2 #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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13 * Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3)
17 *** New ‘guix graph’ command, to draw package graphs
18 *** New ‘guix challenge’ command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries
19 *** ‘guix environment’ has a new ‘--container’ option
20 *** ‘guix substitute’ now honors all the specified substitute URLs
21 *** New ‘guix import cran’ command, to import R packages from CRAN
22 *** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly
23 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--install-from-file’ option
24 *** ‘guix package --search’ shows package outputs
25 *** ‘guix refresh’ can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions
26 *** The ‘--ad-hoc’ option of ‘guix environment’ is now positional
27 *** The ‘--exec’ option of ‘guix environment’ is deprecated; use ‘--’ instead
28 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--file’ option
29 *** ‘guix build --log-file’ can now return URLs
30 *** ‘guix size’ now has a ‘--substitute-urls’ option and is much faster
31 *** New ‘guix lint’ checkers: ‘formatting’, ‘license’, ‘source-file-name’
32 *** Download progress report has been improved
33 *** Emacs shell-mode completions for ‘guix’ commands updated
34 *** Emacs: New ‘M-x guix’ popup interface
35 *** Emacs: modes for viewing build logs (‘guix-build-log-mode’)
39 *** New extensible service composition API
41 The operating system service API in (gnu services) has been completely
42 rewritten, significantly improving extensibility and modularity, while
43 providing a framework that makes it easy to reason about service composition.
44 Consequently, several sources of redundancy and confusion in
45 ‘operating-system’ declarations have been eliminated. See “Service
46 Composition” in the manual.
48 *** New ‘extension-graph’ and ‘dmd-graph’ sub-commands for ‘guix system’
49 *** New ‘container’ sub-command for ‘guix system’
50 *** New ‘guix container’ command, to deal with GuixSD containers
51 *** New ‘list-generations’ sub-command for ‘guix system’
52 *** ‘operating-system’ has a new ‘locale-libcs’ field
53 *** New services: ‘nginx-service’, ‘udisks-service’, ‘guix-publish-service’
54 *** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes Polkit, GeoClue, elogind, UDisks, and more
55 *** ‘dbus-daemon’ now has proper support for lazy service activation
56 *** ‘wicd-service’ automatically adds Wicd to the system profile
57 *** ‘slim-service’ automatically adds xterm to the system profile
58 *** hydra.gnu.org now provides substitutes for ‘armhf-linux’
59 *** /run/systemd is mounted as tmpfs by default, for use by elogind
60 *** ‘glibc’ package no longer contains Bash in its bin/ directory
61 *** libc now looks for locale data in a versioned sub-directory
62 *** libc honors the new ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ environment variable
63 *** Xfce now defaults to the GNOME icon theme
66 abduco, accountsservice, american-fuzzy-lop, ansible, arandr, attic,
67 autobuild, bash-minimal, bash-static, bio-blastxmlparser, bio-locus,
68 bioperl-minimal, bioruby, bitcoin-core, bspwm, byobu, cabal-install, cityhash,
69 clang-runtime, clang-runtime, cm, cmus, conky, coreutils-minimal, cpphs,
70 cvs-fast-export, d-feet, deeptools, diffoscope, dosbox, dvtm, emacs-butler,
71 emacs-dash, emacs-debbugs, emacs-deferred, emacs-f, emacs-flycheck,
72 emacs-let-alist, emacs-ob-ipython, emacs-s, emacs-typo, enblend-enfuse,
73 epiphany, esmtp, ethtool, evilwm, exfat-utils, express-beta-diversity,
74 extra-cmake-modules, extundelete, fastcap, fasthenry, figlet, file-roller,
75 flann, font-anonymous-pro, font-gnu-unifont, font-inconsolata, font-tex-gyre,
76 font-ubuntu, frescobaldi, fuse-exfat, gajim, gamine, gerbv, gexiv2,
77 ghc-adjunctions, ghc-aeson, ghc-alex, ghc-annotated-wl-pprint,
78 ghc-ansi-terminal, ghc-ansi-wl-pprint, ghc-appar, ghc-async, ghc-attoparsec,
79 ghc-auto-update, ghc-base-compat, ghc-base-orphans, ghc-base64-bytestring,
80 ghc-bifunctors, ghc-blaze-builder, ghc-blaze-html, ghc-blaze-markup,
81 ghc-byteorder, ghc-bytestring-builder, ghc-cereal, ghc-cgi, ghc-charset,
82 ghc-cheapskate, ghc-clock, ghc-cmdargs, ghc-comonad, ghc-contravariant,
83 ghc-cookie, ghc-css-text, ghc-data-default, ghc-data-default-class,
84 ghc-data-default-instances-base, ghc-data-default-instances-containers,
85 ghc-data-default-instances-dlist, ghc-data-default-instances-old-locale,
86 ghc-digest, ghc-distributive, ghc-dlist, ghc-doctest, ghc-easy-file,
87 ghc-exceptions, ghc-extensible-exceptions, ghc-extra, ghc-fast-logger,
88 ghc-fingertree, ghc-free, ghc-generic-deriving, ghc-gluraw, ghc-glut,
89 ghc-haddock, ghc-haddock-api, ghc-haddock-library, ghc-half, ghc-happy,
90 ghc-haskell-src, ghc-haskell-src-exts, ghc-hspec, ghc-hspec-core,
91 ghc-hspec-expectations, ghc-hspec-meta, ghc-html, ghc-http-types, ghc-iproute,
92 ghc-kan-extensions, ghc-lens, ghc-lifted-base, ghc-logict, ghc-mmorph,
93 ghc-monad-control, ghc-multipart, ghc-nats, ghc-objectname, ghc-old-locale,
94 ghc-old-time, ghc-opengl, ghc-openglraw, ghc-optparse-applicative,
95 ghc-parsers, ghc-pcre-light, ghc-polyparse, ghc-prelude-extras,
96 ghc-profunctors, ghc-quickcheck-instances, ghc-quickcheck-io,
97 ghc-quickcheck-unicode, ghc-reducers, ghc-reflection, ghc-regex-base,
98 ghc-regex-compat, ghc-regex-posix, ghc-regex-tdfa-rc, ghc-resourcet, ghc-safe,
99 ghc-scientific, ghc-sdl, ghc-sdl-image, ghc-sdl-mixer, ghc-semigroupoids,
100 ghc-semigroups, ghc-setenv, ghc-silently, ghc-simple-reflect, ghc-smallcheck,
101 ghc-statevar, ghc-streaming-commons, ghc-stringbuilder, ghc-stringsearch,
102 ghc-tagged, ghc-tagsoup, ghc-tasty, ghc-tasty-ant-xml, ghc-tasty-golden,
103 ghc-tasty-hunit, ghc-tasty-quickcheck, ghc-tasty-smallcheck, ghc-temporary,
104 ghc-temporary-rc, ghc-transformers-base, ghc-transformers-compat,
105 ghc-trifecta, ghc-unbounded-delays, ghc-uniplate, ghc-unix-compat,
106 ghc-unix-time, ghc-utf8-string, ghc-vault, ghc-vector-binary-instances,
107 ghc-void, ghc-wai, ghc-wai-extra, ghc-wai-logger, ghc-word8, ghc-x11,
108 ghc-x11-xft, ghc-xhtml, ghc-xml, ghc-xmonad-contrib, ghc-xss-sanitize,
109 ghc-zip-archive, glibc-hurd, glibc-hurd-headers, gmtp, graphios, gtk-doc,
110 guile-next, guile-present, guile-redis, guile-rsvg, guile-wisp, gusb, gvfs,
111 gzochi, haunt, hlint, hscolour, hspec-discover, hurd-minimal, i3-wm, i3status,
112 ibus-libpinyin, idris, ifstatus, keepassx, klick, kwindowsystem, lablgtk,
113 libatasmart, libchamplain, libchop, libconfuse, libcue, libesmtp, libev,
114 libfm, libfm-extra, libgee, libgudev, liblxqt, libndp, libpano13, libpinyin,
115 libraw, libusb-compat, libyajl, lxqt-common, lxqt-session, lxrandr, lxtask,
116 lxterminal, lz4, mafft, manaplus, mars, menu-cache, minixml, mosaik,
117 nestopia-ue, newt, non-sequencer, ntk, openimageio, opusfile, patches, pbzip2,
118 pcmanfm, pcre2, pd, pelican, perl-czplib, perl-date-manip, perl-finance-quote,
119 perl-html-element-extended, perl-html-tableextract, perl-pod-simple, physfs,
120 pidgin, pidgin-otr, pigz, po4a, poppler-qt4, pwgen, python-appdirs,
121 python-bandit, python-blinker, python-ccm, python-chardet,
122 python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-debian,
123 python-debtcollector, python-ecdsa, python-file, python-fonttools,
124 python-gnupg, python-hacking, python-httplib2, python-idna,
125 python-ipython-genutils, python-iso8601, python-joblib, python-libarchive-c,
126 python-llfuse, python-ly, python-minimal, python-minimal, python-mistune,
127 python-monotonic, python-mox3, python-msgpack, python-nbxmpp, python-netaddr,
128 python-numexpr, python-os-client-config, python-os-testr, python-oslo.config,
129 python-oslo.context, python-oslo.i18n, python-oslo.log,
130 python-oslo.serialization, python-oslo.utils, python-oslosphinx,
131 python-oslotest, python-paramiko, python-passlib, python-pathpy, python-patsy,
132 python-pbr, python-pbr, python-pexpect, python-pickleshare, python-pip,
133 python-poppler-qt4, python-pretend, python-prettytable, python-ptyprocess,
134 python-py-bcrypt, python-pyasn1, python-pyopenssl, python-pytest-runner,
