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<article><title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
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<section><title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title>
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<para>There have been zillions of changes since the last release of
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Nixpkgs. Among the more notable are:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink
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url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section><title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title>
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<para>This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed
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hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.</para>
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<para>Notable updates:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Adobe Reader 7.0</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Release 0.7 (March 14, 2005)</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The bootstrap process for the standard build
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environment on Linux (stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no
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longer dependent in its initial bootstrap stages on the system
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Glibc, GCC, and other tools. Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically
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linked bash and curl, and uses that to download other statically
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linked tools. These are then used to build a Glibc and dynamically
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linked versions of all other tools.</para>
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<para>This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For
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instance, GCC is built only once instead of three times.</para>
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<para>(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server
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that hosts Nixpkgs (<ulink url="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl" />).
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This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or
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deleted files on various servers.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules.
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See the various Perl modules defined in
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pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Notable new packages:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Qt 3</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>MySQL</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>MythTV</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Mono</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>MonoDevelop (alpha)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Xine</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Notable updates:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>GCC 3.4.3</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Glibc 2.3.4</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>GTK 2.6</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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</article>
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