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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1310.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1310.section.xml
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-13.10">
+  <title>Release 13.10 (<quote>Aardvark</quote>, 2013/10/31)</title>
+  <para>
+    This is the first stable release branch of NixOS.
+  </para>
+</section>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1404.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1404.section.xml
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-14.04">
+  <title>Release 14.04 (<quote>Baboon</quote>, 2014/04/30)</title>
+  <para>
+    This is the second stable release branch of NixOS. In addition to
+    numerous new and upgraded packages and modules, this release has the
+    following highlights:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Installation on UEFI systems is now supported. See
+        <xref linkend="sec-installation" /> for details.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Systemd has been updated to version 212, which has
+        <link xlink:href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/NEWS?id=v212">numerous
+        improvements</link>. NixOS now automatically starts systemd user
+        instances when you log in. You can define global user units
+        through the <literal>systemd.unit.*</literal> options.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.19 and GCC 4.8.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.12.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        KDE has been updated to 4.12.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        GNOME 3.10 experimental support has been added.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Nix has been updated to 1.7
+        (<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.7">details</link>).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        NixOS now supports fully declarative management of users and
+        groups. If you set <literal>users.mutableUsers</literal> to
+        <literal>false</literal>, then the contents of
+        <literal>/etc/passwd</literal> and <literal>/etc/group</literal>
+        will be
+        <link xlink:href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa02/tech/full_papers/traugott/traugott_html/">congruent</link>
+        to your NixOS configuration. For instance, if you remove a user
+        from <literal>users.extraUsers</literal> and run
+        <literal>nixos-rebuild</literal>, the user account will cease to
+        exist. Also, imperative commands for managing users and groups,
+        such as <literal>useradd</literal>, are no longer available. If
+        <literal>users.mutableUsers</literal> is <literal>true</literal>
+        (the default), then behaviour is unchanged from NixOS 13.10.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        NixOS now has basic container support, meaning you can easily
+        run a NixOS instance as a container in a NixOS host system.
+        These containers are suitable for testing and experimentation
+        but not production use, since they’re not fully isolated from
+        the host. See <xref linkend="ch-containers" /> for details.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Systemd units provided by packages can now be overridden from
+        the NixOS configuration. For instance, if a package
+        <literal>foo</literal> provides systemd units, you can say:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.packages = [ pkgs.foo ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        to enable those units. You can then set or override unit options
+        in the usual way, e.g.
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.services.foo.wantedBy = [ &quot;multi-user.target&quot; ];
+  systemd.services.foo.serviceConfig.MemoryLimit = &quot;512M&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+        following incompatible changes:
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Nixpkgs no longer exposes unfree packages by default. If your
+        NixOS configuration requires unfree packages from Nixpkgs, you
+        need to enable support for them explicitly by setting:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        Otherwise, you get an error message such as:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+    error: package ‘nvidia-x11-331.49-3.12.17’ in ‘…/nvidia-x11/default.nix:56’
+      has an unfree license, refusing to evaluate
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The Adobe Flash player is no longer enabled by default in the
+        Firefox and Chromium wrappers. To enable it, you must set:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
+  nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableAdobeFlash = true; # for Firefox
+  nixpkgs.config.chromium.enableAdobeFlash = true; # for Chromium
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The firewall is now enabled by default. If you don’t want this,
+        you need to disable it explicitly:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  networking.firewall.enable = false;
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The option <literal>boot.loader.grub.memtest86</literal> has
+        been renamed to
+        <literal>boot.loader.grub.memtest86.enable</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>mysql55</literal> service has been merged into the
+        <literal>mysql</literal> service, which no longer sets a default
+        for the option <literal>services.mysql.package</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Package variants are now differentiated by suffixing the name,
+        rather than the version. For instance,
+        <literal>sqlite-3.8.4.3-interactive</literal> is now called
+        <literal>sqlite-interactive-3.8.4.3</literal>. This ensures that
+        <literal>nix-env -i sqlite</literal> is unambiguous, and that
+        <literal>nix-env -u</literal> won’t <quote>upgrade</quote>
+        <literal>sqlite</literal> to
+        <literal>sqlite-interactive</literal> or vice versa. Notably,
+        this change affects the Firefox wrapper (which provides
+        plugins), as it is now called
+        <literal>firefox-wrapper</literal>. So when using
+        <literal>nix-env</literal>, you should do
+        <literal>nix-env -e firefox; nix-env -i firefox-wrapper</literal>
+        if you want to keep using the wrapper. This change does not
+        affect declarative package management, since attribute names
+        like <literal>pkgs.firefoxWrapper</literal> were already
+        unambiguous.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The symlink <literal>/etc/ca-bundle.crt</literal> is gone.
+        Programs should instead use the environment variable
+        <literal>OPENSSL_X509_CERT_FILE</literal> (which points to
+        <literal>/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt</literal>).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1412.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1412.section.xml
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-14.12">
+  <title>Release 14.12 (<quote>Caterpillar</quote>, 2014/12/30)</title>
+  <para>
+    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
+    the following highlights:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Systemd has been updated to version 217, which has numerous
+        <link xlink:href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024662.html">improvements.</link>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <link xlink:href="https://www.mail-archive.com/nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl/msg13957.html">Nix
+        has been updated to 1.8.</link>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.20.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        KDE has been updated to 4.14.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.14.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        If <literal>users.mutableUsers</literal> is enabled (the
+        default), changes made to the declaration of a user or group
+        will be correctly realised when running
+        <literal>nixos-rebuild</literal>. For instance, removing a user
+        specification from <literal>configuration.nix</literal> will
+        cause the actual user account to be deleted. If
+        <literal>users.mutableUsers</literal> is disabled, it is no
+        longer necessary to specify UIDs or GIDs; if omitted, they are
+        allocated dynamically.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    Following new services were added since the last release:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>atftpd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>bosun</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>bspwm</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>chronos</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>collectd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>consul</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>cpuminer-cryptonight</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>crashplan</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>dnscrypt-proxy</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>docker-registry</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>docker</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>etcd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>fail2ban</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>fcgiwrap</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>fleet</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>fluxbox</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gdm</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>geoclue2</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gitlab</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gitolite</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gnome3.gnome-documents</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gnome3.gnome-online-miners</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gnome3.gvfs</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>gnome3.seahorse</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>hbase</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>i2pd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>influxdb</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>kubernetes</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>liquidsoap</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>lxc</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>mailpile</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>mesos</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>mlmmj</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>monetdb</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>mopidy</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>neo4j</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>nsd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>openntpd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>opentsdb</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>openvswitch</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>parallels-guest</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>peerflix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>phd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>polipo</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>prosody</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>radicale</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>redmine</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>riemann</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>scollector</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>seeks</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>siproxd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>strongswan</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>tcsd</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>teamspeak3</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>thermald</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>torque/mrom</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>torque/server</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>uhub</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>unifi</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>znc</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>zookeeper</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+    following incompatible changes:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If you use the
+        <literal>extraConfig</literal> option to pass literal Apache
+        configuration text, you may need to update it — see
+        <link xlink:href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html">Apache’s
+        documentation</link> for details. If you wish to continue to use
+        httpd 2.2, add the following line to your NixOS configuration:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        PHP 5.3 has been removed because it is no longer supported by
+        the PHP project. A
+        <link xlink:href="http://php.net/migration54">migration
+        guide</link> is available.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The host side of a container virtual Ethernet pair is now called
+        <literal>ve-container-name</literal> rather than
+        <literal>c-container-name</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        GNOME 3.10 support has been dropped. The default GNOME version
+        is now 3.12.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        VirtualBox has been upgraded to 4.3.20 release. Users may be
+        required to run <literal>rm -rf /tmp/.vbox*</literal>. The line
+        <literal>imports = [ &lt;nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix&gt; ]</literal>
+        is no longer necessary, use
+        <literal>services.virtualboxHost.enable = true</literal>
+        instead.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Also, hardening mode is now enabled by default, which means that
+        unless you want to use USB support, you no longer need to be a
+        member of the <literal>vboxusers</literal> group.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Chromium has been updated to 39.0.2171.65.
+        <literal>enablePepperPDF</literal> is now enabled by default.
+        <literal>chromium*Wrapper</literal> packages no longer exist,
+        because upstream removed NSAPI support.
+        <literal>chromium-stable</literal> has been renamed to
+        <literal>chromium</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Python packaging documentation is now part of nixpkgs manual. To
+        override the python packages available to a custom python you
+        now use <literal>pkgs.pythonFull.buildEnv.override</literal>
+        instead of <literal>pkgs.pythonFull.override</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>boot.resumeDevice = &quot;8:6&quot;</literal> is no
+        longer supported. Most users will want to leave it undefined,
+        which takes the swap partitions automatically. There is an
+        evaluation assertion to ensure that the string starts with a
+        slash.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The system-wide default timezone for NixOS installations changed
+        from <literal>CET</literal> to <literal>UTC</literal>. To choose
+        a different timezone for your system, configure
+        <literal>time.timeZone</literal> in
+        <literal>configuration.nix</literal>. A fairly complete list of
+        possible values for that setting is available at
+        <link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones</link>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        GNU screen has been updated to 4.2.1, which breaks the ability
+        to connect to sessions created by older versions of screen.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The Intel GPU driver was updated to the 3.x prerelease version
+        (used by most distributions) and supports DRI3 now.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-15.09">
+  <title>Release 15.09 (<quote>Dingo</quote>, 2015/09/30)</title>
+  <para>
+    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
+    the following highlights:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <link xlink:href="http://haskell.org/">Haskell</link>
+        packages infrastructure has been re-designed from the ground up
+        (&quot;Haskell NG&quot;). NixOS now distributes the latest
+        version of every single package registered on
+        <link xlink:href="http://hackage.haskell.org/">Hackage</link> --
+        well in excess of 8,000 Haskell packages. Detailed instructions
+        on how to use that infrastructure can be found in the
+        <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#users-guide-to-the-haskell-infrastructure">User's
+        Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure</link>. Users migrating from
+        an earlier release may find helpful information below, in the
+        list of backwards-incompatible changes. Furthermore, we
+        distribute 51(!) additional Haskell package sets that provide
+        every single <link xlink:href="http://www.stackage.org/">LTS
+        Haskell</link> release since version 0.0 as well as the most
+        recent <link xlink:href="http://www.stackage.org/">Stackage
+        Nightly</link> snapshot. The announcement
+        <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-September/018138.html">&quot;Full
+        Stackage Support in Nixpkgs&quot;</link> gives additional
+        details.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Nix has been updated to version 1.10, which among other
+        improvements enables cryptographic signatures on binary caches
+        for improved security.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        You can now keep your NixOS system up to date automatically by
+        setting
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
+}
+</programlisting>
+  <para>
+    This will cause the system to periodically check for updates in your
+    current channel and run <literal>nixos-rebuild</literal>.
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        This release is based on Glibc 2.21, GCC 4.9 and Linux 3.18.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        GNOME has been upgraded to 3.16.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Xfce has been upgraded to 4.12.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        KDE 5 has been upgraded to KDE Frameworks 5.10, Plasma 5.3.2 and
+        Applications 15.04.3. KDE 4 has been updated to kdelibs-4.14.10.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        E19 has been upgraded to 0.16.8.15.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    The following new services were added since the last release:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/mail/exim.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/apache-kafka.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/canto-daemon.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/confd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/devmon.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/gitit.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/ihaskell.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/mbpfan.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/mediatomb.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/mwlib.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/parsoid.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/plex.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/ripple-rest.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/ripple-data-api.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/subsonic.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/sundtek.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/das_watchdog.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/grafana.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/riemann-tools.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/teamviewer.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/network-filesystems/u9fs.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/aiccu.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/asterisk.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/bird.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/charybdis.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/docker-registry-server.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/fan.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/firefox/sync-server.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/gateone.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/heyefi.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/i2p.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/lambdabot.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/mstpd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/nix-serve.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/nylon.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/racoon.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/skydns.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/shout.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/softether.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/sslh.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/tinc.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/tlsdated.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/tvheadend.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/zerotierone.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/scheduling/marathon.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/security/fprintd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/security/hologram.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/security/munge.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/system/cloud-init.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/web-servers/shellinabox.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/web-servers/uwsgi.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/x11/unclutter.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/x11/display-managers/sddm.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/coredump.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/loader/loader.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/loader/generic-extlinux-compatible</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/networkd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/resolved.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/timesyncd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>tasks/filesystems/exfat.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>tasks/filesystems/ntfs.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>tasks/filesystems/vboxsf.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>virtualisation/virtualbox-host.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>virtualisation/vmware-guest.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>virtualisation/xen-dom0.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+    following incompatible changes:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>sshd</literal> no longer supports DSA and ECDSA host
+        keys by default. If you have existing systems with such host
+        keys and want to continue to use them, please set
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  system.stateVersion = &quot;14.12&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+  <para>
+    The new option <literal>system.stateVersion</literal> ensures that
+    certain configuration changes that could break existing systems
+    (such as the <literal>sshd</literal> host key setting) will maintain
+    compatibility with the specified NixOS release. NixOps sets the
+    state version of existing deployments automatically.
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>cron</literal> is no longer enabled by default, unless
+        you have a non-empty
+        <literal>services.cron.systemCronJobs</literal>. To force
+        <literal>cron</literal> to be enabled, set
+        <literal>services.cron.enable = true</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Nix now requires binary caches to be cryptographically signed.
+        If you have unsigned binary caches that you want to continue to
+        use, you should set
+        <literal>nix.requireSignedBinaryCaches = false</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Steam now doesn't need root rights to work. Instead of using
+        <literal>*-steam-chrootenv</literal>, you should now just run
+        <literal>steam</literal>. <literal>steamChrootEnv</literal>
+        package was renamed to <literal>steam</literal>, and old
+        <literal>steam</literal> package -- to
+        <literal>steamOriginal</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        CMPlayer has been renamed to bomi upstream. Package
+        <literal>cmplayer</literal> was accordingly renamed to
+        <literal>bomi</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Atom Shell has been renamed to Electron upstream. Package
+        <literal>atom-shell</literal> was accordingly renamed to
+        <literal>electron</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Elm is not released on Hackage anymore. You should now use
+        <literal>elmPackages.elm</literal> which contains the latest Elm
+        platform.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The CUPS printing service has been updated to version
+        <literal>2.0.2</literal>. Furthermore its systemd service has
+        been renamed to <literal>cups.service</literal>.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Local printers are no longer shared or advertised by default.
+        This behavior can be changed by enabling
+        <literal>services.printing.defaultShared</literal> or
+        <literal>services.printing.browsing</literal> respectively.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The VirtualBox host and guest options have been named more
+        consistently. They can now found in
+        <literal>virtualisation.virtualbox.host.*</literal> instead of
+        <literal>services.virtualboxHost.*</literal> and
+        <literal>virtualisation.virtualbox.guest.*</literal> instead of
+        <literal>services.virtualboxGuest.*</literal>.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Also, there now is support for the <literal>vboxsf</literal>
+        file system using the <literal>fileSystems</literal>
+        configuration attribute. An example of how this can be used in a
+        configuration:
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  fileSystems.&quot;/shiny&quot; = {
+    device = &quot;myshinysharedfolder&quot;;
+    fsType = &quot;vboxsf&quot;;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        &quot;<literal>nix-env -qa</literal>&quot; no longer discovers
+        Haskell packages by name. The only packages visible in the
+        global scope are <literal>ghc</literal>,
+        <literal>cabal-install</literal>, and <literal>stack</literal>,
+        but all other packages are hidden. The reason for this
+        inconvenience is the sheer size of the Haskell package set.
+        Name-based lookups are expensive, and most
+        <literal>nix-env -qa</literal> operations would become much
+        slower if we'd add the entire Hackage database into the top
+        level attribute set. Instead, the list of Haskell packages can
+        be displayed by running:
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <programlisting>
+nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -qaP -A haskellPackages
+</programlisting>
+  <para>
+    Executable programs written in Haskell can be installed with:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -iA haskellPackages.pandoc
+</programlisting>
+  <para>
+    Installing Haskell <emphasis>libraries</emphasis> this way, however,
+    is no longer supported. See the next item for more details.
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Previous versions of NixOS came with a feature called
+        <literal>ghc-wrapper</literal>, a small script that allowed GHC
+        to transparently pick up on libraries installed in the user's
+        profile. This feature has been deprecated;
+        <literal>ghc-wrapper</literal> was removed from the
+        distribution. The proper way to register Haskell libraries with
+        the compiler now is the
+        <literal>haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages</literal> function. The
+        <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#users-guide-to-the-haskell-infrastructure">User's
+        Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure</link> provides more
+        information about this subject.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        All Haskell builds that have been generated with version 1.x of
+        the <literal>cabal2nix</literal> utility are now invalid and
+        need to be re-generated with a current version of
+        <literal>cabal2nix</literal> to function. The most recent
+        version of this tool can be installed by running
+        <literal>nix-env -i cabal2nix</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>haskellPackages</literal> set in Nixpkgs used to
+        have a function attribute called <literal>extension</literal>
+        that users could override in their
+        <literal>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</literal> files to configure
+        additional attributes, etc. That function still exists, but it's
+        now called <literal>overrides</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The OpenBLAS library has been updated to version
+        <literal>0.2.14</literal>. Support for the
+        <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal> platform was added. Dynamic
+        architecture detection was enabled; OpenBLAS now selects
+        microarchitecture-optimized routines at runtime, so optimal
+        performance is achieved without the need to rebuild OpenBLAS
+        locally. OpenBLAS has replaced ATLAS in most packages which use
+        an optimized BLAS or LAPACK implementation.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>phpfpm</literal> is now using the default PHP
+        version (<literal>pkgs.php</literal>) instead of PHP 5.4
+        (<literal>pkgs.php54</literal>).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>locate</literal> service no longer indexes the Nix
+        store by default, preventing packages with potentially numerous
+        versions from cluttering the output. Indexing the store can be
+        activated by setting
+        <literal>services.locate.includeStore = true</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The Nix expression search path (<literal>NIX_PATH</literal>) no
+        longer contains <literal>/etc/nixos/nixpkgs</literal> by
+        default. You can override <literal>NIX_PATH</literal> by setting
+        <literal>nix.nixPath</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer receives
+        security updates from upstream).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Any use of module arguments such as <literal>pkgs</literal> to
+        access library functions, or to define
+        <literal>imports</literal> attributes will now lead to an
+        infinite loop at the time of the evaluation.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        In case of an infinite loop, use the
+        <literal>--show-trace</literal> command line argument and read
+        the line just above the error message.
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+$ nixos-rebuild build --show-trace
+…
+while evaluating the module argument `pkgs' in &quot;/etc/nixos/my-module.nix&quot;:
+infinite recursion encountered
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        Any use of <literal>pkgs.lib</literal>, should be replaced by
+        <literal>lib</literal>, after adding it as argument of the
+        module. The following module
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with pkgs.lib;
+
+{
+  options = {
+    foo = mkOption { … };
+  };
+  config = mkIf config.foo { … };
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        should be modified to look like:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+{
+  options = {
+    foo = mkOption { option declaration };
+  };
+  config = mkIf config.foo { option definition };
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        When <literal>pkgs</literal> is used to download other projects
+        to import their modules, and only in such cases, it should be
+        replaced by <literal>(import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {})</literal>. The
+        following module
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  myProject = pkgs.fetchurl {
+    src = url;
+    sha256 = hash;
+  };
+in
+
+{
+  imports = [ &quot;${myProject}/module.nix&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        should be modified to look like:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  myProject = (import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {}).fetchurl {
+    src = url;
+    sha256 = hash;
+  };
+in
+
+{
+  imports = [ &quot;${myProject}/module.nix&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    Other notable improvements:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The nixos and nixpkgs channels were unified, so one
+        <emphasis>can</emphasis> use
+        <literal>nix-env -iA nixos.bash</literal> instead of
+        <literal>nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.bash</literal>. See
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/2cd7c1f198">the
+        commit</link> for details.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Users running an SSH server who worry about the quality of their
+        <literal>/etc/ssh/moduli</literal> file with respect to the
+        <link xlink:href="https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html">vulnerabilities
+        discovered in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange</link> can now
+        replace OpenSSH's default version with one they generated
+        themselves using the new
+        <literal>services.openssh.moduliFile</literal> option.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        A newly packaged TeX Live 2015 is provided in
+        <literal>pkgs.texlive</literal>, split into 6500 nix packages.
+        For basic user documentation see
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-15.09/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix#L1">the
+        source</link>. Beware of
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9757">an
+        issue</link> when installing a too large package set. The plan
+        is to deprecate and maybe delete the original TeX packages until
+        the next release.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>buildEnv.env</literal> on all Python interpreters is
+        now available for nix-shell interoperability.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-16.03">
+  <title>Release 16.03 (<quote>Emu</quote>, 2016/03/31)</title>
+  <para>
+    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
+    the following highlights:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Systemd 229, bringing
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v229/NEWS">numerous
+        improvements</link> over 217.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Linux 4.4 (was 3.18).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        GCC 5.3 (was 4.9). Note that GCC 5
+        <link xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html">changes
+        the C++ ABI in an incompatible way</link>; this may cause
+        problems if you try to link objects compiled with different
+        versions of GCC.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Glibc 2.23 (was 2.21).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Binutils 2.26 (was 2.23.1). See #909
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Improved support for ensuring
+        <link xlink:href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">bitwise
+        reproducible builds</link>. For example,
+        <literal>stdenv</literal> now sets the environment variable
+        <literal>SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</literal> to a deterministic value,
+        and Nix has
+        <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.11">gained
+        an option</link> to repeat a build a number of times to test
+        determinism. An ongoing project, the goal of exact
+        reproducibility is to allow binaries to be verified
+        independently (e.g., a user might only trust binaries that
+        appear in three independent binary caches).
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Perl 5.22.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    The following new services were added since the last release:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/longview.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>hardware/video/webcam/facetimehd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>i18n/input-method/default.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>i18n/input-method/fcitx.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>i18n/input-method/ibus.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>i18n/input-method/nabi.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>i18n/input-method/uim.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>programs/fish.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>security/acme.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>security/audit.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>security/oath.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/hardware/irqbalance.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/mail/dspam.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/mail/opendkim.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/mail/postsrsd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/mail/rspamd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/mail/rmilter.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/autofs.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/bepasty.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/calibre-server.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/cfdyndns.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/gammu-smsd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/mathics.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/matrix-synapse.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/misc/octoprint.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/hdaps.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/heapster.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/monitoring/longview.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/network-filesystems/netatalk.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/network-filesystems/xtreemfs.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/autossh.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/dnschain.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/gale.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/miniupnpd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/namecoind.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/ostinato.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/pdnsd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/shairport-sync.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/networking/supplicant.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/search/kibana.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/security/haka.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/security/physlock.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/web-apps/pump.io.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/x11/hardware/libinput.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services/x11/window-managers/windowlab.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/initrd-network.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/initrd-ssh.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/loader/loader.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/networkd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>system/boot/resolved.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>virtualisation/lxd.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>virtualisation/rkt.nix</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+    following incompatible changes:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        We no longer produce graphical ISO images and VirtualBox images
+        for <literal>i686-linux</literal>. A minimal ISO image is still
+        provided.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Firefox and similar browsers are now <emphasis>wrapped by
+        default</emphasis>. The package and attribute names are plain
+        <literal>firefox</literal> or <literal>midori</literal>, etc.
+        Backward-compatibility attributes were set up, but note that
+        <literal>nix-env -u</literal> will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+        update your current <literal>firefox-with-plugins</literal>; you
+        have to uninstall it and install <literal>firefox</literal>
+        instead.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>wmiiSnap</literal> has been replaced with
+        <literal>wmii_hg</literal>, but
+        <literal>services.xserver.windowManager.wmii.enable</literal>
+        has been updated respectively so this only affects you if you
+        have explicitly installed <literal>wmiiSnap</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>jobs</literal> NixOS option has been removed. It served
+        as compatibility layer between Upstart jobs and SystemD
+        services. All services have been rewritten to use
+        <literal>systemd.services</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>wmiimenu</literal> is removed, as it has been removed
+        by the developers upstream. Use <literal>wimenu</literal> from
+        the <literal>wmii-hg</literal> package.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Gitit is no longer automatically added to the module list in
+        NixOS and as such there will not be any manual entries for it.
+        You will need to add an import statement to your NixOS
+        configuration in order to use it, e.g.
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  imports = [ &lt;nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/gitit.nix&gt; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        will include the Gitit service configuration options.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>nginx</literal> does not accept flags for enabling and
+        disabling modules anymore. Instead it accepts
+        <literal>modules</literal> argument, which is a list of modules
+        to be built in. All modules now reside in
+        <literal>nginxModules</literal> set. Example configuration:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+nginx.override {
+  modules = [ nginxModules.rtmp nginxModules.dav nginxModules.moreheaders ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>s3sync</literal> is removed, as it hasn't been
+        developed by upstream for 4 years and only runs with ruby 1.8.
+        For an actively-developer alternative look at
+        <literal>tarsnap</literal> and others.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>ruby_1_8</literal> has been removed as it's not
+        supported from upstream anymore and probably contains security
+        issues.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>tidy-html5</literal> package is removed. Upstream only
+        provided <literal>(lib)tidy5</literal> during development, and
+        now they went back to <literal>(lib)tidy</literal> to work as a
+        drop-in replacement of the original package that has been
+        unmaintained for years. You can (still) use the
+        <literal>html-tidy</literal> package, which got updated to a
+        stable release from this new upstream.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>extraDeviceOptions</literal> argument is removed from
+        <literal>bumblebee</literal> package. Instead there are now two
+        separate arguments: <literal>extraNvidiaDeviceOptions</literal>
+        and <literal>extraNouveauDeviceOptions</literal> for setting
+        extra X11 options for nvidia and nouveau drivers, respectively.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>Ctrl+Alt+Backspace</literal> key combination no
+        longer kills the X server by default. There's a new option
+        <literal>services.xserver.enableCtrlAltBackspace</literal>
+        allowing to enable the combination again.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>emacsPackagesNg</literal> now contains all packages
+        from the ELPA, MELPA, and MELPA Stable repositories.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Data directory for Postfix MTA server is moved from
+        <literal>/var/postfix</literal> to
+        <literal>/var/lib/postfix</literal>. Old configurations are
+        migrated automatically. <literal>service.postfix</literal>
+        module has also received many improvements, such as correct
+        directories' access rights, new <literal>aliasFiles</literal>
+        and <literal>mapFiles</literal> options and more.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Filesystem options should now be configured as a list of
+        strings, not a comma-separated string. The old style will
+        continue to work, but print a warning, until the 16.09 release.
+        An example of the new style:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  fileSystems.&quot;/example&quot; = {
+    device = &quot;/dev/sdc&quot;;
+    fsType = &quot;btrfs&quot;;
+    options = [ &quot;noatime&quot; &quot;compress=lzo&quot; &quot;space_cache&quot; &quot;autodefrag&quot; ];
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        CUPS, installed by <literal>services.printing</literal> module,
+        now has its data directory in <literal>/var/lib/cups</literal>.
+        Old configurations from <literal>/etc/cups</literal> are moved
+        there automatically, but there might be problems. Also
+        configuration options
+        <literal>services.printing.cupsdConf</literal> and
+        <literal>services.printing.cupsdFilesConf</literal> were removed
+        because they had been allowing one to override configuration
+        variables required for CUPS to work at all on NixOS. For most
+        use cases, <literal>services.printing.extraConf</literal> and
+        new option <literal>services.printing.extraFilesConf</literal>
+        should be enough; if you encounter a situation when they are
+        not, please file a bug.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        There are also Gutenprint improvements; in particular, a new
+        option <literal>services.printing.gutenprint</literal> is added
+        to enable automatic updating of Gutenprint PPMs; it's greatly
+        recommended to enable it instead of adding
+        <literal>gutenprint</literal> to the <literal>drivers</literal>
+        list.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services.xserver.vaapiDrivers</literal> has been
+        removed. Use
+        <literal>hardware.opengl.extraPackages{,32}</literal> instead.
+        You can also specify VDPAU drivers there.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>programs.ibus</literal> moved to
+        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.ibus</literal>. The option
+        <literal>programs.ibus.plugins</literal> changed to
+        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.ibus.engines</literal> and the option
+        to enable ibus changed from
+        <literal>programs.ibus.enable</literal> to
+        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.enabled</literal>.
+        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.enabled</literal> should be set to the
+        used input method name, <literal>&quot;ibus&quot;</literal> for
+        ibus. An example of the new style:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  i18n.inputMethod.enabled = &quot;ibus&quot;;
+  i18n.inputMethod.ibus.engines = with pkgs.ibus-engines; [ anthy mozc ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        That is equivalent to the old version:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  programs.ibus.enable = true;
+  programs.ibus.plugins = with pkgs; [ ibus-anthy mozc ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services.udev.extraRules</literal> option now writes
+        rules to <literal>99-local.rules</literal> instead of
+        <literal>10-local.rules</literal>. This makes all the user rules
+        apply after others, so their results wouldn't be overriden by
+        anything else.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Large parts of the <literal>services.gitlab</literal> module has
+        been been rewritten. There are new configuration options
+        available. The <literal>stateDir</literal> option was renamned
+        to <literal>statePath</literal> and the
+        <literal>satellitesDir</literal> option was removed. Please
+        review the currently available options.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The option
+        <literal>services.nsd.zones.&lt;name&gt;.data</literal> no
+        longer interpret the dollar sign ($) as a shell variable, as
+        such it should not be escaped anymore. Thus the following zone
+        data:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+$ORIGIN example.com.
+$TTL 1800
+@       IN      SOA     ns1.vpn.nbp.name.      admin.example.com. (
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        Should modified to look like the actual file expected by nsd:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+$ORIGIN example.com.
+$TTL 1800
+@       IN      SOA     ns1.vpn.nbp.name.      admin.example.com. (
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>service.syncthing.dataDir</literal> options now has to
+        point to exact folder where syncthing is writing to. Example
+        configuration should look something like:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.syncthing = {
+      enable = true;
+      dataDir = &quot;/home/somebody/.syncthing&quot;;
+      user = &quot;somebody&quot;;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>networking.firewall.allowPing</literal> is now enabled
+        by default. Users are encouraged to configure an appropriate
+        rate limit for their machines using the Kernel interface at
+        <literal>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit</literal> and
+        <literal>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit</literal> or using
+        the firewall itself, i.e. by setting the NixOS option
+        <literal>networking.firewall.pingLimit</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Systems with some broadcom cards used to result into a generated
+        config that is no longer accepted. If you get errors like
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+error: path ‘/nix/store/*-broadcom-sta-*’ does not exist and cannot be created
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        you should either re-run
+        <literal>nixos-generate-config</literal> or manually replace
+        <literal>&quot;${config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta}&quot;</literal>
+        by <literal>config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta</literal> in
+        your <literal>/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix</literal>.
+        More discussion is on
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12595">
+        the github issue</link>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>services.xserver.startGnuPGAgent</literal> option
+        has been removed. GnuPG 2.1.x changed the way the gpg-agent
+        works, and that new approach no longer requires (or even
+        supports) the &quot;start everything as a child of the
+        agent&quot; scheme we've implemented in NixOS for older
+        versions. To configure the gpg-agent for your X session, add the
+        following code to <literal>~/.bashrc</literal> or some file
+        that’s sourced when your shell is started:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+GPG_TTY=$(tty)
+export GPG_TTY
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        If you want to use gpg-agent for SSH, too, add the following to
+        your session initialization (e.g.
