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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-1.6.0">
-
-<title>Release 1.6 (2013-09-10)</title>
-
-<para>In addition to the usual bug fixes, this release has several new
-features:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The command <command>nix-build --run-env</command> has been
-    renamed to <command>nix-shell</command>.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para><command>nix-shell</command> now sources
-    <filename>$stdenv/setup</filename> <emphasis>inside</emphasis> the
-    interactive shell, rather than in a parent shell.  This ensures
-    that shell functions defined by <literal>stdenv</literal> can be
-    used in the interactive shell.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para><command>nix-shell</command> has a new flag
-    <option>--pure</option> to clear the environment, so you get an
-    environment that more closely corresponds to the “real” Nix build.
-    </para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para><command>nix-shell</command> now sets the shell prompt
-    (<envar>PS1</envar>) to ensure that Nix shells are distinguishable
-    from your regular shells.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para><command>nix-env</command> no longer requires a
-    <literal>*</literal> argument to match all packages, so
-    <literal>nix-env -qa</literal> is equivalent to <literal>nix-env
-    -qa '*'</literal>.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para><command>nix-env -i</command> has a new flag
-    <option>--remove-all</option> (<option>-r</option>) to remove all
-    previous packages from the profile.  This makes it easier to do
-    declarative package management similar to NixOS’s
-    <option>environment.systemPackages</option>.  For instance, if you
-    have a specification <filename>my-packages.nix</filename> like this:
-
-<programlisting>
-with import &lt;nixpkgs> {};
-[ thunderbird
-  geeqie
-  ...
-]
-</programlisting>
-
-    then after any change to this file, you can run:
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-env -f my-packages.nix -ir
-</screen>
-
-    to update your profile to match the specification.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The ‘<literal>with</literal>’ language construct is now more
-    lazy.  It only evaluates its argument if a variable might actually
-    refer to an attribute in the argument.  For instance, this now
-    works:
-
-<programlisting>
-let
-  pkgs = with pkgs; { foo = "old"; bar = foo; } // overrides;
-  overrides = { foo = "new"; };
-in pkgs.bar
-</programlisting>
-
-    This evaluates to <literal>"new"</literal>, while previously it
-    gave an “infinite recursion” error.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>Nix now has proper integer arithmetic operators. For
-    instance, you can write <literal>x + y</literal> instead of
-    <literal>builtins.add x y</literal>, or <literal>x &lt;
-    y</literal> instead of <literal>builtins.lessThan x y</literal>.
-    The comparison operators also work on strings.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>On 64-bit systems, Nix integers are now 64 bits rather than
-    32 bits.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>When using the Nix daemon, the <command>nix-daemon</command>
-    worker process now runs on the same CPU as the client, on systems
-    that support setting CPU affinity.  This gives a significant speedup
-    on some systems.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>If a stack overflow occurs in the Nix evaluator, you now get
-    a proper error message (rather than “Segmentation fault”) on some
-    systems.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
-    <para>In addition to directories, you can now bind-mount regular
-    files in chroots through the (now misnamed) option
-    <option>build-chroot-dirs</option>.</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>This release has contributions from Domen Kožar, Eelco Dolstra,
-Florian Friesdorf, Gergely Risko, Ivan Kozik, Ludovic Courtès and Shea
-Levy.</para>
-
-</section>