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+# Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)
+
+ - Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
+
+ - Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel (option `-j`).
+
+ - Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell script to forward
+ builds to Nix installations on remote machines, which may or may
+ not be of the same platform type.
+
+ - Option `--fallback` allows recovery from broken substitutes.
+
+ - Option `--keep-going` causes building of other (unaffected)
+ derivations to continue if one failed.
+
+ - Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it should actually work
+ now).
+
+ - Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be shared among
+ multiple users.
+
+ - Substitute registration is much faster now.
+
+ - A utility `nix-build` to build a Nix expression and create a symlink
+ to the result int the current directory; useful for testing Nix
+ derivations.
+
+ - Manual updates.
+
+ - `nix-env` changes:
+
+ - Derivations for other platforms are filtered out (which can be
+ overridden using `--system-filter`).
+
+ - `--install` by default now uninstall previous derivations with
+ the same name.
+
+ - `--upgrade` allows upgrading to a specific version.
+
+ - New operation `--delete-generations` to remove profile
+ generations (necessary for effective garbage collection).
+
+ - Nicer output (sorted, columnised).
+
+ - More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder output is now
+ shown always, unless `-Q` is given).
+
+ - Nix expression language changes:
+
+ - New language construct: `with
+ E1;
+ E2` brings all attributes defined in the attribute set E1 in
+ scope in E2.
+
+ - Added a `map` function.
+
+ - Various new operators (e.g., string concatenation).
+
+ - Expression evaluation is much faster.
+
+ - An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with syntax highlighting
+ and indentation) has been added.
+
+ - Many bug fixes.