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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-06-23T18·59-0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-06-23T18·59-0400
commit8da6772ed48e2ee7082071b31c7afeb800195cdb (patch)
treed43de8b2edfc10df3e2e86e77d720f100b634a1d /doc
parent723a68c8262ec337e290e51265820ae90fe3ad18 (diff)
Update release notes
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes.xml16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index 3250c81a4bb0..66ced1c9c429 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -15,10 +15,24 @@
 <itemizedlist>
 
   <listitem>
+    <para>Builds in chroots are now executed in a private network
+    namespace, meaning that they do not see any network interfaces
+    except a private loopback interface.  This ensures that builds
+    cannot communicate with processes outside of the chroot, or clash
+    with other builds by listening on an identical port number.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Build logs are now compressed using
+    <command>bzip2</command>.  The command <command>nix-store
+    -l</command> decompresses them on the fly.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
     <para>The creation of build logs in
     <filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs</filename> can be disabled by
     setting the new option <literal>build-keep-log</literal> to
-    <literal>false</literal></para>
+    <literal>false</literal>.</para>
   </listitem>    
 
 </itemizedlist>