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authorVladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>2017-03-01 11:34:44 +0100
committerVladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>2017-03-01 11:34:44 +0100
commitb43614a6bb026de61c8c967504ece02e1e45f7e6 (patch)
treeed0e6cbdc9b92d225af88e85d555eb6defc3d60d /nixos/doc
parent150796d3b260a1800a3cd8f84d3c8657bad09dd9 (diff)
parent64d4bfd1397b48236199a660c49ad60f13188365 (diff)
Merge branch 'staging'
(Truly, this time :-)
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
index e9d3a65e3ba0..cea8b93b075c 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
@@ -271,6 +271,16 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 are now built deterministically and 3.4 mostly.
+ Minor modifications had to be made to the interpreters in order to generate
+ deterministic bytecode. This has security implications and is relevant for
+ those using Python in a <literal>nix-shell</literal>. See the Nixpkgs manual
+ for details.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>