From ecd830b3b9e189d0b41cfeadc993c17d5858a79b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:11:36 +0200 Subject: Update the release notes --- doc/manual/release-notes.xml | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/manual') diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index e44cea2f1113..6620ef26cc8d 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
Release 1.6.0 (TBA) +In addition to the usual bug fixes, this release has several new +features: + @@ -38,6 +41,55 @@ from your regular shells. + + The ‘with’ 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: + + +let + pkgs = with pkgs; { foo = "old"; bar = foo; } // overrides; + overrides = { foo = "new"; }; +in pkgs.bar + + + This evaluates to "new", while previously it + gave an “infinite recursion” error. + + + + Nix now has proper integer arithmetic operators. For + instance, you can write x + y instead of + builtins.add x y, or x < + y instead of builtins.lessThan x y. + The comparison operators also work on strings. + + + + On 64-bit systems, Nix integers are now 64 bits rather than + 32 bits. + + + + When using the Nix daemon, the nix-daemon + 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. + + + + If a stack overflow occurs in the Nix evaluator, you now get + a proper error message (rather than “Segmentation fault”) on some + systems. + + + + In addition to directories, you can now bind-mount regular + files in chroots through the (now misnamed) option + . + +
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