X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/jackhill/guix/guix.git/blobdiff_plain/51916455d0bb283489162ef84afc8145b28b012c..f6b03a308d540ecb0bde402ede63004065c922b1:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 91739580cb..122c184f65 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,15 +20,17 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** 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’ -*** New ‘guix time-machine’ command, to travel in the revision history +*** 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 @@ -52,12 +54,38 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** 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 -*** XXX new packages -*** XXX package updates +*** 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 @@ -70,6 +98,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. *** New record type for use in ‘origin’ *** New ‘let-system’ for in (guix gexp), for system-dependent code *** New lowerable 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 @@ -80,14 +109,61 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. () *** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now starts services not currently running () +*** Desktop environments now detect newly installed applications + () *** Offloading and copying small items is now much faster () *** GCC switched back to C_INCLUDE_PATH & co. from CPATH () -*** TODO add more +*** Graphical installer no longer hangs while connecting to WiFi network + () +*** GNU Aspell truly honors ASPELL_DICT_DIR () +*** Fix overly aggressive memoization of “commencement” packages + () +*** Duplicate /etc entries are now reported () +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper correctly reports exit code + () +*** Fix time travel to pre-Guile 3.0 revisions + () +*** ‘package-grafts’ returns grafts for all the relevant outputs + () +*** ‘guix pull’ and related commands authenticate Git checkouts + () +*** Fix GNU libstdc++ misconfiguration in recent ‘gcc-toolchain’ versions + () +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wraps propagated inputs as well + () +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper leaves root available to child processes + () +*** ‘lib/guix/package.cache’ generated by ‘guix pull’ is now bit-reproducible + () +*** Graphical installer now properly detects disks containing an LVM partition + () +*** Fix possible crash when copying store items over SSH + () +*** ‘gcc’ is now a “deprecated” alias for ‘gcc-toolchain’ + () +*** ‘package-input-rewriting’ & co. no longer yield unnecessary rebuilds + () +*** Offloading better normalizes build machine load + () +*** ‘guix build --check’ now honors ‘--rounds’ + () +*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now installs shell completion files + () +*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now warns about lack of ‘nscd’ + () ** 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