#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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-Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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-* Changes since 0.15.0
+* Changes in 1.1.0 (since 1.0.1)
+** Package management
+*** New ‘guix deploy’ command to deploy several machines at once
+*** Channels can now provide news, viewed with ‘guix pull --news’
+*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ saves provenance data
+*** New ‘guix system describe’ command to view system provenance info
+*** New /run/current-system/{channels,configuration}.scm files
+*** New ‘guix time-machine’ command
+*** ‘guix pack’ has a new ‘--entry-point’ option
+*** ‘guix pack’ saves environment variables for ‘docker’ and ‘singularity’
+*** ‘guix pack’ provides a meaningful repository name for ‘docker’
+*** New ‘--target’ option for ‘guix system’
+*** ‘--no-build-hook’ was renamed to ‘--no-offload’
+*** ‘--keep-failed’ now implies ‘--no-offload’
+*** ‘--dry-run’ no longer implies ‘--no-grafts’
+*** ‘guix import crate’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
+*** ‘guix import crate’ can import a specific package version
+*** ‘guix pull’ returns Guix on Guile 3.0
+*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ can clone repositories over SSH
+*** ‘--with-commit’ now accepts tags
+*** ‘guix challenge’ has a new ‘--diff’ option to show differences
+*** ‘guix weather’ has a new ‘--display-missing’ option
+*** Guix can now fetch lzip-compressed substitutes in addition to gzip
+*** ‘guix publish’ supports lzip compression via ‘-C’
+*** ‘guix lint -c archival’ queries Software Heritage
+*** ‘guix archive’ has a new ‘-t’ option to list archive contents
+*** ‘guix describe’ and similar commands emit terminal hyperlinks
+*** ‘guix build’ now attempts to substitute missing .drv files
+*** ‘guix package’ etc. now lock the profile they operate on
+*** ‘guix pull’ honors /etc/guix/channels.scm when it exists
+*** New ‘guix show’ command, synonymous with ‘guix package --show’
+*** The ‘--manifest’ option can be repeated to combine manifests
+*** Some commands previously lacking ‘--load-path’ now support it
+** Distribution
+*** The set of pre-built bootstrap “binary seeds” has been halved
+*** Graphical installer has better support for non-Latin keyboard layouts
+*** Graphical installer allows users to choose an HTTP/HTTPS proxy
+*** Graphical installer allows users to edit the system configuration
+*** New ‘kernel-loadable-modules’ field in ‘operating-system’
+*** rottlog service is now part of ‘%base-services’
+*** ‘%base-services’ now includes /usr/bin/env as a “special file”
+*** ‘herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon URL’ can be used to set a proxy
+*** ‘qemu-binfmt’ service now supports riscv32 and riscv64
+*** File system UUIDs and labels are now supported for JFS
+*** New services
+
+auditd, fontconfig-file-system, getmail, gnome-keyring, kernel-module-loader,
+knot-resolver, mumi, nfs, nftables, nix, pagekite, pam-mount, patchwork,
+polkit-wheel, provenance, pulseaudio, sane, singularity, usb-modeswitch
+
+*** 3514 new packages
+
+*** 3368 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+bash 5.0.7, binutils 2.32, cups 2.3.1, emacs 26.3, enlightenment 0.23.1,
+gcc-toolchain 9.3.0, gdb 9.1, ghc 8.6.5, gimp 2.10.18, glibc 2.29,
+gnome 3.32.2, gnupg 2.2.20, go 1.13.9, guile 2.2.7,
+icecat 68.7.0-guix0-preview1, icedtea 3.7.0, julia 1.3.1,
+libreoffice 6.4.2.2, linux-libre 5.4.31, mate 1.24.0, ocaml 4.09.0,
+octave 5.2.0, openjdk 12.33, perl 5.30.0, python2 2.7.16, python 3.7.4,
+racket 7.6, rust 1.39.0, r 3.6.3, sbcl 2.0.3, shepherd 0.7.0, xfce 4.14.0,
+xorg-server 1.20.7
+
+** Programming interfaces
+*** New build systems
+
+copy-build-system, julia-build-system, node-build-system, qt-build-system
+
+*** New ‘with-build-handler’ and ‘map/accumulate-builds’ in (guix store)
+*** (guix gexp) has a new ‘with-parameters’ form
+*** New (guix remote) module for remote evaluation of gexps
+*** New ‘eval/container’ procedure in (gnu system linux-container)
+*** (guix inferior) now reifies exceptions as ‘&inferior-exception’
+*** (guix cve) uses the new NIST-provided JSON files instead of XML
+*** New (guix json) module to map JSON objects to Scheme records
+*** New (gnu installer tests) module to drive the graphical installer
+*** New (guix diagnostics) module for consistent diagnostic messages
+*** “Checkers” now live in (guix lint)
+** Notewothy bug fixes
+*** Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22990>)
+*** Grafting prevents build plan from being displayed upfront
+ (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28310)
+*** Changing the HTTP/FTP proxy used by the daemon is inconvenient
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/25569>)
+*** ‘guix system disk-image’ successfully builds a bad image
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34276>)
+*** Installer cannot be restarted after a failed install
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35543>)
+*** Null pointer error when partitioning with the graphical installer
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35858>)
+*** 'guix upgrade' misdiagnoses upgrades in the presence of propagated inputs
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35872>)
+*** mcron randomly stops running jobs
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37237>)
+*** Mistaken warning "guix pull was never run"
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38196>)
+*** `guix pack --format=squashfs` fails on CentOS7
