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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.10">
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<title>Release 1.10 (2015-09-03)</title>
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<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new
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features:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>A number of builtin functions have been added to reduce
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Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation time and memory consumption:
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<function>all</function>,
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<function>any</function>,
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<function>concatStringsSep</function>,
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<function>foldl’</function>,
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<function>genList</function>,
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<function>replaceStrings</function>,
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<function>sort</function>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The garbage collector is more robust when the disk is full.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Nix supports a new API for building derivations that doesn’t
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require a <literal>.drv</literal> file to be present on disk; it
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only requires an in-memory representation of the derivation. This
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is used by the Hydra continuous build system to make remote builds
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more efficient.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The function <literal><nix/fetchurl.nix></literal> now
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uses a <emphasis>builtin</emphasis> builder (i.e. it doesn’t
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require starting an external process; the download is performed by
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Nix itself). This ensures that derivation paths don’t change when
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Nix is upgraded, and obviates the need for ugly hacks to support
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chroot execution.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><option>--version -v</option> now prints some configuration
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information, in particular what compile-time optional features are
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enabled, and the paths of various directories.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Build users have their supplementary groups set correctly.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Guillaume
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Maudoux, Iwan Aucamp, Jaka Hudoklin, Kirill Elagin, Ludovic Courtès,
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Manolis Ragkousis, Nicolas B. Pierron and Shea Levy.</para>
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</section>
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