• GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Fri Jan 23 14:15:08 2026
    GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

    Date:
    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:14:25 +0000

    Description:
    Version
    1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have
    been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the
    Guix daemon without root privileges, support for 64-bit RISC-V, and experimental support for the GNU Hurd kernel. The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtual
    machine images, and with tarballs to install the package manager on
    top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from
    binariescheck out the download page. Guix users can update by running
    guix pull. It's been 3 years since the previous release. That's a lot of time, reflecting both the fact that, as a rolling release, users
    continuously get new features and update by running guix pull; but it
    also shows a lack of processes, something that we had to address
    before another release could be made. During that time, Guix received about 71,338 commits by 744 people,
    which include many new features. LWN last looked at Guix in
    February 2024.

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