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+* Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
+
+** Package management
+
+*** New visual user interface in Emacs
+
+See “Emacs Interface” in the manual.
+
+*** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment
+
+See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual.
+
+*** The ‘guix import’ command has been extended and documented
+
+It can now import packages from pypi.python.org and from GNU.
+See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
+
+*** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers
+
+See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
+
+*** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies
+
+See “Security Updates” in the manual.
+
+*** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
+
+This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them
+visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual.
+
+*** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades
+
+*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option
+
+See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
+
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option
+
+See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual.
+
+** Distribution
+
+*** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices
+
+See “Mapped Devices” in the manual.
+
+*** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation
+
+New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’.
+See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
+
+*** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’
+
+See “Services” in the manual.
+
+*** Free firmware can be loaded
+
+This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.)
+See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
+
+*** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme
+
+See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual.
+
+*** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature
+
+Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See
+“Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details.
+
+*** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release
+
+*** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option
+
+See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
+
+*** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment
+
+Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’
+to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change.
+
+*** 162 new packages
+
+abiword, acpica, adns, arb, ath9k-htc-firmware, atlas, avrdude, cppunit,
+dblatex, detox, dfu-programmer, dionysus, direvent, dmidecode, dri3proto,
+emacs-no-x-toolkit, emacs-w3m, emacs-wget, enchant, eudev, feh, flashrom,
+flint, fontforge, freedink, freeimage, fribidi,
+gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf, giblib, gnome-themes-standard, gpsbabel,
+gpscorrelate, graphite2, gtypist, guile-charting, guile-sdl, imake, imlib2,
+irrlicht, jbig2dec, libpsl, libspiro, libuninameslist, libwmf, lm-sensors,
+magit, minetest, miscfiles, mozjs, mupdf, nix, nspr, nss-mdns, ntp, nvi, opam,
+openal, openjpeg, opus-tools, orpheus, ots, oxygen-icons, paredit, perf,
+perl-archive-zip, perl-dbd-sqlite, perl-dbi, perl-image-exiftool,
+perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-net-ssleay, perl-www-curl, perl-zip, polkit,
+polkit-qt, postgresql, potrace, presentproto, python-certifi, python-coverage,
+python-cython, python-discover, python-docutils, python-exif-read,
+python-extras, python-fixtures, python-itsdangerous, python-jinja2,
+python-jsonschema, python-markupsafe, python-mimeparse, python-nose,
+python-oauthlib, python-py, python-pygments, python-pyjwt, python-pyld,
+python-pytest, python-scripttest, python-sphinx, python-subunit,
+python-testrepository, python-testresources, python-testscenarios,
+python-testtools, python-unidecode, python-unittest2, python-virtualenv,
+python2-certifi, python2-coverage, python2-cython, python2-discover,
+python2-docutils, python2-exif-read, python2-extras, python2-fixtures,
+python2-itsdangerous, python2-jinja2, python2-jsonschema, python2-markupsafe,
+python2-mimeparse, python2-nose, python2-oauthlib, python2-py,
+python2-pygments, python2-pyjwt, python2-pyld, python2-pytest,
+python2-requests, python2-scripttest, python2-sphinx, python2-subunit,
+python2-testrepository, python2-testresources, python2-testscenarios,
+python2-testtools, python2-unidecode, python2-unittest2, python2-virtualenv,
+rrdtool, ruby, ruby, ruby-i18n, sane-backends, scrot, sound-theme-freedesktop,
+stress, synergy, tdb, terminus-font, testdisk, texi2html, tiled, transfig,
+unclutter, unixodbc, weechat, wv, xboing, xf86-video-modesetting, xfig,
+xsensors, zsh
+
+*** 117 package updates
+
+acct-6.6.2, acl-2.2.52, apl-1.4, apr-1.5.1, apr-util-1.5.3, autoconf-2.68,
+autoconf-2.69, autogen-5.18.4, bash-4.3.30, bash-light-4.3.30, bazaar-2.6.0,
+bison-2.7, calcurse-3.2.1, ccache-3.1.10, chicken-4.9.0.1, coreutils-8.23,
+curl-7.37.1, datamash-1.0.6, dbus-1.8.8, docbook-xml-4.2, docbook-xml-4.4,
+docbook-xml-4.5, emacs-24.4, ffmpeg-2.2.10, ffmpeg-2.4.3, file-5.19,
+file-5.20, freeipmi-1.4.5, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.9.2, gcc-toolchain-4.9.2,
+gcl-2.6.11, gdb-7.8.1, geiser-0.6, gettext-0.19.3, git-2.1.2, glibc-2.20,
+glibc-2.20, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.20, global-6.3.2, glpk-4.55,
+gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.26, gnurl-7.37.0, gnutls-3.2.20, gpgme-1.5.1,
+gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-3.9.16,
+guile-1.8.8, guile-json-0.4.0, guile-ncurses-1.6, guile-ssh-0.7.1, guix-0.7,
+guix-0.7.48bd76e, hello-2.10, help2man-1.46.3, icecat-31.2.0,
+libart-lgpl-2.3.21, libassuan-2.1.3, libatomic-ops-7.4.2, libdrm-2.4.33,
+libffi-3.1, libgc-7.2f, libgc-7.4.2, libgcrypt-1.5.4, libgcrypt-1.6.2,
+libidn-1.29, libjpeg-9a, libotr-4.0.0, libsodium-1.0.0, libtasn1-4.1,
+libunistring-0.9.4, libwebsockets-1.3, lightning-2.0.5, linux-libre-3.17.3,
+lsof-4.88, lua-5.2.3, lvm2-2.02.109, lzip-1.16, make-4.1, maxima-5.34.1,
+mit-scheme-9.2, mysql-5.1.73, neon-0.30.0, net-base-5.3, nettle-2.7.1,
+notmuch-0.18.1, openssh-6.7p1, openssl-1.0.1j, parallel-20141022,
+phonon-4.8.2, pspp-0.8.4, python-3.3.5, python-dateutil-1.5,
+python2-dateutil-1.5, python2-pyicu-1.8, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.3.2, rcs-5.9.3,
+readline-6.3, subversion-1.7.18, swig-3.0.2, tar-1.28, texinfo-5.2,
+tor-0.2.5.10, transmission-2.84, ucommon-6.1.11, valgrind-3.10.0, vlc-2.1.5,
+wget-1.16, windowmaker-0.95.6, xapian-1.2.18, xf86-video-ati-6.14.6,
+xpdf-3.04, youtube-dl-2014.09.06
+
+** Programming interfaces
+
+*** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages
+
+See “Build Systems” in the manual.
+
+*** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas
+
+See “Build Systems” in the manual.
+
+*** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter
+
+This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus
+preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary.
+
+*** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter
+
+See “Build Systems” in the manual.
+
+*** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently
+
+This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given
+architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The
+‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of
+the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies.
+
+*** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times
+
+*** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures
+
+They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual.
+
+*** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems
+
+“Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages
+and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual.
+
+*** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL
+
+See “The Store Monad” in the manual.
+
+*** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages
+
+*** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite
+
+*** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items
+
+*** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …)
+
+Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code
+typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre.
+
+*** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions
+
+This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface.
+
+*** Bootstrapping packages moved to (gnu packages commencement) modules
+
+** Bugs fixed
+
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default
+
+Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only
+once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now
+enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been
+renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’.
+
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’
+
+This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel.
+
+*** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>)
+*** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>)
+*** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>)
+*** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>)
+*** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>)
+*** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>)
+*** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>)
+*** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>)
+*** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>)
+*** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>)
+*** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>)
+*** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>)
+*** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>)
+*** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>)
+*** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>)
+*** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>)
+*** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>)
+*** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>)
+*** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix.
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>)
+*** WindowMaker no longer pollutes $PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18698>)
+
+** Native language support
+*** New translation: cs (Czech)
+*** Updated translations: de, sr, vi
+
* Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
** Package management
-*** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ options
+*** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org
+
+These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already
+provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See
+“Substitutes” in the manual.
-See “Invoking guix refresh” in the manual.
+*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option
+*** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option
** Programming interfaces
*** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions”
*** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices
*** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs
*** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>)
-*** XXX new packages
-*** XXX package updates
+*** 134 new packages
+
+abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp,
+chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat,
+doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi,
+fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice,
+gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools,
+jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
+libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
+libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt,
+libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages,
+maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl,
+offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc,
+petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf,
+pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock,
+python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto,
+python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode,
+rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse,
+strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy,
+transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools,
+wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl
+
+*** 87 package updates
+
+bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2,
+docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6,
+ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4,
+gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3,
+gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3,
+gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1,
+gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a,
+gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20,
+gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
+guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3,
+icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e,
+libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37,
+libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4,
+linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6,
+neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1,
+pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2,
+qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2,
+screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22,
+wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304
** Native language support
*** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
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