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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-04-12 17:04:51 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-04-12 17:05:21 +0200
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Update NEWS.
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@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** ‘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
@@ -47,14 +50,27 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
*** Graphical installer allows users to choose an HTTP/HTTPS proxy
*** Graphical installer allows users to edit the system configuration
*** 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
-*** New services: provenance, XXX
+*** ‘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
+
*** XXX new packages
*** XXX package updates
** 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