135 python-requests-mock, python-setuptools-scm, python-simplegeneric,
136 python-statsmodels, python-stevedore, python-tempest-lib, python-terminado,
137 python-tlsh, python-traitlets, python-webob, python-wrapt, python-xlrd,
138 python2-appdirs, python2-bandit, python2-blinker, python2-ccm,
139 python2-chardet, python2-cryptography, python2-cryptography-vectors,
140 python2-debian, python2-debtcollector, python2-ecdsa, python2-file,
141 python2-fonttools, python2-gnupg, python2-hacking, python2-httplib2,
142 python2-idna, python2-ipaddress, python2-ipython-genutils, python2-iso8601,
143 python2-joblib, python2-keyring, python2-libarchive-c, python2-llfuse,
144 python2-mistune, python2-monotonic, python2-mox3, python2-msgpack,
145 python2-nbxmpp, python2-netaddr, python2-notmuch, python2-numexpr,
146 python2-os-client-config, python2-os-testr, python2-oslo.config,
147 python2-oslo.context, python2-oslo.i18n, python2-oslo.log,
148 python2-oslo.serialization, python2-oslo.utils, python2-oslosphinx,
149 python2-oslotest, python2-paramiko, python2-passlib, python2-pathpy,
150 python2-patsy, python2-pbr, python2-pbr, python2-pexpect, python2-pickleshare,
151 python2-pip, python2-pretend, python2-prettytable, python2-ptyprocess,
152 python2-py-bcrypt, python2-pyasn1, python2-pycrypto, python2-pyopenssl,
153 python2-pytest-runner, python2-requests-mock, python2-setuptools-scm,
154 python2-simplegeneric, python2-statsmodels, python2-stevedore,
155 python2-tempest-lib, python2-terminado, python2-tlsh, python2-traitlets,
156 python2-webob, python2-wrapt, python2-xlrd, r-assertthat, r-bh, r-chron,
157 r-codetools, r-colorspace, r-crayon, r-data.table, r-dbi, r-dichromat,
158 r-digest, r-dplyr, r-evaluate, r-formatr, r-ggplot2, r-gtable, r-highr,
159 r-htmltools, r-htmlwidgets, r-httpuv, r-jsonlite, r-knitr, r-labeling,
160 r-lazyeval, r-magrittr, r-markdown, r-memoise, r-microbenchmark, r-mime,
161 r-munsell, r-plyr, r-proto, r-pryr, r-qtl, r-r6, r-rcolorbrewer, r-rcpp,
162 r-reshape2, r-scales, r-servr, r-stringi, r-stringr, r-testthat, r-yaml, rage,
163 raincat, redis, rest, rfkill, rpm, ruby-activesupport, ruby-atoulme-antwrap,
164 ruby-bio-logger, ruby-builder, ruby-byebug, ruby-coderay, ruby-cucumber-core,
165 ruby-diff-lcs, ruby-docile, ruby-ffi, ruby-formatador, ruby-gherkin3,
166 ruby-json, ruby-libxml, ruby-listen, ruby-log4r, ruby-lumberjack,
167 ruby-method-source, ruby-mini-portile, ruby-minitar, ruby-nenv, ruby-nokogiri,
168 ruby-notiffany, ruby-orderedhash, ruby-ox, ruby-permutation, ruby-pg,
169 ruby-pry, ruby-rack, ruby-rb-inotify, ruby-rjb, ruby-rubygems-tasks,
170 ruby-shellany, ruby-shindo, ruby-simplecov-html, ruby-thor, ruby-thread-safe,
171 ruby-tzinfo, ruby-xml-simple, ruby-yard, sassc, scmutils, seqmagick, shotwell,
172 shroud, simple-scan, squashfs-tools, sxhkd, tinc, udisks, unison, vsearch,
173 webkitgtk-gtk2, wesnoth, wpa-supplicant-minimal, xcb-util-cursor, xcompmgr,
174 xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, xjackfreak, xlsfonts, xmonad, yapet, yelp,
175 yelp-tools, yelp-xsl, znc, zynaddsubfx
177 *** 268 package updates
179 abcde-2.7, arb-2.7.0, ardour-4.2, at-spi2-atk-2.18.1, at-spi2-core-2.18.1,
180 ath9k-htc-firmware-1.4.0, atk-2.18.0, atkmm-2.24.1, autogen-5.18.6,
181 avidemux-2.6.10, bedtools-2.24.0, binutils-2.25.1,
182 binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.25.1, bison-3.0.4, bluez-5.35,
183 bundler-1.10.6, c-reduce-2.3.0, cairomm-1.12.0, calcurse-4.0.0,
184 calibre-2.41.0, camlp5-6.14, cgal-4.6.3, chess-6.2.2, clang-3.6.2,
185 claws-mail-3.13.0, cmake-3.3.2, complexity-1.3, conkeror-1.0pre1.20150730,
186 cpio-2.12, crossmap-0.2.1, csound-6.05, cups-2.1.0, cups-filters-1.0.75,
187 cups-minimal-2.1.0, curl-7.45.0, dbus-1.10.0, dbus-1.10.0.a, ddrescue-1.20,
188 dmd-0.2.01, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xml-4.5, dosfstools-3.0.28,
189 e2fsck-static-1.42.13, e2fsprogs-1.42.13, efl-1.15.2, eigen-3.2.6,
190 elementary-1.15.2, emotion-generic-players-1.15.0, enlightenment-0.19.12,
191 eudev-3.1.5, evas-generic-loaders-1.15.0, feh-2.14, ffmpeg-2.8, fish-2.2.0,
192 flint-2.5.2, fontconfig-2.11.94, freeglut-3.0.0, freeimage-3.17.0,
193 freeipmi-1.4.11, gcc-4.9.3, gcc-4.9.3, gcc-4.9.3, gcc-5.2.0,
194 gcc-toolchain-5.2.0, gcj-4.9.3, gdb-7.10, gdk-pixbuf-2.32.1, geiser-0.8.1,
195 gettext-0.19.6, ghc-7.10.2, ghc-hashable-1.2.3.3, ghc-http-4000.2.20,
196 ghc-mtl-2.2.1, ghc-network-2.6.2.1, ghc-network-uri-2.6.0.3,
197 ghc-primitive-0.6.1.0, ghc-quickcheck-2.8.1, ghc-syb-0.6, ghc-text-1.2.1.3,
198 ghc-vector-0.11.0.0, giflib-5.1.1, git-2.5.0, git-manpages-2.5.0,
199 git-modes-1.2.0, glib-2.46.1, glib-networking-2.46.1, glibc-2.22,
200 glibc-locales-2.22, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.22, glibc-utf8-locales-2.22,
201 glibmm-2.46.1, global-6.5.1, glpk-4.56, gnome-desktop-3.16.2,
202 gnome-themes-standard-3.16.2, gnu-pw-mgr-1.6, gnumach-headers-1.6,
203 gnupg-2.1.9, gnurl-7.45.0, gnutls-3.4.5, gobject-introspection-1.46.0,
204 gp2c-0.0.9pl3, graphite2-1.3.3, graphviz-2.38.0,
205 gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.18.0, gsl-2.0, gst-libav-1.6.1,
206 gst-plugins-base-1.6.1, gst-plugins-good-1.6.1, gst-plugins-ugly-1.6.1,
207 gstreamer-1.6.1, gtk+-3.18.2, gtkmm-3.18.0, guile-ssh-0.8.0, guitarix-0.33.0,
208 guix-0.8.3, guix-0.8.3.b485f75, harfbuzz-1.0.5, help2man-1.47.2,
209 hurd-headers-0.7, ibus-1.5.11, icecat-38.3.0-gnu1, icedtea6-1.13.8,
210 icedtea7-2.6.2, imagemagick-6.9.2-1, intltool-0.51.0, json-glib-1.0.4,
211 leptonica-1.72, less-481, libbluray-0.9.0, libcap-2.24, libdrm-2.4.65,
212 libdvdcss-1.3.99, libedit-20150325-3.1, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libgsf-1.14.34,
213 libidn-1.32, libinput-0.21.0, libmicrohttpd-0.9.45, libmtp-1.1.9,
214 libotr-4.1.0, libpcap-1.7.4, libpciaccess-0.13.4, libqtxdg-1.2.0,
215 librsvg-2.40.11, libsigc++-2.6.1, libsoup-2.52.1, libssh-0.6.5, libtiff-4.0.5,
216 libtorrent-0.13.6, libva-1.6.1, lilypond-2.19.27, links-2.12,
217 linux-libre-4.2.5, linux-pam-1.2.1, lirc-0.9.3, llvm-3.6.2, lua-5.2.3,
218 lzo-2.09, magit-2.3.0, mesa-11.0.3, mesa-headers-11.0.3, mig-1.6,
219 minetest-0.4.13, mosh-1.2.5, mpg123-1.22.4, mplayer-1.2, mpv-0.11.0,
220 mu-0.9.13, mutt-1.5.24, ncdu-1.11, ncmpcpp-0.6.7, ncurses-6.0, node-0.12.7,
221 notmuch-0.20.2, ntp-4.2.8p4, ocaml-4.02.3, offlineimap-6.5.7, openblas-0.2.15,
222 openjpeg-2.1.0, openldap-2.4.42, openssh-7.0p1, orc-0.4.24, pango-1.38.1,
223 pangomm-2.38.1, parallel-20151022, pavucontrol-3.0,
224 pbtranscript-tofu-2.2.3.8f5467fe6, pciutils-3.3.1, perf-4.2.5,
225 perl-xml-parser-2.44, pixman-0.32.8, poppler-0.37.0, powertop-2.7,
226 python-cffi-1.2.1, python-dateutil-2.2, python-fixtures-1.3.1,
227 python-ipython-3.2.1, python-pyflakes-0.9.2, python-pygobject-3.18.0,
228 python-pyqt-4.11.4, python-pyqt-5.5, python-requests-2.8.0,
229 python-scipy-0.16.0, python-setuptools-18.3.1, python-sip-4.16.9,
230 python-six-1.9.0, python2-cffi-1.2.1, python2-dateutil-2.2,
231 python2-fixtures-1.3.1, python2-ipython-3.2.1, python2-pygobject-3.18.0,
232 python2-pyqt-4.11.4, python2-pyqt-5.5, python2-requests-2.8.0,
233 python2-scipy-0.16.0, python2-setuptools-18.3.1, python2-sip-4.16.9,
234 python2-six-1.9.0, qemu-2.4.0.1, qemu-headless-2.4.0.1, qpdf-5.1.3,
235 qsynth-0.4.0, qt-5.5.1, r-3.2.2, racket-6.2.1, ratpoison-1.4.8, readline-6.3,
236 retroarch-1.2.2, ripperx-2.8.0, rtorrent-0.9.6, ruby-2.2.3, ruby-arel-6.0.3,
237 ruby-bacon-1.2.0, ruby-i18n-0.7.0, samtools-1.2, sfarklib-2.24, sfml-2.3.2,
238 shadow-4.2.1, sipwitch-1.9.14, sqlite-3.8.11.1, subversion-1.8.14,
239 synergy-1.7.4, tcl-8.6.4, tcpdump-4.7.4, teckit-2.5.4, terminology-0.9.1,
240 texlive-2015, texlive-bin-2015, texlive-texmf-2015, tiled-0.13.1, tk-8.6.4,
241 tmux-2.0, tor-0.2.6.10, ucommon-6.6.2, units-2.12, util-linux-2.27,
242 vala-0.30.0, valgrind-3.11.0, vlc-2.2.1, webkitgtk-2.8.5, weechat-1.3,
243 wine-1.7.52, wpa-supplicant-2.5, xapian-1.2.21, xterm-320,
244 youtube-dl-2015.11.01, zsh-5.1.1
246 ** Programming interfaces
248 *** Rewritten (gnu services) module; (gnu services …) modules adjusted
249 *** New Emacs development tools, see “Development” in the manual
250 *** (guix gexp) provides the declarative ‘computed-file’, ‘program-file’, etc.
