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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-01-30 17:34:34 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-01-30 17:34:34 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.xml b/doc/release-notes.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5a413abe6b71 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes.xml @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE book + PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" + "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbook-xml-4.3.zip" +[ +]> + +<article><title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title> + + +<section><title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title> + +<para>There have been zillions of changes since the last release of +Nixpkgs. Among the more notable are:</para> + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink + url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />).</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</section> + + +<section><title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title> + +<para>This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed +hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.</para> + +<para>Notable updates: + +<itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>Adobe Reader 7.0</para></listitem> + + <listitem><para>Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</para> + +</section> + + +<section><title>Release 0.7 (March 14, 2005)</title> + +<itemizedlist> + +<listitem> + + <para>The bootstrap process for the standard build + environment on Linux (stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no + longer dependent in its initial bootstrap stages on the system + Glibc, GCC, and other tools. Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically + linked bash and curl, and uses that to download other statically + linked tools. These are then used to build a Glibc and dynamically + linked versions of all other tools.</para> + + <para>This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For + instance, GCC is built only once instead of three times.</para> + + <para>(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)</para> + +</listitem> + +<listitem> + + <para>Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server + that hosts Nixpkgs (<ulink url="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl" />). + This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or + deleted files on various servers.</para> + +</listitem> + +<listitem> + + <para>There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules. + See the various Perl modules defined in + pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.</para> + +</listitem> + +<listitem> + + <para>Notable new packages: + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>Qt 3</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>MySQL</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>MythTV</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Mono</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>MonoDevelop (alpha)</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Xine</para></listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </para> + +</listitem> + +<listitem> + + <para>Notable updates: + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem><para>GCC 3.4.3</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Glibc 2.3.4</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>GTK 2.6</para></listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </para> + +</listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</section> + + +</article> |