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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-08-27 17:00:04 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-08-27 17:00:04 +0200
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Add 2.3 release notes
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml
index 428213b36..b0f7c8ec5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.3.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,23 @@
version="5.0"
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-2.3">
-<title>Release 2.3 (????-??-??)</title>
+<title>Release 2.3 (2019-08-??)</title>
-<para>This release contains the following changes:</para>
+<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. However, it makes some
+incompatible changes:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Nix now uses BSD file locks instead of POSIX file
+ locks. Since previous releases used POSIX file locks, you should
+ not use Nix 2.2 and previous releases at the same time on a Nix
+ store.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>It also has the following changes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -18,5 +32,57 @@
already begin with <literal>refs/</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The installer now enables sandboxing by default on
+ Linux. The <literal>max-jobs</literal> setting now defaults to
+ 1.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New builtin functions:
+ <literal>builtins.isPath</literal>,
+ <literal>builtins.hashFile</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><command>nix</command>: Add
+ <option>--print-build-logs</option> (<option>-L</option>) flag to
+ print build log output to stderr rather than showing the last log
+ line in the progress bar. To distinguish between concurrent
+ builds, log lines are prefixed by the name of the package.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Builds are now executed in a pseudo-terminal, and the
+ <envar>TERM</envar> evnironment variable is set to
+ <literal>xterm-256color</literal>. This allows many programs
+ (e.g. <command>gcc</command>, <command>clang</command>,
+ <command>cmake</command>) to print colorized log output.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Add <option>--no-net</option> convenience flag. This flag
+ disables substituters; sets the <literal>tarball-ttl</literal>
+ setting to infinity (ensuring that any previously downloaded files
+ are considered current); and disables retrying downloads and sets
+ the connection timeout to the minimum. This flag is enabled
+ automatically if there are no configured non-loopback network
+ interfaces.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Add a <literal>post-build-hook</literal> setting to run a
+ program after a build has succeeded.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Add a <literal>trace-function-calls</literal> setting to log
+ the duration of Nix function calls to stderr.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
+
</section>