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author | Jonathan Ringer <jonringer117@gmail.com> | 2021-05-06 22:26:54 -0700 |
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committer | Jonathan Ringer <jonringer@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-05-31 19:22:35 -0700 |
commit | d823c2409411681584f5940f4a5f44b2b4fe51df (patch) | |
tree | 886b8b3ed37484d3e61f0bf47080a7c7e66acd8a /nixos | |
parent | de7e0f7dee2deeda620e0c940362e2e63ad5f6bf (diff) | |
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nixos/release-notes: Initial grooming of release notes
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml index 489d74e1aef..6873b080c72 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2105.xml @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ xml:id="sec-release-21.05"> <title>Release 21.05 (“Okapi”, 2021.05/??)</title> + <para> + Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11. + </para> <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" @@ -18,18 +21,80 @@ </para> <itemizedlist> + <listitem> <para> - Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11. + Core version changes: </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + gcc: 9.3.0 -> 10.3.0 + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + glibc: 2.30 -> 2.32 + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + default linux: 5.4 -> 5.10, all supported kernels available + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + mesa: 20.1.7 -> 21.0.1 + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The default Linux kernel was updated to the 5.10 LTS series, coming from the 5.4 LTS series.</para> <para>The <package>linux_latest</package> kernel was updated to the 5.12 series. It currently is not officially supported for use with the zfs filesystem. If you use zfs, you should use a different kernel version (either the LTS kernel, or track a specific one). </para> + <para> + Desktop Environments: + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Gnome: 3.36 -> 3.40, see its <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.40/">release notes</link> + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Plasma5: 5.18.5 -> 5.21.3 + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + kdeApplications: 20.08.1 -> 20.12.3 + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + cinnamon: 4.6 -> 4.8.1 + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </listitem> + <listitem> - <para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para> + <para> + Programming Languages and Frameworks: + </para> + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Python optimizations were disabled again. Builds with optimizations enabled + are not reproducible. Optimizations can now be enabled with an option. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> </listitem> + <listitem> <para> <link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link> 3.8 was @@ -194,6 +259,10 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para> If you are using <option>services.udev.extraRules</option> to assign custom names to network interfaces, this may stop working due to a change |