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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-21.05">
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<title>Release 21.05 (<quote>Okapi</quote>, 2021.05/31)</title>
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<para>
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Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to
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21.11.
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</para>
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<section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-highlights">
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<title>Highlights</title>
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<para>
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In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
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has the following highlights:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Core version changes:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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gcc: 9.3.0 -> 10.3.0
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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glibc: 2.30 -> 2.32
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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default linux: 5.4 -> 5.10, all supported kernels
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available
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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mesa: 20.1.7 -> 21.0.1
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Desktop Environments:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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GNOME: 3.36 -> 40, see its
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<link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">release
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notes</link>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Plasma5: 5.18.5 -> 5.21.3
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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kdeApplications: 20.08.1 -> 20.12.3
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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cinnamon: 4.6 -> 4.8.1
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Programming Languages and Frameworks:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Python optimizations were disabled again. Builds with
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optimizations enabled are not reproducible. Optimizations
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can now be enabled with an option.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The linux_latest kernel was updated to the 5.13 series. It
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currently is not officially supported for use with the zfs
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filesystem. If you use zfs, you should use a different kernel
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version (either the LTS kernel, or track a specific one).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-new-services">
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<title>New Services</title>
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<para>
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The following new services were added since the last release:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link>
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3.8 and 3.9 were
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<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/82263">finally</link>
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packaged, along with a rewrite to the Nix expressions,
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allowing users to override the features upstream supports
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selecting to compile or not to. Additionally, the attribute
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<literal>gnuradio</literal> (3.9),
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<literal>gnuradio3_8</literal> and
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<literal>gnuradio3_7</literal> now point to an externally
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wrapped by default derivations, that allow you to also add
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`extraPythonPackages` to the Python interpreter used by
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GNURadio. Missing environmental variables needed for
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operational GUI were also added
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(<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/75478">#75478</link>).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/">Keycloak</link>,
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an open source identity and access management server with
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support for
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<link xlink:href="https://openid.net/connect/">OpenID
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Connect</link>, <link xlink:href="https://oauth.net/2/">OAUTH
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2.0</link> and
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<link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0">SAML
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2.0</link>.
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</para>
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<para>
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See the <link linkend="module-services-keycloak">Keycloak
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section of the NixOS manual</link> for more information.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.samba-wsdd.enable">services.samba-wsdd.enable</link>
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Web Services Dynamic Discovery host daemon
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="https://www.discourse.org/">Discourse</link>,
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a modern and open source discussion platform.
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</para>
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<para>
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See the <link linkend="module-services-discourse">Discourse
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section of the NixOS manual</link> for more information.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nebula.networks">services.nebula.networks</link>
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<link xlink:href="https://github.com/slackhq/nebula">Nebula
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VPN</link>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-incompatibilities">
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<title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
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<para>
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When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
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following incompatible changes:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release
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notes for
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<link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link>
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and
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<link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>.
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The <literal>gnome3</literal> attribute set has been renamed
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to <literal>gnome</literal> and so have been the NixOS
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options.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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If you are using <literal>services.udev.extraRules</literal>
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to assign custom names to network interfaces, this may stop
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working due to a change in the initialisation of dhcpcd and
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systemd networkd. To avoid this, either move them to
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<literal>services.udev.initrdRules</literal> or see the new
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<link linkend="sec-custom-ifnames">Assigning custom
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names</link> section of the NixOS manual for an example using
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networkd links.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>security.hideProcessInformation</literal> module
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has been removed. It was broken since the switch to
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cgroups-v2.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>linuxPackages.ati_drivers_x11</literal> kernel
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modules have been removed. The drivers only supported kernels
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prior to 4.2, and thus have become obsolete.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>systemConfig</literal> kernel parameter is no
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longer added to boot loader entries. It has been unused since
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September 2010, but if do have a system generation from that
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era, you will now be unable to boot into them.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>systemd-journal2gelf</literal> no longer parses json
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and expects the receiving system to handle it. How to achieve
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this with Graylog is described in this
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<link xlink:href="https://github.com/parse-nl/SystemdJournal2Gelf/issues/10">GitHub
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issue</link>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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If the <literal>services.dbus</literal> module is enabled,
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then the user D-Bus session is now always socket activated.
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The associated options
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<literal>services.dbus.socketActivated</literal> and
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<literal>services.xserver.startDbusSession</literal> have
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therefore been removed and you will receive a warning if they
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are present in your configuration. This change makes the user
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D-Bus session available also for non-graphical logins.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>networking.wireless.iwd</literal> module now
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installs the upstream-provided 80-iwd.link file, which sets
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the NamePolicy= for all wlan devices to "keep
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kernel", to avoid race conditions between iwd and
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networkd. If you don't want this, you can set
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<literal>systemd.network.links."80-iwd" = lib.mkForce {}</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>rubyMinimal</literal> was removed due to being unused
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and unusable. The default ruby interpreter includes JIT
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support, which makes it reference it's compiler. Since JIT
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support is probably needed by some Gems, it was decided to
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enable this feature with all cc references by default, and
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allow to build a Ruby derivation without references to cc, by
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setting <literal>jitSupport = false;</literal> in an overlay.
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See
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<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/90151">#90151</link>
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for more info.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Setting
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<literal>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</literal> now
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also affects which keys
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<literal>security.pam.enableSSHAgentAuth</literal> will use.
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WARNING: If you are using these options in combination do make
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sure that any key paths you use are present in
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<literal>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</literal>!
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The option <literal>fonts.enableFontDir</literal> has been
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renamed to
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<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-fonts.fontDir.enable">fonts.fontDir.enable</link>.
