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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-10-29T14·44+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-10-29T14·44+0000 |
| commit | 26def5392f6f6364aa0939a2d4fc7705e786d38d (patch) | |
| tree | 1908294aa8f029be6bc4c0f227074391dbaeee9b /doc/manual/release-notes.xml | |
| parent | 3d71c8013efa5d347b9767af54160b3d0fd9127b (diff) | |
* Document Boehm GC support.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index 5b1c30bf8292..1e579a37b017 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -8,6 +8,27 @@ <!--==================================================================--> +<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.0"><title>Release 1.0 (TBA)</title> + +<para>This release has the following improvements:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix can now optionally use the Boehm garbage collector. + This significantly reduces the Nix evaluator’s memory footprint, + especially when evaluating large NixOS system configurations. It + can be enabled using the <option>--enable-gc</option> configure + option.</para> + </listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</section> + + +<!--==================================================================--> + <section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.16"><title>Release 0.16 (August 17, 2010)</title> <para>This release has the following improvements:</para> |