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   5 Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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  11 Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
  12
  13 * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
  14 ** Package management
  15 *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org
  16
  17 These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already
  18 provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins.  See
  19 “Substitutes” in the manual.
  20
  21 *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option
  22 *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option
  23
  24 ** Programming interfaces
  25 *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions”
  26
  27 G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side
  28 code.  See “G-Expressions” in the manual.
  29
  30 *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions
  31
  32 This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries
  33 references to the packages or derivations it uses.
  34
  35 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions
  36 *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized
  37 *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images
  38 *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation”
  39 *** New (guix build syscalls) module
  40 *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation
  41 *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system
  42 *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations
  43 *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules
  44 *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field
  45
  46 This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time.
  47
  48 ** GNU distribution
  49 *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided
  50
  51 This is the first time an installation image is provided.  See “System
  52 Installation” in the manual for details.  This is work in progress as noted
  53 in “Limitations”.  Your feedback and help are welcome!
  54
  55 *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations
  56
  57 Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list
  58 of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more.  See “System Configuration”
  59 in the manual.
  60
  61 *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions
  62
  63 Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’.
  64 See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
  65
  66 *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time
  67 *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices
  68 *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs
  69 *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>)
  70 *** 134 new packages
  71
  72 abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp,
  73 chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat,
  74 doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi,
  75 fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice,
  76 gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools,
  77 jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
  78 libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
  79 libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt,
  80 libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages,
  81 maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl,
  82 offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc,
  83 petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf,
  84 pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock,
  85 python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto,
  86 python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode,
  87 rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse,
  88 strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy,
  89 transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools,
  90 wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl
  91
  92 *** 87 package updates
  93
  94 bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2,
  95 docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6,
  96 ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4,
  97 gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3,
  98 gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3,
  99 gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1,
 100 gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a,
 101 gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20,
 102 gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
 103 guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3,
 104 icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e,
 105 libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37,
 106 libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4,
 107 linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6,
 108 neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1,
 109 pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2,
 110 qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2,
 111 screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22,
 112 wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304
 113
 114 ** Native language support
 115 *** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
 116 *** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi
 117 *** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’
 118 ** Bugs fixed
 119 *** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>)
 120 *** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout
 121     (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>)
 122 *** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed
 123 *** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved
 124 *** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension
 125 *** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook
 126 *** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers
 127
 128 * Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
 129 ** Package management
 130 *** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
 131
 132 Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
 133 directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
 134
 135 *** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
 136 *** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
 137 *** New ‘guix archive’ command
 138 *** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
 139 *** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
 140 *** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
 141 *** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
 142 *** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
 143 *** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
 144 *** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
 145 *** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
 146 ** Programming interfaces
 147 *** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
 148 *** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
 149 *** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
 150 *** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
 151 *** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
 152 *** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
 153 *** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
 154 ** GNU distribution
 155 *** 91 new packages
 156
 157 a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es,
 158 aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh,
 159 corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf,
 160 fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik,
 161 gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json,
 162 guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop,
 163 isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec,
 164 libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets,
 165 ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc,
 166 ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk,
 167 perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt,
 168 source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse,
 169 unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm
 170
 171 *** 90 package updates
 172
 173 apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3,
 174 bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24,
 175 coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1,
 176 gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1,
 177 glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54,
 178 gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18,
 179 gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
 180 guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11,
 181 guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1,
 182 imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92,
 183 libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1,
 184 libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3,
 185 linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23,
 186 openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2,
 187 pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5,
 188 python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1,
 189 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3,
 190 recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a,
 191 tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15,
 192 xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11
 193
 194 *** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
 195 *** libc’s Info manual is now installed
 196 *** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
 197 *** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
 198 *** Many other packaging improvements
 199 ** Bugs fixed
 200 *** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
 201 *** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
 202 *** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
 203     (http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
 204 *** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
 205 *** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
 206     (http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
 207 *** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
 208 *** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
 209 *** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
 210 *** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
 211
 212 * Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
 213 ** Package management
 214 *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
 215
 216 In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
 217 with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
 218 meta-data.
