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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-06-23 14:59:13 -0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-06-23 14:59:13 -0400
commit8da6772ed48e2ee7082071b31c7afeb800195cdb (patch)
treed43de8b2edfc10df3e2e86e77d720f100b634a1d /doc/manual
parent723a68c8262ec337e290e51265820ae90fe3ad18 (diff)
Update release notes
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
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@@ -15,10 +15,24 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>Builds in chroots are now executed in a private network
+ namespace, meaning that they do not see any network interfaces
+ except a private loopback interface. This ensures that builds
+ cannot communicate with processes outside of the chroot, or clash
+ with other builds by listening on an identical port number.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Build logs are now compressed using
+ <command>bzip2</command>. The command <command>nix-store
+ -l</command> decompresses them on the fly.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>The creation of build logs in
<filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs</filename> can be disabled by
setting the new option <literal>build-keep-log</literal> to
- <literal>false</literal></para>
+ <literal>false</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>