* Start of Nixpkgs 0.10 release notes.

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<article><title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
<title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
<section><title>Release 0.10 (October ???, 2006)</title>
<note><para>This release of Nixpkgs requires <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nix-0.10/'>Nix
0.10</link>.</para></note>
<para>This release has the following improvements:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>TODO: user configurability. Configuration file in
<filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The default compiler is now GCC 4.1.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>X11 updated to X11R7.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Opera.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following people contributed to this release:
Andres Löh,
Armijn Hemel,
Christof Douma,
Eelco Dolstra,
Eelco Visser,
Mart Kolthof,
Martin Bravenboer,
Merijn de Jonge,
Rob Vermaas and
Roy van den Broek.
</para>
</section>
<section><title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title>
@@ -16,8 +52,8 @@ some of the more notable changes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink
url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The C library on Linux, Glibc, has been updated to
version 2.3.6.</para></listitem>
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working X server (previously we only had X client libraries). We
use a fully Nixified X server on NixOS.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesn't
<listitem><para>The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesnt
require any non-Nix components such as
<filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>. This means that Java
applications such as Eclipse and Azureus can run on
@@ -149,9 +185,10 @@ hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.</para>
<listitem>
<para>Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server
that hosts Nixpkgs (<ulink url="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/" />).
This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or
deleted files on various servers.</para>
that hosts Nixpkgs (<link
xlink:href="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/" />). This reduces the
risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or deleted files on
various servers.</para>
</listitem>