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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index f58e549efba7..6643b4a3b990 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -8,6 +8,54 @@ <!--==================================================================--> +<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.5.3"><title>Release 1.5.3 (June 17, 2013)</title> + +<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. The following changes are +noteworthy:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para>Yet another security bug involving hard links to files + outside the store was fixed. This bug only affected multi-user + installations that do not have hard link restrictions + enabled. (NixOS is thus not vulnerable.)</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The default binary cache URL has changed from + <uri>http://nixos.org/binary-cache</uri> to + <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri>. The latter is hosted on Amazon + CloudFront (courtesy of <link + xlink:href="http://www.logicblox.com/">LogicBlox</link>) and + should provide better performance for users in both Europe and + North America.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The binary cache substituter now prints a warning message if + fetching information from the cache takes more than five seconds. + Thus network or server problems no longer make Nix appear to just + hang.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Stack traces now show function names, e.g. +<screen> +while evaluating `concatMapStrings' at `<replaceable>...</replaceable>/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/strings.nix:18:25': +</screen> + Also, if a function is called with an unexpected argument, Nix + now shows the name of the argument. + </para> + </listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</section> + + +<!--==================================================================--> + <section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.5.2"><title>Release 1.5.2 (May 13, 2013)</title> <para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It has contributions from |