GNU Guix 1.3.0 released

asymmetric · May 12, 2021, 10:04am

asymmetric · May 12, 2021, 11:46am

Sidenote: I really like Guix’s artwork.

AndersonTorres · May 14, 2021, 4:20am

We need something like that!

pxc · May 16, 2021, 4:20am

Highlights:
• Guix got its first recursive importer, making guix import more like the best 2nix scripts
• Guix gained a tool for converting imperative user profiles into declarative ones
• Guix switched to zstd for substitute compression
• Guix gained something kinda like brew install --HEAD but for stable releases

blaggacao · May 16, 2021, 4:26am

Also:

Guix reference manual is now fully translated into […]
Guix auto-discovers substituters in the local network via mDNS/DNS-SD via avahi

As of recently:

Guix learned how to fan out builds to multiple agents

pxc · May 16, 2021, 4:32am

I should have read that more carefully! Sounds like Guix’s internationalizations are as enviable as the rest of their documentation.