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+# Release 1.10 (2015-09-03)
+
+This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new
+features:
+
+ - A number of builtin functions have been added to reduce
+ Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation time and memory consumption: `all`, `any`,
+ `concatStringsSep`, `foldl’`, `genList`, `replaceStrings`, `sort`.
+
+ - The garbage collector is more robust when the disk is full.
+
+ - Nix supports a new API for building derivations that doesn’t require
+ a `.drv` file to be present on disk; it only requires an in-memory
+ representation of the derivation. This is used by the Hydra
+ continuous build system to make remote builds more efficient.
+
+ - The function `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` now uses a *builtin* builder (i.e.
+ it doesn’t require starting an external process; the download is
+ performed by Nix itself). This ensures that derivation paths don’t
+ change when Nix is upgraded, and obviates the need for ugly hacks to
+ support chroot execution.
+
+ - `--version -v` now prints some configuration information, in
+ particular what compile-time optional features are enabled, and the
+ paths of various directories.
+
+ - Build users have their supplementary groups set correctly.
+
+This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Guillaume Maudoux,
+Iwan Aucamp, Jaka Hudoklin, Kirill Elagin, Ludovic Courtès, Manolis
+Ragkousis, Nicolas B. Pierron and Shea Levy.