From 9ed49c1da02ef963f6e3730f16e0f916b32525f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:18:55 +0200 Subject: Nicer file names for the release notes --- doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.7.xml | 263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 263 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.7.xml (limited to 'doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.7.xml') diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.7.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.7.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7257bc869b25 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.7.xml @@ -0,0 +1,263 @@ + + +Release 1.7 (April 11, 2014) + +In addition to the usual bug fixes, this release has the +following new features: + + + + + Antiquotation is now allowed inside of quoted attribute + names (e.g. set."${foo}"). In the case where + the attribute name is just a single antiquotation, the quotes can + be dropped (e.g. the above example can be written + set.${foo}). If an attribute name inside of a + set declaration evaluates to null (e.g. + { ${null} = false; }), then that attribute is + not added to the set. + + + + Experimental support for cryptographically signed binary + caches. See the + commit for details. + + + + An experimental new substituter, + download-via-ssh, that fetches binaries from + remote machines via SSH. Specifying the flags --option + use-ssh-substituter true --option ssh-substituter-hosts + user@hostname will cause Nix + to download binaries from the specified machine, if it has + them. + + + + nix-store -r and + nix-build have a new flag, + , that builds a previously built + derivation again, and prints an error message if the output is not + exactly the same. This helps to verify whether a derivation is + truly deterministic. For example: + + +$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A patchelf +… +$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A patchelf --check +… +error: derivation `/nix/store/1ipvxs…-patchelf-0.6' may not be deterministic: + hash mismatch in output `/nix/store/4pc1dm…-patchelf-0.6.drv' + + + + + + + + The nix-instantiate flags + and + have been renamed to and + , respectively. + + + + nix-instantiate, + nix-build and nix-shell now + have a flag (or ) that + allows you to specify the expression to be evaluated as a command + line argument. For instance, nix-instantiate --eval -E + '1 + 2' will print 3. + + + + nix-shell improvements: + + + + + It has a new flag, (or + ), that sets up a build environment + containing the specified packages from Nixpkgs. For example, + the command + + +$ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello + + + will start a shell in which the given packages are + present. + + + + It now uses shell.nix as the + default expression, falling back to + default.nix if the former doesn’t + exist. This makes it convenient to have a + shell.nix in your project to set up a + nice development environment. + + + + It evaluates the derivation attribute + shellHook, if set. Since + stdenv does not normally execute this hook, + it allows you to do nix-shell-specific + setup. + + + + It preserves the user’s timezone setting. + + + + + + + + In chroots, Nix now sets up a /dev + containing only a minimal set of devices (such as + /dev/null). Note that it only does this if + you don’t have /dev + listed in your setting; + otherwise, it will bind-mount the /dev from + outside the chroot. + + Similarly, if you don’t have /dev/pts listed + in , Nix will mount a private + devpts filesystem on the chroot’s + /dev/pts. + + + + + New built-in function: builtins.toJSON, + which returns a JSON representation of a value. + + + + nix-env -q has a new flag + to print a JSON representation of the + installed or available packages. + + + + nix-env now supports meta attributes with + more complex values, such as attribute sets. + + + + The flag now allows attribute names with + dots in them, e.g. + + +$ nix-instantiate --eval '<nixos>' -A 'config.systemd.units."nscd.service".text' + + + + + + + The option to + nix-store --gc now accepts a unit + specifier. For example, nix-store --gc --max-freed + 1G will free up to 1 gigabyte of disk space. + + + + nix-collect-garbage has a new flag + + Nd, which deletes + all user environment generations older than + N days. Likewise, nix-env + --delete-generations accepts a + Nd age limit. + + + + Nix now heuristically detects whether a build failure was + due to a disk-full condition. In that case, the build is not + flagged as “permanently failed”. This is mostly useful for Hydra, + which needs to distinguish between permanent and transient build + failures. + + + + There is a new symbol __curPos that + expands to an attribute set containing its file name and line and + column numbers, e.g. { file = "foo.nix"; line = 10; + column = 5; }. There also is a new builtin function, + unsafeGetAttrPos, that returns the position of + an attribute. This is used by Nixpkgs to provide location + information in error messages, e.g. + + +$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A libreoffice --argstr system x86_64-darwin +error: the package ‘libreoffice-4.0.5.2’ in ‘.../applications/office/libreoffice/default.nix:263’ + is not supported on ‘x86_64-darwin’ + + + + + + + The garbage collector is now more concurrent with other Nix + processes because it releases certain locks earlier. + + + + The binary tarball installer has been improved. You can now + install Nix by running: + + +$ bash <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) + + + + + + + More evaluation errors include position information. For + instance, selecting a missing attribute will print something like + + +error: attribute `nixUnstabl' missing, at /etc/nixos/configurations/misc/eelco/mandark.nix:216:15 + + + + + + + The command nix-setuid-helper is + gone. + + + + Nix no longer uses Automake, but instead has a + non-recursive, GNU Make-based build system. + + + + All installed libraries now have the prefix + libnix. In particular, this gets rid of + libutil, which could clash with libraries with + the same name from other packages. + + + + Nix now requires a compiler that supports C++11. + + + + +This release has contributions from Danny Wilson, Domen Kožar, +Eelco Dolstra, Ian-Woo Kim, Ludovic Courtès, Maxim Ivanov, Petr +Rockai, Ricardo M. Correia and Shea Levy. + + \ No newline at end of file -- cgit 1.4.1