* Release notes.

* Linux 2.6.22.6.
* w3m 0.5.2.

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# You may need to override this.
docbookxsl = $(HOME)/.nix-profile/xml/xsl/docbook
XMLLINT = xmllint --catalogs
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<title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
<section><title>Release 0.11 (TBA)</title>
<section><title>Release 0.11 (September 11, 2007)</title>
<para>This release has the following improvements:
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</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The function <function>fetchurl</function> now has
support for two different kinds of mirroring of files. First, it
has support for <emphasis>content-addressable mirrors</emphasis>.
For example, given the <function>fetchurl</function> call
<programlisting>
fetchurl {
url = http://releases.mozilla.org/<replaceable>...</replaceable>/firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2;
sha1 = "eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082";
}</programlisting>
<function>fetchurl</function> will first try to download this file
from <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/sha1/eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082"/>.
If that file doesnt exist, it will try the original URL. In
general, the “content-addressed” location is
<replaceable>mirror</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>hash-type</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>.
There is currently only one content-addressable mirror (<link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs"/>), but more can be
specified in the <varname>hashedMirrors</varname> attribute in
<filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename>, or by
setting the <envar>NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS</envar> environment variable
to a whitespace-separated list of URLs.</para>
<para>Second, <function>fetchurl</function> has support for
widely-mirrored distribution sites such as SourceForge or the Linux
kernel archives. Given a URL of the form
<literal>mirror://<replaceable>site</replaceable>/<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal>,
it will try to download <replaceable>path</replaceable> from a
configurable list of mirrors for <replaceable>site</replaceable>.
(This idea was borrowed from Gentoo Linux.) Example:
<programlisting>
fetchurl {
url = mirror://gnu/gcc/gcc-4.2.0/gcc-core-4.2.0.tar.bz2;
sha256 = "0ykhzxhr8857dr97z0j9wyybfz1kjr71xk457cfapfw5fjas4ny1";
}</programlisting>
Currently <replaceable>site</replaceable> can be
<literal>sourceforge</literal>, <literal>gnu</literal> and
<literal>kernel</literal>. The list of mirrors is defined in
<filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename>. You
can override the list of mirrors for a particular site by setting
the environment variable
<envar>NIX_MIRRORS_<replaceable>site</replaceable></envar>, e.g.
<programlisting>
export NIX_MIRRORS_sourceforge=http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Important updates:
<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>X11R7.2.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux 2.6.20.11.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux 2.6.21.7 and 2.6.22.6.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>.
<listitem><para>Emacs 22.1.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>KDE 3.5.6 Base.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Wine 0.9.43.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>OpenOffice 2.2.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Many Linux system packages to support
NixOS.</para></listitem>
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</para>
<para>The following people contributed to this release:
Andres Löh,
Arie Middelkoop,
Armijn Hemel,
Eelco Dolstra,
Marc Weber,
Mart Kolthof,
Martin Bravenboer,
Michael Raskin,
Wouter den Breejen and
Yury G. Kudryashov.
</para>
</section>