251 *** New (guix upstream) module, for generalized upstream release tracking
253 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
255 *** Passwords in /etc/shadow are SHA512-hashed (http://bugs.gnu.org/21318)
256 *** daemon: Require a signature for imports made by root
257 (http://bugs.gnu.org/21354)
258 *** emacs: Fix guix-guile-program default value (http://bugs.gnu.org/21127)
259 *** Compressed initrds no longer include timestamps
260 *** Partly fix handling of encrypted root partitions
261 (http://bugs.gnu.org/19190)
262 *** Python now includes tkinter (http://bugs.gnu.org/20889)
263 *** Memoize the results of ‘package-with-python2’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/21675)
264 *** Use the daemon's substitute URLs by default (http://bugs.gnu.org/20217)
265 *** ‘guix system --no-grub’ works correctly for ‘init’ and ‘reconfigure’
266 (http://bugs.gnu.org/21068)
268 ** Native language support
270 *** Updated translations: da
272 * Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2)
274 ** Package management
276 *** New ‘guix edit’ and ‘guix size’ commands
277 *** New ‘--manifest’ option for ‘guix package’, for declarative profiles
278 *** Similarly, new ‘M-x guix-apply-manifest’ for the Emacs UI
279 *** Emacs support now includes completion for ‘guix’ commands in shell-mode
280 *** ‘guix package --search-paths’ now takes an optional argument
281 *** ‘guix environment --ad-hoc’ creates a custom development environment
282 *** New ‘--system’ option for ‘guix environment’
283 *** ‘guix environment’ defines $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, useful to adjust ‘PS1’
284 *** New ‘--optimize’ and ‘--verify’ options to ‘guix gc’
285 *** ‘guix build --with-source’ can now be passed a directory
286 *** New ‘elpa’ importer for ‘guix import’
287 *** ‘guix import pypi’ determines the list of dependencies
288 *** New ‘--substitute-urls’ option for ‘guix build’ and other commands
289 *** ‘guix substitute’ can now alternate between different substitute URLs
290 *** New “Running Guix Before It Is Installed” section in the manual
291 *** Basic manual pages for the ‘guix’ commands are now shipped
292 *** Building the daemon now necessitates a C++11 compiler
296 *** New ‘%base-user-accounts’ variable, for common system accounts
297 *** New ‘--on-error’ option for ‘guix system’
298 *** New ‘plain-file’ construct, for use in ‘operating-system’ declarations
299 *** ‘sudoers’ field of ‘operating-system’ renamed to ‘sudoers-file’
300 *** ‘sudoers-file’ and ‘hosts-file’ fields now take file-like objects
301 *** File systems under /sys/fs/cgroup are now mounted by default
302 *** Default compiler is now GCC 4.9.3 (was 4.8.4)
303 *** ARMv7 port now requires NEON
304 *** The disk footprint of a dozen key packages has been reduced
308 adwaita-icon-theme, amule, aragorn, arpack-ng-openmpi, blast+, bundler,
309 camlp4, camlp5, clutter, clutter-gst, clutter-gtk, cogl, coq, couger, crda,
310 dealii, dealii-openmpi, devhelp, diamond, dunst, edirect, emacs-auctex,
311 emacs-mmm-mode, emacs-pdf-tools, eog, execline, exempi, fasttree, faust,
312 fizmo, gcr, git-modes, gnome-common, gnome-keyring, gnome-klotski,
313 gnu-c-manual, gnujump, gom, grilo, grilo-plugins, gst-plugins-ugly,
314 guile-emacs, guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-gdbm-ffi, guitarix, haskell-mode,
315 hevea, hmmer, hoedown, htslib, hydra, hydrogen, idr, libcmis, libiberty,
316 libmng, libmpeg2, libreoffice, libressl, librest, libstdc++, libstdc++-doc,
317 libstdc++-doc, libsvm, libtar, libx264, libxdg-basedir, lpsolve, lxappearance,
318 magit-svn, metabat, metis, mumps, mumps-metis, mumps-metis-openmpi,
319 mumps-openmpi, orfm, p4est, p4est-openmpi, perl-authen-sasl,
320 perl-catalyst-authentication-store-dbix-class,
321 perl-catalyst-plugin-authorization-roles, perl-data-stag, perl-gssapi,
322 perl-io-string, perl-net-smtp-ssl, perl-set-object, plink, powertabeditor,
323 preseq, prodigal, proof-general, pugixml, pv, python-click,
324 python-feedgenerator, python-flake8, python-gridmap, python-libsvm,
325 python-libxml2, python-mccabe, python-pandas, python-pep8, python-pep8,
326 python-psutil, python-pyflakes, python-pyflakes, python-pyzmq, python-redis,
327 python-rpy2, python-rq, python-scikit-image, python-seaborn, python2-click,
328 python2-fastlmm, python2-feedgenerator, python2-flake8, python2-gridmap,
329 python2-libxml2, python2-mccabe, python2-pandas, python2-pep8, python2-pep8,
330 python2-psutil, python2-pyflakes, python2-pysnptools, python2-pyzmq,
331 python2-redis, python2-rpy2, python2-rq, python2-scikit-image,
332 python2-seaborn, python2-warpedlmm, qsynth, randomjungle, rapidjson, raul, rc,
333 rhythmbox, rsem, rtmidi, ruby-arel, ruby-bacon, ruby-connection-pool,
334 ruby-daemons, ruby-git, ruby-minitest, ruby-minitest-bacon,
335 ruby-minitest-sprint, ruby-multipart-post, ruby-net-http-persistent,
336 ruby-rake-compiler, ruby-rspec, ruby-rspec-core, ruby-rspec-expectations,
337 ruby-rspec-mocks, ruby-slop, ruby-useragent, scalapack, seahorse, setbfree,
338 sfarklib, sfarkxtc, sfxr, skalibs, slepc, slepc-complex,
339 slepc-complex-openmpi, slepc-openmpi, sox, st, totem, wayland, wireless-regdb,
340 withershins, wxmaxima, xfce4-clipman-plugin, xmlsec, zita-resampler
342 *** 181 package updates
344 ardour-4.1-5aa834e, bash-4.3.39, bash-light-4.3.39, bedops-2.4.14,
345 bind-utils-9.10.2-P2, bison-3.0.4, bitlbee-3.4, boost-1.58.0, brasero-3.12.1,
346 calibre-2.29.0, catch-1.1.3, ccache-3.2.2, chibi-scheme-0.7.3, clang-3.6.0,
347 coreutils-8.24, cups-2.0.3, cups-filters-1.0.71, cups-minimal-2.0.3,
348 curl-7.43.0, datamash-1.0.7, dfu-programmer-0.7.2, duplicity-0.6.26, ed-1.12,
349 efl-1.14.2, eigen-3.2.5, elementary-1.14.2, emotion-generic-players-1.14.0,
350 enlightenment-0.19.5, evas-generic-loaders-1.14.0, evince-3.16.1, feh-2.13,
351 ffmpeg-2.7.1, freeipmi-1.4.9, freetype-2.6, gawk-4.1.3, gcal-4, gcc-5.2.0,
352 gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9.3, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.9.3,
353 gcc-cross-sans-libc-avr-4.9.3, gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf-4.9.3,
354 gcc-objc++-4.8.5, gcc-objc-4.8.5, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.9.3,
355 gcc-toolchain-4.9.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.3, gcc-toolchain-5.2.0, gccgo-4.8.5,
356 gcj-4.8.5, gdb-7.9.1, geoclue-2.2.0, gettext-0.19.5, gfortran-4.8.5,
357 gfortran-4.9.3, gfortran-4.9.3, girara-0.2.4, git-2.4.3, git-manpages-2.4.3,
358 global-6.5, gnu-pw-mgr-1.4, gnupg-2.1.6, gnutls-3.4.1, goffice-0.10.14,
359 gpgme-1.5.5, gtk+-3.16.3, gtkmm-3.16.0, guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11,
360 guile-reader-0.6.1, guile-sdl-0.5.2, guix-0.8.2, guix-0.8.2.72cd8ec,
361 gxmessage-3.4.3, harfbuzz-0.9.40, help2man-1.47.1, httpd-2.4.16, hwloc-1.10.1,
362 icecat-31.8.0-gnu1, imagemagick-6.9.1-3, inetutils-1.9.4, julia-0.3.10,
363 libassuan-2.2.1, libdvdnav-5.0.3, libdvdread-5.0.3, libetonyek-0.1.3,
364 libgpg-error-1.19, libidn-1.31, libksba-1.3.3, libmicrohttpd-0.9.42,
365 libmpdclient-2.10, libmwaw-0.3.5, libpipeline-1.4.0, libpsl-0.7.1,
366 librsvg-2.40.9, libunistring-0.9.6, libusb-1.0.19, libvpx-1.4.0, libwps-0.4.0,
367 libxml2-2.9.2, linux-libre-4.0.8, linux-libre-4.1.2, livestreamer-1.12.2,
368 lv2-1.12.0, magit-1.4.1, man-db-2.7.1, mariadb-10.0.20, maxima-5.36.1,
369 mdds-0.12.1, mpd-0.19.10, mpd-mpc-0.27, mpfr-3.1.3, mysql-5.6.25, nano-2.4.2,
370 ncmpc-0.24, ncmpcpp-0.6.5, nettle-3.1.1, ngs-java-1.1.1, ngs-sdk-1.1.1,
371 npth-1.2, nss-3.19.2, nss-certs-3.19.2, ntp-4.2.8p3, ocaml-4.02.1,
372 openblas-0.2.14, openjpeg-2.0.1, openjpeg-2.1.0, openmpi-1.8.5, openssh-6.9p1,
373 openssl-1.0.2d, parallel-20150622, pari-gp-2.7.4, pcre-8.37, perf-4.1.2,
374 petsc-3.6.0, petsc-complex-3.6.0, petsc-complex-openmpi-3.6.0,
375 petsc-openmpi-3.6.0, pinentry-0.9.5, pius-2.1.1, polkit-0.113,
376 postgresql-9.3.8, pspp-0.8.5, pt-scotch-6.0.4, pumpa-0.9.1, python-3.4.3,
377 python-dateutil-2.2, python-pillow-2.8.1, python-scikit-learn-0.16.1,
378 python2-dateutil-2.2, python2-pillow-2.8.1, python2-pygobject-3.16.1,
379 python2-pyqt-5.4, python2-scikit-learn-0.16.1, qemu-2.3.0,
380 qemu-headless-2.3.0, qt-5.4.2, r-3.2.1, readline-6.3, ruby-2.1.6, ruby-2.2.2,
381 samtools-1.2, scotch-6.0.4, screen-4.3.1, sharutils-4.15.2, sipwitch-1.9.8,
382 sqlite-3.8.10.2, star-2.4.2a, swig-3.0.5, synergy-1.7.3, sysfsutils-2.1.0,
383 talloc-2.1.2, texinfo-6.0, tor-0.2.6.8, ucommon-6.3.4, unrtf-0.21.9, vamp-2.6,
384 webkitgtk-2.8.3, which-2.21, xorriso-1.4.0, youtube-dl-2015.06.25,
387 ** Programming interfaces
389 *** New “package Reference” and “origin Reference” sections in the manual
390 *** New ‘emacs-build-system’, which mimics what package.el does
391 *** New (guix cpio) module, used to produce Linux initrds deterministically
392 *** New ‘clone’, ‘setns’, and ‘pivot_root’ bindings in (guix build syscalls)
393 *** New ‘dependencies’ field in <file-system>
394 *** New #:gem-flags parameter for ‘ruby-build-system’
396 *** monads: ‘foldm’, ‘mapm’, and ‘anym’ now take a list of regular values
397 *** monads: Allow n-ary ‘>>=’ expressions
398 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
400 *** Binary installation tarball now has files root-owned, with zeroed mtime
401 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21101>)
402 *** GRUB background image is always available (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20591>)
403 *** ‘guix system’ catches references to non-existent user groups
404 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20646>)
405 *** Ignore trailing components for ‘guix gc -d’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19757>)
406 *** ‘guix lint’ warns only when all the URIs are unreachable
407 *** ‘guix system init’ overwrites the items in the target store
408 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20722>)
409 *** ‘guix-register’ performs deduplication even when --prefix is passed
410 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19044>)
411 *** The ‘location’ of packages is no longer preserved by ‘inherit’
412 *** GuixSD installation image has udev rules for device-mapper
413 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20791>)
414 *** Daemon distinguishes between “substitutable” and “offloadable” derivations
415 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>)
416 *** Avoid infinite loop in ‘guix substitute’
417 *** ‘guix environment’ now returns the exit code of its command
418 *** ‘file-system’ declarations can now really use UUIDs
419 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19778>)
420 *** Daemon preserves build user groups (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18994>)
421 *** Fix quadratic behavior when building packages with many propagated inputs
422 *** Tarballs for origins with patches/snippet are now build deterministically
423 *** Scalability issues in ‘guix publish’ have been fixed
425 ** Native language support
427 *** Updated translations: da, eo
429 * Changes in 0.8.2 (since 0.8.1)
431 ** Package management
433 *** New “binary tarball” installation method is available
435 See “Binary Installation” in the manual.
437 *** New ‘guix publish’ command, to publish one’s store
439 See “Invoking guix publish” in the manual.
441 *** ‘guix package’ runs “profile creation hooks” as needed
443 It creates X.509 certificate bundles in the profile’s etc/ssl directory, if
444 needed, generates a package database cache for GHC if the profile includes GHC
445 (the Haskell compiler), and generates an Info ‘dir’ file (this part was
446 already done before.)
