2 #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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11 Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
13 * Changes in 0.9.1 (since 0.9.0)
17 *** Emacs interface for system generations
18 *** Emacs interface for hydra.gnu.org
19 *** Changes in Emacs interface variables
20 In the following names, BUFFER-TYPE means "info" or "list";
21 ENTRY-TYPE means "package", "output" or "generation".
24 - guix-info-fill-column
25 - guix-info-insert-ENTRY-TYPE-function
28 - guix-info-ignore-empty-vals -> guix-info-ignore-empty-values
29 - guix-output-name-width -> guix-generation-output-name-width
30 - guix-buffer-name-function -> guix-ui-buffer-name-function
31 - guix-update-after-operation -> guix-ui-update-after-operation
32 - guix-search-params -> guix-package-search-params
35 - guix-list-column-format, guix-list-column-value-methods ->
36 guix-ENTRY-TYPE-list-format
37 - guix-info-displayed-params, guix-info-insert-methods,
38 guix-package-info-heading-params -> guix-ENTRY-TYPE-info-format
39 - guix-param-titles, guix-list-column-titles ->
40 guix-ENTRY-TYPE-BUFFER-TYPE-titles
41 - guix-list-describe-warning-count ->
42 guix-ENTRY-TYPE-list-describe-warning-count
43 - guix-package-info-fill-heading -> guix-info-fill
45 * Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3)
49 *** New ‘guix graph’ command, to draw package graphs
50 *** New ‘guix challenge’ command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries
51 *** ‘guix environment’ has a new ‘--container’ option
52 *** ‘guix substitute’ now honors all the specified substitute URLs
53 *** New ‘guix import cran’ command, to import R packages from CRAN
54 *** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly
55 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--install-from-file’ option
56 *** ‘guix package --search’ shows package outputs
57 *** ‘guix refresh’ can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions
58 *** The ‘--ad-hoc’ option of ‘guix environment’ is now positional
59 *** The ‘--exec’ option of ‘guix environment’ is deprecated; use ‘--’ instead
60 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--file’ option
61 *** ‘guix build --log-file’ can now return URLs
62 *** ‘guix size’ now has a ‘--substitute-urls’ option and is much faster
63 *** New ‘guix lint’ checkers: ‘formatting’, ‘license’, ‘source-file-name’
64 *** Download progress report has been improved
65 *** Emacs shell-mode completions for ‘guix’ commands updated
66 *** Emacs: New ‘M-x guix’ popup interface
67 *** Emacs: modes for viewing build logs (‘guix-build-log-mode’)
71 *** New extensible service composition API
73 The operating system service API in (gnu services) has been completely
74 rewritten, significantly improving extensibility and modularity, while
75 providing a framework that makes it easy to reason about service composition.
76 Consequently, several sources of redundancy and confusion in
77 ‘operating-system’ declarations have been eliminated. See “Service
78 Composition” in the manual.
80 *** New ‘extension-graph’ and ‘dmd-graph’ sub-commands for ‘guix system’
81 *** New ‘container’ sub-command for ‘guix system’
82 *** New ‘guix container’ command, to deal with GuixSD containers
83 *** New ‘list-generations’ sub-command for ‘guix system’
84 *** ‘operating-system’ has a new ‘locale-libcs’ field
85 *** New services: ‘nginx-service’, ‘udisks-service’, ‘guix-publish-service’
86 *** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes Polkit, GeoClue, elogind, UDisks, and more
87 *** ‘dbus-daemon’ now has proper support for lazy service activation
88 *** ‘wicd-service’ automatically adds Wicd to the system profile
89 *** ‘slim-service’ automatically adds xterm to the system profile
90 *** hydra.gnu.org now provides substitutes for ‘armhf-linux’
91 *** /run/systemd is mounted as tmpfs by default, for use by elogind
92 *** ‘glibc’ package no longer contains Bash in its bin/ directory
93 *** libc now looks for locale data in a versioned sub-directory
94 *** libc honors the new ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ environment variable
95 *** Xfce now defaults to the GNOME icon theme
98 abduco, accountsservice, american-fuzzy-lop, ansible, arandr, attic,
99 autobuild, bash-minimal, bash-static, bio-blastxmlparser, bio-locus,
100 bioperl-minimal, bioruby, bitcoin-core, bspwm, byobu, cabal-install, cityhash,
101 clang-runtime, clang-runtime, cm, cmus, conky, coreutils-minimal, cpphs,
102 cvs-fast-export, d-feet, deeptools, diffoscope, dosbox, dvtm, emacs-butler,
103 emacs-dash, emacs-debbugs, emacs-deferred, emacs-f, emacs-flycheck,
104 emacs-let-alist, emacs-ob-ipython, emacs-s, emacs-typo, enblend-enfuse,
105 epiphany, esmtp, ethtool, evilwm, exfat-utils, express-beta-diversity,
106 extra-cmake-modules, extundelete, fastcap, fasthenry, figlet, file-roller,
107 flann, font-anonymous-pro, font-gnu-unifont, font-inconsolata, font-tex-gyre,
108 font-ubuntu, frescobaldi, fuse-exfat, gajim, gamine, gerbv, gexiv2,
109 ghc-adjunctions, ghc-aeson, ghc-alex, ghc-annotated-wl-pprint,
110 ghc-ansi-terminal, ghc-ansi-wl-pprint, ghc-appar, ghc-async, ghc-attoparsec,
111 ghc-auto-update, ghc-base-compat, ghc-base-orphans, ghc-base64-bytestring,
112 ghc-bifunctors, ghc-blaze-builder, ghc-blaze-html, ghc-blaze-markup,
113 ghc-byteorder, ghc-bytestring-builder, ghc-cereal, ghc-cgi, ghc-charset,
114 ghc-cheapskate, ghc-clock, ghc-cmdargs, ghc-comonad, ghc-contravariant,
115 ghc-cookie, ghc-css-text, ghc-data-default, ghc-data-default-class,
116 ghc-data-default-instances-base, ghc-data-default-instances-containers,
117 ghc-data-default-instances-dlist, ghc-data-default-instances-old-locale,
118 ghc-digest, ghc-distributive, ghc-dlist, ghc-doctest, ghc-easy-file,
119 ghc-exceptions, ghc-extensible-exceptions, ghc-extra, ghc-fast-logger,
120 ghc-fingertree, ghc-free, ghc-generic-deriving, ghc-gluraw, ghc-glut,
121 ghc-haddock, ghc-haddock-api, ghc-haddock-library, ghc-half, ghc-happy,
122 ghc-haskell-src, ghc-haskell-src-exts, ghc-hspec, ghc-hspec-core,
123 ghc-hspec-expectations, ghc-hspec-meta, ghc-html, ghc-http-types, ghc-iproute,
124 ghc-kan-extensions, ghc-lens, ghc-lifted-base, ghc-logict, ghc-mmorph,
125 ghc-monad-control, ghc-multipart, ghc-nats, ghc-objectname, ghc-old-locale,
126 ghc-old-time, ghc-opengl, ghc-openglraw, ghc-optparse-applicative,
127 ghc-parsers, ghc-pcre-light, ghc-polyparse, ghc-prelude-extras,
128 ghc-profunctors, ghc-quickcheck-instances, ghc-quickcheck-io,
129 ghc-quickcheck-unicode, ghc-reducers, ghc-reflection, ghc-regex-base,
130 ghc-regex-compat, ghc-regex-posix, ghc-regex-tdfa-rc, ghc-resourcet, ghc-safe,
131 ghc-scientific, ghc-sdl, ghc-sdl-image, ghc-sdl-mixer, ghc-semigroupoids,
132 ghc-semigroups, ghc-setenv, ghc-silently, ghc-simple-reflect, ghc-smallcheck,
133 ghc-statevar, ghc-streaming-commons, ghc-stringbuilder, ghc-stringsearch,
134 ghc-tagged, ghc-tagsoup, ghc-tasty, ghc-tasty-ant-xml, ghc-tasty-golden,
135 ghc-tasty-hunit, ghc-tasty-quickcheck, ghc-tasty-smallcheck, ghc-temporary,
136 ghc-temporary-rc, ghc-transformers-base, ghc-transformers-compat,
137 ghc-trifecta, ghc-unbounded-delays, ghc-uniplate, ghc-unix-compat,
138 ghc-unix-time, ghc-utf8-string, ghc-vault, ghc-vector-binary-instances,
139 ghc-void, ghc-wai, ghc-wai-extra, ghc-wai-logger, ghc-word8, ghc-x11,
140 ghc-x11-xft, ghc-xhtml, ghc-xml, ghc-xmonad-contrib, ghc-xss-sanitize,
141 ghc-zip-archive, glibc-hurd, glibc-hurd-headers, gmtp, graphios, gtk-doc,
142 guile-next, guile-present, guile-redis, guile-rsvg, guile-wisp, gusb, gvfs,
143 gzochi, haunt, hlint, hscolour, hspec-discover, hurd-minimal, i3-wm, i3status,
144 ibus-libpinyin, idris, ifstatus, keepassx, klick, kwindowsystem, lablgtk,
145 libatasmart, libchamplain, libchop, libconfuse, libcue, libesmtp, libev,
146 libfm, libfm-extra, libgee, libgudev, liblxqt, libndp, libpano13, libpinyin,
147 libraw, libusb-compat, libyajl, lxqt-common, lxqt-session, lxrandr, lxtask,
148 lxterminal, lz4, mafft, manaplus, mars, menu-cache, minixml, mosaik,
149 nestopia-ue, newt, non-sequencer, ntk, openimageio, opusfile, patches, pbzip2,
150 pcmanfm, pcre2, pd, pelican, perl-czplib, perl-date-manip, perl-finance-quote,
151 perl-html-element-extended, perl-html-tableextract, perl-pod-simple, physfs,
152 pidgin, pidgin-otr, pigz, po4a, poppler-qt4, pwgen, python-appdirs,
153 python-bandit, python-blinker, python-ccm, python-chardet,
154 python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-debian,
155 python-debtcollector, python-ecdsa, python-file, python-fonttools,
156 python-gnupg, python-hacking, python-httplib2, python-idna,
157 python-ipython-genutils, python-iso8601, python-joblib, python-libarchive-c,
158 python-llfuse, python-ly, python-minimal, python-minimal, python-mistune,