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The path of font directory has also been changed to
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<literal>/run/current-system/sw/share/X11/fonts</literal>, for
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consistency with other X11 resources.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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A number of options have been renamed in the kicad interface.
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<literal>oceSupport</literal> has been renamed to
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<literal>withOCE</literal>, <literal>withOCCT</literal> has
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been renamed to <literal>withOCC</literal>,
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<literal>ngspiceSupport</literal> has been renamed to
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<literal>withNgspice</literal>, and
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<literal>scriptingSupport</literal> has been renamed to
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<literal>withScripting</literal>. Additionally,
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<literal>kicad/base.nix</literal> no longer provides default
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argument values since these are provided by
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<literal>kicad/default.nix</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The socket for the <literal>pdns-recursor</literal> module was
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moved from <literal>/var/lib/pdns-recursor</literal> to
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<literal>/run/pdns-recursor</literal> to match upstream.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Paperwork was updated to version 2. The on-disk format
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slightly changed, and it is not possible to downgrade from
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Paperwork 2 back to Paperwork 1.3. Back your documents up
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before upgrading. See
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<link xlink:href="https://forum.openpaper.work/t/paperwork-2-0/112/5">this
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thread</link> for more details.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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PowerDNS has been updated from <literal>4.2.x</literal> to
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<literal>4.3.x</literal>. Please be sure to review the
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<link xlink:href="https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/upgrading.html#x-to-4-3-0">Upgrade
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Notes</link> provided by upstream before upgrading. Worth
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specifically noting is that the service now runs entirely as a
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dedicated <literal>pdns</literal> user, instead of starting as
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<literal>root</literal> and dropping privileges, as well as
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the default <literal>socket-dir</literal> location changing
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from <literal>/var/lib/powerdns</literal> to
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<literal>/run/pdns</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>mediatomb</literal> service is now using by
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default the new and maintained fork <literal>gerbera</literal>
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package instead of the unmaintained
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<literal>mediatomb</literal> package. If you want to keep the
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old behavior, you must declare it with:
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</para>
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<programlisting language="bash">
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{
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services.mediatomb.package = pkgs.mediatomb;
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}
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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One new option <literal>openFirewall</literal> has been
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introduced which defaults to false. If you relied on the
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service declaration to add the firewall rules itself before,
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you should now declare it with:
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</para>
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<programlisting language="bash">
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{
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services.mediatomb.openFirewall = true;
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}
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</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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xfsprogs was update from 4.19 to 5.11. It now enables reflink
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support by default on filesystem creation. Support for
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reflinks was added with an experimental status to kernel 4.9
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and deemed stable in kernel 4.16. If you want to be able to
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mount XFS filesystems created with this release of xfsprogs on
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kernel releases older than those, you need to format them with
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<literal>mkfs.xfs -m reflink=0</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The uWSGI server is now built with POSIX capabilities. As a
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consequence, root is no longer required in emperor mode and
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the service defaults to running as the unprivileged
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<literal>uwsgi</literal> user. Any additional capability can
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be added via the new option
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<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.uwsgi.capabilities">services.uwsgi.capabilities</link>.
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The previous behaviour can be restored by setting:
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</para>
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<programlisting language="bash">
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{
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services.uwsgi.user = "root";
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services.uwsgi.group = "root";
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services.uwsgi.instance =
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{
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uid = "uwsgi";
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gid = "uwsgi";
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};
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}
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</programlisting>
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<para>
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Another incompatibility from the previous release is that
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vassals running under a different user or group need to use
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<literal>immediate-{uid,gid}</literal> instead of the usual
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<literal>uid,gid</literal> options.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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btc1 has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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cpp_ethereum (aleth) has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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riak-cs package removed along with
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<literal>services.riak-cs</literal> module.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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stanchion package removed along with
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<literal>services.stanchion</literal> module.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
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<para>
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mutt has been updated to a new major version (2.x), which
|
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comes with some backward incompatible changes that are
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described in the
|
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<link xlink:href="http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/">release
|
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notes for Mutt 2.0</link>.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<literal>vim</literal> and <literal>neovim</literal> switched
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to Python 3, dropping all Python 2 support.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireguard.interfaces">networking.wireguard.interfaces.<name>.generatePrivateKeyFile</link>,
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which is off by default, had a <literal>chmod</literal> race
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condition fixed. As an aside, the parent directory's
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permissions were widened, and the key files were made
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owner-writable. This only affects newly created keys. However,
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if the exact permissions are important for your setup, read
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<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/121294">#121294</link>.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
|
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<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.zfs.forceImportAll">boot.zfs.forceImportAll</link>
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previously did nothing, but has been fixed. However its
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default has been changed to <literal>false</literal> to
|
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preserve the existing default behaviour. If you have this
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explicitly set to <literal>true</literal>, please note that
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your non-root pools will now be forcibly imported.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
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openafs now points to openafs_1_8, which is the new stable
|
|
release. OpenAFS 1.6 was removed.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The WireGuard module gained a new option
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<literal>networking.wireguard.interfaces.<name>.peers.*.dynamicEndpointRefreshSeconds</literal>
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that implements refreshing the IP of DNS-based endpoints
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periodically (which WireGuard itself
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<link xlink:href="https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-November/002028.html">cannot
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do</link>).
