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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.6.1.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.6.1.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f6d3a6ba6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.6.1.xml @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +<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-1.6.1"> + +<title>Release 1.6.1 (October 28, 2013)</title> + +<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. Changes of interest +are:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix 1.6 accidentally changed the semantics of antiquoted + paths in strings, such as <literal>"${/foo}/bar"</literal>. This + release reverts to the Nix 1.5.3 behaviour.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Previously, Nix optimised expressions such as + <literal>"${<replaceable>expr</replaceable>}"</literal> to + <replaceable>expr</replaceable>. Thus it neither checked whether + <replaceable>expr</replaceable> could be coerced to a string, nor + applied such coercions. This meant that + <literal>"${123}"</literal> evaluatued to <literal>123</literal>, + and <literal>"${./foo}"</literal> evaluated to + <literal>./foo</literal> (even though + <literal>"${./foo} "</literal> evaluates to + <literal>"/nix/store/<replaceable>hash</replaceable>-foo "</literal>). + Nix now checks the type of antiquoted expressions and + applies coercions.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Nix now shows the exact position of undefined variables. In + particular, undefined variable errors in a <literal>with</literal> + previously didn't show <emphasis>any</emphasis> position + information, so this makes it a lot easier to fix such + errors.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Undefined variables are now treated consistently. + Previously, the <function>tryEval</function> function would catch + undefined variables inside a <literal>with</literal> but not + outside. Now <function>tryEval</function> never catches undefined + variables.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Bash completion in <command>nix-shell</command> now works + correctly.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Stack traces are less verbose: they no longer show calls to + builtin functions and only show a single line for each derivation + on the call stack.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>New built-in function: <function>builtins.typeOf</function>, + which returns the type of its argument as a string.</para> + </listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</chapter>
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