Hello Guix!

The second release candidate of the upcoming 1.4.0 release is now
available for testing, fixing issues that were reported for rc1:

  source:
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.4.0rc2.tar.gz

  binary tarball (to install on a “foreign distro”):
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.armhf-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.i686-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.powerpc64le-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz

  system installation:
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.4.0rc2.i686-linux.iso
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.4.0rc2.x86_64-linux.iso

  virtual machine image:
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.4.0rc2.x86_64-linux.qcow2

SHA256 hashes:

  3b6c676615ce0b9de7c66ead528a91bb8520b74d2c391e0000dac8d4c76d2d52  guix-1.4.0rc2.tar.gz
  3566bfe5f0615f9b2167db7d1a2f1c88c02e8cc5013563b3e1eb95636a58f850  guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
  18741b6780e9d0f8985d2514e5dff32110091cdf4da106062d1a2cf5cd6ed6a4  guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.armhf-linux.tar.xz
  3d8348c2dbed8f9c6ab90f2ddc0df8c10d45c042612aed1fe7dcc7eabbc18b70  guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.i686-linux.tar.xz
  4731126cc4f3f22265ae430e2acc3f67489ec311e42de346b634656740258033  guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.powerpc64le-linux.tar.xz
  542e53a09fddedbddd75dfc745509ad9365cb7a76750d9bf8575b589c97dc286  guix-binary-1.4.0rc2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
  b35f94609942b9715acefa978166189c5505934c9576b1c3e14417beb5c48d6d  guix-system-install-1.4.0rc2.i686-linux.iso
  880a1ee977f6999f635352222d5667930d1d859a607c723573c86bd9f6c2ae69  guix-system-install-1.4.0rc2.x86_64-linux.iso
  8bc98e42ba9370f49cfc2b051083121d8682c760ac3dac614b3f478d174c8756  guix-system-vm-image-1.4.0rc2.x86_64-linux.qcow2

All these files have an associated ‘.sig’, an OpenPGP signature that you
can verify as explained at
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html> [0].

You can help by:

  1. Testing the binary tarball on the distro of your choice.  You can
     download <https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh> and uncomment the
     ‘GNU_URL’ variable assignment that refers to alpha.gnu.org.  It
     should pick up 1.4.0rc2 automatically.

  2. Testing the graphical installer of Guix System (the ISO images).

  3. Testing the VM image, along the lines of
     <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html>.

Please report success to guix-devel@gnu.org, and report bugs and
annoyances to bug-guix@gnu.org.

If not serious problems are reported, we may release 1.4.0 on Dec. 19th.

Thanks in advance!

Ludo’.

[0] Replacing https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=127547 by
    https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145 in the
    instructions.  This will only be reflected on the website after the
    release is made.