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<title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
<section><title>Release 0.12 (TBA)</title>
<section><title>Release 0.12 (April 23, 2009)</title>
<para>This release has the following improvements:
<para>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:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>TODO: simplified and expanded stdenv hook
handling.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Nixpkgs now has a manual. In particular, it
describes the standard build environment in
detail.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Major new packages:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>KDE 4.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>TeXLive.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>VirtualBox.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
… and many others.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Important updates:
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<listitem><para>GCC 4.2.4.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux 2.6.25.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Linux 2.6.25 — 2.6.28.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Firefox 3.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>X.org 7.3.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support for building derivations in a virtual
machine, including RPM and Debian builds in automatically generated
VM images. See
<filename>pkgs/build-support/vm.default.nix</filename> for
details.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved support for building Haskell
packages.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>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
<literal>nix-dev</literal> mailing list.</para>
</section>