 219
 220 ** Programming interfaces
 221 *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
 222
 223 The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
 224 ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.)  These are applied when running
 225 ‘guix build --source’.  See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
 226
 227 *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
 228
 229 See “The Store Monad” in the manual.  The (gnu system …) modules have been
 230 rewritten to use this monadic interface.
 231
 232 *** New (guix profiles) module
 233
 234 It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
 235 command.
 236
 237 *** New (gnu system) module
 238
 239 This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
 240 and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
 241 See “System Configuration” in the manual.
 242
 243 This is work in progress.  Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
 244
 245 *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
 246
 247 Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
 248 See “Derivations” in the manual.
 249
 250 ** GNU distribution
 251 *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
 252
 253 Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
 254 Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
 255 packages.  See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
 256
 257 Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
 258 build from source on this platform.
 259
 260 *** 110 new packages
 261
 262 acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
 263 automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
 264 fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
 265 gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
 266 gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
 267 icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
 268 libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
 269 libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
 270 pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
 271 perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
 272 perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
 273 perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
 274 perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
 275 phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
 276 qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
 277 sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
 278 xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
 279
 280 *** 47 package updates
 281
 282 atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
 283 gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
 284 gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
 285 gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
 286 gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
 287 harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
 288 libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
 289 linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
 290 pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
 291 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
 292 tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
 293
 294 *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
 295
 296 ** Native language support
 297 *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
 298 *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
 299 *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
 300 ** Bugs fixed
 301 *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
 302
 303 Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
 304 calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
 305
 306 *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
 307     (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
 308 *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
 309     (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
 310 *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
 311 *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
 312 *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
 313
 314 * Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
 315
 316 ** Package management
 317
 318 *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
 319
 320 The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
 321 deal with a profile’s generation.  See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
 322
 323 *** New ‘guix-register’ program
 324
 325 This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
 326 copying info from an existing store.  It is mostly an internal tool.
 327
 328 ** Programming interfaces
 329
 330 *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
 331
 332 The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
 333 package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
 334 runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
 335
 336 *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
 337
 338 This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
 339 tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
 340 This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
 341 to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
 342
 343 *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
 344
 345 The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
 346 procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
 347 ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
 348 system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
 349 packages, and where Guix can be used.
 350
 351 New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
 352 various parts of a GNU/Linux system.  For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
 353 support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
 354 PAM configuration; and so on.
 355
 356 *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
 357
 358 ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
 359 <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
 360 a <derivation> object.  The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
 361 file name.  See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
 362
 363 ** GNU distribution
 364
 365 *** 60 new packages
 366
 367 apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
 368 freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
 369 gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
 370 itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
 371 net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
 372 python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
 373 python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
 374 python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
 375 qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
 376 valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
 377
 378 *** 27 package updates
 379
 380 bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
 381 gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
 382 gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
 383 imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
 384 linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
 385 3.3.2, texlive 2013
 386
 387 *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
 388
 389 Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
 390 based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts.  Additional
 391 fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
 392
 393 *** More GUI applications
 394
 395 The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+.  New GTK+
 396 applications have been added (see above.)
 397
 398 *** Packaging guidelines
 399
 400 The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented.  See the manual
 401 under “GNU Distribution”.
 402
 403 *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
 404
 405 Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
 406 it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3.  See the “Python Modules”
 407 section of the manual for details.
 408
 409 ** Internationalization
 410
 411 Updated translations: eo.
 412
 413 ** Bugs fixed
 414
 415 *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
 416 *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
 417 *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
 418 *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
 419 *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
 420 *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
 421
 422 * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
 423
 424 ** Package management
 425
 426 *** Cross-compilation support
 427
 428 Guix can now cross-build packages.  On the command-line, this is achieved with
 429 the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’.  At the Scheme level,
 430 the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure.  Core packages
 431 of the distribution can already be cross-compiled.  See the manual for
 432 details.
