News entry for ‘core-updates’

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  • Andreas Enge
  • Ludovic Courtès
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 25 Apr 2023 20:23
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87a5yvzuqt.fsf@inria.fr
Hi!

As a followup to our discussion on IRC, here’s a proposed news entry for
‘core-updates’ that we should push soonish (I can do that later today or
tomorrow but feel free to do it before!).

I probably missed important items, maybe build system changes?

Ludo’.
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(channel-news
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+ (entry (commit "c919bfefd98bf2e29549539b4e28e6dc2a8a6f32")
+ (title
+ (en "Core packages updated"))
+ (body
+ (en "Core packages have been updated, following months of hard work
+by contributors. Noteworthy package upgrades include:
+
+@itemize
+@item glibc 2.35;
+@item Python 3.10;
+@item Perl 5.36;
+@item Mesa 22;
+@item GCC 11 is now used as the default compiler.
+@end itemize
+
+A major highlight is the introduction of the so-called @dfn{full-source
+bootstrap}: packages are all built starting from a 500-byte program called
+stage0, which is then used to build a higher-level interpreter, a basic Scheme
+interpreter and C compiler (GNU Mes), and so on, until @acronym{GCC, the GNU
+Compiler Collection} is finally built. This is a premiere and a huge step
+forward in terms of transparency of auditability.")))
+
(entry (commit "21564fada141bfba25d471518b293b6004244c3a")
(title
(en "Linux-libre LTS kernel updated to 6.1")
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Andreas Enge wrote on 26 Apr 2023 09:11
Re: bug#63073: News entry for ‘core-updates’
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)
ZEjOoLFX0FRLVi3d@jurong
Am Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 08:23:22PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtï¿œs:
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> I probably missed important items, maybe build system changes?

Honestly, I do not know... Version updates all over the place.
But I do not know earth shattering ones. These should come in the
feature branches now.

Andreas
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 26 Apr 2023 11:29
Re: bug#63073: News entry for ‘core-updates ’
(address . 63073-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
871qk7yotc.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

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> As a followup to our discussion on IRC, here’s a proposed news entry for
> ‘core-updates’ that we should push soonish (I can do that later today or
> tomorrow but feel free to do it before!).
>
> I probably missed important items, maybe build system changes?

I went ahead and pushed this text together with a French translation as
5f0474ba878e49c0c0a8e9d6e67a7ad36f4ec955.

Ludo’.
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