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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-14.12">
<title>Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/30)</title>
<para>
In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the
following highlights:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Systemd has been updated to version 217, which has numerous
<link xlink:href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024662.html">improvements.</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.mail-archive.com/nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl/msg13957.html">
Nix has been updated to 1.8.</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.20.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
KDE has been updated to 4.14.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.14.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If <option>users.mutableUsers</option> is enabled (the default), changes
made to the declaration of a user or group will be correctly realised when
running <command>nixos-rebuild</command>. For instance, removing a user
specification from <filename>configuration.nix</filename> will cause the
actual user account to be deleted. If <option>users.mutableUsers</option>
is disabled, it is no longer necessary to specify UIDs or GIDs; if
omitted, they are allocated dynamically.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
Following new services were added since the last release:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>atftpd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>bosun</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>bspwm</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>chronos</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>collectd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>consul</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>cpuminer-cryptonight</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>crashplan</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>dnscrypt-proxy</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>docker-registry</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>docker</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>etcd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>fail2ban</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>fcgiwrap</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>fleet</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>fluxbox</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gdm</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>geoclue2</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gitlab</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gitolite</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gnome3.gnome-documents</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gnome3.gnome-online-miners</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gnome3.gvfs</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gnome3.seahorse</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>hbase</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>i2pd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>influxdb</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>kubernetes</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>liquidsoap</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lxc</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>mailpile</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>mesos</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>mlmmj</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>monetdb</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>mopidy</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>neo4j</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>nsd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>openntpd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>opentsdb</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>openvswitch</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>parallels-guest</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>peerflix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>phd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>polipo</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>prosody</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>radicale</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>redmine</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>riemann</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>scollector</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>seeks</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>siproxd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>strongswan</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>tcsd</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>teamspeak3</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>thermald</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>torque/mrom</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>torque/server</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>uhub</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>unifi</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>znc</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>zookeeper</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following
incompatible changes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If you use the
<option>extraConfig</option> option to pass literal Apache configuration
text, you may need to update it — see
<link
xlink:href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html">Apache’s
documentation</link> for details. If you wish to continue to use httpd
2.2, add the following line to your NixOS configuration:
<programlisting>
services.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
PHP 5.3 has been removed because it is no longer supported by the PHP
project. A <link
xlink:href="http://php.net/migration54">migration
guide</link> is available.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The host side of a container virtual Ethernet pair is now called
<literal>ve-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal> rather
than <literal>c-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
GNOME 3.10 support has been dropped. The default GNOME version is now
3.12.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
VirtualBox has been upgraded to 4.3.20 release. Users may be required to
run <command>rm -rf /tmp/.vbox*</command>. The line <literal>imports = [
&lt;nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix&gt; ]</literal> is no
longer necessary, use <literal>services.virtualboxHost.enable =
true</literal> instead.
</para>
<para>
Also, hardening mode is now enabled by default, which means that unless
you want to use USB support, you no longer need to be a member of the
<literal>vboxusers</literal> group.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Chromium has been updated to 39.0.2171.65.
<option>enablePepperPDF</option> is now enabled by default.
<literal>chromium*Wrapper</literal> packages no longer exist, because
upstream removed NSAPI support. <literal>chromium-stable</literal> has
been renamed to <literal>chromium</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Python packaging documentation is now part of nixpkgs manual. To override
the python packages available to a custom python you now use
<literal>pkgs.pythonFull.buildEnv.override</literal> instead of
<literal>pkgs.pythonFull.override</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>boot.resumeDevice = "8:6"</literal> is no longer supported. Most
users will want to leave it undefined, which takes the swap partitions
automatically. There is an evaluation assertion to ensure that the string
starts with a slash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The system-wide default timezone for NixOS installations changed from
<literal>CET</literal> to <literal>UTC</literal>. To choose a different
timezone for your system, configure <literal>time.timeZone</literal> in
<literal>configuration.nix</literal>. A fairly complete list of possible
values for that setting is available at
<link
xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
GNU screen has been updated to 4.2.1, which breaks the ability to connect
to sessions created by older versions of screen.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Intel GPU driver was updated to the 3.x prerelease version (used by
most distributions) and supports DRI3 now.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>