159 python-monotonic, python-mox3, python-msgpack, python-nbxmpp, python-netaddr,
160 python-numexpr, python-os-client-config, python-os-testr, python-oslo.config,
161 python-oslo.context, python-oslo.i18n, python-oslo.log,
162 python-oslo.serialization, python-oslo.utils, python-oslosphinx,
163 python-oslotest, python-paramiko, python-passlib, python-pathpy, python-patsy,
164 python-pbr, python-pbr, python-pexpect, python-pickleshare, python-pip,
165 python-poppler-qt4, python-pretend, python-prettytable, python-ptyprocess,
166 python-py-bcrypt, python-pyasn1, python-pyopenssl, python-pytest-runner,
167 python-requests-mock, python-setuptools-scm, python-simplegeneric,
168 python-statsmodels, python-stevedore, python-tempest-lib, python-terminado,
169 python-tlsh, python-traitlets, python-webob, python-wrapt, python-xlrd,
170 python2-appdirs, python2-bandit, python2-blinker, python2-ccm,
171 python2-chardet, python2-cryptography, python2-cryptography-vectors,
172 python2-debian, python2-debtcollector, python2-ecdsa, python2-file,
173 python2-fonttools, python2-gnupg, python2-hacking, python2-httplib2,
174 python2-idna, python2-ipaddress, python2-ipython-genutils, python2-iso8601,
175 python2-joblib, python2-keyring, python2-libarchive-c, python2-llfuse,
176 python2-mistune, python2-monotonic, python2-mox3, python2-msgpack,
177 python2-nbxmpp, python2-netaddr, python2-notmuch, python2-numexpr,
178 python2-os-client-config, python2-os-testr, python2-oslo.config,
179 python2-oslo.context, python2-oslo.i18n, python2-oslo.log,
180 python2-oslo.serialization, python2-oslo.utils, python2-oslosphinx,
181 python2-oslotest, python2-paramiko, python2-passlib, python2-pathpy,
182 python2-patsy, python2-pbr, python2-pbr, python2-pexpect, python2-pickleshare,
183 python2-pip, python2-pretend, python2-prettytable, python2-ptyprocess,
184 python2-py-bcrypt, python2-pyasn1, python2-pycrypto, python2-pyopenssl,
185 python2-pytest-runner, python2-requests-mock, python2-setuptools-scm,
186 python2-simplegeneric, python2-statsmodels, python2-stevedore,
187 python2-tempest-lib, python2-terminado, python2-tlsh, python2-traitlets,
188 python2-webob, python2-wrapt, python2-xlrd, r-assertthat, r-bh, r-chron,
189 r-codetools, r-colorspace, r-crayon, r-data.table, r-dbi, r-dichromat,
190 r-digest, r-dplyr, r-evaluate, r-formatr, r-ggplot2, r-gtable, r-highr,
191 r-htmltools, r-htmlwidgets, r-httpuv, r-jsonlite, r-knitr, r-labeling,
192 r-lazyeval, r-magrittr, r-markdown, r-memoise, r-microbenchmark, r-mime,
193 r-munsell, r-plyr, r-proto, r-pryr, r-qtl, r-r6, r-rcolorbrewer, r-rcpp,
194 r-reshape2, r-scales, r-servr, r-stringi, r-stringr, r-testthat, r-yaml, rage,
195 raincat, redis, rest, rfkill, rpm, ruby-activesupport, ruby-atoulme-antwrap,
196 ruby-bio-logger, ruby-builder, ruby-byebug, ruby-coderay, ruby-cucumber-core,
197 ruby-diff-lcs, ruby-docile, ruby-ffi, ruby-formatador, ruby-gherkin3,
198 ruby-json, ruby-libxml, ruby-listen, ruby-log4r, ruby-lumberjack,
199 ruby-method-source, ruby-mini-portile, ruby-minitar, ruby-nenv, ruby-nokogiri,
200 ruby-notiffany, ruby-orderedhash, ruby-ox, ruby-permutation, ruby-pg,
201 ruby-pry, ruby-rack, ruby-rb-inotify, ruby-rjb, ruby-rubygems-tasks,
202 ruby-shellany, ruby-shindo, ruby-simplecov-html, ruby-thor, ruby-thread-safe,
203 ruby-tzinfo, ruby-xml-simple, ruby-yard, sassc, scmutils, seqmagick, shotwell,
204 shroud, simple-scan, squashfs-tools, sxhkd, tinc, udisks, unison, vsearch,
205 webkitgtk-gtk2, wesnoth, wpa-supplicant-minimal, xcb-util-cursor, xcompmgr,
206 xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, xjackfreak, xlsfonts, xmonad, yapet, yelp,
207 yelp-tools, yelp-xsl, znc, zynaddsubfx
209 *** 268 package updates
211 abcde-2.7, arb-2.7.0, ardour-4.2, at-spi2-atk-2.18.1, at-spi2-core-2.18.1,
212 ath9k-htc-firmware-1.4.0, atk-2.18.0, atkmm-2.24.1, autogen-5.18.6,
213 avidemux-2.6.10, bedtools-2.24.0, binutils-2.25.1,
214 binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.25.1, bison-3.0.4, bluez-5.35,
215 bundler-1.10.6, c-reduce-2.3.0, cairomm-1.12.0, calcurse-4.0.0,
216 calibre-2.41.0, camlp5-6.14, cgal-4.6.3, chess-6.2.2, clang-3.6.2,
217 claws-mail-3.13.0, cmake-3.3.2, complexity-1.3, conkeror-1.0pre1.20150730,
218 cpio-2.12, crossmap-0.2.1, csound-6.05, cups-2.1.0, cups-filters-1.0.75,
219 cups-minimal-2.1.0, curl-7.45.0, dbus-1.10.0, dbus-1.10.0.a, ddrescue-1.20,
220 dmd-0.2.01, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xml-4.5, dosfstools-3.0.28,
221 e2fsck-static-1.42.13, e2fsprogs-1.42.13, efl-1.15.2, eigen-3.2.6,
222 elementary-1.15.2, emotion-generic-players-1.15.0, enlightenment-0.19.12,
223 eudev-3.1.5, evas-generic-loaders-1.15.0, feh-2.14, ffmpeg-2.8, fish-2.2.0,
224 flint-2.5.2, fontconfig-2.11.94, freeglut-3.0.0, freeimage-3.17.0,
225 freeipmi-1.4.11, gcc-4.9.3, gcc-4.9.3, gcc-4.9.3, gcc-5.2.0,
226 gcc-toolchain-5.2.0, gcj-4.9.3, gdb-7.10, gdk-pixbuf-2.32.1, geiser-0.8.1,
227 gettext-0.19.6, ghc-7.10.2, ghc-hashable-1.2.3.3, ghc-http-4000.2.20,
228 ghc-mtl-2.2.1, ghc-network-2.6.2.1, ghc-network-uri-2.6.0.3,
229 ghc-primitive-0.6.1.0, ghc-quickcheck-2.8.1, ghc-syb-0.6, ghc-text-1.2.1.3,
230 ghc-vector-0.11.0.0, giflib-5.1.1, git-2.5.0, git-manpages-2.5.0,
231 git-modes-1.2.0, glib-2.46.1, glib-networking-2.46.1, glibc-2.22,
232 glibc-locales-2.22, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.22, glibc-utf8-locales-2.22,
233 glibmm-2.46.1, global-6.5.1, glpk-4.56, gnome-desktop-3.16.2,
234 gnome-themes-standard-3.16.2, gnu-pw-mgr-1.6, gnumach-headers-1.6,
235 gnupg-2.1.9, gnurl-7.45.0, gnutls-3.4.5, gobject-introspection-1.46.0,
236 gp2c-0.0.9pl3, graphite2-1.3.3, graphviz-2.38.0,
237 gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.18.0, gsl-2.0, gst-libav-1.6.1,
238 gst-plugins-base-1.6.1, gst-plugins-good-1.6.1, gst-plugins-ugly-1.6.1,
239 gstreamer-1.6.1, gtk+-3.18.2, gtkmm-3.18.0, guile-ssh-0.8.0, guitarix-0.33.0,
240 guix-0.8.3, guix-0.8.3.b485f75, harfbuzz-1.0.5, help2man-1.47.2,
241 hurd-headers-0.7, ibus-1.5.11, icecat-38.3.0-gnu1, icedtea6-1.13.8,
242 icedtea7-2.6.2, imagemagick-6.9.2-1, intltool-0.51.0, json-glib-1.0.4,
243 leptonica-1.72, less-481, libbluray-0.9.0, libcap-2.24, libdrm-2.4.65,
244 libdvdcss-1.3.99, libedit-20150325-3.1, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libgsf-1.14.34,
245 libidn-1.32, libinput-0.21.0, libmicrohttpd-0.9.45, libmtp-1.1.9,
246 libotr-4.1.0, libpcap-1.7.4, libpciaccess-0.13.4, libqtxdg-1.2.0,
247 librsvg-2.40.11, libsigc++-2.6.1, libsoup-2.52.1, libssh-0.6.5, libtiff-4.0.5,
248 libtorrent-0.13.6, libva-1.6.1, lilypond-2.19.27, links-2.12,
249 linux-libre-4.2.5, linux-pam-1.2.1, lirc-0.9.3, llvm-3.6.2, lua-5.2.3,
250 lzo-2.09, magit-2.3.0, mesa-11.0.3, mesa-headers-11.0.3, mig-1.6,
251 minetest-0.4.13, mosh-1.2.5, mpg123-1.22.4, mplayer-1.2, mpv-0.11.0,
252 mu-0.9.13, mutt-1.5.24, ncdu-1.11, ncmpcpp-0.6.7, ncurses-6.0, node-0.12.7,
253 notmuch-0.20.2, ntp-4.2.8p4, ocaml-4.02.3, offlineimap-6.5.7, openblas-0.2.15,
254 openjpeg-2.1.0, openldap-2.4.42, openssh-7.0p1, orc-0.4.24, pango-1.38.1,
255 pangomm-2.38.1, parallel-20151022, pavucontrol-3.0,
256 pbtranscript-tofu-2.2.3.8f5467fe6, pciutils-3.3.1, perf-4.2.5,
257 perl-xml-parser-2.44, pixman-0.32.8, poppler-0.37.0, powertop-2.7,
258 python-cffi-1.2.1, python-dateutil-2.2, python-fixtures-1.3.1,
259 python-ipython-3.2.1, python-pyflakes-0.9.2, python-pygobject-3.18.0,
260 python-pyqt-4.11.4, python-pyqt-5.5, python-requests-2.8.0,
261 python-scipy-0.16.0, python-setuptools-18.3.1, python-sip-4.16.9,
262 python-six-1.9.0, python2-cffi-1.2.1, python2-dateutil-2.2,
263 python2-fixtures-1.3.1, python2-ipython-3.2.1, python2-pygobject-3.18.0,
264 python2-pyqt-4.11.4, python2-pyqt-5.5, python2-requests-2.8.0,
265 python2-scipy-0.16.0, python2-setuptools-18.3.1, python2-sip-4.16.9,
266 python2-six-1.9.0, qemu-2.4.0.1, qemu-headless-2.4.0.1, qpdf-5.1.3,
267 qsynth-0.4.0, qt-5.5.1, r-3.2.2, racket-6.2.1, ratpoison-1.4.8, readline-6.3,
268 retroarch-1.2.2, ripperx-2.8.0, rtorrent-0.9.6, ruby-2.2.3, ruby-arel-6.0.3,
269 ruby-bacon-1.2.0, ruby-i18n-0.7.0, samtools-1.2, sfarklib-2.24, sfml-2.3.2,
270 shadow-4.2.1, sipwitch-1.9.14, sqlite-3.8.11.1, subversion-1.8.14,
271 synergy-1.7.4, tcl-8.6.4, tcpdump-4.7.4, teckit-2.5.4, terminology-0.9.1,
272 texlive-2015, texlive-bin-2015, texlive-texmf-2015, tiled-0.13.1, tk-8.6.4,
273 tmux-2.0, tor-0.2.6.10, ucommon-6.6.2, units-2.12, util-linux-2.27,
274 vala-0.30.0, valgrind-3.11.0, vlc-2.2.1, webkitgtk-2.8.5, weechat-1.3,
275 wine-1.7.52, wpa-supplicant-2.5, xapian-1.2.21, xterm-320,
276 youtube-dl-2015.11.01, zsh-5.1.1
278 ** Programming interfaces
280 *** Rewritten (gnu services) module; (gnu services …) modules adjusted
281 *** New Emacs development tools, see “Development” in the manual
282 *** (guix gexp) provides the declarative ‘computed-file’, ‘program-file’, etc.
