*** 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,
hurd-console, hurd-getty, hurd-vm, lxqt, rshiny, secret-service,
simulated-wifi, udev-rules, unattended-upgrade, webssh, zram
-*** XXX new packages
-*** XXX package updates
+*** 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
(<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://issues.guix.gnu.org/43773>)
*** ‘guix build --check’ now honors ‘--rounds’
(<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40144>)
-*** /dev/disk/by-id file names can now be used with U-Boot
- (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44101>)
*** ‘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
-*** TODO populate
+*** 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