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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 deleted file mode 100644 index 9ecc52734..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.6.1.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +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-1.6.1"> - -<title>Release 1.6.1 (2013-10-28)</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> - -</section> |