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-<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-0.13">
-
-<title>Release 0.13 (2009-11-05)</title>
-
-<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It has some new
-features:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Syntactic sugar for writing nested attribute sets. Instead of
-
-<programlisting>
-{
- foo = {
- bar = 123;
- xyzzy = true;
- };
- a = { b = { c = "d"; }; };
-}
-</programlisting>
-
- you can write
-
-<programlisting>
-{
- foo.bar = 123;
- foo.xyzzy = true;
- a.b.c = "d";
-}
-</programlisting>
-
- This is useful, for instance, in NixOS configuration files.</para>
-
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support for Nix channels generated by Hydra, the Nix-based
- continuous build system. (Hydra generates NAR archives on the
- fly, so the size and hash of these archives isn’t known in
- advance.)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support <literal>i686-linux</literal> builds directly on
- <literal>x86_64-linux</literal> Nix installations. This is
- implemented using the <function>personality()</function> syscall,
- which causes <command>uname</command> to return
- <literal>i686</literal> in child processes.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Various improvements to the <literal>chroot</literal>
- support. Building in a <literal>chroot</literal> works quite well
- now.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Nix no longer blocks if it tries to build a path and another
- process is already building the same path. Instead it tries to
- build another buildable path first. This improves
- parallelism.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support for large (> 4 GiB) files in NAR archives.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Various (performance) improvements to the remote build
- mechanism.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>New primops: <varname>builtins.addErrorContext</varname> (to
- add a string to stack traces — useful for debugging),
- <varname>builtins.isBool</varname>,
- <varname>builtins.isString</varname>,
- <varname>builtins.isInt</varname>,
- <varname>builtins.intersectAttrs</varname>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>OpenSolaris support (Sander van der Burg).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Stack traces are no longer displayed unless the
- <option>--show-trace</option> option is used.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The scoping rules for <literal>inherit
- (<replaceable>e</replaceable>) ...</literal> in recursive
- attribute sets have changed. The expression
- <replaceable>e</replaceable> can now refer to the attributes
- defined in the containing set.</para>
- </listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</section>