[Nix-dev] 16.09 beta released

[Domen Kožar]

This release is pretty quiet so far.

I wonder if that means most of things work or do we need a more broader
call of more testing?

Please report back your findings - thanks!

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:51 PM, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>
>>
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