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-<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      version="5.0"
-      xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.6">
-
-<title>Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)</title>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
-
-    <itemizedlist>
-
-      <listitem><para>Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel
-      (option <option>-j</option>).</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>Distributed builds.  Nix can now call a shell
-      script to forward builds to Nix installations on remote
-      machines, which may or may not be of the same platform
-      type.</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>Option <option>--fallback</option> allows
-      recovery from broken substitutes.</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>Option <option>--keep-going</option> causes
-      building of other (unaffected) derivations to continue if one
-      failed.</para></listitem>
-
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    </para>
-
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it
-  should actually work now).</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be
-  shared among multiple users.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Substitute registration is much faster
-  now.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>A utility <command>nix-build</command> to build a
-  Nix expression and create a symlink to the result int the current
-  directory; useful for testing Nix derivations.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Manual updates.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-
-    <para><command>nix-env</command> changes:
-
-    <itemizedlist>
-
-      <listitem><para>Derivations for other platforms are filtered out
-      (which can be overridden using
-      <option>--system-filter</option>).</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para><option>--install</option> by default now
-      uninstall previous derivations with the same
-      name.</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para><option>--upgrade</option> allows upgrading to a
-      specific version.</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>New operation
-      <option>--delete-generations</option> to remove profile
-      generations (necessary for effective garbage
-      collection).</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>Nicer output (sorted,
-      columnised).</para></listitem>
-
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    </para>
-
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder
-  output is now shown always, unless <option>-Q</option> is
-  given).</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-
-    <para>Nix expression language changes:
-
-    <itemizedlist>
-
-      <listitem><para>New language construct: <literal>with
-      <replaceable>E1</replaceable>;
-      <replaceable>E2</replaceable></literal> brings all attributes
-      defined in the attribute set <replaceable>E1</replaceable> in
-      scope in <replaceable>E2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>Added a <function>map</function>
-      function.</para></listitem>
-
-      <listitem><para>Various new operators (e.g., string
-      concatenation).</para></listitem>
-
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    </para>
-
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Expression evaluation is much
-  faster.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with
-  syntax highlighting and indentation) has been
-  added.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>Many bug fixes.</para></listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</section>