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Ludovic Courtčs |
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03/03: website: Add post for 0.16.0. |
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Fri, 7 Dec 2018 12:06:53 -0500 (EST) |
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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Thu Dec 6 18:21:42 2018 +0100
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+title: GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.16.0 released
+date: 2018-12-06 18:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès
+slug: gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.16.0-released
+tags: Releases
+---
+We are pleased to announce the new release of GNUÂ Guix and GuixSD,
+version 0.16.0! This release is (hopefully!) the last one before 1.0—we
+have been closing [most key items for
+1.0](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org)
+over the last few months.
+
+The release comes with [GuixSD ISO-9660 installation
+images](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/System-Installation.html),
+a [virtual machine image of
+GuixSD](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html),
+and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your
+GNU/Linux distro, either [from
+source](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html)
+or [from
+binaries](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html).
+Guix users can update by running `guix pull`.
+
+It’s been 5 months since the previous release, during which 95 people
+contributed code and packages. Here are the highlights.
+
+ - The default [substitute
+
URL](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html)
+ has been changed to `https://ci.guix.info`. This is backed by a
+ more powerful build farm with terabytes of storage kindly donated by
+ the [Bioinformatics platform of the Berlin Institute of Medical
+ Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the Max DelbrĂĽck Center
+ (MDC)](https://www.mdc-berlin.de/bioinformatics). The build farm
+ front-end runs Cuirass, our continuous integration tool that was
+ partly developed during two
+
[GSoC](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/gsoc-2018-report-cuirass-web-interface/)
+
[internships](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2016/gnu-guix-welcomes-four-students-for-gsoc/).
+ - `guix pull` now [lists new and upgraded
+
packages](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/multi-dimensional-transactions-and-rollbacks-oh-my/),
+ and it has a `--profile` option that allows you to keep several
+ Guix revisions in parallel. Related to that, the new [`guix
+
describe`](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-describe.html)
+ command displays information about the Guix revision you are using.
+ - `guix pull` now supports
+
[_channels_](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html).
+ In a nutshell, you can specify in `~/.config/guix/channels.scm` the
+ channels from which `guix pull` will fetch Guix as well as,
+ optionally, third-party package repositories. Again `guix describe`
+ displays all the channels in use and `guix describe -f channels`
+ produces a “pinned channel” specification that can be used as the
+ `channels.scm` file of `guix pull`.
+ - Using the new [_inferior_
+
mechanism](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Inferiors.html),
+ you can now interact with a different revision of Guix and even
+ _compose packages coming from different revisions of Guix_!
+ - The output of the command-line tools has been noticeably improved:
+ important events are colorized, `guix package` and `guix system` no
+ longer display build logs, and `guix build` colorizes build logs (in
+ a way that is similar to what
+ [Emacs-Guix](https://emacs-guix.gitlab.io/website/) does.)
+ - There are new [package transformation
+
options](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html):
+ `--with-branch` and `--with-commit` allow you to obtain a package
+ variant straight from its Git repository.
+ - Guix had reproducible builds and now it has “reproducible source
+ code downloads”: when a package refers to a Git repository that has
+ disappeared (which is unfortunately not uncommon!), the checkout can
+ be fetched from [Software
+ Heritage](https://www.softwareheritage.org/). That makes Guix one
+ of the first distros to be backed by a long-term archive. See [this
+ issue](https://issues.guix.info/issue/33432) for more info.
+ - Our [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org) packages are now _fully
+ bootstrapped from source_, starting from
+ [mrustc](https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc), a Rust compiler
+ written in C++. This is a victory on this instance of [“yogurt
+ software”](https://bootstrappable.org/), and Guix is probably the
+ first distro to achieve this. More on that in a future post!
+ - On GuixSD, `guix system reconfigure` will now always load
+ replacements of system services. That way, when you deem
+ appropriate, you can run `herd restart SERVICE` to start the
+ upgraded service.
+ - As usual, 985 packages were added and 1,945 were upgraded, notably
+ the GNUÂ C Library now at version 2.28 (which, incidentally, allowed
+ us to [get rid of our Hurd-specific glibc
+
variant](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=2d546858b139e5fcf2cbdf9958a17fd98803ac4c),
+ at last!). Today Guix provides [8,715
+ packages](https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse).
+ - The manual is now partially [translated into
+ German](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/de/html_node/).
+ The [French
+ translation](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/fr/html_node/)
+ is now 90% complete. You can help [translate the manual into your
+ native
+ language](https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-manual.html) by
+ [joining the Translation
+ Project](https://translationproject.org/html/translators.html).
+
+Pffew, quite a long list already! The [release
+announcement](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00141.html)
+lists additional noteworthy changes and bug fixes you may be interested
+in.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNUÂ Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package
+manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is
+an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and
+[respects the user's
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
+per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level
+mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are
+defined as native [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile) modules,
+using extensions to the [Scheme](http://schemers.org) language. GuixSD
+offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration
+management, and is highly customizable and hackable.
+
+GuixSD can be used on an i686, x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines. It
+is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux
+system, including on mips64el and aarch64.