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author | Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> | 2020-11-29 14:19:55 +0000 |
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committer | Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> | 2020-11-29 17:34:18 +0000 |
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@@ -11,6 +11,160 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. +* Changes in 1.2.0 (since 1.1.0) + +** Package management +*** ‘guix pull’ now crytographically authenticates channels +*** ‘guix describe -f channels’ now shows “channel introductions” +*** ‘guix describe -f channels-sans-intro’ omits channel introductions +*** New ‘guix git authenticate’ command, to authenticate Git checkouts +*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system reconfigure’ detect attempts to downgrade +*** New ‘--allow-downgrades’ option for ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system’ +*** Guix build time reduced thanks to Guile 3.0.4’s “baseline compiler” +*** New ‘--with-debug-info’ package transformation option +*** New ‘--with-c-toolchain’ package transformation option +*** New ‘--without-tests’ package transformation option +*** ‘--with-input’ & co. now also apply to implicit dependencies +*** Package transformation options are now recorded in profiles +*** New fakechroot “execution engine” for packs produced by ‘guix pack -RR’ +*** New ‘--cache-bypass-threshold’ option for ‘guix publish’ +*** New ‘--diff’ option for ‘guix challenge’, to compare substitutes +*** New ‘--exclude’ option for ‘guix lint’, to exclude checkers +*** New ‘check-for-collisions’ checker in ‘guix lint’ +*** All of Guix and Guix System now runs on Guile 3.0 +*** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ now support authenticated SSH repos +*** ‘guix pull’ now honors $http_proxy and $https_proxy +*** New ‘--path’ option for ‘guix graph’, showing the shortest path +*** ‘guix repl’ can now be passed a script to execute +*** ‘guix help’ finally shows command descriptions +*** ‘guix install’ etc. no longer list items to download by default +*** ‘guix search’ etc. now automatically invoke the pager +*** New ‘--hash’ option for ‘guix hash’ +*** New ‘--list-formats’ option for ‘guix describe’ +*** New “Getting Started” section in the manual + +** Distribution +*** Bootstrap binary seeds reduced to 60 MiB on x86_64/i686 +*** New ‘--target’ option for ‘guix system’, for cross-compilation +*** New ‘--image-type’ option for ‘guix system disk-image’ +*** New ‘--label’ option for ‘guix system disk-image’ +*** Guix System can now boot from a Btrfs subvolume +*** New ‘hurd’ field of ‘operating-system’, for GNU/Hurd support +*** Guix System can be cross-compiled to GNU/Hurd with ‘--target=i586-pc-gnu’ +*** New ‘hurd-vm-service-type’ to spawn a GNU/Hurd VM on GNU/Linux +*** /etc/guix/acl on Guix System is now built from the OS configuration +*** ‘rottlog-service-type’ is now part of ‘%base-services’ +*** Linux-libre modules are now gzip-compressed +*** The efivarfs file system is now part of ‘%base-file-systems’ +*** mcron job specs are now statically checked at OS build time +*** ‘swap-devices’ field of ‘operating-system’ can contains UUIDs and labels +*** Graphical installer uses UUIDs for unencrypted swap partitions +*** Graphical installer now supports NTFS file systems +*** File systems UUIDs and labels now recognized for F2FS and NTFS +*** Root file system can now be on NFS +*** New services + +autossh, ganeti, gmnisrv, guix-build-coordinator, +guix-build-coordinator-agent, guix-build-coordinator-queue-builds, hostapd, +hurd-console, hurd-getty, hurd-vm, lxqt, rshiny, secret-service, +simulated-wifi, udev-rules, unattended-upgrade, webssh, zram + +*** 1999 new packages +*** 3652 package updates + +Noteworthy updates: +bash 5.0.16, binutils 2.34, cups 2.3.3, emacs 27.1, enlightenment 0.24.2, +gcc-toolchain 10.2.0, gdb 10.1, ghc 8.8.3, gimp 2.10.22, glibc 2.31, +gnome 3.34.2, gnupg 2.2.23, go 1.14.10, guile 3.0.4, +icecat 78.4.0-guix0-preview1, inkscape 1.0.1, julia 1.5.2, +libreoffice 6.4.6.2, linux-libre 5.9.3, mate 1.24.1, ocaml 4.09.0, +openjdk 14.0, perl 5.30.2, python2 2.7.17, python 3.8.2, racket 7.8, +rust 1.46.0, r 4.0.3, sbcl 2.0.10, shepherd 0.8.1, xfce 4.14.2, +xorg-server 1.20.8 + + +** Programming interfaces +*** New ‘maven-build-system’, for packages built with Maven +*** ‘haskell-build-system’ now always adds a “static” output +*** New (gnu image) module, to build system images +*** New (guix git-authenticate) module, for Git checkout authentication +*** New (guix openpgp) module with a minimal OpenPGP