Issue #11
This Week in Guix: 14 August 2026
This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-08-07 through 2026-08-14.
Top Stories
GCD 008 Reaches A Compromise
A Mastodon post from @civodul noted that GCD 008 reached a compromise document, with contributions from people of differing opinions producing a text that the majority of team members either supported or deemed acceptable, adding that @csantosb called the outcome a sign of community maturity. A separate guix-devel thread proposed some ideas to improve the GCD process.
Crypto-Team Branch Merge Requested
A merge request for the crypto-team branch was sent to guix-patches, generating 13 messages in the thread.
nonguix.org And guix.moe Infrastructure Merge Announced
A Mastodon post announced an upcoming server infrastructure merge of nonguix.org and guix.moe on 2026-08-23 at 16:00 UTC, referencing a guix-devel announcement. The post noted that, apart from expected downtime, no action is required for users who have authorized the signing key of substitutes.nonguix.org.
Development
Team Branch Merge Requests
Merge requests were filed for the python-team branch and the gnome team branch, with further requests for the kde-team branch and the qt-team branch.
Teams-Tiers And Teams-Stats Scripts Proposed
An open pull request adds teams-tiers and teams-stats scripts, described in light of GCD 8 as an attempt to empower teams and volunteer contributors to help with package updates, using tier classifications to identify low-impact packages suitable for scheduled refresh in CI.
maturin Moved To build-tools
A pull request moved maturin to (gnu packages build-tools), deprecating the old variable and updating import sites across rust-apps, embedded, and related modules.
Guile Forgejo Client Discussed
A guix-devel thread discussed a Guile forgejo client.
Packages
Security Updates
Security-fix updates included ungoogled-chromium to 151.0.7922.137 addressing a large set of CVEs, libgit2 1.9 and 1.8 to 1.9.7 and 1.8.7 with security fixes, and a libde265 security fix.
Notable Updates
Notable updates landed for hunspell to 1.7.3, openssh enabling password authentication on the Hurd, diffoscope to 327, qgis to 3.44.13, and librewolf to 153.0.4-1. A pull request also fixed the --public-key option of guix publish.
New And Removed Packages
62 package changes were detected: 7 added, 6 removed, and 49 updated. New packages included font-new-heterodox-mono, npiet, and python-forastero, alongside python-klayout, instrain, liblzf, and gnu-efi-3. Removed packages included fbreader, flint-3.3, python-muon, python-pairtools, python-pysam, and python-pytest-runner.
Community
Reproducible Computational Environments Talk At RRPR 2026
Software Heritage shared that Simon Tournier will present "Reproducible computational environment: Archiving and beyond" at RRPR 2026 on August 21, noting that of 600-plus computer science papers examined only 40% of their software installs.
Guix Installations And Appreciation Posts
A Mastodon user reported getting Guix to run on their laptop, and another posted a thank you to the people behind Guix, Emacs, Guile, and other open source tools.
Help-Guix Support Threads
The help-guix list handled a segfault during boot after a power outage with seven messages, and a thread on recent vulnerability fixes on the Guix daemon and installation methods.
Reader Submissions
No reader submissions were included this week.