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