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+<chapter 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-0.14"><title>Release 0.14 (February 4, 2010)</title>
+
+<para>This release has the following improvements:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The garbage collector now starts deleting garbage much
+ faster than before. It no longer determines liveness of all paths
+ in the store, but does so on demand.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Added a new operation, <command>nix-store --query
+ --roots</command>, that shows the garbage collector roots that
+ directly or indirectly point to the given store paths.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Removed support for converting Berkeley DB-based Nix
+ databases to the new schema.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Removed the <option>--use-atime</option> and
+ <option>--max-atime</option> garbage collector options. They were
+ not very useful in practice.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>On Windows, Nix now requires Cygwin 1.7.x.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A few bug fixes.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</chapter> \ No newline at end of file