#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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+Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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+* Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
+
+** Package management
+
+*** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview
+*** New ‘--export-manifest’ and ‘--export-channels’ options of ‘guix package’
+*** New ‘--profile’ option for ‘guix environment’
+*** New ‘--discover’ option of ‘guix-daemon’, for local substitute discovery
+*** New ‘--advertise’ option of ‘guix publish’
+*** New ‘--with-patch’ and ‘--with-latest’ package transformation options
+*** ‘guix system image’ supersedes the ‘disk-image’ and ‘vm-image’ sub-commands
+*** ‘--verbosity=1’ no longer displays download URLs
+*** ‘guix publish -C’ now supports zstd compression via Guile-zstd
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ now supports zstd substitutes, which decompress faster
+*** New ‘guix import go’ command, to import Go packages
+*** ‘guix import opam’ now supports Coq packages and has a ‘--repo’ option
+*** ‘guix import crate’ now honors semantic versioning (“semver”)
+*** ‘guix import nix’ has been removed
+*** New updaters (see ‘guix refresh’): ‘sourceforge’ and ‘generic-html’
+*** Substitute installation has been optimized
+*** ‘guix’ commands suggest alternative sub-commands or options upon typos
+*** Offloading no longer requires ‘guile’ to be in $PATH on build machines
+*** ‘GUIX_EXTENSIONS_PATH’ is honored when looking for extensions such as GWL
+*** New ‘--format’ option for ‘guix processes’
+*** ‘guix upgrade’ can now be passed several regexps
+
+** Distribution
+
+*** The Guix System demonstration VM now supports the SPICE protocol
+*** The installation script can now run in a fully automated manner
+*** ‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’ now relies on statically-linked QEMU
+*** ‘sysctl-service-type’ enables Linux protected hardlinks/symlinks by default
+*** ‘%base-services’ now includes a default ‘sysctl-service-type’ instance
+*** Linux Logical Volumne Manager (LVM) now supported, via ‘lvm-device-mapping’
+*** ‘guix system init’ has been optimized
+*** ‘guix system’ warns when users/groups appear more than once
+*** ‘guix system image -t rock64-raw’ produces images for Rock64 devices
+*** ‘herd discover guix-daemon on’ turns on substitute server discovery
+*** Default initrd now supports bcachefs
+*** CUPS service includes ‘brlaser’ extension by default
+*** “lp” group is no longer included in ‘%base-groups’
+*** New ‘--graph-backend’ option for ‘guix system {extension,shepherd}-graph’
+*** New services
+
+agate, cuirass-remote-worker, ipfs, keepalived, laminar, radicale, syncthing,
+transmission-daemon, wireguard, xorg-server
+
+*** 2009 new packages
+
+*** 3100 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+emacs 27.2, gcc-toolchain 10.3.0, ghc 8.8.3, glibc 2.31, gnome 3.34.5,
+gnupg 2.2.27, go 1.14.15, guile 3.0.5, icecat 78.10.0-guix0-preview1,
+icedtea 3.7.0, inkscape 1.0.2, julia 1.5.3, libreoffice 6.4.7.2,
+linux-libre 5.11.15, ocaml 4.11.1, octave 6.2.0, openjdk 14.0,
+python 3.8.2, racket 8.0, rust 1.51.0, r 4.0.4, sbcl 2.1.3, xfce 4.16.0,
+xorg-server 1.20.10
+
+** Programming interfaces
+
+*** New ‘channel-with-substitutes-available’ procedure in (guix channels)
+*** New modules (guix substitutes), (guix narinfo), and (guix avahi)
+*** <image> records can be passed to ‘guix system image’
+*** New (guix ipfs) module to interact with an IPFS gateway
+
+** Noteworthy bug fixes
+
+*** Risk of local privilege escalation via guix-daemon fixed
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47229>, CVE-2021-27851)
+*** Setuid programs on Guix System are no longer setgid root
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46395>)
+*** Risk of local privilege escalation during reconfigure fixed
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47584>)
+*** Grafting recognizes UTF-16 and UTF-32 store references
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/33848>)
+*** (guix git) honors HTTP/HTTPS proxy settings for Git submodules
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44593>)
+*** Fix ‘guix substitute’ crash when interleaving lzip and gzip
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46967>)
+*** Fix GnuTLS memory corruption when used from Guile
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46330>)
+*** Update GnuTLS to 3.6.15, addressing a time-dependent test failure
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44559>)
+*** Booted system is fully protected from garbage collection
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46767>)
+*** Add MSDOS disk label support on UEFI systems
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)
+*** Installer’s kmscon no longer uses up 100% CPU
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39341>)
+*** Git checkouts can be updated to the remote’s default HEAD
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45187>)
+*** ‘guix pull’ correctly displays early builds and downloads
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41930>)
+*** Fix OpenRC init scripts for ‘guix-daemon’
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46871>)
+*** Activate system when switching generations
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/38884>)
+*** ‘guix environment -C’ preserves original mount flags
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46292>)
+*** Remove duplicates in profile transactions
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/23874>)
+*** Fix sound problems with ALSA plugins on foreign distros
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40832>)
+
+** Native language support
+
+*** Updated translations of the manual
+
+The manual is fully translated into French and German, 90% translated into
+Spanish, and has preliminary translations into Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese,
+and Russian.
