From f476535265d6db3cbeea5035ebf598457313b5b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:29:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes --- doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml index aa9a3e101..4efcb9ba2 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.11.xml @@ -4,18 +4,100 @@ version="5.0" xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.11"> -Release 1.11 (TODO: date, 2015) +Release 1.11 (2015-01-05) -TODO: This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new +This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new features: + + + nix-prefetch-url can now download URLs + specified in a Nix expression. For example, + + +$ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src + + + will prefetch the file specified by the + fetchurl call in the attribute + hello.src from the Nix expression in the + current directory, and print the cryptographic hash of the + resulting file on stdout. This differs from nix-build -A + hello.src in that it doesn't verify the hash, and is + thus useful when you’re updating a Nix expression. + + You can also prefetch the result of functions that unpack a + tarball, such as fetchFromGitHub. For example: + + +$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz + + + or from a Nix expression: + + +$ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src + + + + + + + + The builtin function + <nix/fetchurl.nix> now supports + downloading and unpacking NARs. This removes the need to have + multiple downloads in the Nixpkgs stdenv bootstrap process (like a + separate busybox binary for Linux, or curl/mkdir/sh/bzip2 for + Darwin). Now all those files can be combined into a single NAR, + optionally compressed using xz. + + + + Nix now supports SHA-512 hashes for verifying fixed-output + derivations, and in builtins.hashString. + + + + + The new flag will cause every build to + be executed N+1 times. If the build + output differs between any round, the build is rejected, and the + output paths are not registered as valid. This is primarily + useful to verify build determinism. (We already had a + option to repeat a previously succeeded + build. However, with , non-deterministic + builds are registered in the DB. Preventing that is useful for + Hydra to ensure that non-deterministic builds don't end up + getting published to the binary cache.) + + + + + Improved FreeBSD support. + + + + nix-env -qa --xml --meta now prints + license information. + + + + The maximum number of parallel TCP connections that the + binary cache substituter will use has been decreased from 150 to + 25. This should prevent upsetting some broken NAT routers, and + also improves performance. + + All "chroot"-containing strings got renamed to "sandbox". - In particular, some nix options got renamed, but the old names + In particular, some Nix options got renamed, but the old names are still accepted as lower-priority aliases. + This release has contributions from TODO.