implementation +*** New (guix transformations) module, for package transformations +*** New (gnu services hurd) module providing GNU/Hurd services +*** (guix json) removed in favor of Guile-JSON’s (json) module +*** (guix zlib) and (guix lzlib) removed in favor of Guile-{Zlib,Lzlib} +*** ‘local-file’ warns about non-literal relative file names +*** Daemon now supports more hash algorithms: SHA3 and BLAKE2s +*** New <content-hash> record type for use in ‘origin’ +*** New ‘let-system’ for in (guix gexp), for system-dependent code +*** New lowerable <profile> record type in (guix profiles) +*** (gnu build secret-service) can share secrets with a guest OS +*** “Programming Interface” section of the manual greatly expounded + +** Noteworthy bug fixes +*** ‘guix pull’ now shows a progress bar while fetching from Git + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/39260>) +*** ‘guix copy’ and ‘guix deploy’ show a progress bar while copying +*** Bootloader messages are now localized + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35394>) +*** ‘guix system reconfigure’ now starts services not currently running + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43720>) +*** Desktop environments now detect newly installed applications + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35594>) +*** Offloading and copying small items is now much faster + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43340>) +*** GCC switched back to C_INCLUDE_PATH & co. from CPATH + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30756>) +*** Graphical installer no longer hangs while connecting to WiFi network + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40682>) +*** GNU Aspell truly honors ASPELL_DICT_DIR (<https://bugs.gnu.org/29686>) +*** Fix overly aggressive memoization of “commencement” packages + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40482>) +*** Duplicate /etc entries are now reported (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40729>) +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper correctly reports exit code + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40816>) +*** Fix time travel to pre-Guile 3.0 revisions + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/41028>) +*** ‘package-grafts’ returns grafts for all the relevant outputs + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/41796>) +*** ‘guix pull’ and related commands authenticate Git checkouts + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>) +*** Fix GNU libstdc++ misconfiguration in recent ‘gcc-toolchain’ versions + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42392>) +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wraps propagated inputs as well + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42510>) +*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper leaves root available to child processes + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/44261>) +*** ‘lib/guix/package.cache’ generated by ‘guix pull’ is now bit-reproducible + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42009>) +*** Graphical installer now properly detects disks containing an LVM partition + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/42683>) +*** Fix possible crash when copying store items over SSH + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42740>) +*** ‘gcc’ is now a “deprecated” alias for ‘gcc-toolchain’ + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43303>) +*** ‘package-input-rewriting’ & co. no longer yield unnecessary rebuilds + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42156>) +*** Offloading better normalizes build machine load + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43773>) +*** ‘guix build --check’ now honors ‘--rounds’ + (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40144>) +*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now installs shell completion files + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43744>) +*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now warns about lack of ‘nscd’ + (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43744>) + +** Native language support +*** Updated translations of the manual + +The manual is fully translated into French, German, and Spanish, and has +preliminary translations into Chinese and Russian. + +*** Updated translations of messages + +This version of Guix is fully translated in French, German, and Spanish, and +partially translated in 11 other languages. + * Changes in 1.1.0 (since 1.0.1) ** Package management *** New ‘guix deploy’ command to deploy several machines at once |