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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="ssec-relnotes-1.11">
-
-<title>Release 1.11 (2016-01-19)</title>
-
-<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>&lt;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>
-      The options <option>--check</option> and <option>--option
-      build-repeat <replaceable>N</replaceable></option>, if they
-      detect a difference between two runs of the same derivation and
-      <option>-K</option> is given, will make the output of the other
-      run available under
-      <filename><replaceable>store-path</replaceable>-check</filename>. This
-      makes it easier to investigate the non-determinism using tools
-      like <command>diffoscope</command>, e.g.,
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-build pkgs/stdenv/linux -A stage1.pkgs.zlib --check -K
-error: derivation ‘/nix/store/l54i8wlw2265…-zlib-1.2.8.drv’ may not
-be deterministic: output ‘/nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8’
-differs from ‘/nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8-check’
-
-$ diffoscope /nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8 /nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8-check
-…
-├── lib/libz.a
-│   ├── metadata
-│   │ @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-│   │ -rw-r--r-- 30001/30000   3096 Jan 12 15:20 2016 adler32.o
-…
-│   │ +rw-r--r-- 30001/30000   3096 Jan 12 15:28 2016 adler32.o
-…
-</screen>
-
-    </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
-      are still accepted as lower-priority aliases.
-    </para>
-  </listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>This release has contributions from Anders Claesson, Anthony
-Cowley, Bjørn Forsman, Brian McKenna, Danny Wilson, davidak, Eelco Dolstra,
-Fabian Schmitthenner, FrankHB, Ilya Novoselov, janus, Jim Garrison, John
-Ericson, Jude Taylor, Ludovic Courtès, Manuel Jacob, Mathnerd314,
-Pascal Wittmann, Peter Simons, Philip Potter, Preston Bennes, Rommel
-M. Martinez, Sander van der Burg, Shea Levy, Tim Cuthbertson, Tuomas
-Tynkkynen, Utku Demir and Vladimír Čunát.</para>
-
-</section>