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