Merge pull request #7916 from NixOS/release-notes

2.14 release notes

doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in

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   - [CLI guideline](contributing/cli-guideline.md)
 - [Release Notes](release-notes/release-notes.md)
   - [Release X.Y (202?-??-??)](release-notes/rl-next.md)
+  - [Release 2.14 (2023-02-28)](release-notes/rl-2.14.md)
   - [Release 2.13 (2023-01-17)](release-notes/rl-2.13.md)
   - [Release 2.12 (2022-12-06)](release-notes/rl-2.12.md)
   - [Release 2.11 (2022-08-25)](release-notes/rl-2.11.md)

doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.14.md

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+# Release 2.14 (2023-02-28)
+
+* A new function `builtins.readFileType` is available. It is similar to
+  `builtins.readDir` but acts on a single file or directory.
+
+* In flakes, the `.outPath` attribute of a flake now always refers to
+  the directory containing the `flake.nix`. This was not the case for
+  when `flake.nix` was in a subdirectory of e.g. a Git repository.
+  The root of the source of a flake in a subdirectory is still
+  available in `.sourceInfo.outPath`.
+
+* In derivations that use structured attributes, you can now use `unsafeDiscardReferences`
+  to disable scanning a given output for runtime dependencies:
+  ```nix
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+  unsafeDiscardReferences.out = true;
+  ```
+  This is useful e.g. when generating self-contained filesystem images with
+  their own embedded Nix store: hashes found inside such an image refer
+  to the embedded store and not to the host's Nix store.
+
+  This requires the `discard-references` experimental feature.

doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md

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 # Release X.Y (202?-??-??)
 
-* A new function `builtins.readFileType` is available. It is similar to
-  `builtins.readDir` but acts on a single file or directory.
-
-* In flakes, the `.outPath` attribute of a flake now always refers to the
-  directory containing the `flake.nix`. This was not the case for when
-  `flake.nix` was in a subdirectory of e.g. a git repository.
-  The root of the source of a flake in a subdirectory is still available in
-  `.sourceInfo.outPath`.
-
-* The `builtins.readDir` function has been optimized when encountering not-yet-known
-  file types from POSIX's `readdir`. In such cases the type of each file is/was
-  discovered by making multiple syscalls. This change makes these operations
-  lazy such that these lookups will only be performed if the attribute is used.
-  This optimization affects a minority of filesystems and operating systems.
-
-* In derivations that use structured attributes, you can now use `unsafeDiscardReferences`
-  to disable scanning a given output for runtime dependencies:
-  ```nix
-  __structuredAttrs = true;
-  unsafeDiscardReferences.out = true;
-  ```
-  This is useful e.g. when generating self-contained filesystem images with
-  their own embedded Nix store: hashes found inside such an image refer
-  to the embedded store and not to the host's Nix store.
-
-  This requires the `discard-references` experimental feature.