Hello Guix!

I’m happy to announce a release candidate for 1.2.0:

  source:
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.2.0rc1.tar.gz

  binary tarball (to install on a “foreign distro”):
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.armhf-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.i686-linux.tar.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.x86_64-linux.tar.xz

  system installation:
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.2.0rc1.i686-linux.iso.xz
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.2.0rc1.x86_64-linux.iso.xz

  virtual machine image:
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.2.0rc1.x86_64-linux.xz

SHA256 hashes:

  ac85dbfa17bfb582c91b867928bd1eebc4dc36b61fca2d8014ba0e8c83879932  guix-1.2.0rc1.tar.gz
  83996dad6ec4d1a0ee59ee2eab37cc2398e0d894fb942c67347009a37250be02  guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
  ee2071da2640843977c56cfc9fdf7c346c9c88f250b1f20baff27731e4a3ff5a  guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.armhf-linux.tar.xz
  b7174db2faaf2d7fad74ab5c06b635f39d38f3f80b023f3de8e4c0d30bd84cf9  guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.i686-linux.tar.xz
  625f57a7a16118a98330a3f03d0d63509a0b4a61e56a179f1a2c0ca1e00de3b6  guix-binary-1.2.0rc1.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
  f4dc25282cfcb5f9426c17cf0d18984846595cf6815ffd87315596e3514a5d71  guix-system-install-1.2.0rc1.i686-linux.iso.xz
  8478f762146bcbc0ce7683395a846b6cbcf6002107e71df4248bf9d8699d52e2  guix-system-install-1.2.0rc1.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
  8bd4e9cbb4e218ca5afa02d5f7e8bc70d4b3ed1c19b6576488051ed61a5cfc89  guix-system-vm-image-1.2.0rc1.x86_64-linux.xz

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>.

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 tweak it so it
     fetches 1.2.0rc1 (patch not included :-)).

  2. Testing the graphical installer of Guix System.

  3. Testing the VM image.

  4. Testing the bug fix for <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35594>: in
     GNOME, Xfce, and other GLib-based desktop environment, the
     application menu should now be automatically updated as soon as
     ‘guix install’, ‘guix remove’, etc. complete.

     You can also test this without going through a full system
     installation by running:

       guix time-machine --branch=version-1.2.0 \
         system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

In any case, please report success, failure, and annoyances in this thread.

It would be nice to release 1.2.0 before the Guix Day and the Guix
anniversary (Nov. 23).

Thanks in advance!

Ludo’.