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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-1.2">
-
-<title>Release 1.2 (2012-12-06)</title>
-
-<para>This release has the following improvements and changes:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Nix has a new binary substituter mechanism: the
-    <emphasis>binary cache</emphasis>.  A binary cache contains
-    pre-built binaries of Nix packages.  Whenever Nix wants to build a
-    missing Nix store path, it will check a set of binary caches to
-    see if any of them has a pre-built binary of that path.  The
-    configuration setting <option>binary-caches</option> contains a
-    list of URLs of binary caches.  For instance, doing
-<screen>
-$ nix-env -i thunderbird --option binary-caches http://cache.nixos.org
-</screen>
-    will install Thunderbird and its dependencies, using the available
-    pre-built binaries in <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri>.
-    The main advantage over the old “manifest”-based method of getting
-    pre-built binaries is that you don’t have to worry about your
-    manifest being in sync with the Nix expressions you’re installing
-    from; i.e., you don’t need to run <command>nix-pull</command> to
-    update your manifest.  It’s also more scalable because you don’t
-    need to redownload a giant manifest file every time.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>A Nix channel can provide a binary cache URL that will be
-    used automatically if you subscribe to that channel.  If you use
-    the Nixpkgs or NixOS channels
-    (<uri>http://nixos.org/channels</uri>) you automatically get the
-    cache <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri>.</para>
-
-    <para>Binary caches are created using <command>nix-push</command>.
-    For details on the operation and format of binary caches, see the
-    <command>nix-push</command> manpage.  More details are provided in
-    <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2012-September/009826.html">this
-    nix-dev posting</link>.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Multiple output support should now be usable.  A derivation
-    can declare that it wants to produce multiple store paths by
-    saying something like
-<programlisting>
-outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ];
-</programlisting>
-    This will cause Nix to pass the intended store path of each output
-    to the builder through the environment variables
-    <literal>lib</literal>, <literal>headers</literal> and
-    <literal>doc</literal>.  Other packages can refer to a specific
-    output by referring to
-    <literal><replaceable>pkg</replaceable>.<replaceable>output</replaceable></literal>,
-    e.g.
-<programlisting>
-buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ];
-</programlisting>
-    If you install a package with multiple outputs using
-    <command>nix-env</command>, each output path will be symlinked
-    into the user environment.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Dashes are now valid as part of identifiers and attribute
-    names.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The new operation <command>nix-store --repair-path</command>
-    allows corrupted or missing store paths to be repaired by
-    redownloading them.  <command>nix-store --verify --check-contents
-    --repair</command> will scan and repair all paths in the Nix
-    store.  Similarly, <command>nix-env</command>,
-    <command>nix-build</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command>
-    and <command>nix-store --realise</command> have a
-    <option>--repair</option> flag to detect and fix bad paths by
-    rebuilding or redownloading them.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Nix no longer sets the immutable bit on files in the Nix
-    store.  Instead, the recommended way to guard the Nix store
-    against accidental modification on Linux is to make it a read-only
-    bind mount, like this:
-
-<screen>
-$ mount --bind /nix/store /nix/store
-$ mount -o remount,ro,bind /nix/store
-</screen>
-
-    Nix will automatically make <filename>/nix/store</filename>
-    writable as needed (using a private mount namespace) to allow
-    modifications.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Store optimisation (replacing identical files in the store
-    with hard links) can now be done automatically every time a path
-    is added to the store.  This is enabled by setting the
-    configuration option <literal>auto-optimise-store</literal> to
-    <literal>true</literal> (disabled by default).</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Nix now supports <command>xz</command> compression for NARs
-    in addition to <command>bzip2</command>.  It compresses about 30%
-    better on typical archives and decompresses about twice as
-    fast.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Basic Nix expression evaluation profiling: setting the
-    environment variable <envar>NIX_COUNT_CALLS</envar> to
-    <literal>1</literal> will cause Nix to print how many times each
-    primop or function was executed.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>New primops: <varname>concatLists</varname>,
-    <varname>elem</varname>, <varname>elemAt</varname> and
-    <varname>filter</varname>.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The command <command>nix-copy-closure</command> has a new
-    flag <option>--use-substitutes</option> (<option>-s</option>) to
-    download missing paths on the target machine using the substitute
-    mechanism.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The command <command>nix-worker</command> has been renamed
-    to <command>nix-daemon</command>.  Support for running the Nix
-    worker in “slave” mode has been removed.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The <option>--help</option> flag of every Nix command now
-    invokes <command>man</command>.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Chroot builds are now supported on systemd machines.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Florian
-Friesdorf, Mats Erik Andersson and Shea Levy.</para>
-
-</section>