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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.16.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.16.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..97b40d0b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.16.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Release 2.16 (2023-05-31) + +* Speed-up of downloads from binary caches. + The number of parallel downloads (also known as substitutions) has been separated from the [`--max-jobs` setting](../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-max-jobs). + The new setting is called [`max-substitution-jobs`](../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-max-substitution-jobs). + The number of parallel downloads is now set to 16 by default (previously, the default was 1 due to the coupling to build jobs). + +* The function [`builtins.replaceStrings`](@docroot@/language/builtins.md#builtins-replaceStrings) is now lazy in the value of its second argument `to`. That is, `to` is only evaluated when its corresponding pattern in `from` is matched in the string `s`. |