+        <literal>displayManager.sessionCommands</literal>)
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+    gpg-connect-agent /bye
+    unset SSH_AGENT_PID
+    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=&quot;''${HOME}/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh&quot;
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        and make sure that
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+    enable-ssh-support
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        is included in your <literal>~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf</literal>.
+        You will need to use <literal>ssh-add</literal> to re-add your
+        ssh keys. If gpg’s automatic transformation of the private keys
+        to the new format fails, you will need to re-import your private
+        keyring as well:
+      </para>
+      <programlisting>
+    gpg --import ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>gpg-agent(1)</literal> man page has more details
+        about this subject, i.e. in the &quot;EXAMPLES&quot; section.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    Other notable improvements:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>ejabberd</literal> module is brought back and now works
+        on NixOS.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Input method support was improved. New NixOS modules (fcitx,
+        nabi and uim), fcitx engines (chewing, hangul, m17n, mozc and
+        table-other) and ibus engines (hangul and m17n) have been added.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1609.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1609.section.xml
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-16.09">
+  <title>Release 16.09 (<quote>Flounder</quote>, 2016/09/30)</title>
+  <para>
+    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
+    the following highlights:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Many NixOS configurations and Nix packages now use significantly
+        less disk space, thanks to the
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7117">extensive
+        work on closure size reduction</link>. For example, the closure
+        size of a minimal NixOS container went down from ~424 MiB in
+        16.03 to ~212 MiB in 16.09, while the closure size of Firefox
+        went from ~651 MiB to ~259 MiB.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        To improve security, packages are now
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12895">built
+        using various hardening features</link>. See the Nixpkgs manual
+        for more information.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Support for PXE netboot. See
+        <xref linkend="sec-booting-from-pxe" /> for documentation.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        X.org server 1.18. If you use the <literal>ati_unfree</literal>
+        driver, 1.17 is still used due to an ABI incompatibility.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        This release is based on Glibc 2.24, GCC 5.4.0 and systemd 231.
+        The default Linux kernel remains 4.4.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    The following new services were added since the last release:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>(this will get automatically generated at release time)</literal>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+    following incompatible changes:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        A large number of packages have been converted to use the
+        multiple outputs feature of Nix to greatly reduce the amount of
+        required disk space, as mentioned above. This may require
+        changes to any custom packages to make them build again; see the
+        relevant chapter in the Nixpkgs manual for more information.
+        (Additional caveat to packagers: some packaging conventions
+        related to multiple-output packages
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14766">were
+        changed</link> late (August 2016) in the release cycle and
+        differ from the initial introduction of multiple outputs.)
+      </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="https://nixos.org/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="https://nixos.org/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>: <literal>start</literal>,
+        <literal>stop</literal>, <literal>restart</literal>,
+        <literal>status</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Redis now binds to 127.0.0.1 only instead of listening to all
+        network interfaces. This is the default behavior of Redis 3.2
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>/var/empty</literal> is now immutable. Activation
+        script runs <literal>chattr +i</literal> to forbid any
+        modifications inside the folder. See
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18365">
+        the pull request</link> for what bugs this caused.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Gitlab's maintainance script <literal>gitlab-runner</literal>
+        was removed and split up into the more clearer
+        <literal>gitlab-run</literal> and <literal>gitlab-rake</literal>
+        scripts, because <literal>gitlab-runner</literal> is a component
+        of Gitlab CI.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services.xserver.libinput.accelProfile</literal>
+        default changed from <literal>flat</literal> to
+        <literal>adaptive</literal>, as per
+        <link xlink:href="https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/group__config.html#gad63796972347f318b180e322e35cee79">
+        official documentation</link>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>fonts.fontconfig.ultimate.rendering</literal> was
+        removed because our presets were obsolete for some time. New
+        presets are hardcoded into FreeType; you can select a preset via
+        <literal>fonts.fontconfig.ultimate.preset</literal>. You can
+        customize those presets via ordinary environment variables,
+        using <literal>environment.variables</literal>.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The <literal>audit</literal> service is no longer enabled by
+        default. Use <literal>security.audit.enable = true</literal> to
+        explicitly enable it.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>pkgs.linuxPackages.virtualbox</literal> now contains
+        only the kernel modules instead of the VirtualBox user space
+        binaries. If you want to reference the user space binaries, you
+        have to use the new <literal>pkgs.virtualbox</literal> instead.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>goPackages</literal> was replaced with separated Go
+        applications in appropriate <literal>nixpkgs</literal>
+        categories. Each Go package uses its own dependency set. There's
+        also a new <literal>go2nix</literal> tool introduced to generate
+        a Go package definition from its Go source automatically.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services.mongodb.extraConfig</literal> configuration
+        format was changed to YAML.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        PHP has been upgraded to 7.0
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>
+    Other notable improvements:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Revamped grsecurity/PaX support. There is now only a single
+        general-purpose distribution kernel and the configuration
+        interface has been streamlined. Desktop users should be able to
+        simply set
+      </para>
+      <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  security.grsecurity.enable = true;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      <para>
+        to get a reasonably secure system without having to sacrifice
+        too much functionality.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Special filesystems, like <literal>/proc</literal>,
+        <literal>/run</literal> and others, now have the same mount
+        options as recommended by systemd and are unified across
+        different places in NixOS. Mount options are updated during
+        <literal>nixos-rebuild switch</literal> if possible. One benefit
+        from this is improved security — most such filesystems are now
+        mounted with <literal>noexec</literal>, <literal>nodev</literal>
+        and/or <literal>nosuid</literal> options.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The reverse path filter was interfering with DHCPv4 server
+        operation in the past. An exception for DHCPv4 and a new option
+        to log packets that were dropped due to the reverse path filter
+        was added
+        (<literal>networking.firewall.logReversePathDrops</literal>) for
+        easier debugging.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Containers configuration within
+        <literal>containers.&lt;name&gt;.config</literal> is
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/17365">now
+        properly typed and checked</link>. In particular, partial
+        configurations are merged correctly.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The directory container setuid wrapper programs,
+        <literal>/var/setuid-wrappers</literal>,
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18124">is
+        now updated atomically to prevent failures if the switch to a
+        new configuration is interrupted.</link>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <literal>services.xserver.startGnuPGAgent</literal> has been
+        removed due to GnuPG 2.1.x bump. See
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5391882ebd781149e213e8817fba6ac3c503740c">
+        how to achieve similar behavior</link>. You might need to
+        <literal>pkill gpg-agent</literal> after the upgrade to prevent
+        a stale agent being in the way.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/e561edc322d275c3687fec431935095cfc717147">
+        Declarative users could share the uid due to the bug in the
+        script handling conflict resolution. </link>
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Gummi boot has been replaced using systemd-boot.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Hydra package and NixOS module were added for convenience.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</section>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1703.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1703.section.xml
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,818 @@
+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-17.03">
+  <title>Release 17.03 (<quote>Gorilla</quote>, 2017/03/31)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nixpkgs is now extensible through overlays. See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install">Nixpkgs
+          manual</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          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.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default desktop environment now is KDE's Plasma 5. KDE 4
+          has been removed
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The setuid wrapper functionality now supports setting
+          capabilities.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          X.org server uses branch 1.19. Due to ABI incompatibilities,
+          <literal>ati_unfree</literal> keeps forcing 1.17 and
+          <literal>amdgpu-pro</literal> starts forcing 1.18.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Cross compilation has been rewritten. See the nixpkgs manual
+          for details. The most obvious breaking change is that in
+          derivations there is no <literal>.nativeDrv</literal> nor
+          <literal>.crossDrv</literal> are now cross by default, not
+          native.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>overridePackages</literal> function has been
+          rewritten to be replaced by
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install">
+          overlays</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Packages in nixpkgs can be marked as insecure through listed
+          vulnerabilities. See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-allow-insecure">Nixpkgs
+          manual</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP now defaults to PHP 7.1
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/ckb.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/mcelog.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/usb-wwan.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/video/capture/mwprocapture.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/adb.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/chromium.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/gphoto2.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/java.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/mtr.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/oblogout.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/vim.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/wireshark.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security/dhparams.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/audio/ympd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/computing/boinc/client.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/continuous-integration/buildbot/master.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/continuous-integration/buildbot/worker.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/continuous-integration/gitlab-runner.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/databases/riak-cs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/databases/stanchion.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/desktops/gnome3/gnome-terminal-server.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/editors/infinoted.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/hardware/illum.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/hardware/trezord.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/logging/journalbeat.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/mail/offlineimap.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/mail/postgrey.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/couchpotato.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/docker-registry.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/errbot.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/geoip-updater.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/gogs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/leaps.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/nix-optimise.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/ssm-agent.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/sssd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/arbtt.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/netdata.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/blackbox-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/json-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/nginx-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/node-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/snmp-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/unifi-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/varnish-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/sysstat.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/telegraf.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/vnstat.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/network-filesystems/cachefilesd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/network-filesystems/glusterfs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/network-filesystems/ipfs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/dante.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/dnscrypt-wrapper.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/fakeroute.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/flannel.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/htpdate.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/miredo.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/nftables.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/powerdns.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/pdns-recursor.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/quagga.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/redsocks.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/wireguard.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/system/cgmanager.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/torrent/opentracker.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/atlassian/confluence.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/atlassian/crowd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/atlassian/jira.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/frab.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/nixbot.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/selfoss.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/quassel-webserver.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/x11/unclutter-xfixes.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/x11/urxvtd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>system/boot/systemd-nspawn.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>virtualisation/ecs-agent.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>virtualisation/lxcfs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>virtualisation/openstack/keystone.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>virtualisation/openstack/glance.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Derivations have no <literal>.nativeDrv</literal> nor
+          <literal>.crossDrv</literal> and are now cross by default, not
+          native.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>stdenv.overrides</literal> is now expected to take
+          <literal>self</literal> and <literal>super</literal>
+          arguments. See <literal>lib.trivial.extends</literal> for what
+          those parameters represent.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>ansible</literal> now defaults to ansible version 2
+          as version 1 has been removed due to a serious
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.computest.nl/advisories/CT-2017-0109_Ansible.txt">
+          vulnerability</link> unpatched by upstream.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>gnome</literal> alias has been removed along with
+          <literal>gtk</literal>, <literal>gtkmm</literal> and several
+          others. Now you need to use versioned attributes, like
+          <literal>gnome3</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The attribute name of the Radicale daemon has been changed
+          from <literal>pythonPackages.radicale</literal> to
+          <literal>radicale</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>stripHash</literal> bash function in
+          <literal>stdenv</literal> changed according to its
+          documentation; it now outputs the stripped name to
+          <literal>stdout</literal> instead of putting it in the
+          variable <literal>strippedName</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP now scans for extra configuration .ini files in /etc/php.d
+          instead of /etc. This prevents accidentally loading non-PHP
+          .ini files that may be in /etc.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Two lone top-level dict dbs moved into
+          <literal>dictdDBs</literal>. This affects:
+          <literal>dictdWordnet</literal> which is now at
+          <literal>dictdDBs.wordnet</literal> and
+          <literal>dictdWiktionary</literal> which is now at
+          <literal>dictdDBs.wiktionary</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Parsoid service now uses YAML configuration format.
+          <literal>service.parsoid.interwikis</literal> is now called
+          <literal>service.parsoid.wikis</literal> and is a list of
+          either API URLs or attribute sets as specified in parsoid's
+          documentation.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>Ntpd</literal> was replaced by
+          <literal>systemd-timesyncd</literal> as the default service to
+          synchronize system time with a remote NTP server. The old
+          behavior can be restored by setting
+          <literal>services.ntp.enable</literal> to
+          <literal>true</literal>. Upstream time servers for all NTP
+          implementations are now configured using
+          <literal>networking.timeServers</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>service.nylon</literal> is now declared using named
+          instances. As an example:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.nylon = {
+    enable = true;
+    acceptInterface = &quot;br0&quot;;
+    bindInterface = &quot;tun1&quot;;
+    port = 5912;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          should be replaced with:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.nylon.myvpn = {
+    enable = true;
+    acceptInterface = &quot;br0&quot;;
+    bindInterface = &quot;tun1&quot;;
+    port = 5912;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          this enables you to declare a SOCKS proxy for each uplink.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>overridePackages</literal> function no longer exists.
+          It is replaced by
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install">
+          overlays</link>. For example, the following code:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+let
+  pkgs = import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {};
+in
+  pkgs.overridePackages (self: super: ...)
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          should be replaced by:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+let
+  pkgs = import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {};
+in
+  import pkgs.path { overlays = [(self: super: ...)]; }
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Autoloading connection tracking helpers is now disabled by
+          default. This default was also changed in the Linux kernel and
+          is considered insecure if not configured properly in your
+          firewall. If you need connection tracking helpers (i.e. for
+          active FTP) please enable
+          <literal>networking.firewall.autoLoadConntrackHelpers</literal>
+          and tune
+          <literal>networking.firewall.connectionTrackingModules</literal>
+          to suit your needs.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>local_recipient_maps</literal> is not set to empty
+          value by Postfix service. It's an insecure default as stated
+          by Postfix documentation. Those who want to retain this
+          setting need to set it via
+          <literal>services.postfix.extraConfig</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Iputils no longer provide ping6 and traceroute6. The
+          functionality of these tools has been integrated into ping and
+          traceroute respectively. To enforce an address family the new
+          flags <literal>-4</literal> and <literal>-6</literal> have
+          been added. One notable incompatibility is that specifying an
+          interface (for link-local IPv6 for instance) is no longer done
+          with the <literal>-I</literal> flag, but by encoding the
+          interface into the address
+          (<literal>ping fe80::1%eth0</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The socket handling of the <literal>services.rmilter</literal>
+          module has been fixed and refactored. As rmilter doesn't
+          support binding to more than one socket, the options
+          <literal>bindUnixSockets</literal> and
+          <literal>bindInetSockets</literal> have been replaced by
+          <literal>services.rmilter.bindSocket.*</literal>. The default
+          is still a unix socket in
+          <literal>/run/rmilter/rmilter.sock</literal>. Refer to the
+          options documentation for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>fetch*</literal> functions no longer support md5,
+          please use sha256 instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The dnscrypt-proxy module interface has been streamlined
+          around the <literal>extraArgs</literal> option. Where
+          possible, legacy option declarations are mapped to
+          <literal>extraArgs</literal> but will emit warnings. The
+          <literal>resolverList</literal> has been outright removed: to
+          use an unlisted resolver, use the
+          <literal>customResolver</literal> option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          torbrowser now stores local state under
+          <literal>~/.local/share/tor-browser</literal> by default. Any
+          browser profile data from the old location,
+          <literal>~/.torbrowser4</literal>, must be migrated manually.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The ihaskell, monetdb, offlineimap and sitecopy services have
+          been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Module type system have a new extensible option types feature
+          that allow to extend certain types, such as enum, through
+          multiple option declarations of the same option across
+          multiple modules.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>jre</literal> now defaults to GTK UI by default. This
+          improves visual consistency and makes Java follow system font
+          style, improving the situation on HighDPI displays. This has a
+          cost of increased closure size; for server and other headless
+          workloads it's recommended to use
+          <literal>jre_headless</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Python 2.6 interpreter and package set have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Python 2.7 interpreter does not use modules anymore.
+          Instead, all CPython interpreters now include the whole
+          standard library except for `tkinter`, which is available in
+          the Python package set.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 are now built deterministically and
+          3.4 mostly. Minor modifications had to be made to the
+          interpreters in order to generate deterministic bytecode. This
+          has security implications and is relevant for those using
+          Python in a <literal>nix-shell</literal>. See the Nixpkgs
+          manual for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Python package sets now use a fixed-point combinator and
+          the sets are available as attributes of the interpreters.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Python function <literal>buildPythonPackage</literal> has
+          been improved and can be used to build from Setuptools source,
+          Flit source, and precompiled Wheels.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When adding new or updating current Python libraries, the
+          expressions should be put in separate files in
+          <literal>pkgs/development/python-modules</literal> and called
+          from <literal>python-packages.nix</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The dnscrypt-proxy service supports synchronizing the list of
+          public resolvers without working DNS resolution. This fixes
+          issues caused by the resolver list becoming outdated. It also
+          improves the viability of DNSCrypt only configurations.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Containers using bridged networking no longer lose their
+          connection after changes to the host networking.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ZFS supports pool auto scrubbing.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The bind DNS utilities (e.g. dig) have been split into their
+          own output and are now also available in
+          <literal>pkgs.dnsutils</literal> and it is no longer necessary
+          to pull in all of <literal>bind</literal> to use them.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Per-user configuration was moved from
+          <literal>~/.nixpkgs</literal> to
+          <literal>~/.config/nixpkgs</literal>. The former is still
+          valid for <literal>config.nix</literal> for backwards
+          compatibility.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-17.09">
+  <title>Release 17.09 (<quote>Hummingbird</quote>, 2017/09/??)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.09-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GNOME version is now 3.24. KDE Plasma was upgraded to
+          5.10, KDE Applications to 17.08.1 and KDE Frameworks to 5.37.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The user handling now keeps track of deallocated UIDs/GIDs.
+          When a user or group is revived, this allows it to be
+          allocated the UID/GID it had before. A consequence is that
+          UIDs and GIDs are no longer reused.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The module option
+          <literal>services.xserver.xrandrHeads</literal> now causes the
+          first head specified in this list to be set as the primary
+          head. Apart from that, it's now possible to also set
+          additional options by using an attribute set, for example:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{ services.xserver.xrandrHeads = [
+    &quot;HDMI-0&quot;
+    {
+      output = &quot;DVI-0&quot;;
+      primary = true;
+      monitorConfig = ''
+        Option &quot;Rotate&quot; &quot;right&quot;
+      '';
+    }
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          This will set the <literal>DVI-0</literal> output to be the
+          primary head, even though <literal>HDMI-0</literal> is the
+          first head in the list.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The handling of SSL in the <literal>services.nginx</literal>
+          module has been cleaned up, renaming the misnamed
+          <literal>enableSSL</literal> to <literal>onlySSL</literal>
+          which reflects its original intention. This is not to be used
+          with the already existing <literal>forceSSL</literal> which
+          creates a second non-SSL virtual host redirecting to the SSL
+          virtual host. This by chance had worked earlier due to
+          specific implementation details. In case you had specified
+          both please remove the <literal>enableSSL</literal> option to
+          keep the previous behaviour.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Another <literal>addSSL</literal> option has been introduced
+          to configure both a non-SSL virtual host and an SSL virtual
+          host with the same configuration.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Options to configure <literal>resolver</literal> options and
+          <literal>upstream</literal> blocks have been introduced. See
+          their information for further details.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>port</literal> option has been replaced by a more
+          generic <literal>listen</literal> option which makes it
+          possible to specify multiple addresses, ports and SSL configs
+          dependant on the new SSL handling mentioned above.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.09-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>config/fonts/fontconfig-penultimate.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>config/terminfo.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/sensor/iio.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/nitrokey.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>hardware/raid/hpsa.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/browserpass.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/gnupg.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/qt5ct.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/slock.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs/thefuck.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security/auditd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security/lock-kernel-modules.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>service-managers/docker.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>service-managers/trivial.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/admin/salt/master.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/admin/salt/minion.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/audio/slimserver.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/cluster/kubernetes/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/cluster/kubernetes/dns.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/cluster/kubernetes/dashboard.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/continuous-integration/hail.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/databases/clickhouse.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/databases/postage.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/desktops/gnome3/gnome-disks.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/desktops/gnome3/gpaste.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/logging/SystemdJournal2Gelf.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/logging/heartbeat.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/logging/journalwatch.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/logging/syslogd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/mail/mailhog.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/mail/nullmailer.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/airsonic.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/autorandr.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/exhibitor.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/fstrim.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/gollum.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/irkerd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/jackett.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/radarr.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/misc/snapper.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/osquery.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/collectd-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/fritzbox-exporter.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/network-filesystems/kbfs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/dnscache.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/fireqos.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/iwd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/keepalived/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/keybase.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/lldpd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/matterbridge.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/squid.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/tinydns.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/networking/xrdp.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/security/shibboleth-sp.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/security/sks.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/security/sshguard.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/security/torify.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/security/usbguard.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/security/vault.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/system/earlyoom.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/system/saslauthd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/nexus.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/pgpkeyserver-lite.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-apps/piwik.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-servers/lighttpd/collectd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/web-servers/minio.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/x11/display-managers/xpra.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services/x11/xautolock.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>tasks/filesystems/bcachefs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>tasks/powertop.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.09-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <emphasis role="strong">In an Qemu-based virtualization
+          environment, the network interface names changed from i.e.
+          <literal>enp0s3</literal> to
+          <literal>ens3</literal>.</emphasis>
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          This is due to a kernel configuration change. The new naming
+          is consistent with those of other Linux distributions with
+          systemd. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/29197">#29197</link>
+          for more information.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          A machine is affected if the <literal>virt-what</literal> tool
+          either returns <literal>qemu</literal> or
+          <literal>kvm</literal> <emphasis>and</emphasis> has interface
+          names used in any part of its NixOS configuration, in
+          particular if a static network configuration with
+          <literal>networking.interfaces</literal> is used.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Before rebooting affected machines, please ensure:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Change the interface names in your NixOS configuration.
+              The first interface will be called
+              <literal>ens3</literal>, the second one
+              <literal>ens8</literal> and starting from there
+              incremented by 1.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              After changing the interface names, rebuild your system
+              with <literal>nixos-rebuild boot</literal> to activate the
+              new configuration after a reboot. If you switch to the new
+              configuration right away you might lose network
+              connectivity! If using <literal>nixops</literal>, deploy
+              with <literal>nixops deploy --force-reboot</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The following changes apply if the
+          <literal>stateVersion</literal> is changed to 17.09 or higher.
+          For <literal>stateVersion = &quot;17.03&quot;</literal> or
+          lower the old behavior is preserved.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>postgres</literal> default version was
+              changed from 9.5 to 9.6.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>postgres</literal> superuser name has changed
+              from <literal>root</literal> to
+              <literal>postgres</literal> to more closely follow what
+              other Linux distributions are doing.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>postgres</literal> default
+              <literal>dataDir</literal> has changed from
+              <literal>/var/db/postgres</literal> to
+              <literal>/var/lib/postgresql/$psqlSchema</literal> where
+              $psqlSchema is 9.6 for example.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>mysql</literal> default
+              <literal>dataDir</literal> has changed from
+              <literal>/var/mysql</literal> to
+              <literal>/var/lib/mysql</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Radicale's default package has changed from 1.x to 2.x.
+              Instructions to migrate can be found
+              <link xlink:href="http://radicale.org/1to2/"> here
+              </link>. It is also possible to use the newer version by
+              setting the <literal>package</literal> to
+              <literal>radicale2</literal>, which is done automatically
+              when <literal>stateVersion</literal> is 17.09 or higher.
+              The <literal>extraArgs</literal> option has been added to
+              allow passing the data migration arguments specified in
+              the instructions; see the <literal>radicale.nix</literal>
+              NixOS test for an example migration.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>aiccu</literal> package was removed. This is due
+          to SixXS <link xlink:href="https://www.sixxs.net/main/">
+          sunsetting</link> its IPv6 tunnel.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>fanctl</literal> package and
+          <literal>fan</literal> module have been removed due to the
+          developers not upstreaming their iproute2 patches and lagging
+          with compatibility to recent iproute2 versions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Top-level <literal>idea</literal> package collection was
+          renamed. All JetBrains IDEs are now at
+          <literal>jetbrains</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>flexget</literal>'s state database cannot be upgraded
+          to its new internal format, requiring removal of any existing
+          <literal>db-config.sqlite</literal> which will be
+          automatically recreated.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>ipfs</literal> service now doesn't ignore the
+          <literal>dataDir</literal> option anymore. If you've ever set
+          this option to anything other than the default you'll have to
+          either unset it (so the default gets used) or migrate the old
+          data manually with
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+dataDir=&lt;valueOfDataDir&gt;
+mv /var/lib/ipfs/.ipfs/* $dataDir
+rmdir /var/lib/ipfs/.ipfs
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>caddy</literal> service was previously using an
+          extra <literal>.caddy</literal> directory in the data
+          directory specified with the <literal>dataDir</literal>
+          option. The contents of the <literal>.caddy</literal>
+          directory are now expected to be in the
+          <literal>dataDir</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>ssh-agent</literal> user service is not started
+          by default anymore. Use
+          <literal>programs.ssh.startAgent</literal> to enable it if
+          needed. There is also a new
+          <literal>programs.gnupg.agent</literal> module that creates a
+          <literal>gpg-agent</literal> user service. It can also serve
+          as a SSH agent if <literal>enableSSHSupport</literal> is set.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <literal>services.tinc.networks.&lt;name&gt;.listenAddress</literal>
+          option had a misleading name that did not correspond to its
+          behavior. It now correctly defines the ip to listen for
+          incoming connections on. To keep the previous behaviour, use
+          <literal>services.tinc.networks.&lt;name&gt;.bindToAddress</literal>
+          instead. Refer to the description of the options for more
+          details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>tlsdate</literal> package and module were removed.
+          This is due to the project being dead and not building with
+          openssl 1.1.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>wvdial</literal> package and module were removed.
+          This is due to the project being dead and not building with
+          openssl 1.1.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>cc-wrapper</literal>'s setup-hook now exports a
+          number of environment variables corresponding to binutils
+          binaries, (e.g. <literal>LD</literal>,
+          <literal>STRIP</literal>, <literal>RANLIB</literal>, etc).
+          This is done to prevent packages' build systems guessing,
+          which is harder to predict, especially when cross-compiling.
+          However, some packages have broken due to this—their build
+          systems either not supporting, or claiming to support without
+          adequate testing, taking such environment variables as
+          parameters.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.firefox.syncserver</literal> now runs by
+          default as a non-root user. To accomodate this change, the
+          default sqlite database location has also been changed.
+          Migration should work automatically. Refer to the description
+          of the options for more details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>compiz</literal> window manager and package was
+          removed. The system support had been broken for several years.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Touchpad support should now be enabled through
+          <literal>libinput</literal> as <literal>synaptics</literal> is
+          now deprecated. See the option
+          <literal>services.xserver.libinput.enable</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          grsecurity/PaX support has been dropped, following upstream's
+          decision to cease free support. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton.php">
+          upstream's announcement</link> for more information. No
+          complete replacement for grsecurity/PaX is available
+          presently.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.mysql</literal> now has declarative
+          configuration of databases and users with the
+          <literal>ensureDatabases</literal> and
+          <literal>ensureUsers</literal> options.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          These options will never delete existing databases and users,
+          especially not when the value of the options are changed.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The MySQL users will be identified using
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/authentication-plugin-unix-socket/">
+          Unix socket authentication</link>. This authenticates the Unix
+          user with the same name only, and that without the need for a
+          password.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you have previously created a MySQL <literal>root</literal>
+          user <emphasis>with a password</emphasis>, you will need to
+          add <literal>root</literal> user for unix socket
+          authentication before using the new options. This can be done
+          by running the following SQL script:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="SQL">
+CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
+FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+
+-- Optionally, delete the password-authenticated user:
+-- DROP USER 'root'@'localhost';
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.mysqlBackup</literal> now works by default
+          without any user setup, including for users other than
+          <literal>mysql</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          By default, the <literal>mysql</literal> user is no longer the
+          user which performs the backup. Instead a system account
+          <literal>mysqlbackup</literal> is used.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>mysqlBackup</literal> service is also now using
+          systemd timers instead of <literal>cron</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Therefore, the <literal>services.mysqlBackup.period</literal>
+          option no longer exists, and has been replaced with
+          <literal>services.mysqlBackup.calendar</literal>, which is in
+          the format of
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html#Calendar%20Events">systemd.time(7)</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you expect to be sent an e-mail when the backup fails,
+          consider using a script which monitors the systemd journal for
+          errors. Regretfully, at present there is no built-in
+          functionality for this.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          You can check that backups still work by running
+          <literal>systemctl start mysql-backup</literal> then
+          <literal>systemctl status mysql-backup</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Templated systemd services e.g
+          <literal>container@name</literal> are now handled currectly
+          when switching to a new configuration, resulting in them being
+          reloaded.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Steam: the <literal>newStdcpp</literal> parameter was removed
+          and should not be needed anymore.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Redis has been updated to version 4 which mandates a cluster
+          mass-restart, due to changes in the network handling, in order
+          to ensure compatibility with networks NATing traffic.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-17.09-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Modules can now be disabled by using
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-replace-modules">
+          disabledModules</link>, allowing another to take it's place.
+          This can be used to import a set of modules from another
+          channel while keeping the rest of the system on a stable
+          release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Updated to FreeType 2.7.1, including a new TrueType engine.
+          The new engine replaces the Infinality engine which was the
+          default in NixOS. The default font rendering settings are now
+          provided by fontconfig-penultimate, replacing
+          fontconfig-ultimate; the new defaults are less invasive and
+          provide rendering that is more consistent with other systems
+          and hopefully with each font designer's intent. Some
+          system-wide configuration has been removed from the Fontconfig
+          NixOS module where user Fontconfig settings are available.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ZFS/SPL have been updated to 0.7.0,
+          <literal>zfsUnstable, splUnstable</literal> have therefore
+          been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>time.timeZone</literal> option now allows the
+          value <literal>null</literal> in addition to timezone strings.
+          This value allows changing the timezone of a system
+          imperatively using
+          <literal>timedatectl set-timezone</literal>. The default
+          timezone is still UTC.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nixpkgs overlays may now be specified with a file as well as a
+          directory. The value of
+          <literal>&lt;nixpkgs-overlays&gt;</literal> may be a file, and
+          <literal>~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays.nix</literal> can be used
+          instead of the <literal>~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays</literal>
+          directory.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          See the overlays chapter of the Nixpkgs manual for more
+          details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Definitions for <literal>/etc/hosts</literal> can now be
+          specified declaratively with
+          <literal>networking.hosts</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Two new options have been added to the installer loader, in
+          addition to the default having changed. The kernel log
+          verbosity has been lowered to the upstream default for the
+          default options, in order to not spam the console when e.g.
