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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 0.9.0 (since 0.8.3)
** Package management
*** New guix graph command, to draw package graphs
*** New guix challenge command, to challenge the authenticity of binaries
*** guix environment has a new --container option
*** guix substitute now honors all the specified substitute URLs
*** New guix import cran command, to import R packages from CRAN
*** Package descriptions can now include Texinfo markup rendered on the fly
*** guix package has a new --install-from-file option
*** guix package --search shows package outputs
*** guix refresh can refresh selected non-GNU package definitions
*** The --ad-hoc option of guix environment is now positional
*** The --exec option of guix environment is deprecated; use -- instead
*** guix build has a new --file option
*** guix build --log-file can now return URLs
*** guix size now has a --substitute-urls option and is much faster
*** New guix lint checkers: formatting, license, source-file-name
*** Download progress report has been improved
*** Emacs shell-mode completions for guix commands updated
*** Emacs: New M-x guix popup interface
** Distribution
*** New extensible service composition API
The operating system service API in (gnu services) has been completely
rewritten, significantly improving extensibility and modularity, while
providing a framework that makes it easy to reason about service composition.
Consequently, several sources of redundancy and confusion in
operating-system declarations have been eliminated. See “Service
Composition” in the manual.
*** New extension-graph and dmd-graph sub-commands for guix system
*** New container sub-command for guix system
*** New guix container command, to deal with GuixSD containers
*** New list-generations sub-command for guix system
*** operating-system has a new locale-libcs field
*** New services: nginx-service, udisks-service, guix-publish-service
*** dbus-daemon now has proper support for lazy service activation
*** wicd-service automatically adds Wicd to the system profile
*** slim-service automatically adds xterm to the system profile
*** hydra.gnu.org now provides substitutes for armhf-linux
*** /run/systemd is mounted as tmpfs by default, for use by elogind
*** glibc package no longer contains Bash in its bin/ directory
*** libc now looks for locale data in a versioned sub-directory
*** libc honors the new GUIX_LOCPATH environment variable
*** Xfce now defaults to the GNOME icon theme
** Programming interfaces
*** Rewritten (gnu services) module; (gnu services …) modules adjusted
*** New Emacs development tools, see “Development” in the manual
*** (guix gexp) provides the declarative computed-file, program-file, etc.
*** New (guix upstream) module, for generalized upstream release tracking
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Passwords in /etc/shadow are SHA512-hashed (http://bugs.gnu.org/21318)
*** daemon: Require a signature for imports made by root
(http://bugs.gnu.org/21354)
*** emacs: Fix guix-guile-program default value (http://bugs.gnu.org/21127)
*** Compressed initrds no longer include timestamps
*** Fix handling of encrypted root partitions (http://bugs.gnu.org/19190)
*** Python now includes tkinter (http://bugs.gnu.org/20889)
*** Memoize the results of package-with-python2 (http://bugs.gnu.org/21675)
*** Use the daemon's substitute URLs by default (http://bugs.gnu.org/20217)
** Native language support
*** Updated translations: da
* Changes in 0.8.3 (since 0.8.2)
** Package management