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NixOS manual: Add some release notes

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@ -12,14 +12,44 @@ has the following highlights:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Firefox and similar browsers are now <emphasis>wrapped by default</emphasis>.
The package and attribute names are plain <literal>firefox</literal>
or <literal>midori</literal>, etc. Backward-compatibility attributes were set up,
but note that <command>nix-env -u</command> will <emphasis>not</emphasis> update
your current <literal>firefox-with-plugins</literal>;
you have to uninstall it and install <literal>firefox</literal> instead.
More discussion is <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12299">
on the PR</link>. </para>
<para>Systemd 229, bringing <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v229/NEWS">numerous
improvements</link> over 217.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux 4.4 (was 3.18).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GCC 5.3 (was 4.9). Note that GCC 5 <link
xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html">changes
the C++ ABI in an incompatible way</link>; this may cause problems
if you try to link objects compiled with different versions of
GCC.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Glibc 2.23 (was 2.21).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Improved support for ensuring <link
xlink:href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">bitwise reproducible
builds</link>. For example, <literal>stdenv</literal> now sets the
environment variable <envar
xlink:href="https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</envar>
to a deterministic value, and Nix has <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.11">gained
an option</link> to repeat a build a number of times to test
determinism. An ongoing project, the goal of exact reproducibility
is to allow binaries to be verified independently (e.g., a user
might only trust binaries that appear in three independent binary
caches).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl 5.22.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@ -39,6 +69,22 @@ has the following highlights:</para>
following incompatible changes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>We no longer produce graphical ISO images and VirtualBox
images for <literal>i686-linux</literal>. A minimal ISO image is
still provided.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Firefox and similar browsers are now <emphasis>wrapped by default</emphasis>.
The package and attribute names are plain <literal>firefox</literal>
or <literal>midori</literal>, etc. Backward-compatibility attributes were set up,
but note that <command>nix-env -u</command> will <emphasis>not</emphasis> update
your current <literal>firefox-with-plugins</literal>;
you have to uninstall it and install <literal>firefox</literal> instead.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>wmiiSnap</command> has been replaced with
<command>wmii_hg</command>, but
@ -292,14 +338,18 @@ services.syncthing = {
<para>Other notable improvements:
<itemizedlist>
<!--
<listitem>
<para>The <command>command-not-found</command> hook was extended.
Apart from <literal>$NIX_AUTO_INSTALL</literal> variable,
it newly also checks for <literal>$NIX_AUTO_RUN</literal>
which causes it to directly run the missing commands via
<command>nix-shell</command> (without installing anything). </para>
<command>nix-shell</command> (without installing anything).</para>
</listitem>
-->
<listitem>
<para><literal>ejabberd</literal> module is brought back and now works on