Update NEWS.

This covers the commits made between v1.3.0..3eadcdc6^.

* NEWS: New entries for the 1.4.0 upcoming release.

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 5 deletions

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@@ -26,25 +26,42 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
 *** New updater (see ‘guix refresh’): ‘generic-git’
 *** ‘guix graph’ has a new ‘--max-depth’ option
 *** ‘--with-commit’ option now accepts strings returned by ‘git describe’
+*** Align tabular data output by commands like ‘guix package --list-available’
+*** Improved ‘guix import go’ importer via a new PEG parser
+*** Improved Software Heritage downloader
+*** New 'web.archive.org’ download fall-back
+*** Various performance enhancements
 ** Distribution
 *** The installation script can now enable local substitute servers discovery
 *** More control over boot-time file system checks and repairs
 *** XFS file systems can be created by the installer and mounted by label/UUID
 *** New interface for declaring swap space
 *** GNOME is now at version 42
+*** TeX Live is now at version 2021
+*** Python is now faster thanks to being built with optimizations
 *** The Rust bootstrap now starts from 1.54 instead of 1.19
 *** Most Python 2 packages have been removed
 *** Guix now makes use of parallel xz compression
 *** Faster shared libraries discovery via a per-package dynamic linker cache
-*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
-*** Package inputs can now be provided without explicit labels
+*** Package inputs can now be plain package lists
 *** A package origin can now be a single file rather than an archive
 *** Multiple Tex Live trees can now be used via GUIX_TEXMF
 *** A new sanity-check phase detects packaging problems at build time
-*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
 *** Fetching sources can now fall-back to use Disarchive
+*** Improved CI and infrastructure
+*** Multiple cross-compilation tooling addition and fixes
+*** Many Qt 6 modules are now packaged
+*** Configuring setuid programs is now more flexible
+*** Add support for the XFS file system
+*** Add partial support for LUKS2 headers when using GRUB
 ** Programming interfaces
 *** (guix records) now supports “field sanitizers”
+*** Build phases are no longer required to return a boolean
+*** G-Expressions can now be used to author build phases
+*** Various improvements to the helpers in (gnu service configuration)
+*** New ‘modify-inputs’ macro to ease customizing a list of package inputs
+*** New ‘this-package-input’ and ‘this-package-native-input’ macros
+*** ‘texlive-union’ is now deprecated in favor of ‘texlive-updmap.cfg’
 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
 *** Fall back to Software Heritage when cloning a channel
     (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44187>)
@@ -56,13 +73,24 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
     (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/24937>)
 *** File system flags are validated before system instantiation
     (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51425>)
-*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile
+*** Fonts can now be discovered in any profile via XDG_DATA_DIRS
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31403>)
 *** Python modules discovery no longer uses PYTHONPATH
 *** Various Python reproducibility fixes
-*** Installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
+*** The installer now supports MSDOS disk labels on UEFI systems
     (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47889>)
+*** The installer can now properly mount FAT16 partitions
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48419>)
+*** The installer no longer crashes when deleting a free space partition
 *** Emacs handles major upgrades better without a re-login
     (<https://bugs.gnu.org/47458>)
+*** The bootloader configuration now accepts multiple targets
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40997>.)
+*** A file system mount point is always created when ‘create?’ is true
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40158>)
+*** Build the man database only if ‘man-db’ is in the profile
+*** gdk-pixbuf now discovers pixbuf loaders via a search path
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50957>)
 * Changes in 1.3.0 (since 1.2.0)
 ** Package management
 *** POWER9 (powerpc64le-linux) is now supported as a technology preview