 433
 434 *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
 435
 436 See the manual for details.
 437
 438 *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
 439
 440 This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails
 441 to download a substitute.
 442
 443 *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc”
 444
 445 See the manual for details.
 446
 447 *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh”
 448
 449 See the manual for details.
 450
 451 ** Programming interfaces
 452
 453 *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations)
 454
 455 See the manual for details.
 456
 457 *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter
 458
 459 This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation.  It
 460 allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know
 461 whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is.
 462
 463 *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures
 464
 465 This improves performance of SHA256 computations.
 466
 467
 468 ** GNU distribution
 469
 470 *** 33 new packages
 471
 472 alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd,
 473 gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2,
 474 iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket,
 475 rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore
 476
 477 *** 25 package updates
 478
 479 automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3,
 480 glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8,
 481 libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error
 482 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu
 483 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0
 484
 485 *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux
 486
 487 The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries
 488 (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries.  Both can be
 489 transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms.
 490
 491 *** Debug info packages
 492
 493 Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information.  The
 494 “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the
 495 other outputs of the package.  See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual.
 496
 497 *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled
 498
 499 The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently
 500 GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”.  See “Porting”
 501 in the manual.
 502
 503 *** Bootstrapping documented
 504
 505 See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU
 506 distribution builds “from scratch”.
 507
 508 ** Internationalization
 509
 510 New translations: eo, pt_BR.
 511
 512 ** Bugs fixed
 513 *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5
 514 *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed
 515
 516 These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary.
 517 See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details.
 518
 519 *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity
 520
 521 *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations
 522
 523 Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when
 524 some (but not all) of its outputs were already present.  See
 525 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and
 526 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 .
 527
 528 *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’
 529
 530 Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the
 531 profile.
 532
 533 *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken
 534
 535 When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile
 536 < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided.  This bug would affect
 537 command-line argument processing in some cases.
 538
 539 * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1)
 540
 541 ** Package management
 542
 543 *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
 544
 545 Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
 546 on.  This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program
 547 setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
 548
 549 *** New “guix package --upgrade” option
 550
 551 As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
 552 installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
 553 See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
 554
 555 *** New “guix package --search” option
 556
 557 Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns
 558 the matching packages in recutils format.  See “Invoking guix package” in the
 559 manual, for details.
 560
 561 *** New “guix pull” command
 562
 563 The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
 564 modules and the distribution.  See the manual for details.
 565
 566 *** New binary substituter
 567
 568 The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
 569 downloaded instead of performing a build locally.  Currently binaries are
 570 available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org.  The
 571 distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there.
 572
 573 See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of
 574 available binary packages.
 575
 576 *** New “guix refresh” command
 577
 578 The command is used by Guix maintainers.  It automatically updates the
 579 distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
 580
 581 *** New “guix hash” command
 582
 583 Convenience command to compute the hash of a file.  See the manual for
 584 details.
 585
 586 *** Nix daemon code updated
 587
 588 The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated
 589 to current Nix ‘master’.
 590
 591 ** Programming interfaces
 592
 593 *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
 594
 595 It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
 596
 597 *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
 598
 599 Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables
 600 that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
 601 package.  For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
 602 ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
 603 These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that
 604 uses one of these.
 605
 606 *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
 607
 608 The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
 609 (%current-system).  This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
 610 tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
 611
 612 *** New build systems
 613
 614 The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have
 615 been added.  They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
 616 CMake packages.
 617
 618 *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
 619
 620 The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
 621 initrd (“initial RAM disk”).  The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
 622 evaluate the given expression.  The example below returns an initrd that
 623 mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
 624
 625   (expression->initrd
 626     '(begin
 627        (mkdir "/proc")
 628        (mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
 629        ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
 630
 631 More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
 632
 633 Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
 634 (gnu system vm) module.  For instance, the
 635 ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
 636 a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
 637
 638 ** GNU distribution
 639
 640 Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution.  Here are the
 641 highlights.
 642
 643 *** Major updates
 644
 645 GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
 646 Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
 647
 648 *** Noteworthy new packages
 649
 650 TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
 651 CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.