#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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+Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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+* Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
+** Package management
+*** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
+
+Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
+directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
+
+*** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
+*** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
+*** New ‘guix archive’ command
+*** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
+*** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
+*** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
+*** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
+*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
+*** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
+*** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
+*** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
+** Programming interfaces
+*** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
+*** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
+*** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
+*** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
+*** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
+*** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
+*** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
+** GNU distribution
+*** FIXME new packages
+*** FIXME package updates
+*** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
+*** libc’s Info manual is now installed
+*** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
+*** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
+*** Many other packaging improvements
+** Bugs fixed
+*** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
+*** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
+*** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
+*** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
+*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
+*** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
+*** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
+*** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
+*** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
+
+* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
+** Package management
+*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
+
+In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
+with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
+meta-data.
+
+** Programming interfaces
+*** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
+
+The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
+‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running
+‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
+
+*** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
+
+See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been
+rewritten to use this monadic interface.
+
+*** New (guix profiles) module
+
+It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
+command.
+
+*** New (gnu system) module
+
+This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
+and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
+See “System Configuration” in the manual.
+
+This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
+
+*** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
+
+Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
+See “Derivations” in the manual.
+
+** GNU distribution
+*** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
+
+Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
+Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
+packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
+
+Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
+build from source on this platform.
+
+*** 110 new packages
+
+acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
+automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
+fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
+gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
+gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
+icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
+libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
+libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
+pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
+perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
+perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
+perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
+perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
+phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
+qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
+sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
+xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
+
+*** 47 package updates
+
+atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
+gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
+gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
+gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
+gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
+harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
+libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
+linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
+pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
+qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
+tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
+
+*** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
+
+** Native language support
+*** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
+*** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
+*** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
+** Bugs fixed
+*** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
+
+Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
+calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
+
+*** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
+ (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
+*** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
+*** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
+*** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
+
* Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
** Package management
** GNU distribution
-*** XXX new packages
+*** 60 new packages
-*** XXX package updates
+apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
+freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
+gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
+itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
+net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
+python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
+python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
+python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
+qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
+valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
+
+*** 27 package updates
+
+bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
+gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
+gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
+imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
+linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
+3.3.2, texlive 2013
*** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
** Bugs fixed
+*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
*** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
-*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
+*** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
*** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
-*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
-
+*** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
+*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
* Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
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