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Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3

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<!--==================================================================-->
<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.5.3"><title>Release 1.5.3 (June 17, 2013)</title>
<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. The following changes are
noteworthy:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Yet another security bug involving hard links to files
outside the store was fixed. This bug only affected multi-user
installations that do not have hard link restrictions
enabled. (NixOS is thus not vulnerable.)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The default binary cache URL has changed from
<uri>http://nixos.org/binary-cache</uri> to
<uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri>. The latter is hosted on Amazon
CloudFront (courtesy of <link
xlink:href="http://www.logicblox.com/">LogicBlox</link>) and
should provide better performance for users in both Europe and
North America.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The binary cache substituter now prints a warning message if
fetching information from the cache takes more than five seconds.
Thus network or server problems no longer make Nix appear to just
hang.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Stack traces now show function names, e.g.
<screen>
while evaluating `concatMapStrings' at `<replaceable>...</replaceable>/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/strings.nix:18:25':
</screen>
Also, if a function is called with an unexpected argument, Nix
now shows the name of the argument.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<!--==================================================================-->
<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.5.2"><title>Release 1.5.2 (May 13, 2013)</title>