[Nix-dev] NixOS 17.03 'Gorilla' Released

[Tomasz Czyż]

Robin, thank you for your work on this release!

2017-03-31 15:29 GMT+01:00 Robin Gloster <robin at loc-com.de>:

> 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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Tomasz Czyż
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