This Week in Guix: 4 June 2026

This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-05-28 through 2026-06-04.

Top Stories

Guix Developers Discuss Change-Id Commit Trailers

Guix developers discussed whether to remove the Change-Id commit hook and trailer in Consensus on removal of Change-Id commit-msg hook/git trailer?. A related thread covered issue-reference trailers in Adopting 'Fixes' and 'Merges' git trailers.

GCD 008 Is Submitted For Discussion

GCD 008, "Standing up for human crafting", was submitted on guix-devel in Submitting GCD 008: "Standing up for human crafting". A related follow-up appeared as Submitting GCD 008: "Standing up for humancrafting".

AGit Workflow Is Discussed

The guix-devel list had a thread about contributor workflow in AGit workflow.

Branch Merge Requests Are Posted

Merge requests were posted for several branches, including [bug#80782] Request for merging "misc-world-rebuild" branch, go-team, python-team, and crypto-team.

Release Timing Is Discussed

The guix-devel list had a release-process thread in Next release?.

Development

OpenSSH Cross-Compilation Patch Is Proposed

A Codeberg pull request sets the path to xauth when cross-compiling OpenSSH in gnu: openssh: Set path to xauth when cross compiling. A related issue tracks _PATH_BSHELL coming from the build machine in cross glibc has _PATH_BSHELL from build machine.

JavaScript Team Backmerge Is Opened

The JavaScript team branch had a backmerge pull request in javascript-team. Another pull request removes remaining uses of the legacy Python build system in gnu: Remove uses of the legacy python-build-system.

Guix Home Container Login Script Is Proposed

A Codeberg issue proposes using guix home container as a login script. A separate pull request proposes a nar-download fix involving /etc/protocols and /etc/services in guix: *-download: Fix nar download method.

Packages

Selected Package Updates

Selected package changes this week included additions and updates across compression tools, text indexing libraries, hardware tooling, kernels, Firefox, and Signal Desktop.

BZip3 and Libsais Are Added

BZip3 was added in Add BZip3, and ouch was changed to use unbundled bzip3 in ouch: Use unbundled bzip3. Libsais was added in gnu: Add Libsais.

Yosys and Kernel Work

The Yosys-related stack moved to 0.66, including yosys and abc-yosyshq. The related Codeberg pull request is Update yosys saga to 0.66, and kernel updates were posted in kernel updates (2026-06-01).

Nonguix Updates

Nonguix updates included Firefox 151.0.2 and Signal Desktop 8.12.0.

Community

Desktop Integration Questions Are Discussed

The help-guix list had desktop and session integration questions including Dbus Flatpak Question and AppArmor profile and nscd.

Carbon Footprint and Guix

The guix-devel list had a thread titled Carbon footprint, "AI", and Guix.

Reader Submissions

No reader submissions were included this week.