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     new e8b9b0f  Update NEWS.
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commit e8b9b0fae076a86e2be1dcb87b666d4490bac0aa
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Nov 7 16:14:03 2020 +0100

    Update NEWS.
---
 NEWS | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9173958..e5824d7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
 *** New ‘guix git authenticate’ command, to authenticate Git checkouts
 *** ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system reconfigure’ detect attempts to downgrade
 *** New ‘--allow-downgrades’ option for ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix system’
-*** New ‘guix time-machine’ command, to travel in the revision history
+*** Guix build time reduced thanks to Guile 3.0.4’s “baseline compiler”
 *** New ‘--with-debug-info’ package transformation option
 *** New ‘--with-c-toolchain’ package transformation option
 *** New ‘--without-tests’ package transformation option
+*** ‘--with-input’ & co. now also apply to implicit dependencies
 *** Package transformation options are now recorded in profiles
 *** New fakechroot “execution engine” for packs produced by ‘guix pack -RR’
 *** New ‘--cache-bypass-threshold’ option for ‘guix publish’
 *** New ‘--diff’ option for ‘guix challenge’, to compare substitutes
 *** New ‘--exclude’ option for ‘guix lint’, to exclude checkers
+*** New ‘check-for-collisions’ checker in ‘guix lint’
 *** All of Guix and Guix System now runs on Guile 3.0
 *** ‘guix pull’ and ‘--with-git-url’ now support authenticated SSH repos
 *** ‘guix pull’ now honors $http_proxy and $https_proxy
@@ -54,6 +56,15 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
 *** ‘rottlog-service-type’ is now part of ‘%base-services’
 *** mcron job specs are now statically checked at OS build time
 *** ‘swap-devices’ field of ‘operating-system’ can contains UUIDs and labels
+*** Graphical installer uses UUIDs for unencrypted swap partitions
+*** Graphical installer now supports NTFS file systems
+*** New services
+
+autossh, ganeti, gmnisrv, guix-build-coordinator,
+guix-build-coordinator-agent, guix-build-coordinator-queue-builds, hostapd,
+hurd-console, hurd-getty, hurd-vm, lxqt, rshiny, secret-service,
+simulated-wifi, udev-rules, unattended-upgrade, webssh, zram
+
 *** XXX new packages
 *** XXX package updates
 
@@ -70,6 +81,7 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
 *** New <content-hash> record type for use in ‘origin’
 *** New ‘let-system’ for in (guix gexp), for system-dependent code
 *** New lowerable <profile> record type in (guix profiles)
+*** (gnu build secret-service) can share secrets with a guest OS
 *** “Programming Interface” section of the manual greatly expounded
 
 ** Noteworthy bug fixes
@@ -84,7 +96,46 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
     (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43340>)
 *** GCC switched back to C_INCLUDE_PATH & co. from CPATH
     (<https://bugs.gnu.org/30756>)
-*** TODO add more
+*** Graphical installer no longer hangs while connecting to WiFi network
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40682>)
+*** GNU Aspell truly honors ASPELL_DICT_DIR (<https://bugs.gnu.org/29686>)
+*** Fix overly aggressive memoization of “commencement” packages
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40482>)
+*** Duplicate /etc entries are now reported (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40729>)
+*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper correctly reports exit code
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/40816>)
+*** Fix time travel to pre-Guile 3.0 revisions
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/41028>)
+*** ‘package-grafts’ returns grafts for all the relevant outputs
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/41796>)
+*** ‘guix pull’ and related commands authenticate Git checkouts
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>)
+*** Fix GNU libstdc++ misconfiguration in recent ‘gcc-toolchain’ versions
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42392>)
+*** ‘guix pack -R’ wraps propagated inputs as well
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42510>)
+*** ‘guix pack -R’ wrapper leaves root available to child processes
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/44261>)
+*** ‘lib/guix/package.cache’ generated by ‘guix pull’ is now bit-reproducible
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42009>)
+*** Graphical installer now properly detects disks containing an LVM partition
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/42683>)
+*** Fix possible crash when copying store items over SSH
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42740>)
+*** ‘gcc’ is now a “deprecated” alias for ‘gcc-toolchain’
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43303>)
+*** ‘package-input-rewriting’ & co. no longer yield unnecessary rebuilds
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/42156>)
+*** Offloading better normalizes build machine load
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43773>)
+*** ‘guix build --check’ now honors ‘--rounds’
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40144>)
+*** /dev/disk/by-id file names can now be used with U-Boot
+    (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44101>)
+*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now installs shell completion files
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43744>)
+*** ‘guix-install.sh’ now warns about lack of ‘nscd’
+    (<https://bugs.gnu.org/43744>)
 
 ** Native language support
 *** TODO populate