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40043>)
+*** installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40273>)
+*** installer: Always add '%base-initrd-modules' to 'initrd-modules'
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36099>)
+*** [MATE] shutdown and reboot not possible from UI
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40327>)
+*** 'guix-daemon' honors %localstatedir, %sysconfdir, and %storedir
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35874>)
+*** Fix ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ quoting in ‘guix-daemon.service’ (systemd)
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36074>)
+*** Include USB_ModeSwitch in %desktop-services
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35640>)
+*** linux-container: Mount a new /dev/pts instance in the container
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36463>)
+*** system: Write the timezone to /etc/timezone
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746>)
+*** linux-modules: Define and use a module name database
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34902>)
+*** pack: Create /tmp in Docker images
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37161>)
+*** guix system: Reinstalling the bootloader preserves extra menu entries
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36876>)
+*** system: Add 'mount' and 'umount' to '%setuid-programs'
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37569>)
+*** linux-libre: Try to aggressively gather entropy during boot
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37501>)
+*** daemon: Make 'profiles/per-user' non-world-writable
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37744>)
+*** linux-boot: Don't ignore options when mounting root file system
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37977>)
+*** Files produced by syslogd are no longer world-readable
+ (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40405>)
+
+** Native language support
+*** Updated translations of the manual
+
+The manual is fully translated into Spanish, more than 85% complete in French
+and German, and has preliminary translations into Russian and Chinese.
+
+*** Updated translations of messages
+
+This version of Guix is fully translated in Brazilian Portuguese, French,
+German, and Spanish, and partially translated in 10 other languages.
+
+* Changes in 1.0.1 (since 1.0.0)
+** Package management
+*** The ‘https_proxy’ environment variable is now honored
+** Distribution
+*** ‘guix system docker-image’ now produces images with an entry point
+*** New ‘--network’ option for ‘guix system container’
+*** ‘gcc’ package is now hidden; ‘gcc-toolchain’ is what users want
+*** ‘mcron’ service now logs to /var/log/mcron.log
+*** Dovecot: ‘auth-verbose-passwords?’ renamed from ‘auth-verbose-passwords’
+*** ‘slim’ service now allows for multiple instances on different VTs
+*** 70 new packages
+*** 483 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+gdb 8.3, ghc 8.4.3, glibc 2.28, gnupg 2.2.15, go 1.12.1, guile 2.2.4,
+icecat 60.6.2-guix1, icedtea 3.7.0, linux-libre 5.1.2, python 3.7.0,
+rust 1.34.1, shepherd 0.6.1
+
+** Programming interfaces
+*** New (guix lzlib) module, to be used eventually for substitute compression
+** Noteworthy bug fixes
+*** Installer appends packages to ‘%base-packages’
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35541>)
+*** Installer allows for arbitrary-long passphrases and passwords
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35716>)
+*** ‘network-manager-applet’ is provided as part of ‘%desktop-services’
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35554>)
+*** Installer can create Btrfs file systems
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35655>)
+*** Installer password entry visibility can be toggled
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35540>)
+*** ‘guix-daemon.service’ file for systemd selects a valid UTF-8 locale
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35671>)
+*** ‘gnome-tweak-tool’ starts correctly
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35597>)
+*** ‘getlogin’ C function now works as expected
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35553>)
+*** Leading zeros are preserved when serializing FAT UUIDs
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35582>)
+*** ‘guix search’ now searches output names
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35588>)
+*** ‘guix environment’ in non ad-hoc mode honors package transformations
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35618>)
+*** ‘guix refresh’ correctly determines the latest version for GitHub
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35684>)
+
+** Native language support
+*** New preliminary translation of the manual to Russian
+*** Updated translations: da, de, es, fr
+
+* Changes in 1.0.0 (since 0.16.0)
+** Package management
+*** New ‘-v’/‘--verbosity’ option for all commands
+*** Most commands now default to verbosity level 1 (“quiet”)
+*** New ‘guix package’ aliases: ‘install’, ‘remove’, ‘upgrade’, and ‘search’
+*** ‘guix pack -RR’ produces PRoot-enabled relocatable binaries
+*** New ‘--save-provenance’ option for ‘guix pack’
+*** CLI diagnostics use colors; more operations show progress bars
+*** New ‘--news’ option for ‘guix pull’
+*** New ‘--preserve’ option for ‘guix environment’
+*** ‘guix environment -C’ creates containers with a non-zero UID
+*** Channels can now specify dependencies in a ‘.guix-channel’ file
+*** New ‘reverse-bag’ graph type for ‘guix graph’
