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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-12-07 00:00:41 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-12-07 00:00:41 +0100
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@@ -11,28 +11,38 @@ Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
-* Changes since 0.15.0
+* 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
@@ -40,21 +50,59 @@ The short option for ‘--lts-version’ is now ‘-l’ (used to be ‘-r’).
*** ‘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