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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.14"><title>Release 0.14 (February 4, 2010)</title>
<para>This release has the following improvements:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The garbage collector now starts deleting garbage much
faster than before. It no longer determines liveness of all paths
in the store, but does so on demand.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added a new operation, <command>nix-store --query
--roots</command>, that shows the garbage collector roots that
directly or indirectly point to the given store paths.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Removed support for converting Berkeley DB-based Nix
databases to the new schema.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Removed the <option>--use-atime</option> and
<option>--max-atime</option> garbage collector options. They were
not very useful in practice.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>On Windows, Nix now requires Cygwin 1.7.x.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A few bug fixes.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</chapter>
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