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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml index ba7290137..4ea57c99c 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ </partintro> --> +<xi:include href="rl-1.10.xml" /> <xi:include href="rl-1.9.xml" /> <xi:include href="rl-1.8.xml" /> <xi:include href="rl-1.7.xml" /> diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.10.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.10.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7a9008748 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.10.xml @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +<section 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-1.10"> + +<title>Release 1.10 (September 3, 2015)</title> + +<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new +features:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para>A number of builtin functions have been added to reduce + Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation time and memory consumption: + <function>all</function>, + <function>any</function>, + <function>concatStringsSep</function>, + <function>foldl’</function>, + <function>genList</function>, + <function>replaceStrings</function>, + <function>sort</function>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The garbage collector is more robust when the disk is full.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix supports a new API for building derivations that doesn’t + require a <literal>.drv</literal> 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.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>The function <literal><nix/fetchurl.nix></literal> now + uses a <emphasis>builtin</emphasis> 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.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><option>--version -v</option> now prints some configuration + information, in particular what compile-time optional features are + enabled, and the paths of various directories.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Build users have their supplementary groups set correctly.</para> + </listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +<para>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.</para> + +</section> |