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+Version 0.6
+
+Major changes include the following:
+
+* Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
+
+  * Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel (option `-j').
+
+  * Distributed builds.  Nix can now call a shell script to forward
+    builds to Nix installations on remote machines, which may or may
+    not be of the same platform type.
+
+  * Option `--fallback' allows recovery from broken substitutes.
+
+  * Option `--keep-going' causes building of other (unaffected)
+    derivations to continue if one failed.
+    
+* Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it should actually work
+  now).
+
+* Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be shared among
+  multiple users.
+
+* Substitute registration is much faster now.
+
+* A utility `nix-build' to build a Nix expression and create a symlink
+  to the result int the current directory; useful for testing Nix
+  derivations.
+
+* Manual updates.
+
+* `nix-env' changes:
+
+  * Derivations for other platforms are filtered out (which can be
+    overriden using `--system-filter').
+
+  * `--install' by default now uninstall previous derivations with the
+    same name.
+
+  * `--upgrade' allows upgrading to a specific version.
+
+  * New operation `--delete-generations' to remove profile
+    generations (necessary for effective garbage collection).
+
+  * Nicer output (sorted, columnised).
+
+* More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder output is now
+  shown always, unless `-Q' is given).
+
+* Nix expression language changes:
+
+  * Added a `map' function.
+
+* An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with syntax highlighting
+  and indentation) has been added.
+
+* Many bug fixes.
+
+
+Version 0.5 and earlier
+
+Please refer to the Subversion commit log messages.