This Week in Guix: 7 August 2026

This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-07-31 through 2026-08-07.

Top Stories

emacs-guix Release Adds guix-shell

The recent emacs-guix release introduced a guix-shell feature that brings guix shell into Emacs, contributed by tusharhero and documented in a writeup for the Emacs Carnival. The feature exposes M-x guix-shell to add packages to a shell environment or export a manifest from within Emacs, and was shared on Mastodon by users including @regendans.

Guix Built From Source On Milk-V RISC-V Board

A user reported building GNU Guix from source on a Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V board, with a follow-up post successfully building and installing it on the board and a later update that linux-libre-headers in guix pull appeared fixed. The Codeberg issue tracking riscv64 bootstrap problems records the underlying findutils-boot0 and linux-libre-headers failures encountered on the hardware.

Generative-AI Policy Implementation Discussed

A guix-devel thread discussed implementing commitments and policy on the use of generative AI, following the correction accepting GCD 008. Separate guix-devel threads on taking a breath and repeating GCD 008 discussion also appeared during the week.

Development

Minor Releases Of Guix Discussed

A guix-devel thread took up minor releases of Guix.

Slow Feedback Loop Of Guix Tooling Discussed

A guix-devel thread titled Frustrated with Slow feedback loop of Guix Tooling was mirrored as an open Codeberg issue.

Build Date/Time Mocking Discussed

A guix-devel thread asked about mocking the date/time of the guix build process.

Packages

Security Updates

Security-fix updates landed for ungoogled-chromium to 150.0.7871.181, with a further update to 151.0.7922.71 proposed, weechat to 4.10.0, and ruby-net-imap to 0.6.6.

New And Updated Packages

New packages and additions included nanoemoji, font-new-heterodox-mono, GPU Screen Recorder with a service, emacs-git-bug, emptty, lambdock, and an hurl packaging request. Notable updates covered libreoffice to 25.8.7.3, opencv to 4.14.0, librewolf to 153.0.3-1, fzf to 0.74.2, and the linux-libre kernel series across the 5.10, 5.15, 6.1, 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 branches; wlroots 0.18 was removed.

Nonguix Package Updates

Nonguix updated bitwarden-desktop to 2026.7.0, signal-desktop to 8.22.0, and element-desktop to 1.12.24.

Community

Guix Live ISO Install Reported

A Mastodon user thanked @hako for providing Testament Guix Live ISOs and reported installing Guix with a vanilla configuration.

Parameterized Packages For Guix Questioned

A Mastodon post asked what happened to the Parameterized Package for Guix proposal.

Broken Installation Image Link Resolved

A Codeberg issue reported a broken link to the standard 1.5.0 installation image returning 502 on the GNU FTP mirror and was closed.

Reader Submissions

No reader submissions were included this week.