+          joining a network.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          This therefore leads to adding a new <literal>debug</literal>
+          option to set the log level to the previous verbose mode, to
+          make debugging easier, but still accessible easily.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Additionally a <literal>copytoram</literal> option has been
+          added, which makes it possible to remove the install medium
+          after booting. This allows tethering from your phone after
+          booting from it.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.gitlab-runner.configOptions</literal> has
+          been added to specify the configuration of gitlab-runners
+          declaratively.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.jenkins.plugins</literal> has been added to
+          install plugins easily, this can be generated with
+          jenkinsPlugins2nix.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.postfix.config</literal> has been added to
+          specify the main.cf with NixOS options. Additionally other
+          options have been added to the postfix module and has been
+          improved further.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GitLab package and module have been updated to the latest
+          10.0 release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>systemd-boot</literal> boot loader now lists the
+          NixOS version, kernel version and build date of all bootable
+          generations.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The dnscrypt-proxy service now defaults to using a random
+          upstream resolver, selected from the list of public
+          non-logging resolvers with DNSSEC support. Existing
+          configurations can be migrated to this mode of operation by
+          omitting the
+          <literal>services.dnscrypt-proxy.resolverName</literal> option
+          or setting it to <literal>&quot;random&quot;</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-18.03">
+  <title>Release 18.03 (<quote>Impala</quote>, 2018/04/04)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.03-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          End of support is planned for end of October 2018, handing
+          over to 18.09.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Platform support: x86_64-linux and x86_64-darwin since release
+          time (the latter isn't NixOS, really). Binaries for
+          aarch64-linux are available, but no channel exists yet, as
+          it's waiting for some test fixes, etc.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nix now defaults to 2.0; see its
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-2.0">release
+          notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core version changes: linux: 4.9 -&gt; 4.14, glibc: 2.25 -&gt;
+          2.26, gcc: 6 -&gt; 7, systemd: 234 -&gt; 237.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Desktop version changes: gnome: 3.24 -&gt; 3.26, (KDE)
+          plasma-desktop: 5.10 -&gt; 5.12.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MariaDB 10.2, updated from 10.1, is now the default MySQL
+          implementation. While upgrading a few changes have been made
+          to the infrastructure involved:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>libmysql</literal> has been deprecated, please
+              use <literal>mysql.connector-c</literal> instead, a
+              compatibility passthru has been added to the MySQL
+              packages.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>mysql57</literal> package has a new
+              <literal>static</literal> output containing the static
+              libraries including <literal>libmysqld.a</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP now defaults to PHP 7.2, updated from 7.1.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.03-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./config/krb5/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./hardware/digitalbitbox.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./misc/label.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/ccache.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/criu.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/digitalbitbox/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/less.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/npm.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/plotinus.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/rootston.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/systemtap.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/sway.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/udevil.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/way-cooler.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/yabar.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/zsh/zsh-autoenv.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/borgbackup.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/crashplan-small-business.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/dleyna-renderer.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/dleyna-server.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/pipewire.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/gnome3/chrome-gnome-shell.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/gnome3/tracker-miners.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/fwupd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/interception-tools.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/u2f.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/usbmuxd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/mail/clamsmtp.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/mail/dkimproxy-out.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/mail/pfix-srsd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/gitea.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/home-assistant.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/ihaskell.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/logkeys.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/novacomd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/osrm.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/plexpy.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/pykms.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/tzupdate.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/monitoring/fusion-inventory.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/beegfs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/davfs2.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/openafs/client.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/openafs/server.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/ceph.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/aria2.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/monero.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/nghttpx/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/nixops-dns.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/rxe.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/stunnel.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/matomo.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/restya-board.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-servers/mighttpd2.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/x11/fractalart.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./system/boot/binfmt.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./system/boot/grow-partition.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./tasks/filesystems/ecryptfs.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./virtualisation/hyperv-guest.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.03-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>sound.enable</literal> now defaults to false.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Dollar signs in options under
+          <literal>services.postfix</literal> are passed verbatim to
+          Postfix, which will interpret them as the beginning of a
+          parameter expression. This was already true for string-valued
+          options in the previous release, but not for list-valued
+          options. If you need to pass literal dollar signs through
+          Postfix, double them.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>postage</literal> package (for web-based
+          PostgreSQL administration) has been renamed to
+          <literal>pgmanage</literal>. The corresponding module has also
+          been renamed. To migrate please rename all
+          <literal>services.postage</literal> options to
+          <literal>services.pgmanage</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Package attributes starting with a digit have been prefixed
+          with an underscore sign. This is to avoid quoting in the
+          configuration and other issues with command-line tools like
+          <literal>nix-env</literal>. The change affects the following
+          packages:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>2048-in-terminal</literal> →
+              <literal>_2048-in-terminal</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>90secondportraits</literal> →
+              <literal>_90secondportraits</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>2bwm</literal> → <literal>_2bwm</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>389-ds-base</literal> →
+              <literal>_389-ds-base</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <emphasis role="strong">The OpenSSH service no longer enables
+          support for DSA keys by default, which could cause a system
+          lock out. Update your keys or, unfavorably, re-enable DSA
+          support manually.</emphasis>
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          DSA support was
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html">deprecated
+          in OpenSSH 7.0</link>, due to it being too weak. To re-enable
+          support, add
+          <literal>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-dss</literal> to the end
+          of your <literal>services.openssh.extraConfig</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          After updating the keys to be stronger, anyone still on a
+          pre-17.03 version is safe to jump to 17.03, as vetted
+          <link xlink:href="https://search.nix.gsc.io/?q=stateVersion">here</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>openssh</literal> package now includes Kerberos
+          support by default; the
+          <literal>openssh_with_kerberos</literal> package is now a
+          deprecated alias. If you do not want Kerberos support, you can
+          do
+          <literal>openssh.override { withKerberos = false; }</literal>.
+          Note, this also applies to the <literal>openssh_hpn</literal>
+          package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>cc-wrapper</literal> has been split in two; there is
+          now also a <literal>bintools-wrapper</literal>. The most
+          commonly used files in <literal>nix-support</literal> are now
+          split between the two wrappers. Some commonly used ones, like
+          <literal>nix-support/dynamic-linker</literal>, are duplicated
+          for backwards compatability, even though they rightly belong
+          only in <literal>bintools-wrapper</literal>. Other more
+          obscure ones are just moved.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The propagation logic has been changed. The new logic, along
+          with new types of dependencies that go with, is thoroughly
+          documented in the &quot;Specifying dependencies&quot; section
+          of the &quot;Standard Environment&quot; chapter of the nixpkgs
+          manual. The old logic isn't but is easy to describe:
+          dependencies were propagated as the same type of dependency no
+          matter what. In practice, that means that many
+          <literal>propagatedNativeBuildInputs</literal> should instead
+          be <literal>propagatedBuildInputs</literal>. Thankfully, that
+          was and is the least used type of dependency. Also, it means
+          that some <literal>propagatedBuildInputs</literal> should
+          instead be <literal>depsTargetTargetPropagated</literal>.
+          Other types dependencies should be unaffected.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.addPassthru drv passthru</literal> is removed.
+          Use <literal>lib.extendDerivation true passthru drv</literal>
+          instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>memcached</literal> service no longer accept
+          dynamic socket paths via
+          <literal>services.memcached.socket</literal>. Unix sockets can
+          be still enabled by
+          <literal>services.memcached.enableUnixSocket</literal> and
+          will be accessible at
+          <literal>/run/memcached/memcached.sock</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>hardware.amdHybridGraphics.disable</literal>
+          option was removed for lack of a maintainer. If you still need
+          this module, you may wish to include a copy of it from an
+          older version of nixos in your imports.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The merging of config options for
+          <literal>services.postfix.config</literal> was buggy.
+          Previously, if other options in the Postfix module like
+          <literal>services.postfix.useSrs</literal> were set and the
+          user set config options that were also set by such options,
+          the resulting config wouldn't include all options that were
+          needed. They are now merged correctly. If config options need
+          to be overridden, <literal>lib.mkForce</literal> or
+          <literal>lib.mkOverride</literal> can be used.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The following changes apply if the
+          <literal>stateVersion</literal> is changed to 18.03 or higher.
+          For <literal>stateVersion = &quot;17.09&quot;</literal> or
+          lower the old behavior is preserved.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>matrix-synapse</literal> uses postgresql by
+              default instead of sqlite. Migration instructions can be
+              found
+              <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/postgres.rst#porting-from-sqlite">
+              here </link>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>jid</literal> package has been removed, due to
+          maintenance overhead of a go package having non-versioned
+          dependencies.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When using <literal>services.xserver.libinput</literal>
+          (enabled by default in GNOME), it now handles all input
+          devices, not just touchpads. As a result, you might need to
+          re-evaluate any custom Xorg configuration. In particular,
+          <literal>Option &quot;XkbRules&quot; &quot;base&quot;</literal>
+          may result in broken keyboard layout.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>attic</literal> package was removed. A maintained
+          fork called
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.borgbackup.org/">Borg</link>
+          should be used instead. Migration instructions can be found
+          <link xlink:href="http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/upgrade.html#attic-and-borg-0-xx-to-borg-1-x">here</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Piwik analytics software was renamed to Matomo:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The package <literal>pkgs.piwik</literal> was renamed to
+              <literal>pkgs.matomo</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The service <literal>services.piwik</literal> was renamed
+              to <literal>services.matomo</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The data directory <literal>/var/lib/piwik</literal> was
+              renamed to <literal>/var/lib/matomo</literal>. All files
+              will be moved automatically on first startup, but you
+              might need to adjust your backup scripts.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The default <literal>serverName</literal> for the nginx
+              configuration changed from
+              <literal>piwik.${config.networking.hostName}</literal> to
+              <literal>matomo.${config.networking.hostName}.${config.networking.domain}</literal>
+              if <literal>config.networking.domain</literal> is set,
+              <literal>matomo.${config.networking.hostName}</literal> if
+              it is not set. If you change your
+              <literal>serverName</literal>, remember you'll need to
+              update the <literal>trustedHosts[]</literal> array in
+              <literal>/var/lib/matomo/config/config.ini.php</literal>
+              as well.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>piwik</literal> user was renamed to
+              <literal>matomo</literal>. The service will adjust
+              ownership automatically for files in the data directory.
+              If you use unix socket authentication, remember to give
+              the new <literal>matomo</literal> user access to the
+              database and to change the <literal>username</literal> to
+              <literal>matomo</literal> in the
+              <literal>[database]</literal> section of
+              <literal>/var/lib/matomo/config/config.ini.php</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If you named your database `piwik`, you might want to
+              rename it to `matomo` to keep things clean, but this is
+              neither enforced nor required.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>nodejs-4_x</literal> is end-of-life.
+          <literal>nodejs-4_x</literal>,
+          <literal>nodejs-slim-4_x</literal> and
+          <literal>nodePackages_4_x</literal> are removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>pump.io</literal> NixOS module was removed. It is
+          now maintained as an
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/rvl/pump.io-nixos">external
+          module</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Prosody XMPP server has received a major update. The
+          following modules were renamed:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.prosody.modules.httpserver</literal> is
+              now <literal>services.prosody.modules.http_files</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.prosody.modules.console</literal> is now
+              <literal>services.prosody.modules.admin_telnet</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          Many new modules are now core modules, most notably
+          <literal>services.prosody.modules.carbons</literal> and
+          <literal>services.prosody.modules.mam</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The better-performing <literal>libevent</literal> backend is
+          now enabled by default.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <literal>withCommunityModules</literal> now passes through the
+          modules to <literal>services.prosody.extraModules</literal>.
+          Use <literal>withOnlyInstalledCommunityModules</literal> for
+          modules that should not be enabled directly, e.g
+          <literal>lib_ldap</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          All prometheus exporter modules are now defined as submodules.
+          The exporters are configured using
+          <literal>services.prometheus.exporters</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.03-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ZNC option <literal>services.znc.mutable</literal> now
+          defaults to <literal>true</literal>. That means that old
+          configuration is not overwritten by default when update to the
+          znc options are made.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>networking.wireless.networks.&lt;name&gt;.auth</literal>
+          has been added for wireless networks with WPA-Enterprise
+          authentication. There is also a new
+          <literal>extraConfig</literal> option to directly configure
+          <literal>wpa_supplicant</literal> and
+          <literal>hidden</literal> to connect to hidden networks.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In the module
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;</literal> the
+          following options have been removed:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>ipAddress</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>ipv6Address</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>prefixLength</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>ipv6PrefixLength</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>subnetMask</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          To assign static addresses to an interface the options
+          <literal>ipv4.addresses</literal> and
+          <literal>ipv6.addresses</literal> should be used instead. The
+          options <literal>ip4</literal> and <literal>ip6</literal> have
+          been renamed to <literal>ipv4.addresses</literal>
+          <literal>ipv6.addresses</literal> respectively. The new
+          options <literal>ipv4.routes</literal> and
+          <literal>ipv6.routes</literal> have been added to set up
+          static routing.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>services.logstash.listenAddress</literal>
+          is now <literal>127.0.0.1</literal> by default. Previously the
+          default behaviour was to listen on all interfaces.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.btrfs.autoScrub</literal> has been added, to
+          periodically check btrfs filesystems for data corruption. If
+          there's a correct copy available, it will automatically repair
+          corrupted blocks.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.clock-format.</literal>
+          has been added, the clock format string (as expected by
+          strftime, e.g. <literal>%H:%M</literal>) to use with the
+          lightdm gtk greeter panel.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If set to null the default clock format is used.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.indicators</literal>
+          has been added, a list of allowed indicator modules to use
+          with the lightdm gtk greeter panel.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Built-in indicators include <literal>~a11y</literal>,
+          <literal>~language</literal>, <literal>~session</literal>,
+          <literal>~power</literal>, <literal>~clock</literal>,
+          <literal>~host</literal>, <literal>~spacer</literal>. Unity
+          indicators can be represented by short name (e.g.
+          <literal>sound</literal>, <literal>power</literal>), service
+          file name, or absolute path.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If set to <literal>null</literal> the default indicators are
+          used.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          In order to have the previous default configuration add
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.indicators = [
+    &quot;~host&quot; &quot;~spacer&quot;
+    &quot;~clock&quot; &quot;~spacer&quot;
+    &quot;~session&quot;
+    &quot;~language&quot;
+    &quot;~a11y&quot;
+    &quot;~power&quot;
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          to your <literal>configuration.nix</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The NixOS test driver supports user services declared by
+          <literal>systemd.user.services</literal>. The methods
+          <literal>waitForUnit</literal>,
+          <literal>getUnitInfo</literal>, <literal>startJob</literal>
+          and <literal>stopJob</literal> provide an optional
+          <literal>$user</literal> argument for that purpose.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Enabling bash completion on NixOS,
+          <literal>programs.bash.enableCompletion</literal>, will now
+          also enable completion for the Nix command line tools by
+          installing the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/hedning/nix-bash-completions">nix-bash-completions</link>
+          package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-18.09">
+  <title>Release 18.09 (<quote>Jellyfish</quote>, 2018/10/05)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.09-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following notable updates:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          End of support is planned for end of April 2019, handing over
+          to 19.03.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Platform support: x86_64-linux and x86_64-darwin as always.
+          Support for aarch64-linux is as with the previous releases,
+          not equivalent to the x86-64-linux release, but with efforts
+          to reach parity.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nix has been updated to 2.1; see its
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-2.1">release
+          notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core versions: linux: 4.14 LTS (unchanged), glibc: 2.26 →
+          2.27, gcc: 7 (unchanged), systemd: 237 → 239.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Desktop version changes: gnome: 3.26 → 3.28, (KDE)
+          plasma-desktop: 5.12 → 5.13.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+      Notable changes and additions for 18.09 include:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Support for wrapping binaries using
+          <literal>firejail</literal> has been added through
+          <literal>programs.firejail.wrappedBinaries</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For example
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  programs.firejail = {
+    enable = true;
+    wrappedBinaries = {
+      firefox = &quot;${lib.getBin pkgs.firefox}/bin/firefox&quot;;
+      mpv = &quot;${lib.getBin pkgs.mpv}/bin/mpv&quot;;
+    };
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          This will place <literal>firefox</literal> and
+          <literal>mpv</literal> binaries in the global path wrapped by
+          firejail.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          User channels are now in the default
+          <literal>NIX_PATH</literal>, allowing users to use their
+          personal <literal>nix-channel</literal> defined channels in
+          <literal>nix-build</literal> and <literal>nix-shell</literal>
+          commands, as well as in imports like
+          <literal>import &lt;mychannel&gt;</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For example
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgsunstable
+$ nix-channel --update
+$ nix-build '&lt;nixpkgsunstable&gt;' -A gitFull
+$ nix run -f '&lt;nixpkgsunstable&gt;' gitFull
+$ nix-instantiate -E '(import &lt;nixpkgsunstable&gt; {}).gitFull'
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.09-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      A curated selection of new services that were added since the last
+      release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.cassandra</literal> module has been
+          reworked and was rewritten from scratch. The service has
+          succeeding tests for the versions 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 and 3.11 of
+          <link xlink:href="https://cassandra.apache.org/">Apache
+          Cassandra</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There is a new <literal>services.foundationdb</literal> module
+          for deploying
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.foundationdb.org">FoundationDB</link>
+          clusters.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When enabled the <literal>iproute2</literal> will copy the
+          files expected by ip route (e.g.,
+          <literal>rt_tables</literal>) in
+          <literal>/etc/iproute2</literal>. This allows to write aliases
+          for routing tables for instance.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.strongswan-swanctl</literal> is a modern
+          replacement for <literal>services.strongswan</literal>. You
+          can use either one of them to setup IPsec VPNs but not both at
+          the same time.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.strongswan-swanctl</literal> uses the
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/swanctl">swanctl</link>
+          command which uses the modern
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/blob/master/src/libcharon/plugins/vici/README.md">vici</link>
+          <emphasis>Versatile IKE Configuration Interface</emphasis>.
+          The deprecated <literal>ipsec</literal> command used in
+          <literal>services.strongswan</literal> is using the legacy
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/blob/master/README_LEGACY.md">stroke
+          configuration interface</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The new <literal>services.elasticsearch-curator</literal>
+          service periodically curates or manages, your Elasticsearch
+          indices and snapshots.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+      Every new services:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./config/xdg/autostart.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./config/xdg/icons.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./config/xdg/menus.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./config/xdg/mime.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./hardware/brightnessctl.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./hardware/onlykey.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./hardware/video/uvcvideo/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./misc/documentation.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/firejail.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/iftop.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/sedutil.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/singularity.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/xss-lock.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/zsh/zsh-autosuggestions.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/admin/oxidized.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/duplicati.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/restic.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/restic-rest-server.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/cluster/hadoop/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/databases/aerospike.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/databases/monetdb.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/bamf.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/flatpak.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/zeitgeist.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/development/bloop.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/development/jupyter/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/lcd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/undervolt.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/clipmenu.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/gitweb.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/serviio.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/safeeyes.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/sysprof.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/weechat.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/monitoring/datadog-agent.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/monitoring/incron.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/dnsdist.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/freeradius.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/hans.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/morty.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/ndppd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/ocserv.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/owamp.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/quagga.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/shadowsocks.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/stubby.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/zeronet.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/security/certmgr.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/security/cfssl.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/security/oauth2_proxy_nginx.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/virtlyst.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/youtrack.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-servers/hitch/default.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-servers/hydron.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-servers/meguca.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-servers/nginx/gitweb.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./virtualisation/kvmgt.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./virtualisation/qemu-guest-agent.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.09-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Some licenses that were incorrectly not marked as unfree now
+          are. This is the case for:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cc-by-nc-sa-20: Creative Commons Attribution Non
+              Commercial Share Alike 2.0
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cc-by-nc-sa-25: Creative Commons Attribution Non
+              Commercial Share Alike 2.5
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cc-by-nc-sa-30: Creative Commons Attribution Non
+              Commercial Share Alike 3.0
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cc-by-nc-sa-40: Creative Commons Attribution Non
+              Commercial Share Alike 4.0
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cc-by-nd-30: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative
+              Works v3.00
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              msrla: Microsoft Research License Agreement
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The deprecated <literal>services.cassandra</literal> module
+          has seen a complete rewrite. (See above.)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.strict</literal> is removed. Use
+          <literal>builtins.seq</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>clementine</literal> package points now to the
+          free derivation. <literal>clementineFree</literal> is removed
+          now and <literal>clementineUnfree</literal> points to the
+          package which is bundled with the unfree
+          <literal>libspotify</literal> package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>netcat</literal> package is now taken directly
+          from OpenBSD's <literal>libressl</literal>, instead of relying
+          on Debian's fork. The new version should be very close to the
+          old version, but there are some minor differences.
+          Importantly, flags like -b, -q, -C, and -Z are no longer
+          accepted by the nc command.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.docker-registry.extraConfig</literal>
+          object doesn't contain environment variables anymore. Instead
+          it needs to provide an object structure that can be mapped
+          onto the YAML configuration defined in
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/v2.6.2/docs/configuration.md">the
+          <literal>docker/distribution</literal> docs</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>gnucash</literal> has changed from version 2.4 to
+          3.x. If you've been using <literal>gnucash</literal> (version
+          2.4) instead of <literal>gnucash26</literal> (version 2.6) you
+          must open your Gnucash data file(s) with
+          <literal>gnucash26</literal> and then save them to upgrade the
+          file format. Then you may use your data file(s) with Gnucash
+          3.x. See the upgrade
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Using_Different_Versions.2C_Up_And_Downgrade">documentation</link>.
+          Gnucash 2.4 is still available under the attribute
+          <literal>gnucash24</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.munge</literal> now runs as user (and group)
+          <literal>munge</literal> instead of root. Make sure the key
+          file is accessible to the daemon.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>dockerTools.buildImage</literal> now uses
+          <literal>null</literal> as default value for
+          <literal>tag</literal>, which indicates that the nix output
+          hash will be used as tag.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The ELK stack: <literal>elasticsearch</literal>,
+          <literal>logstash</literal> and <literal>kibana</literal> has
+          been upgraded from 2.* to 6.3.*. The 2.* versions have been
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/support/eol">unsupported
+          since last year</link> so they have been removed. You can
+          still use the 5.* versions under the names
+          <literal>elasticsearch5</literal>,
+          <literal>logstash5</literal> and <literal>kibana5</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The elastic beats: <literal>filebeat</literal>,
+          <literal>heartbeat</literal>, <literal>metricbeat</literal>
+          and <literal>packetbeat</literal> have had the same treatment:
+          they now target 6.3.* as well. The 5.* versions are available
+          under the names: <literal>filebeat5</literal>,
+          <literal>heartbeat5</literal>, <literal>metricbeat5</literal>
+          and <literal>packetbeat5</literal>
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The ELK-6.3 stack now comes with
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open">X-Pack
+          by default</link>. Since X-Pack is licensed under the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/licenses/ELASTIC-LICENSE.txt">Elastic
+          License</link> the ELK packages now have an unfree license. To
+          use them you need to specify
+          <literal>allowUnfree = true;</literal> in your nixpkgs
+          configuration.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Fortunately there is also a free variant of the ELK stack
+          without X-Pack. The packages are available under the names:
+          <literal>elasticsearch-oss</literal>,
+          <literal>logstash-oss</literal> and
+          <literal>kibana-oss</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Options
+          <literal>boot.initrd.luks.devices.name.yubikey.ramfsMountPoint</literal>
+          <literal>boot.initrd.luks.devices.name.yubikey.storage.mountPoint</literal>
+          were removed. <literal>luksroot.nix</literal> module never
+          supported more than one YubiKey at a time anyway, hence those
+          options never had any effect. You should be able to remove
+          them from your config without any issues.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>stdenv.system</literal> and <literal>system</literal>
+          in nixpkgs now refer to the host platform instead of the build
+          platform. For native builds this is not change, let alone a
+          breaking one. For cross builds, it is a breaking change, and
+          <literal>stdenv.buildPlatform.system</literal> can be used
+          instead for the old behavior. They should be using that
+          anyways for clarity.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Groups <literal>kvm</literal> and <literal>render</literal>
+          are introduced now, as systemd requires them.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-18.09-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>dockerTools.pullImage</literal> relies on image
+          digest instead of image tag to download the image. The
+          <literal>sha256</literal> of a pulled image has to be updated.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.attrNamesToStr</literal> has been deprecated. Use
+          more specific concatenation
+          (<literal>lib.concat(Map)StringsSep</literal>) instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.addErrorContextToAttrs</literal> has been
+          deprecated. Use <literal>builtins.addErrorContext</literal>
+          directly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.showVal</literal> has been deprecated. Use
+          <literal>lib.traceSeqN</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.traceXMLVal</literal> has been deprecated. Use
+          <literal>lib.traceValFn builtins.toXml</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.traceXMLValMarked</literal> has been deprecated.
+          Use
+          <literal>lib.traceValFn (x: str + builtins.toXML x)</literal>
+          instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>pkgs</literal> argument to NixOS modules can now
+          be set directly using <literal>nixpkgs.pkgs</literal>.
+          Previously, only the <literal>system</literal>,
+          <literal>config</literal> and <literal>overlays</literal>
+          arguments could be used to influence <literal>pkgs</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A NixOS system can now be constructed more easily based on a
+          preexisting invocation of Nixpkgs. For example:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  inherit (pkgs.nixos {
+    boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
+    fileSystems.&quot;/&quot;.device = &quot;/dev/xvda1&quot;;
+  }) toplevel kernel initialRamdisk manual;
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          This benefits evaluation performance, lets you write Nixpkgs
+          packages that depend on NixOS images and is consistent with a
+          deployment architecture that would be centered around Nixpkgs
+          overlays.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.traceValIfNot</literal> has been deprecated. Use
+          <literal>if/then/else</literal> and
+          <literal>lib.traceValSeq</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.traceCallXml</literal> has been deprecated.
+          Please complain if you use the function regularly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The attribute <literal>lib.nixpkgsVersion</literal> has been
+          deprecated in favor of <literal>lib.version</literal>. Please
+          refer to the discussion in
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/39416#discussion_r183845745">NixOS/nixpkgs#39416</link>
+          for further reference.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.recursiveUpdateUntil</literal> was not acting
+          according to its specification. It has been fixed to act
+          according to the docstring, and a test has been added.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The module for <literal>security.dhparams</literal> has two
+          new options now:
+        </para>
+        <variablelist>
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term>
+              <literal>security.dhparams.stateless</literal>
+            </term>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
+                Puts the generated Diffie-Hellman parameters into the
+                Nix store instead of managing them in a stateful manner
+                in <literal>/var/lib/dhparams</literal>.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term>
+              <literal>security.dhparams.defaultBitSize</literal>
+            </term>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
+                The default bit size to use for the generated
+                Diffie-Hellman parameters.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+        </variablelist>
+        <note>
+          <para>
+            The path to the actual generated parameter files should now
+            be queried using
+            <literal>config.security.dhparams.params.name.path</literal>
+            because it might be either in the Nix store or in a
+            directory configured by
+            <literal>security.dhparams.path</literal>.
+          </para>
+        </note>
+        <note>
+          <para>
+            <emphasis role="strong">For developers:</emphasis>
+          </para>
+          <para>
+            Module implementers should not set a specific bit size in
+            order to let users configure it by themselves if they want
+            to have a different bit size than the default (2048).
+          </para>
+          <para>
+            An example usage of this would be:
+          </para>
+          <programlisting language="bash">
+{ config, ... }:
+
+{
+  security.dhparams.params.myservice = {};
+  environment.etc.&quot;myservice.conf&quot;.text = ''
+    dhparams = ${config.security.dhparams.params.myservice.path}
+  '';
+}
+</programlisting>
+        </note>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>networking.networkmanager.useDnsmasq</literal> has
+          been deprecated. Use
+          <literal>networking.networkmanager.dns</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Kubernetes package has been bumped to major version 1.11.
+          Please consult the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.11/CHANGELOG-1.11.md">release
+          notes</link> for details on new features and api changes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.admissionControl</literal>
+          was renamed to
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.enableAdmissionPlugins</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Recommended way to access the Kubernetes Dashboard is via
+          HTTPS (TLS) Therefore; public service port for the dashboard
+          has changed to 443 (container port 8443) and scheme to https.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.address</literal> was
+          renamed to
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.bindAddress</literal>.
+          Note that the default value has changed from 127.0.0.1 to
+          0.0.0.0.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.publicAddress</literal>
+          was not used and thus has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.addons.dashboard.enableRBAC</literal>
+          was renamed to
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.addons.dashboard.rbac.enable</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Kubernetes Dashboard now has only minimal RBAC permissions
+          by default. If dashboard cluster-admin rights are desired, set
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.addons.dashboard.rbac.clusterAdmin</literal>
+          to true. On existing clusters, in order for the revocation of
+          privileges to take effect, the current ClusterRoleBinding for
+          kubernetes-dashboard must be manually removed:
+          <literal>kubectl delete clusterrolebinding kubernetes-dashboard</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>programs.screen</literal> module provides allows
+          to configure <literal>/etc/screenrc</literal>, however the
+          module behaved fairly counterintuitive as the config exists,
+          but the package wasn't available. Since 18.09
+          <literal>pkgs.screen</literal> will be added to
+          <literal>environment.systemPackages</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The module <literal>services.networking.hostapd</literal> now
+          uses WPA2 by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>s6Dns</literal>, <literal>s6Networking</literal>,
+          <literal>s6LinuxUtils</literal> and
+          <literal>s6PortableUtils</literal> renamed to
+          <literal>s6-dns</literal>, <literal>s6-networking</literal>,
+          <literal>s6-linux-utils</literal> and
+          <literal>s6-portable-utils</literal> respectively.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The module option <literal>nix.useSandbox</literal> is now
+          defaulted to <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The config activation script of
+          <literal>nixos-rebuild</literal> now
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemctl.html#Manager%20Lifecycle%20Commands">reloads</link>
+          all user units for each authenticated user.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default display manager is now LightDM. To use SLiM set
+          <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.slim.enable</literal>
+          to <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS option descriptions are now automatically broken up into
+          individual paragraphs if the text contains two consecutive
+          newlines, so it's no longer necessary to use
+          <literal>&lt;/para&gt;&lt;para&gt;</literal> to start a new
+          paragraph.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Top-level <literal>buildPlatform</literal>,
+          <literal>hostPlatform</literal>, and
+          <literal>targetPlatform</literal> in Nixpkgs are deprecated.
+          Please use their equivalents in <literal>stdenv</literal>
+          instead: <literal>stdenv.buildPlatform</literal>,
+          <literal>stdenv.hostPlatform</literal>, and
+          <literal>stdenv.targetPlatform</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-19.03">
+  <title>Release 19.03 (<quote>Koi</quote>, 2019/04/11)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.03-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          End of support is planned for end of October 2019, handing
+          over to 19.09.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default Python 3 interpreter is now CPython 3.7 instead of
+          CPython 3.6.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Added the Pantheon desktop environment. It can be enabled
+          through
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <note>
+          <para>
+            By default,
+            <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon</literal>
+            enables LightDM as a display manager, as pantheon's screen
+            locking implementation relies on it. Because of that it is
+            recommended to leave LightDM enabled. If you'd like to
+            disable it anyway, set
+            <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable</literal>
+            to <literal>false</literal> and enable your preferred
+            display manager.