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</para>
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
|
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MariaDB has been updated to 10.5. Before you upgrade, it would
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|
be best to take a backup of your database and read
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<link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-104-to-mariadb-105/#incompatible-changes-between-104-and-105">
|
|
Incompatible Changes Between 10.4 and 10.5</link>. After the
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upgrade you will need to run <literal>mysql_upgrade</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
|
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The TokuDB storage engine dropped in mariadb 10.5 and removed
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in mariadb 10.6. It is recommended to switch to RocksDB. See
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also
|
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<link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/tokudb/">TokuDB</link>
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|
and
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<link xlink:href="https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-19780">MDEV-19780:
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Remove the TokuDB storage engine</link>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
|
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The <literal>openldap</literal> module now has support for
|
|
OLC-style configuration, users of the
|
|
<literal>configDir</literal> option may wish to migrate. If
|
|
you continue to use <literal>configDir</literal>, ensure that
|
|
<literal>olcPidFile</literal> is set to
|
|
<literal>/run/slapd/slapd.pid</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
As a result, <literal>extraConfig</literal> and
|
|
<literal>extraDatabaseConfig</literal> are removed. To help
|
|
with migration, you can convert your
|
|
<literal>slapd.conf</literal> file to OLC configuration with
|
|
the following script (find the location of this configuration
|
|
file by running <literal>systemctl status openldap</literal>,
|
|
it is the <literal>-f</literal> option.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
|
|
$ slaptest -f /path/to/slapd.conf -F $TMPDIR
|
|
$ slapcat -F $TMPDIR -n0 -H 'ldap:///???(!(objectClass=olcSchemaConfig))'
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This will dump your current configuration in LDIF format,
|
|
which should be straightforward to convert into Nix settings.
|
|
This does not show your schema configuration, as this is
|
|
unnecessarily verbose for users of the default schemas and
|
|
<literal>slaptest</literal> is buggy with schemas directly in
|
|
the config file.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Amazon EC2 and OpenStack Compute (nova) images now re-fetch
|
|
instance meta data and user data from the instance metadata
|
|
service (IMDS) on each boot. For example: stopping an EC2
|
|
instance, changing its user data, and restarting the instance
|
|
will now cause it to fetch and apply the new user data.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<warning>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Specifically, <literal>/etc/ec2-metadata</literal> is
|
|
re-populated on each boot. Some NixOS scripts that read from
|
|
this directory are guarded to only run if the files they
|
|
want to manipulate do not already exist, and so will not
|
|
re-apply their changes if the IMDS response changes.
|
|
Examples: <literal>root</literal>'s SSH key is only added if
|
|
<literal>/root/.ssh/authorized_keys</literal> does not
|
|
exist, and SSH host keys are only set from user data if they
|
|
do not exist in <literal>/etc/ssh</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>rspamd</literal> services is now sandboxed. It is
|
|
run as a dynamic user instead of root, so secrets and other
|
|
files may have to be moved or their permissions may have to be
|
|
fixed. The sockets are now located in
|
|
<literal>/run/rspamd</literal> instead of
|
|
<literal>/run</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Enabling the Tor client no longer silently also enables and
|
|
configures Privoxy, and the
|
|
<literal>services.tor.client.privoxy.enable</literal> option
|
|
has been removed. To enable Privoxy, and to configure it to
|
|
use Tor's faster port, use the following configuration:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting language="bash">
|
|
{
|
|
opt-services.privoxy.enable = true;
|
|
opt-services.privoxy.enableTor = true;
|
|
}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>services.tor</literal> module has a new
|
|
exhaustively typed
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tor.settings">services.tor.settings</link>
|
|
option following RFC 0042; backward compatibility with old
|
|
options has been preserved when aliasing was possible. The
|
|
corresponding systemd service has been hardened, but there is
|
|
a chance that the service still requires more permissions, so
|
|
please report any related trouble on the bugtracker. Onion
|
|
services v3 are now supported in
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tor.relay.onionServices">services.tor.relay.onionServices</link>.
|
|
A new
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tor.openFirewall">services.tor.openFirewall</link>
|
|
option as been introduced for allowing connections on all the
|
|
TCP ports configured.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The options
|
|
<literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.storagePass</literal> and
|
|
<literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.configFile</literal> have
|
|
been removed. Use
|
|
<literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.storagePassFile</literal>
|
|
instead to provide the database password. Extra config options
|
|
can be given via the option
|
|
<literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.extraConfig</literal>. The
|
|
actual configuration file is created on the fly on startup of
|
|
the service. This avoids that the password gets exposed in the
|
|
nix store.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>wafHook</literal> hook does not wrap Python
|
|
anymore. Packages depending on <literal>wafHook</literal> need
|
|
to include any Python into their
|
|
<literal>nativeBuildInputs</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Starting with version 1.7.0, the project formerly named
|
|
<literal>CodiMD</literal> is now named
|
|
<literal>HedgeDoc</literal>. New installations will no longer
|
|
use the old name for users, state directories and such, this
|
|
needs to be considered when moving state to a more recent
|
|
NixOS installation. Based on
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>,
|
|
existing installations will continue to work.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The fish-foreign-env package has been replaced with
|
|
fishPlugins.foreign-env, in which the fish functions have been
|
|
relocated to the <literal>vendor_functions.d</literal>
|
|
directory to be loaded automatically.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The prometheus json exporter is now managed by the prometheus
