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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-09-16T12·18+0200 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-09-16T12·18+0200 |
commit | 9ed49c1da02ef963f6e3730f16e0f916b32525f1 (patch) | |
tree | a07cd6adc53eff86f87cd66f417ba3fe9b33f706 /doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.4.xml | |
parent | 8259a392dabe91ec553633aa3aefc512a16dace9 (diff) |
Nicer file names for the release notes
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.4.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.4.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d1a8cd6d867f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.4.xml @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" + xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + version="5.0" + xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.4"> + +<title>Release 1.4 (February 26, 2013)</title> + +<para>This release fixes a security bug in multi-user operation. It +was possible for derivations to cause the mode of files outside of the +Nix store to be changed to 444 (read-only but world-readable) by +creating hard links to those files (<link +xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/5526a282b5b44e9296e61e07d7d2626a79141ac4">details</link>).</para> + +<para>There are also the following improvements:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>New built-in function: + <function>builtins.hashString</function>.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Build logs are now stored in + <filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs/<replaceable>XX</replaceable>/</filename>, + where <replaceable>XX</replaceable> is the first two characters of + the derivation. This is useful on machines that keep a lot of build + logs (such as Hydra servers).</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>The function <function>corepkgs/fetchurl</function> + can now make the downloaded file executable. This will allow + getting rid of all bootstrap binaries in the Nixpkgs source + tree.</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Language change: The expression <literal>"${./path} + ..."</literal> now evaluates to a string instead of a + path.</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</chapter> \ No newline at end of file |