Issue #2
This Week in Guix: 13 June 2026
This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-06-06 through 2026-06-13.
Top Stories
Guix Foundation Annual General Meeting Set For 14 June
The Guix Foundation announced its Annual General Meeting for Sunday 14 June at 17:00 UTC, with details sent to the Foundation members mailing list and a public reminder posted to Mastodon. A follow-up confirmed the video conference details, and a parallel thread on guix-devel discussed logistics in Guix Foundation AGM (Sunday 14th).
GCD 008 "Standing Up For Human Crafting" Submitted
GCD 008 was submitted for discussion on guix-devel in Submitting GCD 008: "Standing up for human crafting". A related thread examined copyright and the under-15-line rule in LLMs and clarifications on < 15 lines and copyright, with further follow-up in [GCD 008]: LLM and copyright infringments.
Nix Flakes And Guix Equivalents Blog Post Circulates
A blog post comparing Nix Flakes with their Guix equivalents was shared by Ludovic Courtès on Mastodon and discussed further in a cross-post and on lemmy.ml.
Team Branch Merge Requests Posted
Merge requests were posted for several team branches, including misc-world-rebuild, crypto-team, python-team, go-team, and gnome-team.
Maintenance Automation Without LLMs Discussed
guix-devel had a thread on contributor tooling in Automating Maintenance Tasks Without LLMs, alongside a separate discussion of GnuPG's timeline in GnuPG 2.4.x branch end of life in July.
Development
python-next Shebang Breakage Reported
A Codeberg issue reports that the presence of python-next breaks the guix shell shebang for Python scripts in Presence of python-next breaks guix shell shebang for Python scripts.
Bubblewrap Security Update Proposed
A Codeberg pull request updates bubblewrap to 0.11.2 with security fixes in gnu: bubblewrap: Update to 0.11.2 [security fixes]..
libtpms and swtpm Packaging Work In Progress
A work-in-progress pull request adds TPM emulation libraries in WIP: "gnu: Add libtpms and swtpm".
GHC Aarch64 Build Fixed
A pull request fixes compiling Haskell code with GHC 9.0 on AArch64 in gnu: ghc-9.0: Fix compiling Haskell code for Aarch64., part of a broader series of GHC packaging cleanups.
Channel Display And Toolchain Transformation Proposals
A pull request improves how channel instances are displayed in pull: Display channel instances in a nicer way, and an issue proposes a new transformation option in Transformation option --with-toolchain-input.
Packages
Selected Package Updates
Selected package changes this week included additions, updates, and removals across compilers, editors, games, web tooling, and Haskell libraries.
GCC 16 And Notable Additions
GCC 16.1.0 was added, and emacs-jeison, emacs-lua-mode, emacs-magit-difftastic, and emacs-surround were added to Emacs packages; the jeison addition corresponds to gnu: Add emacs-jeison..
GIMP, SuperTux, And Ansible Updated
GIMP moved to 3.2.0 with the older gimp-2 and gimp-3 package variants removed, SuperTux updated to 0.7.0, and Ansible updated from 10.1.0 to 14.0.0.
Haskell And Cabal Tooling Refreshed
cabal-install moved to 3.12.1.0, hledger-web to 1.43.2, and a large set of ghc-* library packages were added or updated as part of ongoing Haskell packaging work.
Nonguix Firefox Security Update
Nonguix updated Firefox to 151.0.3 with security fixes in nongnu: firefox: Update to 151.0.3 [security fixes]..
Community
McCLIM 1.0.0 Packaged In Guix
McCLIM was updated to 1.0.0 in Guix, with a one-liner to run the demo application shared on Mastodon and release notes linked from the post.
Preview McCLIM 1.0.0 demo running on Guix
Guix Installer GUI Preview Shared
A preview of an upcoming GUI installer for Guix, alongside a CLI installer supporting Guix, Nonguix, and the Panther channel, was shared on Mastodon, with source at the guix-install repository.
Preview Upcoming GUI installer for Guix
Reproducibility Talk On Hardware Dependencies Published
A talk on reproducibility in hardware dependency management, covering Guix, FPGA, and reproducibility, was published online and announced on Mastodon.
Guix@Paris Meetup Announced For 18 June
A Guix@Paris meetup was announced for Thursday 18 June 2026 from 19:00 to 22:00 on Mastodon.
Help-guix Desktop And System Questions
The help-guix list had threads on AppArmor profile and nscd, CA-Certificates on Guix, and ZFS testing messages printed with most guix commands.
Reader Submissions
No reader submissions were included this week.