2 #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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13 * Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3)
17 *** New ‘guix graph’ command, to draw package graphs
18 *** New ‘guix challenge’ command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries
19 *** ‘guix environment’ has a new ‘--container’ option
20 *** ‘guix substitute’ now honors all the specified substitute URLs
21 *** New ‘guix import cran’ command, to import R packages from CRAN
22 *** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly
23 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--install-from-file’ option
24 *** ‘guix package --search’ shows package outputs
25 *** ‘guix refresh’ can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions
26 *** The ‘--ad-hoc’ option of ‘guix environment’ is now positional
27 *** The ‘--exec’ option of ‘guix environment’ is deprecated; use ‘--’ instead
28 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--file’ option
29 *** ‘guix build --log-file’ can now return URLs
30 *** ‘guix size’ now has a ‘--substitute-urls’ option and is much faster
31 *** New ‘guix lint’ checkers: ‘formatting’, ‘license’, ‘source-file-name’
32 *** Download progress report has been improved
33 *** Emacs shell-mode completions for ‘guix’ commands updated
34 *** Emacs: New ‘M-x guix’ popup interface
38 *** New extensible service composition API
40 The operating system service API in (gnu services) has been completely
41 rewritten, significantly improving extensibility and modularity, while
42 providing a framework that makes it easy to reason about service composition.
43 Consequently, several sources of redundancy and confusion in
44 ‘operating-system’ declarations have been eliminated. See “Service
45 Composition” in the manual.
47 *** New ‘extension-graph’ and ‘dmd-graph’ sub-commands for ‘guix system’
48 *** New ‘container’ sub-command for ‘guix system’
49 *** New ‘guix container’ command, to deal with GuixSD containers
50 *** New ‘list-generations’ sub-command for ‘guix system’
51 *** ‘operating-system’ has a new ‘locale-libcs’ field
52 *** New services: ‘nginx-service’, ‘udisks-service’, ‘guix-publish-service’
53 *** ‘dbus-daemon’ now has proper support for lazy service activation
54 *** ‘wicd-service’ automatically adds Wicd to the system profile
55 *** ‘slim-service’ automatically adds xterm to the system profile
56 *** hydra.gnu.org now provides substitutes for ‘armhf-linux’
57 *** /run/systemd is mounted as tmpfs by default, for use by elogind
58 *** ‘glibc’ package no longer contains Bash in its bin/ directory
59 *** libc now looks for locale data in a versioned sub-directory
60 *** libc honors the new ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ environment variable
61 *** Xfce now defaults to the GNOME icon theme
63 ** Programming interfaces
65 *** Rewritten (gnu services) module; (gnu services …) modules adjusted
66 *** New Emacs development tools, see “Development” in the manual
67 *** (guix gexp) provides the declarative ‘computed-file’, ‘program-file’, etc.
68 *** New (guix upstream) module, for generalized upstream release tracking
70 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
72 *** Passwords in /etc/shadow are SHA512-hashed (http://bugs.gnu.org/21318)
73 *** daemon: Require a signature for imports made by root
74 (http://bugs.gnu.org/21354)
75 *** emacs: Fix guix-guile-program default value (http://bugs.gnu.org/21127)
76 *** Compressed initrds no longer include timestamps
77 *** Fix handling of encrypted root partitions (http://bugs.gnu.org/19190)
78 *** Python now includes tkinter (http://bugs.gnu.org/20889)
79 *** Memoize the results of ‘package-with-python2’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/21675)
80 *** Use the daemon's substitute URLs by default (http://bugs.gnu.org/20217)
82 ** Native language support
84 *** Updated translations: da
86 * Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2)
90 *** New ‘guix edit’ and ‘guix size’ commands
91 *** New ‘--manifest’ option for ‘guix package’, for declarative profiles
92 *** Similarly, new ‘M-x guix-apply-manifest’ for the Emacs UI
93 *** Emacs support now includes completion for ‘guix’ commands in shell-mode
94 *** ‘guix package --search-paths’ now takes an optional argument
95 *** ‘guix environment --ad-hoc’ creates a custom development environment
96 *** New ‘--system’ option for ‘guix environment’
97 *** ‘guix environment’ defines $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, useful to adjust ‘PS1’
98 *** New ‘--optimize’ and ‘--verify’ options to ‘guix gc’
99 *** ‘guix build --with-source’ can now be passed a directory
100 *** New ‘elpa’ importer for ‘guix import’
101 *** ‘guix import pypi’ determines the list of dependencies
102 *** New ‘--substitute-urls’ option for ‘guix build’ and other commands
103 *** ‘guix substitute’ can now alternate between different substitute URLs
104 *** New “Running Guix Before It Is Installed” section in the manual
105 *** Basic manual pages for the ‘guix’ commands are now shipped
106 *** Building the daemon now necessitates a C++11 compiler
110 *** New ‘%base-user-accounts’ variable, for common system accounts
111 *** New ‘--on-error’ option for ‘guix system’
112 *** New ‘plain-file’ construct, for use in ‘operating-system’ declarations
113 *** ‘sudoers’ field of ‘operating-system’ renamed to ‘sudoers-file’
114 *** ‘sudoers-file’ and ‘hosts-file’ fields now take file-like objects
115 *** File systems under /sys/fs/cgroup are now mounted by default
116 *** Default compiler is now GCC 4.9.3 (was 4.8.4)
117 *** ARMv7 port now requires NEON
118 *** The disk footprint of a dozen key packages has been reduced
122 adwaita-icon-theme, amule, aragorn, arpack-ng-openmpi, blast+, bundler,
123 camlp4, camlp5, clutter, clutter-gst, clutter-gtk, cogl, coq, couger, crda,
124 dealii, dealii-openmpi, devhelp, diamond, dunst, edirect, emacs-auctex,
125 emacs-mmm-mode, emacs-pdf-tools, eog, execline, exempi, fasttree, faust,
126 fizmo, gcr, git-modes, gnome-common, gnome-keyring, gnome-klotski,
127 gnu-c-manual, gnujump, gom, grilo, grilo-plugins, gst-plugins-ugly,
128 guile-emacs, guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-gdbm-ffi, guitarix, haskell-mode,
129 hevea, hmmer, hoedown, htslib, hydra, hydrogen, idr, libcmis, libiberty,
130 libmng, libmpeg2, libreoffice, libressl, librest, libstdc++, libstdc++-doc,
131 libstdc++-doc, libsvm, libtar, libx264, libxdg-basedir, lpsolve, lxappearance,
132 magit-svn, metabat, metis, mumps, mumps-metis, mumps-metis-openmpi,
133 mumps-openmpi, orfm, p4est, p4est-openmpi, perl-authen-sasl,
134 perl-catalyst-authentication-store-dbix-class,
135 perl-catalyst-plugin-authorization-roles, perl-data-stag, perl-gssapi,
136 perl-io-string, perl-net-smtp-ssl, perl-set-object, plink, powertabeditor,
137 preseq, prodigal, proof-general, pugixml, pv, python-click,
138 python-feedgenerator, python-flake8, python-gridmap, python-libsvm,
139 python-libxml2, python-mccabe, python-pandas, python-pep8, python-pep8,
140 python-psutil, python-pyflakes, python-pyflakes, python-pyzmq, python-redis,
141 python-rpy2, python-rq, python-scikit-image, python-seaborn, python2-click,
142 python2-fastlmm, python2-feedgenerator, python2-flake8, python2-gridmap,
143 python2-libxml2, python2-mccabe, python2-pandas, python2-pep8, python2-pep8,
144 python2-psutil, python2-pyflakes, python2-pysnptools, python2-pyzmq,
145 python2-redis, python2-rpy2, python2-rq, python2-scikit-image,
146 python2-seaborn, python2-warpedlmm, qsynth, randomjungle, rapidjson, raul, rc,
147 rhythmbox, rsem, rtmidi, ruby-arel, ruby-bacon, ruby-connection-pool,
148 ruby-daemons, ruby-git, ruby-minitest, ruby-minitest-bacon,
149 ruby-minitest-sprint, ruby-multipart-post, ruby-net-http-persistent,
150 ruby-rake-compiler, ruby-rspec, ruby-rspec-core, ruby-rspec-expectations,
151 ruby-rspec-mocks, ruby-slop, ruby-useragent, scalapack, seahorse, setbfree,
152 sfarklib, sfarkxtc, sfxr, skalibs, slepc, slepc-complex,
153 slepc-complex-openmpi, slepc-openmpi, sox, st, totem, wayland, wireless-regdb,
154 withershins, wxmaxima, xfce4-clipman-plugin, xmlsec, zita-resampler
156 *** 181 package updates
158 ardour-4.1-5aa834e, bash-4.3.39, bash-light-4.3.39, bedops-2.4.14,
159 bind-utils-9.10.2-P2, bison-3.0.4, bitlbee-3.4, boost-1.58.0, brasero-3.12.1,
160 calibre-2.29.0, catch-1.1.3, ccache-3.2.2, chibi-scheme-0.7.3, clang-3.6.0,
161 coreutils-8.24, cups-2.0.3, cups-filters-1.0.71, cups-minimal-2.0.3,
162 curl-7.43.0, datamash-1.0.7, dfu-programmer-0.7.2, duplicity-0.6.26, ed-1.12,
163 efl-1.14.2, eigen-3.2.5, elementary-1.14.2, emotion-generic-players-1.14.0,
164 enlightenment-0.19.5, evas-generic-loaders-1.14.0, evince-3.16.1, feh-2.13,
165 ffmpeg-2.7.1, freeipmi-1.4.9, freetype-2.6, gawk-4.1.3, gcal-4, gcc-5.2.0,
166 gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9.3, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.9.3,
167 gcc-cross-sans-libc-avr-4.9.3, gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf-4.9.3,
168 gcc-objc++-4.8.5, gcc-objc-4.8.5, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.9.3,
169 gcc-toolchain-4.9.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.3, gcc-toolchain-5.2.0, gccgo-4.8.5,
170 gcj-4.8.5, gdb-7.9.1, geoclue-2.2.0, gettext-0.19.5, gfortran-4.8.5,
171 gfortran-4.9.3, gfortran-4.9.3, girara-0.2.4, git-2.4.3, git-manpages-2.4.3,
172 global-6.5, gnu-pw-mgr-1.4, gnupg-2.1.6, gnutls-3.4.1, goffice-0.10.14,
173 gpgme-1.5.5, gtk+-3.16.3, gtkmm-3.16.0, guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11,
174 guile-reader-0.6.1, guile-sdl-0.5.2, guix-0.8.2, guix-0.8.2.72cd8ec,
175 gxmessage-3.4.3, harfbuzz-0.9.40, help2man-1.47.1, httpd-2.4.16, hwloc-1.10.1,
176 icecat-31.8.0-gnu1, imagemagick-6.9.1-3, inetutils-1.9.4, julia-0.3.10,
177 libassuan-2.2.1, libdvdnav-5.0.3, libdvdread-5.0.3, libetonyek-0.1.3,
178 libgpg-error-1.19, libidn-1.31, libksba-1.3.3, libmicrohttpd-0.9.42,
179 libmpdclient-2.10, libmwaw-0.3.5, libpipeline-1.4.0, libpsl-0.7.1,
180 librsvg-2.40.9, libunistring-0.9.6, libusb-1.0.19, libvpx-1.4.0, libwps-0.4.0,
181 libxml2-2.9.2, linux-libre-4.0.8, linux-libre-4.1.2, livestreamer-1.12.2,
182 lv2-1.12.0, magit-1.4.1, man-db-2.7.1, mariadb-10.0.20, maxima-5.36.1,
183 mdds-0.12.1, mpd-0.19.10, mpd-mpc-0.27, mpfr-3.1.3, mysql-5.6.25, nano-2.4.2,
184 ncmpc-0.24, ncmpcpp-0.6.5, nettle-3.1.1, ngs-java-1.1.1, ngs-sdk-1.1.1,
185 npth-1.2, nss-3.19.2, nss-certs-3.19.2, ntp-4.2.8p3, ocaml-4.02.1,
186 openblas-0.2.14, openjpeg-2.0.1, openjpeg-2.1.0, openmpi-1.8.5, openssh-6.9p1,
187 openssl-1.0.2d, parallel-20150622, pari-gp-2.7.4, pcre-8.37, perf-4.1.2,
188 petsc-3.6.0, petsc-complex-3.6.0, petsc-complex-openmpi-3.6.0,
189 petsc-openmpi-3.6.0, pinentry-0.9.5, pius-2.1.1, polkit-0.113,
190 postgresql-9.3.8, pspp-0.8.5, pt-scotch-6.0.4, pumpa-0.9.1, python-3.4.3,
191 python-dateutil-2.2, python-pillow-2.8.1, python-scikit-learn-0.16.1,
192 python2-dateutil-2.2, python2-pillow-2.8.1, python2-pygobject-3.16.1,
193 python2-pyqt-5.4, python2-scikit-learn-0.16.1, qemu-2.3.0,
194 qemu-headless-2.3.0, qt-5.4.2, r-3.2.1, readline-6.3, ruby-2.1.6, ruby-2.2.2,
195 samtools-1.2, scotch-6.0.4, screen-4.3.1, sharutils-4.15.2, sipwitch-1.9.8,
196 sqlite-3.8.10.2, star-2.4.2a, swig-3.0.5, synergy-1.7.3, sysfsutils-2.1.0,
197 talloc-2.1.2, texinfo-6.0, tor-0.2.6.8, ucommon-6.3.4, unrtf-0.21.9, vamp-2.6,
198 webkitgtk-2.8.3, which-2.21, xorriso-1.4.0, youtube-dl-2015.06.25,
201 ** Programming interfaces
203 *** New “package Reference” and “origin Reference” sections in the manual
204 *** New ‘emacs-build-system’, which mimics what package.el does
205 *** New (guix cpio) module, used to produce Linux initrds deterministically
206 *** New ‘clone’, ‘setns’, and ‘pivot_root’ bindings in (guix build syscalls)
207 *** New ‘dependencies’ field in <file-system>
208 *** New #:gem-flags parameter for ‘ruby-build-system’
210 *** monads: ‘foldm’, ‘mapm’, and ‘anym’ now take a list of regular values
211 *** monads: Allow n-ary ‘>>=’ expressions
212 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
214 *** Binary installation tarball now has files root-owned, with zeroed mtime
215 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21101>)
216 *** GRUB background image is always available (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20591>)
217 *** ‘guix system’ catches references to non-existent user groups
218 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20646>)
219 *** Ignore trailing components for ‘guix gc -d’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19757>)
220 *** ‘guix lint’ warns only when all the URIs are unreachable
221 *** ‘guix system init’ overwrites the items in the target store
222 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20722>)
223 *** ‘guix-register’ performs deduplication even when --prefix is passed
224 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19044>)
225 *** The ‘location’ of packages is no longer preserved by ‘inherit’
226 *** GuixSD installation image has udev rules for device-mapper
227 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20791>)
228 *** Daemon distinguishes between “substitutable” and “offloadable” derivations
229 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>)
230 *** Avoid infinite loop in ‘guix substitute’
231 *** ‘guix environment’ now returns the exit code of its command
232 *** ‘file-system’ declarations can now really use UUIDs
233 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19778>)
234 *** Daemon preserves build user groups (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18994>)
235 *** Fix quadratic behavior when building packages with many propagated inputs
236 *** Tarballs for origins with patches/snippet are now build deterministically
237 *** Scalability issues in ‘guix publish’ have been fixed
239 ** Native language support
241 *** Updated translations: da, eo
243 * Changes in 0.8.2 (since 0.8.1)
245 ** Package management
247 *** New “binary tarball” installation method is available
249 See “Binary Installation” in the manual.
251 *** New ‘guix publish’ command, to publish one’s store
253 See “Invoking guix publish” in the manual.
255 *** ‘guix package’ runs “profile creation hooks” as needed
257 It creates X.509 certificate bundles in the profile’s etc/ssl directory, if
258 needed, generates a package database cache for GHC if the profile includes GHC
259 (the Haskell compiler), and generates an Info ‘dir’ file (this part was
260 already done before.)
262 *** ‘guix package’ creates an ‘etc/profile’ file in the profile
264 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
266 *** Commands understand version prefixes, such as ‘gcc-5’ for ‘gcc-5.1.0’
268 *** ‘guix package --search’ now sorts packages by name and version
270 *** Substitute information is now fetched using HTTP pipelining
272 Before that the “substituter” used threads. Using HTTP pipelining means that
273 resource consumption is reduced on both the client and server sides. As a
274 side effect, a progress report is displayed as substitute info is downloaded.
276 *** ‘guix package’ warns when a $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH module cannot be loaded
278 *** New ‘--sources’ option to ‘guix build’
280 *** New Bash completion file, installed in $sysconfdir/bash_completion.d
282 *** New ‘guix import hackage’ command
284 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
286 *** ‘guix lint’ supports FTP for the ‘source’ and ‘home-page’ checkers
288 *** ‘guix lint’ has a new ‘derivation’ checker
290 *** ‘guix import cpan’ better handles dependencies and licenses
292 *** Packages are now build in an environment with a UTF-8 locale
296 *** C library's name service switch (NSS) is now fully configurable
298 See “Name Service Switch” in the manual.
300 *** New services: wicd, lirc, colord, upower, console-keymap, postgresql
302 *** Xorg service supports new drivers, such as Nouveau
304 *** lsh service has new options, initializes its seed by default
306 *** /etc/ssl symlink is created, for X.509 certificates
308 See “X.509 Certificates” in the manual.
310 *** ‘guix system’ reports duplicate service identifiers
312 *** New /etc/bashrc file that loads Bash completion when available
314 *** SLiM service uses sessions from /run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions
316 See “X Window” in the manual.
318 *** The Linux “YAMA” restricting policy on PTRACE_ATTACH is now disabled
320 *** /etc/shells now lists all the user accounts’ shells
322 *** /gnu/store is now remounted read-only, to avoid accidental modification
324 *** /etc/profile is sources each profile’s ‘etc/profile’ file
328 aalib, aarddict, acpid, agg, aisleriot, alsa-modular-synth, ant, ardour,
329 ardour, argtable, arpack-ng, aspell-dict-ru, aubio, audacity, avidemux,
330 avidemux, azr3, bamtools, bash-completion, bedops, bind-utils, bluez, bool,
331 brdf-explorer, bwa, calf, calibre, catch, ccl, chibi-scheme, chmlib,
332 clalsadrv, clipper, clisp, clustal-omega, colord, colordiff, cpufrequtils,
333 crossmap, csound, ctl, cunit, cutadapt, desktop-file-utils, djvulibre,
334 dnsmasq, dosfstools, double-conversion, dovecot, ecl, efl, elementary,
335 elogind, emacs-no-x, emotion-generic-players, enca, enlightenment,
336 evas-generic-loaders, exim, express, extremetuxracer, faad2, fastx-toolkit,
337 fcitx, fdupes, flexbar, fluidsynth, font-adobe-source-han-sans,
338 font-wqy-zenhei, freepats, gambit-c, ganv, geda-gaf, geoclue, geocode-glib,
339 ghc, ghc-case-insensitive, ghc-containers, ghc-fgl, ghc-hashable, ghc-http,
340 ghc-hunit, ghc-mtl, ghc-network, ghc-network-uri, ghc-parallel, ghc-parsec,
341 ghc-paths, ghc-primitive, ghc-quickcheck, ghc-random, ghc-split, ghc-stm,
342 ghc-syb, ghc-text, ghc-tf-random, ghc-unordered-containers, ghc-vector,
343 ghc-zlib, girara, gitolite, glib-networking, glibc-locales,
344 glibc-utf8-locales, glibc-utf8-locales, glm, gnome-mines,
345 gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-terminal, gnucash, gnugo, grit, gst-libav,
346 guile-minikanren, guile-reader, hdparm, hisat, htseq, htsjdk, hunspell,
347 hyphen, i2c-tools, ibus, icecast, icedtea6, icedtea7, ilmbase, ir, isync,
348 ixion, jack2, jalv, jansson, jemalloc, julia, key-mon, ladspa, lash,
349 leptonica, liba52, libabw, libaio, libass, libavc1394, libbluray, libbs2b,
350 libcaca, libcap-ng, libcdio-paranoia, libcdr, libdca, libdv, libdvdcss,
351 libe-book, libedit, libepoxy, libetonyek, libexttextcat, libffcall,
352 libfreehand, libgnomecanvasmm, libgtextutils, libgweather, libical,
353 libiec61883, libinput, liblo, libmodplug, libmspack, libmspub, libmtp,
354 libmwaw, libodfgen, libpagemaker, libqtxdg, libquvi, libquvi-scripts,
355 libraw1394, librecad, librep, librevenge, libsbsms, libsecret, libshout,
356 libsoup, libsrtp, libtocc, libungif, libva, libvisio, libwacom, libwebp,
357 libwpd, libwpg, libwps, libxklavier, libxmp, libyaml, lilv, lilypond, lirc,
358 livestreamer, ltrace, lv2, lv2-mda-epiano, lv2-mda-piano, lvtk, macs, mariadb,
359 markdown, mdadm, mdds, mesa-headers, mesa-utils, miredo, miso, moreutils,
360 mpd-mpc, mpdscribble, mplayer2, mpv, muparser, mythes, ncbi-vdb, ngircd,
361 ngs-java, ngs-sdk, npth, nss-certs, openblas, openexr, openlibm, openntpd,
362 openspecfun, openvpn, orc, orcus, p11-kit, patchage, pbtranscript-tofu, pcb,
363 perl-algorithm-c3, perl-algorithm-diff, perl-aliased,
364 perl-apache-logformat-compiler, perl-appconfig, perl-b-hooks-endofscope,
365 perl-base, perl-bit-vector, perl-boolean, perl-cache-cache,
366 perl-cache-fastmmap, perl-capture-tiny, perl-carp-assert,
367 perl-carp-assert-more, perl-carp-clan, perl-catalyst-action-renderview,
368 perl-catalyst-action-rest, perl-catalyst-component-instancepercontext,
369 perl-catalyst-devel, perl-catalyst-dispatchtype-regex,
370 perl-catalyst-model-dbic-schema, perl-catalyst-plugin-accesslog,
371 perl-catalyst-plugin-authentication, perl-catalyst-plugin-captcha,
372 perl-catalyst-plugin-configloader, perl-catalyst-plugin-session,
373 perl-catalyst-plugin-session-state-cookie,
374 perl-catalyst-plugin-session-store-fastmmap, perl-catalyst-plugin-stacktrace,
375 perl-catalyst-plugin-static-simple, perl-catalyst-runtime,
376 perl-catalyst-traitfor-request-proxybase, perl-catalyst-view-download,
377 perl-catalyst-view-json, perl-catalyst-view-tt,
378 perl-catalystx-component-traits, perl-catalystx-roleapplicator,
379 perl-catalystx-script-server-starman, perl-cgi-simple, perl-cgi-struct,
380 perl-class-accessor, perl-class-accessor-chained, perl-class-accessor-grouped,
381 perl-class-c3, perl-class-c3-adopt-next, perl-class-c3-componentised,
382 perl-class-data-inheritable, perl-class-date, perl-class-factory-util,
383 perl-class-inspector, perl-class-load, perl-class-load-xs,
384 perl-class-method-modifiers, perl-class-methodmaker, perl-class-singleton,
385 perl-class-tiny, perl-class-unload, perl-class-xsaccessor, perl-common-sense,
386 perl-compress-raw-bzip2, perl-compress-raw-zlib, perl-config-any,
387 perl-config-autoconf, perl-config-general, perl-context-preserve,
388 perl-cpan-meta, perl-cpan-meta-check, perl-cpan-meta-requirements,
389 perl-cpan-meta-yaml, perl-cpanel-json-xs, perl-crypt-randpasswd,
390 perl-data-dump, perl-data-dumper-concise, perl-data-optlist, perl-data-page,
391 perl-data-stream-bulk, perl-data-tumbler, perl-data-visitor, perl-date-calc,
392 perl-date-calc-xs, perl-datetime, perl-datetime-event-ical,
393 perl-datetime-event-recurrence, perl-datetime-format-builder,
394 perl-datetime-format-flexible, perl-datetime-format-http,
395 perl-datetime-format-ical, perl-datetime-format-natural,
396 perl-datetime-format-strptime, perl-datetime-locale, perl-datetime-set,
397 perl-datetime-timezone, perl-datetimex-easy, perl-dbd-pg, perl-dbix-class,
398 perl-dbix-class-cursor-cached, perl-dbix-class-introspectablem2m,
399 perl-dbix-class-schema-loader, perl-devel-caller, perl-devel-checkbin,
400 perl-devel-globaldestruction, perl-devel-lexalias, perl-devel-overloadinfo,
401 perl-devel-partialdump, perl-devel-stacktrace, perl-devel-stacktrace-ashtml,
402 perl-devel-symdump, perl-digest-hmac, perl-digest-md5-file,
403 perl-dist-checkconflicts, perl-email-abstract, perl-email-address,
404 perl-email-date-format, perl-email-messageid, perl-email-mime,
405 perl-email-mime-contenttype, perl-email-mime-encodings, perl-email-sender,
406 perl-email-simple, perl-error, perl-eval-closure, perl-exception-class,
407 perl-exporter-tiny, perl-extutils-config, perl-extutils-helpers,
408 perl-extutils-installpaths, perl-file-changenotify, perl-file-copy-recursive,
409 perl-file-find-rule, perl-file-find-rule-perl, perl-file-homedir,
410 perl-file-remove, perl-file-sharedir, perl-file-sharedir-install,
411 perl-file-slurp, perl-file-temp, perl-gd, perl-gd-securityimage,
412 perl-getopt-long-descriptive, perl-hash-merge, perl-hash-multivalue,
413 perl-html-form, perl-html-lint, perl-html-tree, perl-http-body,
414 perl-http-cookiejar, perl-http-parser, perl-http-parser-xs,
415 perl-http-request-ascgi, perl-http-server-simple, perl-http-tiny,
416 perl-image-magick, perl-import-into, perl-inc-latest, perl-io-compress,
417 perl-io-interactive, perl-io-socket-ip, perl-io-stringy, perl-ipc-run,
418 perl-ipc-sharelite, perl-json, perl-json-any, perl-json-maybexs, perl-json-xs,
419 perl-lingua-en-findnumber, perl-lingua-en-inflect,
420 perl-lingua-en-inflect-number, perl-lingua-en-inflect-phrase,
421 perl-lingua-en-number-isordinal, perl-lingua-en-tagger,
422 perl-lingua-en-words2nums, perl-lingua-pt-stemmer, perl-lingua-stem,
423 perl-lingua-stem-fr, perl-lingua-stem-it, perl-lingua-stem-ru,
424 perl-lingua-stem-snowball-da, perl-list-allutils, perl-list-moreutils,
425 perl-lwp-protocol-https, perl-lwp-useragent-determined,
426 perl-memoize-expirelru, perl-mime-types, perl-module-build,
427 perl-module-build-tiny, perl-module-find, perl-module-implementation,
428 perl-module-install, perl-module-runtime, perl-module-runtime-conflicts,
429 perl-module-scandeps, perl-module-util, perl-moo, perl-moose,
430 perl-moosex-emulate-class-accessor-fast, perl-moosex-getopt,
431 perl-moosex-markasmethods, perl-moosex-methodattributes, perl-moosex-nonmoose,
432 perl-moosex-params-validate, perl-moosex-relatedclassroles,
433 perl-moosex-role-parameterized, perl-moosex-role-withoverloading,
434 perl-moosex-semiaffordanceaccessor, perl-moosex-strictconstructor,
435 perl-moosex-traits-pluggable, perl-moosex-types, perl-moosex-types-datetime,
436 perl-moosex-types-datetime-morecoercions, perl-moosex-types-loadableclass,
437 perl-moox-types-mooselike, perl-mro-compat, perl-namespace-autoclean,
438 perl-namespace-clean, perl-net-amazon-s3, perl-net-server,
439 perl-number-compare, perl-object-signature, perl-package-anon,
440 perl-package-deprecationmanager, perl-package-stash, perl-package-stash-xs,
441 perl-padwalker, perl-par-dist, perl-params-util, perl-params-validate,
442 perl-parent, perl-parse-cpan-meta, perl-path-class, perl-plack,
443 perl-plack-middleware-fixmissingbodyinredirect,
444 perl-plack-middleware-methodoverride,
445 perl-plack-middleware-removeredundantbody, perl-plack-middleware-reverseproxy,
446 perl-plack-test-externalserver, perl-pod-coverage,
447 perl-posix-strftime-compiler, perl-readonly, perl-role-tiny, perl-safe-isa,
448 perl-scalar-list-utils, perl-scope-guard, perl-set-infinite, perl-set-scalar,
449 perl-snowball-norwegian, perl-snowball-swedish, perl-spiffy,
450 perl-sql-abstract, perl-sql-splitstatement, perl-sql-tokenizer,
451 perl-stream-buffered, perl-strictures, perl-string-camelcase,
452 perl-string-rewriteprefix, perl-string-toidentifier-en, perl-sub-exporter,
453 perl-sub-exporter-progressive, perl-sub-identify, perl-sub-install,
454 perl-sub-name, perl-sub-uplevel, perl-svg, perl-sys-hostname-long,
455 perl-task-weaken, perl-template-timer, perl-template-toolkit,
456 perl-term-encoding, perl-term-progressbar, perl-term-progressbar-quiet,
457 perl-term-progressbar-simple, perl-term-readkey, perl-test-base,
458 perl-test-cleannamespaces, perl-test-differences, perl-test-directory,
459 perl-test-exception, perl-test-fatal, perl-test-harness, perl-test-leaktrace,
460 perl-test-longstring, perl-test-mockobject, perl-test-mocktime,
461 perl-test-most, perl-test-output, perl-test-pod, perl-test-pod-coverage,
462 perl-test-requires, perl-test-sharedfork, perl-test-tcp, perl-test-trap,
463 perl-test-utf8, perl-test-warn, perl-test-warnings, perl-test-without-module,
464 perl-test-writevariants, perl-test-www-mechanize,
465 perl-test-www-mechanize-catalyst, perl-test-www-mechanize-psgi,
466 perl-test-yaml, perl-text-aligner, perl-text-balanced, perl-text-csv,
467 perl-text-diff, perl-text-german, perl-text-glob, perl-text-simpletable,
468 perl-text-table, perl-text-unidecode, perl-throwable, perl-tie-ixhash,
469 perl-tie-toobject, perl-time-duration, perl-time-duration-parse,
470 perl-time-local, perl-time-mock, perl-timedate, perl-tree-simple,
471 perl-tree-simple-visitorfactory, perl-try-tiny, perl-types-serialiser,
472 perl-universal-can, perl-universal-isa, perl-uri-find, perl-uri-ws,
473 perl-variable-magic, perl-www-mechanize, perl-xml-libxml,
474 perl-xml-namespacesupport, perl-xml-sax, perl-xml-sax-base, perl-yaml,
475 perl-yaml-tiny, ploticus, polipo, portaudio, pumpa, python-apsw,
476 python-biopython, python-cssselect, python-dbus, python-decorator,
477 python-drmaa, python-h5py, python-lxml, python-netifaces, python-networkx,
478 python-pyxdg, python-pyyaml, python-requests, python-scikit-learn,
479 python-singledispatch, python-sphinx-rtd-theme, python-sympy, python-testlib,
480 python-tornado, python-urwid, python-waf, python2-apsw,
481 python2-backport-ssl-match-hostname, python2-biopython, python2-bx-python,
482 python2-cssselect, python2-cssutils, python2-dbus, python2-decorator,
483 python2-drmaa, python2-h5py, python2-lxml, python2-netifaces,
484 python2-networkx, python2-pbcore, python2-pil, python2-pybedtools,
485 python2-pycairo, python2-pyxdg, python2-pyyaml, python2-rdflib, python2-rsvg,
486 python2-scikit-learn, python2-singledispatch, python2-six,
487 python2-sphinx-rtd-theme, python2-sympy, python2-testlib, python2-tornado,
488 python2-urwid, python2-waf, python2-xlib, quvi, r, rdesktop, recode, rep-gtk,
489 rseqc, rsound, rubberband, ruby-hoe, rxvt-unicode, s2tc, sawfish, sbcl, seqan,
490 serd, serf, sfml, shogun, sloccount, smartmontools, snakemake, soil, solfege,
491 sord, soundtouch, soxr, sra-tools, sratom, srt2vtt, star, starman, stow,
492 subread, suil, suitesparse, swt, sysfsutils, sysfsutils, taskwarrior, tbb,
493 terminology, tesseract-ocr, texlive-bin, texlive-texmf, the-silver-searcher,
494 tidy, tig, timidity++, tocc, totem-pl-parser, tree, tuxguitar, tvtime,
495 twolame, txt2man, unqlite, upower, utf8proc, vamp, vapoursynth, vcftools,
496 vigra, wavpack, webkitgtk, webkitgtk, weex, wicd, wpa-supplicant-light,
497 wxwidgets, wxwidgets, xbindkeys, xcape, xdg-utils, xf86-input-libinput,
498 xf86-input-wacom, xf86-video-nouveau, xfce, xmp, xosd, xournal, xvid, zathura,
499 zathura-cb, zathura-djvu, zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura-ps, zeromq,
500 zita-alsa-pcmi, zita-convolver
502 *** 189 package updates
504 acpica-20150410, apl-1.5, apr-1.5.2, arb-2.3.0, at-spi2-atk-2.16.0,
505 at-spi2-core-2.16.0, atk-2.16.0, autogen-5.18.5, bison-3.0.4, boost-1.57.0,
506 cairo-1.14.2, ccrtp-2.1.2, check-0.9.14, clang-3.6.0, cmake-3.2.2,
507 complexity-1.2, cups-filters-1.0.68, curl-7.42.1, dbus-1.8.16,
508 dbus-glib-0.104, dejagnu-1.5.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xml-4.5,
509 e2fsck-static-1.42.12, e2fsprogs-1.42.12, ed-1.11, eigen-3.2.4,
510 elfutils-0.161, emacs-24.5, emacs-no-x-toolkit-24.5, exo-0.10.3, ffmpeg-2.6.2,
511 fish-2.1.2, flac-1.3.1, flint-2.4.5, fltk-1.3.3, freetype-2.5.5, garcon-0.4.0,
512 gcc-5.1.0, gcc-toolchain-5.1.0, gdb-7.9, geiser-0.7, glib-2.44.0, glibc-2.21,
513 glibc-2.21, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.21, glibmm-2.44.0, global-6.4,
514 gnome-desktop-3.16.0, gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, gnome-themes-standard-3.16.0,
515 gnu-pw-mgr-1.3, gnubik-2.4.2, gnumach-headers-1.5, gnunet-0.10.1,
516 gnupg-1.4.19, gnupg-2.0.27, gnupg-2.1.4, gnutls-3.4.0,
517 gobject-introspection-1.44.0, gpgme-1.5.4, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.0,
518 gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, gst-plugins-good-1.4.5, gstreamer-1.4.5, gtk+-3.16.2,
519 gtkmm-2.24.4, gtkmm-3.16.0, guile-ssh-0.7.2, guix-0.8.1, guix-0.8.1.fc34dee,
520 help2man-1.46.6, httpd-2.4.12, hurd-headers-0.6, icecat-31.6.0-gnu1,
521 icu4c-55.1, imagemagick-6.9.0-4, imlib2-1.4.7, inetutils-1.9.3, inkscape-0.91,
522 isc-dhcp-4.3.1, itstool-2.0.2, kbd-2.0.2, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libgpg-error-1.18,
523 libidn-1.30, libltdl-2.4.6, libmicrohttpd-0.9.40, libmikmod-3.3.7,
524 libotr-4.1.0, libsigc++-2.4.1, libtasn1-4.5, libtool-2.4.6,
525 libunistring-0.9.5, libuv-1.4.2, libvorbis-1.3.5, libxfce4ui-4.12.0,
526 libxfce4util-4.12.1, libxfont-1.5.1, lightning-2.1.0, linux-libre-4.0.2,
527 linux-libre-headers-3.14.37, llvm-3.6.0, lua-5.2.3, man-pages-3.82,
528 mesa-10.5.4, mig-1.5, minetest-0.4.12, moe-1.7, mpc-1.0.3, mpd-0.19.9,
529 mu-0.9.12, nano-2.4.1, ncmpcpp-0.6.2, nettle-3.1, nginx-1.8.0, node-0.12.2,
530 notmuch-0.19, nspr-4.10.8, nss-3.18, ntp-4.2.8p2, ocrad-0.25, octave-3.8.2,
531 openconnect-7.05, openjpeg-2.0.1, openjpeg-2.1.0, openldap-2.4.40,
532 openssh-6.8p1, openssl-1.0.2a, pangomm-2.36.0, parallel-20150422,
533 pari-gp-2.7.3, patch-2.7.5, perf-4.0.2, perl-libwww-6.13, perl-net-http-6.07,
534 perl-net-ssleay-1.68, perl-test-simple-1.001014, perl-uri-1.67,
535 pinentry-0.9.0, pius-2.0.11, podofo-0.9.3, poppler-0.32.0, postgresql-9.3.6,
536 pulseaudio-6.0, python-3.4.3, python-pillow-2.7.0, python-pygobject-3.16.1,
537 python-setuptools-12.1, python-wrapper-3.4.3, python2-dateutil-2.2,
538 python2-pillow-2.7.0, python2-pygobject-3.16.1, python2-setuptools-12.1,
539 qt-5.4.1, ruby-2.2.2, samba-3.6.25, scons-2.3.4, sdl2-2.0.3, sharutils-4.15.1,
540 sipwitch-1.9.7, slock-1.2, source-highlight-3.1.8, sqlite-3.8.9,
541 subversion-1.8.13, texinfo-5.2, thunar-1.6.6, thunar-volman-0.8.1,
542 tor-0.2.5.12, tumbler-0.1.31, tzdata-2015c, ucommon-6.3.1, vala-0.28.0,
543 valgrind-3.10.1, vlc-2.2.0, vte-0.40.0, wget-1.16.3, wine-1.7.40,
544 wpa-supplicant-2.4, xboard-4.8.0, xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0, xfce4-panel-4.12.0,
545 xfce4-session-4.12.0, xfce4-settings-4.12.0, xfconf-4.12.0, xfdesktop-4.12.0,
546 xfwm4-4.12.0, xorg-server-1.16.4, xterm-317
548 ** Programming interfaces
550 *** New (guix build gremlin) to parse and validate ELF dynamic link info
552 *** (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘validate-runpath’ phase
554 This phase reads the dynamic entries of ELF files and reports libraries listed
555 as NEEDED that are not found in the RUNPATH.
557 *** New (gnu services desktop) module and ‘%desktop-services’ variable
559 *** New (guix cvs-download) module, for CVS checkouts
561 *** New (guix build-system waf) module, for the Waf build system
563 *** New (guix build-system haskell) module, to build Haskell packages
565 *** (guix build-system gnu) now supports zip archives
567 *** New convenience syntax ‘modify-phases’ added in (guix build utils)
569 *** The ‘ld’ wrapper more finely determines whether to use ‘-rpath’
571 *** (guix gexp) exports ‘gexp-input’ to describe input unambiguously
573 *** The ‘define-gexp-compiler’ form allows (guix gexp) to be extended
575 *** New ‘local-file’ constructor exported by (guix gexp)
577 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
579 *** Profiles created with ‘guix package -p’ as indirect GC roots
581 Before that they were made permanent GC roots–i.e., uncollectable.
583 *** ‘guix package’ distinguishes downgrades from upgrades
585 *** Handle HTTP redirects to relative URI references
586 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19840>)
588 *** Downloads now honor the ‘http_proxy’ environment variable
589 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20402>)
591 *** ‘--no-*’ options are now always correctly handled
592 (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00702.html>)
594 *** SLiM no longer leaks open file descriptors
596 *** Don't compare <pam-service> objects with 'equal?'
597 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20037>)
599 *** x86_64 and i686 bootstrap binaries updated (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19780>)
601 *** ‘find-files’ no longer follows symlinks (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20081>)
603 *** libc message catalog (‘libc.mo’) is now installed
605 *** libstdc++ has appropriate RUNPATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20358>)
607 *** ‘dhcp-client-service’ now correctly tracks dhclient’s PID
609 ** Native language support
611 *** New translations: da (Danish)
613 *** Updated translations: eo
615 * Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8)
617 ** Package management
619 *** New ‘--share’ and ‘--expose’ options for ‘guix system vm’
621 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
623 *** Emacs mode now automatically loads newly installed Emacs packages
625 See “Emacs Initial Setup” in the manual.
627 *** ‘guix-daemon’ now defaults to ‘--cores=0 --jobs=1’
629 In other words, at any given time, only one derivation is being built or
630 substituted, and it can use as many cores as available. Before, there could
631 be N derivations using N cores, which was obviously not desirable.
633 *** Command-line tools support the ‘GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS’ environment variable
635 See “Invoking guix build” in the manual.
637 *** ‘guix environment’ is faster
639 *** New ‘--recursive’ option for ‘guix archive’
641 See “Invoking guix archive” in the manual.
643 *** Missing patches required by a package definition are gracefully reported
645 *** ‘guix lint’ supports additional checkers
647 The new checkers are ‘gnu-description’, ‘home-page’, and ‘source’.
648 See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
650 *** New CPAN importer for ‘guix import’
652 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
656 *** USB installation image has more tools
658 Tools added since 0.8: wpa_supplicant, cryptsetup, and iw.
660 *** Linux kernel module dependencies are automatically handled
662 Before that, all the modules needed in the initrd would need to be explicitly
663 listed, including their dependencies, and in topological order.
665 *** Font packages now all have a name starting with ‘font-’
667 See “Fonts” in the manual.
669 *** Shell startup files have been cleaned up
671 /etc/profile contains only environment variable definitions, which may also be
672 used when running a different shell. The skeletons for user’s ‘.bash_profile’
673 and ‘.bashrc’ files behave as documented in the Bash manual. Zsh is supported.
675 *** The ‘root’ account gets a copy of the account skeleton files
677 Before that, the skeleton files would only be copied to non-root accounts.
679 *** The name service cache daemon (nscd) is configurable
681 By default it aggressively caches host and service lookups. See “Base
682 Services” in the manual.
684 *** Available locale definitions are now declared in ‘operating-system’
686 Before, the ‘glibc’ package would contain all the existing locales, as well as
687 the ‘locale-archive’ file, amounting to 110 MiB. See “Locales” in the manual.
689 *** SLiM sessions are configurable
691 Pressing F1 in the SLiM graphical log-in screen allows users to choose among
692 the pre-configured session types. See “X Window” in the manual.
694 *** Man pages and Info files are systematically gzip-compressed
696 *** ‘gnu-build-system’ ensures that documentation is in share/{man,info}
698 If a package installs to $prefix/{man,info}, this is automatically fixed to be
699 $prefix/share/{man,info}.
701 *** ‘strip’ is invoked only on ELF files and ‘ar’ archives
703 *** ‘libtool’ and ‘libltdl’ are now separate packages
705 *** Emacs mode is readily usable on the Guix System Distribution
707 *** Substitutes are now enabled by default on freshly installed systems
710 abcde, astyle, avr-libc, bbdb, bedtools, bowtie, bullet, c-reduce, cd-discid,
711 cgal, clang, claws-mail, cups, cups-filters, cups-minimal, dconf, delta,
712 dmenu, eigen, emms, exo, fastjar, font-bitstream-vera, font-dejavu,
713 font-gnu-freefont-ttf, font-liberation, font-terminus, fvwm, garcon,
714 gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf, gcc-cross-sans-libc-avr, gcj, getmail,
715 git-flow, git-manpages, git-test-sequence, glew, glulxe, gourmet,
716 gst-plugins-good, gtk-xfce-engine, hexchat, ijs, iw, jack, json-glib,
717 libdvdnav, libdvdread, libetpan, libevdev, libltdl, libtorrent, libupnp,
718 libwnck, libwnck, libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, libxshmfence, libyubikey, llvm,
719 lrdf, mg, mp3info, msmtp, ncftp, nginx, ninja, nss, openbox,
720 perl-benchmark-timer, perl-clone, perl-digest-sha1, perl-exporter-lite,
721 perl-file-which, perl-getopt-tabular, perl-ipc-run3, perl-probe-perl,
722 perl-regexp-common, perl-sys-cpu, perl-test-deep, perl-test-nowarnings,
723 perl-test-script, perl-test-simple, perl-test-tester, pflask,
724 python-cairocffi, python-cffi, python-distutils-extra, python-html5lib,
725 python-ipython, python-isodate, python-matplotlib, python-numpy,
726 python-numpydoc, python-pillow, python-pycairo, python-pycparser,
727 python-pygobject, python-pyparsing, python-pyqt, python-pysam, python-rdflib,
728 python-scipy, python-sip, python-sqlalchemy, python-xcffib, python2-cairocffi,
729 python2-cffi, python2-distutils-extra, python2-elib.intl, python2-html5lib,
730 python2-ipython, python2-isodate, python2-matplotlib, python2-numpy,
731 python2-numpydoc, python2-pillow, python2-py2cairo, python2-pycparser,
732 python2-pygobject, python2-pygtk, python2-pyparsing, python2-pyqt,
733 python2-pysam, python2-scipy, python2-sip, python2-sqlalchemy, python2-xcffib,
734 qpdf, retroarch, rtorrent, samtools, shflags, slang, slock, socat,
735 startup-notification, sxiv, taglib, telepathy-glib, thunar, thunar-volman,
736 tre, tumbler, vala, vte, vte, wine, wmctrl, xclip, xdotool, xf86-video-geode,
737 xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-battery-plugin, xfce4-panel, xfce4-session,
738 xfce4-settings, xfce4-terminal, xfconf, xfdesktop, xfwm4, xinit, ykclient,
741 *** 222 package updates
743 apr-util-1.5.4, atk-2.15.3, automake-1.15, bash-4.3.33, bash-light-4.3.33,
744 bdftopcf-1.0.4, binutils-2.25, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.25,
745 cairo-1.12.18, cairomm-1.11.2, ccrtp-2.1.1, curl-7.40.0, dbus-1.8.12,
746 dbus-glib-0.102, ddrescue-1.19, dri2proto-2.8, e2fsck-static-1.42.11,
747 e2fsprogs-1.42.11, eudev-2.1.1, ffmpeg-2.5.3, file-5.22, fish-2.1.1,
748 fontconfig-2.11.92, fontsproto-2.1.3, freeipmi-1.4.8,
749 gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.4, gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf-4.8.4,
750 gcc-objc++-4.8.4, gcc-objc-4.8.4, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.4, gccgo-4.8.4,
751 gcl-2.6.12, gd-2.1.1, gdb-7.8.2, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.1, gettext-0.19.4,
752 gfortran-4.8.4, ghostscript-9.14.0, ghostscript-with-x-9.14.0, gimp-2.8.14,
753 git-2.2.1, glib-2.42.1, glibmm-2.42.0, global-6.3.3, glproto-1.4.17,
754 gnutls-3.2.21, gobject-introspection-1.42.0, gp2c-0.0.9pl2, grep-2.21,
755 groff-1.22.3, gss-1.0.3, gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gtk+-3.14.7, gtkmm-3.14.0,
756 guix-0.8, guix-0.8.4ad8789, help2man-1.46.4, iceauth-1.0.6, icu4c-54.1,
757 inkscape-0.48.5, inputproto-2.3.1, lcms-2.6, lftp-4.6.1, libassuan-2.2.0,
758 libcdio-0.93, libdmx-1.1.3, libdrm-2.4.58, libfontenc-1.1.2, libfs-1.0.6,
759 libgcrypt-1.6.2, libgpg-error-1.17, libice-1.0.9, libjpeg-9a, libksba-1.3.2,
760 libmicrohttpd-0.9.39, libnl-3.2.25, libpciaccess-0.13.2, libpeas-1.12.1,
761 libpng-1.5.21, librsvg-2.40.6, libsm-1.2.2, libtasn1-4.2, libtool-2.4.5,
762 libx11-1.6.2, libxau-1.0.8, libxaw-1.0.12, libxcb-1.11, libxcomposite-0.4.4,
763 libxcursor-1.1.14, libxdamage-1.1.4, libxext-1.3.3, libxfixes-5.0.1,
764 libxfont-1.5.0, libxft-2.3.2, libxi-1.7.4, libxinerama-1.1.3,
765 libxkbcommon-0.5.0, libxmu-1.1.2, libxp-1.0.2, libxpm-3.5.11, libxrandr-1.4.2,
766 libxrender-0.9.8, libxres-1.0.7, libxt-1.1.4, libxtst-1.2.2, libxv-1.0.10,
767 libxvmc-1.0.8, libxxf86dga-1.1.4, libxxf86vm-1.1.3, linux-libre-3.18.4,
768 lua-5.2.3, makedepend-1.0.5, mercurial-3.2.4, mesa-10.4.0, minetest-0.4.11,
769 mkfontscale-1.1.1, neon-0.30.0, nix-1.8, ntp-4.2.8, ocrad-0.24,
770 openjpeg-2.0.1, openssl-1.0.1k, pango-1.36.8, parallel-20150122,
771 pari-gp-2.7.2, patchelf-0.8, pcre-8.36, perf-3.18.4, phonon-4.8.3,
772 pixman-0.32.6, pkg-config-0.28, poppler-0.28.1, python-3.3.5,
773 python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, qemu-2.2.0, qemu-headless-2.2.0,
774 qt-5.4.0, racket-6.1.1, randrproto-1.4.0, raptor2-2.0.15, rasqal-0.9.33,
775 rcs-5.9.4, ruby-2.1.5, sessreg-1.0.8, sipwitch-1.9.3, sqlite-3.8.7.4,
776 tiled-0.11.0, tmux-1.9a, tzdata-2014j, ucommon-6.2.3, util-linux-2.25.2,
777 util-macros-1.19.0, vera-1.22, videoproto-2.3.2, wget-1.16.1, xauth-1.0.9,
778 xbacklight-1.2.1, xcb-proto-1.11, xcb-util-0.4.0, xcb-util-image-0.4.0,
779 xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0, xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9, xcb-util-wm-0.4.1,
780 xcursor-themes-1.0.4, xcursorgen-1.0.6, xdpyinfo-1.3.1, xev-1.2.1,
781 xextproto-7.3.0, xf86-input-evdev-2.8.4, xf86-input-joystick-1.6.2,
782 xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0, xf86-input-mouse-1.9.1, xf86-input-synaptics-1.8.1,
783 xf86-video-ark-0.7.5, xf86-video-ati-7.5.0, xf86-video-cirrus-1.5.2,
784 xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4, xf86-video-glint-1.2.8, xf86-video-i128-1.3.6,
785 xf86-video-intel-2.21.15, xf86-video-mach64-6.9.4, xf86-video-mga-1.6.3,
786 xf86-video-neomagic-1.2.8, xf86-video-nv-2.1.20, xf86-video-openchrome-0.3.3,
787 xf86-video-r128-6.9.2, xf86-video-savage-2.3.7,
788 xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.7, xf86-video-sis-0.10.7,
789 xf86-video-suncg6-1.1.2, xf86-video-sunffb-1.2.2, xf86-video-tdfx-1.4.5,
790 xf86-video-tga-1.2.2, xf86-video-trident-1.3.6, xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3,
791 xf86-video-vmware-13.0.2, xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.5, xhost-1.0.6, xinput-1.6.1,
792 xkbcomp-1.3.0, xkbutils-1.0.4, xkeyboard-config-2.13, xkill-1.0.4,
793 xlockmore-5.45, xlsclients-1.1.3, xmodmap-1.0.8, xnee-3.19,
794 xorg-server-1.16.3, xprop-1.2.2, xproto-7.0.26, xrandr-1.4.3, xrdb-1.1.0,
795 xrefresh-1.0.5, xset-1.2.3, xsetroot-1.1.1, xtrans-1.3.5, xvinfo-1.1.2,
796 xwd-1.0.6, xwininfo-1.1.3, youtube-dl-2015.01.23.4, zsh-5.0.7
798 ** Programming interfaces
800 *** New (guix elf) and (gnu build linux-modules) modules
802 These provide resolution of Linux kernel module dependencies. See
803 <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html>.
805 *** ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ has been extended
807 It now handles GIO and XDG themes, takes care of generating the icon cache,
808 and has a new #:glib-or-gtk-wrap-excluded-outputs parameter.
810 *** ‘search-path-specification’ can now specify non-directory items
812 For example, the ‘search-path-specification’ attached to libxml2 specifies a
813 file pattern, which allows all the ‘catalog.xml’ files to be added to the
814 ‘XML_CATALOG_FILES’ environment variable.
816 *** (guix build syscalls) has more network-related procedures
818 ‘set-network-interface-flags’, ‘set-network-interface-address’,
819 ‘network-interface-address’, and ‘configure-network-interface’ are ioctl
820 bindings used by network-handling dmd services.
822 *** (guix monads) refactoring
824 ‘%store-monad’ is now in (guix store) and is an alias for the new
825 ‘%state-monad’ provided by (guix monads). Monadic procedures dealing with the
826 store, with derivations, and with packages have been moved from (guix monads)
827 to (guix store), (guix derivations), and (guix packages). See “The Store
828 Monad” in the manual.
830 *** (guix build utils) provides ‘parallel-job-count’
832 *** ‘wrap-program’ preserves the original argv[0]
834 *** New (guix sets) module
836 *** ‘define-record-type*’ now support “delayed” fields
838 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
840 *** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>)
841 *** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>)
842 *** Substituter progress report properly formatted
843 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>)
844 *** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>)
845 *** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm
846 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19317>)
847 *** Emacs knows where to find its GLib schemas (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19138>)
848 *** Adjust 'grub.cfg' to work on systems with a separate /boot
849 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19220>)
850 *** Fix removal of next-to-last item in a profile
851 (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00292.html>)
852 *** Apply patches with "patch --force" (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19402>)
853 *** Extend ‘search-path-specification’ for libxml2-style use cases
854 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18033>)
855 *** Search for patches under $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19364>)
856 *** Use executables from the target inputs in 'patch-shebangs'
857 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18895>)
858 *** guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'
859 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>)
860 *** Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts
861 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19491>)
862 *** Don't build the mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 cross-compiler on i686
863 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19598>)
864 *** Read archive signatures as Latin-1 strings (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19610>)
865 *** Raise an error for references to non-existent outputs
866 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19630>)
867 *** Initialize libgcrypt before use (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19677>)
869 ** Native language support
871 *** New translations: fr (French), hu (Hungarian)
872 *** Updated translation: eo, vi
874 * Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
876 ** Package management
878 *** New visual user interface in Emacs
880 See “Emacs Interface” in the manual.
882 *** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment
884 See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual.
886 *** The ‘guix import’ command has been extended and documented
888 It can now import packages from pypi.python.org and from GNU.
889 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
891 *** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers
893 See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
895 *** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies
897 See “Security Updates” in the manual.
899 *** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
901 This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them
902 visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual.
904 *** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades
906 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option
908 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
910 *** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option
912 See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual.
916 *** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices
918 See “Mapped Devices” in the manual.
920 *** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation
922 New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’.
923 See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
925 *** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’
927 See “Services” in the manual.
929 *** Free firmware can be loaded
931 This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.)
932 See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
934 *** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme
936 See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual.
938 *** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature
940 Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See
941 “Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details.
943 *** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release
945 *** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option
947 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
949 *** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment
951 Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’
952 to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change.
956 abiword, acpica, adns, arb, ath9k-htc-firmware, atlas, avrdude, cppunit,
957 dblatex, detox, dfu-programmer, dionysus, direvent, dmidecode, dri3proto,
958 emacs-no-x-toolkit, emacs-w3m, emacs-wget, enchant, eudev, feh, flashrom,
959 flint, fontforge, freedink, freeimage, fribidi,
960 gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf, giblib, gnome-themes-standard, gpsbabel,
961 gpscorrelate, graphite2, gtypist, guile-charting, guile-sdl, imake, imlib2,
962 irrlicht, jbig2dec, libpsl, libspiro, libuninameslist, libwmf, lm-sensors,
963 magit, minetest, miscfiles, mozjs, mupdf, nix, nspr, nss-mdns, ntp, nvi, opam,
964 openal, openjpeg, opus-tools, orpheus, ots, oxygen-icons, paredit, perf,
965 perl-archive-zip, perl-dbd-sqlite, perl-dbi, perl-image-exiftool,
966 perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-net-ssleay, perl-www-curl, perl-zip, polkit,
967 polkit-qt, postgresql, potrace, presentproto, python-certifi, python-coverage,
968 python-cython, python-discover, python-docutils, python-exif-read,
969 python-extras, python-fixtures, python-itsdangerous, python-jinja2,
970 python-jsonschema, python-markupsafe, python-mimeparse, python-nose,
971 python-oauthlib, python-py, python-pygments, python-pyjwt, python-pyld,
972 python-pytest, python-scripttest, python-sphinx, python-subunit,
973 python-testrepository, python-testresources, python-testscenarios,
974 python-testtools, python-unidecode, python-unittest2, python-virtualenv,
975 python2-certifi, python2-coverage, python2-cython, python2-discover,
976 python2-docutils, python2-exif-read, python2-extras, python2-fixtures,
977 python2-itsdangerous, python2-jinja2, python2-jsonschema, python2-markupsafe,
978 python2-mimeparse, python2-nose, python2-oauthlib, python2-py,
979 python2-pygments, python2-pyjwt, python2-pyld, python2-pytest,
980 python2-requests, python2-scripttest, python2-sphinx, python2-subunit,
981 python2-testrepository, python2-testresources, python2-testscenarios,
982 python2-testtools, python2-unidecode, python2-unittest2, python2-virtualenv,
983 rrdtool, ruby, ruby, ruby-i18n, sane-backends, scrot, sound-theme-freedesktop,
984 stress, synergy, tdb, terminus-font, testdisk, texi2html, tiled, transfig,
985 unclutter, unixodbc, weechat, wv, xboing, xf86-video-modesetting, xfig,
988 *** 117 package updates
990 acct-6.6.2, acl-2.2.52, apl-1.4, apr-1.5.1, apr-util-1.5.3, autoconf-2.68,
991 autoconf-2.69, autogen-5.18.4, bash-4.3.30, bash-light-4.3.30, bazaar-2.6.0,
992 bison-2.7, calcurse-3.2.1, ccache-3.1.10, chicken-4.9.0.1, coreutils-8.23,
993 curl-7.37.1, datamash-1.0.6, dbus-1.8.8, docbook-xml-4.2, docbook-xml-4.4,
994 docbook-xml-4.5, emacs-24.4, ffmpeg-2.2.10, ffmpeg-2.4.3, file-5.19,
995 file-5.20, freeipmi-1.4.5, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.9.2, gcc-toolchain-4.9.2,
996 gcl-2.6.11, gdb-7.8.1, geiser-0.6, gettext-0.19.3, git-2.1.2, glibc-2.20,
997 glibc-2.20, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.20, global-6.3.2, glpk-4.55,
998 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.26, gnurl-7.37.0, gnutls-3.2.20, gpgme-1.5.1,
999 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-3.9.16,
1000 guile-1.8.8, guile-json-0.4.0, guile-ncurses-1.6, guile-ssh-0.7.1, guix-0.7,
1001 guix-0.7.48bd76e, hello-2.10, help2man-1.46.3, icecat-31.2.0,
1002 libart-lgpl-2.3.21, libassuan-2.1.3, libatomic-ops-7.4.2, libdrm-2.4.33,
1003 libffi-3.1, libgc-7.2f, libgc-7.4.2, libgcrypt-1.5.4, libgcrypt-1.6.2,
1004 libidn-1.29, libjpeg-9a, libotr-4.0.0, libsodium-1.0.0, libtasn1-4.1,
1005 libunistring-0.9.4, libwebsockets-1.3, lightning-2.0.5, linux-libre-3.17.3,
1006 lsof-4.88, lua-5.2.3, lvm2-2.02.109, lzip-1.16, make-4.1, maxima-5.34.1,
1007 mit-scheme-9.2, mysql-5.1.73, neon-0.30.0, net-base-5.3, nettle-2.7.1,
1008 notmuch-0.18.1, openssh-6.7p1, openssl-1.0.1j, parallel-20141022,
1009 phonon-4.8.2, pspp-0.8.4, python-3.3.5, python-dateutil-1.5,
1010 python2-dateutil-1.5, python2-pyicu-1.8, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.3.2, rcs-5.9.3,
1011 readline-6.3, subversion-1.7.18, swig-3.0.2, tar-1.28, texinfo-5.2,
1012 tor-0.2.5.10, transmission-2.84, ucommon-6.1.11, valgrind-3.10.0, vlc-2.1.5,
1013 wget-1.16, windowmaker-0.95.6, xapian-1.2.18, xf86-video-ati-6.14.6,
1014 xpdf-3.04, youtube-dl-2014.09.06
1016 ** Programming interfaces
1018 *** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages
1020 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1022 *** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas
1024 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1026 *** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter
1028 This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus
1029 preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary.
1031 *** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter
1033 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1035 *** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently
1037 This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given
1038 architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The
1039 ‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of
1040 the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies.
1042 *** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times
1044 *** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures
1046 They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual.
1048 *** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems
1050 “Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages
1051 and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1053 *** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL
1055 See “The Store Monad” in the manual.
1057 *** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages
1059 *** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite
1061 *** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items
1063 *** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …)
1065 Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code
1066 typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre.
1068 *** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions
1070 This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface.
1072 *** Bootstrapping packages moved to (gnu packages commencement) modules
1076 *** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default
1078 Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only
1079 once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now
1080 enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been
1081 renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’.
1083 *** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’
1085 This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel.
1087 *** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>)
1088 *** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>)
1089 *** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>)
1090 *** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>)
1091 *** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>)
1092 *** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root
1093 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>)
1094 *** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>)
1095 *** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible
1096 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>)
1097 *** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>)
1098 *** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
1099 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>)
1100 *** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>)
1101 *** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers
1102 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>)
1103 *** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
1104 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>)
1105 *** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command
1106 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>)
1107 *** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>)
1108 *** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>)
1109 *** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
1110 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>)
1111 *** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension
1112 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>)
1113 *** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix.
1114 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>)
1115 *** WindowMaker no longer pollutes $PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18698>)
1117 ** Native language support
1118 *** New translation: cs (Czech)
1119 *** Updated translations: de, sr, vi
1121 * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
1122 ** Package management
1123 *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org
1125 These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already
1126 provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See
1127 “Substitutes” in the manual.
1129 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option
1130 *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option
1132 ** Programming interfaces
1133 *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions”
1135 G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side
1136 code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual.
1138 *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions
1140 This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries
1141 references to the packages or derivations it uses.
1143 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions
1144 *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized
1145 *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images
1146 *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation”
1147 *** New (guix build syscalls) module
1148 *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation
1149 *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system
1150 *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations
1151 *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules
1152 *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field
1154 This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time.
1157 *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided
1159 This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System
1160 Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted
1161 in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome!
1163 *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations
1165 Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list
1166 of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration”
1169 *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions
1171 Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’.
1172 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
1174 *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time
1175 *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices
1176 *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs
1177 *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>)
1178 *** 134 new packages
1180 abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp,
1181 chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat,
1182 doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi,
1183 fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice,
1184 gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools,
1185 jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
1186 libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
1187 libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt,
1188 libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages,
1189 maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl,
1190 offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc,
1191 petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf,
1192 pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock,
1193 python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto,
1194 python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode,
1195 rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse,
1196 strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy,
1197 transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools,
1198 wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl
1200 *** 87 package updates
1202 bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2,
1203 docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6,
1204 ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4,
1205 gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3,
1206 gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3,
1207 gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1,
1208 gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a,
1209 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20,
1210 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
1211 guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3,
1212 icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e,
1213 libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37,
1214 libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4,
1215 linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6,
1216 neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1,
1217 pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2,
1218 qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2,
1219 screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22,
1220 wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304
1222 ** Native language support
1223 *** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
1224 *** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi
1225 *** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’
1227 *** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>)
1228 *** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout
1229 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>)
1230 *** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed
1231 *** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved
1232 *** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension
1233 *** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook
1234 *** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers
1236 * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
1237 ** Package management
1238 *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
1240 Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
1241 directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
1243 *** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
1244 *** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
1245 *** New ‘guix archive’ command
1246 *** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
1247 *** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
1248 *** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
1249 *** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
1250 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
1251 *** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
1252 *** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
1253 *** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
1254 ** Programming interfaces
1255 *** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
1256 *** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
1257 *** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
1258 *** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
1259 *** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
1260 *** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
1261 *** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
1265 a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es,
1266 aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh,
1267 corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf,
1268 fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik,
1269 gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json,
1270 guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop,
1271 isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec,
1272 libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets,
1273 ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc,
1274 ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk,
1275 perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt,
1276 source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse,
1277 unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm
1279 *** 90 package updates
1281 apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3,
1282 bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24,
1283 coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1,
1284 gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1,
1285 glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54,
1286 gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18,
1287 gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
1288 guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11,
1289 guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1,
1290 imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92,
1291 libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1,
1292 libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3,
1293 linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23,
1294 openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2,
1295 pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5,
1296 python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1,
1297 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3,
1298 recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a,
1299 tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15,
1300 xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11
1302 *** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
1303 *** libc’s Info manual is now installed
1304 *** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
1305 *** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
1306 *** Many other packaging improvements
1308 *** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
1309 *** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
1310 *** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
1311 (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
1312 *** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
1313 *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
1314 (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
1315 *** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
1316 *** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
1317 *** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
1318 *** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
1320 * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
1321 ** Package management
1322 *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
1324 In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
1325 with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
1328 ** Programming interfaces
1329 *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
1331 The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
1332 ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running
1333 ‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
1335 *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
1337 See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been
1338 rewritten to use this monadic interface.
1340 *** New (guix profiles) module
1342 It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
1345 *** New (gnu system) module
1347 This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
1348 and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
1349 See “System Configuration” in the manual.
1351 This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
1353 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
1355 Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
1356 See “Derivations” in the manual.
1359 *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
1361 Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
1362 Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
1363 packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
1365 Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
1366 build from source on this platform.
1368 *** 110 new packages
1370 acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
1371 automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
1372 fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
1373 gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
1374 gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
1375 icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
1376 libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
1377 libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
1378 pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
1379 perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
1380 perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
1381 perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
1382 perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
1383 phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
1384 qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
1385 sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
1386 xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
1388 *** 47 package updates
1390 atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
1391 gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
1392 gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
1393 gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
1394 gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
1395 harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
1396 libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
1397 linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
1398 pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
1399 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
1400 tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
1402 *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
1404 ** Native language support
1405 *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
1406 *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
1407 *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
1409 *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
1411 Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
1412 calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
1414 *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
1415 (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
1416 *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
1417 (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
1418 *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
1419 *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
1420 *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
1422 * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
1424 ** Package management
1426 *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
1428 The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
1429 deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1431 *** New ‘guix-register’ program
1433 This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
1434 copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
1436 ** Programming interfaces
1438 *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
1440 The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
1441 package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
1442 runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
1444 *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
1446 This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
1447 tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
1448 This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
1449 to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
1451 *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
1453 The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
1454 procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
1455 ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
1456 system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
1457 packages, and where Guix can be used.
1459 New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
1460 various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
1461 support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
1462 PAM configuration; and so on.
1464 *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
1466 ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
1467 <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
1468 a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
1469 file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
1475 apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
1476 freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
1477 gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
1478 itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
1479 net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
1480 python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
1481 python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
1482 python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
1483 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
1484 valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
1486 *** 27 package updates
1488 bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
1489 gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
1490 gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
1491 imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
1492 linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
1495 *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
1497 Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
1498 based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
1499 fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
1501 *** More GUI applications
1503 The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
1504 applications have been added (see above.)
1506 *** Packaging guidelines
1508 The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
1509 under “GNU Distribution”.
1511 *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
1513 Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
1514 it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
1515 section of the manual for details.
1517 ** Internationalization
1519 Updated translations: eo.
1523 *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
1524 *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
1525 *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
1526 *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
1527 *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
1528 *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
1530 * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
1532 ** Package management
1534 *** Cross-compilation support
1536 Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with
1537 the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level,
1538 the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages
1539 of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for
1542 *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
1544 See the manual for details.
1546 *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
1548 This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails
1549 to download a substitute.
1551 *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc”
1553 See the manual for details.
1555 *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh”
1557 See the manual for details.
1559 ** Programming interfaces
1561 *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations)
1563 See the manual for details.
1565 *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter
1567 This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It
1568 allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know
1569 whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is.
1571 *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures
1573 This improves performance of SHA256 computations.
1580 alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd,
1581 gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2,
1582 iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket,
1583 rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore
1585 *** 25 package updates
1587 automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3,
1588 glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8,
1589 libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error
1590 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu
1591 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0
1593 *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux
1595 The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries
1596 (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be
1597 transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms.
1599 *** Debug info packages
1601 Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The
1602 “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the
1603 other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual.
1605 *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled
1607 The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently
1608 GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting”
1611 *** Bootstrapping documented
1613 See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU
1614 distribution builds “from scratch”.
1616 ** Internationalization
1618 New translations: eo, pt_BR.
1621 *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5
1622 *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed
1624 These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary.
1625 See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details.
1627 *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity
1629 *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations
1631 Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when
1632 some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See
1633 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and
1634 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 .
1636 *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’
1638 Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the
1641 *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken
1643 When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile
1644 < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect
1645 command-line argument processing in some cases.
1647 * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1)
1649 ** Package management
1651 *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
1653 Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
1654 on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program
1655 setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
1657 *** New “guix package --upgrade” option
1659 As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
1660 installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
1661 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1663 *** New “guix package --search” option
1665 Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns
1666 the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the
1667 manual, for details.
1669 *** New “guix pull” command
1671 The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
1672 modules and the distribution. See the manual for details.
1674 *** New binary substituter
1676 The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
1677 downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are
1678 available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The
1679 distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there.
1681 See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of
1682 available binary packages.
1684 *** New “guix refresh” command
1686 The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the
1687 distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
1689 *** New “guix hash” command
1691 Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for
1694 *** Nix daemon code updated
1696 The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated
1697 to current Nix ‘master’.
1699 ** Programming interfaces
1701 *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
1703 It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
1705 *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
1707 Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables
1708 that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
1709 package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
1710 ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
1711 These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that
1714 *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
1716 The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
1717 (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
1718 tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
1720 *** New build systems
1722 The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have
1723 been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
1726 *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
1728 The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
1729 initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
1730 evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
1731 mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
1736 (mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
1737 ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
1739 More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
1741 Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
1742 (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
1743 ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
1744 a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
1748 Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
1753 GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
1754 Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
1756 *** Noteworthy new packages
1758 TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
1759 CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.