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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-0.6.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-0.6.md index ed2d21583..7fa0324eb 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-0.6.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-0.6.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ # 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. @@ -28,32 +28,32 @@ - 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. |