Re: GNU Guix 1.0.1 released

[Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl>]

Hi Ludovic,

Congratulations on the release.

Perhaps someone can update the website <http://guix.gnu.org> or <http://guix.info>
which still has a DOWNLOAD 1.0.0 button.

On a related note, how come there are two versions of the official Guix website?
- http://gnu.org/s/guix (this one seems to be the most recent/updated one)
- http://guix.info or http://guix.gnu.org (this one seems to lag behind)

Is it possible to unify them somehow, perhaps? It would be less confusing for people searching
for Guix on Google or DuckDuckGo.

Best,
-Dan

On 19-05-19 23:43, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.0.1.
> 
> This is a bug-fix release primarily addressing one major issue in the
> graphical installer of the standalone Guix system, as well as less
> critical issues.
> 
> Read more about today’s announcement at:
> 
>    https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released
> 
> • About
> 
>    GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced
>    distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom.  Guix can
>    be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it can be
>    used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64,
>    ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
> 
>    In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
>    transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package
>    management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a
>    standalone GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative,
>    stateless approach to operating system configuration management.  Guix
>    is highly customizable and hackable through Guile programming
>    interfaces and extensions to the Scheme language.
> 
>    https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
> 
> • Download
> 
>    Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.0.1.tar.gz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.0.1.tar.gz.sig
> 
>    Here are the bootable USB installation images and their signatures[*]:
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso.xz.sig
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.iso.xz.sig
> 
>    Here is the QCOW2 virtual machine (VM) image and its signature:
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.xz.sig
> 
>    Here are the binary tarballs and their signatures[*]:
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.i686-linux.tar.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.i686-linux.tar.xz.sig
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.tar.xz.sig
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.armhf-linux.tar.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.armhf-linux.tar.xz.sig
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
>      https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.1.aarch64-linux.tar.xz.sig
> 
>    Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>      https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>    
>    Here are the SHA1 checksums:
> 
>    f6e32b17e034124edeec11d841e687ba0ee59242  guix-1.0.1.tar.gz
>    d710c927c1eae466c4f8a11796e196bd61fe07aa  guix-binary-1.0.1.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
>    457b8a13660a764c326096cd3a7107c6e036e406  guix-binary-1.0.1.armhf-linux.tar.xz
>    314f093ea71702cebdc1a98c3ca8319cd49efbfc  guix-binary-1.0.1.i686-linux.tar.xz
>    8288422fde6a6d4ee257355c21ab9447ae9736cf  guix-binary-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>    78b48b00c7f5e073a66c976085f0489db2449b0b  guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso.xz
>    41c6ed4e48930fa0ef7954745b5c7a4d85dfd0a8  guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
>    bce4a096717ac7a749cccd8d161d71dfd6c6e579  guix-system-vm-image-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.xz
>    
>    [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
>    .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
>    and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>    
>      gpg --verify guix-1.0.1.tar.gz.sig
>    
>    If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
>    then run this command to import it:
>    
>      gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net \
>          --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
>    
>    and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
> 
>    To install the standalone Guix system, please see “System
>    Installation” in the manual.  To install Guix on a running system, see
>    “Installation” in the manual.
> 
> • Changes since version 1.0.0 (excerpt from the NEWS file)
> 
>    ** Package management
>    *** The ‘https_proxy’ environment variable is now honored
>    ** Distribution
>    *** ‘guix system docker-image’ now produces images with an entry point
>    *** New ‘--network’ option for ‘guix system container’
>    *** ‘gcc’ package is now hidden; ‘gcc-toolchain’ is what users want
>    *** ‘mcron’ service now logs to /var/log/mcron.log
>    *** Dovecot: ‘auth-verbose-passwords?’ renamed from ‘auth-verbose-passwords’
>    *** ‘slim’ service now allows for multiple instances on different VTs
>    *** 70 new packages
>    *** 483 package updates
> 
>    Noteworthy updates:
>    gdb 8.3, ghc 8.4.3, glibc 2.28, gnupg 2.2.15, go 1.12.1, guile 2.2.4,
>    icecat 60.6.2-guix1, icedtea 3.7.0, linux-libre 5.1.2, python 3.7.0,
>    rust 1.34.1, shepherd 0.6.1
> 
>    ** Programming interfaces
>    *** New (guix lzlib) module, to be used eventually for substitute compression
>    ** Noteworthy bug fixes
>    *** Installer appends packages to ‘%base-packages’
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35541>)
>    *** Installer allows for arbitrary-long passphrases and passwords
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35716>)
>    *** ‘network-manager-applet’ is provided as part of ‘%desktop-services’
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35554>)
>    *** Installer can create Btrfs file systems
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35655>)
>    *** Installer password entry visibility can be toggled
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35540>)
>    *** ‘guix-daemon.service’ file for systemd selects a valid UTF-8 locale
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35671>)
>    *** ‘gnome-tweak-tool’ starts correctly
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35597>)
>    *** ‘getlogin’ C function now works as expected
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35553>)
>    *** Leading zeros are preserved when serializing FAT UUIDs
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35582>)
>    *** ‘guix search’ now searches output names
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35588>)
>    *** ‘guix environment’ in non ad-hoc mode honors package transformations
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35618>)
>    *** ‘guix refresh’ correctly determines the latest version for GitHub
>        (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35684>)
> 
>    ** Native language support
>    *** New preliminary translation of the manual to Russian
>    *** Updated translations: da, de, es, fr
> 
> 
> Please report bugs to bug-guix@gnu.org
> Join guix-devel@gnu.org and #guix on Freenode for discussions.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
> 
>       1	Alex Griffin
>       4	Arun Isaac
>       4	Björn Höfling
>      32	Brendan Tildesley
>      10	Brian Leung
>       5	Carl Dong
>       1	Chris Marusich
>       3	Christopher Baines
>       7	Danny Milosavljevic
>       6	Diego Nicola Barbato
>       4	Efraim Flashner
>       3	Florian Pelz
>       5	Gábor Boskovits
>       1	HiPhish
>       4	Ivan Petkov
>       2	Jonathan Brielmaier
>       2	Josh Holland
>      21	Julien Lepiller
>       1	LaFreniere, Joseph
>       4	Leo Famulari
>      80	Ludovic Courtès
>      41	Marius Bakke
>      24	Mark H Weaver
>       3	Mathieu Othacehe
>      29	Maxim Cournoyer
>       8	Miguel
>      16	Nicolas Goaziou
>       3	Oleg Pykhalov
>       7	Pierre Neidhardt
>     272	Ricardo Wurmus
>       2	Rutger Helling
>       2	Sam
>       2	Sou Bunnbu (宋文武)
>       5	Timothy Sample
>       1	Ting-Wei Lan
>      82	Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>       1	Vagrant Cascadian
>       1	Zzull
>       6	gabrielhdt
>       1	ison
> 
> Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.
>