+          </para>
+        </note>
+        <para>
+          Also note that Pantheon's LightDM greeter is not enabled by
+          default, because it has numerous issues in NixOS and isn't
+          optimal for use here yet.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A major refactoring of the Kubernetes module has been
+          completed. Refactorings primarily focus on decoupling
+          components and enhancing security. Two-way TLS and RBAC has
+          been enabled by default for all components, which slightly
+          changes the way the module is configured. See:
+          <xref linkend="sec-kubernetes" /> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There is now a set of <literal>confinement</literal> options
+          for <literal>systemd.services</literal>, which allows to
+          restrict services into a chroot 2 ed environment that only
+          contains the store paths from the runtime closure of the
+          service.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.03-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/nm-applet.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There is a new <literal>security.googleOsLogin</literal>
+          module for using
+          <link xlink:href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/managing-instance-access">OS
+          Login</link> to manage SSH access to Google Compute Engine
+          instances, which supersedes the imperative and broken
+          <literal>google-accounts-daemon</literal> used in
+          <literal>nixos/modules/virtualisation/google-compute-config.nix</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/beanstalkd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There is a new <literal>services.cockroachdb</literal> module
+          for running CockroachDB databases. NixOS now ships with
+          CockroachDB 2.1.x as well, available on
+          <literal>x86_64-linux</literal> and
+          <literal>aarch64-linux</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./security/duosec.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <link xlink:href="https://duo.com/docs/duounix">PAM module
+          for Duo Security</link> has been enabled for use. One can
+          configure it using the <literal>security.duosec</literal>
+          options along with the corresponding PAM option in
+          <literal>security.pam.services.&lt;name?&gt;.duoSecurity.enable</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.03-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The minimum version of Nix required to evaluate Nixpkgs is now
+          2.0.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For users of NixOS 18.03 and 19.03, NixOS defaults to Nix
+              2.0, but supports using Nix 1.11 by setting
+              <literal>nix.package = pkgs.nix1;</literal>. If this
+              option is set to a Nix 1.11 package, you will need to
+              either unset the option or upgrade it to Nix 2.0.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For users of NixOS 17.09, you will first need to upgrade
+              Nix by setting
+              <literal>nix.package = pkgs.nixStable2;</literal> and run
+              <literal>nixos-rebuild switch</literal> as the
+              <literal>root</literal> user.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For users of a daemon-less Nix installation on Linux or
+              macOS, you can upgrade Nix by running
+              <literal>curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh</literal>,
+              or prior to doing a channel update, running
+              <literal>nix-env -iA nix</literal>. If you have already
+              run a channel update and Nix is no longer able to evaluate
+              Nixpkgs, the error message printed should provide adequate
+              directions for upgrading Nix.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For users of the Nix daemon on macOS, you can upgrade Nix
+              by running
+              <literal>sudo -i sh -c 'nix-channel --update &amp;&amp; nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix'; sudo launchctl stop org.nixos.nix-daemon; sudo launchctl start org.nixos.nix-daemon</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>buildPythonPackage</literal> function now sets
+          <literal>strictDeps = true</literal> to help distinguish
+          between native and non-native dependencies in order to improve
+          cross-compilation compatibility. Note however that this may
+          break user expressions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>buildPythonPackage</literal> function now sets
+          <literal>LANG = C.UTF-8</literal> to enable Unicode support.
+          The <literal>glibcLocales</literal> package is no longer
+          needed as a build input.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Syncthing state and configuration data has been moved from
+          <literal>services.syncthing.dataDir</literal> to the newly
+          defined <literal>services.syncthing.configDir</literal>, which
+          default to
+          <literal>/var/lib/syncthing/.config/syncthing</literal>. This
+          change makes possible to share synced directories using ACLs
+          without Syncthing resetting the permission on every start.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>ntp</literal> module now has sane default
+          restrictions. If you're relying on the previous defaults,
+          which permitted all queries and commands from all
+          firewall-permitted sources, you can set
+          <literal>services.ntp.restrictDefault</literal> and
+          <literal>services.ntp.restrictSource</literal> to
+          <literal>[]</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Package <literal>rabbitmq_server</literal> is renamed to
+          <literal>rabbitmq-server</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>light</literal> module no longer uses setuid
+          binaries, but udev rules. As a consequence users of that
+          module have to belong to the <literal>video</literal> group in
+          order to use the executable (i.e.
+          <literal>users.users.yourusername.extraGroups = [&quot;video&quot;];</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Buildbot now supports Python 3 and its packages have been
+          moved to <literal>pythonPackages</literal>. The options
+          <literal>services.buildbot-master.package</literal> and
+          <literal>services.buildbot-worker.package</literal> can be
+          used to select the Python 2 or 3 version of the package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Options
+          <literal>services.znc.confOptions.networks.name.userName</literal>
+          and
+          <literal>services.znc.confOptions.networks.name.modulePackages</literal>
+          were removed. They were never used for anything and can
+          therefore safely be removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Package <literal>wasm</literal> has been renamed
+          <literal>proglodyte-wasm</literal>. The package
+          <literal>wasm</literal> will be pointed to
+          <literal>ocamlPackages.wasm</literal> in 19.09, so make sure
+          to update your configuration if you want to keep
+          <literal>proglodyte-wasm</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When the <literal>nixpkgs.pkgs</literal> option is set, NixOS
+          will no longer ignore the <literal>nixpkgs.overlays</literal>
+          option. The old behavior can be recovered by setting
+          <literal>nixpkgs.overlays = lib.mkForce [];</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          OpenSMTPD has been upgraded to version 6.4.0p1. This release
+          makes backwards-incompatible changes to the configuration file
+          format. See <literal>man smtpd.conf</literal> for more
+          information on the new file format.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The versioned <literal>postgresql</literal> have been renamed
+          to use underscore number seperators. For example,
+          <literal>postgresql96</literal> has been renamed to
+          <literal>postgresql_9_6</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Package <literal>consul-ui</literal> and passthrough
+          <literal>consul.ui</literal> have been removed. The package
+          <literal>consul</literal> now uses upstream releases that
+          vendor the UI into the binary. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/48714#issuecomment-433454834">#48714</link>
+          for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Slurm introduces the new option
+          <literal>services.slurm.stateSaveLocation</literal>, which is
+          now set to <literal>/var/spool/slurm</literal> by default
+          (instead of <literal>/var/spool</literal>). Make sure to move
+          all files to the new directory or to set the option
+          accordingly.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The slurmctld now runs as user <literal>slurm</literal>
+          instead of <literal>root</literal>. If you want to keep
+          slurmctld running as <literal>root</literal>, set
+          <literal>services.slurm.user = root</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The options <literal>services.slurm.nodeName</literal> and
+          <literal>services.slurm.partitionName</literal> are now sets
+          of strings to correctly reflect that fact that each of these
+          options can occour more than once in the configuration.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>solr</literal> package has been upgraded from
+          4.10.3 to 7.5.0 and has undergone some major changes. The
+          <literal>services.solr</literal> module has been updated to
+          reflect these changes. Please review
+          http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ carefully before upgrading.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Package <literal>ckb</literal> is renamed to
+          <literal>ckb-next</literal>, and options
+          <literal>hardware.ckb.*</literal> are renamed to
+          <literal>hardware.ckb-next.*</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.job.logToFile</literal>
+          which was previously set to <literal>true</literal> when using
+          the display managers <literal>lightdm</literal>,
+          <literal>sddm</literal> or <literal>xpra</literal> has been
+          reset to the default value (<literal>false</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Network interface indiscriminate NixOS firewall options
+          (<literal>networking.firewall.allow*</literal>) are now
+          preserved when also setting interface specific rules such as
+          <literal>networking.firewall.interfaces.en0.allow*</literal>.
+          These rules continue to use the pseudo device
+          &quot;default&quot;
+          (<literal>networking.firewall.interfaces.default.*</literal>),
+          and assigning to this pseudo device will override the
+          (<literal>networking.firewall.allow*</literal>) options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>nscd</literal> service now disables all caching
+          of <literal>passwd</literal> and <literal>group</literal>
+          databases by default. This was interferring with the correct
+          functioning of the <literal>libnss_systemd.so</literal> module
+          which is used by <literal>systemd</literal> to manage uids and
+          usernames in the presence of <literal>DynamicUser=</literal>
+          in systemd services. This was already the default behaviour in
+          presence of <literal>services.sssd.enable = true</literal>
+          because nscd caching would interfere with
+          <literal>sssd</literal> in unpredictable ways as well. Because
+          we're using nscd not for caching, but for convincing glibc to
+          find NSS modules in the nix store instead of an absolute path,
+          we have decided to disable caching globally now, as it's
+          usually not the behaviour the user wants and can lead to
+          surprising behaviour. Furthermore, negative caching of host
+          lookups is also disabled now by default. This should fix the
+          issue of dns lookups failing in the presence of an unreliable
+          network.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If the old behaviour is desired, this can be restored by
+          setting the <literal>services.nscd.config</literal> option
+          with the desired caching parameters.
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.nscd.config =
+  ''
+  server-user             nscd
+  threads                 1
+  paranoia                no
+  debug-level             0
+
+  enable-cache            passwd          yes
+  positive-time-to-live   passwd          600
+  negative-time-to-live   passwd          20
+  suggested-size          passwd          211
+  check-files             passwd          yes
+  persistent              passwd          no
+  shared                  passwd          yes
+
+  enable-cache            group           yes
+  positive-time-to-live   group           3600
+  negative-time-to-live   group           60
+  suggested-size          group           211
+  check-files             group           yes
+  persistent              group           no
+  shared                  group           yes
+
+  enable-cache            hosts           yes
+  positive-time-to-live   hosts           600
+  negative-time-to-live   hosts           5
+  suggested-size          hosts           211
+  check-files             hosts           yes
+  persistent              hosts           no
+  shared                  hosts           yes
+  '';
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50316">#50316</link>
+          for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GitLab Shell previously used the nix store paths for the
+          <literal>gitlab-shell</literal> command in its
+          <literal>authorized_keys</literal> file, which might stop
+          working after garbage collection. To circumvent that, we
+          regenerated that file on each startup. As
+          <literal>gitlab-shell</literal> has now been changed to use
+          <literal>/var/run/current-system/sw/bin/gitlab-shell</literal>,
+          this is not necessary anymore, but there might be leftover
+          lines with a nix store path. Regenerate the
+          <literal>authorized_keys</literal> file via
+          <literal>sudo -u git -H gitlab-rake gitlab:shell:setup</literal>
+          in that case.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>pam_unix</literal> account module is now loaded
+          with its control field set to <literal>required</literal>
+          instead of <literal>sufficient</literal>, so that later PAM
+          account modules that might do more extensive checks are being
+          executed. Previously, the whole account module verification
+          was exited prematurely in case a nss module provided the
+          account name to <literal>pam_unix</literal>. The LDAP and SSSD
+          NixOS modules already add their NSS modules when enabled. In
+          case your setup breaks due to some later PAM account module
+          previosuly shadowed, or failing NSS lookups, please file a
+          bug. You can get back the old behaviour by manually setting
+          <literal>security.pam.services.&lt;name?&gt;.text</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>pam_unix</literal> password module is now loaded
+          with its control field set to <literal>sufficient</literal>
+          instead of <literal>required</literal>, so that password
+          managed only by later PAM password modules are being executed.
+          Previously, for example, changing an LDAP account's password
+          through PAM was not possible: the whole password module
+          verification was exited prematurely by
+          <literal>pam_unix</literal>, preventing
+          <literal>pam_ldap</literal> to manage the password as it
+          should.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>fish</literal> has been upgraded to 3.0. It comes
+          with a number of improvements and backwards incompatible
+          changes. See the <literal>fish</literal>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.0.0">release
+          notes</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The ibus-table input method has had a change in config format,
+          which causes all previous settings to be lost. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/mike-fabian/ibus-table/commit/f9195f877c5212fef0dfa446acb328c45ba5852b">this
+          commit message</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS module system type <literal>types.optionSet</literal>
+          and <literal>lib.mkOption</literal> argument
+          <literal>options</literal> are deprecated. Use
+          <literal>types.submodule</literal> instead.
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54637">#54637</link>)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>matrix-synapse</literal> has been updated to version
+          0.99. It will
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/4509">no
+          longer generate a self-signed certificate on first
+          launch</link> and will be
+          <link xlink:href="https://matrix.org/blog/2019/02/05/synapse-0-99-0/">the
+          last version to accept self-signed certificates</link>. As
+          such, it is now recommended to use a proper certificate
+          verified by a root CA (for example Let's Encrypt). The new
+          <link linkend="module-services-matrix">manual chapter on
+          Matrix</link> contains a working example of using nginx as a
+          reverse proxy in front of <literal>matrix-synapse</literal>,
+          using Let's Encrypt certificates.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>mailutils</literal> now works by default when
+          <literal>sendmail</literal> is not in a setuid wrapper. As a
+          consequence, the <literal>sendmailPath</literal> argument,
+          having lost its main use, has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>graylog</literal> has been upgraded from version 2.*
+          to 3.*. Some setups making use of extraConfig (especially
+          those exposing Graylog via reverse proxies) need to be updated
+          as upstream removed/replaced some settings. See
+          <link xlink:href="http://docs.graylog.org/en/3.0/pages/upgrade/graylog-3.0.html#simplified-http-interface-configuration">Upgrading
+          Graylog</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>users.ldap.bind.password</literal> was
+          renamed to <literal>users.ldap.bind.passwordFile</literal>,
+          and needs to be readable by the <literal>nslcd</literal> user.
+          Same applies to the new
+          <literal>users.ldap.daemon.rootpwmodpwFile</literal> option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>nodejs-6_x</literal> is end-of-life.
+          <literal>nodejs-6_x</literal>,
+          <literal>nodejs-slim-6_x</literal> and
+          <literal>nodePackages_6_x</literal> are removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.03-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.matomo</literal> module gained the
+          option <literal>services.matomo.package</literal> which
+          determines the used Matomo version.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The Matomo module now also comes with the systemd service
+          <literal>matomo-archive-processing.service</literal> and a
+          timer that automatically triggers archive processing every
+          hour. This means that you can safely
+          <link xlink:href="https://matomo.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/#disable-browser-triggers-for-matomo-archiving-and-limit-matomo-reports-to-updating-every-hour">
+          disable browser triggers for Matomo archiving </link> at
+          <literal>Administration &gt; System &gt; General Settings</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Additionally, you can enable to
+          <link xlink:href="https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/#step-2-delete-old-visitors-logs">
+          delete old visitor logs </link> at
+          <literal>Administration &gt; System &gt; Privacy</literal>,
+          but make sure that you run
+          <literal>systemctl start matomo-archive-processing.service</literal>
+          at least once without errors if you have already collected
+          data before, so that the reports get archived before the
+          source data gets deleted.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>composableDerivation</literal> along with supporting
+          library functions has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The deprecated <literal>truecrypt</literal> package has been
+          removed and <literal>truecrypt</literal> attribute is now an
+          alias for <literal>veracrypt</literal>. VeraCrypt is
+          backward-compatible with TrueCrypt volumes. Note that
+          <literal>cryptsetup</literal> also supports loading TrueCrypt
+          volumes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Kubernetes DNS addons, kube-dns, has been replaced with
+          CoreDNS. This change is made in accordance with Kubernetes
+          making CoreDNS the official default starting from
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.11.md#sig-cluster-lifecycle">Kubernetes
+          v1.11</link>. Please beware that upgrading DNS-addon on
+          existing clusters might induce minor downtime while the
+          DNS-addon terminates and re-initializes. Also note that the
+          DNS-service now runs with 2 pod replicas by default. The
+          desired number of replicas can be configured using:
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.addons.dns.replicas</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The quassel-webserver package and module was removed from
+          nixpkgs due to the lack of maintainers.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The manual gained a <link linkend="module-services-matrix">
+          new chapter on self-hosting <literal>matrix-synapse</literal>
+          and <literal>riot-web</literal> </link>, the most prevalent
+          server and client implementations for the
+          <link xlink:href="https://matrix.org/">Matrix</link> federated
+          communication network.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The astah-community package was removed from nixpkgs due to it
+          being discontinued and the downloads not being available
+          anymore.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The httpd service now saves log files with a .log file
+          extension by default for easier integration with the logrotate
+          service.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The owncloud server packages and httpd subservice module were
+          removed from nixpkgs due to the lack of maintainers.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          It is possible now to uze ZRAM devices as general purpose
+          ephemeral block devices, not only as swap. Using more than 1
+          device as ZRAM swap is no longer recommended, but is still
+          possible by setting <literal>zramSwap.swapDevices</literal>
+          explicitly.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          ZRAM algorithm can be changed now.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Changes to ZRAM algorithm are applied during
+          <literal>nixos-rebuild switch</literal>, so make sure you have
+          enough swap space on disk to survive ZRAM device rebuild.
+          Alternatively, use
+          <literal>nixos-rebuild boot; reboot</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Flat volumes are now disabled by default in
+          <literal>hardware.pulseaudio</literal>. This has been done to
+          prevent applications, which are unaware of this feature,
+          setting their volumes to 100% on startup causing harm to your
+          audio hardware and potentially your ears.
+        </para>
+        <note>
+          <para>
+            With this change application specific volumes are relative
+            to the master volume which can be adjusted independently,
+            whereas before they were absolute; meaning that in effect,
+            it scaled the device-volume with the volume of the loudest
+            application.
+          </para>
+        </note>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/DanielAdolfsson/ndppd"><literal>ndppd</literal></link>
+          module now supports
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.ndppd.enable">all
+          config options</link> provided by the current upstream version
+          as service options. Additionally the <literal>ndppd</literal>
+          package doesn't contain the systemd unit configuration from
+          upstream anymore, the unit is completely configured by the
+          NixOS module now.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          New installs of NixOS will default to the Redmine 4.x series
+          unless otherwise specified in
+          <literal>services.redmine.package</literal> while existing
+          installs of NixOS will default to the Redmine 3.x series.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.grafana.enable">Grafana
+          module</link> now supports declarative
+          <link xlink:href="http://docs.grafana.org/administration/provisioning/">datasource
+          and dashboard</link> provisioning.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The use of insecure ports on kubernetes has been deprecated.
+          Thus options:
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.port</literal> and
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.controllerManager.port</literal>
+          has been renamed to <literal>.insecurePort</literal>, and
+          default of both options has changed to 0 (disabled).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Note that the default value of
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.bindAddress</literal>
+          has changed from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0, allowing the apiserver
+          to be accessible from outside the master node itself. If the
+          apiserver insecurePort is enabled, it is strongly recommended
+          to only bind on the loopback interface. See:
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.insecurebindAddress</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.apiserver.allowPrivileged</literal>
+          and
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.kubelet.allowPrivileged</literal>
+          now defaults to false. Disallowing privileged containers on
+          the cluster.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The kubernetes module does no longer add the kubernetes
+          package to <literal>environment.systemPackages</literal>
+          implicitly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>intel</literal> driver has been removed from the
+          default list of
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.videoDrivers">X.org
+          video drivers</link>. The <literal>modesetting</literal>
+          driver should take over automatically, it is better maintained
+          upstream and has less problems with advanced X11 features.
+          This can lead to a change in the output names used by
+          <literal>xrandr</literal>. Some performance regressions on
+          some GPU models might happen. Some OpenCL and VA-API
+          applications might also break (Beignet seems to provide OpenCL
+          support with <literal>modesetting</literal> driver, too).
+          Kernel mode setting API does not support backlight control, so
+          <literal>xbacklight</literal> tool will not work; backlight
+          level can be controlled directly via <literal>/sys/</literal>
+          or with <literal>brightnessctl</literal>. Users who need this
+          functionality more than multi-output XRandR are advised to add
+          `intel` to `videoDrivers` and report an issue (or provide
+          additional details in an existing one)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Openmpi has been updated to version 4.0.0, which removes some
+          deprecated MPI-1 symbols. This may break some older
+          applications that still rely on those symbols. An upgrade
+          guide can be found
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=mpi-removed">here</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The nginx package now relies on OpenSSL 1.1 and supports TLS
+          1.3 by default. You can set the protocols used by the nginx
+          service using
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nginx.sslProtocols">services.nginx.sslProtocols</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A new subcommand <literal>nixos-rebuild edit</literal> was
+          added.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-19.09">
+  <title>Release 19.09 (<quote>Loris</quote>, 2019/10/09)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.09-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          End of support is planned for end of April 2020, handing over
+          to 20.03.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nix has been updated to 2.3; see its
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-2.3">release
+          notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core version changes:
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          systemd: 239 -&gt; 243
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          gcc: 7 -&gt; 8
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          glibc: 2.27 (unchanged)
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          linux: 4.19 LTS (unchanged)
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          openssl: 1.0 -&gt; 1.1
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Desktop version changes:
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          plasma5: 5.14 -&gt; 5.16
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          gnome3: 3.30 -&gt; 3.32
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP now defaults to PHP 7.3, updated from 7.2.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP 7.1 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting
+          this version for the entire lifecycle of the 19.09 release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The binfmt module is now easier to use. Additional systems can
+          be added through
+          <literal>boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems</literal>. For instance,
+          <literal>boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = [ &quot;wasm32-wasi&quot; &quot;x86_64-windows&quot; &quot;aarch64-linux&quot; ];</literal>
+          will set up binfmt interpreters for each of those listed
+          systems.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The installer now uses a less privileged
+          <literal>nixos</literal> user whereas before we logged in as
+          root. To gain root privileges use <literal>sudo -i</literal>
+          without a password.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          We've updated to Xfce 4.14, which brings a new module
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce4-14</literal>.
+          If you'd like to upgrade, please switch from the
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce</literal> module
+          as it will be deprecated in a future release. They're
+          incompatibilities with the current Xfce module; it doesn't
+          support <literal>thunarPlugins</literal> and it isn't
+          recommended to use
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce</literal> and
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce4-14</literal>
+          simultaneously or to downgrade from Xfce 4.14 after upgrading.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GNOME 3 desktop manager module sports an interface to
+          enable/disable core services, applications, and optional GNOME
+          packages like games.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.gnome3.core-os-services.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.gnome3.core-shell.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.gnome3.core-utilities.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.gnome3.games.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          With these options we hope to give users finer grained control
+          over their systems. Prior to this change you'd either have to
+          manually disable options or use
+          <literal>environment.gnome3.excludePackages</literal> which
+          only excluded the optional applications.
+          <literal>environment.gnome3.excludePackages</literal> is now
+          unguarded, it can exclude any package installed with
+          <literal>environment.systemPackages</literal> in the GNOME 3
+          module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Orthogonal to the previous changes to the GNOME 3 desktop
+          manager module, we've updated all default services and
+          applications to match as close as possible to a default
+          reference GNOME 3 experience.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <emphasis role="strong">The following changes were enacted in
+          <literal>services.gnome3.core-utilities.enable</literal></emphasis>
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>accerciser</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>dconf-editor</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>evolution</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-documents</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-nettool</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-power-manager</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-todo</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-tweaks</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-usage</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gucharmap</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>nautilus-sendto</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>vinagre</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>cheese</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>geary</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          <emphasis role="strong">The following changes were enacted in
+          <literal>services.gnome3.core-shell.enable</literal></emphasis>
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>gnome-color-manager</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>orca</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.avahi.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.09-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/dwm-status.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The new <literal>hardware.printers</literal> module allows to
+          declaratively configure CUPS printers via the
+          <literal>ensurePrinters</literal> and
+          <literal>ensureDefaultPrinter</literal> options.
+          <literal>ensurePrinters</literal> will never delete existing
+          printers, but will make sure that the given printers are
+          configured as declared.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There is a new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.system-config-printer.enable">services.system-config-printer.enable</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.system-config-printer.enable">programs.system-config-printer.enable</link>
+          module for the program of the same name. If you previously had
+          <literal>system-config-printer</literal> enabled through some
+          other means you should migrate to using one of these modules.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome3</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.mate</literal>
+              Note Mate uses
+              <literal>programs.system-config-printer</literal> as it
+              doesn't use it as a service, but its graphical interface
+              directly.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.blueman.enable">services.blueman.enable</link>
+          has been added. If you previously had blueman installed via
+          <literal>environment.systemPackages</literal> please migrate
+          to using the NixOS module, as this would result in an
+          insufficiently configured blueman.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.09-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Buildbot no longer supports Python 2, as support was dropped
+          upstream in version 2.0.0. Configurations may need to be
+          modified to make them compatible with Python 3.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PostgreSQL now uses <literal>/run/postgresql</literal> as its
+          socket directory instead of <literal>/tmp</literal>. So if you
+          run an application like eg. Nextcloud, where you need to use
+          the Unix socket path as the database host name, you need to
+          change it accordingly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PostgreSQL 9.4 is scheduled EOL during the 19.09 life cycle
+          and has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The options
+          <literal>services.prometheus.alertmanager.user</literal> and
+          <literal>services.prometheus.alertmanager.group</literal> have
+          been removed because the alertmanager service is now using
+          systemd's
+          <link xlink:href="http://0pointer.net/blog/dynamic-users-with-systemd.html">
+          DynamicUser mechanism</link> which obviates these options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The NetworkManager systemd unit was renamed back from
+          network-manager.service to NetworkManager.service for better
+          compatibility with other applications expecting this name. The
+          same applies to ModemManager where modem-manager.service is
+          now called ModemManager.service again.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.nzbget.configFile</literal> and
+          <literal>services.nzbget.openFirewall</literal> options were
+          removed as they are managed internally by the nzbget. The
+          <literal>services.nzbget.dataDir</literal> option hadn't
+          actually been used by the module for some time and so was
+          removed as cleanup.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.mysql.pidDir</literal> option was
+          removed, as it was only used by the wordpress apache-httpd
+          service to wait for mysql to have started up. This can be
+          accomplished by either describing a dependency on
+          mysql.service (preferred) or waiting for the (hardcoded)
+          <literal>/run/mysqld/mysql.sock</literal> file to appear.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.emby.enable</literal> module has been
+          removed, see <literal>services.jellyfin.enable</literal>
+          instead for a free software fork of Emby. See the Jellyfin
+          documentation:
+          <link xlink:href="https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/administrator-docs/migrate-from-emby/">
+          Migrating from Emby to Jellyfin </link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          IPv6 Privacy Extensions are now enabled by default for
+          undeclared interfaces. The previous behaviour was quite
+          misleading — even though the default value for
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.*.preferTempAddress</literal>
+          was <literal>true</literal>, undeclared interfaces would not
+          prefer temporary addresses. Now, interfaces not mentioned in
+          the config will prefer temporary addresses. EUI64 addresses
+          can still be set as preferred by explicitly setting the option
+          to <literal>false</literal> for the interface in question.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Since Bittorrent Sync was superseded by Resilio Sync in 2016,
+          the <literal>bittorrentSync</literal>,
+          <literal>bittorrentSync14</literal>, and
+          <literal>bittorrentSync16</literal> packages have been removed
+          in favor of <literal>resilio-sync</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The corresponding module, <literal>services.btsync</literal>
+          has been replaced by the <literal>services.resilio</literal>
+          module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The httpd service no longer attempts to start the postgresql
+          service. If you have come to depend on this behaviour then you
+          can preserve the behavior with the following configuration:
+          <literal>systemd.services.httpd.after = [ &quot;postgresql.service&quot; ];</literal>
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>services.httpd.extraSubservices</literal>
+          has been marked as deprecated. You may still use this feature,
+          but it will be removed in a future release of NixOS. You are
+          encouraged to convert any httpd subservices you may have
+          written to a full NixOS module.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Most of the httpd subservices packaged with NixOS have been
+          replaced with full NixOS modules including LimeSurvey,
+          WordPress, and Zabbix. These modules can be enabled using the
+          <literal>services.limesurvey.enable</literal>,
+          <literal>services.mediawiki.enable</literal>,
+          <literal>services.wordpress.enable</literal>, and
+          <literal>services.zabbixWeb.enable</literal> options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>systemd.network.networks.&lt;name&gt;.routes.*.routeConfig.GatewayOnlink</literal>
+          was renamed to
+          <literal>systemd.network.networks.&lt;name&gt;.routes.*.routeConfig.GatewayOnLink</literal>
+          (capital <literal>L</literal>). This follows
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/9cb8c5593443d24c19e40bfd4fc06d672f8c554c">
+          upstreams renaming </link> of the setting.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          As of this release the NixOps feature
+          <literal>autoLuks</literal> is deprecated. It no longer works
+          with our systemd version without manual intervention.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Whenever the usage of the module is detected the evaluation
+          will fail with a message explaining why and how to deal with
+          the situation.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          A new knob named
+          <literal>nixops.enableDeprecatedAutoLuks</literal> has been
+          introduced to disable the eval failure and to acknowledge the
+          notice was received and read. If you plan on using the feature
+          please note that it might break with subsequent updates.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Make sure you set the <literal>_netdev</literal> option for
+          each of the file systems referring to block devices provided
+          by the autoLuks module. Not doing this might render the system
+          in a state where it doesn't boot anymore.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you are actively using the <literal>autoLuks</literal>
+          module please let us know in
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/62211">issue
+          #62211</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The setopt declarations will be evaluated at the end of
+          <literal>/etc/zshrc</literal>, so any code in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.zsh.interactiveShellInit">programs.zsh.interactiveShellInit</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.zsh.loginShellInit">programs.zsh.loginShellInit</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.zsh.promptInit">programs.zsh.promptInit</link>
+          may break if it relies on those options being set.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>prometheus-nginx-exporter</literal> package now
+          uses the offical exporter provided by NGINX Inc. Its metrics
+          are differently structured and are incompatible to the old
+          ones. For information about the metrics, have a look at the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter">official
+          repo</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>shibboleth-sp</literal> package has been updated
+          to version 3. It is largely backward compatible, for further
+          information refer to the
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SP3/ReleaseNotes">release
+          notes</link> and
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SP3/UpgradingFromV2">upgrade
+          guide</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Nodejs 8 is scheduled EOL under the lifetime of 19.09 and has
+          been dropped.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          By default, prometheus exporters are now run with
+          <literal>DynamicUser</literal> enabled. Exporters that need a
+          real user, now run under a seperate user and group which
+          follow the pattern
+          <literal>&lt;exporter-name&gt;-exporter</literal>, instead of
+          the previous default <literal>nobody</literal> and
+          <literal>nogroup</literal>. Only some exporters are affected
+          by the latter, namely the exporters
+          <literal>dovecot</literal>, <literal>node</literal>,
+          <literal>postfix</literal> and <literal>varnish</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>ibus-qt</literal> package is not installed by
+          default anymore when
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-i18n.inputMethod.enabled">i18n.inputMethod.enabled</link>
+          is set to <literal>ibus</literal>. If IBus support in Qt 4.x
+          applications is required, add the <literal>ibus-qt</literal>
+          package to your
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.systemPackages">environment.systemPackages</link>
+          manually.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The CUPS Printing service now uses socket-based activation by
+          default, only starting when needed. The previous behavior can
+          be restored by setting
+          <literal>services.cups.startWhenNeeded</literal> to
+          <literal>false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.systemhealth</literal> module has been
+          removed from nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.mantisbt</literal> module has been
+          removed from nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Squid 3 has been removed and the <literal>squid</literal>
+          derivation now refers to Squid 4.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.pdns-recursor.extraConfig</literal>
+          option has been replaced by
+          <literal>services.pdns-recursor.settings</literal>. The new
+          option allows setting extra configuration while being better
+          type-checked and mergeable.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          No service depends on <literal>keys.target</literal> anymore
+          which is a systemd target that indicates if all
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/#idm140737322342384">NixOps
+          keys</link> were successfully uploaded. Instead,
+          <literal>&lt;key-name&gt;-key.service</literal> should be used
+          to define a dependency of a key in a service. The full issue
+          behind the <literal>keys.target</literal> dependency is
+          described at
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/67265">NixOS/nixpkgs#67265</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The following services are affected by this:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dovecot2.enable"><literal>services.dovecot2</literal></link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nsd.enable"><literal>services.nsd</literal></link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.softether.enable"><literal>services.softether</literal></link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.strongswan.enable"><literal>services.strongswan</literal></link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.strongswan-swanctl.enable"><literal>services.strongswan-swanctl</literal></link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.enable"><literal>services.httpd</literal></link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.acme.directory</literal> option has been
+          replaced by a read-only
+          <literal>security.acme.certs.&lt;cert&gt;.directory</literal>
+          option for each certificate you define. This will be a
+          subdirectory of <literal>/var/lib/acme</literal>. You can use
+          this read-only option to figure out where the certificates are
+          stored for a specific certificate. For example, the
+          <literal>services.nginx.virtualhosts.&lt;name&gt;.enableACME</literal>
+          option will use this directory option to find the certs for
+          the virtual host.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security.acme.preDelay</literal> and
+          <literal>security.acme.activationDelay</literal> options have
+          been removed. To execute a service before certificates are
+          provisioned or renewed add a
+          <literal>RequiredBy=acme-${cert}.service</literal> to any
+          service.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Furthermore, the acme module will not automatically add a
+          dependency on <literal>lighttpd.service</literal> anymore. If
+          you are using certficates provided by letsencrypt for
+          lighttpd, then you should depend on the certificate service
+          <literal>acme-${cert}.service&gt;</literal> manually.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For nginx, the dependencies are still automatically managed
+          when
+          <literal>services.nginx.virtualhosts.&lt;name&gt;.enableACME</literal>
+          is enabled just like before. What changed is that nginx now
+          directly depends on the specific certificates that it needs,
+          instead of depending on the catch-all
+          <literal>acme-certificates.target</literal>. This target unit
+          was also removed from the codebase. This will mean nginx will
+          no longer depend on certificates it isn't explicitly managing
+          and fixes a bug with certificate renewal ordering racing with
+          nginx restarting which could lead to nginx getting in a broken
+          state as described at
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/60180">NixOS/nixpkgs#60180</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The old deprecated <literal>emacs</literal> package sets have
+          been dropped. What used to be called
+          <literal>emacsPackagesNg</literal> is now simply called
+          <literal>emacsPackages</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.xterm</literal> is
+          now disabled by default if <literal>stateVersion</literal> is
+          19.09 or higher. Previously the xterm desktopManager was
+          enabled when xserver was enabled, but it isn't useful for all
+          people so it didn't make sense to have any desktopManager
+          enabled default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The WeeChat plugin
+          <literal>pkgs.weechatScripts.weechat-xmpp</literal> has been
+          removed as it doesn't receive any updates from upstream and
+          depends on outdated Python2-based modules.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Old unsupported versions (<literal>logstash5</literal>,
+          <literal>kibana5</literal>, <literal>filebeat5</literal>,
+          <literal>heartbeat5</literal>, <literal>metricbeat5</literal>,
+          <literal>packetbeat5</literal>) of the ELK-stack and Elastic
+          beats have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For NixOS 19.03, both Prometheus 1 and 2 were available to
+          allow for a seamless transition from version 1 to 2 with
+          existing setups. Because Prometheus 1 is no longer developed,
+          it was removed. Prometheus 2 is now configured with
+          <literal>services.prometheus</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Citrix Receiver (<literal>citrix_receiver</literal>) has been
+          dropped in favor of Citrix Workspace
+          (<literal>citrix_workspace</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.gitlab</literal> module has had its
+          literal secret options
+          (<literal>services.gitlab.smtp.password</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.databasePassword</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.initialRootPassword</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.secret</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.db</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.otp</literal> and
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.jws</literal>) replaced by
+          file-based versions
+          (<literal>services.gitlab.smtp.passwordFile</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.databasePasswordFile</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.initialRootPasswordFile</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.secretFile</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.dbFile</literal>,
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.otpFile</literal> and
+          <literal>services.gitlab.secrets.jwsFile</literal>). This was
+          done so that secrets aren't stored in the world-readable nix
+          store, but means that for each option you'll have to create a
+          file with the same exact string, add &quot;File&quot; to the
+          end of the option name, and change the definition to a string
+          pointing to the corresponding file; e.g.
