In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: The user handling now keeps track of deallocated UIDs/GIDs. When a user or group is revived, this allows it to be allocated the UID/GID it had before. A consequence is that UIDs and GIDs are no longer reused. The module option services.xserver.xrandrHeads now causes the first head specified in this list to be set as the primary head. Apart from that, it's now possible to also set additional options by using an attribute set, for example: { services.xserver.xrandrHeads = [ "HDMI-0" { output = "DVI-0"; primary = true; monitorConfig = '' Option "Rotate" "right" ''; } ]; } This will set the DVI-0 output to be the primary head, even though HDMI-0 is the first head in the list. The following new services were added since the last release: When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following incompatible changes: aiccu package was removed. This is due to SixXS sunsetting its IPv6 tunnel. Top-level idea package collection was renamed. All JetBrains IDEs are now at jetbrains. flexget's state database cannot be upgraded to its new internal format, requiring removal of any existing db-config.sqlite which will be automatically recreated. The ipfs package now doesn't ignore the dataDir option anymore. If you've ever set this option to anything other than the default you'll have to either unset it (so the default gets used) or migrate the old data manually with dataDir=<valueOfDataDir> mv /var/lib/ipfs/.ipfs/* $dataDir rmdir /var/lib/ipfs/.ipfs The following changes apply if the stateVersion is changed to 17.09 or higher. For stateVersion = "17.03 or lower the old behavior is preserved. The postgres default version was changed from 9.5 to 9.6. The postgres superuser name has changed from root to postgres to more closely follow what other Linux distributions are doing. The postgres default dataDir has changed from /var/db/postgres to /var/lib/postgresql/$psqlSchema where $psqlSchema is 9.6 for example. The mysql default dataDir has changed from /var/mysql to /var/lib/mysql. The caddy service was previously using an extra .caddy in the data directory specified with the dataDir option. The contents of the .caddy directory are now expected to be in the dataDir. The ssh-agent user service is not started by default anymore. Use programs.ssh.startAgent to enable it if needed. There is also a new programs.gnupg.agent module that creates a gpg-agent user service. It can also serve as a SSH agent if enableSSHSupport is set. The services.tinc.networks.<name>.listenAddress option had a misleading name that did not correspond to its behavior. It now correctly defines the ip to listen for incoming connections on. To keep the previous behaviour, use services.tinc.networks.<name>.bindToAddress instead. Refer to the description of the options for more details. tlsdate package and module were removed. This is due to the project being dead and not building with openssl 1.1. wvdial package and module were removed. This is due to the project being dead and not building with openssl 1.1. cc-wrapper's setup-hook now exports a number of environment variables corresponding to binutils binaries, (e.g. LD, STRIP, RANLIB, etc). This is done to prevent packages' build systems guessing, which is harder to predict, especially when cross-compiling. However, some packages have broken due to this—their build systems either not supporting, or claiming to support without adequate testing, taking such environment variables as parameters. Other notable improvements: Modules can now be disabled by using disabledModules, allowing another to take it's place. This can be used to import a set of modules from another channel while keeping the rest of the system on a stable release. Updated to FreeType 2.7.1, including a new TrueType engine. The new engine replaces the Infinality engine which was the default in NixOS. The default font rendering settings are now provided by fontconfig-penultimate, replacing fontconfig-ultimate; the new defaults are less invasive and provide rendering that is more consistent with other systems and hopefully with each font designer's intent. Some system-wide configuration has been removed from the Fontconfig NixOS module where user Fontconfig settings are available. ZFS/SPL have been updated to 0.7.0, zfsUnstable, splUnstable have therefore been removed. The time.timeZone option now allows the value null in addition to timezone strings. This value allows changing the timezone of a system imperatively using timedatectl set-timezone. The default timezone is still UTC.