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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml index aa9a3e101835..4efcb9ba269f 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml @@ -4,18 +4,100 @@ version="5.0" xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.11"> -<title>Release 1.11 (TODO: date, 2015)</title> +<title>Release 1.11 (2015-01-05)</title> -<para>TODO: This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new +<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new features:</para> <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> can now download URLs + specified in a Nix expression. For example, + +<screen> +$ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src +</screen> + + will prefetch the file specified by the + <function>fetchurl</function> call in the attribute + <literal>hello.src</literal> from the Nix expression in the + current directory, and print the cryptographic hash of the + resulting file on stdout. This differs from <literal>nix-build -A + hello.src</literal> in that it doesn't verify the hash, and is + thus useful when you’re updating a Nix expression.</para> + + <para>You can also prefetch the result of functions that unpack a + tarball, such as <function>fetchFromGitHub</function>. For example: + +<screen> +$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz +</screen> + + or from a Nix expression: + +<screen> +$ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src +</screen> + + </para> + + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The builtin function + <function><nix/fetchurl.nix></function> now supports + downloading and unpacking NARs. This removes the need to have + multiple downloads in the Nixpkgs stdenv bootstrap process (like a + separate busybox binary for Linux, or curl/mkdir/sh/bzip2 for + Darwin). Now all those files can be combined into a single NAR, + optionally compressed using <command>xz</command>.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix now supports SHA-512 hashes for verifying fixed-output + derivations, and in <function>builtins.hashString</function>.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + The new flag <option>--option build-repeat + <replaceable>N</replaceable></option> will cause every build to + be executed <replaceable>N</replaceable>+1 times. If the build + output differs between any round, the build is rejected, and the + output paths are not registered as valid. This is primarily + useful to verify build determinism. (We already had a + <option>--check</option> option to repeat a previously succeeded + build. However, with <option>--check</option>, non-deterministic + builds are registered in the DB. Preventing that is useful for + Hydra to ensure that non-deterministic builds don't end up + getting published to the binary cache.) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Improved FreeBSD support.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><command>nix-env -qa --xml --meta</command> now prints + license information.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The maximum number of parallel TCP connections that the + binary cache substituter will use has been decreased from 150 to + 25. This should prevent upsetting some broken NAT routers, and + also improves performance.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para>All "chroot"-containing strings got renamed to "sandbox". - In particular, some nix options got renamed, but the old names + In particular, some Nix options got renamed, but the old names are still accepted as lower-priority aliases. </para> </listitem> + </itemizedlist> <para>This release has contributions from TODO.</para> |