+          <literal>services.gitlab.databasePassword = &quot;supersecurepassword&quot;</literal>
+          becomes
+          <literal>services.gitlab.databasePasswordFile = &quot;/path/to/secret_file&quot;</literal>
+          where the file <literal>secret_file</literal> contains the
+          string <literal>supersecurepassword</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The state path (<literal>services.gitlab.statePath</literal>)
+          now has the following restriction: no parent directory can be
+          owned by any other user than <literal>root</literal> or the
+          user specified in <literal>services.gitlab.user</literal>;
+          i.e. if <literal>services.gitlab.statePath</literal> is set to
+          <literal>/var/lib/gitlab/state</literal>,
+          <literal>gitlab</literal> and all parent directories must be
+          owned by either <literal>root</literal> or the user specified
+          in <literal>services.gitlab.user</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>networking.useDHCP</literal> option is
+          unsupported in combination with
+          <literal>networking.useNetworkd</literal> in anticipation of
+          defaulting to it. It has to be set to <literal>false</literal>
+          and enabled per interface with
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.useDHCP = true;</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Twitter client <literal>corebird</literal> has been
+          dropped as
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/corebirds-future-18921328">it
+          is discontinued and does not work against the new Twitter
+          API</link>. Please use the fork <literal>cawbird</literal>
+          instead which has been adapted to the API changes and is still
+          maintained.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>nodejs-11_x</literal> package has been removed as
+          it's EOLed by upstream.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Because of the systemd upgrade, systemd-timesyncd will no
+          longer work if <literal>system.stateVersion</literal> is not
+          set correctly. When upgrading from NixOS 19.03, please make
+          sure that <literal>system.stateVersion</literal> is set to
+          <literal>&quot;19.03&quot;</literal>, or lower if the
+          installation dates back to an earlier version of NixOS.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Due to the short lifetime of non-LTS kernel releases package
+          attributes like <literal>linux_5_1</literal>,
+          <literal>linux_5_2</literal> and <literal>linux_5_3</literal>
+          have been removed to discourage dependence on specific non-LTS
+          kernel versions in stable NixOS releases. Going forward,
+          versioned attributes like <literal>linux_4_9</literal> will
+          exist for LTS versions only. Please use
+          <literal>linux_latest</literal> or
+          <literal>linux_testing</literal> if you depend on non-LTS
+          releases. Keep in mind that <literal>linux_latest</literal>
+          and <literal>linux_testing</literal> will change versions
+          under the hood during the lifetime of a stable release and
+          might include breaking changes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Because of the systemd upgrade, some network interfaces might
+          change their name. For details see
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.html#History">
+          upstream docs</link> or
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71086">
+          our ticket</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-19.09-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>documentation</literal> module gained an option
+          named <literal>documentation.nixos.includeAllModules</literal>
+          which makes the generated configuration.nix 5 manual page
+          include all options from all NixOS modules included in a given
+          <literal>configuration.nix</literal> configuration file.
+          Currently, it is set to <literal>false</literal> by default as
+          enabling it frequently prevents evaluation. But the plan is to
+          eventually have it set to <literal>true</literal> by default.
+          Please set it to <literal>true</literal> now in your
+          <literal>configuration.nix</literal> and fix all the bugs it
+          uncovers.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>vlc</literal> package gained support for
+          Chromecast streaming, enabled by default. TCP port 8010 must
+          be open for it to work, so something like
+          <literal>networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 8010 ];</literal>
+          may be required in your configuration. Also consider enabling
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Accelerated_Video_Playback">
+          Accelerated Video Playback</link> for better transcoding
+          performance.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The following changes apply if the
+          <literal>stateVersion</literal> is changed to 19.09 or higher.
+          For <literal>stateVersion = &quot;19.03&quot;</literal> or
+          lower the old behavior is preserved.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>solr.package</literal> defaults to
+              <literal>pkgs.solr_8</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>hunspellDicts.fr-any</literal> dictionary now
+          ships with <literal>fr_FR.{aff,dic}</literal> which is linked
+          to <literal>fr-toutesvariantes.{aff,dic}</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>mysql</literal> service now runs as
+          <literal>mysql</literal> user. Previously, systemd did execute
+          it as root, and mysql dropped privileges itself. This includes
+          <literal>ExecStartPre=</literal> and
+          <literal>ExecStartPost=</literal> phases. To accomplish that,
+          runtime and data directory setup was delegated to
+          RuntimeDirectory and tmpfiles.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          With the upgrade to systemd version 242 the
+          <literal>systemd-timesyncd</literal> service is no longer
+          using <literal>DynamicUser=yes</literal>. In order for the
+          upgrade to work we rely on an activation script to move the
+          state from the old to the new directory. The older directory
+          (prior <literal>19.09</literal>) was
+          <literal>/var/lib/private/systemd/timesync</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          As long as the <literal>system.config.stateVersion</literal>
+          is below <literal>19.09</literal> the state folder will
+          migrated to its proper location
+          (<literal>/var/lib/systemd/timesync</literal>), if required.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The package <literal>avahi</literal> is now built to look up
+          service definitions from
+          <literal>/etc/avahi/services</literal> instead of its output
+          directory in the nix store. Accordingly the module
+          <literal>avahi</literal> now supports custom service
+          definitions via
+          <literal>services.avahi.extraServiceFiles</literal>, which are
+          then placed in the aforementioned directory. See
+          avahi.service5 for more information on custom service
+          definitions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Since version 0.1.19, <literal>cargo-vendor</literal> honors
+          package includes that are specified in the
+          <literal>Cargo.toml</literal> file of Rust crates.
+          <literal>rustPlatform.buildRustPackage</literal> uses
+          <literal>cargo-vendor</literal> to collect and build dependent
+          crates. Since this change in <literal>cargo-vendor</literal>
+          changes the set of vendored files for most Rust packages, the
+          hash that use used to verify the dependencies,
+          <literal>cargoSha256</literal>, also changes.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>cargoSha256</literal> hashes of all in-tree
+          derivations that use <literal>buildRustPackage</literal> have
+          been updated to reflect this change. However, third-party
+          derivations that use <literal>buildRustPackage</literal> may
+          have to be updated as well.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>consul</literal> package was upgraded past
+          version <literal>1.5</literal>, so its deprecated legacy UI is
+          no longer available.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default resample-method for PulseAudio has been changed
+          from the upstream default <literal>speex-float-1</literal> to
+          <literal>speex-float-5</literal>. Be aware that low-powered
+          ARM-based and MIPS-based boards will struggle with this so
+          you'll need to set
+          <literal>hardware.pulseaudio.daemon.config.resample-method</literal>
+          back to <literal>speex-float-1</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>phabricator</literal> package and associated
+          <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal>, as well as the
+          <literal>phd</literal> service have been removed from nixpkgs
+          due to lack of maintainer.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>mercurial</literal>
+          <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal> has been removed from
+          nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>trac</literal>
+          <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal> has been removed from
+          nixpkgs because it was unmaintained.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>foswiki</literal> package and associated
+          <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal> have been removed
+          from nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>tomcat-connector</literal>
+          <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal> has been removed from
+          nixpkgs.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          It's now possible to change configuration in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.enable">services.nextcloud</link>
+          after the initial deploy since all config parameters are
+          persisted in an additional config file generated by the
+          module. Previously core configuration like database parameters
+          were set using their imperative installer after creating
+          <literal>/var/lib/nextcloud</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There exists now <literal>lib.forEach</literal>, which is like
+          <literal>map</literal>, but with arguments flipped. When
+          mapping function body spans many lines (or has nested
+          <literal>map</literal>s), it is often hard to follow which
+          list is modified.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Previous solution to this problem was either to use
+          <literal>lib.flip map</literal> idiom or extract that
+          anonymous mapping function to a named one. Both can still be
+          used but <literal>lib.forEach</literal> is preferred over
+          <literal>lib.flip map</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>/etc/sysctl.d/nixos.conf</literal> file
+          containing all the options set via
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.kernel.sysctl">boot.kernel.sysctl</link>
+          was moved to <literal>/etc/sysctl.d/60-nixos.conf</literal>,
+          as sysctl.d5 recommends prefixing all filenames in
+          <literal>/etc/sysctl.d</literal> with a two-digit number and a
+          dash to simplify the ordering of the files.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          We now install the sysctl snippets shipped with systemd.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Loose reverse path filtering
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Source route filtering
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>fq_codel</literal> as a packet scheduler (this
+              helps to fight bufferbloat)
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          This also configures the kernel to pass core dumps to
+          <literal>systemd-coredump</literal>, and restricts the SysRq
+          key combinations to the sync command only. These sysctl
+          snippets can be found in
+          <literal>/etc/sysctl.d/50-*.conf</literal>, and overridden via
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.kernel.sysctl">boot.kernel.sysctl</link>
+          (which will place the parameters in
+          <literal>/etc/sysctl.d/60-nixos.conf</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core dumps are now processed by
+          <literal>systemd-coredump</literal> by default.
+          <literal>systemd-coredump</literal> behaviour can still be
+          modified via <literal>systemd.coredump.extraConfig</literal>.
+          To stick to the old behaviour (having the kernel dump to a
+          file called <literal>core</literal> in the working directory),
+          without piping it through <literal>systemd-coredump</literal>,
+          set <literal>systemd.coredump.enable</literal> to
+          <literal>false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>systemd.packages</literal> option now also supports
+          generators and shutdown scripts. Old
+          <literal>systemd.generator-packages</literal> option has been
+          removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>rmilter</literal> package was removed with
+          associated module and options due deprecation by upstream
+          developer. Use <literal>rspamd</literal> in proxy mode
+          instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          systemd cgroup accounting via the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.enableCgroupAccounting">systemd.enableCgroupAccounting</link>
+          option is now enabled by default. It now also enables the more
+          recent Block IO and IP accounting features.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          We no longer enable custom font rendering settings with
+          <literal>fonts.fontconfig.penultimate.enable</literal> by
+          default. The defaults from fontconfig are sufficient.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>crashplan</literal> package and the
+          <literal>crashplan</literal> service have been removed from
+          nixpkgs due to crashplan shutting down the service, while the
+          <literal>crashplansb</literal> package and
+          <literal>crashplan-small-business</literal> service have been
+          removed from nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.redis.enable">redis
+          module</link> was hardcoded to use the
+          <literal>redis</literal> user, <literal>/run/redis</literal>
+          as runtime directory and <literal>/var/lib/redis</literal> as
+          state directory. Note that the NixOS module for Redis now
+          disables kernel support for Transparent Huge Pages (THP),
+          because this features causes major performance problems for
+          Redis, e.g. (https://redis.io/topics/latency).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Using <literal>fonts.enableDefaultFonts</literal> adds a
+          default emoji font <literal>noto-fonts-emoji</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.xserver.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>programs.sway.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>programs.way-cooler.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.xrdp.enable</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>altcoins</literal> categorization of packages has
+          been removed. You now access these packages at the top level,
+          ie. <literal>nix-shell -p dogecoin</literal> instead of
+          <literal>nix-shell -p altcoins.dogecoin</literal>, etc.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Ceph has been upgraded to v14.2.1. See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://ceph.com/releases/v14-2-0-nautilus-released/">release
+          notes</link> for details. The mgr dashboard as well as osds
+          backed by loop-devices is no longer explicitly supported by
+          the package and module. Note: There's been some issues with
+          python-cherrypy, which is used by the dashboard and prometheus
+          mgr modules (and possibly others), hence
+          0000-dont-check-cherrypy-version.patch.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.weechat</literal> is now compiled against
+          <literal>pkgs.python3</literal>. Weechat also recommends
+          <link xlink:href="https://weechat.org/scripts/python3/">to use
+          Python3 in their docs.</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-20.03">
+  <title>Release 20.03 (<quote>Markhor</quote>, 2020.04/20)</title>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Support is planned until the end of October 2020, handing over
+          to 20.09.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core version changes:
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          gcc: 8.3.0 -&gt; 9.2.0
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          glibc: 2.27 -&gt; 2.30
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          linux: 4.19 -&gt; 5.4
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          mesa: 19.1.5 -&gt; 19.3.3
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          openssl: 1.0.2u -&gt; 1.1.1d
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Desktop version changes:
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          plasma5: 5.16.5 -&gt; 5.17.5
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          kdeApplications: 19.08.2 -&gt; 19.12.3
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          gnome3: 3.32 -&gt; 3.34
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          pantheon: 5.0 -&gt; 5.1.3
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Linux kernel is updated to branch 5.4 by default (from 4.19).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Grub is updated to 2.04, adding support for booting from F2FS
+          filesystems and Btrfs volumes using zstd compression. Note
+          that some users have been unable to boot after upgrading to
+          2.04 - for more information, please see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/61718#issuecomment-617618503">this
+          discussion</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Postgresql for NixOS service now defaults to v11.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The graphical installer image starts the graphical session
+          automatically. Before you'd be greeted by a tty and asked to
+          enter <literal>systemctl start display-manager</literal>. It
+          is now possible to disable the display-manager from running by
+          selecting the <literal>Disable display-manager</literal> quirk
+          in the boot menu.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GNOME 3 has been upgraded to 3.34. Please take a look at their
+          <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.34">Release
+          Notes</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you enable the Pantheon Desktop Manager via
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable">services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable</link>,
+          we now default to also use
+          <link xlink:href="https://blog.elementary.io/say-hello-to-the-new-greeter/">
+          Pantheon's newly designed greeter </link>. Contrary to NixOS's
+          usual update policy, Pantheon will receive updates during the
+          cycle of NixOS 20.03 when backwards compatible.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          By default zfs pools will now be trimmed on a weekly basis.
+          Trimming is only done on supported devices (i.e. NVME or SSDs)
+          and should improve throughput and lifetime of these devices.
+          It is controlled by the
+          <literal>services.zfs.trim.enable</literal> varname. The zfs
+          scrub service
+          (<literal>services.zfs.autoScrub.enable</literal>) and the zfs
+          autosnapshot service
+          (<literal>services.zfs.autoSnapshot.enable</literal>) are now
+          only enabled if zfs is set in
+          <literal>config.boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems</literal> or
+          <literal>config.boot.supportedFilesystems</literal>. These
+          lists will automatically contain zfs as soon as any zfs
+          mountpoint is configured in <literal>fileSystems</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>nixos-option</literal> has been rewritten in C++,
+          speeding it up, improving correctness, and adding a
+          <literal>-r</literal> option which prints all options and
+          their values recursively.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.default</literal> and
+          <literal>services.xserver.windowManager.default</literal>
+          options were replaced by a single
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession">services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession</link>
+          option to improve support for upstream session files. If you
+          used something like:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.xserver.desktopManager.default = &quot;xfce&quot;;
+  services.xserver.windowManager.default = &quot;icewm&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          you should change it to:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession = &quot;xfce+icewm&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The testing driver implementation in NixOS is now in Python
+          <literal>make-test-python.nix</literal>. This was done by
+          Jacek Galowicz
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/tfc">@tfc</link>), and
+          with the collaboration of Julian Stecklina
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/blitz">@blitz</link>)
+          and Jana Traue
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/jtraue">@jtraue</link>).
+          All documentation has been updated to use this testing driver,
+          and a vast majority of the 286 tests in NixOS were ported to
+          python driver. In 20.09 the Perl driver implementation,
+          <literal>make-test.nix</literal>, is slated for removal. This
+          should give users of the NixOS integration framework a
+          transitory period to rewrite their tests to use the Python
+          implementation. Users of the Perl driver will see this warning
+          everytime they use it:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+$ warning: Perl VM tests are deprecated and will be removed for 20.09.
+Please update your tests to use the python test driver.
+See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71684 for details.
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          API compatibility is planned to be kept for at least the next
+          release with the perl driver.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The kubernetes kube-proxy now supports a new hostname
+          configuration
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.proxy.hostname</literal> which
+          has to be set if the hostname of the node should be non
+          default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          UPower's configuration is now managed by NixOS and can be
+          customized via <literal>services.upower</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          To use Geary you should enable
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.geary.enable">programs.geary.enable</link>
+          instead of just adding it to
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.systemPackages">environment.systemPackages</link>.
+          It was created so Geary could function properly outside of
+          GNOME.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./config/console.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./hardware/brillo.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./hardware/tuxedo-keyboard.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/bandwhich.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/bash-my-aws.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/liboping.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./programs/traceroute.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/sanoid.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/syncoid.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/backup/zfs-replication.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/continuous-integration/buildkite-agents.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/databases/victoriametrics.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/gnome3/gnome-initial-setup.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/desktops/neard.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/games/openarena.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/hardware/fancontrol.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/mail/sympa.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/freeswitch.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/misc/mame.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/monitoring/do-agent.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/monitoring/prometheus/xmpp-alerts.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/orangefs/server.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/network-filesystems/orangefs/client.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/3proxy.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/corerad.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/go-shadowsocks2.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/ntp/openntpd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/shorewall.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/shorewall6.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/spacecookie.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/trickster.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/v2ray.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/xandikos.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/networking/yggdrasil.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/dokuwiki.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/gotify-server.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/grocy.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/ihatemoney</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/moinmoin.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/trac.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/trilium.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-apps/shiori.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/web-servers/ttyd.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/x11/picom.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/x11/hardware/digimend.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./services/x11/imwheel.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>./virtualisation/cri-o.nix</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The dhcpcd package
+          <link xlink:href="https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0002621.html">
+          does not request IPv4 addresses for tap and bridge interfaces
+          anymore by default</link>. In order to still get an address on
+          a bridge interface, one has to disable
+          <literal>networking.useDHCP</literal> and explicitly enable
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.useDHCP</literal>
+          on every interface, that should get an address via DHCP. This
+          way, dhcpcd is configured in an explicit way about which
+          interface to run on.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GnuPG is now built without support for a graphical passphrase
+          entry by default. Please enable the
+          <literal>gpg-agent</literal> user service via the NixOS option
+          <literal>programs.gnupg.agent.enable</literal>. Note that
+          upstream recommends using <literal>gpg-agent</literal> and
+          will spawn a <literal>gpg-agent</literal> on the first
+          invocation of GnuPG anyway.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>dynamicHosts</literal> option has been removed
+          from the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.networkmanager.enable">NetworkManager</link>
+          module. Allowing (multiple) regular users to override host
+          entries affecting the whole system opens up a huge attack
+          vector. There seem to be very rare cases where this might be
+          useful. Consider setting system-wide host entries using
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.hosts">networking.hosts</link>,
+          provide them via the DNS server in your network, or use
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.etc">environment.etc</link>
+          to add a file into
+          <literal>/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d</literal> reconfiguring
+          <literal>hostsdir</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>99-main.network</literal> file was removed.
+          Matching all network interfaces caused many breakages, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18962">#18962</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71106">#71106</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          We already don't support the global
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.useDHCP">networking.useDHCP</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.defaultGateway">networking.defaultGateway</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.defaultGateway6">networking.defaultGateway6</link>
+          options if
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.useNetworkd">networking.useNetworkd</link>
+          is enabled, but direct users to configure the per-device
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.interfaces">networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;….</link>
+          options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The stdenv now runs all bash with <literal>set -u</literal>,
+          to catch the use of undefined variables. Before, it itself
+          used <literal>set -u</literal> but was careful to unset it so
+          other packages' code ran as before. Now, all bash code is held
+          to the same high standard, and the rather complex stateful
+          manipulation of the options can be discarded.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The SLIM Display Manager has been removed, as it has been
+          unmaintained since 2013. Consider migrating to a different
+          display manager such as LightDM (current default in NixOS),
+          SDDM, GDM, or using the startx module which uses Xinitrc.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Way Cooler wayland compositor has been removed, as the
+          project has been officially canceled. There are no more
+          <literal>way-cooler</literal> attribute and
+          <literal>programs.way-cooler</literal> options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The BEAM package set has been deleted. You will only find
+          there the different interpreters. You should now use the
+          different build tools coming with the languages with sandbox
+          mode disabled.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There is now only one Xfce package-set and module. This means
+          that attributes <literal>xfce4-14</literal> and
+          <literal>xfceUnstable</literal> all now point to the latest
+          Xfce 4.14 packages. And in the future NixOS releases will be
+          the latest released version of Xfce available at the time of
+          the release's development (if viable).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.phpfpm.pools">phpfpm</link>
+          module now sets <literal>PrivateTmp=true</literal> in its
+          systemd units for better process isolation. If you rely on
+          <literal>/tmp</literal> being shared with other services,
+          explicitly override this by setting
+          <literal>serviceConfig.PrivateTmp</literal> to
+          <literal>false</literal> for each phpfpm unit.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          KDE’s old multimedia framework Phonon no longer supports Qt 4.
+          For that reason, Plasma desktop also does not have
+          <literal>enableQt4Support</literal> option any more.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The BeeGFS module has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The osquery module has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Going forward, <literal>~/bin</literal> in the users home
+          directory will no longer be in <literal>PATH</literal> by
+          default. If you depend on this you should set the option
+          <literal>environment.homeBinInPath</literal> to
+          <literal>true</literal>. The aforementioned option was added
+          this release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>buildRustCrate</literal> infrastructure now
+          produces <literal>lib</literal> outputs in addition to the
+          <literal>out</literal> output. This has led to drastically
+          reduced closure sizes for some rust crates since development
+          dependencies are now in the <literal>lib</literal> output.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Pango was upgraded to 1.44, which no longer uses freetype for
+          font loading. This means that type1 and bitmap fonts are no
+          longer supported in applications relying on Pango for font
+          rendering (notably, GTK application). See
+          <link xlink:href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386">
+          upstream issue</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>roundcube</literal> module has been hardened.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The password of the database is not written world readable
+              in the store any more. If <literal>database.host</literal>
+              is set to <literal>localhost</literal>, then a unix user
+              of the same name as the database will be created and
+              PostreSQL peer authentication will be used, removing the
+              need for a password. Otherwise, a password is still needed
+              and can be provided with the new option
+              <literal>database.passwordFile</literal>, which should be
+              set to the path of a file containing the password and
+              readable by the user <literal>nginx</literal> only. The
+              <literal>database.password</literal> option is insecure
+              and deprecated. Usage of this option will print a warning.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              A random <literal>des_key</literal> is set by default in
+              the configuration of roundcube, instead of using the
+              hardcoded and insecure default. To ensure a clean
+              migration, all users will be logged out when you upgrade
+              to this release.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The packages <literal>openobex</literal> and
+          <literal>obexftp</literal> are no longer installed when
+          enabling Bluetooth via
+          <literal>hardware.bluetooth.enable</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>dump1090</literal> derivation has been changed to
+          use FlightAware's dump1090 as its upstream. However, this
+          version does not have an internal webserver anymore. The
+          assets in the <literal>share/dump1090</literal> directory of
+          the derivation can be used in conjunction with an external
+          webserver to replace this functionality.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The fourStore and fourStoreEndpoint modules have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Polkit no longer has the user of uid 0 (root) as an admin
+          identity. We now follow the upstream default of only having
+          every member of the wheel group admin privileged. Before it
+          was root and members of wheel. The positive outcome of this is
+          pkexec GUI popups or terminal prompts will no longer require
+          the user to choose between two essentially equivalent choices
+          (whether to perform the action as themselves with wheel
+          permissions, or as the root user).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS containers no longer build NixOS manual by default. This
+          saves evaluation time, especially if there are many
+          declarative containers defined. Note that this is already done
+          when
+          <literal>&lt;nixos/modules/profiles/minimal.nix&gt;</literal>
+          module is included in container config.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>kresd</literal> services deprecates the
+          <literal>interfaces</literal> option in favor of the
+          <literal>listenPlain</literal> option which requires full
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.socket.html#ListenStream=">systemd.socket
+          compatible</link> declaration which always include a port.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Virtual console options have been reorganized and can be found
+          under a single top-level attribute:
+          <literal>console</literal>. The full set of changes is as
+          follows:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>i18n.consoleFont</literal> renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.font">console.font</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>i18n.consoleKeyMap</literal> renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.keyMap">console.keyMap</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>i18n.consoleColors</literal> renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.colors">console.colors</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>i18n.consolePackages</literal> renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.packages">console.packages</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>i18n.consoleUseXkbConfig</literal> renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.useXkbConfig">console.useXkbConfig</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>boot.earlyVconsoleSetup</literal> renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.earlySetup">console.earlySetup</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>boot.extraTTYs</literal> renamed to
+              <literal>console.extraTTYs</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.awstats.enable">awstats</link>
+          module has been rewritten to serve stats via static html
+          pages, updated on a timer, over
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts">nginx</link>,
+          instead of dynamic cgi pages over
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.enable">apache</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Minor changes will be required to migrate existing
+          configurations. Details of the required changes can seen by
+          looking through the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.awstats.enable">awstats</link>
+          module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The httpd module no longer provides options to support serving
+          web content without defining a virtual host. As a result of
+          this the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.logPerVirtualHost">services.httpd.logPerVirtualHost</link>
+          option now defaults to <literal>true</literal> instead of
+          <literal>false</literal>. Please update your configuration to
+          make use of
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;</link>
+          option has changed type from a list of submodules to an
+          attribute set of submodules, better matching
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts">services.nginx.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          This change comes with the addition of the following options
+          which mimic the functionality of their
+          <literal>nginx</literal> counterparts:
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.addSSL</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.forceSSL</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.onlySSL</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.enableACME</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.acmeRoot</link>,
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.useACMEHost</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For NixOS configuration options, the <literal>loaOf</literal>
+          type has been deprecated and will be removed in a future
+          release. In nixpkgs, options of this type will be changed to
+          <literal>attrsOf</literal> instead. If you were using one of
+          these in your configuration, you will see a warning suggesting
+          what changes will be required.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For example,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users">users.users</link>
+          is a <literal>loaOf</literal> option that is commonly used as
+          follows:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  users.users =
+    [ { name = &quot;me&quot;;
+        description = &quot;My personal user.&quot;;
+        isNormalUser = true;
+      }
+    ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          This should be rewritten by removing the list and using the
+          value of <literal>name</literal> as the name of the attribute
+          set:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  users.users.me =
+    { description = &quot;My personal user.&quot;;
+      isNormalUser = true;
+    };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          For more information on this change have look at these links:
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1800">issue
+          #1800</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/63103">PR
+          #63103</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For NixOS modules, the types
+          <literal>types.submodule</literal> and
+          <literal>types.submoduleWith</literal> now support paths as
+          allowed values, similar to how <literal>imports</literal>
+          supports paths. Because of this, if you have a module that
+          defines an option of type
+          <literal>either (submodule ...) path</literal>, it will break
+          since a path is now treated as the first type instead of the
+          second. To fix this, change the type to
+          <literal>either path (submodule ...)</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">Buildkite
+          Agent</link> module and corresponding packages have been
+          updated to 3.x, and to support multiple instances of the agent
+          running at the same time. This means you will have to rename
+          <literal>services.buildkite-agent</literal> to
+          <literal>services.buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;</literal>.
+          Furthermore, the following options have been changed:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.buildkite-agent.meta-data</literal> has
+              been renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">services.buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;.tags</link>,
+              to match upstreams naming for 3.x. Its type has also
+              changed - it now accepts an attrset of strings.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The<literal>services.buildkite-agent.openssh.publicKeyPath</literal>
+              option has been removed, as it's not necessary to deploy
+              public keys to clone private repositories.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.buildkite-agent.openssh.privateKeyPath</literal>
+              has been renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;.privateSshKeyPath</link>,
+              as the whole <literal>openssh</literal> now only contained
+              that single option.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">services.buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;.shell</link>
+              has been introduced, allowing to specify a custom shell to
+              be used.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>citrix_workspace_19_3_0</literal> package has
+          been removed as it will be EOLed within the lifespan of 20.03.
