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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index b599ae3774e7..926cac086e18 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -5,6 +5,66 @@ <title>Nix Release Notes</title> +<!--==================================================================--> + +<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.1"><title>Release 1.6.1 (TBA)</title> + +<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. Changes of interest +are:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix 1.6 accidentally changed the semantics of antiquoted + paths in strings, such as <literal>"${/foo}/bar"</literal>. This + release reverts to the Nix 1.5.3 behaviour.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Previously, Nix optimised expressions such as + <literal>"${<replaceable>expr</replaceable>}"</literal> to + <replaceable>expr</replaceable>. Thus it neither checked whether + <replaceable>expr</replaceable> could be coerced to a string, nor + applied such coercions. This meant that + <literal>"${123}"</literal> evaluatued to <literal>123</literal>, + and <literal>"${./foo}"</literal> evaluated to + <literal>./foo</literal> (even though + <literal>"${./foo} "</literal> evaluates to + <literal>"/nix/store/<replaceable>hash</replaceable>-foo "</literal>). + Nix now checks the type of antiquoted expressions and + applies coercions.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix now shows the exact position of undefined variables. In + particular, undefined variable errors in a <literal>with</literal> + previously didn't show <emphasis>any</emphasis> position + information, so this makes it a lot easier to fix such + errors.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Undefined variables are now treated consistently. + Previously, the <function>tryEval</function> function would catch + undefined variables inside a <literal>with</literal> but not + outside. Now <function>tryEval</function> never catches undefined + variables.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Bash completion in <command>nix-shell</command> now works + correctly.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>In order to be less verbose, stack traces no longer show + calls to builtin functions.</para> + </listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</section> + <!--==================================================================--> |