From 6016bcd30ec32e2dfb92e197319ddbdbc4f520be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:47:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3 --- doc/manual/release-notes.xml | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index f58e549ef..6643b4a3b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -6,6 +6,54 @@ + + +
Release 1.5.3 (June 17, 2013) + +This is primarily a bug fix release. The following changes are +noteworthy: + + + + + 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.) + + + + The default binary cache URL has changed from + http://nixos.org/binary-cache to + http://cache.nixos.org. The latter is hosted on Amazon + CloudFront (courtesy of LogicBlox) and + should provide better performance for users in both Europe and + North America. + + + + 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. + + + + Stack traces now show function names, e.g. + +while evaluating `concatMapStrings' at `.../nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/strings.nix:18:25': + + Also, if a function is called with an unexpected argument, Nix + now shows the name of the argument. + + + + + +
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Release 1.5.2 (May 13, 2013)