From f69292ddc019d222a5c458c7095ccc8815abce53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederik Rietdijk <fridh@fridh.nl>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:56:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Python: explain deterministic builds in release notes

---
 nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
index 3758a3bf2aa..aa9dc455ba2 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
@@ -253,6 +253,17 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
     </para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+      <para>
+      Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 are now built deterministically and 3.4 mostly.
+      Minor modifications had to be made to the interpreters in order to generate
+      deterministic bytecode. This has security implications and is relevant for
+      those using Python in a <literal>nix-shell</literal>. See the Nixpkgs manual
+      for details.
+    </para>
+
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>