448 *** ‘guix package’ creates an ‘etc/profile’ file in the profile
450 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
452 *** Commands understand version prefixes, such as ‘gcc-5’ for ‘gcc-5.1.0’
454 *** ‘guix package --search’ now sorts packages by name and version
456 *** Substitute information is now fetched using HTTP pipelining
458 Before that the “substituter” used threads. Using HTTP pipelining means that
459 resource consumption is reduced on both the client and server sides. As a
460 side effect, a progress report is displayed as substitute info is downloaded.
462 *** ‘guix package’ warns when a $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH module cannot be loaded
464 *** New ‘--sources’ option to ‘guix build’
466 *** New Bash completion file, installed in $sysconfdir/bash_completion.d
468 *** New ‘guix import hackage’ command
470 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
472 *** ‘guix lint’ supports FTP for the ‘source’ and ‘home-page’ checkers
474 *** ‘guix lint’ has a new ‘derivation’ checker
476 *** ‘guix import cpan’ better handles dependencies and licenses
478 *** Packages are now build in an environment with a UTF-8 locale
482 *** C library's name service switch (NSS) is now fully configurable
484 See “Name Service Switch” in the manual.
486 *** New services: wicd, lirc, colord, upower, console-keymap, postgresql
488 *** Xorg service supports new drivers, such as Nouveau
490 *** lsh service has new options, initializes its seed by default
492 *** /etc/ssl symlink is created, for X.509 certificates
494 See “X.509 Certificates” in the manual.
496 *** ‘guix system’ reports duplicate service identifiers
498 *** New /etc/bashrc file that loads Bash completion when available
500 *** SLiM service uses sessions from /run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions
502 See “X Window” in the manual.
504 *** The Linux “YAMA” restricting policy on PTRACE_ATTACH is now disabled
506 *** /etc/shells now lists all the user accounts’ shells
508 *** /gnu/store is now remounted read-only, to avoid accidental modification
510 *** /etc/profile is sources each profile’s ‘etc/profile’ file
514 aalib, aarddict, acpid, agg, aisleriot, alsa-modular-synth, ant, ardour,
515 ardour, argtable, arpack-ng, aspell-dict-ru, aubio, audacity, avidemux,
516 avidemux, azr3, bamtools, bash-completion, bedops, bind-utils, bluez, bool,
517 brdf-explorer, bwa, calf, calibre, catch, ccl, chibi-scheme, chmlib,
518 clalsadrv, clipper, clisp, clustal-omega, colord, colordiff, cpufrequtils,
519 crossmap, csound, ctl, cunit, cutadapt, desktop-file-utils, djvulibre,
520 dnsmasq, dosfstools, double-conversion, dovecot, ecl, efl, elementary,
521 elogind, emacs-no-x, emotion-generic-players, enca, enlightenment,
522 evas-generic-loaders, exim, express, extremetuxracer, faad2, fastx-toolkit,
523 fcitx, fdupes, flexbar, fluidsynth, font-adobe-source-han-sans,
524 font-wqy-zenhei, freepats, gambit-c, ganv, geda-gaf, geoclue, geocode-glib,
525 ghc, ghc-case-insensitive, ghc-containers, ghc-fgl, ghc-hashable, ghc-http,
526 ghc-hunit, ghc-mtl, ghc-network, ghc-network-uri, ghc-parallel, ghc-parsec,
527 ghc-paths, ghc-primitive, ghc-quickcheck, ghc-random, ghc-split, ghc-stm,
528 ghc-syb, ghc-text, ghc-tf-random, ghc-unordered-containers, ghc-vector,
529 ghc-zlib, girara, gitolite, glib-networking, glibc-locales,
530 glibc-utf8-locales, glibc-utf8-locales, glm, gnome-mines,
531 gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-terminal, gnucash, gnugo, grit, gst-libav,
532 guile-minikanren, guile-reader, hdparm, hisat, htseq, htsjdk, hunspell,
533 hyphen, i2c-tools, ibus, icecast, icedtea6, icedtea7, ilmbase, ir, isync,
534 ixion, jack2, jalv, jansson, jemalloc, julia, key-mon, ladspa, lash,
535 leptonica, liba52, libabw, libaio, libass, libavc1394, libbluray, libbs2b,
536 libcaca, libcap-ng, libcdio-paranoia, libcdr, libdca, libdv, libdvdcss,
537 libe-book, libedit, libepoxy, libetonyek, libexttextcat, libffcall,
538 libfreehand, libgnomecanvasmm, libgtextutils, libgweather, libical,
539 libiec61883, libinput, liblo, libmodplug, libmspack, libmspub, libmtp,
540 libmwaw, libodfgen, libpagemaker, libqtxdg, libquvi, libquvi-scripts,
541 libraw1394, librecad, librep, librevenge, libsbsms, libsecret, libshout,
542 libsoup, libsrtp, libtocc, libungif, libva, libvisio, libwacom, libwebp,
543 libwpd, libwpg, libwps, libxklavier, libxmp, libyaml, lilv, lilypond, lirc,
544 livestreamer, ltrace, lv2, lv2-mda-epiano, lv2-mda-piano, lvtk, macs, mariadb,
545 markdown, mdadm, mdds, mesa-headers, mesa-utils, miredo, miso, moreutils,
546 mpd-mpc, mpdscribble, mplayer2, mpv, muparser, mythes, ncbi-vdb, ngircd,
547 ngs-java, ngs-sdk, npth, nss-certs, openblas, openexr, openlibm, openntpd,
548 openspecfun, openvpn, orc, orcus, p11-kit, patchage, pbtranscript-tofu, pcb,
549 perl-algorithm-c3, perl-algorithm-diff, perl-aliased,
550 perl-apache-logformat-compiler, perl-appconfig, perl-b-hooks-endofscope,
551 perl-base, perl-bit-vector, perl-boolean, perl-cache-cache,
552 perl-cache-fastmmap, perl-capture-tiny, perl-carp-assert,
553 perl-carp-assert-more, perl-carp-clan, perl-catalyst-action-renderview,
554 perl-catalyst-action-rest, perl-catalyst-component-instancepercontext,
555 perl-catalyst-devel, perl-catalyst-dispatchtype-regex,
556 perl-catalyst-model-dbic-schema, perl-catalyst-plugin-accesslog,
557 perl-catalyst-plugin-authentication, perl-catalyst-plugin-captcha,
558 perl-catalyst-plugin-configloader, perl-catalyst-plugin-session,
559 perl-catalyst-plugin-session-state-cookie,
560 perl-catalyst-plugin-session-store-fastmmap, perl-catalyst-plugin-stacktrace,
561 perl-catalyst-plugin-static-simple, perl-catalyst-runtime,
562 perl-catalyst-traitfor-request-proxybase, perl-catalyst-view-download,
563 perl-catalyst-view-json, perl-catalyst-view-tt,
564 perl-catalystx-component-traits, perl-catalystx-roleapplicator,
565 perl-catalystx-script-server-starman, perl-cgi-simple, perl-cgi-struct,
566 perl-class-accessor, perl-class-accessor-chained, perl-class-accessor-grouped,
567 perl-class-c3, perl-class-c3-adopt-next, perl-class-c3-componentised,
568 perl-class-data-inheritable, perl-class-date, perl-class-factory-util,
569 perl-class-inspector, perl-class-load, perl-class-load-xs,
570 perl-class-method-modifiers, perl-class-methodmaker, perl-class-singleton,
571 perl-class-tiny, perl-class-unload, perl-class-xsaccessor, perl-common-sense,
572 perl-compress-raw-bzip2, perl-compress-raw-zlib, perl-config-any,
573 perl-config-autoconf, perl-config-general, perl-context-preserve,
574 perl-cpan-meta, perl-cpan-meta-check, perl-cpan-meta-requirements,
575 perl-cpan-meta-yaml, perl-cpanel-json-xs, perl-crypt-randpasswd,
576 perl-data-dump, perl-data-dumper-concise, perl-data-optlist, perl-data-page,
577 perl-data-stream-bulk, perl-data-tumbler, perl-data-visitor, perl-date-calc,
578 perl-date-calc-xs, perl-datetime, perl-datetime-event-ical,
579 perl-datetime-event-recurrence, perl-datetime-format-builder,
580 perl-datetime-format-flexible, perl-datetime-format-http,
581 perl-datetime-format-ical, perl-datetime-format-natural,
582 perl-datetime-format-strptime, perl-datetime-locale, perl-datetime-set,
583 perl-datetime-timezone, perl-datetimex-easy, perl-dbd-pg, perl-dbix-class,
584 perl-dbix-class-cursor-cached, perl-dbix-class-introspectablem2m,
585 perl-dbix-class-schema-loader, perl-devel-caller, perl-devel-checkbin,
586 perl-devel-globaldestruction, perl-devel-lexalias, perl-devel-overloadinfo,
587 perl-devel-partialdump, perl-devel-stacktrace, perl-devel-stacktrace-ashtml,
588 perl-devel-symdump, perl-digest-hmac, perl-digest-md5-file,
589 perl-dist-checkconflicts, perl-email-abstract, perl-email-address,
590 perl-email-date-format, perl-email-messageid, perl-email-mime,
591 perl-email-mime-contenttype, perl-email-mime-encodings, perl-email-sender,
592 perl-email-simple, perl-error, perl-eval-closure, perl-exception-class,
593 perl-exporter-tiny, perl-extutils-config, perl-extutils-helpers,
594 perl-extutils-installpaths, perl-file-changenotify, perl-file-copy-recursive,
595 perl-file-find-rule, perl-file-find-rule-perl, perl-file-homedir,
596 perl-file-remove, perl-file-sharedir, perl-file-sharedir-install,
597 perl-file-slurp, perl-file-temp, perl-gd, perl-gd-securityimage,
598 perl-getopt-long-descriptive, perl-hash-merge, perl-hash-multivalue,
599 perl-html-form, perl-html-lint, perl-html-tree, perl-http-body,
600 perl-http-cookiejar, perl-http-parser, perl-http-parser-xs,
601 perl-http-request-ascgi, perl-http-server-simple, perl-http-tiny,
602 perl-image-magick, perl-import-into, perl-inc-latest, perl-io-compress,
603 perl-io-interactive, perl-io-socket-ip, perl-io-stringy, perl-ipc-run,
604 perl-ipc-sharelite, perl-json, perl-json-any, perl-json-maybexs, perl-json-xs,
605 perl-lingua-en-findnumber, perl-lingua-en-inflect,
606 perl-lingua-en-inflect-number, perl-lingua-en-inflect-phrase,
607 perl-lingua-en-number-isordinal, perl-lingua-en-tagger,
608 perl-lingua-en-words2nums, perl-lingua-pt-stemmer, perl-lingua-stem,
609 perl-lingua-stem-fr, perl-lingua-stem-it, perl-lingua-stem-ru,
610 perl-lingua-stem-snowball-da, perl-list-allutils, perl-list-moreutils,