283 *** New (guix upstream) module, for generalized upstream release tracking
285 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
287 *** Passwords in /etc/shadow are SHA512-hashed (http://bugs.gnu.org/21318)
288 *** daemon: Require a signature for imports made by root
289 (http://bugs.gnu.org/21354)
290 *** emacs: Fix guix-guile-program default value (http://bugs.gnu.org/21127)
291 *** Compressed initrds no longer include timestamps
292 *** Partly fix handling of encrypted root partitions
293 (http://bugs.gnu.org/19190)
294 *** Python now includes tkinter (http://bugs.gnu.org/20889)
295 *** Memoize the results of ‘package-with-python2’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/21675)
296 *** Use the daemon's substitute URLs by default (http://bugs.gnu.org/20217)
297 *** ‘guix system --no-grub’ works correctly for ‘init’ and ‘reconfigure’
298 (http://bugs.gnu.org/21068)
300 ** Native language support
302 *** Updated translations: da
304 * Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2)
306 ** Package management
308 *** New ‘guix edit’ and ‘guix size’ commands
309 *** New ‘--manifest’ option for ‘guix package’, for declarative profiles
310 *** Similarly, new ‘M-x guix-apply-manifest’ for the Emacs UI
311 *** Emacs support now includes completion for ‘guix’ commands in shell-mode
312 *** ‘guix package --search-paths’ now takes an optional argument
313 *** ‘guix environment --ad-hoc’ creates a custom development environment
314 *** New ‘--system’ option for ‘guix environment’
315 *** ‘guix environment’ defines $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, useful to adjust ‘PS1’
316 *** New ‘--optimize’ and ‘--verify’ options to ‘guix gc’
317 *** ‘guix build --with-source’ can now be passed a directory
318 *** New ‘elpa’ importer for ‘guix import’
319 *** ‘guix import pypi’ determines the list of dependencies
320 *** New ‘--substitute-urls’ option for ‘guix build’ and other commands
321 *** ‘guix substitute’ can now alternate between different substitute URLs
322 *** New “Running Guix Before It Is Installed” section in the manual
323 *** Basic manual pages for the ‘guix’ commands are now shipped
324 *** Building the daemon now necessitates a C++11 compiler
328 *** New ‘%base-user-accounts’ variable, for common system accounts
329 *** New ‘--on-error’ option for ‘guix system’
330 *** New ‘plain-file’ construct, for use in ‘operating-system’ declarations
331 *** ‘sudoers’ field of ‘operating-system’ renamed to ‘sudoers-file’
332 *** ‘sudoers-file’ and ‘hosts-file’ fields now take file-like objects
333 *** File systems under /sys/fs/cgroup are now mounted by default
334 *** Default compiler is now GCC 4.9.3 (was 4.8.4)
335 *** ARMv7 port now requires NEON
336 *** The disk footprint of a dozen key packages has been reduced
340 adwaita-icon-theme, amule, aragorn, arpack-ng-openmpi, blast+, bundler,
341 camlp4, camlp5, clutter, clutter-gst, clutter-gtk, cogl, coq, couger, crda,
342 dealii, dealii-openmpi, devhelp, diamond, dunst, edirect, emacs-auctex,
343 emacs-mmm-mode, emacs-pdf-tools, eog, execline, exempi, fasttree, faust,
344 fizmo, gcr, git-modes, gnome-common, gnome-keyring, gnome-klotski,
345 gnu-c-manual, gnujump, gom, grilo, grilo-plugins, gst-plugins-ugly,
346 guile-emacs, guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-gdbm-ffi, guitarix, haskell-mode,
347 hevea, hmmer, hoedown, htslib, hydra, hydrogen, idr, libcmis, libiberty,
348 libmng, libmpeg2, libreoffice, libressl, librest, libstdc++, libstdc++-doc,
349 libstdc++-doc, libsvm, libtar, libx264, libxdg-basedir, lpsolve, lxappearance,
350 magit-svn, metabat, metis, mumps, mumps-metis, mumps-metis-openmpi,
351 mumps-openmpi, orfm, p4est, p4est-openmpi, perl-authen-sasl,
352 perl-catalyst-authentication-store-dbix-class,
353 perl-catalyst-plugin-authorization-roles, perl-data-stag, perl-gssapi,
354 perl-io-string, perl-net-smtp-ssl, perl-set-object, plink, powertabeditor,
355 preseq, prodigal, proof-general, pugixml, pv, python-click,
356 python-feedgenerator, python-flake8, python-gridmap, python-libsvm,
357 python-libxml2, python-mccabe, python-pandas, python-pep8, python-pep8,
358 python-psutil, python-pyflakes, python-pyflakes, python-pyzmq, python-redis,
359 python-rpy2, python-rq, python-scikit-image, python-seaborn, python2-click,
360 python2-fastlmm, python2-feedgenerator, python2-flake8, python2-gridmap,
361 python2-libxml2, python2-mccabe, python2-pandas, python2-pep8, python2-pep8,
362 python2-psutil, python2-pyflakes, python2-pysnptools, python2-pyzmq,
363 python2-redis, python2-rpy2, python2-rq, python2-scikit-image,
364 python2-seaborn, python2-warpedlmm, qsynth, randomjungle, rapidjson, raul, rc,
365 rhythmbox, rsem, rtmidi, ruby-arel, ruby-bacon, ruby-connection-pool,
366 ruby-daemons, ruby-git, ruby-minitest, ruby-minitest-bacon,
367 ruby-minitest-sprint, ruby-multipart-post, ruby-net-http-persistent,
368 ruby-rake-compiler, ruby-rspec, ruby-rspec-core, ruby-rspec-expectations,
369 ruby-rspec-mocks, ruby-slop, ruby-useragent, scalapack, seahorse, setbfree,
370 sfarklib, sfarkxtc, sfxr, skalibs, slepc, slepc-complex,
371 slepc-complex-openmpi, slepc-openmpi, sox, st, totem, wayland, wireless-regdb,
372 withershins, wxmaxima, xfce4-clipman-plugin, xmlsec, zita-resampler
374 *** 181 package updates
376 ardour-4.1-5aa834e, bash-4.3.39, bash-light-4.3.39, bedops-2.4.14,
377 bind-utils-9.10.2-P2, bison-3.0.4, bitlbee-3.4, boost-1.58.0, brasero-3.12.1,
378 calibre-2.29.0, catch-1.1.3, ccache-3.2.2, chibi-scheme-0.7.3, clang-3.6.0,
379 coreutils-8.24, cups-2.0.3, cups-filters-1.0.71, cups-minimal-2.0.3,
380 curl-7.43.0, datamash-1.0.7, dfu-programmer-0.7.2, duplicity-0.6.26, ed-1.12,
381 efl-1.14.2, eigen-3.2.5, elementary-1.14.2, emotion-generic-players-1.14.0,
382 enlightenment-0.19.5, evas-generic-loaders-1.14.0, evince-3.16.1, feh-2.13,
383 ffmpeg-2.7.1, freeipmi-1.4.9, freetype-2.6, gawk-4.1.3, gcal-4, gcc-5.2.0,
384 gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9.3, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.9.3,
385 gcc-cross-sans-libc-avr-4.9.3, gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf-4.9.3,
386 gcc-objc++-4.8.5, gcc-objc-4.8.5, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.9.3,
387 gcc-toolchain-4.9.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.3, gcc-toolchain-5.2.0, gccgo-4.8.5,
388 gcj-4.8.5, gdb-7.9.1, geoclue-2.2.0, gettext-0.19.5, gfortran-4.8.5,
389 gfortran-4.9.3, gfortran-4.9.3, girara-0.2.4, git-2.4.3, git-manpages-2.4.3,
390 global-6.5, gnu-pw-mgr-1.4, gnupg-2.1.6, gnutls-3.4.1, goffice-0.10.14,
391 gpgme-1.5.5, gtk+-3.16.3, gtkmm-3.16.0, guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11,
392 guile-reader-0.6.1, guile-sdl-0.5.2, guix-0.8.2, guix-0.8.2.72cd8ec,
393 gxmessage-3.4.3, harfbuzz-0.9.40, help2man-1.47.1, httpd-2.4.16, hwloc-1.10.1,
394 icecat-31.8.0-gnu1, imagemagick-6.9.1-3, inetutils-1.9.4, julia-0.3.10,
395 libassuan-2.2.1, libdvdnav-5.0.3, libdvdread-5.0.3, libetonyek-0.1.3,
396 libgpg-error-1.19, libidn-1.31, libksba-1.3.3, libmicrohttpd-0.9.42,
397 libmpdclient-2.10, libmwaw-0.3.5, libpipeline-1.4.0, libpsl-0.7.1,
398 librsvg-2.40.9, libunistring-0.9.6, libusb-1.0.19, libvpx-1.4.0, libwps-0.4.0,
399 libxml2-2.9.2, linux-libre-4.0.8, linux-libre-4.1.2, livestreamer-1.12.2,
400 lv2-1.12.0, magit-1.4.1, man-db-2.7.1, mariadb-10.0.20, maxima-5.36.1,
401 mdds-0.12.1, mpd-0.19.10, mpd-mpc-0.27, mpfr-3.1.3, mysql-5.6.25, nano-2.4.2,
402 ncmpc-0.24, ncmpcpp-0.6.5, nettle-3.1.1, ngs-java-1.1.1, ngs-sdk-1.1.1,
403 npth-1.2, nss-3.19.2, nss-certs-3.19.2, ntp-4.2.8p3, ocaml-4.02.1,
404 openblas-0.2.14, openjpeg-2.0.1, openjpeg-2.1.0, openmpi-1.8.5, openssh-6.9p1,
405 openssl-1.0.2d, parallel-20150622, pari-gp-2.7.4, pcre-8.37, perf-4.1.2,
406 petsc-3.6.0, petsc-complex-3.6.0, petsc-complex-openmpi-3.6.0,
407 petsc-openmpi-3.6.0, pinentry-0.9.5, pius-2.1.1, polkit-0.113,
408 postgresql-9.3.8, pspp-0.8.5, pt-scotch-6.0.4, pumpa-0.9.1, python-3.4.3,
409 python-dateutil-2.2, python-pillow-2.8.1, python-scikit-learn-0.16.1,
410 python2-dateutil-2.2, python2-pillow-2.8.1, python2-pygobject-3.16.1,
411 python2-pyqt-5.4, python2-scikit-learn-0.16.1, qemu-2.3.0,
412 qemu-headless-2.3.0, qt-5.4.2, r-3.2.1, readline-6.3, ruby-2.1.6, ruby-2.2.2,
413 samtools-1.2, scotch-6.0.4, screen-4.3.1, sharutils-4.15.2, sipwitch-1.9.8,
414 sqlite-3.8.10.2, star-2.4.2a, swig-3.0.5, synergy-1.7.3, sysfsutils-2.1.0,
415 talloc-2.1.2, texinfo-6.0, tor-0.2.6.8, ucommon-6.3.4, unrtf-0.21.9, vamp-2.6,
416 webkitgtk-2.8.3, which-2.21, xorriso-1.4.0, youtube-dl-2015.06.25,
419 ** Programming interfaces
421 *** New “package Reference” and “origin Reference” sections in the manual
422 *** New ‘emacs-build-system’, which mimics what package.el does
423 *** New (guix cpio) module, used to produce Linux initrds deterministically
424 *** New ‘clone’, ‘setns’, and ‘pivot_root’ bindings in (guix build syscalls)
425 *** New ‘dependencies’ field in <file-system>
426 *** New #:gem-flags parameter for ‘ruby-build-system’
428 *** monads: ‘foldm’, ‘mapm’, and ‘anym’ now take a list of regular values
429 *** monads: Allow n-ary ‘>>=’ expressions
430 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
432 *** Binary installation tarball now has files root-owned, with zeroed mtime
433 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21101>)
434 *** GRUB background image is always available (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20591>)
435 *** ‘guix system’ catches references to non-existent user groups
436 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20646>)
437 *** Ignore trailing components for ‘guix gc -d’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19757>)
438 *** ‘guix lint’ warns only when all the URIs are unreachable
439 *** ‘guix system init’ overwrites the items in the target store
440 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20722>)
441 *** ‘guix-register’ performs deduplication even when --prefix is passed
442 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19044>)
443 *** The ‘location’ of packages is no longer preserved by ‘inherit’
444 *** GuixSD installation image has udev rules for device-mapper
445 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20791>)
446 *** Daemon distinguishes between “substitutable” and “offloadable” derivations
447 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>)
448 *** Avoid infinite loop in ‘guix substitute’
449 *** ‘guix environment’ now returns the exit code of its command
450 *** ‘file-system’ declarations can now really use UUIDs
451 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19778>)
452 *** Daemon preserves build user groups (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18994>)
453 *** Fix quadratic behavior when building packages with many propagated inputs
454 *** Tarballs for origins with patches/snippet are now build deterministically
455 *** Scalability issues in ‘guix publish’ have been fixed
457 ** Native language support
459 *** Updated translations: da, eo
461 * Changes in 0.8.2 (since 0.8.1)
463 ** Package management
465 *** New “binary tarball” installation method is available
467 See “Binary Installation” in the manual.
469 *** New ‘guix publish’ command, to publish one’s store
471 See “Invoking guix publish” in the manual.
473 *** ‘guix package’ runs “profile creation hooks” as needed
475 It creates X.509 certificate bundles in the profile’s etc/ssl directory, if
476 needed, generates a package database cache for GHC if the profile includes GHC
477 (the Haskell compiler), and generates an Info ‘dir’ file (this part was
478 already done before.)
480 *** ‘guix package’ creates an ‘etc/profile’ file in the profile
482 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
484 *** Commands understand version prefixes, such as ‘gcc-5’ for ‘gcc-5.1.0’
486 *** ‘guix package --search’ now sorts packages by name and version
488 *** Substitute information is now fetched using HTTP pipelining
490 Before that the “substituter” used threads. Using HTTP pipelining means that
491 resource consumption is reduced on both the client and server sides. As a
492 side effect, a progress report is displayed as substitute info is downloaded.
494 *** ‘guix package’ warns when a $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH module cannot be loaded
496 *** New ‘--sources’ option to ‘guix build’
498 *** New Bash completion file, installed in $sysconfdir/bash_completion.d
500 *** New ‘guix import hackage’ command
502 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
504 *** ‘guix lint’ supports FTP for the ‘source’ and ‘home-page’ checkers
506 *** ‘guix lint’ has a new ‘derivation’ checker
508 *** ‘guix import cpan’ better handles dependencies and licenses
510 *** Packages are now build in an environment with a UTF-8 locale
514 *** C library's name service switch (NSS) is now fully configurable
516 See “Name Service Switch” in the manual.
518 *** New services: wicd, lirc, colord, upower, console-keymap, postgresql
520 *** Xorg service supports new drivers, such as Nouveau
522 *** lsh service has new options, initializes its seed by default
524 *** /etc/ssl symlink is created, for X.509 certificates
526 See “X.509 Certificates” in the manual.
528 *** ‘guix system’ reports duplicate service identifiers
530 *** New /etc/bashrc file that loads Bash completion when available
532 *** SLiM service uses sessions from /run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions
534 See “X Window” in the manual.
536 *** The Linux “YAMA” restricting policy on PTRACE_ATTACH is now disabled
538 *** /etc/shells now lists all the user accounts’ shells
540 *** /gnu/store is now remounted read-only, to avoid accidental modification
542 *** /etc/profile is sources each profile’s ‘etc/profile’ file
546 aalib, aarddict, acpid, agg, aisleriot, alsa-modular-synth, ant, ardour,
547 ardour, argtable, arpack-ng, aspell-dict-ru, aubio, audacity, avidemux,
548 avidemux, azr3, bamtools, bash-completion, bedops, bind-utils, bluez, bool,
549 brdf-explorer, bwa, calf, calibre, catch, ccl, chibi-scheme, chmlib,
550 clalsadrv, clipper, clisp, clustal-omega, colord, colordiff, cpufrequtils,
551 crossmap, csound, ctl, cunit, cutadapt, desktop-file-utils, djvulibre,
552 dnsmasq, dosfstools, double-conversion, dovecot, ecl, efl, elementary,
553 elogind, emacs-no-x, emotion-generic-players, enca, enlightenment,
554 evas-generic-loaders, exim, express, extremetuxracer, faad2, fastx-toolkit,
555 fcitx, fdupes, flexbar, fluidsynth, font-adobe-source-han-sans,
556 font-wqy-zenhei, freepats, gambit-c, ganv, geda-gaf, geoclue, geocode-glib,
557 ghc, ghc-case-insensitive, ghc-containers, ghc-fgl, ghc-hashable, ghc-http,
558 ghc-hunit, ghc-mtl, ghc-network, ghc-network-uri, ghc-parallel, ghc-parsec,
559 ghc-paths, ghc-primitive, ghc-quickcheck, ghc-random, ghc-split, ghc-stm,
560 ghc-syb, ghc-text, ghc-tf-random, ghc-unordered-containers, ghc-vector,
561 ghc-zlib, girara, gitolite, glib-networking, glibc-locales,
562 glibc-utf8-locales, glibc-utf8-locales, glm, gnome-mines,
563 gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-terminal, gnucash, gnugo, grit, gst-libav,
564 guile-minikanren, guile-reader, hdparm, hisat, htseq, htsjdk, hunspell,
565 hyphen, i2c-tools, ibus, icecast, icedtea6, icedtea7, ilmbase, ir, isync,
566 ixion, jack2, jalv, jansson, jemalloc, julia, key-mon, ladspa, lash,
567 leptonica, liba52, libabw, libaio, libass, libavc1394, libbluray, libbs2b,
568 libcaca, libcap-ng, libcdio-paranoia, libcdr, libdca, libdv, libdvdcss,
569 libe-book, libedit, libepoxy, libetonyek, libexttextcat, libffcall,
570 libfreehand, libgnomecanvasmm, libgtextutils, libgweather, libical,
571 libiec61883, libinput, liblo, libmodplug, libmspack, libmspub, libmtp,
572 libmwaw, libodfgen, libpagemaker, libqtxdg, libquvi, libquvi-scripts,
573 libraw1394, librecad, librep, librevenge, libsbsms, libsecret, libshout,
574 libsoup, libsrtp, libtocc, libungif, libva, libvisio, libwacom, libwebp,
575 libwpd, libwpg, libwps, libxklavier, libxmp, libyaml, lilv, lilypond, lirc,
576 livestreamer, ltrace, lv2, lv2-mda-epiano, lv2-mda-piano, lvtk, macs, mariadb,
577 markdown, mdadm, mdds, mesa-headers, mesa-utils, miredo, miso, moreutils,
578 mpd-mpc, mpdscribble, mplayer2, mpv, muparser, mythes, ncbi-vdb, ngircd,
579 ngs-java, ngs-sdk, npth, nss-certs, openblas, openexr, openlibm, openntpd,
580 openspecfun, openvpn, orc, orcus, p11-kit, patchage, pbtranscript-tofu, pcb,
581 perl-algorithm-c3, perl-algorithm-diff, perl-aliased,
582 perl-apache-logformat-compiler, perl-appconfig, perl-b-hooks-endofscope,
583 perl-base, perl-bit-vector, perl-boolean, perl-cache-cache,
584 perl-cache-fastmmap, perl-capture-tiny, perl-carp-assert,
585 perl-carp-assert-more, perl-carp-clan, perl-catalyst-action-renderview,
586 perl-catalyst-action-rest, perl-catalyst-component-instancepercontext,
587 perl-catalyst-devel, perl-catalyst-dispatchtype-regex,
588 perl-catalyst-model-dbic-schema, perl-catalyst-plugin-accesslog,
589 perl-catalyst-plugin-authentication, perl-catalyst-plugin-captcha,
590 perl-catalyst-plugin-configloader, perl-catalyst-plugin-session,
591 perl-catalyst-plugin-session-state-cookie,
592 perl-catalyst-plugin-session-store-fastmmap, perl-catalyst-plugin-stacktrace,
593 perl-catalyst-plugin-static-simple, perl-catalyst-runtime,
594 perl-catalyst-traitfor-request-proxybase, perl-catalyst-view-download,
595 perl-catalyst-view-json, perl-catalyst-view-tt,
596 perl-catalystx-component-traits, perl-catalystx-roleapplicator,
597 perl-catalystx-script-server-starman, perl-cgi-simple, perl-cgi-struct,
598 perl-class-accessor, perl-class-accessor-chained, perl-class-accessor-grouped,
599 perl-class-c3, perl-class-c3-adopt-next, perl-class-c3-componentised,
600 perl-class-data-inheritable, perl-class-date, perl-class-factory-util,
601 perl-class-inspector, perl-class-load, perl-class-load-xs,
602 perl-class-method-modifiers, perl-class-methodmaker, perl-class-singleton,
603 perl-class-tiny, perl-class-unload, perl-class-xsaccessor, perl-common-sense,
604 perl-compress-raw-bzip2, perl-compress-raw-zlib, perl-config-any,
605 perl-config-autoconf, perl-config-general, perl-context-preserve,
606 perl-cpan-meta, perl-cpan-meta-check, perl-cpan-meta-requirements,
607 perl-cpan-meta-yaml, perl-cpanel-json-xs, perl-crypt-randpasswd,
608 perl-data-dump, perl-data-dumper-concise, perl-data-optlist, perl-data-page,
609 perl-data-stream-bulk, perl-data-tumbler, perl-data-visitor, perl-date-calc,
610 perl-date-calc-xs, perl-datetime, perl-datetime-event-ical,
611 perl-datetime-event-recurrence, perl-datetime-format-builder,
612 perl-datetime-format-flexible, perl-datetime-format-http,
613 perl-datetime-format-ical, perl-datetime-format-natural,
614 perl-datetime-format-strptime, perl-datetime-locale, perl-datetime-set,
615 perl-datetime-timezone, perl-datetimex-easy, perl-dbd-pg, perl-dbix-class,
616 perl-dbix-class-cursor-cached, perl-dbix-class-introspectablem2m,
617 perl-dbix-class-schema-loader, perl-devel-caller, perl-devel-checkbin,
618 perl-devel-globaldestruction, perl-devel-lexalias, perl-devel-overloadinfo,
619 perl-devel-partialdump, perl-devel-stacktrace, perl-devel-stacktrace-ashtml,
620 perl-devel-symdump, perl-digest-hmac, perl-digest-md5-file,
621 perl-dist-checkconflicts, perl-email-abstract, perl-email-address,
622 perl-email-date-format, perl-email-messageid, perl-email-mime,
623 perl-email-mime-contenttype, perl-email-mime-encodings, perl-email-sender,
624 perl-email-simple, perl-error, perl-eval-closure, perl-exception-class,
625 perl-exporter-tiny, perl-extutils-config, perl-extutils-helpers,
626 perl-extutils-installpaths, perl-file-changenotify, perl-file-copy-recursive,
627 perl-file-find-rule, perl-file-find-rule-perl, perl-file-homedir,
628 perl-file-remove, perl-file-sharedir, perl-file-sharedir-install,
629 perl-file-slurp, perl-file-temp, perl-gd, perl-gd-securityimage,
630 perl-getopt-long-descriptive, perl-hash-merge, perl-hash-multivalue,
631 perl-html-form, perl-html-lint, perl-html-tree, perl-http-body,
632 perl-http-cookiejar, perl-http-parser, perl-http-parser-xs,
633 perl-http-request-ascgi, perl-http-server-simple, perl-http-tiny,
634 perl-image-magick, perl-import-into, perl-inc-latest, perl-io-compress,
635 perl-io-interactive, perl-io-socket-ip, perl-io-stringy, perl-ipc-run,
636 perl-ipc-sharelite, perl-json, perl-json-any, perl-json-maybexs, perl-json-xs,
637 perl-lingua-en-findnumber, perl-lingua-en-inflect,
638 perl-lingua-en-inflect-number, perl-lingua-en-inflect-phrase,
639 perl-lingua-en-number-isordinal, perl-lingua-en-tagger,
640 perl-lingua-en-words2nums, perl-lingua-pt-stemmer, perl-lingua-stem,
641 perl-lingua-stem-fr, perl-lingua-stem-it, perl-lingua-stem-ru,
642 perl-lingua-stem-snowball-da, perl-list-allutils, perl-list-moreutils,
