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information about store paths.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>nix run</command> starts a shell in
which the specified packages are available. (TODO: currently
broken in chroot mode)</para></listitem>
which the specified packages are available.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>nix log</command> shows the build log
of a package or path. If the build log is not available locally,
@ -74,6 +73,17 @@
name, package name or description. It caches available packages
to speed up searches.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>nix why-depends</command> (d41c5eb13f4f3a37d80dbc6d3888644170c3b44a).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>nix show-derivation</command> (e8d6ee7c1b90a2fe6d824f1a875acc56799ae6e2).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>nix add-to-store</command> (970366266b8df712f5f9cedb45af183ef5a8357f).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Progress indicator.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>All options are available as flags now
(b8283773bd64d7da6859ed520ee19867742a03ba).</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
@ -83,10 +93,6 @@
integrated into Nix as <command>nix repl</command>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Nix now supports floating-point numbers.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New build mode <command>nix-build --hash</command> that
builds a derivation, computes the hash of the output, and moves
@ -171,11 +177,6 @@
<literal>nixos-15.09</literal> channel.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>“Nested” log output was removed. As a result,
<command>nix-log2xml</command> was also removed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When <option>--no-build-output</option> is given, the last
10 lines of the build log will be shown if a build
@ -194,10 +195,6 @@
(d8bf0d4859e28ddd23401fbe89f4e528aa09ddb3)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Removed OpenSSL-based signing. (f435f8247553656774dd1b2c88e9de5d59cab203)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>&lt;nix/fetchurl.nix&gt;</literal> now uses the
content-addressable tarball cache at
@ -251,21 +248,11 @@ configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"
add docs.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added builtin function
<varname>builtins.partition</varname>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for HTTP/2. This makes binary cache lookups much
more efficient. (90ad02bf626b885a5dd8967894e2eafc953bdf92)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Caching of failed builds has been
removed. (8cffec84859cec8b610a2a22ab0c4d462a9351ff)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <option>build-sandbox-paths</option> configuration
option can now specify optional paths by appending a
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix-shell</command> now used
<para><command>nix-shell</command> now uses
<varname>bashInteractive</varname> from Nixpkgs, rather than the
<command>bash</command> command that happens to be in the callers
<envar>PATH</envar>. This is especially important on macOS where
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><function>builtins.split</function>.
(b8867a0239b1930a16f9ef3f7f3e864b01416dff))</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><filename>nix-mode.el</filename> has been removed from Nix. It is now a separate repository
in <uri>https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode</uri> and can be installed through the MELPA
package repository.</para>
<para>New builtin functions: <function>builtins.split</function>
(b8867a0239b1930a16f9ef3f7f3e864b01416dff),
<function>builtins.partition</function>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Automatic garbage collection.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix why-depends</command></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>nix-store -q --roots</command> and
<command>nix-store --gc --print-roots</command> now show temporary
and in-memory roots.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Builders can now communicate what build phase they are in by
writing messages to the file descriptor specified in
<envar>NIX_LOG_FD</envar>. (88e6bb76de5564b3217be9688677d1c89101b2a3)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Some features were removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>“Nested” log output. As a result,
<command>nix-log2xml</command> was also removed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OpenSSL-based signing. (f435f8247553656774dd1b2c88e9de5d59cab203)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Caching of failed
builds. (8cffec84859cec8b610a2a22ab0c4d462a9351ff)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><filename>nix-mode.el</filename> has been removed from
Nix. It is now a separate repository in
<uri>https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode</uri> and can be installed
through the MELPA package repository.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This release has contributions from TBD.</para>