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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 28f6d4ac8..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,141 +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-1.11"> - -<title>Release 1.11 (2016-01-19)</title> - -<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new -features:</para> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> can now download URLs - specified in a Nix expression. For example, - -<screen> -$ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src -</screen> - - will prefetch the file specified by the - <function>fetchurl</function> call in the attribute - <literal>hello.src</literal> from the Nix expression in the - current directory, and print the cryptographic hash of the - resulting file on stdout. This differs from <literal>nix-build -A - hello.src</literal> in that it doesn't verify the hash, and is - thus useful when you’re updating a Nix expression.</para> - - <para>You can also prefetch the result of functions that unpack a - tarball, such as <function>fetchFromGitHub</function>. For example: - -<screen> -$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz -</screen> - - or from a Nix expression: - -<screen> -$ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src -</screen> - - </para> - - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The builtin function - <function><nix/fetchurl.nix></function> now supports - downloading and unpacking NARs. This removes the need to have - multiple downloads in the Nixpkgs stdenv bootstrap process (like a - separate busybox binary for Linux, or curl/mkdir/sh/bzip2 for - Darwin). Now all those files can be combined into a single NAR, - optionally compressed using <command>xz</command>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Nix now supports SHA-512 hashes for verifying fixed-output - derivations, and in <function>builtins.hashString</function>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - The new flag <option>--option build-repeat - <emphasis>N</emphasis></option> will cause every build to - be executed <emphasis>N</emphasis>+1 times. If the build - output differs between any round, the build is rejected, and the - output paths are not registered as valid. This is primarily - useful to verify build determinism. (We already had a - <option>--check</option> option to repeat a previously succeeded - build. However, with <option>--check</option>, non-deterministic - builds are registered in the DB. Preventing that is useful for - Hydra to ensure that non-deterministic builds don't end up - getting published to the binary cache.) - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - The options <option>--check</option> and <option>--option - build-repeat <emphasis>N</emphasis></option>, if they - detect a difference between two runs of the same derivation and - <option>-K</option> is given, will make the output of the other - run available under - <filename><emphasis>store-path</emphasis>-check</filename>. This - makes it easier to investigate the non-determinism using tools - like <command>diffoscope</command>, e.g., - -<screen> -$ nix-build pkgs/stdenv/linux -A stage1.pkgs.zlib --check -K -error: derivation ‘/nix/store/l54i8wlw2265…-zlib-1.2.8.drv’ may not -be deterministic: output ‘/nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8’ -differs from ‘/nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8-check’ - -$ diffoscope /nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8 /nix/store/11a27shh6n2i…-zlib-1.2.8-check -… -├── lib/libz.a -│ ├── metadata -│ │ @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ -│ │ -rw-r--r-- 30001/30000 3096 Jan 12 15:20 2016 adler32.o -… -│ │ +rw-r--r-- 30001/30000 3096 Jan 12 15:28 2016 adler32.o -… -</screen> - - </para></listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Improved FreeBSD support.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><command>nix-env -qa --xml --meta</command> now prints - license information.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The maximum number of parallel TCP connections that the - binary cache substituter will use has been decreased from 150 to - 25. This should prevent upsetting some broken NAT routers, and - also improves performance.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>All "chroot"-containing strings got renamed to "sandbox". - In particular, some Nix options got renamed, but the old names - are still accepted as lower-priority aliases. - </para> - </listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -<para>This release has contributions from Anders Claesson, Anthony -Cowley, Bjørn Forsman, Brian McKenna, Danny Wilson, davidak, Eelco Dolstra, -Fabian Schmitthenner, FrankHB, Ilya Novoselov, janus, Jim Garrison, John -Ericson, Jude Taylor, Ludovic Courtès, Manuel Jacob, Mathnerd314, -Pascal Wittmann, Peter Simons, Philip Potter, Preston Bennes, Rommel -M. Martinez, Sander van der Burg, Shea Levy, Tim Cuthbertson, Tuomas -Tynkkynen, Utku Demir and Vladimír Čunát.</para> - -</section> |