611 perl-lwp-protocol-https, perl-lwp-useragent-determined,
612 perl-memoize-expirelru, perl-mime-types, perl-module-build,
613 perl-module-build-tiny, perl-module-find, perl-module-implementation,
614 perl-module-install, perl-module-runtime, perl-module-runtime-conflicts,
615 perl-module-scandeps, perl-module-util, perl-moo, perl-moose,
616 perl-moosex-emulate-class-accessor-fast, perl-moosex-getopt,
617 perl-moosex-markasmethods, perl-moosex-methodattributes, perl-moosex-nonmoose,
618 perl-moosex-params-validate, perl-moosex-relatedclassroles,
619 perl-moosex-role-parameterized, perl-moosex-role-withoverloading,
620 perl-moosex-semiaffordanceaccessor, perl-moosex-strictconstructor,
621 perl-moosex-traits-pluggable, perl-moosex-types, perl-moosex-types-datetime,
622 perl-moosex-types-datetime-morecoercions, perl-moosex-types-loadableclass,
623 perl-moox-types-mooselike, perl-mro-compat, perl-namespace-autoclean,
624 perl-namespace-clean, perl-net-amazon-s3, perl-net-server,
625 perl-number-compare, perl-object-signature, perl-package-anon,
626 perl-package-deprecationmanager, perl-package-stash, perl-package-stash-xs,
627 perl-padwalker, perl-par-dist, perl-params-util, perl-params-validate,
628 perl-parent, perl-parse-cpan-meta, perl-path-class, perl-plack,
629 perl-plack-middleware-fixmissingbodyinredirect,
630 perl-plack-middleware-methodoverride,
631 perl-plack-middleware-removeredundantbody, perl-plack-middleware-reverseproxy,
632 perl-plack-test-externalserver, perl-pod-coverage,
633 perl-posix-strftime-compiler, perl-readonly, perl-role-tiny, perl-safe-isa,
634 perl-scalar-list-utils, perl-scope-guard, perl-set-infinite, perl-set-scalar,
635 perl-snowball-norwegian, perl-snowball-swedish, perl-spiffy,
636 perl-sql-abstract, perl-sql-splitstatement, perl-sql-tokenizer,
637 perl-stream-buffered, perl-strictures, perl-string-camelcase,
638 perl-string-rewriteprefix, perl-string-toidentifier-en, perl-sub-exporter,
639 perl-sub-exporter-progressive, perl-sub-identify, perl-sub-install,
640 perl-sub-name, perl-sub-uplevel, perl-svg, perl-sys-hostname-long,
641 perl-task-weaken, perl-template-timer, perl-template-toolkit,
642 perl-term-encoding, perl-term-progressbar, perl-term-progressbar-quiet,
643 perl-term-progressbar-simple, perl-term-readkey, perl-test-base,
644 perl-test-cleannamespaces, perl-test-differences, perl-test-directory,
645 perl-test-exception, perl-test-fatal, perl-test-harness, perl-test-leaktrace,
646 perl-test-longstring, perl-test-mockobject, perl-test-mocktime,
647 perl-test-most, perl-test-output, perl-test-pod, perl-test-pod-coverage,
648 perl-test-requires, perl-test-sharedfork, perl-test-tcp, perl-test-trap,
649 perl-test-utf8, perl-test-warn, perl-test-warnings, perl-test-without-module,
650 perl-test-writevariants, perl-test-www-mechanize,
651 perl-test-www-mechanize-catalyst, perl-test-www-mechanize-psgi,
652 perl-test-yaml, perl-text-aligner, perl-text-balanced, perl-text-csv,
653 perl-text-diff, perl-text-german, perl-text-glob, perl-text-simpletable,
654 perl-text-table, perl-text-unidecode, perl-throwable, perl-tie-ixhash,
655 perl-tie-toobject, perl-time-duration, perl-time-duration-parse,
656 perl-time-local, perl-time-mock, perl-timedate, perl-tree-simple,
657 perl-tree-simple-visitorfactory, perl-try-tiny, perl-types-serialiser,
658 perl-universal-can, perl-universal-isa, perl-uri-find, perl-uri-ws,
659 perl-variable-magic, perl-www-mechanize, perl-xml-libxml,
660 perl-xml-namespacesupport, perl-xml-sax, perl-xml-sax-base, perl-yaml,
661 perl-yaml-tiny, ploticus, polipo, portaudio, pumpa, python-apsw,
662 python-biopython, python-cssselect, python-dbus, python-decorator,
663 python-drmaa, python-h5py, python-lxml, python-netifaces, python-networkx,
664 python-pyxdg, python-pyyaml, python-requests, python-scikit-learn,
665 python-singledispatch, python-sphinx-rtd-theme, python-sympy, python-testlib,
666 python-tornado, python-urwid, python-waf, python2-apsw,
667 python2-backport-ssl-match-hostname, python2-biopython, python2-bx-python,
668 python2-cssselect, python2-cssutils, python2-dbus, python2-decorator,
669 python2-drmaa, python2-h5py, python2-lxml, python2-netifaces,
670 python2-networkx, python2-pbcore, python2-pil, python2-pybedtools,
671 python2-pycairo, python2-pyxdg, python2-pyyaml, python2-rdflib, python2-rsvg,
672 python2-scikit-learn, python2-singledispatch, python2-six,
673 python2-sphinx-rtd-theme, python2-sympy, python2-testlib, python2-tornado,
674 python2-urwid, python2-waf, python2-xlib, quvi, r, rdesktop, recode, rep-gtk,
675 rseqc, rsound, rubberband, ruby-hoe, rxvt-unicode, s2tc, sawfish, sbcl, seqan,
676 serd, serf, sfml, shogun, sloccount, smartmontools, snakemake, soil, solfege,
677 sord, soundtouch, soxr, sra-tools, sratom, srt2vtt, star, starman, stow,
678 subread, suil, suitesparse, swt, sysfsutils, sysfsutils, taskwarrior, tbb,
679 terminology, tesseract-ocr, texlive-bin, texlive-texmf, the-silver-searcher,
680 tidy, tig, timidity++, tocc, totem-pl-parser, tree, tuxguitar, tvtime,
681 twolame, txt2man, unqlite, upower, utf8proc, vamp, vapoursynth, vcftools,
682 vigra, wavpack, webkitgtk, webkitgtk, weex, wicd, wpa-supplicant-light,
683 wxwidgets, wxwidgets, xbindkeys, xcape, xdg-utils, xf86-input-libinput,
684 xf86-input-wacom, xf86-video-nouveau, xfce, xmp, xosd, xournal, xvid, zathura,
685 zathura-cb, zathura-djvu, zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura-ps, zeromq,
686 zita-alsa-pcmi, zita-convolver
688 *** 189 package updates
690 acpica-20150410, apl-1.5, apr-1.5.2, arb-2.3.0, at-spi2-atk-2.16.0,
691 at-spi2-core-2.16.0, atk-2.16.0, autogen-5.18.5, bison-3.0.4, boost-1.57.0,
692 cairo-1.14.2, ccrtp-2.1.2, check-0.9.14, clang-3.6.0, cmake-3.2.2,
693 complexity-1.2, cups-filters-1.0.68, curl-7.42.1, dbus-1.8.16,
694 dbus-glib-0.104, dejagnu-1.5.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xml-4.5,
695 e2fsck-static-1.42.12, e2fsprogs-1.42.12, ed-1.11, eigen-3.2.4,
696 elfutils-0.161, emacs-24.5, emacs-no-x-toolkit-24.5, exo-0.10.3, ffmpeg-2.6.2,
697 fish-2.1.2, flac-1.3.1, flint-2.4.5, fltk-1.3.3, freetype-2.5.5, garcon-0.4.0,
698 gcc-5.1.0, gcc-toolchain-5.1.0, gdb-7.9, geiser-0.7, glib-2.44.0, glibc-2.21,
699 glibc-2.21, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.21, glibmm-2.44.0, global-6.4,
700 gnome-desktop-3.16.0, gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, gnome-themes-standard-3.16.0,
701 gnu-pw-mgr-1.3, gnubik-2.4.2, gnumach-headers-1.5, gnunet-0.10.1,
702 gnupg-1.4.19, gnupg-2.0.27, gnupg-2.1.4, gnutls-3.4.0,
703 gobject-introspection-1.44.0, gpgme-1.5.4, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.0,
704 gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, gst-plugins-good-1.4.5, gstreamer-1.4.5, gtk+-3.16.2,
705 gtkmm-2.24.4, gtkmm-3.16.0, guile-ssh-0.7.2, guix-0.8.1, guix-0.8.1.fc34dee,
706 help2man-1.46.6, httpd-2.4.12, hurd-headers-0.6, icecat-31.6.0-gnu1,
707 icu4c-55.1, imagemagick-6.9.0-4, imlib2-1.4.7, inetutils-1.9.3, inkscape-0.91,
708 isc-dhcp-4.3.1, itstool-2.0.2, kbd-2.0.2, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libgpg-error-1.18,
709 libidn-1.30, libltdl-2.4.6, libmicrohttpd-0.9.40, libmikmod-3.3.7,
710 libotr-4.1.0, libsigc++-2.4.1, libtasn1-4.5, libtool-2.4.6,
711 libunistring-0.9.5, libuv-1.4.2, libvorbis-1.3.5, libxfce4ui-4.12.0,
712 libxfce4util-4.12.1, libxfont-1.5.1, lightning-2.1.0, linux-libre-4.0.2,
713 linux-libre-headers-3.14.37, llvm-3.6.0, lua-5.2.3, man-pages-3.82,
714 mesa-10.5.4, mig-1.5, minetest-0.4.12, moe-1.7, mpc-1.0.3, mpd-0.19.9,
715 mu-0.9.12, nano-2.4.1, ncmpcpp-0.6.2, nettle-3.1, nginx-1.8.0, node-0.12.2,
716 notmuch-0.19, nspr-4.10.8, nss-3.18, ntp-4.2.8p2, ocrad-0.25, octave-3.8.2,
717 openconnect-7.05, openjpeg-2.0.1, openjpeg-2.1.0, openldap-2.4.40,
718 openssh-6.8p1, openssl-1.0.2a, pangomm-2.36.0, parallel-20150422,
719 pari-gp-2.7.3, patch-2.7.5, perf-4.0.2, perl-libwww-6.13, perl-net-http-6.07,
720 perl-net-ssleay-1.68, perl-test-simple-1.001014, perl-uri-1.67,
721 pinentry-0.9.0, pius-2.0.11, podofo-0.9.3, poppler-0.32.0, postgresql-9.3.6,
722 pulseaudio-6.0, python-3.4.3, python-pillow-2.7.0, python-pygobject-3.16.1,
723 python-setuptools-12.1, python-wrapper-3.4.3, python2-dateutil-2.2,
724 python2-pillow-2.7.0, python2-pygobject-3.16.1, python2-setuptools-12.1,
725 qt-5.4.1, ruby-2.2.2, samba-3.6.25, scons-2.3.4, sdl2-2.0.3, sharutils-4.15.1,
726 sipwitch-1.9.7, slock-1.2, source-highlight-3.1.8, sqlite-3.8.9,
727 subversion-1.8.13, texinfo-5.2, thunar-1.6.6, thunar-volman-0.8.1,
728 tor-0.2.5.12, tumbler-0.1.31, tzdata-2015c, ucommon-6.3.1, vala-0.28.0,
729 valgrind-3.10.1, vlc-2.2.0, vte-0.40.0, wget-1.16.3, wine-1.7.40,
730 wpa-supplicant-2.4, xboard-4.8.0, xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0, xfce4-panel-4.12.0,
731 xfce4-session-4.12.0, xfce4-settings-4.12.0, xfconf-4.12.0, xfdesktop-4.12.0,
732 xfwm4-4.12.0, xorg-server-1.16.4, xterm-317
734 ** Programming interfaces
736 *** New (guix build gremlin) to parse and validate ELF dynamic link info
738 *** (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘validate-runpath’ phase
740 This phase reads the dynamic entries of ELF files and reports libraries listed
741 as NEEDED that are not found in the RUNPATH.
