[Nix-dev] heise.de mentioned the NixOS 17.03 release! (was: NixOS 17.03 'Gorilla' Released)

[Matthias Beyer]

NixOS 17.03 was mentioned by heise.de:

    https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mit-alternativer-Paketverwaltung-Linux-Distribution-NixOS-17-03-erschienen-3672948.html

Awesome work you all! I love to be part of this community!

On 03-04-2017 10:11:56, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> Great work!
> 
> On 31 March 2017 at 16:29, Robin Gloster <robin at loc-com.de> wrote:
> 
> > Dear community,
> >
> > I'm proud to announce the 7th NixOS stable release 17.03 named
> > "Gorilla".
> >
> > With over 12479 (last release: 13283) commits from 625 (last release
> > 554) contributors the release brings a few highlights:
> >
> > * Nixpkgs is now extensible through overlays. See the Nixpkgs manual for
> >   more information.
> >
> > * This release is based on Glibc 2.25, GCC 5.4.0 and systemd 232. The
> >   default Linux kernel is 4.9 and Nix is at 1.11.8.
> >
> > * The default desktop environment now is KDE's Plasma 5. KDE 4 has been
> >   removed
> >
> > * The setuid wrapper functionality now supports setting capabilities.
> >
> > * X.org server uses branch 1.19. Due to ABI incompatibilities,
> >   ati_unfree keeps forcing 1.17 and amdgpu-pro starts forcing 1.18.
> >
> > * Cross compilation has been rewritten. See the nixpkgs manual for
> >   details. The most obvious breaking change is that in derivations there
> >   is no .nativeDrv nor .crossDrv and are now cross by default, not
> >   native.
> >
> > * The overridePackages function has been rewritten to be replaced by
> >   overlays
> >
> > * Packages in nixpkgs can be marked as insecure through listed
> >   vulnerabilities. See the Nixpkgs manual for more information.
> >
> > There are two open issues currently:
> >  * gdm crashes on some hardware, using slim to start gnome works, see
> > the github issue for more information:
> >    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/24172
> >  * Firefox e10s tabs crash, see the github issue for more information:
> >    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/24295
> >
> > See release notes for more information about major changes and updates
> > at http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-17.03
> >
> > ISO and VirtualBox images can be downloaded from:
> > http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html
> > (Azure BLOBs and EC2 AMIs will follow)
> >
> > The NixOS manual is at http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/
> >
> > A fresh installation can be done by following "Installation chapter" in
> > the manual:
> >
> > http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installation
> >
> > Upgrading existing NixOS installations:
> >
> >     $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-17.03 nixos
> >     $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
> >
> > Please report issues to our bug tracker:
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues
> >
> > The most active contributors for this release were:
> >     621 commits: Frederik Rietdijk
> >     498 commits: Franz Pletz
> >     379 commits: Vladimír Čunát
> >     377 commits: Thomas Tuegel
> >     324 commits: Joachim Fasting
> >
> > And of course the regular thank you to Eelco Dolstra for his tireless
> > work on NixOS, Nix and all the projects around that. I'd like to thank
> > Domen Kožar for his help on getting this release out smoothly and his
> > regular work on NixOS, the security team for taking a lot of workload
> > off the release manager by always making sure to keep our systems and
> > packages secure and also Mayflower for allowing me to work on NixOS a
> > lot in working hours.
> >
> > Also I'd like to start a discussion if we want to start rotating the
> > release manager for every release or maybe have two release managers
> > each rotating after two releases, so you always have one who has
> > managed one release. Any opinions? I'm not opposed to doing it again
> > but it needs quite some time I could also spend on other work.
> >
> > PS: Note that according to our new policy, 16.09 is still supported one
> > month by our security team until the end of April.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Robin
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> >

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