website: gnu-guix-1.2.0-released: Update.

* website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.2.0-released.md: Update.
* website/static/blog/img/flight-of-the-guix.jpg,
website/static/blog/img/flight-of-the-guix.svg: New files.

website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.2.0-released.md

@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 title: DRAFT GNU Guix 1.2.0 released
-date: 2020-11-11 15:00:00
+date: 2020-11-23 14:00:00
 author: Ludovic Courtès
 slug: gnu-guix-1.2.0-released
 tags: Releases, Security
 ---
-We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.2.0!
+![Image of a flight of the Guix.](https://guix.gnu.org/static/blog/img/flight-of-the-guix.jpg)
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.2.0, right
+in time to celebrate [the eight anniversary of
+Guix](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-11/msg00000.html)!
 
 The release comes with [ISO-9660 installation
 images](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/System-Installation.html),
@@ -17,17 +21,17 @@ source](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html) or
 binaries](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html).
 Guix users can update by running `guix pull`.
 
-It’s been 6 months since the last release, during which 200 people
-contributed code and packages, and a number of people obviously
-contributed to other important tasks—code review, system administration,
-translations, web site updates, Outreachy mentoring, you name it!
+It’s been almost 7 months since the last release, during which 200
+people contributed code and packages, and a number of people contributed
+to other important tasks—code review, system administration,
+translation, web site updates, Outreachy mentoring, you name it!
 
-There’s been more than 10,000 commits in that time frame and it is the
+There’s been more than 10,200 commits in that time frame and it is the
 challenge of these release notes to summarize all that activity.
 
 ### Security
 
-A significant highlight in this release is the ability to *authenticate
+A major highlight in this release is the ability to *authenticate
 channels*, which probably makes Guix one of the safest ways to deliver
 complete operating systems today.  This was the missing link in our
 “software supply chain” and we’re glad it’s now fixed.  The end result
@@ -64,7 +68,7 @@ on x86_64 and i686, thanks to tireless work on
 [GNU Mes](https://www.gnu.org/software/mes),
 [Gash](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gash), and related software.
 
-On the same security theme, our build daemon and the [`origin`
+On the same security theme, the build daemon and [`origin`
 programming
 interface](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/origin-Reference.html)
 now accept *new cryptographic hash functions* (in particular SHA-3 and
@@ -103,9 +107,17 @@ options*](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Option
 `--with-debug-info` ([always debug in good
 conditions](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Rebuilding-Debug-Info.html)!),
 `--with-c-toolchain`, and `--without-tests`.  Transformations are now
-recorded in the profile and replayed upon `guix upgrade`.  The new
-`(guix transformations)` module additionally provides a [simple
-interface to the transformation options available at the command
+recorded in the profile and replayed upon `guix upgrade`.  Furthermore,
+those options now operate on the whole dependency graph, including
+“implicit” inputs, allowing for transformations not possible before,
+such as:
+
+```
+guix install --with-input=python=python2 python-itsdangerous
+```
+
+Last, the new `(guix transformations)` module provides [an interface
+to the transformation options available at the command
 line](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Variants.html),
 which is useful if you want to use such transformations in a manifest.
 
@@ -119,16 +131,18 @@ places; in the on-line copy of the manual, identifiers in those code
 snippets are clickable, linking to the right place in the Guix or Guile
 manuals.
 
-Last but not least, *the manual is fully translated* to
+Last but not least, *the manual is fully translated* into
 [French](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/fr/html_node/),
 [German](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/de/html_node/), and
 [Spanish](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/es/html_node/), with partial
 translations in [Russian](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/ru/html_node/) and
-[Chinese](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/zh-cn/html_node/).
+[Chinese](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/zh-cn/html_node/).  Guix itself is
+fully translated in those three languages and partially translated in
+eleven other languages.
 
-### GNU/Hurd, disk images, services, packages, …
+### Packs, GNU/Hurd, disk images, services, …
 
-But there’s more!  If you’re interesting in bringing applications from
+But there’s more!  If you’re interested in bringing applications from
 Guix to Guix-less machines, [`guix pack
 -RR`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html#Invoking-guix-pack)
 now supports a *new ‘fakechroot’ execution engine* for relocatable
@@ -158,33 +172,45 @@ currently implemented using
 
 In addition to those already mentioned, a dozen of new system services
 are available, including services for
-[Ganeti](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/running-a-ganeti-cluster-on-guix/),
+[Ganeti](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-a-ganeti-cluster-on-guix/),
 [LXQt](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Desktop-Services.html#index-lxqt_002ddesktop_002dservice_002dtype),
 [R Shiny](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html#index-rshiny_002dservice_002dtype),
 [Gemini](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Web-Services.html#index-gmnisrv),
 and [Guix Build
 Coordinator](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Guix-Services.html).
 
-XXX packages have been added, for a total of [more than 15K
-packages](https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages); XXX were upgraded.  The
+2,000 packages have been added, for a total of [more than 15K
+packages](https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages); 3,652 were upgraded.  The
 distribution comes with GNU libc 2.31, GCC 10.2, GNOME 3.34,
 Xfce 4.14.2, Linux-libre 5.9.3, and LibreOffice 6.4.6.2 to name a few.
 There’s also a new [build system for packages built with
-Maven](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Build-Systems.html#index-maven_002dbuild_002dsystem).
+Maven](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Build-Systems.html#index-maven_002dbuild_002dsystem)
+(bootstrapping Maven in Guix was the topic of [a talk at the Guix Days
+last week](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-2/)).
 
-The [`NEWS` file](XXX) lists additional noteworthy changes and bug fixes
-you may be interested in.
+The [`NEWS`
+file](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/NEWS?h=version-1.2.0&id=a099685659b4bfa6b3218f84953cbb7ff9e88063)
+lists additional noteworthy changes and bug fixes you may be interested
+in.
 
 ### Try it!
 
 You can go ahead and [download this new
-version](https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/)—we’ve been told [you may
-soon be able to `apt install guix`](https://packages.debian.org/guix) if
-you’re on Debian or a derivative distro!—and [get in touch with
+version](https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/) and [get in touch with
 us](https://guix.gnu.org/en/contact/).
 
+Speaking of which, our Debian ambassador [told
+us](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html)
+that [you will soon be able to `apt install
+guix`](https://packages.debian.org/guix) if you’re on Debian or a
+derivative distro!
+
 Enjoy!
 
+### Credits
+
+> Illustration: Luis Felipe — Debian packaging: Vagrant Cascadian
+
 #### About GNU Guix
 
 [GNU Guix](https://guix.gnu.org) is a transactional package manager and