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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.10.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.10.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 689a95466..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.10.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -<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 (2015-09-03)</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> |