|
|
community. Together with additional features some backwards
|
|
incompatibilities were introduced. Most importantly the
|
|
exporter no longer accepts a fixed command-line parameter to
|
|
specify the URL of the endpoint serving JSON. It now expects
|
|
this URL to be passed as an URL parameter, when scraping the
|
|
exporter's <literal>/probe</literal> endpoint. In the
|
|
prometheus scrape configuration the scrape target might look
|
|
like this:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
http://some.json-exporter.host:7979/probe?target=https://example.com/some/json/endpoint
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Existing configuration for the exporter needs to be updated,
|
|
but can partially be re-used. Documentation is available in
|
|
the upstream repository and a small example for NixOS is
|
|
available in the corresponding NixOS test.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
These changes also affect
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.prometheus.exporters.rspamd.enable">services.prometheus.exporters.rspamd.enable</link>,
|
|
which is just a preconfigured instance of the json exporter.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
For more information, take a look at the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/prometheus-community/json_exporter">
|
|
official documentation</link> of the json_exporter.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Androidenv was updated, removing the
|
|
<literal>includeDocs</literal> and
|
|
<literal>lldbVersions</literal> arguments. Docs only covered a
|
|
single version of the Android SDK, LLDB is now bundled with
|
|
the NDK, and both are no longer available to download from the
|
|
Android package repositories. Additionally, since the package
|
|
lists have been updated, some older versions of Android
|
|
packages may not be bundled. If you depend on older versions
|
|
of Android packages, we recommend overriding the repo.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Android packages are now loaded from a repo.json file created
|
|
by parsing Android repo XML files. The arguments
|
|
<literal>repoJson</literal> and <literal>repoXmls</literal>
|
|
have been added to allow overriding the built-in androidenv
|
|
repo.json with your own. Additionally, license files are now
|
|
written to allow compatibility with Gradle-based tools, and
|
|
the <literal>extraLicenses</literal> argument has been added
|
|
to accept more SDK licenses if your project requires it. See
|
|
the androidenv documentation for more details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The attribute <literal>mpi</literal> is now consistently used
|
|
to provide a default, system-wide MPI implementation. The
|
|
default implementation is openmpi, which has been used before
|
|
by all derivations affects by this change. Note that all
|
|
packages that have used <literal>mpi ? null</literal> in the
|
|
input for optional MPI builds, have been changed to the
|
|
boolean input paramater <literal>useMpi</literal> to enable
|
|
building with MPI. Building all packages with
|
|
<literal>mpich</literal> instead of the default
|
|
<literal>openmpi</literal> can now be achived like this:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting language="bash">
|
|
self: super:
|
|
{
|
|
mpi = super.mpich;
|
|
}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The Searx module has been updated with the ability to
|
|
configure the service declaratively and uWSGI integration. The
|
|
option <literal>services.searx.configFile</literal> has been
|
|
renamed to
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.searx.settingsFile">services.searx.settingsFile</link>
|
|
for consistency with the new
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.searx.settings">services.searx.settings</link>.
|
|
In addition, the <literal>searx</literal> uid and gid
|
|
reservations have been removed since they were not necessary:
|
|
the service is now running with a dynamically allocated uid.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The libinput module has been updated with the ability to
|
|
configure mouse and touchpad settings separately. The options
|
|
in <literal>services.xserver.libinput</literal> have been
|
|
renamed to
|
|
<literal>services.xserver.libinput.touchpad</literal>, while
|
|
there is a new
|
|
<literal>services.xserver.libinput.mouse</literal> for mouse
|
|
related configuration.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Since touchpad options no longer apply to all devices, you may
|
|
want to replicate your touchpad configuration in mouse
|
|
section.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
ALSA OSS emulation
|
|
(<literal>sound.enableOSSEmulation</literal>) is now disabled
|
|
by default.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Thinkfan as been updated to <literal>1.2.x</literal>, which
|
|
comes with a new YAML based configuration format. For this
|
|
reason, several NixOS options of the thinkfan module have been
|
|
changed to non-backward compatible types. In addition, a new
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.thinkfan.settings">services.thinkfan.settings</link>
|
|
option has been added.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Please read the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan#readme">
|
|
thinkfan documentation</link> before updating.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Adobe Flash Player support has been dropped from the tree. In
|
|
particular, the following packages no longer support it:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
chromium
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
firefox
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
qt48
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
qt5.qtwebkit
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Additionally, packages flashplayer and hal-flash were removed
|
|
along with the <literal>services.flashpolicyd</literal>
|
|
module.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>security.rngd</literal> module has been removed.
|
|
It was disabled by default in 20.09 as it was functionally
|
|
redundant with krngd in the linux kernel. It is not necessary
|
|
for any device that the kernel recognises as an hardware RNG,
|
|
as it will automatically run the krngd task to periodically
|
|
collect random data from the device and mix it into the
|
|
kernel's RNG.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The default SMTP port for GitLab has been changed to
|
|
<literal>25</literal> from its previous default of
|
|
<literal>465</literal>. If you depended on this default, you
|
|
should now set the
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.gitlab.smtp.port">services.gitlab.smtp.port</link>
|
|
option.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The default version of ImageMagick has been updated from 6 to
|
|
7. You can use imagemagick6, imagemagick6_light, and
|
|
imagemagick6Big if you need the older version.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.videoDrivers">services.xserver.videoDrivers</link>
|
|
no longer uses the deprecated <literal>cirrus</literal> and
|
|
<literal>vesa</literal> device dependent X drivers by default.
