[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs 0.12 released

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the
Nix Packages collection.  Release 0.12 can be found at

  http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12/

Also, the stdenv-updates branch has been merged into the Nixpkgs trunk.  Thus
the trunk is now based on GCC 4.3.3, Glibc 2.9 and X.org 7.4.  When upgrading
NixOS via "nixos-rebuild switch", you need to reboot to make the upgrade take
effect.  This is because an apparent incompatibility between the pre-merge and
post-merge Upstart.

*** Release notes ***

The release notes can also be found (in a nicer format than ASCII) at
http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12/release-notes/.

There are way too many additions to Nixpkgs since the last release to list
here: for example, the number of packages on Linux has increased from 1002 to
2159. However, some specific improvements are worth listing:

  * Nixpkgs now has a manual. In particular, it describes the standard build
    environment in detail.

  * Major new packages:

      o KDE 4.

      o TeXLive.

      o VirtualBox.

    ... and many others.

  * Important updates:

      o Glibc 2.7.

      o GCC 4.2.4.

      o Linux 2.6.25 - 2.6.28.

      o Firefox 3.

      o X.org 7.3.

  * Support for building derivations in a virtual machine, including RPM and
    Debian builds in automatically generated VM images. See pkgs/build-support/
    vm.default.nix for details.

  * Improved support for building Haskell packages.

The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Arie Middelkoop,
Armijn Hemel, Eelco Dolstra, Lluís Batlle, Ludovic Courtès, Marc Weber, Mart
Kolthof, Martin Bravenboer, Michael Raskin, Nicolas Pierron, Peter Simons,
Pjotr Prins, Rob Vermaas, Sander van der Burg, Tobias Hammerschmidt, Valentin
David, Wouter den Breejen and Yury G. Kudryashov. In addition, several people
contributed patches on the nix-dev mailing list.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/