nix-super/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.1.xml

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<title>Release 2.1 (2018-08-31)</title>

<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It also reduces memory
consumption in certain situations. In addition, it has the following
new features:</para>

<itemizedlist>

  <listitem>
    <para>New builtin functions:
    <literal>builtins.bitAnd</literal>,
    <literal>builtins.bitOr</literal>,
    <literal>builtins.bitXor</literal>,
    <literal>builtins.fromTOML</literal>,
    <literal>builtins.concatMap</literal>,
    <literal>builtins.mapAttrs</literal>.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>The S3 binary cache store now supports uploading NARs larger
    than 5 GiB.</para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>The S3 binary cache store now supports uploading to
    S3-compatible services with the <literal>endpoint</literal>
    option.</para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>The flag <option>--fallback</option> is no longer required
    to recover from disappeared NARs in binary caches.</para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para><command>nix-daemon</command> now respects
    <option>--store</option>.</para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para><command>nix run</command> now respects
    <varname>nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages</varname>.</para>
  </listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>This release has contributions from TODO.
</para>

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