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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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-Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
+* Changes in 0.13.0 (since 0.12.0)
+
+** Package management
+
+*** Guix can now be used on aarch64 GNU/Linux systems
+*** New ‘guix pack’ command to create bundles
+*** New ‘guix copy’ command to copy store items over SSH
+*** New ‘--cache’ option for ‘guix publish’
+*** $GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET can specify remote daemons
+*** Guix can now run on Guile 2.2, providing better performance
+*** Emacs interface moved to separate Emacs-Guix package
+*** New ‘--root’ option for ‘guix environment’
+*** ‘guix pull’ now connects to git.savannah.gnu.org over HTTPS
+*** New cross-compilation targets: aarch64-linux-gnu, powerpc-linux-gnu
+*** Packages can specify “single-entry search paths” (e.g., ‘GIT_EXEC_PATH’)
+*** ‘guix import’ and ‘guix refresh’ now support Stackage
+*** Support for the deprecated “PKG-VERSION” syntax has been removed
+*** GnuTLS (Guile bindings) is now required
+
+** Distribution
+
+*** The GuixSD installation image supports (U)EFI systems
+*** GuixSD supports Btrfs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19280>)
+*** Some system services are now run in separate namespaces
+*** The LXDE desktop environment is now available
+*** ‘grub-configuration’ can specify settings for the user interface
+*** Service types can now specify a default value for services
+*** Create the /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/utmpx databases
+*** ‘static-networking’ service can now be extended
+*** Configuration of ‘nginx-service-type’ has been greatly improved
+*** New ‘gnu-build-system’ phase to always reset gzip timestamps
+*** FIXME new services
+
+exim, mail-aliases, inetd, agetty, openvswitch, special-files, redis,
+thermald
+
+*** FIXME new packages
+*** FIXME package updates
+
+** Programming interfaces
+
+*** (guix scripts challenge) returns complete reports, not just discrepancies
+*** New ‘dub-build-system’ for the D language and Dub
+*** New ‘ocaml-build-system’ for software written in OCaml
+*** New ‘package-mapping’ procedure to rewrite package dependency graphs
+*** New modules: (guix workers), (guix discovery), (guix cache),
+ (guix memoization), (guix ssh)
+
+** Noteworthy bug fixes
+
+*** Create home directories once file systems are mounted
+ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21108>)
+*** FIXME: Add more
+
+** Native language support
+
+Updated translations: fr (French), FIXME
+
* Changes in 0.12.0 (since 0.11.0)
** Package management