+*** New ‘--with-git-url’ package transformation option
+*** The ‘--with-branch’ package transformation option fetches Git sub-modules
+*** New ‘guix system delete-generations’ command
+*** New ‘--list-roots’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options for ‘guix gc’
+*** New ‘--coverage’ option for ‘guix weather’
+*** ‘guix pull’ computes a package cache to speed up package lookups by name
+*** ‘guix pull’ now embeds ‘glibc-utf8-locales’
+*** ‘guix refresh -l’ better estimates dependents
+*** ‘guix build’ can take multiple ‘--system’ flags
+*** ‘guix offload’ avoids build machines with too little free disk space
+*** ‘guix offload’ now uses (guix inferior) to communicate with remote hosts
+*** Guix can no longer be built with Guile 2.0
+** Distribution
+*** New text-mode graphical installer
+*** New virtual machine (VM) image
+*** New ‘keyboard-layout’ field for the OS, bootloader, and Xorg configuration
+*** New ‘xorg-configuration’ record type for Xorg server configuration
+*** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes GDM instead of SLiM for graphical log-in
+*** New ‘label’ and ‘essential-services’ fields for <operation-system>
+*** The manual has been restructured for clarity
+*** New ‘remote-inferior’ procedure in (guix ssh)
+*** New (gnu ci) module for continuous integration jobs
+*** (gnu services shepherd) now supports one-shot services
+*** New services
+
+cups-pk-helper, imap4d, inputattach, localed, nslcd, zabbix-agent,
+zabbix-server
+
+*** 1102 new packages
+*** 2104 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+clojure 1.10.0, cups 2.2.11, emacs 26.2, gcc 8.3.0, gdb 8.2.1, ghc 8.4.3,
+gimp 2.10.10, glibc 2.28, gnome 3.28.2, gnupg 2.2.15, go 1.12.1,
+guile 2.2.4, icecat 60.6.1-guix1, icedtea 3.7.0, inkscape 0.92.4,
+libreoffice 6.1.5.2, linux-libre 5.0.10, mate 1.22.0, ocaml 4.07.1,
+octave 5.1.0, openjdk 11.28, python 3.7.0, rust 1.34.0, r 3.6.0,
+sbcl 1.5.1, shepherd 0.6.0, xfce 4.12.1, xorg-server 1.20.4
+
+** Programming interfaces
+*** New ‘this-package’, ‘this-origin’, and ‘this-operating-system’ macros
+*** The ‘self-native-input?’ field was removed from <package>
+*** New ‘package-input-rewriting/spec’ procedure for graph rewriting
+*** New ‘package-closure’ procedure in (guix packages)
+*** New UI helper modules (guix colors) and (guix deprecation)
+*** New (gnu build accounts) module to manage /etc/{passwd,shadow,group}
+*** ‘nix-*’ bindings in (guix store) replaced by ‘store-connection-*’
+*** Records created by ‘define-record-type*’ report duplicate fields
+** Noteworthy bug fixes
+*** ISO images produced by ‘guix system’ are now reproducible bit-for-bit
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35283>)
+*** ‘guix pack -f squashfs’ produces relative symlinks
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/34913>)
+*** ‘guix package -r something-not-installed’ now raises an error
+*** Fix multi-threaded miscompilation issue with syntax parameters
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/27476>)
+*** file-systems: Spawn a REPL only when interaction is possible
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/23697>)
+*** ‘guix environment’ supports package transformation options
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33776>)
+*** ‘guix substitute’ now ignores irrelevant narinfo signatures
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33733>)
+*** On Guix System, guix-daemon now runs in a UTF-8 locale
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32942>)
+*** Fix relative file name canonicalization for '--root'
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35271>)
+*** vm: Do not mount /xchg with "cache=loose"
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33639>)
+*** build-system/go: Build with a filesystem union of Go dependencies
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33620>)
+*** 'containerized-operating-system' removes "useless" services
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/34211>)
+** Native language support
+*** The manual is now fully translated in French and Spanish
+*** The manual is also partly translated in German and in Simplified Chinese
+*** Updated translations: da, de, es, fr
+*** New translations: sv
+
+* Changes in 0.16.0 (since 0.15.0)
** Package management
+*** Default substitute URL changed to https://ci.guix.info
*** ‘guix pull -l’ lists new and upgraded packages
*** ‘guix pull’ now supports channels via ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
*** New ‘--profile’ or ‘-p’ option for ‘guix pull’
+*** ~/.config/guix/current is now a symlink to /var/guix/profiles
*** New ‘guix describe’ command
*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows build logs by default
*** ‘guix’ commands now produce colored output by default
+*** User interface now reports grafts separately
*** Manifests can now refer to arbitrary Guix commits using “inferiors”
+*** New ‘--with-branch’ and ‘--with-commit’ package transformation options
+*** ‘guix build -f’ now accepts any kind of “file-like object”
+*** Git checkouts may now be fetched from Software Heritage
+*** New ‘guix repl’ command for use by inferiors
*** New ‘guix processes’ command
*** ‘guix pack’ now honors ‘--localstatedir’ for all its backends
+*** New ‘opam’ importer for ‘guix import’
*** ‘guix import pypi’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
*** ‘guix import hackage’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
*** ‘guix import stackage’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
The short option for ‘--lts-version’ is now ‘-l’ (used to be ‘-r’).
