Release 15.09 (“Dingo”, 2015/09/30)In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
has the following highlights:The Haskell
packages infrastructure has been re-designed from the ground up
("Haskell NG"). NixOS now distributes the latest version
of every single package registered on Hackage -- well in
excess of 8,000 Haskell packages. Detailed instructions on how to
use that infrastructure can be found in the User's
Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure. Users migrating from an
earlier release may find helpful information below, in the list of
backwards-incompatible changes. Furthermore, we distribute 51(!)
additional Haskell package sets that provide every single LTS Haskell release
since version 0.0 as well as the most recent Stackage Nightly
snapshot. The announcement "Full
Stackage Support in Nixpkgs" gives additional
details.Nix has been updated to version 1.10, which among other
improvements enables cryptographic signatures on binary caches for
improved security.You can now keep your NixOS system up to date automatically
by setting
system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
This will cause the system to periodically check for updates in
your current channel and run nixos-rebuild.This release is based on Glibc 2.21, GCC 4.9 and Linux
3.18.GNOME has been upgraded to 3.16.
Xfce has been upgraded to 4.12.
KDE 5 has been upgraded to KDE Frameworks 5.10,
Plasma 5.3.2 and Applications 15.04.3.
KDE 4 has been updated to kdelibs-4.14.10.
E19 has been upgraded to 0.16.8.15.
The following new services were added since the last release:
services/mail/exim.nixservices/misc/apache-kafka.nixservices/misc/canto-daemon.nixservices/misc/confd.nixservices/misc/devmon.nixservices/misc/gitit.nixservices/misc/ihaskell.nixservices/misc/mbpfan.nixservices/misc/mediatomb.nixservices/misc/mwlib.nixservices/misc/parsoid.nixservices/misc/plex.nixservices/misc/ripple-rest.nixservices/misc/ripple-data-api.nixservices/misc/subsonic.nixservices/misc/sundtek.nixservices/monitoring/cadvisor.nixservices/monitoring/das_watchdog.nixservices/monitoring/grafana.nixservices/monitoring/riemann-tools.nixservices/monitoring/teamviewer.nixservices/network-filesystems/u9fs.nixservices/networking/aiccu.nixservices/networking/asterisk.nixservices/networking/bird.nixservices/networking/charybdis.nixservices/networking/docker-registry-server.nixservices/networking/fan.nixservices/networking/firefox/sync-server.nixservices/networking/gateone.nixservices/networking/heyefi.nixservices/networking/i2p.nixservices/networking/lambdabot.nixservices/networking/mstpd.nixservices/networking/nix-serve.nixservices/networking/nylon.nixservices/networking/racoon.nixservices/networking/skydns.nixservices/networking/shout.nixservices/networking/softether.nixservices/networking/sslh.nixservices/networking/tinc.nixservices/networking/tlsdated.nixservices/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nixservices/networking/tvheadend.nixservices/networking/zerotierone.nixservices/scheduling/marathon.nixservices/security/fprintd.nixservices/security/hologram.nixservices/security/munge.nixservices/system/cloud-init.nixservices/web-servers/shellinabox.nixservices/web-servers/uwsgi.nixservices/x11/unclutter.nixservices/x11/display-managers/sddm.nixsystem/boot/coredump.nixsystem/boot/loader/loader.nixsystem/boot/loader/generic-extlinux-compatiblesystem/boot/networkd.nixsystem/boot/resolved.nixsystem/boot/timesyncd.nixtasks/filesystems/exfat.nixtasks/filesystems/ntfs.nixtasks/filesystems/vboxsf.nixvirtualisation/virtualbox-host.nixvirtualisation/vmware-guest.nixvirtualisation/xen-dom0.nixWhen upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
sshd no longer supports DSA and ECDSA
host keys by default. If you have existing systems with such host keys
and want to continue to use them, please set
system.stateVersion = "14.12";
The new option ensures that
certain configuration changes that could break existing systems (such
as the sshd host key setting) will maintain
compatibility with the specified NixOS release. NixOps sets the state
version of existing deployments automatically.cron is no longer enabled by
default, unless you have a non-empty
. To force
cron to be enabled, set
.Nix now requires binary caches to be cryptographically
signed. If you have unsigned binary caches that you want to continue
to use, you should set .Steam now doesn't need root rights to work. Instead of using
*-steam-chrootenv, you should now just run steam.
steamChrootEnv package was renamed to steam,
and old steam package -- to steamOriginal.
