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* NEWS: Update for 1.5.0.

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@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Copyright © 2013-2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Copyright © 2021, 2022, 2024 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim@guixotic.coop>
Copyright © 2022 Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2026 Noé Lopez <noelopez@free.fr>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@ -16,8 +17,77 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
* Changes in 1.5.0 (since 1.4.0)
** Package management
*** New ‘rpm’ format for the ‘guix pack’ command
*** New ‘appimage’ format for the ‘guix pack’ command
*** New ‘--max-layers’ and ‘--file’ options for the ‘guix pack’ command
*** New ‘--roll-back’ and ‘--expression’ options for the ‘guix deploy’ command
*** New ‘--with-version’ package transformation option
*** New ‘--with-configure-flag’ package transformation option
*** New ‘--nesting’ option to use Guix within ‘guix shell’ containers
*** New ‘--emulate-fhs’ option for ‘guix shell’ containers
*** New ‘--dependents’ and ‘--development’ options for ‘guix build’
*** New ‘--interactive’ and ‘--list-types’ flags for ‘guix repl’
*** The root file-system of ‘guix shell’ containers is now read-only
*** New ‘--writable-root’ option for the ‘guix shell’ command
*** Improved style rules for ‘guix style’
*** New ‘guix locate’ command
*** ‘guix refresh’ now honours the ‘--key-server’ option
*** ‘guix git authenticate‘ now remembers introduction commit and signer
*** ‘guix git authenticate’ now installs pre-push and post-merge git hooks
*** System reconfiguration now supports kexec for fast reboot
*** Hetzner Cloud is now supported by the ‘guix deploy’ command
*** The Guix Daemon can now be run without root privileges
*** ‘guix refresh’ can now target partial version
*** New ‘guix import composer’ command
*** New ‘guix import binary-npm’ command
*** New ‘guix import nuget’ command
*** New ‘graphml’ backend for guix graph
*** New ‘cyclonedx-json’ backend for guix graph
*** AppArmor profiles are now available for guix and guix-daemon
** Distribution
*** ‘nss-certs’ is now included in ‘%base-packages’
*** ‘udev-service-type’ now supports hardware configuration files
*** ‘gdm-service-type’ now uses Wayland by default
*** KDE Plasma 6.5 is now available with the new ‘plasma-desktop-service-type’
*** GNOME was updated to version 44 with a more modular desktop service
*** Declarative offloading with new ‘build-machines’ field of operating-system
*** ‘containerd-service-type’ is no longer included with the Docker service
*** ‘privileged-programs’ replaces ‘setuid-programs’ in ‘operating-system’
*** The ‘postgresql’ field of ‘postgresql-configuration‘ is now mandatory
*** The Rottlog service was replaced by new ‘log-rotation-service-type’
*** The default system log has been changed to Shepherd’s ‘system-log’ service
*** New recommended ‘%base-home-services’ variable for Guix Home
*** UDisks now mounts removable devices in /run/media/$USER instead of /media
*** Syncthing service received incompatible changes
*** ‘node-build-system’ received incompatible changes
*** New services for /etc/profile.d and /etc/bashrc.d
*** New build system for clasp-cl
*** New Rust packaging model
*** C.utf8 locale is now supported by glibc
*** Fully bootstrapped mono and zig are now available
*** 64bit Hurd (x86_64-gnu) now has experimental support
*** 12525 new packages
*** 8911 package updates
Noteworthy updates:
bash 5.2.37, binutils 2.44, clojure 1.12.0, cups 2.4.14, emacs 30.2,
gcc-toolchain 15.2.0, gdb 16.3, ghc 9.2.8, gimp 3.0.4, glibc 2.41,
gnome 46.10, gnupg 2.4.7, go 1.25.3, guile 3.0.9, icecat 140.6.0-gnu1,
icedtea 3.19.0, inkscape 1.3.2, julia 1.8.5, libreoffice 25.2.5.2,
linux-libre 6.17.12, lxde 0.99.3, mate 1.28.2, ocaml 5.3.0, octave 10.3.0,
openjdk 25, perl 5.36.0, python 3.11.14, racket 8.18, rust 1.85.1, r 4.5.2,
sbcl 2.5.8, shepherd 1.0.9, xfce 4.20.0, xorg-server 21.1.21
** Programming interfaces
*** ‘(gnu system setuid)’ has been renamed to ‘(gnu system privilege)’
*** Moved to a new Rust packaging model and repackaged all Rust applications
*** Rust library packages have been moved to the guix-rust-past-crates channel
*** Most Python packages now use the ‘pyproject-build-system’
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Daemon vulnerability allowing store corruption has been fixed
*** Daemon vulnerability allowing takeover of build users has been fixed
*** Daemon privilege escalation vulnerabilities fixed
*** Daemon CVEs have been fixed
CVE-2024-27297, CVE-2024-52867, CVE-2025-46415, CVE-2025-46416, CVE-2025-59378
* Changes in 1.4.0 (since 1.3.0)
** Package management
*** New ‘guix home’ command, for home environment management
@ -1926,7 +1996,7 @@ zynaddsubfx@3.0.3, zziplib@0.13.69
*** ‘guix pack’ now honors package transformation options
*** ‘guix package --search’ no longer shows superseded packages
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/30566>)
*** ‘guix offload test’ reports errors more nicely
*** ‘guix offload test’ reports errors more nicely
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/28057>)
*** postgresql service is started through ‘pg_ctl’
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/29992>)
@ -5664,7 +5734,7 @@ Monad” in the manual.
*** X session is executed from a login shell (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19119>)
*** grub.cfg is now a garbage-collector root (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19160>)
*** Substituter progress report properly formatted
*** Substituter progress report properly formatted
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/19313>)
*** Document permissions for /gnu/store (<http://bugs.gnu.org/19316>)
*** Make sure config.go is newer than config.scm
@ -5920,18 +5990,18 @@ This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel.
*** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>)
*** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>)
*** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
*** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>)
*** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>)
*** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>)
*** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
*** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>)
*** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>)
*** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>)
*** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>)
*** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
*** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>)
*** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>)