[Nix-dev] Nix 0.14 released

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the
Nix package manager.  Release 0.14 can be found at

  http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-0.14

*** Release notes ***

The release notes can also be found at
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/281118/download/3/release-notes/.

This release has the following improvements:

  * The garbage collector now starts deleting garbage much faster than before.
    It no longer determines liveness of all paths in the store, but does so on
    demand.

  * Added a new operation, nix-store --query --roots, that shows the garbage
    collector roots that directly or indirectly point to the given store paths.

  * Removed support for converting Berkeley DB-based Nix databases to the new
    schema.

  * Removed the --use-atime and --max-atime garbage collector options. They
    were not very useful in practice.

  * On Windows, Nix now requires Cygwin 1.7.x.

  * A few bug fixes.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/