+          For further information, please refer to the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.citrix.com/de-de/support/product-lifecycle/milestones/receiver.html">support
+          and maintenance information</link> from upstream.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>gcc5</literal> and <literal>gfortran5</literal>
+          packages have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.auto</literal>
+          module has been removed. It was only intended for use in
+          internal NixOS tests, and gave the false impression of it
+          being a special display manager when it's actually LightDM.
+          Please use the
+          <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.autoLogin</literal>
+          options instead, or any other display manager in NixOS as they
+          all support auto-login. If you used this module specifically
+          because it permitted root auto-login you can override the
+          lightdm-autologin pam module like:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  security.pam.services.lightdm-autologin.text = lib.mkForce ''
+      auth     requisite pam_nologin.so
+      auth     required  pam_succeed_if.so quiet
+      auth     required  pam_permit.so
+
+      account  include   lightdm
+
+      password include   lightdm
+
+      session  include   lightdm
+  '';
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The difference is the:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+auth required pam_succeed_if.so quiet
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          line, where default it's:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+ auth required pam_succeed_if.so uid &gt;= 1000 quiet
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          not permitting users with uid's below 1000 (like root). All
+          other display managers in NixOS are configured like this.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          There have been lots of improvements to the Mailman module. As
+          a result,
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>services.mailman.hyperkittyBaseUrl</literal>
+              option has been renamed to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mailman.hyperkitty.baseUrl">services.mailman.hyperkitty.baseUrl</link>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>services.mailman.hyperkittyApiKey</literal>
+              option has been removed. This is because having an option
+              for the Hyperkitty API key meant that the API key would be
+              stored in the world-readable Nix store, which was a
+              security vulnerability. A new Hyperkitty API key will be
+              generated the first time the new Hyperkitty service is
+              run, and it will then be persisted outside of the Nix
+              store. To continue using Hyperkitty, you must set
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mailman.hyperkitty.enable">services.mailman.hyperkitty.enable</link>
+              to <literal>true</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Additionally, some Postfix configuration must now be set
+              manually instead of automatically by the Mailman module:
+            </para>
+            <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.postfix.relayDomains = [ &quot;hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/postfix_domains&quot; ];
+  services.postfix.config.transport_maps = [ &quot;hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/postfix_lmtp&quot; ];
+  services.postfix.config.local_recipient_maps = [ &quot;hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/postfix_lmtp&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+            <para>
+              This is because some users may want to include other
+              values in these lists as well, and this was not possible
+              if they were set automatically by the Mailman module. It
+              would not have been possible to just concatenate values
+              from multiple modules each setting the values they needed,
+              because the order of elements in the list is significant.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The LLVM versions 3.5, 3.9 and 4 (including the corresponding
+          CLang versions) have been dropped.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.*.preferTempAddress</literal>
+          option has been replaced by
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.*.tempAddress</literal>. The
+          new option allows better control of the IPv6 temporary
+          addresses, including completely disabling them for interfaces
+          where they are not needed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Rspamd was updated to version 2.2. Read
+          <link xlink:href="https://rspamd.com/doc/migration.html#migration-to-rspamd-20">
+          the upstream migration notes</link> carefully. Please be
+          especially aware that some modules were removed and the
+          default Bayes backend is now Redis.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>*psu</literal> versions of oraclejdk8 have been
+          removed as they aren't provided by upstream anymore.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.dnscrypt-proxy</literal> module has been
+          removed as it used the deprecated version of dnscrypt-proxy.
+          We've added
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dnscrypt-proxy2.enable">services.dnscrypt-proxy2.enable</link>
+          to use the supported version. This module supports
+          configuration via the Nix attribute set
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dnscrypt-proxy2.settings">services.dnscrypt-proxy2.settings</link>,
+          or by passing a TOML configuration file via
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dnscrypt-proxy2.configFile">services.dnscrypt-proxy2.configFile</link>.
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  # Example configuration:
+  services.dnscrypt-proxy2.enable = true;
+  services.dnscrypt-proxy2.settings = {
+    listen_addresses = [ &quot;127.0.0.1:43&quot; ];
+    sources.public-resolvers = {
+      urls = [ &quot;https://download.dnscrypt.info/resolvers-list/v2/public-resolvers.md&quot; ];
+      cache_file = &quot;public-resolvers.md&quot;;
+      minisign_key = &quot;RWQf6LRCGA9i53mlYecO4IzT51TGPpvWucNSCh1CBM0QTaLn73Y7GFO3&quot;;
+      refresh_delay = 72;
+    };
+  };
+
+  services.dnsmasq.enable = true;
+  services.dnsmasq.servers = [ &quot;127.0.0.1#43&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>qesteidutil</literal> has been deprecated in favor of
+          <literal>qdigidoc</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          sqldeveloper_18 has been removed as it's not maintained
+          anymore, sqldeveloper has been updated to version
+          <literal>19.4</literal>. Please note that this means that this
+          means that the oraclejdk is now required. For further
+          information please read the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/sqldev-relnotes-194-5908846.html">release
+          notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Haskell <literal>env</literal> and <literal>shellFor</literal>
+          dev shell environments now organize dependencies the same way
+          as regular builds. In particular, rather than receiving all
+          the different lists of dependencies mashed together as one big
+          list, and then partitioning into Haskell and non-Hakell
+          dependencies, they work from the original many different
+          dependency parameters and don't need to algorithmically
+          partition anything.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          This means that if you incorrectly categorize a dependency,
+          e.g. non-Haskell library dependency as a
+          <literal>buildDepends</literal> or run-time Haskell dependency
+          as a <literal>setupDepends</literal>, whereas things would
+          have worked before they may not work now.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The gcc-snapshot-package has been removed. It's marked as
+          broken for &gt;2 years and used to point to a fairly old
+          snapshot from the gcc7-branch.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The nixos-build-vms8 -script now uses the python test-driver.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The riot-web package now accepts configuration overrides as an
+          attribute set instead of a string. A formerly used JSON
+          configuration can be converted to an attribute set with
+          <literal>builtins.fromJSON</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The new default configuration also disables automatic guest
+          account registration and analytics to improve privacy. The
+          previous behavior can be restored by setting
+          <literal>config.riot-web.conf = { disable_guests = false; piwik = true; }</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Stand-alone usage of <literal>Upower</literal> now requires
+          <literal>services.upower.enable</literal> instead of just
+          installing into
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.systemPackages">environment.systemPackages</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          nextcloud has been updated to <literal>v18.0.2</literal>. This
+          means that users from NixOS 19.09 can't upgrade directly since
+          you can only move one version forward and 19.09 uses
+          <literal>v16.0.8</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To provide a safe upgrade-path and to circumvent similar
+          issues in the future, the following measures were taken:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The pkgs.nextcloud-attribute has been removed and replaced
+              with versioned attributes (currently pkgs.nextcloud17 and
+              pkgs.nextcloud18). With this change major-releases can be
+              backported without breaking stuff and to make
+              upgrade-paths easier.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Existing setups will be detected using
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>:
+              by default, nextcloud17 will be used, but will raise a
+              warning which notes that after that deploy it's
+              recommended to update to the latest stable version
+              (nextcloud18) by declaring the newly introduced setting
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Users with an overlay (e.g. to use nextcloud at version
+              <literal>v18</literal> on <literal>19.09</literal>) will
+              get an evaluation error by default. This is done to ensure
+              that our
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">package</link>-option
+              doesn't select an older version by accident. It's
+              recommended to use pkgs.nextcloud18 or to set
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">package</link>
+              to pkgs.nextcloud explicitly.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <warning>
+          <para>
+            Please note that if you're coming from
+            <literal>19.03</literal> or older, you have to manually
+            upgrade to <literal>19.09</literal> first to upgrade your
+            server to Nextcloud v16.
+          </para>
+        </warning>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Hydra has gained a massive performance improvement due to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/710">some
+          database schema changes</link> by adding several IDs and
+          better indexing. However, it's necessary to upgrade Hydra in
+          multiple steps:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              At first, an older version of Hydra needs to be deployed
+              which adds those (nullable) columns. When having set
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">stateVersion
+              </link> to a value older than <literal>20.03</literal>,
+              this package will be selected by default from the module
+              when upgrading. Otherwise, the package can be deployed
+              using the following config:
+            </para>
+            <programlisting language="bash">
+{ pkgs, ... }: {
+  services.hydra.package = pkgs.hydra-migration;
+}
+</programlisting>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Automatically fill the newly added ID columns on the server by
+          running the following command:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+$ hydra-backfill-ids
+</programlisting>
+        <warning>
+          <para>
+            Please note that this process can take a while depending on
+            your database-size!
+          </para>
+        </warning>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Deploy a newer version of Hydra to activate the DB
+          optimizations. This can be done by using hydra-unstable. This
+          package already includes
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/pull/49">flake-support</link>
+          and is therefore compiled against pkgs.nixFlakes.
+        </para>
+        <warning>
+          <para>
+            If your
+            <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">stateVersion</link>
+            is set to <literal>20.03</literal> or greater,
+            hydra-unstable will be used automatically! This will break
+            your setup if you didn't run the migration.
+          </para>
+        </warning>
+        <para>
+          Please note that Hydra is currently not available with
+          nixStable as this doesn't compile anymore.
+        </para>
+        <warning>
+          <para>
+            pkgs.hydra has been removed to ensure a graceful
+            database-migration using the dedicated package-attributes.
+            If you still have pkgs.hydra defined in e.g. an overlay, an
+            assertion error will be thrown. To circumvent this, you need
+            to set
+            <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.hydra.package">services.hydra.package</link>
+            to pkgs.hydra explicitly and make sure you know what you're
+            doing!
+          </para>
+        </warning>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The TokuDB storage engine will be disabled in mariadb 10.5. It
+          is recommended to switch to RocksDB. See also
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/tokudb/">TokuDB</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          SD images are now compressed by default using
+          <literal>bzip2</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The nginx web server previously started its master process as
+          root privileged, then ran worker processes as a less
+          privileged identity user (the <literal>nginx</literal> user).
+          This was changed to start all of nginx as a less privileged
+          user (defined by <literal>services.nginx.user</literal> and
+          <literal>services.nginx.group</literal>). As a consequence,
+          all files that are needed for nginx to run (included
+          configuration fragments, SSL certificates and keys, etc.) must
+          now be readable by this less privileged user/group.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To continue to use the old approach, you can configure:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.nginx.appendConfig = let cfg = config.services.nginx; in ''user ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group};'';
+  systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.User = lib.mkForce &quot;root&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          OpenSSH has been upgraded from 7.9 to 8.1, improving security
+          and adding features but with potential incompatibilities.
+          Consult the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.1">
+          release announcement</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>PRETTY_NAME</literal> in
+          <literal>/etc/os-release</literal> now uses the short rather
+          than full version string.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The ACME module has switched from simp-le to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/go-acme/lego">lego</link>
+          which allows us to support DNS-01 challenges and wildcard
+          certificates. The following options have been added:
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.acceptTerms">security.acme.acceptTerms</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.dnsProvider</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.credentialsFile</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.dnsPropagationCheck</link>.
+          As well as this, the options
+          <literal>security.acme.acceptTerms</literal> and either
+          <literal>security.acme.email</literal> or
+          <literal>security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.email</literal> must
+          be set in order to use the ACME module. Certificates will be
+          regenerated on activation, no account or certificate will be
+          migrated from simp-le. In particular private keys will not be
+          preserved. However, the credentials for simp-le are preserved
+          and thus it is possible to roll back to previous versions
+          without breaking certificate generation. Note also that in
+          contrary to simp-le a new private key is recreated at each
+          renewal by default, which can have consequences if you embed
+          your public key in apps.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          It is now possible to unlock LUKS-Encrypted file systems using
+          a FIDO2 token via
+          <literal>boot.initrd.luks.fido2Support</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Predictably named network interfaces get renamed in stage-1.
+          This means that it is possible to use the proper interface
+          name for e.g. Dropbear setups.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For further reference, please read
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/68953">#68953</link>
+          or the corresponding
+          <link xlink:href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/predictable-network-interface-names-in-initrd/4055">discourse
+          thread</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The matrix-synapse-package has been updated to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.11.1">v1.11.1</link>.
+          Due to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.10.0rc1">stricter
+          requirements</link> for database configuration when using
+          postgresql, the automated database setup of the module has
+          been removed to avoid any further edge-cases.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          matrix-synapse expects <literal>postgresql</literal>-databases
+          to have the options <literal>LC_COLLATE</literal> and
+          <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> set to
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/locale.html"><literal>'C'</literal></link>
+          which basically instructs <literal>postgresql</literal> to
+          ignore any locale-based preferences.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Depending on your setup, you need to incorporate one of the
+          following changes in your setup to upgrade to 20.03:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If you use <literal>sqlite3</literal> you don't need to do
+              anything.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If you use <literal>postgresql</literal> on a different
+              server, you don't need to change anything as well since
+              this module was never designed to configure remote
+              databases.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If you use <literal>postgresql</literal> and configured
+              your synapse initially on <literal>19.09</literal> or
+              older, you simply need to enable postgresql-support
+              explicitly:
+            </para>
+            <programlisting language="bash">
+{ ... }: {
+  services.matrix-synapse = {
+    enable = true;
+    /* and all the other config you've defined here */
+  };
+  services.postgresql.enable = true;
+}
+</programlisting>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you deploy a fresh matrix-synapse, you need to configure
+          the database yourself (e.g. by using the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.postgresql.initialScript">services.postgresql.initialScript</link>
+          option). An example for this can be found in the
+          <link linkend="module-services-matrix">documentation of the
+          Matrix module</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you initially deployed your matrix-synapse on
+          <literal>nixos-unstable</literal> <emphasis>after</emphasis>
+          the <literal>19.09</literal>-release, your database is
+          misconfigured due to a regression in NixOS. For now,
+          matrix-synapse will startup with a warning, but it's
+          recommended to reconfigure the database to set the values
+          <literal>LC_COLLATE</literal> and <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal>
+          to
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/locale.html"><literal>'C'</literal></link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.network.links">systemd.network.links</link>
+          option is now respected even when
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.network.enable">systemd-networkd</link>
+          is disabled. This mirrors the behaviour of systemd - It's udev
+          that parses <literal>.link</literal> files, not
+          <literal>systemd-networkd</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          mongodb has been updated to version <literal>3.4.24</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <warning>
+          <para>
+            Please note that mongodb has been relicensed under their own
+            <link xlink:href="https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license/faq"><literal> sspl</literal></link>-license.
+            Since it's not entirely free and not OSI-approved, it's
+            listed as non-free. This means that Hydra doesn't provide
+            prebuilt mongodb-packages and needs to be built locally.
+          </para>
+        </warning>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-20.09">
+  <title>Release 20.09 (<quote>Nightingale</quote>, 2020.10/27)</title>
+  <para>
+    Support is planned until the end of June 2021, handing over to
+    21.05. (Plans
+    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0080-nixos-release-schedule.md#core-changes">
+    have shifted</link> by two months since release of 20.09.)
+  </para>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.09-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to 7349 new, 14442 updated, and 8181 removed packages,
+      this release has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core version changes:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              gcc: 9.2.0 -&gt; 9.3.0
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              glibc: 2.30 -&gt; 2.31
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              linux: still defaults to 5.4.x, all supported kernels
+              available
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              mesa: 19.3.5 -&gt; 20.1.7
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Desktop Environments:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              plasma5: 5.17.5 -&gt; 5.18.5
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              kdeApplications: 19.12.3 -&gt; 20.08.1
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              gnome3: 3.34 -&gt; 3.36, see its
+              <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.36/">release
+              notes</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cinnamon: added at 4.6
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              NixOS now distributes an official
+              <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso">GNOME
+              ISO</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Programming Languages and Frameworks:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Agda ecosystem was heavily reworked (see more details
+              below)
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              PHP now defaults to PHP 7.4, updated from 7.3
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              PHP 7.2 is no longer supported due to upstream not
+              supporting this version for the entire lifecycle of the
+              20.09 release
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Python 3 now defaults to Python 3.8 instead of 3.7
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Python 3.5 reached its upstream EOL at the end of
+              September 2020: it has been removed from the list of
+              available packages
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Databases and Service Monitoring:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              MariaDB has been updated to 10.4, MariaDB Galera to 26.4.
+              Please read the related upgrade instructions under
+              <link linkend="sec-release-20.09-incompatibilities">backwards
+              incompatibilities</link> before upgrading.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Zabbix now defaults to 5.0, updated from 4.4. Please read
+              related sections under
+              <link linkend="sec-release-20.09-incompatibilities">backwards
+              compatibilities</link> before upgrading.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Major module changes:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Quickly configure a complete, private, self-hosted video
+              conferencing solution with the new Jitsi Meet module.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Two new options,
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.openssh.authorizedKeysCommand">authorizedKeysCommand</link>
+              and
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.openssh.authorizedKeysCommandUser">authorizedKeysCommandUser</link>,
+              have been added to the <literal>openssh</literal> module.
+              If you have <literal>AuthorizedKeysCommand</literal> in
+              your
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.openssh.extraConfig">services.openssh.extraConfig</link>
+              you should make use of these new options instead.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              There is a new module for Podman
+              (<literal>virtualisation.podman</literal>), a drop-in
+              replacement for the Docker command line.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The new <literal>virtualisation.containers</literal>
+              module manages configuration shared by the CRI-O and
+              Podman modules.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Declarative Docker containers are renamed from
+              <literal>docker-containers</literal> to
+              <literal>virtualisation.oci-containers.containers</literal>.
+              This is to make it possible to use
+              <literal>podman</literal> instead of
+              <literal>docker</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The new option
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-documentation.man.generateCaches">documentation.man.generateCaches</link>
+              has been added to automatically generate the
+              <literal>man-db</literal> caches, which are needed by
+              utilities like <literal>whatis</literal> and
+              <literal>apropos</literal>. The caches are generated
+              during the build of the NixOS configuration: since this
+              can be expensive when a large number of packages are
+              installed, the feature is disabled by default.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.postfix.sslCACert</literal> was replaced
+              by
+              <literal>services.postfix.tlsTrustedAuthorities</literal>
+              which now defaults to system certificate authorities.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The various documented workarounds to use steam have been
+              converted to a module.
+              <literal>programs.steam.enable</literal> enables steam,
+              controller support and the workarounds.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Support for built-in LCDs in various pieces of Logitech
+              hardware (keyboards and USB speakers).
+              <literal>hardware.logitech.lcd.enable</literal> enables
+              support for all hardware supported by the
+              <link xlink:href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/g15daemon/">g15daemon
+              project</link>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The GRUB module gained support for basic password
+              protection, which allows to restrict non-default entries
+              in the boot menu to one or more users. The users and
+              passwords are defined via the option
+              <literal>boot.loader.grub.users</literal>. Note: Password
+              support is only available in GRUB version 2.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS module changes:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The NixOS module system now supports freeform modules as a
+              mix between <literal>types.attrsOf</literal> and
+              <literal>types.submodule</literal>. These allow you to
+              explicitly declare a subset of options while still
+              permitting definitions without an associated option. See
+              <xref linkend="sec-freeform-modules" /> for how to use
+              them.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Following its deprecation in 20.03, the Perl NixOS test
+              driver has been removed. All remaining tests have been
+              ported to the Python test framework. Code outside nixpkgs
+              using <literal>make-test.nix</literal> or
+              <literal>testing.nix</literal> needs to be ported to
+              <literal>make-test-python.nix</literal> and
+              <literal>testing-python.nix</literal> respectively.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Subordinate GID and UID mappings are now set up
+              automatically for all normal users. This will make
+              container tools like Podman work as non-root users out of
+              the box.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Starting with this release, the hydra-build-result
+          <literal>nixos-YY.MM</literal> branches no longer exist in the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs-channels">deprecated
+          nixpkgs-channels repository</link>. These branches are now in
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs">the main
+          nixpkgs repository</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.09-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to 1119 new, 118 updated, and 476 removed options; 61
+      new modules were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Hardware:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.system76.firmware-daemon.enable">hardware.system76.firmware-daemon.enable</link>
+              adds easy support of system76 firmware
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.uinput.enable">hardware.uinput.enable</link>
+              loads uinput kernel module
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.video.hidpi.enable">hardware.video.hidpi.enable</link>
+              enable good defaults for HiDPI displays
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.wooting.enable">hardware.wooting.enable</link>
+              support for Wooting keyboards
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.xpadneo.enable">hardware.xpadneo.enable</link>
+              xpadneo driver for Xbox One wireless controllers
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Programs:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.hamster.enable">programs.hamster.enable</link>
+              enable hamster time tracking
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.steam.enable">programs.steam.enable</link>
+              adds easy enablement of steam and related system
+              configuration
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Security:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.doas.enable">security.doas.enable</link>
+              alternative to sudo, allows non-root users to execute
+              commands as root
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.tpm2.enable">security.tpm2.enable</link>
+              add Trusted Platform Module 2 support
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          System:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.initrd.network.openvpn.enable">boot.initrd.network.openvpn.enable</link>
+              start an OpenVPN client during initrd boot
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Virtualization:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.enableContainers">boot.enableContainers</link>
+              use nixos-containers
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.oci-containers.containers">virtualisation.oci-containers.containers</link>
+              run OCI (Docker) containers
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.podman.enable">virtualisation.podman.enable</link>
+              daemonless container engine
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Services:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.ankisyncd.enable">services.ankisyncd.enable</link>
+              Anki sync server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.bazarr.enable">services.bazarr.enable</link>
+              Subtitle manager for Sonarr and Radarr
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.biboumi.enable">services.biboumi.enable</link>
+              Biboumi XMPP gateway to IRC
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.blockbook-frontend">services.blockbook-frontend</link>
+              Blockbook-frontend, a service for the Trezor wallet
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.cage.enable">services.cage.enable</link>
+              Wayland cage service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.convos.enable">services.convos.enable</link>
+              IRC daemon, which can be accessed throught the browser
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.engelsystem.enable">services.engelsystem.enable</link>
+              Tool for coordinating volunteers and shifts on large
+              events
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.espanso.enable">services.espanso.enable</link>
+              text-expander written in rust
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.foldingathome.enable">services.foldingathome.enable</link>
+              Folding@home client
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.gerrit.enable">services.gerrit.enable</link>
+              Web-based team code collaboration tool
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.go-neb.enable">services.go-neb.enable</link>
+              Matrix bot
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.hardware.xow.enable">services.hardware.xow.enable</link>
+              xow as a systemd service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.hercules-ci-agent.enable">services.hercules-ci-agent.enable</link>
+              Hercules CI build agent
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jicofo.enable">services.jicofo.enable</link>
+              Jitsi Conference Focus, component of Jitsi Meet
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jirafeau.enable">services.jirafeau.enable</link>
+              A web file repository
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jitsi-meet.enable">services.jitsi-meet.enable</link>
+              Secure, simple and scalable video conferences
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jitsi-videobridge.enable">services.jitsi-videobridge.enable</link>
+              Jitsi Videobridge, a WebRTC compatible router
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jupyterhub.enable">services.jupyterhub.enable</link>
+              Jupyterhub development server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.k3s.enable">services.k3s.enable</link>
+              Lightweight Kubernetes distribution
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.magic-wormhole-mailbox-server.enable">services.magic-wormhole-mailbox-server.enable</link>
+              Magic Wormhole Mailbox Server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.malcontent.enable">services.malcontent.enable</link>
+              Parental Control support
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.matrix-appservice-discord.enable">services.matrix-appservice-discord.enable</link>
+              Matrix and Discord bridge
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mautrix-telegram.enable">services.mautrix-telegram.enable</link>
+              Matrix-Telegram puppeting/relaybot bridge
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mirakurun.enable">services.mirakurun.enable</link>
+              Japanese DTV Tuner Server Service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.molly-brown.enable">services.molly-brown.enable</link>
+              Molly-Brown Gemini server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mullvad-vpn.enable">services.mullvad-vpn.enable</link>
+              Mullvad VPN daemon
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.ncdns.enable">services.ncdns.enable</link>
+              Namecoin to DNS bridge
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextdns.enable">services.nextdns.enable</link>
+              NextDNS to DoH Proxy service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nix-store-gcs-proxy">services.nix-store-gcs-proxy</link>
+              Google storage bucket to be used as a nix store
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.onedrive.enable">services.onedrive.enable</link>
+              OneDrive sync service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.pinnwand.enable">services.pinnwand.enable</link>
+              Pastebin-like service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.pixiecore.enable">services.pixiecore.enable</link>
+              Manage network booting of machines
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.privacyidea.enable">services.privacyidea.enable</link>
+              Privacy authentication server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.quorum.enable">services.quorum.enable</link>
+              Quorum blockchain daemon
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.robustirc-bridge.enable">services.robustirc-bridge.enable</link>
+              RobustIRC bridge
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.rss-bridge.enable">services.rss-bridge.enable</link>
+              Generate RSS and Atom feeds
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.rtorrent.enable">services.rtorrent.enable</link>
+              rTorrent service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.smartdns.enable">services.smartdns.enable</link>
+              SmartDNS DNS server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.sogo.enable">services.sogo.enable</link>
+              SOGo groupware
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.teeworlds.enable">services.teeworlds.enable</link>
+              Teeworlds game server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.torque.mom.enable">services.torque.mom.enable</link>
+              torque computing node
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.torque.server.enable">services.torque.server.enable</link>
+              torque server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tuptime.enable">services.tuptime.enable</link>
+              A total uptime service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.urserver.enable">services.urserver.enable</link>
+              X11 remote server
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.wasabibackend.enable">services.wasabibackend.enable</link>
+              Wasabi backend service
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.yubikey-agent.enable">services.yubikey-agent.enable</link>
+              Yubikey agent
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.zigbee2mqtt.enable">services.zigbee2mqtt.enable</link>
+              Zigbee to MQTT bridge
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.09-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MariaDB has been updated to 10.4, MariaDB Galera to 26.4.
+          Before you upgrade, it would be best to take a backup of your
+          database. For MariaDB Galera Cluster, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-103-to-mariadb-104-with-galera-cluster/">Upgrading
+          from MariaDB 10.3 to MariaDB 10.4 with Galera Cluster</link>
+          instead. Before doing the upgrade read
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-103-to-mariadb-104/#incompatible-changes-between-103-and-104">Incompatible
+          Changes Between 10.3 and 10.4</link>. After the upgrade you
+          will need to run <literal>mysql_upgrade</literal>. MariaDB
+          10.4 introduces a number of changes to the authentication
+          process, intended to make things easier and more intuitive.
+          See
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/authentication-from-mariadb-104/">Authentication
+          from MariaDB 10.4</link>. unix_socket auth plugin does not use
+          a password, and uses the connecting user's UID instead. When a
+          new MariaDB data directory is initialized, two MariaDB users
+          are created and can be used with new unix_socket auth plugin,
+          as well as traditional mysql_native_password plugin:
+          root@localhost and mysql@localhost. To actually use the
+          traditional mysql_native_password plugin method, one must run
+          the following:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+services.mysql.initialScript = pkgs.writeText &quot;mariadb-init.sql&quot; ''
+  ALTER USER root@localhost IDENTIFIED VIA mysql_native_password USING PASSWORD(&quot;verysecret&quot;);
+'';
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          When MariaDB data directory is just upgraded (not
+          initialized), the users are not created or modified.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MySQL server is now started with additional systemd
+          sandbox/hardening options for better security. The PrivateTmp,
+          ProtectHome, and ProtectSystem options may be problematic when
+          MySQL is attempting to read from or write to your filesystem
+          anywhere outside of its own state directory, for example when
+          calling
+          <literal>LOAD DATA INFILE or SELECT * INTO OUTFILE</literal>.
+          In this scenario a variant of the following may be required: -
+          allow MySQL to read from /home and /tmp directories when using
+          <literal>LOAD DATA INFILE</literal>
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.services.mysql.serviceConfig.ProtectHome = lib.mkForce &quot;read-only&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          - allow MySQL to write to custom folder
+          <literal>/var/data</literal> when using
+          <literal>SELECT * INTO OUTFILE</literal>, assuming the mysql
+          user has write access to <literal>/var/data</literal>
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.services.mysql.serviceConfig.ReadWritePaths = [ &quot;/var/data&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The MySQL service no longer runs its
+          <literal>systemd</literal> service startup script as
+          <literal>root</literal> anymore. A dedicated non
+          <literal>root</literal> super user account is required for
+          operation. This means users with an existing MySQL or MariaDB
+          database server are required to run the following SQL
+          statements as a super admin user before upgrading:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="SQL">
+CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS 'mysql'@'localhost' identified with unix_socket;
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mysql'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          If you use MySQL instead of MariaDB please replace
+          <literal>unix_socket</literal> with
+          <literal>auth_socket</literal>. If you have changed the value
+          of
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mysql.user">services.mysql.user</link>
+          from the default of <literal>mysql</literal> to a different
+          user please change <literal>'mysql'@'localhost'</literal> to
+          the corresponding user instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Zabbix now defaults to 5.0, updated from 4.4. Please carefully
+          read through
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/installation/upgrade/sources">the
+          upgrade guide</link> and apply any changes required. Be sure
+          to take special note of the section on
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/installation/upgrade_notes_500#enabling_extended_range_of_numeric_float_values">enabling
+          extended range of numeric (float) values</link> as you will
+          need to apply this database migration manually.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you are using Zabbix Server with a MySQL or MariaDB
+          database you should note that using a character set of
+          <literal>utf8</literal> and a collate of
+          <literal>utf8_bin</literal> has become mandatory with this
+          release. See the upstream
+          <link xlink:href="https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-17357">issue</link>
+          for further discussion. Before upgrading you should check the
+          character set and collation used by your database and ensure
+          they are correct:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="SQL">
+SELECT
+  default_character_set_name,
+  default_collation_name
+FROM
+  information_schema.schemata
+WHERE
+  schema_name = 'zabbix';
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          If these values are not correct you should take a backup of
+          your database and convert the character set and collation as
+          required. Here is an
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-help/396573-reinstall-after-upgrade?p=396891#post396891">example</link>
+          of how to do so, taken from the Zabbix forums:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="SQL">
+ALTER DATABASE `zabbix` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
+
+-- the following will produce a list of SQL commands you should subsequently execute
+SELECT CONCAT(&quot;ALTER TABLE &quot;, TABLE_NAME,&quot; CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;&quot;) AS ExecuteTheString
+FROM information_schema.`COLUMNS`
+WHERE table_schema = &quot;zabbix&quot; AND COLLATION_NAME = &quot;utf8_general_ci&quot;;
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          maxx package removed along with
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.maxx</literal>
+          module. Please migrate to cdesktopenv and
+          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.cde</literal> module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.matrix-synapse.enable">matrix-synapse</link>
+          module no longer includes optional dependencies by default,
+          they have to be added through the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.matrix-synapse.plugins">plugins</link>
+          option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>buildGoModule</literal> now internally creates a
+          vendor directory in the source tree for downloaded modules
+          instead of using go's
+          <link xlink:href="https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_proxy_protocol">module
+          proxy protocol</link>. This storage format is simpler and
+          therefore less likely to break with future versions of go. As
+          a result <literal>buildGoModule</literal> switched from
+          <literal>modSha256</literal> to the
+          <literal>vendorSha256</literal> attribute to pin fetched
+          version data.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Grafana is now built without support for phantomjs by default.
