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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="ssec-relnotes-1.6.0">
+
+<title>Release 1.6 (September 10, 2013)</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>
+
+</chapter>
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