[Nix-dev] 16.09 beta released

[Oliver Charles]

I'm not having any luck here. Mine freezes during init with both unfree ATI
drivers and the open source drivers :/ haven't had a chance to look further
yet though I'm afraid, but it's unusable for me.

Ollie

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, 9:30 a.m. Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Domen,
>
> so far, everything is working for me.
>
> Would be nice to add news on nixos.org page (last news is about nixops
> 1.4 release, and previous about nixos 16.03)
>
> 2016-09-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:
>
>> 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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>>
>
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