CMPlayer has been renamed to bomi upstream. Package
cmplayer was accordingly renamed to
bomiAtom Shell has been renamed to Electron upstream. Package atom-shell
was accordingly renamed to electronElm is not released on Hackage anymore. You should now use elmPackages.elm
which contains the latest Elm platform.The CUPS printing service has been updated to version
2.0.2. Furthermore its systemd service has been
renamed to cups.service.Local printers are no longer shared or advertised by
default. This behavior can be changed by enabling
or
respectively.
The VirtualBox host and guest options have been named more
consistently. They can now found in
instead of
and
instead of
.
Also, there now is support for the vboxsf file
system using the configuration
attribute. An example of how this can be used in a configuration:
fileSystems."/shiny" = {
device = "myshinysharedfolder";
fsType = "vboxsf";
};
"nix-env -qa" no longer discovers
Haskell packages by name. The only packages visible in the global
scope are ghc, cabal-install,
and stack, but all other packages are hidden. The
reason for this inconvenience is the sheer size of the Haskell
package set. Name-based lookups are expensive, and most
nix-env -qa operations would become much slower
if we'd add the entire Hackage database into the top level attribute
set. Instead, the list of Haskell packages can be displayed by
running:
nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A haskellPackages
Executable programs written in Haskell can be installed with:
nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA haskellPackages.pandoc
Installing Haskell libraries this way, however, is no
longer supported. See the next item for more details.
Previous versions of NixOS came with a feature called
ghc-wrapper, a small script that allowed GHC to
transparently pick up on libraries installed in the user's profile. This
feature has been deprecated; ghc-wrapper was removed
from the distribution. The proper way to register Haskell libraries with
the compiler now is the haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages
function. The User's
Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure provides more information about
this subject.
All Haskell builds that have been generated with version 1.x of
the cabal2nix utility are now invalid and need
to be re-generated with a current version of
cabal2nix to function. The most recent version
of this tool can be installed by running
nix-env -i cabal2nix.
The haskellPackages set in Nixpkgs used to have a
function attribute called extension that users
could override in their ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix
files to configure additional attributes, etc. That function still
exists, but it's now called overrides.
The OpenBLAS library has been updated to version
0.2.14. Support for the
x86_64-darwin platform was added. Dynamic
architecture detection was enabled; OpenBLAS now selects
microarchitecture-optimized routines at runtime, so optimal
performance is achieved without the need to rebuild OpenBLAS
locally. OpenBLAS has replaced ATLAS in most packages which use an
optimized BLAS or LAPACK implementation.
The phpfpm is now using the default PHP version
(pkgs.php) instead of PHP 5.4 (pkgs.php54).
The locate service no longer indexes the Nix store
by default, preventing packages with potentially numerous versions from
cluttering the output. Indexing the store can be activated by setting
.
The Nix expression search path (NIX_PATH) no longer
contains /etc/nixos/nixpkgs by default. You
can override NIX_PATH by setting
.
Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer receives
security updates from upstream).
Any use of module arguments such as pkgs to access
library functions, or to define imports attributes
will now lead to an infinite loop at the time of the evaluation.
In case of an infinite loop, use the --show-trace
command line argument and read the line just above the error message.
$ nixos-rebuild build --show-trace
…
while evaluating the module argument `pkgs' in "/etc/nixos/my-module.nix":
infinite recursion encountered
Any use of pkgs.lib, should be replaced by
lib, after adding it as argument of the module. The
following module
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
{
options = {
foo = mkOption { … };
};
config = mkIf config.foo { … };
}
should be modified to look like:
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
with lib;
{
options = {
foo = mkOption { option declaration };
};
config = mkIf config.foo { option definition };
}
When pkgs is used to download other projects to
import their modules, and only in such cases, it should be replaced by
(import <nixpkgs> {}). The following module
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
let
myProject = pkgs.fetchurl {
src = url;
sha256 = hash;
};
in
{
imports = [ "${myProject}/module.nix" ];
}
should be modified to look like:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
let
myProject = (import <nixpkgs> {}).fetchurl {
src = url;
sha256 = hash;
};
in
{
imports = [ "${myProject}/module.nix" ];
}
Other notable improvements:
The nixos and nixpkgs channels were unified,
so one can use nix-env -iA nixos.bash
instead of nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.bash.
See the commit for details.
Users running an SSH server who worry about the quality of their
/etc/ssh/moduli file with respect to the
vulnerabilities
discovered in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange can now
replace OpenSSH's default version with one they generated
themselves using the new
option.
A newly packaged TeX Live 2015 is provided in pkgs.texlive,
split into 6500 nix packages. For basic user documentation see
the source.
Beware of an issue when installing a too large package set.
The plan is to deprecate and maybe delete the original TeX packages
until the next release.
on all Python interpreters
is now available for nix-shell interoperability.