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2 | #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes | |
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b0f981f0 | 5 | Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> |
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7 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
8 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
9 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
10 | ||
11 | Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. | |
12 | ||
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13 | * Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7) |
14 | ||
15 | ** Package management | |
16 | ||
17 | *** New visual user interface in Emacs | |
18 | ||
19 | See “Emacs Interface” in the manual. | |
20 | ||
21 | *** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment | |
22 | ||
23 | See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual. | |
24 | ||
25 | *** The ‘guix import’ command can now import packages from pipy.python.org | |
26 | ||
27 | See “Invoking guix import” in the manual. | |
28 | ||
29 | *** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers | |
30 | ||
31 | See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual. | |
32 | ||
33 | *** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies | |
34 | ||
35 | See “Security Updates” in the manual. | |
36 | ||
37 | *** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH | |
38 | ||
39 | This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them | |
40 | visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual. | |
41 | ||
42 | *** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades | |
43 | ||
44 | *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option | |
45 | ||
46 | See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
47 | ||
48 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option | |
49 | ||
50 | See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual. | |
51 | ||
52 | ** GNU distribution | |
53 | ||
54 | *** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices | |
55 | ||
56 | See “Mapped Devices” in the manual. | |
57 | ||
58 | *** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation | |
59 | ||
60 | New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’. | |
61 | See “operating-system Reference” in the manual. | |
62 | ||
63 | *** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’ | |
64 | ||
65 | See “Services” in the manual. | |
66 | ||
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67 | *** Free firmware can be loaded |
68 | ||
69 | This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.) | |
70 | See “operating-system Reference” in the manual. | |
71 | ||
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72 | *** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme |
73 | ||
74 | See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual. | |
75 | ||
76 | *** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature | |
77 | ||
78 | Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See | |
79 | “Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details. | |
80 | ||
81 | *** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release | |
82 | ||
83 | *** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option | |
84 | ||
85 | See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. | |
86 | ||
87 | *** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment | |
88 | ||
89 | Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’ | |
90 | to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change. | |
91 | ||
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92 | ** Programming interfaces |
93 | ||
94 | *** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages | |
95 | ||
96 | See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
97 | ||
98 | *** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas | |
99 | ||
100 | See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
101 | ||
102 | *** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter | |
103 | ||
104 | This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus | |
105 | preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary. | |
106 | ||
107 | *** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter | |
108 | ||
109 | See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
110 | ||
111 | *** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently | |
112 | ||
113 | This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given | |
114 | architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The | |
115 | ‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of | |
116 | the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies. | |
117 | ||
118 | *** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times | |
119 | ||
120 | *** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures | |
121 | ||
122 | They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual. | |
123 | ||
124 | *** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems | |
125 | ||
126 | “Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages | |
127 | and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual. | |
128 | ||
129 | *** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL | |
130 | ||
131 | See “The Store Monad” in the manual. | |
132 | ||
133 | *** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages | |
134 | ||
135 | *** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite | |
136 | ||
137 | *** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items | |
138 | ||
139 | *** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …) | |
140 | ||
141 | Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code | |
142 | typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre. | |
143 | ||
144 | *** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions | |
145 | ||
146 | This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface. | |
147 | ||
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149 | ** Native language support |
150 | ||
151 | ** Bugs fixed | |
152 | ||
153 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default | |
154 | ||
155 | Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only | |
156 | once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now | |
157 | enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been | |
158 | renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’. | |
159 | ||
160 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’ | |
161 | ||
162 | This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel. | |
163 | ||
164 | *** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>) | |
165 | *** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>) | |
166 | *** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>) | |
167 | *** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>) | |
168 | *** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>) | |
169 | *** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root | |
170 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>) | |
171 | *** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>) | |
172 | *** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible | |
173 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>) | |
174 | *** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>) | |
175 | *** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries | |
176 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>) | |
177 | *** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>) | |
178 | *** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers | |
179 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>) | |
180 | *** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR | |
181 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>) | |
182 | *** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command | |
183 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>) | |
184 | *** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>) | |
185 | *** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>) | |
186 | *** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages | |
187 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>) | |
188 | *** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension | |
189 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>) | |
190 | *** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix. | |