|
|
It also enables both <literal>amdgpu</literal> and
|
|
<literal>nouveau</literal> drivers by default now.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>kindlegen</literal> package is gone, because it
|
|
is no longer supported or hosted by Amazon. Sadly, its
|
|
replacement, Kindle Previewer, has no Linux support. However,
|
|
there are other ways to generate MOBI files. See
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/96439">the
|
|
discussion</link> for more info.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The apacheKafka packages are now built with version-matched
|
|
JREs. Versions 2.6 and above, the ones that recommend it, use
|
|
jdk11, while versions below remain on jdk8. The NixOS service
|
|
has been adjusted to start the service using the same version
|
|
as the package, adjustable with the new
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.apache-kafka.jre">services.apache-kafka.jre</link>
|
|
option. Furthermore, the default list of
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.apache-kafka.jvmOptions">services.apache-kafka.jvmOptions</link>
|
|
have been removed. You should set your own according to the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#java">upstream
|
|
documentation</link> for your Kafka version.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The kodi package has been modified to allow concise addon
|
|
management. Consider the following configuration from previous
|
|
releases of NixOS to install kodi, including the
|
|
kodiPackages.inputstream-adaptive and kodiPackages.vfs-sftp
|
|
addons:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting language="bash">
|
|
{
|
|
environment.systemPackages = [
|
|
pkgs.kodi
|
|
];
|
|
|
|
nixpkgs.config.kodi = {
|
|
enableInputStreamAdaptive = true;
|
|
enableVFSSFTP = true;
|
|
};
|
|
}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All Kodi <literal>config</literal> flags have been removed,
|
|
and as a result the above configuration should now be written
|
|
as:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting language="bash">
|
|
{
|
|
environment.systemPackages = [
|
|
(pkgs.kodi.withPackages (p: with p; [
|
|
inputstream-adaptive
|
|
vfs-sftp
|
|
]))
|
|
];
|
|
}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>environment.defaultPackages</literal> now includes
|
|
the nano package. If pkgs.nano is not added to the list, make
|
|
sure another editor is installed and the
|
|
<literal>EDITOR</literal> environment variable is set to it.
|
|
Environment variables can be set using
|
|
<literal>environment.variables</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>services.minio.dataDir</literal> changed type to a
|
|
list of paths, required for specifiyng multiple data
|
|
directories for using with erasure coding. Currently, the
|
|
service doesn't enforce nor checks the correct number of paths
|
|
to correspond to minio requirements.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All CUDA toolkit versions prior to CUDA 10 have been removed.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The kbdKeymaps package was removed since dvp and neo are now
|
|
included in kbd. If you want to use the Programmer Dvorak
|
|
Keyboard Layout, you have to use
|
|
<literal>dvorak-programmer</literal> in
|
|
<literal>console.keyMap</literal> now instead of
|
|
<literal>dvp</literal>. In
|
|
<literal>services.xserver.xkbVariant</literal> it's still
|
|
<literal>dvp</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The babeld service is now being run as an unprivileged user.
|
|
To achieve that the module configures
|
|
<literal>skip-kernel-setup true</literal> and takes care of
|
|
setting forwarding and rp_filter sysctls by itself as well as
|
|
for each interface in
|
|
<literal>services.babeld.interfaces</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>services.zigbee2mqtt.config</literal> option has
|
|
been renamed to
|
|
<literal>services.zigbee2mqtt.settings</literal> and now
|
|
follows
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
|
|
0042</link>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The yadm dotfile manager has been updated from 2.x to 3.x, which
|
|
has new (XDG) default locations for some data/state files. Most
|
|
yadm commands will fail and print a legacy path warning (which
|
|
describes how to upgrade/migrate your repository). If you have
|
|
scripts, daemons, scheduled jobs, shell profiles, etc. that invoke
|
|
yadm, expect them to fail or misbehave until you perform this
|
|
migration and prepare accordingly.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Instead of determining
|
|
<literal>services.radicale.package</literal> automatically
|
|
based on <literal>system.stateVersion</literal>, the latest
|
|
version is always used because old versions are not officially
|
|
supported.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Furthermore, Radicale's systemd unit was hardened which might
|
|
break some deployments. In particular, a non-default
|
|
<literal>filesystem_folder</literal> has to be added to
|
|
<literal>systemd.services.radicale.serviceConfig.ReadWritePaths</literal>
|
|
if the deprecated <literal>services.radicale.config</literal>
|
|
is used.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
In the <literal>security.acme</literal> module, use of
|
|
<literal>--reuse-key</literal> parameter for Lego has been
|
|
removed. It was introduced for HKPK, but this security feature
|
|
is now deprecated. It is a better security practice to rotate
|
|
key pairs instead of always keeping the same. If you need to
|
|
keep this parameter, you can add it back using
|
|
<literal>extraLegoRenewFlags</literal> as an option for the
|
|
appropriate certificate.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-notable-changes">
|
|
<title>Other Notable Changes</title>
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>stdenv.lib</literal> has been deprecated and will
|
|
break eval in 21.11. Please use <literal>pkgs.lib</literal>
|
|
instead. See
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/108938">#108938</link>
|
|
for details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link>
|
|
has a <literal>pkgs</literal> attribute set, and there's a
|
|
<literal>gnuradio.callPackage</literal> function that extends
|
|
<literal>pkgs</literal> with a
|
|
<literal>mkDerivation</literal>, and a
|
|
<literal>mkDerivationWith</literal>, like Qt5. Now all
|
|
<literal>gnuradio.pkgs</literal> are defined with
|
|
<literal>gnuradio.callPackage</literal> and some packages that
|
|
depend on gnuradio are defined with this as well.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</link> has
|
|
been updated to version 3.0.32 (See
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-announce/2021-February/000007.html">announcement</link>).
