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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml deleted file mode 100644 index c854c5c5f..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,123 +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-1.8"> - -<title>Release 1.8 (2014-12-14)</title> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para>Breaking change: to address a race condition, the - remote build hook mechanism now uses <command>nix-store - --serve</command> on the remote machine. This requires build slaves - to be updated to Nix 1.8.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Nix now uses HTTPS instead of HTTP to access the - default binary cache, - <literal>cache.nixos.org</literal>.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> selectors are now regular - expressions. For instance, you can do - -<screen> -$ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*' -</screen> - - to query all packages with a name containing - <literal>zip</literal>.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para><command>nix-store --read-log</command> can now - fetch remote build logs. If a build log is not available locally, - then ‘nix-store -l’ will now try to download it from the servers - listed in the ‘log-servers’ option in nix.conf. For instance, if you - have the configuration option - -<programlisting> -log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log -</programlisting> - -then it will try to get logs from -<literal>http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<replaceable>base name of the -store path</replaceable></literal>. This allows you to do things like: - -<screen> -$ nix-store -l $(which xterm) -</screen> - - and get a log even if <command>xterm</command> wasn't built - locally.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>New builtin functions: - <function>attrValues</function>, <function>deepSeq</function>, - <function>fromJSON</function>, <function>readDir</function>, - <function>seq</function>.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para><command>nix-instantiate --eval</command> now has a - <option>--json</option> flag to print the resulting value in JSON - format.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para><command>nix-copy-closure</command> now uses - <command>nix-store --serve</command> on the remote side to send or - receive closures. This fixes a race condition between - <command>nix-copy-closure</command> and the garbage - collector.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Derivations can specify the new special attribute - <varname>allowedRequisites</varname>, which has a similar meaning to - <varname>allowedReferences</varname>. But instead of only enforcing - to explicitly specify the immediate references, it requires the - derivation to specify all the dependencies recursively (hence the - name, requisites) that are used by the resulting - output.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>On Mac OS X, Nix now handles case collisions when - importing closures from case-sensitive file systems. This is mostly - useful for running NixOps on Mac OS X.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>The Nix daemon has new configuration options - <option>allowed-users</option> (specifying the users and groups that - are allowed to connect to the daemon) and - <option>trusted-users</option> (specifying the users and groups that - can perform privileged operations like specifying untrusted binary - caches).</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>The configuration option - <option>build-cores</option> now defaults to the number of available - CPU cores.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Build users are now used by default when Nix is - invoked as root. This prevents builds from accidentally running as - root.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Nix now includes systemd units and Upstart - jobs.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Speed improvements to <command>nix-store - --optimise</command>.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Language change: the <literal>==</literal> operator - now ignores string contexts (the “dependencies” of a - string).</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Nix now filters out Nix-specific ANSI escape - sequences on standard error. They are supposed to be invisible, but - some terminals show them anyway.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Various commands now automatically pipe their output - into the pager as specified by the <envar>PAGER</envar> environment - variable.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Several improvements to reduce memory consumption in - the evaluator.</para></listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -<para>This release has contributions from Adam Szkoda, Aristid -Breitkreuz, Bob van der Linden, Charles Strahan, darealshinji, Eelco -Dolstra, Gergely Risko, Joel Taylor, Ludovic Courtès, Marko Durkovic, -Mikey Ariel, Paul Colomiets, Ricardo M. Correia, Ricky Elrod, Robert -Helgesson, Rob Vermaas, Russell O'Connor, Shea Levy, Shell Turner, -Sönke Hahn, Steve Purcell, Vladimír Čunát and Wout Mertens.</para> - -</section> |