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The 64-bit Hurd is Here!
March 1, 2026
Fifteen months have passed since our last Guix/Hurd on a Thinkpad X60
post and a lot
has happened with respect to the Hurd . And…
Result of Sustain and Strengthen Fundraising
February 17, 2026
Results from Guix Fundraising We're on course to beat our fundraising target to sustain and strength Guix. We're bringing the fundraising…
GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
January 23, 2026
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.5.0! The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtual machine
images, and with tarballs to install the package…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 22, 2026
It’s that time of the year again: next week is
FOSDEM time! As in previous
years , many Guix people will
be in Brussels. Right after…
A Planet for Guix
December 5, 2025
I am pleased to announce the availability of Planet
Guix , an Atom and RSS aggregator covering all
things Guix. You can browse posts on the website or use…
Update on the Guix Fundraising
November 3, 2025
We're on our way It's been a month since we started the fundraising campaign to Sustain and Strengthen Guix. So far …
Fundraising campaign to sustain GNU Guix
October 3, 2025
Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix. Guix is completely independent from any company or institution, we rely on…
Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
September 1, 2025
A security issue,
CVE-2025-59378 , has
been identified in
guix-daemon ,
which allows for a local user to gain the privileges of any of the
build users and subsequently…
Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-46415, CVE-2025-46416)
June 24, 2025
Two security issues, known as
CVE-2025-46415 and
CVE-2025-46416 , have been
identified in
guix-daemon ,
which allow for a local user to gain…
A New Rust Packaging Model
June 7, 2025
If you've ever struggled with Rust packaging, here's some good news! We have changed to a simplified Rust packaging model that is easier to automate
and allows for…
Migrating to Codeberg
May 11, 2025
The Guix project will be migrating all its repositories along with bug
tracking and patch tracking to Codeberg within a
month. This decision is the result of…
Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 3)
January 28, 2025
Today we're looking at the results from the Contributor section of the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024). The goal was to understand how people contribute to Guix…
Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 2)
January 24, 2025
The results from the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024) are in and we're digging into them in a series of posts! Check out the first post…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 21, 2025
Next week will be FOSDEM time for Guix! As
in previous years , a
sizable delegation of Guix community members will be in Brussels. Right
before…
Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1)
January 16, 2025
The results from the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024) are in! This is the first time the Guix community has run this type of survey, and we're…
Adding a fully-bootstrapped Mono
December 29, 2024
We used to have a Mono package. It was introduced on August 8 2016 by commit
763b3d50b6249b43fceda51445bbeb1f5f5fd7d0, at Mono version 4.4.1.0, but it was
later discovered in…
The Shepherd 1.0.0 released!
December 12, 2024
Finally, twenty-one years after its
inception
(twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer
territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era. This 1.0.0 release is published
today because we think…
Guix/Hurd on a Thinkpad X60
November 24, 2024
A lot has happened with respect to the Hurd
since our Childhurds and GNU/Hurd
Substitutes
post. As long as two years ago some of…
Take the Guix User and Contributor Survey
November 10, 2024
To understand the views of the Guix community we're running a survey that we'd
love you to take part in! The
Guix User and Contributor Survey …
Build User Takeover Vulnerability (CVE-2024-52867)
October 21, 2024
A security issue, known as CVE-2024-52867 , has been identified in
guix-daemon
which allows for a local user to gain the privileges of…
The European Union must keep funding free software
July 23, 2024
Guix is the fruit of a combination of volunteer work by an amazing
number of people, work paid for by employers, but also work sponsored by
public institutions. The…
Source code archiving in Guix: new publication
May 31, 2024
We are glad to announce the publication of a new research paper entitled
Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of Reproducible
Deployment for the ACM…
Authenticate your Git checkouts!
May 7, 2024
You clone a Git repository, then pull from it. How can you tell its
contents are “authentic”—i.e., coming from the “genuine” project you
think you’re pulling from, written by…
Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
March 13, 2024
Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be
that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that
can …
Fixed-Output Derivation Sandbox Bypass (CVE-2024-27297)
March 12, 2024
A security issue has been identified in
guix-daemon
which allows for fixed-output
derivations ,
such as source code tarballs or Git checkouts, to be corrupted by an
unprivileged…
Identifying software
March 4, 2024
What does it take to “identify software”? How can we tell what software
is running on a machine to determine, for example, what security
vulnerabilities might affect it? …
Guix Days 2024 and FOSDEM recap
February 10, 2024
Guix contributors and users got together in Brussels to explore Guix's status, chat about new ideas and spend some time together enjoying Belgian beer! Here's a recap of…
Guix at FOSDEM 2024
January 19, 2024
It's not long to FOSDEM 2024, where Guixers will come together to learn and hack.
As usual there's some great talks and opportunities to meet other users and
contributors. …
Building packages targeting psABIs
January 14, 2024
Starting with version 2.33, the GNU C library (glibc) grew the capability to
search for shared libraries using additional paths, based on the hardware
capabilities of the machine running the…
Write package definitions in a breeze
November 24, 2023
More than 28,000 packages are available in Guix today, not counting
third-party channels. That’s a lot—the 5th largest GNU/Linux
distro ! But it’s nothing if the one…
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