|
|
Compared to the previous release, Privoxy has gained support
|
|
for HTTPS inspection (still experimental), Brotli
|
|
decompression, several new filters and lots of bug fixes,
|
|
including security ones. In addition, the package is now built
|
|
with compression and external filters support, which were
|
|
previously disabled.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Regarding the NixOS module, new options for HTTPS inspection
|
|
have been added and
|
|
<literal>services.privoxy.extraConfig</literal> has been
|
|
replaced by the new
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.privoxy.settings">services.privoxy.settings</link>
|
|
(See
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
|
|
0042</link> for the motivation).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</link> has been
|
|
updated to version 19.1 "Matrix". See the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19-0-matrix-release">announcement</link>
|
|
for further details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>services.packagekit.backend</literal> option has
|
|
been removed as it only supported a single setting which would
|
|
always be the default. Instead new
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
|
|
0042</link> compliant
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.packagekit.settings">services.packagekit.settings</link>
|
|
and
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.packagekit.vendorSettings">services.packagekit.vendorSettings</link>
|
|
options have been introduced.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://nginx.org">Nginx</link> has been
|
|
updated to stable version 1.20.0. Now nginx uses the zlib-ng
|
|
library by default.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
KDE Gear (formerly KDE Applications) is upgraded to 21.04, see
|
|
its
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.04/">release
|
|
notes</link> for details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>kdeApplications</literal> package set is now
|
|
<literal>kdeGear</literal>, in keeping with the new name. The
|
|
old name remains for compatibility, but it is deprecated.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://libreswan.org/">Libreswan</link> has
|
|
been updated to version 4.4. The package now includes example
|
|
configurations and manual pages by default. The NixOS module
|
|
has been changed to use the upstream systemd units and write
|
|
the configuration in the <literal>/etc/ipsec.d/ </literal>
|
|
directory. In addition, two new options have been added to
|
|
specify connection policies
|
|
(<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.libreswan.policies">services.libreswan.policies</link>)
|
|
and disable send/receive redirects
|
|
(<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.libreswan.disableRedirects">services.libreswan.disableRedirects</link>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The Mailman NixOS module (<literal>services.mailman</literal>)
|
|
has a new option
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mailman.enablePostfix">services.mailman.enablePostfix</link>,
|
|
defaulting to true, that controls integration with Postfix.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If this option is disabled, default MTA config becomes not set
|
|
and you should set the options in
|
|
<literal>services.mailman.settings.mta</literal> according to
|
|
the desired configuration as described in
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/mta.html">Mailman
|
|
documentation</link>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The default-version of <literal>nextcloud</literal> is
|
|
nextcloud21. Please note that it's <emphasis>not</emphasis>
|
|
possible to upgrade <literal>nextcloud</literal> across
|
|
multiple major versions! This means that it's e.g. not
|
|
possible to upgrade from nextcloud18 to nextcloud20 in a
|
|
single deploy and most <literal>20.09</literal> users will
|
|
have to upgrade to nextcloud20 first.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The package can be manually upgraded by setting
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>
|
|
to nextcloud21.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The setting
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.redis.bind">services.redis.bind</link>
|
|
defaults to <literal>127.0.0.1</literal> now, making Redis
|
|
listen on the loopback interface only, and not all public
|
|
network interfaces.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
NixOS now emits a deprecation warning if systemd's
|
|
<literal>StartLimitInterval</literal> setting is used in a
|
|
<literal>serviceConfig</literal> section instead of in a
|
|
<literal>unitConfig</literal>; that setting is deprecated and
|
|
now undocumented for the service section by systemd upstream,
|
|
but still effective and somewhat buggy there, which can be
|
|
confusing. See
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45785">#45785</link>
|
|
for details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All services should use
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.services._name_.startLimitIntervalSec">systemd.services.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.startLimitIntervalSec</link>
|
|
or <literal>StartLimitIntervalSec</literal> in
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.services._name_.unitConfig">systemd.services.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.unitConfig</link>
|
|
instead.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>mediatomb</literal> service declares new options.
|
|
It also adapts existing options so the configuration
|
|
generation is now lazy. The existing option
|
|
<literal>customCfg</literal> (defaults to false), when
|
|
enabled, stops the service configuration generation
|
|
completely. It then expects the users to provide their own
|
|
correct configuration at the right location (whereas the
|
|
configuration was generated and not used at all before). The
|
|
new option <literal>transcodingOption</literal> (defaults to
|
|
no) allows a generated configuration. It makes the mediatomb
|
|
service pulls the necessary runtime dependencies in the nix
|
|
store (whereas it was generated with hardcoded values before).
