Week 35, 2024

The linux-libre 6.9 kernel series has reached the end of its life, and is no longer supported upstream. For this reason, it has been removed from GNU Guix.

Core packages have been updated, in particular those that are used to build every other package in the distribution. Noteworthy upgrades include:

• glibc 2.39 (was 2.35);

• gcc 11.4.0 as the default compiler (was 11.3.0);

• binutils 2.41 (was 2.38);

• make 4.4.1 (was 4.3);

• TeX Live 2024.2 (was 20230313; note that due to the new versioning scheme, guix upgrade will consider the new packages as ``older'' than the previous ones so you may need to use guix install to upgrade them).

Additional improvements were made to build systems and related packages and tools:

• the glibc package now includes the C.UTF-8 locale, suitable for use when a UTF-8 locale is necessary regardless of any language or regional convention;

• origins that include patches are now repacked with zstd instead of xz, which uses less CPU power and memory, both when compressing and when decompressing;

• performance issues with the modular TeX Live package set have been fixed.

If you encounter any problem, please check https://issues.guix.gnu.org for existing reports and resolutions; email bug-guix@gnu.org to report new bugs.