+
+*** Update translations of the cookbook
+
+The cookbook is fully translated in French and German and has a preliminary
+translation into Korean.
+
+*** Updated translations of messages
+
+This version of Guix is fully translated in French, German, and Slovak; it has
+good translation into Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, and preliminary
+translations in a dozen other languages.
+
+*** Translations now hosted on Fedora’s Weblate instance
+
+Translations are now handled at
+<https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/guix/guix/> (thanks, Fedora!).
+You can join to help improve translations in your native language of messages,
+documentation, package descriptions, and the web site.
+
+* Changes in 1.2.0 (since 1.1.0)
+
+** Package management
+*** ‘guix pull’ now crytographically authenticates channels
+*** ‘guix describe -f channels’ now shows “channel introductions”
+*** ‘guix describe -f channels-sans-intro’ omits channel introductions
+*** New ‘guix git authenticate’ command, to authenticate Git checkouts
+*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system reconfigure’ detect attempts to downgrade
+*** New ‘--allow-downgrades’ option for ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system’
+*** Guix build time reduced thanks to Guile 3.0.4’s “baseline compiler”
+*** New ‘--with-debug-info’ package transformation option
+*** New ‘--with-c-toolchain’ package transformation option
+*** New ‘--without-tests’ package transformation option
+*** ‘--with-input’ & co. now also apply to implicit dependencies
+*** Package transformation options are now recorded in profiles
+*** New fakechroot “execution engine” for packs produced by ‘guix pack -RR’
+*** New ‘--cache-bypass-threshold’ option for ‘guix publish’
+*** New ‘--diff’ option for ‘guix challenge’, to compare substitutes
+*** New ‘--exclude’ option for ‘guix lint’, to exclude checkers
+*** New ‘check-for-collisions’ checker in ‘guix lint’
+*** All of Guix and Guix System now runs on Guile 3.0
+*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ now support authenticated SSH repos
+*** ‘guix pull’ now honors $http_proxy and $https_proxy
+*** New ‘--path’ option for ‘guix graph’, showing the shortest path
+*** ‘guix repl’ can now be passed a script to execute
+*** ‘guix help’ finally shows command descriptions
+*** ‘guix install’ etc. no longer list items to download by default
+*** ‘guix search’ etc. now automatically invoke the pager
+*** New ‘--hash’ option for ‘guix hash’
+*** New ‘--list-formats’ option for ‘guix describe’
+*** New “Getting Started” section in the manual
+
+** Distribution
+*** Bootstrap binary seeds reduced to 60 MiB on x86_64/i686
+*** New ‘--target’ option for ‘guix system’, for cross-compilation
+*** New ‘--image-type’ option for ‘guix system disk-image’
+*** New ‘--label’ option for ‘guix system disk-image’
+*** Guix System can now boot from a Btrfs subvolume
+*** New ‘hurd’ field of ‘operating-system’, for GNU/Hurd support
+*** Guix System can be cross-compiled to GNU/Hurd with ‘--target=i586-pc-gnu’
+*** New ‘hurd-vm-service-type’ to spawn a GNU/Hurd VM on GNU/Linux
+*** /etc/guix/acl on Guix System is now built from the OS configuration
+*** ‘rottlog-service-type’ is now part of ‘%base-services’
+*** Linux-libre modules are now gzip-compressed
+*** The efivarfs file system is now part of ‘%base-file-systems’
+*** mcron job specs are now statically checked at OS build time
+*** ‘swap-devices’ field of ‘operating-system’ can contains UUIDs and labels
+*** Graphical installer uses UUIDs for unencrypted swap partitions
+*** Graphical installer now supports NTFS file systems
+*** File systems UUIDs and labels now recognized for F2FS and NTFS
+*** Root file system can now be on NFS
+*** New services
+
+autossh, ganeti, gmnisrv, guix-build-coordinator,
+guix-build-coordinator-agent, guix-build-coordinator-queue-builds, hostapd,
+hurd-console, hurd-getty, hurd-vm, lxqt, rshiny, secret-service,
+simulated-wifi, udev-rules, unattended-upgrade, webssh, zram
+
+*** 1999 new packages
+*** 3652 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+bash 5.0.16, binutils 2.34, cups 2.3.3, emacs 27.1, enlightenment 0.24.2,
+gcc-toolchain 10.2.0, gdb 10.1, ghc 8.8.3, gimp 2.10.22, glibc 2.31,
+gnome 3.34.2, gnupg 2.2.23, go 1.14.10, guile 3.0.4,
+icecat 78.4.0-guix0-preview1, inkscape 1.0.1, julia 1.5.2,
+libreoffice 6.4.6.2, linux-libre 5.9.3, mate 1.24.1, ocaml 4.09.0,
+openjdk 14.0, perl 5.30.2, python2 2.7.17, python 3.8.2, racket 7.8,
+rust 1.46.0, r 4.0.3, sbcl 2.0.10, shepherd 0.8.1, xfce 4.14.2,
+xorg-server 1.20.8
+
+
+** Programming interfaces
+*** New ‘maven-build-system’, for packages built with Maven
+*** ‘haskell-build-system’ now always adds a “static” output
+*** New (gnu image) module, to build system images
+*** New (guix git-authenticate) module, for Git checkout authentication
+*** New (guix openpgp) module with a minimal OpenPGP implementation
+*** New (guix transformations) module, for package transformations
+*** New (gnu services hurd) module providing GNU/Hurd services
+*** (guix json) removed in favor of Guile-JSON’s (json) module
+*** (guix zlib) and (guix lzlib) removed in favor of Guile-{Zlib,Lzlib}
+*** ‘local-file’ warns about non-literal relative file names
+*** Daemon now supports more hash algorithms: SHA3 and BLAKE2s
+*** New <content-hash> record type for use in ‘origin’
+*** New ‘let-system’ for in (guix gexp), for system-dependent code
+*** New lowerable <profile> record type in (guix profiles)
+*** (gnu build secret-service) can share secrets with a guest OS
+*** “Programming Interface” section of the manual greatly expounded
+
+** Noteworthy bug fixes
+*** ‘guix pull’ now shows a progress bar while fetching from Git
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/39260>)
+*** ‘guix copy’ and ‘guix deploy’ show a progress bar while copying
+*** Bootloader messages are now localized
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35394>)
+*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now starts services not currently running
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43720>)
+*** Desktop environments now detect newly installed applications
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35594>)
+*** Offloading and copying small items is now much faster
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43340>)
+*** GCC switched back to C_INCLUDE_PATH & co. from CPATH
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30756>)
+*** Graphical installer no longer hangs while connecting to WiFi network
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40682>)
+*** GNU Aspell truly honors ASPELL_DICT_DIR (<https://bugs.gnu.org/29686>)
+*** Fix overly aggressive memoization of “commencement” packages
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40482>)
+*** Duplicate /etc entries are now reported (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40729>)
+*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper correctly reports exit code
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40816>)
+*** Fix time travel to pre-Guile 3.0 revisions
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/41028>)
+*** ‘package-grafts’ returns grafts for all the relevant outputs
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/41796>)
+*** ‘guix pull’ and related commands authenticate Git checkouts
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>)
+*** Fix GNU libstdc++ misconfiguration in recent ‘gcc-toolchain’ versions
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42392>)
+*** ‘guix pack -R’ wraps propagated inputs as well
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42510>)
+*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper leaves root available to child processes
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/44261>)
+*** ‘lib/guix/package.cache’ generated by ‘guix pull’ is now bit-reproducible
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42009>)
+*** Graphical installer now properly detects disks containing an LVM partition
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/42683>)
+*** Fix possible crash when copying store items over SSH
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42740>)
+*** ‘gcc’ is now a “deprecated” alias for ‘gcc-toolchain’
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43303>)
+*** ‘package-input-rewriting’ & co. no longer yield unnecessary rebuilds
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42156>)
+*** Offloading better normalizes build machine load
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43773>)
+*** ‘guix build --check’ now honors ‘--rounds’
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40144>)
+*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now installs shell completion files
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43744>)
+*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now warns about lack of ‘nscd’
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43744>)
+
+** Native language support
+*** Updated translations of the manual
+
+The manual is fully translated into French, German, and Spanish, and has
+preliminary translations into Chinese and Russian.
+
+*** Updated translations of messages
+
+This version of Guix is fully translated in French, German, and Spanish, and
+partially translated in 11 other languages.
+
+* Changes in 1.1.0 (since 1.0.1)
+** Package management
+*** New ‘guix deploy’ command to deploy several machines at once
+*** Channels can now provide news, viewed with ‘guix pull --news’
+*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ saves provenance data
+*** New ‘guix system describe’ command to view system provenance info
+*** New /run/current-system/{channels,configuration}.scm files
+*** New ‘guix time-machine’ command
+*** ‘guix pack’ has a new ‘--entry-point’ option
+*** ‘guix pack’ saves environment variables for ‘docker’ and ‘singularity’
+*** ‘guix pack’ provides a meaningful repository name for ‘docker’
+*** New ‘--target’ option for ‘guix system’
+*** ‘--no-build-hook’ was renamed to ‘--no-offload’
+*** ‘--keep-failed’ now implies ‘--no-offload’
+*** ‘--dry-run’ no longer implies ‘--no-grafts’
+*** ‘guix import crate’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
+*** ‘guix import crate’ can import a specific package version
+*** ‘guix pull’ returns Guix on Guile 3.0
+*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ can clone repositories over SSH
+*** ‘--with-commit’ now accepts tags
+*** ‘guix challenge’ has a new ‘--diff’ option to show differences
+*** ‘guix weather’ has a new ‘--display-missing’ option
+*** Guix can now fetch lzip-compressed substitutes in addition to gzip
+*** ‘guix publish’ supports lzip compression via ‘-C’
+*** ‘guix lint -c archival’ queries Software Heritage
+*** ‘guix archive’ has a new ‘-t’ option to list archive contents
+*** ‘guix describe’ and similar commands emit terminal hyperlinks
+*** ‘guix build’ now attempts to substitute missing .drv files
+*** ‘guix package’ etc. now lock the profile they operate on
+*** ‘guix pull’ honors /etc/guix/channels.scm when it exists
+*** New ‘guix show’ command, synonymous with ‘guix package --show’
+*** The ‘--manifest’ option can be repeated to combine manifests
+*** Some commands previously lacking ‘--load-path’ now support it
+** Distribution
+*** The set of pre-built bootstrap “binary seeds” has been halved
+*** Graphical installer has better support for non-Latin keyboard layouts
+*** Graphical installer allows users to choose an HTTP/HTTPS proxy
+*** Graphical installer allows users to edit the system configuration
+*** New ‘kernel-loadable-modules’ field in ‘operating-system’
+*** rottlog service is now part of ‘%base-services’
+*** ‘%base-services’ now includes /usr/bin/env as a “special file”
+*** ‘herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon URL’ can be used to set a proxy
+*** ‘qemu-binfmt’ service now supports riscv32 and riscv64
+*** File system UUIDs and labels are now supported for JFS
+*** New services
+
+auditd, fontconfig-file-system, getmail, gnome-keyring, kernel-module-loader,
+knot-resolver, mumi, nfs, nftables, nix, pagekite, pam-mount, patchwork,
+polkit-wheel, provenance, pulseaudio, sane, singularity, usb-modeswitch
+
+*** 3514 new packages
+
+*** 3368 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+bash 5.0.7, binutils 2.32, cups 2.3.1, emacs 26.3, enlightenment 0.23.1,
+gcc-toolchain 9.3.0, gdb 9.1, ghc 8.6.5, gimp 2.10.18, glibc 2.29,
+gnome 3.32.2, gnupg 2.2.20, go 1.13.9, guile 2.2.7,
+icecat 68.7.0-guix0-preview1, icedtea 3.7.0, julia 1.3.1,
+libreoffice 6.4.2.2, linux-libre 5.4.31, mate 1.24.0, ocaml 4.09.0,
+octave 5.2.0, openjdk 12.33, perl 5.30.0, python2 2.7.16, python 3.7.4,
+racket 7.6, rust 1.39.0, r 3.6.3, sbcl 2.0.3, shepherd 0.7.0, xfce 4.14.0,
+xorg-server 1.20.7
+
+** Programming interfaces
+*** New build systems
+
+copy-build-system, julia-build-system, node-build-system, qt-build-system
+
+*** New ‘with-build-handler’ and ‘map/accumulate-builds’ in (guix store)
+*** (guix gexp) has a new ‘with-parameters’ form
+*** New (guix remote) module for remote evaluation of gexps
+*** New ‘eval/container’ procedure in (gnu system linux-container)
+*** (guix inferior) now reifies exceptions as ‘&inferior-exception’
+*** (guix cve) uses the new NIST-provided JSON files instead of XML
+*** New (guix json) module to map JSON objects to Scheme records
+*** New (gnu installer tests) module to drive the graphical installer
+*** New (guix diagnostics) module for consistent diagnostic messages
+*** “Checkers” now live in (guix lint)
+** Notewothy bug fixes
+*** Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22990>)
+*** Grafting prevents build plan from being displayed upfront
+ (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28310)
+*** Changing the HTTP/FTP proxy used by the daemon is inconvenient
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/25569>)
+*** ‘guix system disk-image’ successfully builds a bad image
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34276>)
+*** Installer cannot be restarted after a failed install
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35543>)
+*** Null pointer error when partitioning with the graphical installer
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35858>)
+*** 'guix upgrade' misdiagnoses upgrades in the presence of propagated inputs
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35872>)
+*** mcron randomly stops running jobs
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37237>)
+*** Mistaken warning "guix pull was never run"
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38196>)
+*** `guix pack --format=squashfs` fails on CentOS7
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40043>)
+*** installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40273>)
+*** installer: Always add '%base-initrd-modules' to 'initrd-modules'
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36099>)
+*** [MATE] shutdown and reboot not possible from UI
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40327>)
+*** 'guix-daemon' honors %localstatedir, %sysconfdir, and %storedir
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35874>)
+*** Fix ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ quoting in ‘guix-daemon.service’ (systemd)
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36074>)
+*** Include USB_ModeSwitch in %desktop-services
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35640>)
+*** linux-container: Mount a new /dev/pts instance in the container
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36463>)
+*** system: Write the timezone to /etc/timezone
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746>)
+*** linux-modules: Define and use a module name database
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34902>)
+*** pack: Create /tmp in Docker images
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37161>)
+*** guix system: Reinstalling the bootloader preserves extra menu entries
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36876>)
+*** system: Add 'mount' and 'umount' to '%setuid-programs'
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37569>)
+*** linux-libre: Try to aggressively gather entropy during boot
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37501>)
+*** daemon: Make 'profiles/per-user' non-world-writable
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37744>)
+*** linux-boot: Don't ignore options when mounting root file system
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37977>)
+*** Files produced by syslogd are no longer world-readable
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40405>)
+
+** Native language support
+*** Updated translations of the manual
+
+The manual is fully translated into Spanish, more than 85% complete in French
+and German, and has preliminary translations into Russian and Chinese.
+
+*** Updated translations of messages
+
+This version of Guix is fully translated in Brazilian Portuguese, French,
+German, and Spanish, and partially translated in 10 other languages.
+
* Changes in 1.0.1 (since 1.0.0)
+** Package management
+*** The ‘https_proxy’ environment variable is now honored
** Distribution
*** ‘guix system docker-image’ now produces images with an entry point
*** New ‘--network’ option for ‘guix system container’
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