*** ‘guix refresh’ now stores upstream keys in ~/.config/guix/upstream
*** Guix now depends on Guile-Gcrypt
+*** Guix now requires Guile-JSON
** Distribution
+*** Rust is now bootstrapped from mrustc
*** The GNU Shepherd was upgraded to 0.5.0
*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now loads Shepherd service replacements
*** ‘herd schedule mcron’ now displays mcron’s job schedule
*** ‘herd invalidate nscd TABLE’ instructs nscd to invalidate TABLE
*** New services
-gitolite, iptables, pcscd, prometheus-node-exporter, varnish
+ddclient, gitolite, iptables, pcscd, prometheus-node-exporter, varnish
+
+*** 985 new packages
+
+*** 1945 package updates
+
+Noteworthy updates:
+bash 4.4.23, binutils 2.31.1, cups 2.2.8, enlightenment 0.22.4, gcc 8.2.0,
+gdb 8.2, ghc 8.4.3, gimp 2.10.6, glibc 2.28, gnupg 2.2.11, go 1.11.1,
+guile 2.2.4, icecat 60.3.0-gnu1, icedtea 3.7.0, libreoffice 6.1.3.2,
+linux-libre 4.19.6, ocaml 4.07.1, octave 4.4.1, perl 5.28.0,
+python2 2.7.15, python 3.7.0, racket 7.0, rust 1.28.0, r 3.5.1,
+sbcl 1.4.13, shepherd 0.5.0, xorg-server 1.20.3
** Programming interfaces
-*** New (guix channels) module
-*** New (guix inferior) module
-*** New (guix status) module
+*** New (guix channels) module, see “Channels” in the manual
+*** New (guix inferior) module, see “Inferiors” in the manual
+*** New (guix describe) module, used by ‘guix describe’
+*** New (guix status) module, for build progress reporting
*** ‘packages->manifest’ now accepts inferior packages
*** New build systems: ‘clojure’, ‘guile’
+*** New ‘git-checkout’ record constructor in (guix git)
*** Shepherd services can now declare custom actions
*** More of the (gnu system …) APIs are now non-monadic
*** New ‘add-file-tree-to-store’ procedure in (guix store)
+*** New (guix swh) module to access Software Heritage
+*** New (guix build debug-link) module, for ELF ‘.gnu_debuglink’ sections
** Noteworthy bug fixes
+*** Fix GCC crashes caused by a patch of ours (<https://bugs.gnu.org/31708>)
+*** ‘guix import hackage’ now supports ‘custom-setup’ field
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/23961>)
+*** ‘guix-daemon’ taken from ‘guix pull’ looks up ‘guix’ in the right place
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32183>)
+*** Try several file names when looking up kernel modules
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/31714>)
+*** ‘file-system-*’ services are now always started after ‘udev’
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32313>)
+*** Racket now ignores bytecode checksums for files in the store
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30680>)
+*** Grafting now updates CRCs in ‘.gnu_debuglink’ ELF sections
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/19973>)
+*** UUID computation for VMs is now deterministic (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32652>)
+*** ‘git-predicate’ from (guix git) now uses Guile-Git, which fixes corner cases
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/27925>)
+*** (guix store database) registers each store item only once
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32600>)
+*** The File > Open dialog in LibreOffice no longer triggers a crash
+ (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30642>)
+*** Account home directory is always honored (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33422>)
+
** Native language support
*** The manual is now partially translated into German, in addition to French
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