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+# Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)
+
+  - Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
+    
+      - Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel (option `-j`).
+    
+      - Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell script to forward
+        builds to Nix installations on remote machines, which may or may
+        not be of the same platform type.
+    
+      - Option `--fallback` allows recovery from broken substitutes.
+    
+      - Option `--keep-going` causes building of other (unaffected)
+        derivations to continue if one failed.
+
+  - Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it should actually work
+    now).
+
+  - Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be shared among
+    multiple users.
+
+  - Substitute registration is much faster now.
+
+  - A utility `nix-build` to build a Nix expression and create a symlink
+    to the result int the current directory; useful for testing Nix
+    derivations.
+
+  - Manual updates.
+
+  - `nix-env` changes:
+    
+      - Derivations for other platforms are filtered out (which can be
+        overridden using `--system-filter`).
+    
+      - `--install` by default now uninstall previous derivations with
+        the same name.
+    
+      - `--upgrade` allows upgrading to a specific version.
+    
+      - New operation `--delete-generations` to remove profile
+        generations (necessary for effective garbage collection).
+    
+      - Nicer output (sorted, columnised).
+
+  - More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder output is now
+    shown always, unless `-Q` is given).
+
+  - Nix expression language changes:
+    
+      - New language construct: `with
+                                                        E1;
+                                                        E2` brings all attributes defined in the attribute set *E1* in
+        scope in *E2*.
+    
+      - Added a `map` function.
+    
+      - Various new operators (e.g., string concatenation).
+
+  - Expression evaluation is much faster.
+
+  - An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with syntax highlighting
+    and indentation) has been added.
+
+  - Many bug fixes.