 | other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual. | |
743 | ||
744 | *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled | |
745 | ||
746 | The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently | |
747 | GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting” | |
748 | in the manual. | |
749 | ||
750 | *** Bootstrapping documented | |
751 | ||
752 | See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU | |
753 | distribution builds “from scratch”. | |
754 | ||
755 | ** Internationalization | |
756 | ||
757 | New translations: eo, pt_BR. | |
758 | ||
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759 | ** Bugs fixed |
760 | *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5 | |
761 | *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed | |
762 | ||
763 | These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary. | |
764 | See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details. | |
765 | ||
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766 | *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity |
767 | ||
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768 | *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations |
769 | ||
770 | Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when | |
771 | some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See | |
772 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and | |
773 | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 . | |
774 | ||
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775 | *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’ |
776 | ||
777 | Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the | |
778 | profile. | |
779 | ||
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780 | *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken |
781 | ||
782 | When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile | |
783 | < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect | |
784 | command-line argument processing in some cases. | |
785 | ||
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786 | * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1) |
787 | ||
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788 | ** Package management |
789 | ||
790 | *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program | |
791 | ||
792 | Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so | |
793 | on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program | |
794 | setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”. | |
795 | ||
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796 | *** New “guix package --upgrade” option |
797 | ||
798 | As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages | |
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799 | installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp. |
800 | See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
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802 | *** New “guix package --search” option |
803 | ||
804 | Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns | |
805 | the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the | |
806 | manual, for details. | |
807 | ||
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808 | *** New “guix pull” command |
809 | ||
810 | The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management | |
811 | modules and the distribution. See the manual for details. | |
812 | ||
813 | *** New binary substituter | |
814 | ||
815 | The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently | |
816 | downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are | |
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817 | available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The |
818 | distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there. | |
819 | ||
820 | See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of | |
821 | available binary packages. | |
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822 | |
823 | *** New “guix refresh” command | |
824 | ||
825 | The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the | |
826 | distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software. | |
827 | ||
828 | *** New “guix hash” command | |
829 | ||
830 | Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for | |
831 | details. | |
832 | ||
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835 | The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated |
836 | to current Nix ‘master’. | |
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837 | |
838 | ** Programming interfaces | |
839 | ||
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840 | *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS |
841 | ||
842 | It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. | |
843 | ||
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844 | *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields |
845 | ||
846 | Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables | |
847 | that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the | |
848 | package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its | |
849 | ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc. | |
850 | These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that | |
851 | uses one of these. | |
852 | ||
853 | *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type | |
854 | ||
855 | The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of | |
856 | (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent | |
857 | tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme. | |
858 | ||
859 | *** New build systems | |
860 | ||
861 | The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have | |
862 | been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and | |
863 | CMake packages. | |
864 | ||
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865 | *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more |
866 | ||
867 | The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux | |
868 | initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to | |
869 | evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that | |
870 | mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL: | |
871 | ||
872 | (expression->initrd | |
873 | '(begin | |
874 | (mkdir "/proc") | |
875 | (mount "none" "/proc" "proc") | |
876 | ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl)))) | |
877 | ||
878 | More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file. | |
879 | ||
880 | Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the | |
881 | (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the | |
882 | ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in | |
883 | a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile. | |
884 | ||
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885 | ** GNU distribution |
886 | ||
887 | Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the | |
888 | highlights. | |
889 | ||
890 | *** Major updates | |
891 | ||
892 | GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9, | |
893 | Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1. | |
894 | ||
895 | *** Noteworthy new packages | |
896 | ||
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897 | TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, |
898 | CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |