GNU Guix 1.5.0 released

Version1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System havebeen released. Notable improvements include the ability to run theGuix daemon without root privileges, support for 64-bit RISC-V, andexperimental support for the GNU Hurd kernel.

The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtualmachine images, and with tarballs to install the package manager ontop of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or frombinaries-check out the download page. Guix users can update by runningguix 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, userscontinuously get new features and update by running guix pull; but italso shows a lack of processes, something that we had to addressbefore 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 inFebruary 2024.