This Week in Guix: 26 June 2026

This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-06-19 through 2026-06-26.

Top Stories

Guix Published One Year With Codeberg

GNU Guix published One year with Codeberg on June 22, with the announcement also shared on Mastodon and r/GUIX. A related guix-devel thread, A year of Codeberg, thoughts?, continued discussion of the move.

GCD 008 Version 2 Available For Review

Version 2 of GCD 008 on genAI use in Guix was announced on Mastodon, pointing to the document and discussion, with deliberation tentatively scheduled for July 11. guix-devel also had the thread Version 2 of GCD 008 available for review!, followed by related threads on contradictory statements, striving for consent, and user freedoms.

Nonguix Release Alignment Discussed

Nonguix had an updated work item on Release alignment, discussing a possible Nonguix 1.5.0 release following Guix and files to help prepare the Nonguix release.

Development

Security Response Team Renewal Posted

Ludovic Courtès posted to guix-devel about Renewing the security response team.

Development Threads Covered Channel Rings And Guix Libraries

guix-devel had threads on Splitting the official Guix monochannel into rings, Extracting parts of Guix as standalone libraries, and Run Guix test suite with code coverage?. guix-patches also had a thread for adding a build-mode command to monad-repl.

Packages

Zig, OpenMM, Arduino CLI, And Electronics Packages Updated

Zig 0.16.0 landed in Guix, announced on Mastodon. Other package work included openmm 8.5.2, arduino-cli, surfer, sv-lang 11.0, and kicad 10.0.4.

Package Changes Included Tooling Updates And Removals

The package changes included packcc 3.1.0, python-latexminted 0.7.1, iproute renamed to iproute2, and radare2 and related packages. Removal work included spdlog-1.14 and spdlog-1.13.

Community

Community Posts Covered Learning Guix, Home Servers, And Forgejo Packaging

Community posts included a request for beginner resources from someone planning to learn Guix and install it on real hardware on Mastodon, r/GUIX threads titled Thank you, Guix community, GUIX-powered home server, anyone doing this?, and How to declaratively select substitute packages, and a call for help bringing Forgejo to Guix on Mastodon.

Reader Submissions

No reader submissions were included this week.