643 perl-lwp-protocol-https, perl-lwp-useragent-determined,
644 perl-memoize-expirelru, perl-mime-types, perl-module-build,
645 perl-module-build-tiny, perl-module-find, perl-module-implementation,
646 perl-module-install, perl-module-runtime, perl-module-runtime-conflicts,
647 perl-module-scandeps, perl-module-util, perl-moo, perl-moose,
648 perl-moosex-emulate-class-accessor-fast, perl-moosex-getopt,
649 perl-moosex-markasmethods, perl-moosex-methodattributes, perl-moosex-nonmoose,
650 perl-moosex-params-validate, perl-moosex-relatedclassroles,
651 perl-moosex-role-parameterized, perl-moosex-role-withoverloading,
652 perl-moosex-semiaffordanceaccessor, perl-moosex-strictconstructor,
653 perl-moosex-traits-pluggable, perl-moosex-types, perl-moosex-types-datetime,
654 perl-moosex-types-datetime-morecoercions, perl-moosex-types-loadableclass,
655 perl-moox-types-mooselike, perl-mro-compat, perl-namespace-autoclean,
656 perl-namespace-clean, perl-net-amazon-s3, perl-net-server,
657 perl-number-compare, perl-object-signature, perl-package-anon,
658 perl-package-deprecationmanager, perl-package-stash, perl-package-stash-xs,
659 perl-padwalker, perl-par-dist, perl-params-util, perl-params-validate,
660 perl-parent, perl-parse-cpan-meta, perl-path-class, perl-plack,
661 perl-plack-middleware-fixmissingbodyinredirect,
662 perl-plack-middleware-methodoverride,
663 perl-plack-middleware-removeredundantbody, perl-plack-middleware-reverseproxy,
664 perl-plack-test-externalserver, perl-pod-coverage,
665 perl-posix-strftime-compiler, perl-readonly, perl-role-tiny, perl-safe-isa,
666 perl-scalar-list-utils, perl-scope-guard, perl-set-infinite, perl-set-scalar,
667 perl-snowball-norwegian, perl-snowball-swedish, perl-spiffy,
668 perl-sql-abstract, perl-sql-splitstatement, perl-sql-tokenizer,
669 perl-stream-buffered, perl-strictures, perl-string-camelcase,
670 perl-string-rewriteprefix, perl-string-toidentifier-en, perl-sub-exporter,
671 perl-sub-exporter-progressive, perl-sub-identify, perl-sub-install,
672 perl-sub-name, perl-sub-uplevel, perl-svg, perl-sys-hostname-long,
673 perl-task-weaken, perl-template-timer, perl-template-toolkit,
674 perl-term-encoding, perl-term-progressbar, perl-term-progressbar-quiet,
675 perl-term-progressbar-simple, perl-term-readkey, perl-test-base,
676 perl-test-cleannamespaces, perl-test-differences, perl-test-directory,
677 perl-test-exception, perl-test-fatal, perl-test-harness, perl-test-leaktrace,
678 perl-test-longstring, perl-test-mockobject, perl-test-mocktime,
679 perl-test-most, perl-test-output, perl-test-pod, perl-test-pod-coverage,
680 perl-test-requires, perl-test-sharedfork, perl-test-tcp, perl-test-trap,
681 perl-test-utf8, perl-test-warn, perl-test-warnings, perl-test-without-module,
682 perl-test-writevariants, perl-test-www-mechanize,
683 perl-test-www-mechanize-catalyst, perl-test-www-mechanize-psgi,
684 perl-test-yaml, perl-text-aligner, perl-text-balanced, perl-text-csv,
685 perl-text-diff, perl-text-german, perl-text-glob, perl-text-simpletable,
686 perl-text-table, perl-text-unidecode, perl-throwable, perl-tie-ixhash,
687 perl-tie-toobject, perl-time-duration, perl-time-duration-parse,
688 perl-time-local, perl-time-mock, perl-timedate, perl-tree-simple,
689 perl-tree-simple-visitorfactory, perl-try-tiny, perl-types-serialiser,
690 perl-universal-can, perl-universal-isa, perl-uri-find, perl-uri-ws,
691 perl-variable-magic, perl-www-mechanize, perl-xml-libxml,
692 perl-xml-namespacesupport, perl-xml-sax, perl-xml-sax-base, perl-yaml,
693 perl-yaml-tiny, ploticus, polipo, portaudio, pumpa, python-apsw,
694 python-biopython, python-cssselect, python-dbus, python-decorator,
695 python-drmaa, python-h5py, python-lxml, python-netifaces, python-networkx,
696 python-pyxdg, python-pyyaml, python-requests, python-scikit-learn,
697 python-singledispatch, python-sphinx-rtd-theme, python-sympy, python-testlib,
698 python-tornado, python-urwid, python-waf, python2-apsw,
699 python2-backport-ssl-match-hostname, python2-biopython, python2-bx-python,
700 python2-cssselect, python2-cssutils, python2-dbus, python2-decorator,
701 python2-drmaa, python2-h5py, python2-lxml, python2-netifaces,
702 python2-networkx, python2-pbcore, python2-pil, python2-pybedtools,
703 python2-pycairo, python2-pyxdg, python2-pyyaml, python2-rdflib, python2-rsvg,
704 python2-scikit-learn, python2-singledispatch, python2-six,
705 python2-sphinx-rtd-theme, python2-sympy, python2-testlib, python2-tornado,
706 python2-urwid, python2-waf, python2-xlib, quvi, r, rdesktop, recode, rep-gtk,
707 rseqc, rsound, rubberband, ruby-hoe, rxvt-unicode, s2tc, sawfish, sbcl, seqan,
708 serd, serf, sfml, shogun, sloccount, smartmontools, snakemake, soil, solfege,
709 sord, soundtouch, soxr, sra-tools, sratom, srt2vtt, star, starman, stow,
710 subread, suil, suitesparse, swt, sysfsutils, sysfsutils, taskwarrior, tbb,
711 terminology, tesseract-ocr, texlive-bin, texlive-texmf, the-silver-searcher,
712 tidy, tig, timidity++, tocc, totem-pl-parser, tree, tuxguitar, tvtime,
713 twolame, txt2man, unqlite, upower, utf8proc, vamp, vapoursynth, vcftools,
714 vigra, wavpack, webkitgtk, webkitgtk, weex, wicd, wpa-supplicant-light,
715 wxwidgets, wxwidgets, xbindkeys, xcape, xdg-utils, xf86-input-libinput,
716 xf86-input-wacom, xf86-video-nouveau, xfce, xmp, xosd, xournal, xvid, zathura,
717 zathura-cb, zathura-djvu, zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura-ps, zeromq,
718 zita-alsa-pcmi, zita-convolver
720 *** 189 package updates
722 acpica-20150410, apl-1.5, apr-1.5.2, arb-2.3.0, at-spi2-atk-2.16.0,
723 at-spi2-core-2.16.0, atk-2.16.0, autogen-5.18.5, bison-3.0.4, boost-1.57.0,
724 cairo-1.14.2, ccrtp-2.1.2, check-0.9.14, clang-3.6.0, cmake-3.2.2,
725 complexity-1.2, cups-filters-1.0.68, curl-7.42.1, dbus-1.8.16,
726 dbus-glib-0.104, dejagnu-1.5.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xml-4.5,
727 e2fsck-static-1.42.12, e2fsprogs-1.42.12, ed-1.11, eigen-3.2.4,
728 elfutils-0.161, emacs-24.5, emacs-no-x-toolkit-24.5, exo-0.10.3, ffmpeg-2.6.2,
729 fish-2.1.2, flac-1.3.1, flint-2.4.5, fltk-1.3.3, freetype-2.5.5, garcon-0.4.0,
730 gcc-5.1.0, gcc-toolchain-5.1.0, gdb-7.9, geiser-0.7, glib-2.44.0, glibc-2.21,
731 glibc-2.21, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.21, glibmm-2.44.0, global-6.4,
732 gnome-desktop-3.16.0, gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, gnome-themes-standard-3.16.0,
733 gnu-pw-mgr-1.3, gnubik-2.4.2, gnumach-headers-1.5, gnunet-0.10.1,
734 gnupg-1.4.19, gnupg-2.0.27, gnupg-2.1.4, gnutls-3.4.0,
735 gobject-introspection-1.44.0, gpgme-1.5.4, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.0,
736 gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, gst-plugins-good-1.4.5, gstreamer-1.4.5, gtk+-3.16.2,
737 gtkmm-2.24.4, gtkmm-3.16.0, guile-ssh-0.7.2, guix-0.8.1, guix-0.8.1.fc34dee,
738 help2man-1.46.6, httpd-2.4.12, hurd-headers-0.6, icecat-31.6.0-gnu1,
739 icu4c-55.1, imagemagick-6.9.0-4, imlib2-1.4.7, inetutils-1.9.3, inkscape-0.91,
740 isc-dhcp-4.3.1, itstool-2.0.2, kbd-2.0.2, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libgpg-error-1.18,
741 libidn-1.30, libltdl-2.4.6, libmicrohttpd-0.9.40, libmikmod-3.3.7,
742 libotr-4.1.0, libsigc++-2.4.1, libtasn1-4.5, libtool-2.4.6,
743 libunistring-0.9.5, libuv-1.4.2, libvorbis-1.3.5, libxfce4ui-4.12.0,
744 libxfce4util-4.12.1, libxfont-1.5.1, lightning-2.1.0, linux-libre-4.0.2,
745 linux-libre-headers-3.14.37, llvm-3.6.0, lua-5.2.3, man-pages-3.82,
746 mesa-10.5.4, mig-1.5, minetest-0.4.12, moe-1.7, mpc-1.0.3, mpd-0.19.9,
747 mu-0.9.12, nano-2.4.1, ncmpcpp-0.6.2, nettle-3.1, nginx-1.8.0, node-0.12.2,
748 notmuch-0.19, nspr-4.10.8, nss-3.18, ntp-4.2.8p2, ocrad-0.25, octave-3.8.2,
749 openconnect-7.05, openjpeg-2.0.1, openjpeg-2.1.0, openldap-2.4.40,
750 openssh-6.8p1, openssl-1.0.2a, pangomm-2.36.0, parallel-20150422,
751 pari-gp-2.7.3, patch-2.7.5, perf-4.0.2, perl-libwww-6.13, perl-net-http-6.07,
752 perl-net-ssleay-1.68, perl-test-simple-1.001014, perl-uri-1.67,
753 pinentry-0.9.0, pius-2.0.11, podofo-0.9.3, poppler-0.32.0, postgresql-9.3.6,
754 pulseaudio-6.0, python-3.4.3, python-pillow-2.7.0, python-pygobject-3.16.1,
755 python-setuptools-12.1, python-wrapper-3.4.3, python2-dateutil-2.2,
756 python2-pillow-2.7.0, python2-pygobject-3.16.1, python2-setuptools-12.1,
757 qt-5.4.1, ruby-2.2.2, samba-3.6.25, scons-2.3.4, sdl2-2.0.3, sharutils-4.15.1,
758 sipwitch-1.9.7, slock-1.2, source-highlight-3.1.8, sqlite-3.8.9,
759 subversion-1.8.13, texinfo-5.2, thunar-1.6.6, thunar-volman-0.8.1,
760 tor-0.2.5.12, tumbler-0.1.31, tzdata-2015c, ucommon-6.3.1, vala-0.28.0,
761 valgrind-3.10.1, vlc-2.2.0, vte-0.40.0, wget-1.16.3, wine-1.7.40,
762 wpa-supplicant-2.4, xboard-4.8.0, xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0, xfce4-panel-4.12.0,
763 xfce4-session-4.12.0, xfce4-settings-4.12.0, xfconf-4.12.0, xfdesktop-4.12.0,
764 xfwm4-4.12.0, xorg-server-1.16.4, xterm-317
766 ** Programming interfaces
768 *** New (guix build gremlin) to parse and validate ELF dynamic link info
770 *** (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘validate-runpath’ phase
772 This phase reads the dynamic entries of ELF files and reports libraries listed
773 as NEEDED that are not found in the RUNPATH.
775 *** New (gnu services desktop) module and ‘%desktop-services’ variable
777 *** New (guix cvs-download) module, for CVS checkouts
779 *** New (guix build-system waf) module, for the Waf build system
781 *** New (guix build-system haskell) module, to build Haskell packages
783 *** (guix build-system gnu) now supports zip archives
785 *** New convenience syntax ‘modify-phases’ added in (guix build utils)
787 *** The ‘ld’ wrapper more finely determines whether to use ‘-rpath’
789 *** (guix gexp) exports ‘gexp-input’ to describe input unambiguously
791 *** The ‘define-gexp-compiler’ form allows (guix gexp) to be extended
793 *** New ‘local-file’ constructor exported by (guix gexp)
795 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
797 *** Profiles created with ‘guix package -p’ as indirect GC roots
799 Before that they were made permanent GC roots–i.e., uncollectable.
801 *** ‘guix package’ distinguishes downgrades from upgrades
803 *** Handle HTTP redirects to relative URI references
804 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19840>)
806 *** Downloads now honor the ‘http_proxy’ environment variable
807 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20402>)
809 *** ‘--no-*’ options are now always correctly handled
810 (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00702.html>)
812 *** SLiM no longer leaks open file descriptors
814 *** Don't compare <pam-service> objects with 'equal?'
815 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20037>)
817 *** x86_64 and i686 bootstrap binaries updated (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19780>)
819 *** ‘find-files’ no longer follows symlinks (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20081>)
821 *** libc message catalog (‘libc.mo’) is now installed
823 *** libstdc++ has appropriate RUNPATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20358>)
825 *** ‘dhcp-client-service’ now correctly tracks dhclient’s PID
827 ** Native language support
829 *** New translations: da (Danish)
831 *** Updated translations: eo
833 * Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8)
835 ** Package management
837 *** New ‘--share’ and ‘--expose’ options for ‘guix system vm’
839 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
841 *** Emacs mode now automatically loads newly installed Emacs packages
843 See “Emacs Initial Setup” in the manual.
845 *** ‘guix-daemon’ now defaults to ‘--cores=0 --jobs=1’
847 In other words, at any given time, only one derivation is being built or
848 substituted, and it can use as many cores as available. Before, there could
849 be N derivations using N cores, which was obviously not desirable.
851 *** Command-line tools support the ‘GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS’ environment variable
853 See “Invoking guix build” in the manual.
855 *** ‘guix environment’ is faster
857 *** New ‘--recursive’ option for ‘guix archive’
859 See “Invoking guix archive” in the manual.
861 *** Missing patches required by a package definition are gracefully reported
863 *** ‘guix lint’ supports additional checkers
865 The new checkers are ‘gnu-description’, ‘home-page’, and ‘source’.
866 See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
868 *** New CPAN importer for ‘guix import’
870 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
874 *** USB installation image has more tools
876 Tools added since 0.8: wpa_supplicant, cryptsetup, and iw.
878 *** Linux kernel module dependencies are automatically handled
880 Before that, all the modules needed in the initrd would need to be explicitly
881 listed, including their dependencies, and in topological order.
883 *** Font packages now all have a name starting with ‘font-’
885 See “Fonts” in the manual.
887 *** Shell startup files have been cleaned up
889 /etc/profile contains only environment variable definitions, which may also be
890 used when running a different shell. The skeletons for user’s ‘.bash_profile’
891 and ‘.bashrc’ files behave as documented in the Bash manual. Zsh is supported.
893 *** The ‘root’ account gets a copy of the account skeleton files
895 Before that, the skeleton files would only be copied to non-root accounts.
897 *** The name service cache daemon (nscd) is configurable
899 By default it aggressively caches host and service lookups. See “Base
900 Services” in the manual.
902 *** Available locale definitions are now declared in ‘operating-system’
904 Before, the ‘glibc’ package would contain all the existing locales, as well as
905 the ‘locale-archive’ file, amounting to 110 MiB. See “Locales” in the manual.
907 *** SLiM sessions are configurable
909 Pressing F1 in the SLiM graphical log-in screen allows users to choose among
910 the pre-configured session types. See “X Window” in the manual.
912 *** Man pages and Info files are systematically gzip-compressed
914 *** ‘gnu-build-system’ ensures that documentation is in share/{man,info}
916 If a package installs to $prefix/{man,info}, this is automatically fixed to be
917 $prefix/share/{man,info}.
919 *** ‘strip’ is invoked only on ELF files and ‘ar’ archives
921 *** ‘libtool’ and ‘libltdl’ are now separate packages
923 *** Emacs mode is readily usable on the Guix System Distribution
925 *** Substitutes are now enabled by default on freshly installed systems
928 abcde, astyle, avr-libc, bbdb, bedtools, bowtie, bullet, c-reduce, cd-discid,
929 cgal, clang, claws-mail, cups, cups-filters, cups-minimal, dconf, delta,
930 dmenu, eigen, emms, exo, fastjar, font-bitstream-vera, font-dejavu,
931 font-gnu-freefont-ttf, font-liberation, font-terminus, fvwm, garcon,
932 gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf, gcc-cross-sans-libc-avr, gcj, getmail,
933 git-flow, git-manpages, git-test-sequence, glew, glulxe, gourmet,
934 gst-plugins-good, gtk-xfce-engine, hexchat, ijs, iw, jack, json-glib,
935 libdvdnav, libdvdread, libetpan, libevdev, libltdl, libtorrent, libupnp,
936 libwnck, libwnck, libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, libxshmfence, libyubikey, llvm,
937 lrdf, mg, mp3info, msmtp, ncftp, nginx, ninja, nss, openbox,
938 perl-benchmark-timer, perl-clone, perl-digest-sha1, perl-exporter-lite,
939 perl-file-which, perl-getopt-tabular, perl-ipc-run3, perl-probe-perl,
940 perl-regexp-common, perl-sys-cpu, perl-test-deep, perl-test-nowarnings,
941 perl-test-script, perl-test-simple, perl-test-tester, pflask,
942 python-cairocffi, python-cffi, python-distutils-extra, python-html5lib,
943 python-ipython, python-isodate, python-matplotlib, python-numpy,
944 python-numpydoc, python-pillow, python-pycairo, python-pycparser,
945 python-pygobject, python-pyparsing, python-pyqt, python-pysam, python-rdflib,
946 python-scipy, python-sip, python-sqlalchemy, python-xcffib, python2-cairocffi,
947 python2-cffi, python2-distutils-extra, python2-elib.intl, python2-html5lib,
948 python2-ipython, python2-isodate, python2-matplotlib, python2-numpy,
949 python2-numpydoc, python2-pillow, python2-py2cairo, python2-pycparser,
950 python2-pygobject, python2-pygtk, python2-pyparsing, python2-pyqt,
951 python2-pysam, python2-scipy, python2-sip, python2-sqlalchemy, python2-xcffib,
952 qpdf, retroarch, rtorrent, samtools, shflags, slang, slock, socat,
953 startup-notification, sxiv, taglib, telepathy-glib, thunar, thunar-volman,
954 tre, tumbler, vala, vte, vte, wine, wmctrl, xclip, xdotool, xf86-video-geode,
955 xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-battery-plugin, xfce4-panel, xfce4-session,
956 xfce4-settings, xfce4-terminal, xfconf, xfdesktop, xfwm4, xinit, ykclient,
959 *** 222 package updates
961 apr-util-1.5.4, atk-2.15.3, automake-1.15, bash-4.3.33, bash-light-4.3.33,
962 bdftopcf-1.0.4, binutils-2.25, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.25,
963 cairo-1.12.18, cairomm-1.11.2, ccrtp-2.1.1, curl-7.40.0, dbus-1.8.12,
964 dbus-glib-0.102, ddrescue-1.19, dri2proto-2.8, e2fsck-static-1.42.11,
965 e2fsprogs-1.42.11, eudev-2.1.1, ffmpeg-2.5.3, file-5.22, fish-2.1.1,
966 fontconfig-2.11.92, fontsproto-2.1.3, freeipmi-1.4.8,
967 gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.4, gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf-4.8.4,
968 gcc-objc++-4.8.4, gcc-objc-4.8.4, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.4, gccgo-4.8.4,
969 gcl-2.6.12, gd-2.1.1, gdb-7.8.2, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.1, gettext-0.19.4,
970 gfortran-4.8.4, ghostscript-9.14.0, ghostscript-with-x-9.14.0, gimp-2.8.14,
971 git-2.2.1, glib-2.42.1, glibmm-2.42.0, global-6.3.3, glproto-1.4.17,
972 gnutls-3.2.21, gobject-introspection-1.42.0, gp2c-0.0.9pl2, grep-2.21,
973 groff-1.22.3, gss-1.0.3, gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gtk+-3.14.7, gtkmm-3.14.0,
974 guix-0.8, guix-0.8.4ad8789, help2man-1.46.4, iceauth-1.0.6, icu4c-54.1,
975 inkscape-0.48.5, inputproto-2.3.1, lcms-2.6, lftp-4.6.1, libassuan-2.2.0,
976 libcdio-0.93, libdmx-1.1.3, libdrm-2.4.58, libfontenc-1.1.2, libfs-1.0.6,
977 libgcrypt-1.6.2, libgpg-error-1.17, libice-1.0.9, libjpeg-9a, libksba-1.3.2,
978 libmicrohttpd-0.9.39, libnl-3.2.25, libpciaccess-0.13.2, libpeas-1.12.1,
979 libpng-1.5.21, librsvg-2.40.6, libsm-1.2.2, libtasn1-4.2, libtool-2.4.5,
980 libx11-1.6.2, libxau-1.0.8, libxaw-1.0.12, libxcb-1.11, libxcomposite-0.4.4,
981 libxcursor-1.1.14, libxdamage-1.1.4, libxext-1.3.3, libxfixes-5.0.1,
982 libxfont-1.5.0, libxft-2.3.2, libxi-1.7.4, libxinerama-1.1.3,
983 libxkbcommon-0.5.0, libxmu-1.1.2, libxp-1.0.2, libxpm-3.5.11, libxrandr-1.4.2,
984 libxrender-0.9.8, libxres-1.0.7, libxt-1.1.4, libxtst-1.2.2, libxv-1.0.10,
985 libxvmc-1.0.8, libxxf86dga-1.1.4, libxxf86vm-1.1.3, linux-libre-3.18.4,
986 lua-5.2.3, makedepend-1.0.5, mercurial-3.2.4, mesa-10.4.0, minetest-0.4.11,
987 mkfontscale-1.1.1, neon-0.30.0, nix-1.8, ntp-4.2.8, ocrad-0.24,
988 openjpeg-2.0.1, openssl-1.0.1k, pango-1.36.8, parallel-20150122,
989 pari-gp-2.7.2, patchelf-0.8, pcre-8.36, perf-3.18.4, phonon-4.8.3,
990 pixman-0.32.6, pkg-config-0.28, poppler-0.28.1, python-3.3.5,
991 python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, qemu-2.2.0, qemu-headless-2.2.0,
992 qt-5.4.0, racket-6.1.1, randrproto-1.4.0, raptor2-2.0.15, rasqal-0.9.33,
993 rcs-5.9.4, ruby-2.1.5, sessreg-1.0.8, sipwitch-1.9.3, sqlite-3.8.7.4,
994 tiled-0.11.0, tmux-1.9a, tzdata-2014j, ucommon-6.2.3, util-linux-2.25.2,
995 util-macros-1.19.0, vera-1.22, videoproto-2.3.2, wget-1.16.1, xauth-1.0.9,
996 xbacklight-1.2.1, xcb-proto-1.11, xcb-util-0.4.0, xcb-util-image-0.4.0,
997 xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0, xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9, xcb-util-wm-0.4.1,
998 xcursor-themes-1.0.4, xcursorgen-1.0.6, xdpyinfo-1.3.1, xev-1.2.1,
999 xextproto-7.3.0, xf86-input-evdev-2.8.4, xf86-input-joystick-1.6.2,
1000 xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0, xf86-input-mouse-1.9.1, xf86-input-synaptics-1.8.1,
1001 xf86-video-ark-0.7.5, xf86-video-ati-7.5.0, xf86-video-cirrus-1.5.2,
1002 xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4, xf86-video-glint-1.2.8, xf86-video-i128-1.3.6,
1003 xf86-video-intel-2.21.15, xf86-video-mach64-6.9.4, xf86-video-mga-1.6.3,
1004 xf86-video-neomagic-1.2.8, xf86-video-nv-2.1.20, xf86-video-openchrome-0.3.3,
1005 xf86-video-r128-6.9.2, xf86-video-savage-2.3.7,
1006 xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.7, xf86-video-sis-0.10.7,
1007 xf86-video-suncg6-1.1.2, xf86-video-sunffb-1.2.2, xf86-video-tdfx-1.4.5,
1008 xf86-video-tga-1.2.2, xf86-video-trident-1.3.6, xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3,
1009 xf86-video-vmware-13.0.2, xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.5, xhost-1.0.6, xinput-1.6.1,
1010 xkbcomp-1.3.0, xkbutils-1.0.4, xkeyboard-config-2.13, xkill-1.0.4,
1011 xlockmore-5.45, xlsclients-1.1.3, xmodmap-1.0.8, xnee-3.19,
1012 xorg-server-1.16.3, xprop-1.2.2, xproto-7.0.26, xrandr-1.4.3, xrdb-1.1.0,
1013 xrefresh-1.0.5, xset-1.2.3, xsetroot-1.1.1, xtrans-1.3.5, xvinfo-1.1.2,
1014 xwd-1.0.6, xwininfo-1.1.3, youtube-dl-2015.01.23.4, zsh-5.0.7
1016 ** Programming interfaces
1018 *** New (guix elf) and (gnu build linux-modules) modules
1020 These provide resolution of Linux kernel module dependencies. See
1021 <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html>.
1023 *** ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ has been extended
1025 It now handles GIO and XDG themes, takes care of generating the icon cache,
1026 and has a new #:glib-or-gtk-wrap-excluded-outputs parameter.
1028 *** ‘search-path-specification’ can now specify non-directory items
1030 For example, the ‘search-path-specification’ attached to libxml2 specifies a
1031 file pattern, which allows all the ‘catalog.xml’ files to be added to the
1032 ‘XML_CATALOG_FILES’ environment variable.
1034 *** (guix build syscalls) has more network-related procedures
1036 ‘set-network-interface-flags’, ‘set-network-interface-address’,
1037 ‘network-interface-address’, and ‘configure-network-interface’ are ioctl
1038 bindings used by network-handling dmd services.
1040 *** (guix monads) refactoring
1042 ‘%store-monad’ is now in (guix store) and is an alias for the new
1043 ‘%state-monad’ provided by (guix monads). Monadic procedures dealing with the
1044 store, with derivations, and with packages have been moved from (guix monads)
1045 to (guix store), (guix derivations), and (guix packages). See “The Store
1046 Monad” in the manual.
1048 *** (guix build utils) provides ‘parallel-job-count’
1050 *** ‘wrap-program’ preserves the original argv[0]
1052 *** New (guix sets) module
1054 *** ‘define-record-type*’ now support “delayed” fields
1056 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
1058 *** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>)
1059 *** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>)
1060 *** Substituter progress report properly formatted
1061 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>)
1062 *** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>)
1063 *** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm
1064 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19317>)
1065 *** Emacs knows where to find its GLib schemas (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19138>)
1066 *** Adjust 'grub.cfg' to work on systems with a separate /boot
1067 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19220>)
1068 *** Fix removal of next-to-last item in a profile
1069 (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00292.html>)
1070 *** Apply patches with "patch --force" (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19402>)
1071 *** Extend ‘search-path-specification’ for libxml2-style use cases
1072 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18033>)
1073 *** Search for patches under $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19364>)
1074 *** Use executables from the target inputs in 'patch-shebangs'
1075 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18895>)
1076 *** guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'
1077 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>)
1078 *** Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts
1079 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19491>)
1080 *** Don't build the mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 cross-compiler on i686
1081 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19598>)
1082 *** Read archive signatures as Latin-1 strings (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19610>)
1083 *** Raise an error for references to non-existent outputs
1084 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19630>)
1085 *** Initialize libgcrypt before use (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19677>)
1087 ** Native language support
1089 *** New translations: fr (French), hu (Hungarian)
1090 *** Updated translation: eo, vi
1092 * Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
1094 ** Package management
1096 *** New visual user interface in Emacs
1098 See “Emacs Interface” in the manual.
1100 *** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment
1102 See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual.
1104 *** The ‘guix import’ command has been extended and documented
1106 It can now import packages from pypi.python.org and from GNU.
1107 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
1109 *** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers
1111 See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
1113 *** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies
1115 See “Security Updates” in the manual.
1117 *** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
1119 This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them
1120 visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual.
1122 *** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades
1124 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option
1126 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1128 *** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option
1130 See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual.
1134 *** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices
1136 See “Mapped Devices” in the manual.
1138 *** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation
1140 New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’.
1141 See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
1143 *** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’
1145 See “Services” in the manual.
1147 *** Free firmware can be loaded
1149 This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.)
1150 See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
1152 *** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme
1154 See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual.
1156 *** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature
1158 Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See
1159 “Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details.
1161 *** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release
1163 *** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option
1165 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
1167 *** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment
1169 Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’
1170 to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change.
1172 *** 162 new packages
1174 abiword, acpica, adns, arb, ath9k-htc-firmware, atlas, avrdude, cppunit,
1175 dblatex, detox, dfu-programmer, dionysus, direvent, dmidecode, dri3proto,
1176 emacs-no-x-toolkit, emacs-w3m, emacs-wget, enchant, eudev, feh, flashrom,
1177 flint, fontforge, freedink, freeimage, fribidi,
1178 gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf, giblib, gnome-themes-standard, gpsbabel,
1179 gpscorrelate, graphite2, gtypist, guile-charting, guile-sdl, imake, imlib2,
1180 irrlicht, jbig2dec, libpsl, libspiro, libuninameslist, libwmf, lm-sensors,
1181 magit, minetest, miscfiles, mozjs, mupdf, nix, nspr, nss-mdns, ntp, nvi, opam,
1182 openal, openjpeg, opus-tools, orpheus, ots, oxygen-icons, paredit, perf,
1183 perl-archive-zip, perl-dbd-sqlite, perl-dbi, perl-image-exiftool,
1184 perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-net-ssleay, perl-www-curl, perl-zip, polkit,
1185 polkit-qt, postgresql, potrace, presentproto, python-certifi, python-coverage,
1186 python-cython, python-discover, python-docutils, python-exif-read,
1187 python-extras, python-fixtures, python-itsdangerous, python-jinja2,
1188 python-jsonschema, python-markupsafe, python-mimeparse, python-nose,
1189 python-oauthlib, python-py, python-pygments, python-pyjwt, python-pyld,
1190 python-pytest, python-scripttest, python-sphinx, python-subunit,
1191 python-testrepository, python-testresources, python-testscenarios,
1192 python-testtools, python-unidecode, python-unittest2, python-virtualenv,
1193 python2-certifi, python2-coverage, python2-cython, python2-discover,
1194 python2-docutils, python2-exif-read, python2-extras, python2-fixtures,
1195 python2-itsdangerous, python2-jinja2, python2-jsonschema, python2-markupsafe,
1196 python2-mimeparse, python2-nose, python2-oauthlib, python2-py,
1197 python2-pygments, python2-pyjwt, python2-pyld, python2-pytest,
1198 python2-requests, python2-scripttest, python2-sphinx, python2-subunit,
1199 python2-testrepository, python2-testresources, python2-testscenarios,
1200 python2-testtools, python2-unidecode, python2-unittest2, python2-virtualenv,
1201 rrdtool, ruby, ruby, ruby-i18n, sane-backends, scrot, sound-theme-freedesktop,
1202 stress, synergy, tdb, terminus-font, testdisk, texi2html, tiled, transfig,
1203 unclutter, unixodbc, weechat, wv, xboing, xf86-video-modesetting, xfig,
1206 *** 117 package updates
1208 acct-6.6.2, acl-2.2.52, apl-1.4, apr-1.5.1, apr-util-1.5.3, autoconf-2.68,
1209 autoconf-2.69, autogen-5.18.4, bash-4.3.30, bash-light-4.3.30, bazaar-2.6.0,
1210 bison-2.7, calcurse-3.2.1, ccache-3.1.10, chicken-4.9.0.1, coreutils-8.23,
1211 curl-7.37.1, datamash-1.0.6, dbus-1.8.8, docbook-xml-4.2, docbook-xml-4.4,
1212 docbook-xml-4.5, emacs-24.4, ffmpeg-2.2.10, ffmpeg-2.4.3, file-5.19,
1213 file-5.20, freeipmi-1.4.5, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.9.2, gcc-toolchain-4.9.2,
1214 gcl-2.6.11, gdb-7.8.1, geiser-0.6, gettext-0.19.3, git-2.1.2, glibc-2.20,
1215 glibc-2.20, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.20, global-6.3.2, glpk-4.55,
1216 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.26, gnurl-7.37.0, gnutls-3.2.20, gpgme-1.5.1,
1217 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-3.9.16,
1218 guile-1.8.8, guile-json-0.4.0, guile-ncurses-1.6, guile-ssh-0.7.1, guix-0.7,
1219 guix-0.7.48bd76e, hello-2.10, help2man-1.46.3, icecat-31.2.0,
1220 libart-lgpl-2.3.21, libassuan-2.1.3, libatomic-ops-7.4.2, libdrm-2.4.33,
1221 libffi-3.1, libgc-7.2f, libgc-7.4.2, libgcrypt-1.5.4, libgcrypt-1.6.2,
1222 libidn-1.29, libjpeg-9a, libotr-4.0.0, libsodium-1.0.0, libtasn1-4.1,
1223 libunistring-0.9.4, libwebsockets-1.3, lightning-2.0.5, linux-libre-3.17.3,
1224 lsof-4.88, lua-5.2.3, lvm2-2.02.109, lzip-1.16, make-4.1, maxima-5.34.1,
1225 mit-scheme-9.2, mysql-5.1.73, neon-0.30.0, net-base-5.3, nettle-2.7.1,
1226 notmuch-0.18.1, openssh-6.7p1, openssl-1.0.1j, parallel-20141022,
1227 phonon-4.8.2, pspp-0.8.4, python-3.3.5, python-dateutil-1.5,
1228 python2-dateutil-1.5, python2-pyicu-1.8, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.3.2, rcs-5.9.3,
1229 readline-6.3, subversion-1.7.18, swig-3.0.2, tar-1.28, texinfo-5.2,
1230 tor-0.2.5.10, transmission-2.84, ucommon-6.1.11, valgrind-3.10.0, vlc-2.1.5,
1231 wget-1.16, windowmaker-0.95.6, xapian-1.2.18, xf86-video-ati-6.14.6,
1232 xpdf-3.04, youtube-dl-2014.09.06
1234 ** Programming interfaces
1236 *** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages
1238 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1240 *** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas
1242 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1244 *** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter
1246 This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus
1247 preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary.
1249 *** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter
1251 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1253 *** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently
1255 This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given
1256 architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The
1257 ‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of
1258 the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies.
1260 *** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times
1262 *** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures
1264 They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual.
1266 *** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems
1268 “Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages
1269 and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1271 *** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL
1273 See “The Store Monad” in the manual.
1275 *** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages
1277 *** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite
1279 *** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items
1281 *** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …)
1283 Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code
1284 typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre.
1286 *** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions
1288 This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface.
1290 *** Bootstrapping packages moved to (gnu packages commencement) modules
1294 *** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default
1296 Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only
1297 once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now
1298 enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been
1299 renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’.
1301 *** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’
1303 This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel.
1305 *** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>)
1306 *** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>)
1307 *** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>)
1308 *** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>)
1309 *** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>)
1310 *** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root
1311 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>)
1312 *** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>)
1313 *** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible
1314 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>)
1315 *** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>)
1316 *** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
1317 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>)
1318 *** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>)
1319 *** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers
1320 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>)
1321 *** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
1322 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>)
1323 *** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command
1324 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>)
1325 *** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>)
1326 *** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>)
1327 *** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
1328 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>)
1329 *** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension
1330 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>)
1331 *** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix.
1332 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>)
1333 *** WindowMaker no longer pollutes $PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18698>)
1335 ** Native language support
1336 *** New translation: cs (Czech)
1337 *** Updated translations: de, sr, vi
1339 * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
1340 ** Package management
1341 *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org
1343 These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already
1344 provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See
1345 “Substitutes” in the manual.
1347 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option
1348 *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option
1350 ** Programming interfaces
1351 *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions”
1353 G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side
1354 code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual.
1356 *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions
1358 This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries
1359 references to the packages or derivations it uses.
1361 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions
1362 *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized
1363 *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images
1364 *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation”
1365 *** New (guix build syscalls) module
1366 *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation
1367 *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system
1368 *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations
1369 *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules
1370 *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field
1372 This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time.
1375 *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided
1377 This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System
1378 Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted
1379 in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome!
1381 *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations
1383 Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list
1384 of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration”
1387 *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions
1389 Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’.
1390 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
1392 *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time
1393 *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices
1394 *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs
1395 *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>)
1396 *** 134 new packages
1398 abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp,
1399 chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat,
1400 doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi,
1401 fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice,
1402 gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools,
1403 jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
1404 libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
1405 libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt,
1406 libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages,
1407 maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl,
1408 offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc,
1409 petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf,
1410 pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock,
1411 python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto,
1412 python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode,
1413 rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse,
1414 strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy,
1415 transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools,
1416 wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl
1418 *** 87 package updates
1420 bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2,
1421 docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6,
1422 ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4,
1423 gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3,
1424 gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3,
1425 gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1,
1426 gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a,
1427 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20,
1428 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
1429 guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3,
1430 icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e,
1431 libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37,
1432 libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4,
1433 linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6,
1434 neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1,
1435 pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2,
1436 qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2,
1437 screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22,
1438 wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304
1440 ** Native language support
1441 *** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
1442 *** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi
1443 *** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’
1445 *** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>)
1446 *** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout
1447 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>)
1448 *** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed
1449 *** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved
1450 *** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension
1451 *** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook
1452 *** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers
1454 * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
1455 ** Package management
1456 *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
1458 Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
1459 directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
1461 *** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
1462 *** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
1463 *** New ‘guix archive’ command
1464 *** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
1465 *** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
1466 *** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
1467 *** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
1468 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
1469 *** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
1470 *** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
1471 *** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
1472 ** Programming interfaces
1473 *** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
1474 *** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
1475 *** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
1476 *** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
1477 *** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
1478 *** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
1479 *** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
1483 a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es,
1484 aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh,
1485 corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf,
1486 fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik,
1487 gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json,
1488 guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop,
1489 isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec,
1490 libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets,
1491 ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc,
1492 ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk,
1493 perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt,
1494 source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse,
1495 unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm
1497 *** 90 package updates
1499 apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3,
1500 bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24,
1501 coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1,
1502 gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1,
1503 glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54,
1504 gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18,
1505 gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
1506 guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11,
1507 guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1,
1508 imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92,
1509 libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1,
1510 libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3,
1511 linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23,
1512 openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2,
1513 pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5,
1514 python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1,
1515 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3,
1516 recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a,
1517 tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15,
1518 xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11
1520 *** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
1521 *** libc’s Info manual is now installed
1522 *** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
1523 *** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
1524 *** Many other packaging improvements
1526 *** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
1527 *** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
1528 *** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
1529 (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
1530 *** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
1531 *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
1532 (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
1533 *** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
1534 *** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
1535 *** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
1536 *** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
1538 * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
1539 ** Package management
1540 *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
1542 In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
1543 with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
1546 ** Programming interfaces
1547 *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
1549 The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
1550 ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running
1551 ‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
1553 *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
1555 See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been
1556 rewritten to use this monadic interface.
1558 *** New (guix profiles) module
1560 It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
1563 *** New (gnu system) module
1565 This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
1566 and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
1567 See “System Configuration” in the manual.
1569 This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
1571 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
1573 Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
1574 See “Derivations” in the manual.
1577 *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
1579 Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
1580 Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
1581 packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
1583 Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
1584 build from source on this platform.
1586 *** 110 new packages
1588 acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
1589 automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
1590 fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
1591 gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
1592 gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
1593 icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
1594 libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
1595 libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
1596 pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
1597 perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
1598 perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
1599 perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
1600 perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
1601 phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
1602 qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
1603 sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
1604 xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
1606 *** 47 package updates
1608 atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
1609 gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
1610 gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
1611 gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
1612 gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
1613 harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
1614 libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
1615 linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
1616 pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
1617 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
1618 tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
1620 *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
1622 ** Native language support
1623 *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
1624 *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
1625 *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
1627 *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
1629 Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
1630 calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
1632 *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
1633 (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
1634 *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
1635 (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
1636 *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
1637 *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
1638 *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
1640 * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
1642 ** Package management
1644 *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
1646 The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
1647 deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1649 *** New ‘guix-register’ program
1651 This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
1652 copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
1654 ** Programming interfaces
1656 *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
1658 The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
1659 package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
1660 runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
1662 *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
1664 This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
1665 tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
1666 This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
1667 to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
1669 *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
1671 The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
1672 procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
1673 ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
1674 system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
1675 packages, and where Guix can be used.
1677 New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
1678 various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
1679 support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
1680 PAM configuration; and so on.
1682 *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
1684 ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
1685 <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
1686 a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
1687 file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
1693 apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
1694 freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
1695 gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
1696 itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
1697 net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
1698 python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
1699 python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
1700 python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
1701 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
1702 valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
1704 *** 27 package updates
1706 bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
1707 gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
1708 gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
1709 imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
1710 linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
1713 *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
1715 Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
1716 based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
1717 fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
1719 *** More GUI applications
1721 The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
1722 applications have been added (see above.)
1724 *** Packaging guidelines
1726 The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
1727 under “GNU Distribution”.
1729 *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
1731 Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
1732 it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
1733 section of the manual for details.
1735 ** Internationalization
1737 Updated translations: eo.
1741 *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
1742 *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
1743 *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
1744 *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
1745 *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
1746 *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
1748 * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
1750 ** Package management
1752 *** Cross-compilation support
1754 Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with
1755 the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level,
1756 the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages
1757 of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for
1760 *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
1762 See the manual for details.
1764 *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
1766 This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails
1767 to download a substitute.
1769 *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc”
1771 See the manual for details.
1773 *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh”
1775 See the manual for details.
1777 ** Programming interfaces
1779 *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations)
1781 See the manual for details.
1783 *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter
1785 This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It
1786 allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know
1787 whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is.
1789 *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures
1791 This improves performance of SHA256 computations.
1798 alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd,
1799 gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2,
1800 iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket,
1801 rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore
1803 *** 25 package updates
1805 automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3,
1806 glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8,
1807 libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error
1808 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu
1809 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0
1811 *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux
1813 The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries
1814 (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be
1815 transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms.
1817 *** Debug info packages
1819 Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The
1820 “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the
1821 other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual.
1823 *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled
1825 The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently
1826 GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting”
1829 *** Bootstrapping documented
1831 See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU
1832 distribution builds “from scratch”.
1834 ** Internationalization
1836 New translations: eo, pt_BR.
1839 *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5
1840 *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed
1842 These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary.
1843 See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details.
1845 *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity
1847 *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations
1849 Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when
1850 some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See
1851 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and
1852 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 .
1854 *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’
1856 Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the
1859 *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken
1861 When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile
1862 < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect
1863 command-line argument processing in some cases.
1865 * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1)
1867 ** Package management
1869 *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
1871 Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
1872 on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program
1873 setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
1875 *** New “guix package --upgrade” option
1877 As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
1878 installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
1879 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1881 *** New “guix package --search” option
1883 Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns
1884 the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the
1885 manual, for details.
1887 *** New “guix pull” command
1889 The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
1890 modules and the distribution. See the manual for details.
1892 *** New binary substituter
1894 The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
1895 downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are
1896 available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The
1897 distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there.
1899 See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of
1900 available binary packages.
1902 *** New “guix refresh” command
1904 The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the
1905 distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
1907 *** New “guix hash” command
1909 Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for
1912 *** Nix daemon code updated
1914 The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated
1915 to current Nix ‘master’.
1917 ** Programming interfaces
1919 *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
1921 It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
1923 *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
1925 Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables
1926 that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
1927 package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
1928 ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
1929 These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that
1932 *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
1934 The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
1935 (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
1936 tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
1938 *** New build systems
1940 The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have
1941 been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
1944 *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
1946 The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
1947 initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
1948 evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
1949 mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
1954 (mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
1955 ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
1957 More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
1959 Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
1960 (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
1961 ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
1962 a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
1966 Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
1971 GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
1972 Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
1974 *** Noteworthy new packages
1976 TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
1977 CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.