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+# Release 1.10 (2015-09-03)
+
+This is primarily a bug fix release. It also has a number of new
+features:
+
+  - A number of builtin functions have been added to reduce
+    Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation time and memory consumption: `all`, `any`,
+    `concatStringsSep`, `foldl’`, `genList`, `replaceStrings`, `sort`.
+
+  - The garbage collector is more robust when the disk is full.
+
+  - Nix supports a new API for building derivations that doesn’t require
+    a `.drv` file to be present on disk; it only requires an in-memory
+    representation of the derivation. This is used by the Hydra
+    continuous build system to make remote builds more efficient.
+
+  - The function `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` now uses a *builtin* builder (i.e.
+    it doesn’t require starting an external process; the download is
+    performed by Nix itself). This ensures that derivation paths don’t
+    change when Nix is upgraded, and obviates the need for ugly hacks to
+    support chroot execution.
+
+  - `--version -v` now prints some configuration information, in
+    particular what compile-time optional features are enabled, and the
+    paths of various directories.
+
+  - Build users have their supplementary groups set correctly.
+
+This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Guillaume Maudoux,
+Iwan Aucamp, Jaka Hudoklin, Kirill Elagin, Ludovic Courtès, Manolis
+Ragkousis, Nicolas B. Pierron and Shea Levy.