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+title: GNU Guix 1.1.0 released [DRAFT XXX]
+date: 2020-03-09 14:00:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès
+slug: gnu-guix-1.1.0-released
+tags: Releases, System tests
+---
+We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.0.0!
+
+The release comes with [ISO-9660 installation
+images](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/System-Installation.html),
+a [virtual machine
+image](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html),
+and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your
+GNU/Linux distro, either [from
+source](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html) or
+[from
+binaries](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html).
+Guix users can update by running `guix pull`.
+
+It’s been 11 months since the previous release, during which XXX people
+contributed code and packages.  This is a long time for a release, which
+is in part due to the fact that bug fixes and new features are
+continuously delivered to our users _via_ `guix pull`.  However, a
+number of improvements, in particular in the installer, will greatly
+improve the experience of first-time users.
+
+It’s hard to summarize more than 13,000 commits, but here are the
+highlights as far as tooling is concerned:
+
+  - The new [`guix
+    
deploy`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-deploy.html)
+    tool allows you to deploy several machines at once, [be it remote
+    machines over
+    SSH](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/towards-guix-for-devops/) or
+    [machines at a
+    
VPS](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/managing-servers-with-gnu-guix-a-tutorial/).
+  - Channel authors can now write news entries for their users, [which
+    are readily readable using `guix pull
+    --news`](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/spreading-the-news/).  As a
+    result, if you were already using Guix, you’ve probably already read
+    these news!
+  - The new [`guix system
+    
describe`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html)
+    command tells you which commits of which channels were used to
+    deploy your system, and also contains a link to your operating
+    system configuration file.  Precise provenance tracking that gives
+    users and admins the ability to know _exactly_ what changed between
+    two different system instances!
+  - [`guix
+    pack`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html)
+    has improved support for generating Singularity and Docker images,
+    notably with the `--entry-point` option.
+  - There’s a new [`guix time-machine`
+    
command](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-time_002dmachine.html)
+    that does what you would expect :-), and it nicely benefits from
+    improved Software Heritage integration through [`guix
+    lint`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-lint.html).
+  - [`guix
+    
challenge`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-challenge.html)
+    can now show diffs on the fly—one of the outcomes of the recent
+    [Reproducible Build
+    
Summit](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/reproducible-builds-summit-5th-edition/).
+  - Guix can now publish and download lzip-compressed substitutes,
+    [which significantly reduces bandwidth
+    
requirement](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/substitutes-are-now-available-as-lzip/).
+  - [`guix
+    
system`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html)
+    supports a `--target` option providing some support for the
+    cross-compilation of complete systems.  More on that in [this FOSDEM
+    talk](https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ggaaattyp/).
+  - Guix now [run on
+    Guile 3](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guile-3-and-guix/), which
+    improves performance.
+
+On the distro side:
+
+  - The package dependency graph is [rooted in a reduced set of “binary
+    
seeds”](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/)—a
+    huge step towards a fully auditable bootstrap.  There’s [more to
+    come soon](https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/gnumes/)!
+  - The [graphical installer for Guix
+    
System](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Guided-Graphical-Installation.html)
+    benefited from many bug fixes and improvements.  Following the [bugs
+    found in
+    1.0.0](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released/), we
+    developed an [automated testing framework for the installer
+    itself](https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729).  Continuous
+    integration runs automated tests of the installer for different
+    configurations (encrypted root, non-encrypted root, with or without
+    a desktop environment, etc.).
+  - More than XXX packages were added, for a total of [almost 13K
+    packages](https://guix.gnu.org/packages).  XXX packages were
+    upgraded.  The distribution comes with GNU libc 2.29,
+    Linux-libre 5.4.28, and LibreOffice 6.4.2.2 among others.
+  - XXX what else?
+       
+At the programming interface level and under the hood, many things
+changed as well, notably:
+
+  - The new `with-build-handler` form allows us to better support
+    _dynamic dependencies_ as introduced by
+    [grafts](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Security-Updates.html).
+    More on that in a future post, but suffice to say that it fixes [a
+    longstanding user
+    interface](https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28310) and [performance
+    issue](https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22990).
+  - The `remote-eval` procedure supports remote execution of Scheme code
+    as G-expressions after having first built and _deployed_ any code it
+    relies on.  This capability was key to allowing code sharing between
+    `guix deploy`, which operates on remote hosts, and `guix system
+    reconfigure`.
+  - The
+    
[`with-parameters`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/G_002dExpressions.html)
+    form allows you, for instance, to _pin_ objects such as packages to a
+    specific system or cross-compilation target.
+  - Performance
+    [was](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00350.html)
+    
[improved](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00650.html)
+    for common low-level operations.
+  - XXX what else?
+
+That’s a long list!  The [release announcement](XXX) lists additional
+noteworthy changes and bug fixes you may be interested in.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://guix.gnu.org) is a transactional package
+manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects
+user
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it
+can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686,
+x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
+per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a standalone
+GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to
+operating system configuration management.  Guix is highly customizable
+and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)
+programming interfaces and extensions to the
+[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.