[Nix-dev] 16.09 beta released

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Thanks for coordinating the release Domen!

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, 21:17 Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cheers!
>
> 2016-09-06 21:02 GMT+01:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to announce NixOS 16.09 beta in the name of community.
>>
>> This release will bring two major changes:
>>
>> - multiple outputs, reducing runtime closure size (sometimes even by half)
>> - security hardening flags
>>
>> Please upgrade channels as usual and test:
>>
>>     $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.09 nixos
>>     $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
>>
>> I'd like to point out two serious bugs that you might hit:
>>
>> - dbus will fail to reload, see
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18358
>> - make sure /var/empty doesn't have write permissions set otherwise sshd
>> won't start, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18365
>>
>> If you'd like to help out, test and check the github bug tracker under
>> 16.09 milestone.
>>
>> As usual, we're working on getting build failures down:
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18209
>>
>> Final is set to be release on 29th September.
>>
>> I've also finally put together a PR that documents the release process,
>> any feeback is welcome (it's still far from perfect):
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18062
>>
>> PS: 16.09-small channel will be also created once container tests are
>> fixed
>>
>> Domen
>>
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