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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.10.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.10.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2bb859536 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.10.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# Release 1.10 (2015-09-03) + +This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new +features: + + - A number of builtin functions have been added to reduce + Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation time and memory consumption: `all`, `any`, + `concatStringsSep`, `foldl’`, `genList`, `replaceStrings`, `sort`. + + - The garbage collector is more robust when the disk is full. + + - Nix supports a new API for building derivations that doesn’t require + a `.drv` file to be present on disk; it only requires an in-memory + representation of the derivation. This is used by the Hydra + continuous build system to make remote builds more efficient. + + - The function `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` now uses a *builtin* builder (i.e. + it doesn’t require starting an external process; the download is + performed by Nix itself). This ensures that derivation paths don’t + change when Nix is upgraded, and obviates the need for ugly hacks to + support chroot execution. + + - `--version -v` now prints some configuration information, in + particular what compile-time optional features are enabled, and the + paths of various directories. + + - Build users have their supplementary groups set correctly. + +This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Guillaume Maudoux, +Iwan Aucamp, Jaka Hudoklin, Kirill Elagin, Ludovic Courtès, Manolis +Ragkousis, Nicolas B. Pierron and Shea Levy. |