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News entry for ‘core-updates’

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 63073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>, Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Subject: bug#63073: News entry for ‘core-updates’
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:23:22 +0200

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Hi!

As a followup to our discussion on IRC, here’s a proposed news entry for
‘core-updates’ that we should push soonish (I can do that later today or
tomorrow but feel free to do it before!).

I probably missed important items, maybe build system changes?

Ludo’.

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diff --git a/etc/news.scm b/etc/news.scm
index 7f38f8f294..6a6fbffa79 100644
--- a/etc/news.scm
+++ b/etc/news.scm
@@ -26,6 +26,28 @@
 (channel-news
  (version 0)
 
+ (entry (commit "c919bfefd98bf2e29549539b4e28e6dc2a8a6f32")
+        (title
+         (en "Core packages updated"))
+        (body
+         (en "Core packages have been updated, following months of hard work
+by contributors.  Noteworthy package upgrades include:
+
+@itemize
+@item glibc 2.35;
+@item Python 3.10;
+@item Perl 5.36;
+@item Mesa 22;
+@item GCC 11 is now used as the default compiler.
+@end itemize
+
+A major highlight is the introduction of the so-called @dfn{full-source
+bootstrap}: packages are all built starting from a 500-byte program called
+stage0, which is then used to build a higher-level interpreter, a basic Scheme
+interpreter and C compiler (GNU Mes), and so on, until @acronym{GCC, the GNU
+Compiler Collection} is finally built.  This is a premiere and a huge step
+forward in terms of transparency of auditability.")))
+
  (entry (commit "21564fada141bfba25d471518b293b6004244c3a")
         (title
          (en "Linux-libre LTS kernel updated to 6.1")

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