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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.14">
+  <title>Release 0.14 (June 4, 2012)</title>
+
+  <para>
+   In preparation for the switch from Subversion to Git, this release is mainly
+   the prevent the Nixpkgs version number from going backwards. (This would
+   happen because prerelease version numbers produced for the Git repository
+   are lower than those for the Subversion repository.)
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+   Since the last release, there have been thousands of changes and new
+   packages by numerous contributors. For details, see the commit logs.
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.13">
+  <title>Release 0.13 (February 5, 2010)</title>
+
+  <para>
+   As always, there are many changes. Some of the most important updates are:
+   <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Glibc 2.9.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      GCC 4.3.3.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Linux 2.6.32.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      X.org 7.5.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      KDE 4.3.4.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.12">
+  <title>Release 0.12 (April 24, 2009)</title>
+
+  <para>
+   There are way too many additions to Nixpkgs since the last release to list
+   here: for example, the number of packages on Linux has increased from 1002
+   to 2159. However, some specific improvements are worth listing:
+   <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Nixpkgs now has a manual. In particular, it describes the standard build
+      environment in detail.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Major new packages:
+      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         KDE 4.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         TeXLive.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         VirtualBox.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      … and many others.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Important updates:
+      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Glibc 2.7.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         GCC 4.2.4.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Linux 2.6.25 — 2.6.28.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Firefox 3.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         X.org 7.3.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Support for building derivations in a virtual machine, including RPM and
+      Debian builds in automatically generated VM images. See
+      <filename>pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix</filename> for details.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Improved support for building Haskell packages.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+   The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Arie
+   Middelkoop, Armijn Hemel, Eelco Dolstra, Lluís Batlle, Ludovic Courtès,
+   Marc Weber, Mart Kolthof, Martin Bravenboer, Michael Raskin, Nicolas
+   Pierron, Peter Simons, Pjotr Prins, Rob Vermaas, Sander van der Burg, Tobias
+   Hammerschmidt, Valentin David, Wouter den Breejen and Yury G. Kudryashov. In
+   addition, several people contributed patches on the
+   <literal>nix-dev</literal> mailing list.
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.11">
+  <title>Release 0.11 (September 11, 2007)</title>
+
+  <para>
+   This release has the following improvements:
+   <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      The standard build environment (<literal>stdenv</literal>) is now pure on
+      the <literal>x86_64-linux</literal> and <literal>powerpc-linux</literal>
+      platforms, just as on <literal>i686-linux</literal>. (Purity means that
+      building and using the standard environment has no dependencies outside
+      of the Nix store. For instance, it doesn’t require an external C
+      compiler such as <filename>/usr/bin/gcc</filename>.) Also, the statically
+      linked binaries used in the bootstrap process are now automatically
+      reproducible, making it easy to update the bootstrap tools and to add
+      support for other Linux platforms. See
+      <filename>pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix</filename> for
+      details.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Hook variables in the generic builder are now executed using the
+      <function>eval</function> shell command. This has a major advantage: you
+      can write hooks directly in Nix expressions. For instance, rather than
+      writing a builder like this:
+<programlisting>
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+postInstall=postInstall
+postInstall() {
+    ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip
+    ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat
+}
+
+genericBuild</programlisting>
+      (the <literal>gzip</literal> builder), you can just add this attribute to
+      the derivation:
+<programlisting>
+postInstall = "ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip; ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat";</programlisting>
+      and so a separate build script becomes unnecessary. This should allow us
+      to get rid of most builders in Nixpkgs.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      It is now possible to have the generic builder pass arguments to
+      <command>configure</command> and <command>make</command> that contain
+      whitespace. Previously, for example, you could say in a builder,
+<programlisting>
+configureFlags="CFLAGS=-O0"</programlisting>
+      but not
+<programlisting>
+configureFlags="CFLAGS=-O0 -g"</programlisting>
+      since the <literal>-g</literal> would be interpreted as a separate
+      argument to <command>configure</command>. Now you can say
+<programlisting>
+configureFlagsArray=("CFLAGS=-O0 -g")</programlisting>
+      or similarly
+<programlisting>
+configureFlagsArray=("CFLAGS=-O0 -g" "LDFLAGS=-L/foo -L/bar")</programlisting>
+      which does the right thing. Idem for <literal>makeFlags</literal>,
+      <literal>installFlags</literal>, <literal>checkFlags</literal> and
+      <literal>distFlags</literal>.
+     </para>
+     <para>
+      Unfortunately you can't pass arrays to Bash through the environment, so
+      you can't put the array above in a Nix expression, e.g.,
+<programlisting>
+configureFlagsArray = ["CFLAGS=-O0 -g"];</programlisting>
+      since it would just be flattened to a since string. However, you
+      <emphasis>can</emphasis> use the inline hooks described above:
+<programlisting>
+preConfigure = "configureFlagsArray=(\"CFLAGS=-O0 -g\")";</programlisting>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      The function <function>fetchurl</function> now has support for two
+      different kinds of mirroring of files. First, it has support for
+      <emphasis>content-addressable mirrors</emphasis>. For example, given the
+      <function>fetchurl</function> call
+<programlisting>
+fetchurl {
+  url = http://releases.mozilla.org/<replaceable>...</replaceable>/firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2;
+  sha1 = "eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082";
+}</programlisting>
+      <function>fetchurl</function> will first try to download this file from
+      <link
+  xlink:href="http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha1/eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082"/>.
+      If that file doesn’t exist, it will try the original URL. In general,
+      the “content-addressed” location is
+      <replaceable>mirror</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>hash-type</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>.
+      There is currently only one content-addressable mirror
+      (<link
+  xlink:href="http://tarballs.nixos.org"/>), but more can be
+      specified in the <varname>hashedMirrors</varname> attribute in
+      <filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename>, or by
+      setting the <envar>NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS</envar> environment variable to a
+      whitespace-separated list of URLs.
+     </para>
+     <para>
+      Second, <function>fetchurl</function> has support for widely-mirrored
+      distribution sites such as SourceForge or the Linux kernel archives.
+      Given a URL of the form
+      <literal>mirror://<replaceable>site</replaceable>/<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal>,
+      it will try to download <replaceable>path</replaceable> from a
+      configurable list of mirrors for <replaceable>site</replaceable>. (This
+      idea was borrowed from Gentoo Linux.) Example:
+<programlisting>
+fetchurl {
+  url = mirror://gnu/gcc/gcc-4.2.0/gcc-core-4.2.0.tar.bz2;
+  sha256 = "0ykhzxhr8857dr97z0j9wyybfz1kjr71xk457cfapfw5fjas4ny1";
+}</programlisting>
+      Currently <replaceable>site</replaceable> can be
+      <literal>sourceforge</literal>, <literal>gnu</literal> and
+      <literal>kernel</literal>. The list of mirrors is defined in
+      <filename>pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix</filename>. You can
+      override the list of mirrors for a particular site by setting the
+      environment variable
+      <envar>NIX_MIRRORS_<replaceable>site</replaceable></envar>, e.g.
+<programlisting>
+export NIX_MIRRORS_sourceforge=http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/</programlisting>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Important updates:
+      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Glibc 2.5.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         GCC 4.1.2.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Gnome 2.16.3.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         X11R7.2.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Linux 2.6.21.7 and 2.6.22.6.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Emacs 22.1.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Major new packages:
+      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         KDE 3.5.6 Base.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Wine 0.9.43.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         OpenOffice 2.2.1.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Many Linux system packages to support NixOS.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+   The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Arie
+   Middelkoop, Armijn Hemel, Eelco Dolstra, Marc Weber, Mart Kolthof, Martin
+   Bravenboer, Michael Raskin, Wouter den Breejen and Yury G. Kudryashov.
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.10">
+  <title>Release 0.10 (October 12, 2006)</title>
+
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    This release of Nixpkgs requires
+    <link
+xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-0.10/'>Nix 0.10</link>
+    or higher.
+   </para>
+  </note>
+
+  <para>
+   This release has the following improvements:
+  </para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     <filename>pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix</filename> is gone, we now
+     just have <filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename> that
+     contains all available packages. This should cause much less confusion
+     with users. <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> is a function that by
+     default returns packages for the current platform, but you can override
+     this by specifying a different <varname>system</varname> argument.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Certain packages in Nixpkgs are now user-configurable through a
+     configuration file, i.e., without having to edit the Nix expressions in
+     Nixpkgs. For instance, the Firefox provided in the Nixpkgs channel is
+     built without the RealPlayer plugin (for legal reasons). Previously, you
+     could easily enable RealPlayer support by editing the call to the Firefox
+     function in <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>, but such changes are
+     not respected when Firefox is subsequently updated through the Nixpkgs
+     channel.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     The Nixpkgs configuration file (found in
+     <filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> or through the
+     <envar>NIXPKGS_CONFIG</envar> environment variable) is an attribute set
+     that contains configuration options that
+     <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> reads and uses for certain packages.
+     For instance, the following configuration file:
+<programlisting>
+{
+  firefox = {
+    enableRealPlayer = true;
+  };
+}</programlisting>
+     persistently enables RealPlayer support in the Firefox build.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     (Actually, <literal>firefox.enableRealPlayer</literal> is the
+     <emphasis>only</emphasis> configuration option currently available, but
+     more are sure to be added.)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Support for new platforms:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>i686-cygwin</literal>, i.e., Windows (using
+        <link xlink:href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</link>). The standard
+        environment on <literal>i686-cygwin</literal> by default builds
+        binaries for the Cygwin environment (i.e., it uses Cygwin tools and
+        produces executables that use the Cygwin library). However, there is
+        also a standard environment that produces binaries that use
+        <link
+      xlink:href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</link>. You can
+        use it by calling <filename>all-package.nix</filename> with the
+        <varname>stdenvType</varname> argument set to
+        <literal>"i686-mingw"</literal>.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>i686-darwin</literal>, i.e., Mac OS X on Intel CPUs.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>powerpc-linux</literal>.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>x86_64-linux</literal>, i.e., Linux on 64-bit AMD/Intel CPUs.
+        Unlike <literal>i686-linux</literal>, this platform doesn’t have a
+        pure <literal>stdenv</literal> yet.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The default compiler is now GCC 4.1.1.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     X11 updated to X.org’s X11R7.1.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Notable new packages:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Opera.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and the Windows SDK.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+     In total there are now around 809 packages in Nixpkgs.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     It is now <emphasis>much</emphasis> easier to override the default C
+     compiler and other tools in <literal>stdenv</literal> for specific
+     packages. <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> provides two utility
+     functions for this purpose: <function>overrideGCC</function> and
+     <function>overrideInStdenv</function>. Both take a
+     <literal>stdenv</literal> and return an augmented
+     <literal>stdenv</literal>; the formed changes the C compiler, and the
+     latter adds additional packages to the front of
+     <literal>stdenv</literal>’s initial <envar>PATH</envar>, allowing tools
+     to be overridden.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     For instance, the package <varname>strategoxt</varname> doesn’t build
+     with the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv</literal> (version 3.81), so we call
+     it with an augmented <literal>stdenv</literal> that uses GNU Make 3.80:
+<programlisting>
+strategoxt = (import ../development/compilers/strategoxt) {
+  inherit fetchurl pkgconfig sdf aterm;
+  stdenv = overrideInStdenv stdenv [gnumake380];
+};
+
+gnumake380 = <replaceable>...</replaceable>;</programlisting>
+     Likewise, there are many packages that don’t compile with the default
+     GCC (4.1.1), but that’s easily fixed:
+<programlisting>
+exult = import ../games/exult {
+  inherit fetchurl SDL SDL_mixer zlib libpng unzip;
+  stdenv = overrideGCC stdenv gcc34;
+};</programlisting>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     It has also become much easier to experiment with changes to the
+     <literal>stdenv</literal> setup script (which notably contains the generic
+     builder). Since edits to <filename>pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh</filename>
+     trigger a rebuild of <emphasis>everything</emphasis>, this was formerly
+     quite painful. But now <literal>stdenv</literal> contains a function to
+     “regenerate” <literal>stdenv</literal> with a different setup script,
+     allowing the use of a different setup script for specific packages:
+<programlisting>
+pkg = import <replaceable>...</replaceable> {
+  stdenv = stdenv.regenerate ./my-setup.sh;
+  <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+}</programlisting>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Packages can now have a human-readable <emphasis>description</emphasis>
+     field. Package descriptions are shown by <literal>nix-env -qa
+     --description</literal>. In addition, they’re shown on the Nixpkgs
+     release page. A description can be added to a package as follows:
+<programlisting>
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "exult-1.2";
+  <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+  meta = {
+    description = "A reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine";
+  };
+}</programlisting>
+     The <varname>meta</varname> attribute is not passed to the builder, so
+     changes to the description do not trigger a rebuild. Additional
+     <varname>meta</varname> attributes may be defined in the future (such as
+     the URL of the package’s homepage, the license, etc.).
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>
+   The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Armijn Hemel,
+   Christof Douma, Eelco Dolstra, Eelco Visser, Mart Kolthof, Martin
+   Bravenboer, Merijn de Jonge, Rob Vermaas and Roy van den Broek.
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.9">
+  <title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title>
+
+  <para>
+   There have been zillions of changes since the last release of Nixpkgs. Many
+   packages have been added or updated. The following are some of the more
+   notable changes:
+  </para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Distribution files have been moved to
+     <link
+  xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The C library on Linux, Glibc, has been updated to version 2.3.6.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The default compiler is now GCC 3.4.5. GCC 4.0.2 is also available.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The old, unofficial Xlibs has been replaced by the official modularised
+     X11 distribution from X.org, i.e., X11R7.0. X11R7.0 consists of 287 (!)
+     packages, all of which are in Nixpkgs though not all have been tested. It
+     is now possible to build a working X server (previously we only had X
+     client libraries). We use a fully Nixified X server on NixOS.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The Sun JDK 5 has been purified, i.e., it doesn’t require any non-Nix
+     components such as <filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>. This means
+     that Java applications such as Eclipse and Azureus can run on NixOS.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Hardware-accelerated OpenGL support, used by games like Quake 3 (which is
+     now built from source).
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Improved support for FreeBSD on x86.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Improved Haskell support; e.g., the GHC build is now pure.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Some support for cross-compilation: cross-compiling builds of GCC and
+     Binutils, and cross-compiled builds of the C library uClibc.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Notable new packages:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        teTeX, including support for building LaTeX documents using Nix (with
+        automatic dependency determination).
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Ruby.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        System-level packages to support NixOS, e.g. Grub, GNU
+        <literal>parted</literal> and so on.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>ecj</literal>, the Eclipse Compiler for Java, so we finally
+        have a freely distributable compiler that supports Java 5.0.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>php</literal>.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        The GIMP.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Inkscape.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        GAIM.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        <literal>kdelibs</literal>. This allows us to add KDE-based packages
+        (such as <literal>kcachegrind</literal>).
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>
+   The following people contributed to this release: Andres Löh, Armijn Hemel,
+   Bogdan Dumitriu, Christof Douma, Eelco Dolstra, Eelco Visser, Mart Kolthof,
+   Martin Bravenboer, Rob Vermaas and Roy van den Broek.
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.8">
+  <title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title>
+
+  <para>
+   This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed hashing
+   scheme in Nix 0.8.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+   Notable updates:
+   <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Adobe Reader 7.0
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="release-notes-0.7">
+  <title>Release 0.7 (March 14, 2005)</title>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The bootstrap process for the standard build environment on Linux
+     (stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no longer dependent in its initial
+     bootstrap stages on the system Glibc, GCC, and other tools. Rather,
+     Nixpkgs contains a statically linked bash and curl, and uses that to
+     download other statically linked tools. These are then used to build a
+     Glibc and dynamically linked versions of all other tools.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For instance, GCC is
+     built only once instead of three times.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     (Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server that hosts
+     Nixpkgs (<link
+  xlink:href="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/" />). This
+     reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or deleted
+     files on various servers.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules. See the
+     various Perl modules defined in pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Notable new packages:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Qt 3
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        MySQL
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        MythTV
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Mono
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        MonoDevelop (alpha)
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Xine
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Notable updates:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        GCC 3.4.3
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        Glibc 2.3.4
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+        GTK 2.6
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+</article>