|
|
The new option <literal>mediaDirectories</literal> allows the
|
|
users to declare autoscan media directories from their nixos
|
|
configuration:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting language="bash">
|
|
{
|
|
services.mediatomb.mediaDirectories = [
|
|
{ path = "/var/lib/mediatomb/pictures"; recursive = false; hidden-files = false; }
|
|
{ path = "/var/lib/mediatomb/audio"; recursive = true; hidden-files = false; }
|
|
];
|
|
}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The Unbound DNS resolver service
|
|
(<literal>services.unbound</literal>) has been refactored to
|
|
allow reloading, control sockets and to fix startup ordering
|
|
issues.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
It is now possible to enable a local UNIX control socket for
|
|
unbound by setting the
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.unbound.localControlSocketPath">services.unbound.localControlSocketPath</link>
|
|
option.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Previously we just applied a very minimal set of restrictions
|
|
and trusted unbound to properly drop root privs and
|
|
capabilities.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
As of this we are (for the most part) just using the upstream
|
|
example unit file for unbound. The main difference is that we
|
|
start unbound as <literal>unbound</literal> user with the
|
|
required capabilities instead of letting unbound do the chroot
|
|
& uid/gid changes.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The upstream unit configuration this is based on is a lot
|
|
stricter with all kinds of permissions then our previous
|
|
variant. It also came with the default of having the
|
|
<literal>Type</literal> set to <literal>notify</literal>,
|
|
therefore we are now also using the
|
|
<literal>unbound-with-systemd</literal> package here. Unbound
|
|
will start up, read the configuration files and start
|
|
listening on the configured ports before systemd will declare
|
|
the unit <literal>active (running)</literal>. This will likely
|
|
help with startup order and the occasional race condition
|
|
during system activation where the DNS service is started but
|
|
not yet ready to answer queries. Services depending on
|
|
<literal>nss-lookup.target</literal> or
|
|
<literal>unbound.service</literal> are now be able to use
|
|
unbound when those targets have been reached.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Additionally to the much stricter runtime environment the
|
|
<literal>/dev/urandom</literal> mount lines we previously had
|
|
in the code (that randomly failed during the stop-phase) have
|
|
been removed as systemd will take care of those for us.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>preStart</literal> script is now only required if
|
|
we enabled the trust anchor updates (which are still enabled
|
|
by default).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Another benefit of the refactoring is that we can now issue
|
|
reloads via either <literal>pkill -HUP unbound</literal> and
|
|
<literal>systemctl reload unbound</literal> to reload the
|
|
running configuration without taking the daemon offline. A
|
|
prerequisite of this was that unbound configuration is
|
|
available on a well known path on the file system. We are
|
|
using the path <literal>/etc/unbound/unbound.conf</literal> as
|
|
that is the default in the CLI tooling which in turn enables
|
|
us to use <literal>unbound-control</literal> without passing a
|
|
custom configuration location.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The module has also been reworked to be
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
|
|
0042</link> compliant. As such,
|
|
<literal>sevices.unbound.extraConfig</literal> has been
|
|
removed and replaced by
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.unbound.settings">services.unbound.settings</link>.
|
|
<literal>services.unbound.interfaces</literal> has been
|
|
renamed to
|
|
<literal>services.unbound.settings.server.interface</literal>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>services.unbound.forwardAddresses</literal> and
|
|
<literal>services.unbound.allowedAccess</literal> have also
|
|
been changed to use the new settings interface. You can follow
|
|
the instructions when executing
|
|
<literal>nixos-rebuild</literal> to upgrade your configuration
|
|
to use the new interface.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>services.dnscrypt-proxy2</literal> module now
|
|
takes the upstream's example configuration and updates it with
|
|
the user's settings. An option has been added to restore the
|
|
old behaviour if you prefer to declare the configuration from
|
|
scratch.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
NixOS now defaults to the unified cgroup hierarchy
|
|
(cgroupsv2). See the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/fedora-31-control-group-v2">Fedora
|
|
Article for 31</link> for details on why this is desirable,
|
|
and how it impacts containers.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If you want to run containers with a runtime that does not yet
|
|
support cgroupsv2, you can switch back to the old behaviour by
|
|
setting
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.enableUnifiedCgroupHierarchy">systemd.enableUnifiedCgroupHierarchy</link>
|
|
= <literal>false</literal>; and rebooting.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
PulseAudio was upgraded to 14.0, with changes to the handling
|
|
of default sinks. See its
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/">release
|
|
notes</link>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
GNOME users may wish to delete their
|
|
<literal>~/.config/pulse</literal> due to the changes to
|
|
stream routing logic. See
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/832">PulseAudio
|
|
bug 832</link> for more information.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The zookeeper package does not provide
|
|
<literal>zooInspector.sh</literal> anymore, as that
|
|
"contrib" has been dropped from upstream releases.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
In the ACME module, the data used to build the hash for the
|
|
account directory has changed to accomodate new features to
|
|
reduce account rate limit issues. This will trigger new
|
|
account creation on the first rebuild following this update.
|
|
No issues are expected to arise from this, thanks to the new
|
|
account creation handling.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.createHome">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.createHome</link>
|
|
now always ensures home directory permissions to be
|
|
<literal>0700</literal>. Permissions had previously been
|
|
ignored for already existing home directories, possibly
|
|
leaving them readable by others. The option's description was
|
|
incorrect regarding ownership management and has been
|
|
simplified greatly.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When defining a new user, one of
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.isNormalUser">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.isNormalUser</link>
|
|
and
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.isSystemUser">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.isSystemUser</link>
|
|
is now required. This is to prevent accidentally giving a UID
|
|
above 1000 to system users, which could have unexpected
|
|
consequences, like running user activation scripts for system
|
|
users. Note that users defined with an explicit UID below 500
|
|
are exempted from this check, as
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.isSystemUser">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.isSystemUser</link>
|
|
has no effect for those.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>security.apparmor</literal> module, for the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/Documentation">AppArmor</link>
|
|
Mandatory Access Control system, has been substantialy
|
|
improved along with related tools, so that module maintainers
|
|
can now more easily write AppArmor profiles for NixOS. The
|
|
most notable change on the user-side is the new option
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.apparmor.policies">security.apparmor.policies</link>,
|
|
replacing the previous <literal>profiles</literal> option to
|
|
provide a way to disable a profile and to select whether to
|
|
confine in enforce mode (default) or in complain mode (see
|
|
<literal>journalctl -b --grep apparmor</literal>).
|
|
Security-minded users may also want to enable
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.apparmor.killUnconfinedConfinables">security.apparmor.killUnconfinedConfinables</link>,
|
|
at the cost of having some of their processes killed when
|
|
updating to a NixOS version introducing new AppArmor profiles.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The GNOME desktop manager once again installs gnome.epiphany
|
|
by default.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
NixOS now generates empty <literal>/etc/netgroup</literal>.