191 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>) | |
192 | ||
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193 | * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6) |
194 | ** Package management | |
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195 | *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org |
196 | ||
197 | These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already | |
198 | provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See | |
199 | “Substitutes” in the manual. | |
200 | ||
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201 | *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option |
202 | *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option | |
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203 | |
204 | ** Programming interfaces | |
205 | *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions” | |
206 | ||
207 | G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side | |
208 | code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual. | |
209 | ||
210 | *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions | |
211 | ||
212 | This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries | |
213 | references to the packages or derivations it uses. | |
214 | ||
215 | *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions | |
216 | *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized | |
217 | *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images | |
218 | *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation” | |
219 | *** New (guix build syscalls) module | |
220 | *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation | |
221 | *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system | |
222 | *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations | |
223 | *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules | |
224 | *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field | |
225 | ||
226 | This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time. | |
227 | ||
228 | ** GNU distribution | |
229 | *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided | |
230 | ||
231 | This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System | |
232 | Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted | |
233 | in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome! | |
234 | ||
235 | *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations | |
236 | ||
237 | Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list | |
238 | of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration” | |
239 | in the manual. | |
240 | ||
241 | *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions | |
242 | ||
243 | Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’. | |
244 | See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. | |
245 | ||
246 | *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time | |
247 | *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices | |
248 | *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs | |
249 | *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>) | |
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250 | *** 134 new packages |
251 | ||
252 | abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp, | |
253 | chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat, | |
254 | doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi, | |
255 | fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice, | |
256 | gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools, | |
257 | jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui, | |
258 | libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, | |
259 | libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt, | |
260 | libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages, | |
261 | maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl, | |
262 | offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc, | |
263 | petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf, | |
264 | pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock, | |
265 | python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto, | |
266 | python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode, | |
267 | rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse, | |
268 | strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy, | |
269 | transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools, | |
270 | wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl | |
271 | ||
272 | *** 87 package updates | |
273 | ||
274 | bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2, | |
275 | docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6, | |
276 | ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4, | |
277 | gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3, | |
278 | gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3, | |
279 | gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1, | |
280 | gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a, | |
281 | gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20, | |
282 | gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2, | |
283 | guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3, | |
284 | icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e, | |
285 | libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37, | |
286 | libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4, | |
287 | linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6, | |
288 | neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1, | |
289 | pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, | |
290 | qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2, | |
291 | screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22, | |
292 | wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304 | |
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293 | |
294 | ** Native language support | |
295 | *** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian) | |
296 | *** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi | |
297 | *** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’ | |
298 | ** Bugs fixed | |
299 | *** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>) | |
300 | *** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout | |
301 | (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>) | |
302 | *** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed | |
303 | *** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved | |
304 | *** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension | |
305 | *** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook | |
306 | *** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers | |
307 | ||
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308 | * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5) |
309 | ** Package management | |
310 | *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store | |
311 | ||
312 | Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store | |
313 | directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store. | |
314 | ||
315 | *** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized | |
316 | *** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH | |
317 | *** New ‘guix archive’ command | |
318 | *** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images | |
319 | *** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u | |
320 | *** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster | |
321 | *** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’ | |
322 | *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option | |
323 | *** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options | |
324 | *** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option | |
325 | *** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility) | |
326 | ** Programming interfaces | |
327 | *** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography | |
328 | *** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded | |
329 | *** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store | |
330 | *** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads) | |
331 | *** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules | |
332 | *** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg) | |
333 | *** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts | |
334 | ** GNU distribution | |
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335 | *** 91 new packages |
336 | ||
337 | a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es, | |
338 | aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh, | |
339 | corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf, | |
340 | fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik, | |
341 | gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json, | |
342 | guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop, | |
343 | isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec, | |
344 | libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets, | |
345 | ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc, | |
346 | ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk, | |
347 | perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt, | |
348 | source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse, | |
349 | unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm | |
350 | ||
351 | *** 90 package updates | |
352 | ||
353 | apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3, | |
354 | bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24, | |
355 | coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1, | |
356 | gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1, | |
357 | glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54, | |
358 | gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18, | |
359 | gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2, | |
360 | guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11, | |
361 | guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1, | |
362 | imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92, | |
363 | libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1, | |
364 | libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3, | |
365 | linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23, | |
366 | openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2, | |
367 | pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5, | |
368 | python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1, | |
369 | qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3, | |
370 | recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a, | |
371 | tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15, | |
372 | xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11 | |
373 | ||
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374 | *** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain |
375 | *** libc’s Info manual is now installed | |
376 | *** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives | |
377 | *** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man* | |
378 | *** Many other packaging improvements | |
379 | ** Bugs fixed | |
380 | *** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel | |
381 | *** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline | |
382 | *** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory | |
383 | (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083) | |
384 | *** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703) | |
385 | *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number | |
386 | (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484) | |
387 | *** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289) | |
388 | *** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569) | |
389 | *** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884) | |
390 | *** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733) | |
391 | ||
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392 | * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4) |
393 | ** Package management | |
394 | *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository | |
395 | ||
396 | In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync | |
397 | with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package | |
398 | meta-data. | |
399 | ||
400 | ** Programming interfaces | |
401 | *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’ | |
402 | ||
403 | The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and | |
404 | ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running | |
405 | ‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual. | |
406 | ||
407 | *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store | |
408 | ||
409 | See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been | |
410 | rewritten to use this monadic interface. | |
411 | ||
412 | *** New (guix profiles) module | |
413 | ||
414 | It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’ | |
415 | command. | |
416 | ||
417 | *** New (gnu system) module | |
418 | ||
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419 | This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration, |
420 | and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.) | |
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421 | See “System Configuration” in the manual. |
422 | ||
423 | This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org! | |
424 | ||
425 | *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters | |
426 | ||
427 | Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters. | |
428 | See “Derivations” in the manual. | |
429 | ||
430 | ** GNU distribution | |
431 | *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’) | |
432 | ||
4a8c5617 | 433 | Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several |
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434 | Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core |
435 | packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual. | |
436 | ||
437 | Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will | |
4a8c5617 | 438 | build from source on this platform. |
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440 | *** 110 new packages |
441 | ||
442 | acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen, | |
443 | automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg, | |
444 | fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk, | |
445 | gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm, | |
446 | gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat, | |
447 | icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring, | |
448 | libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh, | |
449 | libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel, | |
450 | pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list, | |
451 | perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies, | |
452 | perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate, | |
453 | perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http, | |
454 | perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple, | |
455 | phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless, | |
456 | qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf, | |
457 | sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig, | |
458 | xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm | |
459 | ||
460 | *** 47 package updates | |
461 | ||
462 | atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2, | |
463 | gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2, | |
464 | gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3, | |
465 | gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16, | |
466 | gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2, | |
467 | harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46, | |
468 | libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2, | |
469 | linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5, | |
470 | pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1, | |
471 | qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0, | |
472 | tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2 | |
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473 | |
474 | *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3) | |
475 | ||
476 | ** Native language support | |
477 | *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation | |
478 | *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation | |
479 | *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation | |
480 | ** Bugs fixed | |
4a8c5617 | 481 | *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly |
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482 | |
483 | Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’ | |
