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.

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This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-06-13 through 2026-06-19.

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GnuPG Source Switched Back To url-fetch

A pull request switches the GnuPG source from git to url-fetch because dev.gnupg.org has been in maintenance mode, in gnu: gnupg: Change source back to url-fetch due to reliability.. The change follows the earlier guix-devel discussion of the upstream timeline in GnuPG 2.4.x branch end of life in July.

Automating Package Updates Discussed On guix-devel

guix-devel had a 15-message thread on contributor tooling in Automating package updates, with follow-up on policy wording in wording of rule 1? (was Re: Automating package updates) and a related thread on standalone libraries in Extracting parts of Guix as standalone libraries.

EDA Packaging And Image Work Progresses

An issue tracks building a topic-specific image for electronic design automation in Towards an EDA image., and a pull request adds the Surelog SystemVerilog parser in gnu: Add surelog.. The EDA package set also gained horizon-eda 2.7.2 and systemc 3.0.2.

TDF5 Talk On Practical Software Freedom With Guix Published

A talk given at TDF5 on using GNU Guix to exercise software freedoms, "Practical software freedom with GNU Guix," was published on media.ccc.de, announced on Mastodon, and shared on r/GUIX.

Development

guix-environment.sh Test Failure Reported

A Codeberg issue reports that the guix-environment.sh test fails with "Servname not supported for ai_socktype" in an offline guix shell -CPW -D guix container in guix-environment.sh test fails with "Servname not supported for ai_socktype".

Frugal Computing And Resource Optimisation Discussed

guix-devel had a thread on team and branch structure in [frugal computing] Resource optimisation: a praise to teams and branches, alongside a separate discussion of environmental impact in Carbon footprint, "AI", and Guix.

Build System And Refresh Issues Filed

A guix-devel thread asks whether the cmake build system should parallelize builds automatically in cmake-build-system does not automatically parallelize builds?, and an issue reports guix refresh selecting the wrong source tarball in guix refresh choses wrong source tarball.

Packaging And Service Proposals

An issue proposes packaging Caddy in Packaging Caddy for Guix, another reports that reconfiguring a system breaks docker containers in Reconfiguring system breaks docker containers, and a pull request adds an HTTP proxy option to the yggdrasil service in services: yggdrasil: Add http-proxy configuration option..

Packages

Nonguix Firefox Security Updates

Nonguix updated Firefox to 152.0 in nongnu: firefox: Update to 152.0 [security fixes]. and Firefox ESR to 140.12.0esr in nongnu: firefox-esr: Update to 140.12.0esr [security fixes]., with an earlier change switching both to ffmpeg 8 in nongnu: firefox-esr, firefox: Use ffmpeg 8..

Haskell Tooling Refreshed

cabal-install moved to 3.12.1.0, hledger and hledger-web to 1.43.2, and the Haskell formatter ormolu 0.8.0.2 was added, alongside a large set of ghc-* library updates.

Selected Updates And Additions

poppler-qt6 updated to 26.04.0 in gnu: poppler-qt6: Update to 26.04.0., hetznercloud-cli to 1.65.0, komikku to 50.7.0, libtorrent-rasterbar to 2.0.13, and rtorrent to 0.16.4 in gnu: rtorrent: Update to v0.16.4.. Other additions included guile-kolam 0.1.0, python-piccolo 1.34.0, and python-pyuvm 4.0.1.

Removals

Removed packages included gdb-14, libwnck-2, ghc-tls-1.9, and ghc-vty-6.

Community

Guix Foundation 2026 AGM Recording Posted

A recording of the Guix Foundation 2026 Annual General Meeting was made available on the Aquilenet platform, announced on Mastodon, with questions directed to the Foundation members or the mailing list.

Journées Reproductibilité Reproducibility Videos Online

Ludovic Courtès announced that videos and slides from the 19–21 May Journées de la reproductibilité are now online, covering Guix and reproducible research, on Mastodon.

Starter Emacs Configuration For Guix Shared

A starter Emacs configuration aimed at newcomers unfamiliar with Emacs, Scheme, and Guix was published on boiledscript.com, discussed on guix-devel in Starter Emacs configuration to work with Guix, and shared on r/GUIX.

Guile Link Checker Released

A tool to recursively check websites for broken links in Guile, usable from a Guix shell, was released at the guile-link-checker repository and announced on Mastodon.

r/GUIX Discusses Flakes And Guix Equivalents

The top r/GUIX thread of the week asked whether Guix has an equivalent to Nix flakes in Does GUIX have flakes?, with other threads covering creating a new Guix mirror and installing Guix with GNU Hurd.

First-Time User Runs Guix In VirtualBox

A first-time Guix user shared a screenshot of Guix System running inside VirtualBox on Mastodon.

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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.

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.

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.

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This issue covers Guix development, package updates, and community discussion from 2026-05-28 through 2026-06-04.

Top Stories

Guix Developers Discuss Change-Id Commit Trailers

Guix developers discussed whether to remove the Change-Id commit hook and trailer in Consensus on removal of Change-Id commit-msg hook/git trailer?. A related thread covered issue-reference trailers in Adopting 'Fixes' and 'Merges' git trailers.

GCD 008 Is Submitted For Discussion

GCD 008, "Standing up for human crafting", was submitted on guix-devel in Submitting GCD 008: "Standing up for human crafting". A related follow-up appeared as Submitting GCD 008: "Standing up for humancrafting".

AGit Workflow Is Discussed

The guix-devel list had a thread about contributor workflow in AGit workflow.

Branch Merge Requests Are Posted

Merge requests were posted for several branches, including [bug#80782] Request for merging "misc-world-rebuild" branch, go-team, python-team, and crypto-team.

Release Timing Is Discussed

The guix-devel list had a release-process thread in Next release?.

Development

OpenSSH Cross-Compilation Patch Is Proposed

A Codeberg pull request sets the path to xauth when cross-compiling OpenSSH in gnu: openssh: Set path to xauth when cross compiling. A related issue tracks _PATH_BSHELL coming from the build machine in cross glibc has _PATH_BSHELL from build machine.

JavaScript Team Backmerge Is Opened

The JavaScript team branch had a backmerge pull request in javascript-team. Another pull request removes remaining uses of the legacy Python build system in gnu: Remove uses of the legacy python-build-system.

Guix Home Container Login Script Is Proposed

A Codeberg issue proposes using guix home container as a login script. A separate pull request proposes a nar-download fix involving /etc/protocols and /etc/services in guix: *-download: Fix nar download method.

Packages

Selected Package Updates

Selected package changes this week included additions and updates across compression tools, text indexing libraries, hardware tooling, kernels, Firefox, and Signal Desktop.

BZip3 and Libsais Are Added

BZip3 was added in Add BZip3, and ouch was changed to use unbundled bzip3 in ouch: Use unbundled bzip3. Libsais was added in gnu: Add Libsais.

Yosys and Kernel Work

The Yosys-related stack moved to 0.66, including yosys and abc-yosyshq. The related Codeberg pull request is Update yosys saga to 0.66, and kernel updates were posted in kernel updates (2026-06-01).

Nonguix Updates

Nonguix updates included Firefox 151.0.2 and Signal Desktop 8.12.0.

Community

Desktop Integration Questions Are Discussed

The help-guix list had desktop and session integration questions including Dbus Flatpak Question and AppArmor profile and nscd.

Carbon Footprint and Guix

The guix-devel list had a thread titled Carbon footprint, "AI", and Guix.

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