|
|
<literal>/etc/netgroup</literal> defines network-wide groups
|
|
and may affect to setups using NIS.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Platforms, like <literal>stdenv.hostPlatform</literal>, no
|
|
longer have a <literal>platform</literal> attribute. It has
|
|
been (mostly) flattened away:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>platform.gcc</literal> is now
|
|
<literal>gcc</literal>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>platform.kernel*</literal> is now
|
|
<literal>linux-kernel.*</literal>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Additionally, <literal>platform.kernelArch</literal> moved to
|
|
the top level as <literal>linuxArch</literal> to match the
|
|
other <literal>*Arch</literal> variables.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <literal>platform</literal> grouping of these things never
|
|
meant anything, and was just a historial/implementation
|
|
artifact that was overdue removal.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>services.restic</literal> now uses a dedicated cache
|
|
directory for every backup defined in
|
|
<literal>services.restic.backups</literal>. The old global
|
|
cache directory, <literal>/root/.cache/restic</literal>, is
|
|
now unused and can be removed to free up disk space.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<literal>isync</literal>: The <literal>isync</literal>
|
|
compatibility wrapper was removed and the Master/Slave
|
|
terminology has been deprecated and should be replaced with
|
|
Far/Near in the configuration file.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
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The nix-gc service now accepts randomizedDelaySec (default: 0)
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and persistent (default: true) parameters. By default nix-gc
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will now run immediately if it would have been triggered at
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least once during the time when the timer was inactive.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>rustPlatform.buildRustPackage</literal> function
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is split into several hooks: cargoSetupHook to set up
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vendoring for Cargo-based projects, cargoBuildHook to build a
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project using Cargo, cargoInstallHook to install a project
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using Cargo, and cargoCheckHook to run tests in Cargo-based
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projects. With this change, mixed-language projects can use
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the relevant hooks within builders other than
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<literal>buildRustPackage</literal>. However, these changes
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also required several API changes to
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<literal>buildRustPackage</literal> itself:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>target</literal> argument was removed.
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Instead, <literal>buildRustPackage</literal> will always
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use the same target as the C/C++ compiler that is used.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>cargoParallelTestThreads</literal> argument
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was removed. Parallel tests are now disabled through
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<literal>dontUseCargoParallelTests</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <literal>rustPlatform.maturinBuildHook</literal> hook was
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added. This hook can be used with
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<literal>buildPythonPackage</literal> to build Python packages
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that are written in Rust and use Maturin as their build tool.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
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|
Kubernetes has
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<link xlink:href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/">deprecated
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|
docker</link> as container runtime. As a consequence, the
|
|
Kubernetes module now has support for configuration of custom
|
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remote container runtimes and enables containerd by default.
|
|
Note that containerd is more strict regarding container image
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OCI-compliance. As an example, images with CMD or ENTRYPOINT
|
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defined as strings (not lists) will fail on containerd, while
|
|
working fine on docker. Please test your setup and container
|
|
images with containerd prior to upgrading.
|
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</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The GitLab module now has support for automatic backups. A
|
|
schedule can be set with the
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.gitlab.backup.startAt">services.gitlab.backup.startAt</link>
|
|
option.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Prior to this release, systemd would also read system units
|
|
from an undocumented
|
|
<literal>/etc/systemd-mutable/system</literal> path. This path
|
|
has been dropped from the defaults. That path (or others) can
|
|
be re-enabled by adding it to the
|
|
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.extraSystemdUnitPaths">boot.extraSystemdUnitPaths</link>
|
|
list.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
PostgreSQL 9.5 is scheduled EOL during the 21.05 life cycle
|
|
and has been removed.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://www.xfce.org/">Xfce4</link> relies
|
|
on GIO/GVfs for userspace virtual filesystem access in
|
|
applications like
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/">thunar</link>
|
|
and
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://docs.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/">gigolo</link>.
|
|
For that to work, the gvfs nixos service is enabled by
|
|
default, and it can be configured with the specific package
|
|
that provides GVfs. Until now Xfce4 was setting it to use a
|
|
lighter version of GVfs (without support for samba). To avoid
|
|
conflicts with other desktop environments this setting has
|
|
been dropped. Users that still want it should add the
|
|
following to their system configuration:
|
|
</para>
|
|
<programlisting language="bash">
|
|
{
|
|
services.gvfs.package = pkgs.gvfs.override { samba = null; };
|
|
}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The newly enabled <literal>systemd-pstore.service</literal>
|
|
now automatically evacuates crashdumps and panic logs from the
|
|
persistent storage to
|
|
<literal>/var/lib/systemd/pstore</literal>. This prevents
|
|
NVRAM from filling up, which ensures the latest diagnostic
|
|
data is always stored and alleviates problems with writing new
|
|
boot configurations.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Nixpkgs now contains
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/118232">automatically
|
|
packaged GNOME Shell extensions</link> from the
|
|
<link xlink:href="https://extensions.gnome.org/">GNOME
|
|
Extensions</link> portal. You can find them, filed by their
|
|
UUID, under <literal>gnome38Extensions</literal> attribute for
|
|
GNOME 3.38 and under <literal>gnome40Extensions</literal> for
|
|
GNOME 40. Finally, the <literal>gnomeExtensions</literal>
|
|
attribute contains extensions for the latest GNOME Shell
|
|
version in Nixpkgs, listed under a more human-friendly name.
|
|
The unqualified attribute scope also contains manually
|
|
packaged extensions. Note that the automatically packaged
|
|
extensions are provided for convenience and are not checked or
|
|
guaranteed to work.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Erlang/OTP versions older than R21 got dropped. We also
|
|
dropped the cuter package, as it was purely an example of how
|
|
to build a package. We also dropped <literal>lfe_1_2</literal>
|
|
as it could not build with R21+. Moving forward, we expect to
|
|
only support 3 yearly releases of OTP.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
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|
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