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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/expressions/language-operators.xml103
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/installation/env-variables.xml18
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml75
3 files changed, 186 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/language-operators.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/language-operators.xml
index f1f75093461b..4f11bf52938f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/language-operators.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/language-operators.xml
@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ weakest binding).</para>
   <tgroup cols='3'>
     <thead>
       <row>
+        <entry>Name</entry>
         <entry>Syntax</entry>
         <entry>Associativity</entry>
         <entry>Description</entry>
+        <entry>Precedence</entry>
       </row>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
       <row>
+        <entry>Select</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>.</literal>
         <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>
         [ <literal>or</literal> <replaceable>def</replaceable> ]
@@ -33,19 +36,25 @@ weakest binding).</para>
         dot-separated list of attribute names.)  If the attribute
         doesn’t exist, return <replaceable>def</replaceable> if
         provided, otherwise abort evaluation.</entry>
+        <entry>1</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Application</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
         <entry>Call function <replaceable>e1</replaceable> with
         argument <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</entry>
+        <entry>2</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Arithmetic Negation</entry>
         <entry><literal>-</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Arithmetic negation.</entry>
+        <entry>3</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Has Attribute</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>?</literal>
         <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
@@ -53,34 +62,69 @@ weakest binding).</para>
         the attribute denoted by <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>;
         return <literal>true</literal> or
         <literal>false</literal>.</entry>
+        <entry>4</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>List Concatenation</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>++</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>right</entry>
         <entry>List concatenation.</entry>
+        <entry>5</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Multiplication</entry>
         <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>*</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
+        </entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic multiplication.</entry>
+        <entry>6</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Division</entry>
+        <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>/</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
-        <entry>Arithmetic multiplication and division.</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic division.</entry>
+        <entry>6</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Addition</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic addition.</entry>
+        <entry>7</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Subtraction</entry>
         <entry>
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
-        <entry>Arithmetic addition and subtraction.  String or path concatenation (only by <literal>+</literal>).</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic subtraction.</entry>
+        <entry>7</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>String Concatenation</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>string1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>string2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>String concatenation.</entry>
+        <entry>7</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Not</entry>
         <entry><literal>!</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Boolean negation.</entry>
+        <entry>8</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Update</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>//</literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>right</entry>
@@ -89,47 +133,90 @@ weakest binding).</para>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable> (with the latter taking
         precedence over the former in case of equally named
         attributes).</entry>
+        <entry>9</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Less Than</entry>
         <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&lt;</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&gt;</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&lt;=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Less Than or Equal To</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&lt;=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Greater Than</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&gt;</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Greater Than or Equal To</entry>
+        <entry>
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&gt;=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
+        <entry>10</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Equality</entry>
+        <entry>
+          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>==</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Equality.</entry>
+        <entry>11</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Inequality</entry>
         <entry>
-          <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>==</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
           <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>!=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
         </entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
-        <entry>Equality and inequality.</entry>
+        <entry>Inequality.</entry>
+        <entry>11</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Logical AND</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&amp;&amp;</literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
         <entry>Logical AND.</entry>
+        <entry>12</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Logical OR</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>||</literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>left</entry>
         <entry>Logical OR.</entry>
+        <entry>13</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
+        <entry>Logical Implication</entry>
         <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-></literal>
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
         <entry>none</entry>
         <entry>Logical implication (equivalent to
         <literal>!<replaceable>e1</replaceable> ||
         <replaceable>e2</replaceable></literal>).</entry>
+        <entry>14</entry>
       </row>
     </tbody>
   </tgroup>
 </table>
 
-</section>
\ No newline at end of file
+</section>
diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/env-variables.xml b/doc/manual/installation/env-variables.xml
index d1ee0bb2e096..e2b8fc867cd3 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation/env-variables.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation/env-variables.xml
@@ -67,5 +67,23 @@ $ sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/org.nixos.nix-daemon
 </screen>
 </section>
 
+<section xml:id="sec-installer-proxy-settings">
+
+<title>Proxy Environment Variables</title>
+
+<para>The Nix installer has special handling for these proxy-related
+environment variables:
+<varname>http_proxy</varname>, <varname>https_proxy</varname>,
+<varname>ftp_proxy</varname>, <varname>no_proxy</varname>,
+<varname>HTTP_PROXY</varname>, <varname>HTTPS_PROXY</varname>,
+<varname>FTP_PROXY</varname>, <varname>NO_PROXY</varname>.
+</para>
+<para>If any of these variables are set when running the Nix installer,
+then the installer will create an override file at
+<filename>/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service.d/override.conf</filename>
+so <command>nix-daemon</command> will use them.
+</para>
+</section>
+
 </section>
 </chapter>
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml
index 428213b360ba..a1f4a4b756ff 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,23 @@
       version="5.0"
       xml:id="ssec-relnotes-2.3">
 
-<title>Release 2.3 (????-??-??)</title>
+<title>Release 2.3 (2019-08-??)</title>
 
-<para>This release contains the following changes:</para>
+<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. However, it makes some
+incompatible changes:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Nix now uses BSD file locks instead of POSIX file
+    locks. Since previous releases used POSIX file locks, you should
+    not use Nix 2.2 and previous releases at the same time on a Nix
+    store.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>It also has the following changes:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
@@ -18,5 +32,62 @@
     already begin with <literal>refs/</literal>.
     </para>
   </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>The installer now enables sandboxing by default on
+    Linux. The <literal>max-jobs</literal> setting now defaults to
+    1.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>New builtin functions:
+    <literal>builtins.isPath</literal>,
+    <literal>builtins.hashFile</literal>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para><command>nix</command>: Add
+    <option>--print-build-logs</option> (<option>-L</option>) flag to
+    print build log output to stderr rather than showing the last log
+    line in the progress bar. To distinguish between concurrent
+    builds, log lines are prefixed by the name of the package.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Builds are now executed in a pseudo-terminal, and the
+    <envar>TERM</envar> evnironment variable is set to
+    <literal>xterm-256color</literal>. This allows many programs
+    (e.g. <command>gcc</command>, <command>clang</command>,
+    <command>cmake</command>) to print colorized log output.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add <option>--no-net</option> convenience flag. This flag
+    disables substituters; sets the <literal>tarball-ttl</literal>
+    setting to infinity (ensuring that any previously downloaded files
+    are considered current); and disables retrying downloads and sets
+    the connection timeout to the minimum. This flag is enabled
+    automatically if there are no configured non-loopback network
+    interfaces.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add a <literal>post-build-hook</literal> setting to run a
+    program after a build has succeeded.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>Add a <literal>trace-function-calls</literal> setting to log
+    the duration of Nix function calls to stderr.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>On Linux, sandboxing is now disabled by default on systems
+    that don’t have the necessary kernel support.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
+
 </section>