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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-09-16 14:18:55 +0200
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+<chapter 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="ch-relnotes-0.7">
+
+<title>Release 0.7 (January 12, 2005)</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem><para>Binary patching. When upgrading components using
+ pre-built binaries (through nix-pull / nix-channel), Nix can
+ automatically download and apply binary patches to already installed
+ components instead of full downloads. Patching is “smart”: if there
+ is a <emphasis>sequence</emphasis> of patches to an installed
+ component, Nix will use it. Patches are currently generated
+ automatically between Nixpkgs (pre-)releases.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Simplifications to the substitute
+ mechanism.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Nix-pull now stores downloaded manifests in
+ <filename>/nix/var/nix/manifests</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Metadata on files in the Nix store is canonicalised
+ after builds: the last-modified timestamp is set to 0 (00:00:00
+ 1/1/1970), the mode is set to 0444 or 0555 (readable and possibly
+ executable by all; setuid/setgid bits are dropped), and the group is
+ set to the default. This ensures that the result of a build and an
+ installation through a substitute is the same; and that timestamp
+ dependencies are revealed.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</chapter> \ No newline at end of file