Issue #12
This Week in Guix: 21 August 2026
This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-08-14 through 2026-08-21.
Top Stories
nonguix Accessibility Discussion Reopens Forge Hosting
A long-running nonguix GitLab work item asks to host the project on a more accessible forge, arguing that GitLab requires phone-number and credit-card verification and blocks VPN access, which limits contributions to a channel many Guix users depend on for real-hardware support. The proposal suggests Codeberg or Savannah as a primary home with GitLab kept as a mirror, and the thread carries 29 comments.
kde-team Branch Merge Requested
A merge request for the kde-team branch was sent to guix-patches, generating 15 messages across contributors Andreas Enge, Rodion Goritskov, and Sughosha.
Guix 1.6.0 Release Team Being Formed
Noé Lopez opened a guix-devel thread on forming the next release team for 1.6.0, kicking off the planning cycle for the next Guix release.
Development
libcamera-minimal Noise Resolved
The issue reporting recurring libcamera-minimal noise in wireshark and other builds was closed after a revert of the hide-from-networking change landed, undoing the earlier hide attempt.
tzdata Update And Lint Adjustments
A pull request updates tzdata, removing the obsolete /right and /posix subdirectories now that upstream no longer ships them separately, and a companion lint change allows tzdata as tzdata-for-tests native inputs.
Core-Package Manifests And Refresh Leaf Listing Discussed
Nicolas Graves opened an issue on manifests for checking core packages to scope a wave of input-label removals without breaking the build, and a work-in-progress pull request adds a --list-leafs option to guix refresh to surface leaf packages by rebuild count.
Home Service Bugs Reported
Two home-service issues were filed: home-gpg-agent-service: --supervised is an invalid option, which breaks gpg-agent as an ssh-agent after recent changes, and a request that home-profile-service accept all file-like? objects.
Packages
Security Updates
Browser security updates landed for icecat to 140.14.0-gnu1 and librewolf to 154.0-2 in Guix proper, while nongu shipped firefox to 154.0 and firefox-esr to 153.1.0esr, alongside intermediate firefox and firefox-esr security fixes.
New And Removed Packages
90 package changes were detected: 36 added, 5 removed, and 49 updated. New packages included didder with its dithering and quantize Go dependencies, gpgme-1 1.24.1, gpgme-2 2.1.0 and qgpgme, meson 1.9.0, and linux-libre 7.2 (with a matching nonguix linux-7.2). Removed packages included emacs-org-superstar, emacs-nftables-mode, emacs-tomelr, and linux-7.1, and nonguix dropped firefox-wayland and firefox-esr/wayland. A pull request also proposes dropping obsolete linux-libre kernels 5.10, 5.15, 6.19, and 7.0.
Notable Updates
Notable updates landed for ardour to 9.7, crun to 1.29.1, and podman to 6.1.0.
Community
Guix By Nix Discussion
A Lemmy post on Guix by Nix was reshared to the Guix Mastodon tag, drawing replies comparing the two declarative package managers.
Porting Guix To BSD Floated
A Mastodon post mused about porting Guix to FreeBSD or NetBSD, receiving boosts and replies in the Guix tag.
Tips For Writing A Guix Service
A guix-devel thread on tips for writing a Guix service for the first time collected guidance from Maxim Cournoyer and Untrusem across three messages.
Reader Submissions
No reader submissions were included this week.