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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.14.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.14.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..456be8b80 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.14.xml @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +<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>
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