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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml index 7ead450e7b8..56d08bf1c2d 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml @@ -70,6 +70,25 @@ following incompatible changes:</para> </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Previous versions of Nixpkgs had support for all versions of the LTS + Haskell package set. That support has been dropped. The previously provided + <literal>haskell.packages.lts-x_y</literal> package sets still exist in + name to aviod breaking user code, but these package sets don't actually + contain the versions mandated by the corresponding LTS release. Instead, + our package set it loosely based on the latest available LTS release, i.e. + LTS 7.x at the time of this writing. New releases of NixOS and Nixpkgs will + drop those old names entirely. <link + xlink:href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-June/020585.html">The + motivation for this change</link> has been discussed at length on the + <literal>nix-dev</literal> mailing list and in <link + xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14897">Github issue + #14897</link>. Development strategies for Haskell hackers who want to rely + on Nix and NixOS have been described in <link + xlink:href="http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-June/020642.html">another + nix-dev article</link>.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Shell aliases for systemd sub-commands <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15598">were dropped</link>: <command>start</command>, <command>stop</command>, |