743 *** New (gnu services desktop) module and ‘%desktop-services’ variable
745 *** New (guix cvs-download) module, for CVS checkouts
747 *** New (guix build-system waf) module, for the Waf build system
749 *** New (guix build-system haskell) module, to build Haskell packages
751 *** (guix build-system gnu) now supports zip archives
753 *** New convenience syntax ‘modify-phases’ added in (guix build utils)
755 *** The ‘ld’ wrapper more finely determines whether to use ‘-rpath’
757 *** (guix gexp) exports ‘gexp-input’ to describe input unambiguously
759 *** The ‘define-gexp-compiler’ form allows (guix gexp) to be extended
761 *** New ‘local-file’ constructor exported by (guix gexp)
763 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
765 *** Profiles created with ‘guix package -p’ as indirect GC roots
767 Before that they were made permanent GC roots–i.e., uncollectable.
769 *** ‘guix package’ distinguishes downgrades from upgrades
771 *** Handle HTTP redirects to relative URI references
772 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19840>)
774 *** Downloads now honor the ‘http_proxy’ environment variable
775 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20402>)
777 *** ‘--no-*’ options are now always correctly handled
778 (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00702.html>)
780 *** SLiM no longer leaks open file descriptors
782 *** Don't compare <pam-service> objects with 'equal?'
783 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20037>)
785 *** x86_64 and i686 bootstrap binaries updated (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19780>)
787 *** ‘find-files’ no longer follows symlinks (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20081>)
789 *** libc message catalog (‘libc.mo’) is now installed
791 *** libstdc++ has appropriate RUNPATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/20358>)
793 *** ‘dhcp-client-service’ now correctly tracks dhclient’s PID
795 ** Native language support
797 *** New translations: da (Danish)
799 *** Updated translations: eo
801 * Changes in 0.8.1 (since 0.8)
803 ** Package management
805 *** New ‘--share’ and ‘--expose’ options for ‘guix system vm’
807 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
809 *** Emacs mode now automatically loads newly installed Emacs packages
811 See “Emacs Initial Setup” in the manual.
813 *** ‘guix-daemon’ now defaults to ‘--cores=0 --jobs=1’
815 In other words, at any given time, only one derivation is being built or
816 substituted, and it can use as many cores as available. Before, there could
817 be N derivations using N cores, which was obviously not desirable.
819 *** Command-line tools support the ‘GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS’ environment variable
821 See “Invoking guix build” in the manual.
823 *** ‘guix environment’ is faster
825 *** New ‘--recursive’ option for ‘guix archive’
827 See “Invoking guix archive” in the manual.
829 *** Missing patches required by a package definition are gracefully reported
831 *** ‘guix lint’ supports additional checkers
833 The new checkers are ‘gnu-description’, ‘home-page’, and ‘source’.
834 See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
836 *** New CPAN importer for ‘guix import’
838 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
842 *** USB installation image has more tools
844 Tools added since 0.8: wpa_supplicant, cryptsetup, and iw.
846 *** Linux kernel module dependencies are automatically handled
848 Before that, all the modules needed in the initrd would need to be explicitly
849 listed, including their dependencies, and in topological order.
851 *** Font packages now all have a name starting with ‘font-’
853 See “Fonts” in the manual.
855 *** Shell startup files have been cleaned up
857 /etc/profile contains only environment variable definitions, which may also be
858 used when running a different shell. The skeletons for user’s ‘.bash_profile’
859 and ‘.bashrc’ files behave as documented in the Bash manual. Zsh is supported.
861 *** The ‘root’ account gets a copy of the account skeleton files
863 Before that, the skeleton files would only be copied to non-root accounts.
865 *** The name service cache daemon (nscd) is configurable
867 By default it aggressively caches host and service lookups. See “Base
868 Services” in the manual.
870 *** Available locale definitions are now declared in ‘operating-system’
872 Before, the ‘glibc’ package would contain all the existing locales, as well as
873 the ‘locale-archive’ file, amounting to 110 MiB. See “Locales” in the manual.
875 *** SLiM sessions are configurable
877 Pressing F1 in the SLiM graphical log-in screen allows users to choose among
878 the pre-configured session types. See “X Window” in the manual.
880 *** Man pages and Info files are systematically gzip-compressed
882 *** ‘gnu-build-system’ ensures that documentation is in share/{man,info}
884 If a package installs to $prefix/{man,info}, this is automatically fixed to be
885 $prefix/share/{man,info}.
887 *** ‘strip’ is invoked only on ELF files and ‘ar’ archives
889 *** ‘libtool’ and ‘libltdl’ are now separate packages
891 *** Emacs mode is readily usable on the Guix System Distribution
893 *** Substitutes are now enabled by default on freshly installed systems
896 abcde, astyle, avr-libc, bbdb, bedtools, bowtie, bullet, c-reduce, cd-discid,
897 cgal, clang, claws-mail, cups, cups-filters, cups-minimal, dconf, delta,
898 dmenu, eigen, emms, exo, fastjar, font-bitstream-vera, font-dejavu,
899 font-gnu-freefont-ttf, font-liberation, font-terminus, fvwm, garcon,
900 gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf, gcc-cross-sans-libc-avr, gcj, getmail,
901 git-flow, git-manpages, git-test-sequence, glew, glulxe, gourmet,
902 gst-plugins-good, gtk-xfce-engine, hexchat, ijs, iw, jack, json-glib,
903 libdvdnav, libdvdread, libetpan, libevdev, libltdl, libtorrent, libupnp,
904 libwnck, libwnck, libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, libxshmfence, libyubikey, llvm,
905 lrdf, mg, mp3info, msmtp, ncftp, nginx, ninja, nss, openbox,
906 perl-benchmark-timer, perl-clone, perl-digest-sha1, perl-exporter-lite,
907 perl-file-which, perl-getopt-tabular, perl-ipc-run3, perl-probe-perl,
908 perl-regexp-common, perl-sys-cpu, perl-test-deep, perl-test-nowarnings,
909 perl-test-script, perl-test-simple, perl-test-tester, pflask,
910 python-cairocffi, python-cffi, python-distutils-extra, python-html5lib,
911 python-ipython, python-isodate, python-matplotlib, python-numpy,
912 python-numpydoc, python-pillow, python-pycairo, python-pycparser,
913 python-pygobject, python-pyparsing, python-pyqt, python-pysam, python-rdflib,
914 python-scipy, python-sip, python-sqlalchemy, python-xcffib, python2-cairocffi,
915 python2-cffi, python2-distutils-extra, python2-elib.intl, python2-html5lib,
916 python2-ipython, python2-isodate, python2-matplotlib, python2-numpy,
917 python2-numpydoc, python2-pillow, python2-py2cairo, python2-pycparser,
918 python2-pygobject, python2-pygtk, python2-pyparsing, python2-pyqt,
919 python2-pysam, python2-scipy, python2-sip, python2-sqlalchemy, python2-xcffib,
920 qpdf, retroarch, rtorrent, samtools, shflags, slang, slock, socat,
921 startup-notification, sxiv, taglib, telepathy-glib, thunar, thunar-volman,
922 tre, tumbler, vala, vte, vte, wine, wmctrl, xclip, xdotool, xf86-video-geode,
923 xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-battery-plugin, xfce4-panel, xfce4-session,
924 xfce4-settings, xfce4-terminal, xfconf, xfdesktop, xfwm4, xinit, ykclient,
927 *** 222 package updates
929 apr-util-1.5.4, atk-2.15.3, automake-1.15, bash-4.3.33, bash-light-4.3.33,
930 bdftopcf-1.0.4, binutils-2.25, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.25,
931 cairo-1.12.18, cairomm-1.11.2, ccrtp-2.1.1, curl-7.40.0, dbus-1.8.12,
932 dbus-glib-0.102, ddrescue-1.19, dri2proto-2.8, e2fsck-static-1.42.11,
933 e2fsprogs-1.42.11, eudev-2.1.1, ffmpeg-2.5.3, file-5.22, fish-2.1.1,
934 fontconfig-2.11.92, fontsproto-2.1.3, freeipmi-1.4.8,
935 gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.4, gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf-4.8.4,
936 gcc-objc++-4.8.4, gcc-objc-4.8.4, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.4, gccgo-4.8.4,
937 gcl-2.6.12, gd-2.1.1, gdb-7.8.2, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.1, gettext-0.19.4,
938 gfortran-4.8.4, ghostscript-9.14.0, ghostscript-with-x-9.14.0, gimp-2.8.14,
939 git-2.2.1, glib-2.42.1, glibmm-2.42.0, global-6.3.3, glproto-1.4.17,
940 gnutls-3.2.21, gobject-introspection-1.42.0, gp2c-0.0.9pl2, grep-2.21,
941 groff-1.22.3, gss-1.0.3, gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gtk+-3.14.7, gtkmm-3.14.0,
942 guix-0.8, guix-0.8.4ad8789, help2man-1.46.4, iceauth-1.0.6, icu4c-54.1,
943 inkscape-0.48.5, inputproto-2.3.1, lcms-2.6, lftp-4.6.1, libassuan-2.2.0,
944 libcdio-0.93, libdmx-1.1.3, libdrm-2.4.58, libfontenc-1.1.2, libfs-1.0.6,
945 libgcrypt-1.6.2, libgpg-error-1.17, libice-1.0.9, libjpeg-9a, libksba-1.3.2,
946 libmicrohttpd-0.9.39, libnl-3.2.25, libpciaccess-0.13.2, libpeas-1.12.1,
947 libpng-1.5.21, librsvg-2.40.6, libsm-1.2.2, libtasn1-4.2, libtool-2.4.5,
948 libx11-1.6.2, libxau-1.0.8, libxaw-1.0.12, libxcb-1.11, libxcomposite-0.4.4,
949 libxcursor-1.1.14, libxdamage-1.1.4, libxext-1.3.3, libxfixes-5.0.1,
950 libxfont-1.5.0, libxft-2.3.2, libxi-1.7.4, libxinerama-1.1.3,
951 libxkbcommon-0.5.0, libxmu-1.1.2, libxp-1.0.2, libxpm-3.5.11, libxrandr-1.4.2,
952 libxrender-0.9.8, libxres-1.0.7, libxt-1.1.4, libxtst-1.2.2, libxv-1.0.10,
953 libxvmc-1.0.8, libxxf86dga-1.1.4, libxxf86vm-1.1.3, linux-libre-3.18.4,
954 lua-5.2.3, makedepend-1.0.5, mercurial-3.2.4, mesa-10.4.0, minetest-0.4.11,
955 mkfontscale-1.1.1, neon-0.30.0, nix-1.8, ntp-4.2.8, ocrad-0.24,
956 openjpeg-2.0.1, openssl-1.0.1k, pango-1.36.8, parallel-20150122,
957 pari-gp-2.7.2, patchelf-0.8, pcre-8.36, perf-3.18.4, phonon-4.8.3,
958 pixman-0.32.6, pkg-config-0.28, poppler-0.28.1, python-3.3.5,
959 python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, qemu-2.2.0, qemu-headless-2.2.0,
960 qt-5.4.0, racket-6.1.1, randrproto-1.4.0, raptor2-2.0.15, rasqal-0.9.33,
961 rcs-5.9.4, ruby-2.1.5, sessreg-1.0.8, sipwitch-1.9.3, sqlite-3.8.7.4,
962 tiled-0.11.0, tmux-1.9a, tzdata-2014j, ucommon-6.2.3, util-linux-2.25.2,
963 util-macros-1.19.0, vera-1.22, videoproto-2.3.2, wget-1.16.1, xauth-1.0.9,
964 xbacklight-1.2.1, xcb-proto-1.11, xcb-util-0.4.0, xcb-util-image-0.4.0,
965 xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0, xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9, xcb-util-wm-0.4.1,
966 xcursor-themes-1.0.4, xcursorgen-1.0.6, xdpyinfo-1.3.1, xev-1.2.1,
967 xextproto-7.3.0, xf86-input-evdev-2.8.4, xf86-input-joystick-1.6.2,
968 xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0, xf86-input-mouse-1.9.1, xf86-input-synaptics-1.8.1,
969 xf86-video-ark-0.7.5, xf86-video-ati-7.5.0, xf86-video-cirrus-1.5.2,
970 xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4, xf86-video-glint-1.2.8, xf86-video-i128-1.3.6,
971 xf86-video-intel-2.21.15, xf86-video-mach64-6.9.4, xf86-video-mga-1.6.3,
972 xf86-video-neomagic-1.2.8, xf86-video-nv-2.1.20, xf86-video-openchrome-0.3.3,
973 xf86-video-r128-6.9.2, xf86-video-savage-2.3.7,
974 xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.7, xf86-video-sis-0.10.7,
975 xf86-video-suncg6-1.1.2, xf86-video-sunffb-1.2.2, xf86-video-tdfx-1.4.5,
976 xf86-video-tga-1.2.2, xf86-video-trident-1.3.6, xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3,
977 xf86-video-vmware-13.0.2, xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.5, xhost-1.0.6, xinput-1.6.1,
978 xkbcomp-1.3.0, xkbutils-1.0.4, xkeyboard-config-2.13, xkill-1.0.4,
979 xlockmore-5.45, xlsclients-1.1.3, xmodmap-1.0.8, xnee-3.19,
980 xorg-server-1.16.3, xprop-1.2.2, xproto-7.0.26, xrandr-1.4.3, xrdb-1.1.0,
981 xrefresh-1.0.5, xset-1.2.3, xsetroot-1.1.1, xtrans-1.3.5, xvinfo-1.1.2,
982 xwd-1.0.6, xwininfo-1.1.3, youtube-dl-2015.01.23.4, zsh-5.0.7
984 ** Programming interfaces
986 *** New (guix elf) and (gnu build linux-modules) modules
988 These provide resolution of Linux kernel module dependencies. See
989 <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html>.