484 | calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 . | |
485 | ||
486 | *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output | |
487 | (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756) | |
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488 | *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022 |
489 | (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html) | |
a043ac04 | 490 | *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC |
5d6dbd29 | 491 | *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283) |
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492 | *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640) |
493 | ||
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494 | * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3) |
495 | ||
496 | ** Package management | |
497 | ||
498 | *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options | |
499 | ||
500 | The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to | |
501 | deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
502 | ||
503 | *** New ‘guix-register’ program | |
504 | ||
505 | This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by | |
506 | copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool. | |
507 | ||
508 | ** Programming interfaces | |
509 | ||
510 | *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages | |
511 | ||
512 | The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a | |
513 | package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that | |
514 | runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar. | |
515 | ||
516 | *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter | |
517 | ||
518 | This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build | |
519 | tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files. | |
520 | This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies | |
521 | to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image. | |
522 | ||
523 | *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image | |
524 | ||
525 | The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’ | |
526 | procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new | |
527 | ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init | |
528 | system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed | |
529 | packages, and where Guix can be used. | |
530 | ||
531 | New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the | |
532 | various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides | |
533 | support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux | |
534 | PAM configuration; and so on. | |
535 | ||
536 | *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API | |
537 | ||
538 | ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a | |
539 | <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is | |
540 | a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv | |
541 | file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details. | |
542 | ||
543 | ** GNU distribution | |
544 | ||
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545 | *** 60 new packages |
546 | ||
547 | apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail, | |
548 | freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils, | |
549 | gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop, | |
550 | itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt, | |
551 | net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz, | |
552 | python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel, | |
553 | python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite, | |
554 | python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd, | |
555 | qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units, | |
556 | valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm | |
557 | ||
558 | *** 27 package updates | |
559 | ||
560 | bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4, | |
561 | gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18, | |
562 | gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21, | |
563 | imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0, | |
564 | linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python | |
565 | 3.3.2, texlive 2013 | |
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566 | |
567 | *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient | |
568 | ||
569 | Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those | |
570 | based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional | |
571 | fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up. | |
572 | ||
573 | *** More GUI applications | |
574 | ||
575 | The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+ | |
576 | applications have been added (see above.) | |
577 | ||
578 | *** Packaging guidelines | |
579 | ||
580 | The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual | |
581 | under “GNU Distribution”. | |
582 | ||
583 | *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2 | |
584 | ||
585 | Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support | |
586 | it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules” | |
587 | section of the manual for details. | |
588 | ||
589 | ** Internationalization | |
590 | ||
591 | Updated translations: eo. | |
592 | ||
593 | ** Bugs fixed | |
594 | ||
6bf3e5f7 | 595 | *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives |
8f37bf62 | 596 | *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output |
6bf3e5f7 | 597 | *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64 |
8f37bf62 | 598 | *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392) |
bb5f01c5 | 599 | *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187) |
6bf3e5f7 | 600 | *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194) |
85f3a05e | 601 | |
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602 | * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2) |
603 | ||
604 | ** Package management | |
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605 | |
606 | *** Cross-compilation support | |
607 | ||
608 | Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with | |
609 | the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level, | |
610 | the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages | |
611 | of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for | |
612 | details. | |
613 | ||
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614 | *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” |
615 | ||
616 | See the manual for details. | |
617 | ||
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618 | *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” |
619 | ||
620 | This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails | |
621 | to download a substitute. | |
622 | ||
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623 | *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc” |
624 | ||
625 | See the manual for details. | |
626 | ||
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627 | *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh” |
628 | ||
629 | See the manual for details. | |
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630 | |
631 | ** Programming interfaces | |
632 | ||
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633 | *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations) |
634 | ||
635 | See the manual for details. | |
636 | ||
637 | *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter | |
638 | ||
639 | This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It | |
640 | allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know | |
641 | whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is. | |
642 | ||
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643 | *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures |
644 | ||
645 | This improves performance of SHA256 computations. | |
646 | ||
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647 | |
648 | ** GNU distribution | |
649 | ||
3253830d | 650 | *** 33 new packages |
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652 | alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd, |
653 | gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2, | |
654 | iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket, | |
655 | rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore | |
5939006b | 656 | |
3253830d | 657 | *** 25 package updates |
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659 | automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3, |
660 | glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8, | |
661 | libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error | |
662 | 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu | |
663 | 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0 | |
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664 | |
665 | *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux | |
666 | ||
667 | The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries | |
668 | (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be | |
669 | transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms. | |
670 | ||
671 | *** Debug info packages | |
672 | ||
673 | Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The | |
674 | “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the | |
675 | other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual. | |
676 | ||
677 | *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled | |
678 | ||
679 | The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently | |
680 | GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting” | |
681 | in the manual. | |
682 | ||
683 | *** Bootstrapping documented | |
684 | ||
685 | See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU | |
686 | distribution builds “from scratch”. | |
687 | ||
688 | ** Internationalization | |
689 | ||
690 | New translations: eo, pt_BR. | |
691 | ||
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692 | ** Bugs fixed |
693 | *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5 | |
694 | *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed | |
695 | ||
696 | These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary. | |
697 | See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details. | |
698 | ||
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699 | *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity |
700 | ||
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701 | *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations |
702 | ||
703 | Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when | |
704 | some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See | |
705 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and | |
706 | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 . | |
707 | ||
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708 | *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’ |
709 | ||
710 | Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the | |
711 | profile. | |
712 | ||
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713 | *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken |
714 | ||
715 | When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile | |
716 | < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect | |
717 | command-line argument processing in some cases. | |
718 | ||
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719 | * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1) |
720 | ||
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721 | ** Package management |
722 | ||
723 | *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program | |
724 | ||
725 | Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so | |
726 | on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program | |
727 | setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”. | |
728 | ||
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729 | *** New “guix package --upgrade” option |
730 | ||
731 | As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages | |
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732 | installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp. |
733 | See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
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735 | *** New “guix package --search” option |
736 | ||
737 | Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns | |
738 | the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the | |
739 | manual, for details. | |
740 | ||
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741 | *** New “guix pull” command |
742 | ||
743 | The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management | |
744 | modules and the distribution. See the manual for details. | |
745 | ||
746 | *** New binary substituter | |
747 | ||
748 | The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently | |
749 | downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are | |
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750 | available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The |
751 | distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there. | |
752 | ||
753 | See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of | |
754 | available binary packages. | |
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755 | |
756 | *** New “guix refresh” command | |
757 | ||
758 | The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the | |
759 | distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software. | |
760 | ||
761 | *** New “guix hash” command | |
762 | ||
763 | Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for | |
764 | details. | |
765 | ||
0f241da2 | 766 | *** Nix daemon code updated |
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768 | The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated |
769 | to current Nix ‘master’. | |
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770 | |
771 | ** Programming interfaces | |
772 | ||
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773 | *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS |
774 | ||
775 | It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. | |
776 | ||
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777 | *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields |
778 | ||
779 | Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables | |
780 | that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the | |
781 | package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its | |
782 | ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc. | |
783 | These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that | |
784 | uses one of these. | |
785 | ||
786 | *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type | |
787 | ||
788 | The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of | |
789 | (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent | |
790 | tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme. | |
791 | ||
792 | *** New build systems | |
793 | ||
794 | The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have | |
795 | been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and | |
796 | CMake packages. | |
797 | ||
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798 | *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more |
799 | ||
800 | The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux | |
801 | initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to | |
802 | evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that | |
803 | mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL: | |
804 | ||
805 | (expression->initrd | |
806 | '(begin | |
807 | (mkdir "/proc") | |
808 | (mount "none" "/proc" "proc") | |
809 | ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl)))) | |
810 | ||
811 | More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file. | |
812 | ||
813 | Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the | |
814 | (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the | |
815 | ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in | |
816 | a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile. | |
817 | ||
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818 | ** GNU distribution |
819 | ||
820 | Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the | |
821 | highlights. | |
822 | ||
823 | *** Major updates | |
824 | ||
825 | GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9, | |
826 | Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1. | |
827 | ||
828 | *** Noteworthy new packages | |
829 | ||
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830 | TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, |
831 | CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |