[Nix-dev] 17.03 beta released

[Bas van Dijk]

Great work. I'm upgrading our LumiGuide systems as we speak.

On 3 March 2017 at 14:19, Robin Gloster <robin at loc-com.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce NixOS 17.03 "Gorilla" beta in the name of
> community.
>
> The largest changes are:
>
>   - Nixpkgs is now extensible through overlays. See
>     https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21243
>
>   - 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.
>
>   - PHP now defaults to PHP 7.1
>
>   - Packages in nixpkgs can be marked as insecure through listed
>     vulnerabilities.
>
>   - This release is based on Glibc 2.25, GCC 5.4.0, systemd
>     232 and Nix 1.11.7. The default Linux kernel is 4.9.
>
> Please upgrade channels as usual and test:
>
>     $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-17.03 nixos
>     $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
>
> I'd like to point out a serious bug that you might hit:
>
> - - setuid wrappers with the new setcap wrappers have changed their
>   location. Therefore you might need to login again to use setuid
>   binaries or use "nixos-rebuild boot"
>
> If you'd like to help out, test and check the github bug tracker under
> 17.03 milestone.
>
> As usual, we're working on getting build failures down:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23253
>
> Final release is slated to be released on March 30th.
>
> The master branch has been bumped to 17.09 which has been given the
> codename "Hummingbird".
>
> Cheers
> Robin
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