991 *** ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ has been extended
993 It now handles GIO and XDG themes, takes care of generating the icon cache,
994 and has a new #:glib-or-gtk-wrap-excluded-outputs parameter.
996 *** ‘search-path-specification’ can now specify non-directory items
998 For example, the ‘search-path-specification’ attached to libxml2 specifies a
999 file pattern, which allows all the ‘catalog.xml’ files to be added to the
1000 ‘XML_CATALOG_FILES’ environment variable.
1002 *** (guix build syscalls) has more network-related procedures
1004 ‘set-network-interface-flags’, ‘set-network-interface-address’,
1005 ‘network-interface-address’, and ‘configure-network-interface’ are ioctl
1006 bindings used by network-handling dmd services.
1008 *** (guix monads) refactoring
1010 ‘%store-monad’ is now in (guix store) and is an alias for the new
1011 ‘%state-monad’ provided by (guix monads). Monadic procedures dealing with the
1012 store, with derivations, and with packages have been moved from (guix monads)
1013 to (guix store), (guix derivations), and (guix packages). See “The Store
1014 Monad” in the manual.
1016 *** (guix build utils) provides ‘parallel-job-count’
1018 *** ‘wrap-program’ preserves the original argv[0]
1020 *** New (guix sets) module
1022 *** ‘define-record-type*’ now support “delayed” fields
1024 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
1026 *** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>)
1027 *** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>)
1028 *** Substituter progress report properly formatted
1029 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>)
1030 *** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>)
1031 *** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm
1032 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19317>)
1033 *** Emacs knows where to find its GLib schemas (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19138>)
1034 *** Adjust 'grub.cfg' to work on systems with a separate /boot
1035 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19220>)
1036 *** Fix removal of next-to-last item in a profile
1037 (<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00292.html>)
1038 *** Apply patches with "patch --force" (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19402>)
1039 *** Extend ‘search-path-specification’ for libxml2-style use cases
1040 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18033>)
1041 *** Search for patches under $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19364>)
1042 *** Use executables from the target inputs in 'patch-shebangs'
1043 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18895>)
1044 *** guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'
1045 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>)
1046 *** Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/self/mounts
1047 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19491>)
1048 *** Don't build the mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 cross-compiler on i686
1049 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19598>)
1050 *** Read archive signatures as Latin-1 strings (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19610>)
1051 *** Raise an error for references to non-existent outputs
1052 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19630>)
1053 *** Initialize libgcrypt before use (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19677>)
1055 ** Native language support
1057 *** New translations: fr (French), hu (Hungarian)
1058 *** Updated translation: eo, vi
1060 * Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
1062 ** Package management
1064 *** New visual user interface in Emacs
1066 See “Emacs Interface” in the manual.
1068 *** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment
1070 See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual.
1072 *** The ‘guix import’ command has been extended and documented
1074 It can now import packages from pypi.python.org and from GNU.
1075 See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
1077 *** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers
1079 See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
1081 *** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies
1083 See “Security Updates” in the manual.
1085 *** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
1087 This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them
1088 visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual.
1090 *** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades
1092 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option
1094 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1096 *** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option
1098 See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual.
1102 *** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices
1104 See “Mapped Devices” in the manual.
1106 *** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation
1108 New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’.
1109 See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
1111 *** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’
1113 See “Services” in the manual.
1115 *** Free firmware can be loaded
1117 This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.)
1118 See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
1120 *** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme
1122 See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual.
1124 *** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature
1126 Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See
1127 “Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details.
1129 *** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release
1131 *** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option
1133 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
1135 *** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment
1137 Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’
1138 to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change.
1140 *** 162 new packages
1142 abiword, acpica, adns, arb, ath9k-htc-firmware, atlas, avrdude, cppunit,
1143 dblatex, detox, dfu-programmer, dionysus, direvent, dmidecode, dri3proto,
1144 emacs-no-x-toolkit, emacs-w3m, emacs-wget, enchant, eudev, feh, flashrom,
1145 flint, fontforge, freedink, freeimage, fribidi,
1146 gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf, giblib, gnome-themes-standard, gpsbabel,
1147 gpscorrelate, graphite2, gtypist, guile-charting, guile-sdl, imake, imlib2,
1148 irrlicht, jbig2dec, libpsl, libspiro, libuninameslist, libwmf, lm-sensors,
1149 magit, minetest, miscfiles, mozjs, mupdf, nix, nspr, nss-mdns, ntp, nvi, opam,
1150 openal, openjpeg, opus-tools, orpheus, ots, oxygen-icons, paredit, perf,
1151 perl-archive-zip, perl-dbd-sqlite, perl-dbi, perl-image-exiftool,
1152 perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-net-ssleay, perl-www-curl, perl-zip, polkit,
1153 polkit-qt, postgresql, potrace, presentproto, python-certifi, python-coverage,
1154 python-cython, python-discover, python-docutils, python-exif-read,
1155 python-extras, python-fixtures, python-itsdangerous, python-jinja2,
1156 python-jsonschema, python-markupsafe, python-mimeparse, python-nose,
1157 python-oauthlib, python-py, python-pygments, python-pyjwt, python-pyld,
1158 python-pytest, python-scripttest, python-sphinx, python-subunit,
1159 python-testrepository, python-testresources, python-testscenarios,
1160 python-testtools, python-unidecode, python-unittest2, python-virtualenv,
1161 python2-certifi, python2-coverage, python2-cython, python2-discover,
1162 python2-docutils, python2-exif-read, python2-extras, python2-fixtures,
1163 python2-itsdangerous, python2-jinja2, python2-jsonschema, python2-markupsafe,
1164 python2-mimeparse, python2-nose, python2-oauthlib, python2-py,
1165 python2-pygments, python2-pyjwt, python2-pyld, python2-pytest,
1166 python2-requests, python2-scripttest, python2-sphinx, python2-subunit,
1167 python2-testrepository, python2-testresources, python2-testscenarios,
1168 python2-testtools, python2-unidecode, python2-unittest2, python2-virtualenv,
1169 rrdtool, ruby, ruby, ruby-i18n, sane-backends, scrot, sound-theme-freedesktop,
1170 stress, synergy, tdb, terminus-font, testdisk, texi2html, tiled, transfig,
1171 unclutter, unixodbc, weechat, wv, xboing, xf86-video-modesetting, xfig,
1174 *** 117 package updates
1176 acct-6.6.2, acl-2.2.52, apl-1.4, apr-1.5.1, apr-util-1.5.3, autoconf-2.68,
1177 autoconf-2.69, autogen-5.18.4, bash-4.3.30, bash-light-4.3.30, bazaar-2.6.0,
1178 bison-2.7, calcurse-3.2.1, ccache-3.1.10, chicken-4.9.0.1, coreutils-8.23,
1179 curl-7.37.1, datamash-1.0.6, dbus-1.8.8, docbook-xml-4.2, docbook-xml-4.4,
1180 docbook-xml-4.5, emacs-24.4, ffmpeg-2.2.10, ffmpeg-2.4.3, file-5.19,
1181 file-5.20, freeipmi-1.4.5, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.9.2, gcc-toolchain-4.9.2,
1182 gcl-2.6.11, gdb-7.8.1, geiser-0.6, gettext-0.19.3, git-2.1.2, glibc-2.20,
1183 glibc-2.20, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.20, global-6.3.2, glpk-4.55,
1184 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.26, gnurl-7.37.0, gnutls-3.2.20, gpgme-1.5.1,
1185 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-3.9.16,
1186 guile-1.8.8, guile-json-0.4.0, guile-ncurses-1.6, guile-ssh-0.7.1, guix-0.7,
1187 guix-0.7.48bd76e, hello-2.10, help2man-1.46.3, icecat-31.2.0,
1188 libart-lgpl-2.3.21, libassuan-2.1.3, libatomic-ops-7.4.2, libdrm-2.4.33,
1189 libffi-3.1, libgc-7.2f, libgc-7.4.2, libgcrypt-1.5.4, libgcrypt-1.6.2,
1190 libidn-1.29, libjpeg-9a, libotr-4.0.0, libsodium-1.0.0, libtasn1-4.1,
1191 libunistring-0.9.4, libwebsockets-1.3, lightning-2.0.5, linux-libre-3.17.3,
1192 lsof-4.88, lua-5.2.3, lvm2-2.02.109, lzip-1.16, make-4.1, maxima-5.34.1,
1193 mit-scheme-9.2, mysql-5.1.73, neon-0.30.0, net-base-5.3, nettle-2.7.1,
1194 notmuch-0.18.1, openssh-6.7p1, openssl-1.0.1j, parallel-20141022,
1195 phonon-4.8.2, pspp-0.8.4, python-3.3.5, python-dateutil-1.5,
1196 python2-dateutil-1.5, python2-pyicu-1.8, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.3.2, rcs-5.9.3,
1197 readline-6.3, subversion-1.7.18, swig-3.0.2, tar-1.28, texinfo-5.2,
1198 tor-0.2.5.10, transmission-2.84, ucommon-6.1.11, valgrind-3.10.0, vlc-2.1.5,
1199 wget-1.16, windowmaker-0.95.6, xapian-1.2.18, xf86-video-ati-6.14.6,
1200 xpdf-3.04, youtube-dl-2014.09.06
1202 ** Programming interfaces
1204 *** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages
1206 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1208 *** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas
1210 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1212 *** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter
1214 This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus
1215 preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary.
1217 *** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter
1219 See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1221 *** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently
1223 This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given
1224 architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The
1225 ‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of
1226 the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies.
1228 *** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times
1230 *** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures
1232 They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual.
1234 *** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems
1236 “Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages
1237 and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual.
1239 *** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL
1241 See “The Store Monad” in the manual.
1243 *** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages
1245 *** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite
1247 *** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items
1249 *** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …)
1251 Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code
1252 typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre.
1254 *** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions
1256 This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface.
1258 *** Bootstrapping packages moved to (gnu packages commencement) modules
1262 *** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default
1264 Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only
1265 once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now
1266 enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been
1267 renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’.
1269 *** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’
1271 This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel.
1273 *** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>)
1274 *** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>)
1275 *** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>)
1276 *** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>)
1277 *** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>)
1278 *** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root
1279 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>)
1280 *** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>)
1281 *** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible
1282 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>)
1283 *** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>)
1284 *** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
1285 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>)
1286 *** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>)
1287 *** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers
1288 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>)
1289 *** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
1290 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>)
1291 *** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command
1292 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>)
1293 *** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>)
1294 *** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>)
1295 *** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
1296 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>)
1297 *** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension
1298 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>)
1299 *** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix.
1300 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>)
1301 *** WindowMaker no longer pollutes $PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18698>)
1303 ** Native language support
1304 *** New translation: cs (Czech)
1305 *** Updated translations: de, sr, vi
1307 * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
1308 ** Package management
1309 *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org
1311 These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already
1312 provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See
1313 “Substitutes” in the manual.
1315 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option
1316 *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option
1318 ** Programming interfaces
1319 *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions”
1321 G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side
1322 code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual.
1324 *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions
1326 This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries
1327 references to the packages or derivations it uses.
1329 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions
1330 *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized
1331 *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images
1332 *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation”
1333 *** New (guix build syscalls) module
1334 *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation
1335 *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system
1336 *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations
1337 *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules
1338 *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field
1340 This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time.
1343 *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided
1345 This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System
1346 Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted
1347 in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome!
1349 *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations
1351 Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list
1352 of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration”
1355 *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions
1357 Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’.
1358 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
1360 *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time
1361 *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices
1362 *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs
1363 *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>)
1364 *** 134 new packages
1366 abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp,
1367 chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat,
1368 doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi,
1369 fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice,
1370 gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools,
1371 jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
1372 libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
1373 libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt,
1374 libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages,
1375 maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl,
1376 offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc,
1377 petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf,
1378 pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock,
1379 python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto,
1380 python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode,
1381 rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse,
1382 strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy,
1383 transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools,
1384 wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl
1386 *** 87 package updates
1388 bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2,
1389 docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6,
1390 ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4,
1391 gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3,
1392 gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3,
1393 gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1,
1394 gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a,
1395 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20,
1396 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
1397 guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3,
1398 icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e,
1399 libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37,
1400 libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4,
1401 linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6,
1402 neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1,
1403 pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2,
1404 qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2,
1405 screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22,
1406 wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304
1408 ** Native language support
1409 *** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
1410 *** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi
1411 *** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’
1413 *** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>)
1414 *** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout
1415 (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>)
1416 *** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed
1417 *** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved
1418 *** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension
1419 *** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook
1420 *** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers
1422 * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
1423 ** Package management
1424 *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
1426 Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
1427 directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
1429 *** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
1430 *** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
1431 *** New ‘guix archive’ command
1432 *** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
1433 *** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
1434 *** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
1435 *** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
1436 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
1437 *** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
1438 *** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
1439 *** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
1440 ** Programming interfaces
1441 *** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
1442 *** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
1443 *** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
1444 *** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
1445 *** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
1446 *** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
1447 *** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
1451 a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es,
1452 aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh,
1453 corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf,
1454 fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik,
1455 gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json,
1456 guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop,
1457 isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec,
1458 libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets,
1459 ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc,
1460 ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk,
1461 perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt,
1462 source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse,
1463 unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm
1465 *** 90 package updates
1467 apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3,
1468 bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24,
1469 coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1,
1470 gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1,
1471 glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54,
1472 gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18,
1473 gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
1474 guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11,
1475 guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1,
1476 imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92,
1477 libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1,
1478 libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3,
1479 linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23,
1480 openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2,
1481 pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5,
1482 python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1,
1483 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3,
1484 recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a,
1485 tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15,
1486 xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11
1488 *** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
1489 *** libc’s Info manual is now installed
1490 *** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
1491 *** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
1492 *** Many other packaging improvements
1494 *** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
1495 *** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
1496 *** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
1497 (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
1498 *** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
1499 *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
1500 (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
1501 *** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
1502 *** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
1503 *** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
1504 *** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
1506 * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
1507 ** Package management
1508 *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
1510 In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
1511 with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
1514 ** Programming interfaces
1515 *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
1517 The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
1518 ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running
1519 ‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
1521 *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
1523 See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been
1524 rewritten to use this monadic interface.
1526 *** New (guix profiles) module
1528 It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
1531 *** New (gnu system) module
1533 This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
1534 and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
1535 See “System Configuration” in the manual.
1537 This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
1539 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
1541 Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
1542 See “Derivations” in the manual.
1545 *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
1547 Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
1548 Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
1549 packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
1551 Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
1552 build from source on this platform.
1554 *** 110 new packages
1556 acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
1557 automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
1558 fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
1559 gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
1560 gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
1561 icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
1562 libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
1563 libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
1564 pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
1565 perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
1566 perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
1567 perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
1568 perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
1569 phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
1570 qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
1571 sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
1572 xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
1574 *** 47 package updates
1576 atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
1577 gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
1578 gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
1579 gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
1580 gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
1581 harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
1582 libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
1583 linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
1584 pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
1585 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
1586 tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
1588 *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
1590 ** Native language support
1591 *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
1592 *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
1593 *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
1595 *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
1597 Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
1598 calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
1600 *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
1601 (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
1602 *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
1603 (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
1604 *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
1605 *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
1606 *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
1608 * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
1610 ** Package management
1612 *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
1614 The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
1615 deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1617 *** New ‘guix-register’ program
1619 This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
1620 copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
1622 ** Programming interfaces
1624 *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
1626 The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
1627 package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
1628 runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
1630 *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
1632 This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
1633 tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
1634 This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
1635 to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
1637 *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
1639 The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
1640 procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
1641 ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
1642 system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
1643 packages, and where Guix can be used.
1645 New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
1646 various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
1647 support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
1648 PAM configuration; and so on.
1650 *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
1652 ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
1653 <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
1654 a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
1655 file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
1661 apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
1662 freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
1663 gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
1664 itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
1665 net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
1666 python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
1667 python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
1668 python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
1669 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
1670 valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
1672 *** 27 package updates
1674 bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
1675 gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
1676 gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
1677 imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
1678 linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
1681 *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
1683 Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
1684 based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
1685 fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
1687 *** More GUI applications
1689 The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
1690 applications have been added (see above.)
1692 *** Packaging guidelines
1694 The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
1695 under “GNU Distribution”.
1697 *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
1699 Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
1700 it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
1701 section of the manual for details.
1703 ** Internationalization
1705 Updated translations: eo.
1709 *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
1710 *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
1711 *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
1712 *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
1713 *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
1714 *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
1716 * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
1718 ** Package management
1720 *** Cross-compilation support
1722 Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with
1723 the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level,
1724 the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages
1725 of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for
1728 *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
1730 See the manual for details.
1732 *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
1734 This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails
1735 to download a substitute.
1737 *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc”
1739 See the manual for details.
1741 *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh”
1743 See the manual for details.
1745 ** Programming interfaces
1747 *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations)
1749 See the manual for details.
1751 *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter
1753 This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It
1754 allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know
1755 whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is.
1757 *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures
1759 This improves performance of SHA256 computations.
1766 alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd,
1767 gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2,
1768 iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket,
1769 rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore
1771 *** 25 package updates
1773 automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3,
1774 glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8,
1775 libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error
1776 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu
1777 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0
1779 *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux
1781 The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries
1782 (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be
1783 transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms.
1785 *** Debug info packages
1787 Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The
1788 “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the
1789 other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual.
1791 *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled
1793 The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently
1794 GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting”
1797 *** Bootstrapping documented
1799 See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU
1800 distribution builds “from scratch”.
1802 ** Internationalization
1804 New translations: eo, pt_BR.
1807 *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5
1808 *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed
1810 These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary.
1811 See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details.
1813 *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity
1815 *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations
1817 Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when
1818 some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See
1819 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and
1820 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 .
1822 *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’
1824 Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the
1827 *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken
1829 When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile
1830 < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect
1831 command-line argument processing in some cases.
1833 * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1)
1835 ** Package management
1837 *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
1839 Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
1840 on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program
1841 setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
1843 *** New “guix package --upgrade” option
1845 As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
1846 installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
1847 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
1849 *** New “guix package --search” option
1851 Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns
1852 the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the
1853 manual, for details.
1855 *** New “guix pull” command
1857 The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
1858 modules and the distribution. See the manual for details.
1860 *** New binary substituter
1862 The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
1863 downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are
1864 available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The
1865 distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there.
1867 See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of
1868 available binary packages.
1870 *** New “guix refresh” command
1872 The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the
1873 distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
1875 *** New “guix hash” command
1877 Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for
1880 *** Nix daemon code updated
1882 The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated
1883 to current Nix ‘master’.
1885 ** Programming interfaces
1887 *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
1889 It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
1891 *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
1893 Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables
1894 that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
1895 package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
1896 ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
1897 These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that
1900 *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
1902 The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
1903 (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
1904 tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
1906 *** New build systems
1908 The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have
1909 been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
1912 *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
1914 The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
1915 initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
1916 evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
1917 mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
1922 (mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
1923 ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
1925 More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
1927 Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
1928 (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
1929 ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
1930 a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
1934 Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
1939 GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
1940 Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
1942 *** Noteworthy new packages
1944 TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
1945 CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.