+          Phantomjs support has been
+          <link xlink:href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v6-4/">deprecated
+          in Grafana</link> and the phantomjs project is
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344#issue-302015362">currently
+          unmaintained</link>. It can still be enabled by providing
+          <literal>phantomJsSupport = true</literal> to the package
+          instantiation:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.grafana.package = pkgs.grafana.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
+    phantomJsSupport = true;
+  });
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.supybot.enable">supybot</link>
+          module now uses <literal>/var/lib/supybot</literal> as its
+          default
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.supybot.stateDir">stateDir</link>
+          path if <literal>stateVersion</literal> is 20.09 or higher. It
+          also enables a number of
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#Sandboxing">systemd
+          sandboxing options</link> which may possibly interfere with
+          some plugins. If this is the case you can disable the options
+          through attributes in
+          <literal>systemd.services.supybot.serviceConfig</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.duosec.skey</literal> option, which
+          stored a secret in the nix store, has been replaced by a new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.duosec.secretKeyFile">security.duosec.secretKeyFile</link>
+          option for better security.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security.duosec.ikey</literal> has been renamed to
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.duosec.integrationKey">security.duosec.integrationKey</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>vmware</literal> has been removed from the
+          <literal>services.x11.videoDrivers</literal> defaults. For
+          VMWare guests set
+          <literal>virtualisation.vmware.guest.enable</literal> to
+          <literal>true</literal> which will include the appropriate
+          drivers.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The initrd SSH support now uses OpenSSH rather than Dropbear
+          to allow the use of Ed25519 keys and other OpenSSH-specific
+          functionality. Host keys must now be in the OpenSSH format,
+          and at least one pre-generated key must be specified.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you used the
+          <literal>boot.initrd.network.ssh.host*Key</literal> options,
+          you'll get an error explaining how to convert your host keys
+          and migrate to the new
+          <literal>boot.initrd.network.ssh.hostKeys</literal> option.
+          Otherwise, if you don't have any host keys set, you'll need to
+          generate some; see the <literal>hostKeys</literal> option
+          documentation for instructions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Since this release there's an easy way to customize your PHP
+          install to get a much smaller base PHP with only wanted
+          extensions enabled. See the following snippet installing a
+          smaller PHP with the extensions <literal>imagick</literal>,
+          <literal>opcache</literal>, <literal>pdo</literal> and
+          <literal>pdo_mysql</literal> loaded:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  environment.systemPackages = [
+    (pkgs.php.withExtensions
+      ({ all, ... }: with all; [
+        imagick
+        opcache
+        pdo
+        pdo_mysql
+      ])
+    )
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The default <literal>php</literal> attribute hasn't lost any
+          extensions. The <literal>opcache</literal> extension has been
+          added. All upstream PHP extensions are available under
+          php.extensions.&lt;name?&gt;.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          All PHP <literal>config</literal> flags have been removed for
+          the following reasons:
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The updated <literal>php</literal> attribute is now easily
+          customizable to your liking by using
+          <literal>php.withExtensions</literal> or
+          <literal>php.buildEnv</literal> instead of writing config
+          files or changing configure flags.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The remaining configuration flags can now be set directly on
+          the <literal>php</literal> attribute. For example, instead of
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  php.override {
+    config.php.embed = true;
+    config.php.apxs2 = false;
+  }
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          you should now write
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  php.override {
+    embedSupport = true;
+    apxs2Support = false;
+  }
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The ACME module has been overhauled for simplicity and
+          maintainability. Cert generation now implicitly uses the
+          <literal>acme</literal> user, and the
+          <literal>security.acme.certs._name_.user</literal> option has
+          been removed. Instead, certificate access from other services
+          is now managed through group permissions. The module no longer
+          runs lego twice under certain conditions, and will correctly
+          renew certificates if their configuration is changed. Services
+          which reload nginx and httpd after certificate renewal are now
+          properly configured too so you no longer have to do this
+          manually if you are using HTTPS enabled virtual hosts. A
+          mechanism for regenerating certs on demand has also been added
+          and documented.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Gollum received a major update to version 5.x and you may have
+          to change some links in your wiki when migrating from gollum
+          4.x. More information can be found
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki/5.0-release-notes#migrating-your-wiki">here</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Deluge 2.x was added and is used as default for new NixOS
+          installations where stateVersion is &gt;= 20.09. If you are
+          upgrading from a previous NixOS version, you can set
+          <literal>service.deluge.package = pkgs.deluge-2_x</literal> to
+          upgrade to Deluge 2.x and migrate the state to the new format.
+          Be aware that backwards state migrations are not supported by
+          Deluge.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nginx web server now starting with additional
+          sandbox/hardening options. By default, write access to
+          <literal>/var/log/nginx</literal> and
+          <literal>/var/cache/nginx</literal> is allowed. To allow
+          writing to other folders, use
+          <literal>systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.ReadWritePaths</literal>
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.ReadWritePaths = [ &quot;/var/www&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          Nginx is also started with the systemd option
+          <literal>ProtectHome = mkDefault true;</literal> which forbids
+          it to read anything from <literal>/home</literal>,
+          <literal>/root</literal> and <literal>/run/user</literal> (see
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#ProtectHome=">ProtectHome
+          docs</link> for details). If you require serving files from
+          home directories, you may choose to set e.g.
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.ProtectHome = &quot;read-only&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The NixOS options <literal>nesting.clone</literal> and
+          <literal>nesting.children</literal> have been deleted, and
+          replaced with named
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-specialisation">specialisation</link>
+          configurations.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Replace a <literal>nesting.clone</literal> entry with:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  specialisation.example-sub-configuration = {
+    configuration = {
+      ...
+    };
+};
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          Replace a <literal>nesting.children</literal> entry with:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  specialisation.example-sub-configuration = {
+    inheritParentConfig = false;
+    configuration = {
+      ...
+    };
+};
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          To switch to a specialised configuration at runtime you need
+          to run:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+$ sudo /run/current-system/specialisation/example-sub-configuration/bin/switch-to-configuration test
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          Before you would have used:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+$ sudo /run/current-system/fine-tune/child-1/bin/switch-to-configuration test
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Nginx log directory has been moved to
+          <literal>/var/log/nginx</literal>, the cache directory to
+          <literal>/var/cache/nginx</literal>. The option
+          <literal>services.nginx.stateDir</literal> has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The httpd web server previously started its main process as
+          root privileged, then ran worker processes as a less
+          privileged identity user. This was changed to start all of
+          httpd as a less privileged user (defined by
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.user">services.httpd.user</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.group">services.httpd.group</link>).
+          As a consequence, all files that are needed for httpd to run
+          (included configuration fragments, SSL certificates and keys,
+          etc.) must now be readable by this less privileged user/group.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The default value for
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.mpm">services.httpd.mpm</link>
+          has been changed from <literal>prefork</literal> to
+          <literal>event</literal>. Along with this change the default
+          value for
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.http2</link>
+          has been set to <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>systemd-networkd</literal> option
+          <literal>systemd.network.networks.&lt;name&gt;.dhcp.CriticalConnection</literal>
+          has been removed following upstream systemd's deprecation of
+          the same. It is recommended to use
+          <literal>systemd.network.networks.&lt;name&gt;.networkConfig.KeepConfiguration</literal>
+          instead. See systemd.network 5 for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>systemd-networkd</literal> option
+          <literal>systemd.network.networks._name_.dhcpConfig</literal>
+          has been renamed to
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.network.networks._name_.dhcpV4Config">systemd.network.networks.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.dhcpV4Config</link>
+          following upstream systemd's documentation change. See
+          systemd.network 5 for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In the <literal>picom</literal> module, several options that
+          accepted floating point numbers encoded as strings (for
+          example
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.picom.activeOpacity">services.picom.activeOpacity</link>)
+          have been changed to the (relatively) new native
+          <literal>float</literal> type. To migrate your configuration
+          simply remove the quotes around the numbers.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When using <literal>buildBazelPackage</literal> from Nixpkgs,
+          <literal>flat</literal> hash mode is now used for dependencies
+          instead of <literal>recursive</literal>. This is to better
+          allow using hashed mirrors where needed. As a result, these
+          hashes will have changed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The syntax of the PostgreSQL configuration file is now checked
+          at build time. If your configuration includes a file
+          inaccessible inside the build sandbox, set
+          <literal>services.postgresql.checkConfig</literal> to
+          <literal>false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The rkt module has been removed, it was archived by upstream.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="https://bazaar.canonical.com">Bazaar</link>
+          VCS is unmaintained and, as consequence of the Python 2 EOL,
+          the packages <literal>bazaar</literal> and
+          <literal>bazaarTools</literal> were removed. Breezy, the
+          backward compatible fork of Bazaar (see the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.jelmer.uk/breezy-intro.html">announcement</link>),
+          was packaged as <literal>breezy</literal> and can be used
+          instead.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Regarding Nixpkgs, <literal>fetchbzr</literal>,
+          <literal>nix-prefetch-bzr</literal> and Bazaar support in
+          Hydra will continue to work through Breezy.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In addition to the hostname, the fully qualified domain name
+          (FQDN), which consists of
+          <literal>${networking.hostName}</literal> and
+          <literal>${networking.domain}</literal> is now added to
+          <literal>/etc/hosts</literal>, to allow local FQDN resolution,
+          as used by the <literal>hostname --fqdn</literal> command and
+          other applications that try to determine the FQDN. These new
+          entries take precedence over entries from the DNS which could
+          cause regressions in some very specific setups. Additionally
+          the hostname is now resolved to <literal>127.0.0.2</literal>
+          instead of <literal>127.0.1.1</literal> to be consistent with
+          what <literal>nss-myhostname</literal> (from systemd) returns.
+          The old behaviour can e.g. be restored by using
+          <literal>networking.hosts = lib.mkForce { &quot;127.0.1.1&quot; = [ config.networking.hostName ]; };</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The hostname (<literal>networking.hostName</literal>) must now
+          be a valid DNS label (see RFC 1035, RFC 1123) and as such must
+          not contain the domain part. This means that the hostname must
+          start with a letter or digit, end with a letter or digit, and
+          have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen.
+          The maximum length is 63 characters. Additionally it is
+          recommended to only use lower-case characters. If (e.g. for
+          legacy reasons) a FQDN is required as the Linux kernel network
+          node hostname (<literal>uname --nodename</literal>) the option
+          <literal>boot.kernel.sysctl.&quot;kernel.hostname&quot;</literal>
+          can be used as a workaround (but be aware of the 64 character
+          limit).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GRUB specific option
+          <literal>boot.loader.grub.extraInitrd</literal> has been
+          replaced with the generic option
+          <literal>boot.initrd.secrets</literal>. This option creates a
+          secondary initrd from the specified files, rather than using a
+          manually created initrd file. Due to an existing bug with
+          <literal>boot.loader.grub.extraInitrd</literal>, it is not
+          possible to directly boot an older generation that used that
+          option. It is still possible to rollback to that generation if
+          the required initrd file has not been deleted.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain">DNSChain</link>
+          package and NixOS module have been removed from Nixpkgs as the
+          software is unmaintained and can't be built. For more
+          information see issue
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89205">#89205</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In the <literal>resilio</literal> module,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.resilio.httpListenAddr">services.resilio.httpListenAddr</link>
+          has been changed to listen to <literal>[::1]</literal> instead
+          of <literal>0.0.0.0</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>sslh</literal> has been updated to version
+          <literal>1.21</literal>. The <literal>ssl</literal> probe must
+          be renamed to <literal>tls</literal> in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.sslh.appendConfig">services.sslh.appendConfig</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Users of <link xlink:href="http://openafs.org">OpenAFS
+          1.6</link> must upgrade their services to OpenAFS 1.8! In this
+          release, the OpenAFS package version 1.6.24 is marked broken
+          but can be used during transition to OpenAFS 1.8.x. Use the
+          options
+          <literal>services.openafsClient.packages.module</literal>,
+          <literal>services.openafsClient.packages.programs</literal>
+          and <literal>services.openafsServer.package</literal> to
+          select a different OpenAFS package. OpenAFS 1.6 will be
+          removed in the next release. The package
+          <literal>openafs</literal> and the service options will then
+          silently point to the OpenAFS 1.8 release.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          See also the OpenAFS
+          <link xlink:href="http://docs.openafs.org/AdminGuide/index.html">Administrator
+          Guide</link> for instructions. Beware of the following when
+          updating servers:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The storage format of the server key has changed and the
+              key must be converted before running the new release.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              When updating multiple database servers, turn off the
+              database servers from the highest IP down to the lowest
+              with resting periods in between. Start up in reverse
+              order. Do not concurrently run database servers working
+              with different OpenAFS releases!
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Update servers first, then clients.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Radicale's default package has changed from 2.x to 3.x. An
+          upgrade checklist can be found
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/blob/3.0.x/NEWS.md#upgrade-checklist">here</link>.
+          You can use the newer version in the NixOS service by setting
+          the <literal>package</literal> to
+          <literal>radicale3</literal>, which is done automatically if
+          <literal>stateVersion</literal> is 20.09 or higher.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>udpt</literal> experienced a complete rewrite from
+          C++ to rust. The configuration format changed from ini to
+          toml. The new configuration documentation can be found at
+          <link xlink:href="https://naim94a.github.io/udpt/config.html">the
+          official website</link> and example configuration is packaged
+          in <literal>${udpt}/share/udpt/udpt.toml</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          We now have a unified
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin">services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin</link>
+          option interface to be used for every display-manager in
+          NixOS.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>bitcoind</literal> module has changed to
+          multi-instance, using submodules. Therefore, it is now
+          mandatory to name each instance. To use this new
+          multi-instance config with an existing bitcoind data directory
+          and user, you have to adjust the original config, e.g.:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.bitcoind = {
+    enable = true;
+    extraConfig = &quot;...&quot;;
+    ...
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          To something similar:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.bitcoind.mainnet = {
+    enable = true;
+    dataDir = &quot;/var/lib/bitcoind&quot;;
+    user = &quot;bitcoin&quot;;
+    extraConfig = &quot;...&quot;;
+    ...
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The key settings are:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>dataDir</literal> - to continue using the same
+              data directory.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>user</literal> - to continue using the same user
+              so that bitcoind maintains access to its files.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Graylog introduced a change in the LDAP server certificate
+          validation behaviour for version 3.3.3 which might break
+          existing setups. When updating Graylog from a version before
+          3.3.3 make sure to check the Graylog
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.graylog.org/post/announcing-graylog-v3-3-3">release
+          info</link> for information on how to avoid the issue.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>dokuwiki</literal> module has changed to
+          multi-instance, using submodules. Therefore, it is now
+          mandatory to name each instance. Moreover, forcing SSL by
+          default has been dropped, so <literal>nginx.forceSSL</literal>
+          and <literal>nginx.enableACME</literal> are no longer set to
+          <literal>true</literal>. To continue using your service with
+          the original SSL settings, you have to adjust the original
+          config, e.g.:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.dokuwiki = {
+    enable = true;
+    ...
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          To something similar:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.dokuwiki.&quot;mywiki&quot; = {
+    enable = true;
+    nginx = {
+      forceSSL = true;
+      enableACME = true;
+    };
+    ...
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The base package has also been upgraded to the 2020-07-29
+          &quot;Hogfather&quot; release. Plugins might be incompatible
+          or require upgrading.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.postgresql.dataDir">services.postgresql.dataDir</link>
+          option is now set to
+          <literal>&quot;/var/lib/postgresql/${cfg.package.psqlSchema}&quot;</literal>
+          regardless of your
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>.
+          Users with an existing postgresql install that have a
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>
+          of <literal>17.03</literal> or below should double check what
+          the value of their
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.postgresql.dataDir">services.postgresql.dataDir</link>
+          option is (<literal>/var/db/postgresql</literal>) and then
+          explicitly set this value to maintain compatibility:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.postgresql.dataDir = &quot;/var/db/postgresql&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The postgresql module now expects there to be a database super
+          user account called <literal>postgres</literal> regardless of
+          your
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>.
+          Users with an existing postgresql install that have a
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>
+          of <literal>17.03</literal> or below should run the following
+          SQL statements as a database super admin user before
+          upgrading:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="SQL">
+CREATE ROLE postgres LOGIN SUPERUSER;
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The USBGuard module now removes options and instead hardcodes
+          values for <literal>IPCAccessControlFiles</literal>,
+          <literal>ruleFiles</literal>, and
+          <literal>auditFilePath</literal>. Audit logs can be found in
+          the journal.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The NixOS module system now evaluates option definitions more
+          strictly, allowing it to detect a larger set of problems. As a
+          result, what previously evaluated may not do so anymore. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82743#issuecomment-674520472">the
+          PR that changed this</link> for more info.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For NixOS configuration options, the type
+          <literal>loaOf</literal>, after its initial deprecation in
+          release 20.03, has been removed. In NixOS and Nixpkgs options
+          using this type have been converted to
+          <literal>attrsOf</literal>. For more information on this
+          change have look at these links:
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1800">issue
+          #1800</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/63103">PR
+          #63103</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>config.systemd.services.${name}.path</literal> now
+          returns a list of paths instead of a colon-separated string.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Caddy module now uses Caddy v2 by default. Caddy v1 can still
+          be used by setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.caddy.package">services.caddy.package</link>
+          to <literal>pkgs.caddy1</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          New option
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.caddy.adapter">services.caddy.adapter</link>
+          has been added.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jellyfin.enable">jellyfin</link>
+          module will use and stay on the Jellyfin version
+          <literal>10.5.5</literal> if <literal>stateVersion</literal>
+          is lower than <literal>20.09</literal>. This is because
+          significant changes were made to the database schema, and it
+          is highly recommended to backup your instance before
+          upgrading. After making your backup, you can upgrade to the
+          latest version either by setting your
+          <literal>stateVersion</literal> to <literal>20.09</literal> or
+          higher, or set the
+          <literal>services.jellyfin.package</literal> to
+          <literal>pkgs.jellyfin</literal>. If you do not wish to
+          upgrade Jellyfin, but want to change your
+          <literal>stateVersion</literal>, you can set the value of
+          <literal>services.jellyfin.package</literal> to
+          <literal>pkgs.jellyfin_10_5</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.rngd</literal> service is now disabled
+          by default. This choice was made because there's krngd in the
+          linux kernel space making it (for most usecases) functionally
+          redundent.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>hardware.nvidia.optimus_prime.enable</literal>
+          service has been renamed to
+          <literal>hardware.nvidia.prime.sync.enable</literal> and has
+          many new enhancements. Related nvidia prime settings may have
+          also changed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The package nextcloud17 has been removed and nextcloud18 was
+          marked as insecure since both of them will
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/release_schedule.html">
+          will be EOL (end of life) within the lifetime of 20.09</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          It's necessary to upgrade to nextcloud19:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              From nextcloud17, you have to upgrade to nextcloud18 first
+              as Nextcloud doesn't allow going multiple major revisions
+              forward in a single upgrade. This is possible by setting
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>
+              to nextcloud18.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              From nextcloud18, it's possible to directly upgrade to
+              nextcloud19 by setting
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>
+              to nextcloud19.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GNOME desktop manager no longer default installs
+          gnome3.epiphany. It was chosen to do this as it has a
+          usability breaking issue (see issue
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/98819">#98819</link>)
+          that makes it unsuitable to be a default app.
+        </para>
+        <note>
+          <para>
+            Issue
+            <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/98819">#98819</link>
+            is now fixed and gnome3.epiphany is once again installed by
+            default.
+          </para>
+        </note>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you want to manage the configuration of wpa_supplicant
+          outside of NixOS you must ensure that none of
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.networks">networking.wireless.networks</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.extraConfig">networking.wireless.extraConfig</link>
+          or
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.userControlled.enable">networking.wireless.userControlled.enable</link>
+          is being used or <literal>true</literal>. Using any of those
+          options will cause wpa_supplicant to be started with a NixOS
+          generated configuration file instead of your own.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.09-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          SD images are now compressed by default using
+          <literal>zstd</literal>. The compression for ISO images has
+          also been changed to <literal>zstd</literal>, but ISO images
+          are still not compressed by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.journald.rateLimitBurst</literal> was
+          updated from <literal>1000</literal> to
+          <literal>10000</literal> to follow the new upstream systemd
+          default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The notmuch package moves its emacs-related binaries and emacs
+          lisp files to a separate output. They're not part of the
+          default <literal>out</literal> output anymore - if you relied
+          on the <literal>notmuch-emacs-mua</literal> binary or the
+          emacs lisp files, access them via the
+          <literal>notmuch.emacs</literal> output.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Device tree overlay support was improved in
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/79370">#79370</link>
+          and now uses
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.deviceTree.kernelPackage">hardware.deviceTree.kernelPackage</link>
+          instead of <literal>hardware.deviceTree.base</literal>.
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.deviceTree.overlays">hardware.deviceTree.overlays</link>
+          configuration was extended to support <literal>.dts</literal>
+          files with symbols. Device trees can now be filtered by
+          setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-hardware.deviceTree.filter">hardware.deviceTree.filter</link>
+          option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default output of <literal>buildGoPackage</literal> is now
+          <literal>$out</literal> instead of <literal>$bin</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>buildGoModule</literal> <literal>doCheck</literal>
+          now defaults to <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Packages built using <literal>buildRustPackage</literal> now
+          use <literal>release</literal> mode for the
+          <literal>checkPhase</literal> by default.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Please note that Rust packages utilizing a custom
+          build/install procedure (e.g. by using a
+          <literal>Makefile</literal>) or test suites that rely on the
+          structure of the <literal>target/</literal> directory may
+          break due to those assumptions. For further information,
+          please read the Rust section in the Nixpkgs manual.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The cc- and binutils-wrapper's &quot;infix salt&quot; and
+          <literal>_BUILD_</literal> and <literal>_TARGET_</literal>
+          user infixes have been replaced with with a &quot;suffix
+          salt&quot; and suffixes and <literal>_FOR_BUILD</literal> and
+          <literal>_FOR_TARGET</literal>. This matches the autotools
+          convention for env vars which standard for these things,
+          making interfacing with other tools easier.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Additional Git documentation (HTML and text files) is now
+          available via the <literal>git-doc</literal> package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Default algorithm for ZRAM swap was changed to
+          <literal>zstd</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The installer now enables sshd by default. This improves
+          installation on headless machines especially ARM
+          single-board-computer. To login through ssh, either a password
+          or an ssh key must be set for the root user or the nixos user.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The scripted networking system now uses
+          <literal>.link</literal> files in
+          <literal>/etc/systemd/network</literal> to configure mac
+          address and link MTU, instead of the sometimes buggy
+          <literal>network-link-*</literal> units, which have been
+          removed. Bringing the interface up has been moved to the
+          beginning of the <literal>network-addresses-*</literal> unit.
+          Note this doesn't require <literal>systemd-networkd</literal>
+          - it's udev that parses <literal>.link</literal> files. Extra
+          care needs to be taken in the presence of
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames#THE_.22PERSISTENT_NAMES.22_SCHEME">legacy
+          udev rules</link> to rename interfaces, as MAC Address and MTU
+          defined in these options can only match on the original link
+          name. In such cases, you most likely want to create a
+          <literal>10-*.link</literal> file through
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.network.links">systemd.network.links</link>
+          and set both name and MAC Address / MTU there.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Grafana received a major update to version 7.x. A plugin is
+          now needed for image rendering support, and plugins must now
+          be signed by default. More information can be found
+          <link xlink:href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v7-0">in
+          the Grafana documentation</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>hardware.u2f</literal> module, which was
+          installing udev rules was removed, as udev gained native
+          support to handle FIDO security tokens.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.transmission</literal> module was
+          enhanced with the new options:
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.transmission.credentialsFile">services.transmission.credentialsFile</link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.transmission.openFirewall">services.transmission.openFirewall</link>,
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.transmission.performanceNetParameters">services.transmission.performanceNetParameters</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <literal>transmission-daemon</literal> is now started with
+          additional systemd sandbox/hardening options for better
+          security. Please
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues">report</link>
+          any use case where this is not working well. In particular,
+          the <literal>RootDirectory</literal> option newly set forbids
+          uploading or downloading a torrent outside of the default
+          directory configured at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.transmission.settings">settings.download-dir</link>.
+          If you really need Transmission to access other directories,
+          you must include those directories into the
+          <literal>BindPaths</literal> of the service:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  systemd.services.transmission.serviceConfig.BindPaths = [ &quot;/path/to/alternative/download-dir&quot; ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          Also, connection to the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) of
+          <literal>transmission-daemon</literal> is now only available
+          on the local network interface by default. Use:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.transmission.settings.rpc-bind-address = &quot;0.0.0.0&quot;;
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          to get the previous behavior of listening on all network
+          interfaces.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          With this release <literal>systemd-networkd</literal> (when
+          enabled through
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.useNetworkd">networking.useNetworkd</link>)
+          has it's netlink socket created through a
+          <literal>systemd.socket</literal> unit. This gives us control
+          over socket buffer sizes and other parameters. For larger
+          setups where networkd has to create a lot of (virtual) devices
+          the default buffer size (currently 128MB) is not enough.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          On a machine with &gt;100 virtual interfaces (e.g., wireguard
+          tunnels, VLANs, …), that all have to be brought up during
+          system startup, the receive buffer size will spike for a brief
+          period. Eventually some of the message will be dropped since
+          there is not enough (permitted) buffer space available.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          By having <literal>systemd-networkd</literal> start with a
+          netlink socket created by <literal>systemd</literal> we can
+          configure the <literal>ReceiveBufferSize=</literal> parameter
+          in the socket options (i.e.
+          <literal>systemd.sockets.systemd-networkd.socketOptions.ReceiveBufferSize</literal>)
+          without recompiling <literal>systemd-networkd</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Since the actual memory requirements depend on hardware,
+          timing, exact configurations etc. it isn't currently possible
+          to infer a good default from within the NixOS module system.
+          Administrators are advised to monitor the logs of
+          <literal>systemd-networkd</literal> for
+          <literal>rtnl: kernel receive buffer overrun</literal> spam
+          and increase the memory limit as they see fit.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Note: Increasing the <literal>ReceiveBufferSize=</literal>
+          doesn't allocate any memory. It just increases the upper bound
+          on the kernel side. The memory allocation depends on the
+          amount of messages that are queued on the kernel side of the
+          netlink socket.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Specifying
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dovecot2.mailboxes">mailboxes</link>
+          in the dovecot2 module as a list is deprecated and will break
+          eval in 21.05. Instead, an attribute-set should be specified
+          where the <literal>name</literal> should be the key of the
+          attribute.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          This means that a configuration like this
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.dovecot2.mailboxes = [
+    { name = &quot;Junk&quot;;
+      auto = &quot;create&quot;;
+    }
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          should now look like this:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.dovecot2.mailboxes = {
+    Junk.auto = &quot;create&quot;;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          netbeans was upgraded to 12.0 and now defaults to OpenJDK 11.
+          This might cause problems if your projects depend on packages
+          that were removed in Java 11.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          nextcloud has been updated to
+          <link xlink:href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-brings-productivity-to-home-office/">v19</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you have an existing installation, please make sure that
+          you're on nextcloud18 before upgrading to nextcloud19 since
+          Nextcloud doesn't support upgrades across multiple major
+          versions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>nixos-run-vms</literal> script now deletes the
+          previous run machines states on test startup. You can use the
+          <literal>--keep-vm-state</literal> flag to match the previous
+          behaviour and keep the same VM state between different test
+          runs.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix.buildMachines">nix.buildMachines</link>
+          option is now type-checked. There are no functional changes,
+          however this may require updating some configurations to use
+          correct types for all attributes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>fontconfig</literal> module stopped generating
+          config and cache files for fontconfig 2.10.x, the
+          <literal>/etc/fonts/fonts.conf</literal> now belongs to the
+          latest fontconfig, just like on other Linux distributions, and
+          we will
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95358">no
+          longer</link> be versioning the config directories.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Fontconfig 2.10.x was removed from Nixpkgs since it hasn’t
+          been used in any Nixpkgs package for years now.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nginx module
+          <literal>nginxModules.fastcgi-cache-purge</literal> renamed to
+          official name <literal>nginxModules.cache-purge</literal>.
+          Nginx module <literal>nginxModules.ngx_aws_auth</literal>
+          renamed to official name
+          <literal>nginxModules.aws-auth</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>defaultPackages</literal> was added. It
+          installs the packages perl, rsync and strace for now. They
+          were added unconditionally to
+          <literal>systemPackages</literal> before, but are not strictly
+          necessary for a minimal NixOS install. You can set it to an
+          empty list to have a more minimal system. Be aware that some
+          functionality might still have an impure dependency on those
+          packages, so things might break.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>undervolt</literal> option no longer needs to
+          apply its settings every 30s. If they still become undone,
+          open an issue and restore the previous behaviour using
+          <literal>undervolt.useTimer</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Agda has been heavily reworked.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>agda.mkDerivation</literal> has been heavily
+              changed and is now located at agdaPackages.mkDerivation.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              New top-level packages agda and
+              <literal>agda.withPackages</literal> have been added, the
+              second of which sets up agda with access to chosen
+              libraries.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              All agda libraries now live under
+              <literal>agdaPackages</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Many broken libraries have been removed.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#agda">new
+          documentation</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>deepin</literal> package set has been removed
+          from nixpkgs. It was a work in progress to package the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.deepin.org/en/dde/">Deepin
+          Desktop Environment (DDE)</link>, including libraries, tools
+          and applications, and it was still missing a service to launch
+          the desktop environment. It has shown to no longer be a
+          feasible goal due to reasons discussed in
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94870">issue
+          #94870</link>. The package
+          <literal>netease-cloud-music</literal> has also been removed,
+          as it depends on libraries from deepin.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>opendkim</literal> module now uses systemd
+          sandboxing features to limit the exposure of the system
+          towards the opendkim service.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Kubernetes has been upgraded to 1.19.1, which also means that
+          the golang version to build it has been bumped to 1.15. This
+          may have consequences for your existing clusters and their
+          certificates. Please consider
+          <link xlink:href="https://relnotes.k8s.io/?markdown=93264">
+          the release notes for Kubernetes 1.19 carefully </link> before
+          upgrading.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For AMD GPUs, Vulkan can now be used by adding
+          <literal>amdvlk</literal> to
+          <literal>hardware.opengl.extraPackages</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Similarly, still for AMD GPUs, the ROCm OpenCL stack can now
+          be used by adding <literal>rocm-opencl-icd</literal> to
+          <literal>hardware.opengl.extraPackages</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-20.09-contributions">
+    <title>Contributions</title>
+    <para>
+      I, Jonathan Ringer, would like to thank the following individuals
+      for their work on nixpkgs. This release could not be done without
+      the hard work of the NixOS community. There were 31282
+      contributions across 1313 contributors.
+    </para>
+    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          2288 Mario Rodas
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          1837 Frederik Rietdijk
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          946 Jörg Thalheim
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          925 Maximilian Bosch
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          687 Jonathan Ringer
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          651 Jan Tojnar
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          622 Daniël de Kok
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          605 WORLDofPEACE
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          597 Florian Klink
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          528 José Romildo Malaquias
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          281 volth
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          101 Robert Scott
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          86 Tim Steinbach
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          76 WORLDofPEACE
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          49 Maximilian Bosch
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          42 Thomas Tuegel
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          37 Doron Behar
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          36 Vladimír Čunát
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          27 Jonathan Ringer
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          27 Maciej Krüger
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </orderedlist>
+    <para>
+      I, Jonathan Ringer, would also like to personally thank
+      @WORLDofPEACE for their help in mentoring me on the release
+      process. Special thanks also goes to Thomas Tuegel for helping
+      immensely with stabilizing Qt, KDE, and Plasma5; I would also like
+      to thank Robert Scott for his numerous fixes and pull request
+      reviews.
+    </para>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-21.05">
+  <title>Release 21.05 (<quote>Okapi</quote>, 2021.05/31)</title>
+  <para>
+    Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to
+    21.11.
+  </para>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Core version changes:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              gcc: 9.3.0 -&gt; 10.3.0
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              glibc: 2.30 -&gt; 2.32
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              default linux: 5.4 -&gt; 5.10, all supported kernels
+              available
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              mesa: 20.1.7 -&gt; 21.0.1
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Desktop Environments:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              GNOME: 3.36 -&gt; 40, see its
+              <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">release
+              notes</link>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Plasma5: 5.18.5 -&gt; 5.21.3
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              kdeApplications: 20.08.1 -&gt; 20.12.3
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              cinnamon: 4.6 -&gt; 4.8.1
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Programming Languages and Frameworks:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <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>
+          The linux_latest kernel was updated to the 5.13 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>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <para>
+      The following new services were added since the last release:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link>
+          3.8 and 3.9 were
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/82263">finally</link>
+          packaged, along with a rewrite to the Nix expressions,
+          allowing users to override the features upstream supports
+          selecting to compile or not to. Additionally, the attribute
+          <literal>gnuradio</literal> (3.9),
+          <literal>gnuradio3_8</literal> and
+          <literal>gnuradio3_7</literal> now point to an externally
+          wrapped by default derivations, that allow you to also add
+          `extraPythonPackages` to the Python interpreter used by
+          GNURadio. Missing environmental variables needed for
+          operational GUI were also added
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/75478">#75478</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/">Keycloak</link>,
+          an open source identity and access management server with
+          support for
+          <link xlink:href="https://openid.net/connect/">OpenID
+          Connect</link>, <link xlink:href="https://oauth.net/2/">OAUTH
+          2.0</link> and
+          <link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0">SAML
+          2.0</link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          See the <link linkend="module-services-keycloak">Keycloak
+          section of the NixOS manual</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.samba-wsdd.enable">services.samba-wsdd.enable</link>
+          Web Services Dynamic Discovery host daemon
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.discourse.org/">Discourse</link>,
+          a modern and open source discussion platform.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          See the <link linkend="module-services-discourse">Discourse
+          section of the NixOS manual</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nebula.networks">services.nebula.networks</link>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/slackhq/nebula">Nebula
+          VPN</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <para>
+      When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+      following incompatible changes:
+    </para>
+    <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 <literal>gnome3</literal> attribute set has been renamed
+          to <literal>gnome</literal> and so have been the NixOS
+          options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you are using <literal>services.udev.extraRules</literal>
+          to assign custom names to network interfaces, this may stop
+          working due to a change in the initialisation of dhcpcd and
+          systemd networkd. To avoid this, either move them to
+          <literal>services.udev.initrdRules</literal> or see the new
+          <link linkend="sec-custom-ifnames">Assigning custom
+          names</link> section of the NixOS manual for an example using
+          networkd links.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.hideProcessInformation</literal> module
+          has been removed. It was broken since the switch to
+          cgroups-v2.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>linuxPackages.ati_drivers_x11</literal> kernel
+          modules have been removed. The drivers only supported kernels
+          prior to 4.2, and thus have become obsolete.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>systemConfig</literal> kernel parameter is no
+          longer added to boot loader entries. It has been unused since
+          September 2010, but if do have a system generation from that
+          era, you will now be unable to boot into them.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>systemd-journal2gelf</literal> no longer parses json
+          and expects the receiving system to handle it. How to achieve
+          this with Graylog is described in this
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/parse-nl/SystemdJournal2Gelf/issues/10">GitHub
+          issue</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If the <literal>services.dbus</literal> module is enabled,
+          then the user D-Bus session is now always socket activated.
+          The associated options
+          <literal>services.dbus.socketActivated</literal> and
+          <literal>services.xserver.startDbusSession</literal> have
+          therefore been removed and you will receive a warning if they
+          are present in your configuration. This change makes the user
+          D-Bus session available also for non-graphical logins.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>networking.wireless.iwd</literal> module now
+          installs the upstream-provided 80-iwd.link file, which sets
+          the NamePolicy= for all wlan devices to &quot;keep
+          kernel&quot;, to avoid race conditions between iwd and
+          networkd. If you don't want this, you can set
+          <literal>systemd.network.links.&quot;80-iwd&quot; = lib.mkForce {}</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>rubyMinimal</literal> was removed due to being unused
+          and unusable. The default ruby interpreter includes JIT
+          support, which makes it reference it's compiler. Since JIT
+          support is probably needed by some Gems, it was decided to
+          enable this feature with all cc references by default, and
+          allow to build a Ruby derivation without references to cc, by
+          setting <literal>jitSupport = false;</literal> in an overlay.
+          See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/90151">#90151</link>
+          for more info.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Setting
+          <literal>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</literal> now
+          also affects which keys
+          <literal>security.pam.enableSSHAgentAuth</literal> will use.
+          WARNING: If you are using these options in combination do make
+          sure that any key paths you use are present in
+          <literal>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</literal>!
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>fonts.enableFontDir</literal> has been
+          renamed to
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-fonts.fontDir.enable">fonts.fontDir.enable</link>.
+          The path of font directory has also been changed to
+          <literal>/run/current-system/sw/share/X11/fonts</literal>, for
+          consistency with other X11 resources.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A number of options have been renamed in the kicad interface.
+          <literal>oceSupport</literal> has been renamed to
+          <literal>withOCE</literal>, <literal>withOCCT</literal> has
+          been renamed to <literal>withOCC</literal>,
+          <literal>ngspiceSupport</literal> has been renamed to
+          <literal>withNgspice</literal>, and
+          <literal>scriptingSupport</literal> has been renamed to
+          <literal>withScripting</literal>. Additionally,
+          <literal>kicad/base.nix</literal> no longer provides default
+          argument values since these are provided by
+          <literal>kicad/default.nix</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The socket for the <literal>pdns-recursor</literal> module was
+          moved from <literal>/var/lib/pdns-recursor</literal> to
+          <literal>/run/pdns-recursor</literal> to match upstream.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Paperwork was updated to version 2. The on-disk format
+          slightly changed, and it is not possible to downgrade from
+          Paperwork 2 back to Paperwork 1.3. Back your documents up
+          before upgrading. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://forum.openpaper.work/t/paperwork-2-0/112/5">this
+          thread</link> for more details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PowerDNS has been updated from <literal>4.2.x</literal> to
+          <literal>4.3.x</literal>. Please be sure to review the
+          <link xlink:href="https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/upgrading.html#x-to-4-3-0">Upgrade
+          Notes</link> provided by upstream before upgrading. Worth
+          specifically noting is that the service now runs entirely as a
+          dedicated <literal>pdns</literal> user, instead of starting as
+          <literal>root</literal> and dropping privileges, as well as
+          the default <literal>socket-dir</literal> location changing
+          from <literal>/var/lib/powerdns</literal> to
+          <literal>/run/pdns</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>mediatomb</literal> service is now using by
+          default the new and maintained fork <literal>gerbera</literal>
+          package instead of the unmaintained
+          <literal>mediatomb</literal> package. If you want to keep the
+          old behavior, you must declare it with:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.mediatomb.package = pkgs.mediatomb;
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          One new option <literal>openFirewall</literal> has been
+          introduced which defaults to false. If you relied on the
+          service declaration to add the firewall rules itself before,
+          you should now declare it with:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.mediatomb.openFirewall = true;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          xfsprogs was update from 4.19 to 5.11. It now enables reflink
+          support by default on filesystem creation. Support for
+          reflinks was added with an experimental status to kernel 4.9
+          and deemed stable in kernel 4.16. If you want to be able to
+          mount XFS filesystems created with this release of xfsprogs on
+          kernel releases older than those, you need to format them with
+          <literal>mkfs.xfs -m reflink=0</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The uWSGI server is now built with POSIX capabilities. As a
+          consequence, root is no longer required in emperor mode and
+          the service defaults to running as the unprivileged
+          <literal>uwsgi</literal> user. Any additional capability can
+          be added via the new option
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.uwsgi.capabilities">services.uwsgi.capabilities</link>.
+          The previous behaviour can be restored by setting:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.uwsgi.user = &quot;root&quot;;
+  services.uwsgi.group = &quot;root&quot;;
+  services.uwsgi.instance =
+    {
+      uid = &quot;uwsgi&quot;;
+      gid = &quot;uwsgi&quot;;
+    };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          Another incompatibility from the previous release is that
+          vassals running under a different user or group need to use
+          <literal>immediate-{uid,gid}</literal> instead of the usual
+          <literal>uid,gid</literal> options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          btc1 has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          cpp_ethereum (aleth) has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          riak-cs package removed along with
+          <literal>services.riak-cs</literal> module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          stanchion package removed along with
+          <literal>services.stanchion</literal> module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          mutt has been updated to a new major version (2.x), which
+          comes with some backward incompatible changes that are
+          described in the
+          <link xlink:href="http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/">release
+          notes for Mutt 2.0</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>vim</literal> and <literal>neovim</literal> switched
+          to Python 3, dropping all Python 2 support.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireguard.interfaces">networking.wireguard.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.generatePrivateKeyFile</link>,
+          which is off by default, had a <literal>chmod</literal> race
+          condition fixed. As an aside, the parent directory's
+          permissions were widened, and the key files were made
+          owner-writable. This only affects newly created keys. However,
+          if the exact permissions are important for your setup, read
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/121294">#121294</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.zfs.forceImportAll">boot.zfs.forceImportAll</link>
+          previously did nothing, but has been fixed. However its
+          default has been changed to <literal>false</literal> to
+          preserve the existing default behaviour. If you have this
+          explicitly set to <literal>true</literal>, please note that
+          your non-root pools will now be forcibly imported.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          openafs now points to openafs_1_8, which is the new stable
+          release. OpenAFS 1.6 was removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The WireGuard module gained a new option
+          <literal>networking.wireguard.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.peers.*.dynamicEndpointRefreshSeconds</literal>
+          that implements refreshing the IP of DNS-based endpoints
+          periodically (which WireGuard itself
+          <link xlink:href="https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-November/002028.html">cannot
+          do</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MariaDB has been updated to 10.5. Before you upgrade, it would
+          be best to take a backup of your database and read
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-from-mariadb-104-to-mariadb-105/#incompatible-changes-between-104-and-105">
+          Incompatible Changes Between 10.4 and 10.5</link>. After the
+          upgrade you will need to run <literal>mysql_upgrade</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The TokuDB storage engine dropped in mariadb 10.5 and removed
+          in mariadb 10.6. It is recommended to switch to RocksDB. See
+          also
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/tokudb/">TokuDB</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-19780">MDEV-19780:
+          Remove the TokuDB storage engine</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>openldap</literal> module now has support for
+          OLC-style configuration, users of the
+          <literal>configDir</literal> option may wish to migrate. If
+          you continue to use <literal>configDir</literal>, ensure that
+          <literal>olcPidFile</literal> is set to
+          <literal>/run/slapd/slapd.pid</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          As a result, <literal>extraConfig</literal> and
+          <literal>extraDatabaseConfig</literal> are removed. To help
+          with migration, you can convert your
+          <literal>slapd.conf</literal> file to OLC configuration with
+          the following script (find the location of this configuration
+          file by running <literal>systemctl status openldap</literal>,
+          it is the <literal>-f</literal> option.
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+$ TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+$ slaptest -f /path/to/slapd.conf -F $TMPDIR
+$ slapcat -F $TMPDIR -n0 -H 'ldap:///???(!(objectClass=olcSchemaConfig))'
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          This will dump your current configuration in LDIF format,
+          which should be straightforward to convert into Nix settings.
+          This does not show your schema configuration, as this is
+          unnecessarily verbose for users of the default schemas and
+          <literal>slaptest</literal> is buggy with schemas directly in
+          the config file.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Amazon EC2 and OpenStack Compute (nova) images now re-fetch
+          instance meta data and user data from the instance metadata
+          service (IMDS) on each boot. For example: stopping an EC2
+          instance, changing its user data, and restarting the instance
+          will now cause it to fetch and apply the new user data.
+        </para>
+        <warning>
+          <para>
+            Specifically, <literal>/etc/ec2-metadata</literal> is
+            re-populated on each boot. Some NixOS scripts that read from
+            this directory are guarded to only run if the files they
+            want to manipulate do not already exist, and so will not
+            re-apply their changes if the IMDS response changes.
+            Examples: <literal>root</literal>'s SSH key is only added if
+            <literal>/root/.ssh/authorized_keys</literal> does not
+            exist, and SSH host keys are only set from user data if they
+            do not exist in <literal>/etc/ssh</literal>.
+          </para>
+        </warning>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>rspamd</literal> services is now sandboxed. It is
+          run as a dynamic user instead of root, so secrets and other
+          files may have to be moved or their permissions may have to be
+          fixed. The sockets are now located in
+          <literal>/run/rspamd</literal> instead of
+          <literal>/run</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Enabling the Tor client no longer silently also enables and
+          configures Privoxy, and the
+          <literal>services.tor.client.privoxy.enable</literal> option
+          has been removed. To enable Privoxy, and to configure it to
+          use Tor's faster port, use the following configuration:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  opt-services.privoxy.enable = true;
+  opt-services.privoxy.enableTor = true;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.tor</literal> module has a new
+          exhaustively typed
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tor.settings">services.tor.settings</link>
+          option following RFC 0042; backward compatibility with old
+          options has been preserved when aliasing was possible. The
+          corresponding systemd service has been hardened, but there is
+          a chance that the service still requires more permissions, so
+          please report any related trouble on the bugtracker. Onion
+          services v3 are now supported in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tor.relay.onionServices">services.tor.relay.onionServices</link>.
+          A new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.tor.openFirewall">services.tor.openFirewall</link>
+          option as been introduced for allowing connections on all the
+          TCP ports configured.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The options
+          <literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.storagePass</literal> and
+          <literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.configFile</literal> have
+          been removed. Use
+          <literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.storagePassFile</literal>
+          instead to provide the database password. Extra config options
+          can be given via the option
+          <literal>services.slurm.dbdserver.extraConfig</literal>. The
+          actual configuration file is created on the fly on startup of
+          the service. This avoids that the password gets exposed in the
+          nix store.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>wafHook</literal> hook does not wrap Python
+          anymore. Packages depending on <literal>wafHook</literal> need
+          to include any Python into their
+          <literal>nativeBuildInputs</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Starting with version 1.7.0, the project formerly named
+          <literal>CodiMD</literal> is now named
+          <literal>HedgeDoc</literal>. New installations will no longer
+          use the old name for users, state directories and such, this
+          needs to be considered when moving state to a more recent
+          NixOS installation. Based on
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>,
+          existing installations will continue to work.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The fish-foreign-env package has been replaced with
+          fishPlugins.foreign-env, in which the fish functions have been
+          relocated to the <literal>vendor_functions.d</literal>
+          directory to be loaded automatically.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The prometheus json exporter is now managed by the prometheus
+          community. Together with additional features some backwards
+          incompatibilities were introduced. Most importantly the
+          exporter no longer accepts a fixed command-line parameter to
+          specify the URL of the endpoint serving JSON. It now expects
+          this URL to be passed as an URL parameter, when scraping the
+          exporter's <literal>/probe</literal> endpoint. In the
+          prometheus scrape configuration the scrape target might look
+          like this:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting>
+http://some.json-exporter.host:7979/probe?target=https://example.com/some/json/endpoint
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          Existing configuration for the exporter needs to be updated,
+          but can partially be re-used. Documentation is available in
+          the upstream repository and a small example for NixOS is
+          available in the corresponding NixOS test.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          These changes also affect
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.prometheus.exporters.rspamd.enable">services.prometheus.exporters.rspamd.enable</link>,
+          which is just a preconfigured instance of the json exporter.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For more information, take a look at the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/prometheus-community/json_exporter">
+          official documentation</link> of the json_exporter.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Androidenv was updated, removing the
+          <literal>includeDocs</literal> and
+          <literal>lldbVersions</literal> arguments. Docs only covered a
+          single version of the Android SDK, LLDB is now bundled with
+          the NDK, and both are no longer available to download from the
+          Android package repositories. Additionally, since the package
+          lists have been updated, some older versions of Android
+          packages may not be bundled. If you depend on older versions
+          of Android packages, we recommend overriding the repo.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Android packages are now loaded from a repo.json file created
+          by parsing Android repo XML files. The arguments
+          <literal>repoJson</literal> and <literal>repoXmls</literal>
+          have been added to allow overriding the built-in androidenv
+          repo.json with your own. Additionally, license files are now
+          written to allow compatibility with Gradle-based tools, and
+          the <literal>extraLicenses</literal> argument has been added
+          to accept more SDK licenses if your project requires it. See
+          the androidenv documentation for more details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The attribute <literal>mpi</literal> is now consistently used
+          to provide a default, system-wide MPI implementation. The
+          default implementation is openmpi, which has been used before
+          by all derivations affects by this change. Note that all
+          packages that have used <literal>mpi ? null</literal> in the
+          input for optional MPI builds, have been changed to the
+          boolean input paramater <literal>useMpi</literal> to enable
+          building with MPI. Building all packages with
+          <literal>mpich</literal> instead of the default
+          <literal>openmpi</literal> can now be achived like this:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+self: super:
+{
+  mpi = super.mpich;
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Searx module has been updated with the ability to
+          configure the service declaratively and uWSGI integration. The
+          option <literal>services.searx.configFile</literal> has been
+          renamed to
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.searx.settingsFile">services.searx.settingsFile</link>
+          for consistency with the new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.searx.settings">services.searx.settings</link>.
+          In addition, the <literal>searx</literal> uid and gid
+          reservations have been removed since they were not necessary:
+          the service is now running with a dynamically allocated uid.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The libinput module has been updated with the ability to
+          configure mouse and touchpad settings separately. The options
+          in <literal>services.xserver.libinput</literal> have been
+          renamed to
+          <literal>services.xserver.libinput.touchpad</literal>, while
+          there is a new
+          <literal>services.xserver.libinput.mouse</literal> for mouse
+          related configuration.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Since touchpad options no longer apply to all devices, you may
+          want to replicate your touchpad configuration in mouse
+          section.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ALSA OSS emulation
+          (<literal>sound.enableOSSEmulation</literal>) is now disabled
+          by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Thinkfan as been updated to <literal>1.2.x</literal>, which
+          comes with a new YAML based configuration format. For this
+          reason, several NixOS options of the thinkfan module have been
+          changed to non-backward compatible types. In addition, a new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.thinkfan.settings">services.thinkfan.settings</link>
+          option has been added.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Please read the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan#readme">
+          thinkfan documentation</link> before updating.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Adobe Flash Player support has been dropped from the tree. In
+          particular, the following packages no longer support it:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              chromium
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              firefox
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              qt48
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              qt5.qtwebkit
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          Additionally, packages flashplayer and hal-flash were removed
+          along with the <literal>services.flashpolicyd</literal>
+          module.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.rngd</literal> module has been removed.
+          It was disabled by default in 20.09 as it was functionally
+          redundant with krngd in the linux kernel. It is not necessary
+          for any device that the kernel recognises as an hardware RNG,
+          as it will automatically run the krngd task to periodically
+          collect random data from the device and mix it into the
+          kernel's RNG.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The default SMTP port for GitLab has been changed to
+          <literal>25</literal> from its previous default of
+          <literal>465</literal>. If you depended on this default, you
+          should now set the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.gitlab.smtp.port">services.gitlab.smtp.port</link>
+          option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default version of ImageMagick has been updated from 6 to
+          7. You can use imagemagick6, imagemagick6_light, and
+          imagemagick6Big if you need the older version.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.videoDrivers">services.xserver.videoDrivers</link>
+          no longer uses the deprecated <literal>cirrus</literal> and
+          <literal>vesa</literal> device dependent X drivers by default.
+          It also enables both <literal>amdgpu</literal> and
+          <literal>nouveau</literal> drivers by default now.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>kindlegen</literal> package is gone, because it
+          is no longer supported or hosted by Amazon. Sadly, its
+          replacement, Kindle Previewer, has no Linux support. However,
+          there are other ways to generate MOBI files. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/96439">the
+          discussion</link> for more info.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The apacheKafka packages are now built with version-matched
+          JREs. Versions 2.6 and above, the ones that recommend it, use
+          jdk11, while versions below remain on jdk8. The NixOS service
+          has been adjusted to start the service using the same version
+          as the package, adjustable with the new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.apache-kafka.jre">services.apache-kafka.jre</link>
+          option. Furthermore, the default list of
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.apache-kafka.jvmOptions">services.apache-kafka.jvmOptions</link>
+          have been removed. You should set your own according to the
+          <link xlink:href="https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#java">upstream
+          documentation</link> for your Kafka version.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The kodi package has been modified to allow concise addon
+          management. Consider the following configuration from previous
+          releases of NixOS to install kodi, including the
+          kodiPackages.inputstream-adaptive and kodiPackages.vfs-sftp
+          addons:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  environment.systemPackages = [
+    pkgs.kodi
+  ];
+
+  nixpkgs.config.kodi = {
+    enableInputStreamAdaptive = true;
+    enableVFSSFTP = true;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          All Kodi <literal>config</literal> flags have been removed,
+          and as a result the above configuration should now be written
+          as:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  environment.systemPackages = [
+    (pkgs.kodi.withPackages (p: with p; [
+      inputstream-adaptive
+      vfs-sftp
+    ]))
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>environment.defaultPackages</literal> now includes
+          the nano package. If pkgs.nano is not added to the list, make
+          sure another editor is installed and the
+          <literal>EDITOR</literal> environment variable is set to it.
+          Environment variables can be set using
+          <literal>environment.variables</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.minio.dataDir</literal> changed type to a
+          list of paths, required for specifiyng multiple data
+          directories for using with erasure coding. Currently, the
+          service doesn't enforce nor checks the correct number of paths
+          to correspond to minio requirements.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          All CUDA toolkit versions prior to CUDA 10 have been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The kbdKeymaps package was removed since dvp and neo are now
+          included in kbd. If you want to use the Programmer Dvorak
+          Keyboard Layout, you have to use
+          <literal>dvorak-programmer</literal> in
+          <literal>console.keyMap</literal> now instead of
+          <literal>dvp</literal>. In
+          <literal>services.xserver.xkbVariant</literal> it's still
+          <literal>dvp</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The babeld service is now being run as an unprivileged user.
+          To achieve that the module configures
+          <literal>skip-kernel-setup true</literal> and takes care of
+          setting forwarding and rp_filter sysctls by itself as well as
+          for each interface in
+          <literal>services.babeld.interfaces</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.zigbee2mqtt.config</literal> option has
+          been renamed to
+          <literal>services.zigbee2mqtt.settings</literal> and now
+          follows
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
+          0042</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+      The yadm dotfile manager has been updated from 2.x to 3.x, which
+      has new (XDG) default locations for some data/state files. Most
+      yadm commands will fail and print a legacy path warning (which
+      describes how to upgrade/migrate your repository). If you have
+      scripts, daemons, scheduled jobs, shell profiles, etc. that invoke
+      yadm, expect them to fail or misbehave until you perform this
+      migration and prepare accordingly.
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Instead of determining
+          <literal>services.radicale.package</literal> automatically
+          based on <literal>system.stateVersion</literal>, the latest
+          version is always used because old versions are not officially
+          supported.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Furthermore, Radicale's systemd unit was hardened which might
+          break some deployments. In particular, a non-default
+          <literal>filesystem_folder</literal> has to be added to
+          <literal>systemd.services.radicale.serviceConfig.ReadWritePaths</literal>
+          if the deprecated <literal>services.radicale.config</literal>
+          is used.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In the <literal>security.acme</literal> module, use of
+          <literal>--reuse-key</literal> parameter for Lego has been
+          removed. It was introduced for HKPK, but this security feature
+          is now deprecated. It is a better security practice to rotate
+          key pairs instead of always keeping the same. If you need to
+          keep this parameter, you can add it back using
+          <literal>extraLegoRenewFlags</literal> as an option for the
+          appropriate certificate.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.05-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>stdenv.lib</literal> has been deprecated and will
+          break eval in 21.11. Please use <literal>pkgs.lib</literal>
+          instead. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/108938">#108938</link>
+          for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link>
+          has a <literal>pkgs</literal> attribute set, and there's a
+          <literal>gnuradio.callPackage</literal> function that extends
+          <literal>pkgs</literal> with a
+          <literal>mkDerivation</literal>, and a
+          <literal>mkDerivationWith</literal>, like Qt5. Now all
+          <literal>gnuradio.pkgs</literal> are defined with
+          <literal>gnuradio.callPackage</literal> and some packages that
+          depend on gnuradio are defined with this as well.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</link> has
+          been updated to version 3.0.32 (See
+          <link xlink:href="https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-announce/2021-February/000007.html">announcement</link>).
+          Compared to the previous release, Privoxy has gained support
+          for HTTPS inspection (still experimental), Brotli
+          decompression, several new filters and lots of bug fixes,
+          including security ones. In addition, the package is now built
+          with compression and external filters support, which were
+          previously disabled.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Regarding the NixOS module, new options for HTTPS inspection
+          have been added and
+          <literal>services.privoxy.extraConfig</literal> has been
+          replaced by the new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.privoxy.settings">services.privoxy.settings</link>
+          (See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
+          0042</link> for the motivation).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</link> has been
+          updated to version 19.1 &quot;Matrix&quot;. See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-19-0-matrix-release">announcement</link>
+          for further details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.packagekit.backend</literal> option has
+          been removed as it only supported a single setting which would
+          always be the default. Instead new
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
+          0042</link> compliant
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.packagekit.settings">services.packagekit.settings</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.packagekit.vendorSettings">services.packagekit.vendorSettings</link>
+          options have been introduced.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://nginx.org">Nginx</link> has been
+          updated to stable version 1.20.0. Now nginx uses the zlib-ng
+          library by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          KDE Gear (formerly KDE Applications) is upgraded to 21.04, see
+          its
+          <link xlink:href="https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.04/">release
+          notes</link> for details.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>kdeApplications</literal> package set is now
+          <literal>kdeGear</literal>, in keeping with the new name. The
+          old name remains for compatibility, but it is deprecated.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://libreswan.org/">Libreswan</link> has
+          been updated to version 4.4. The package now includes example
+          configurations and manual pages by default. The NixOS module
+          has been changed to use the upstream systemd units and write
+          the configuration in the <literal>/etc/ipsec.d/ </literal>
+          directory. In addition, two new options have been added to
+          specify connection policies
+          (<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.libreswan.policies">services.libreswan.policies</link>)
+          and disable send/receive redirects
+          (<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.libreswan.disableRedirects">services.libreswan.disableRedirects</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Mailman NixOS module (<literal>services.mailman</literal>)
+          has a new option
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mailman.enablePostfix">services.mailman.enablePostfix</link>,
+          defaulting to true, that controls integration with Postfix.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If this option is disabled, default MTA config becomes not set
+          and you should set the options in
+          <literal>services.mailman.settings.mta</literal> according to
+          the desired configuration as described in
+          <link xlink:href="https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/mta.html">Mailman
+          documentation</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default-version of <literal>nextcloud</literal> is
+          nextcloud21. Please note that it's <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+          possible to upgrade <literal>nextcloud</literal> across
+          multiple major versions! This means that it's e.g. not
+          possible to upgrade from nextcloud18 to nextcloud20 in a
+          single deploy and most <literal>20.09</literal> users will
+          have to upgrade to nextcloud20 first.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The package can be manually upgraded by setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>
+          to nextcloud21.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.redis.bind">services.redis.bind</link>
+          defaults to <literal>127.0.0.1</literal> now, making Redis
+          listen on the loopback interface only, and not all public
+          network interfaces.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS now emits a deprecation warning if systemd's
+          <literal>StartLimitInterval</literal> setting is used in a
+          <literal>serviceConfig</literal> section instead of in a
+          <literal>unitConfig</literal>; that setting is deprecated and
+          now undocumented for the service section by systemd upstream,
+          but still effective and somewhat buggy there, which can be
+          confusing. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45785">#45785</link>
+          for details.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          All services should use
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.services._name_.startLimitIntervalSec">systemd.services.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.startLimitIntervalSec</link>
+          or <literal>StartLimitIntervalSec</literal> in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.services._name_.unitConfig">systemd.services.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.unitConfig</link>
+          instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>mediatomb</literal> service declares new options.
+          It also adapts existing options so the configuration
+          generation is now lazy. The existing option
+          <literal>customCfg</literal> (defaults to false), when
+          enabled, stops the service configuration generation
+          completely. It then expects the users to provide their own
+          correct configuration at the right location (whereas the
+          configuration was generated and not used at all before). The
+          new option <literal>transcodingOption</literal> (defaults to
+          no) allows a generated configuration. It makes the mediatomb
+          service pulls the necessary runtime dependencies in the nix
+          store (whereas it was generated with hardcoded values before).
+          The new option <literal>mediaDirectories</literal> allows the
+          users to declare autoscan media directories from their nixos
+          configuration:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.mediatomb.mediaDirectories = [
+    { path = &quot;/var/lib/mediatomb/pictures&quot;; recursive = false; hidden-files = false; }
+    { path = &quot;/var/lib/mediatomb/audio&quot;; recursive = true; hidden-files = false; }
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Unbound DNS resolver service
+          (<literal>services.unbound</literal>) has been refactored to
+          allow reloading, control sockets and to fix startup ordering
+          issues.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          It is now possible to enable a local UNIX control socket for
+          unbound by setting the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.unbound.localControlSocketPath">services.unbound.localControlSocketPath</link>
+          option.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Previously we just applied a very minimal set of restrictions
+          and trusted unbound to properly drop root privs and
+          capabilities.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          As of this we are (for the most part) just using the upstream
+          example unit file for unbound. The main difference is that we
+          start unbound as <literal>unbound</literal> user with the
+          required capabilities instead of letting unbound do the chroot
+          &amp; uid/gid changes.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The upstream unit configuration this is based on is a lot
+          stricter with all kinds of permissions then our previous
+          variant. It also came with the default of having the
+          <literal>Type</literal> set to <literal>notify</literal>,
+          therefore we are now also using the
+          <literal>unbound-with-systemd</literal> package here. Unbound
+          will start up, read the configuration files and start
+          listening on the configured ports before systemd will declare
+          the unit <literal>active (running)</literal>. This will likely
+          help with startup order and the occasional race condition
+          during system activation where the DNS service is started but
+          not yet ready to answer queries. Services depending on
+          <literal>nss-lookup.target</literal> or
+          <literal>unbound.service</literal> are now be able to use
+          unbound when those targets have been reached.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Additionally to the much stricter runtime environment the
+          <literal>/dev/urandom</literal> mount lines we previously had
+          in the code (that randomly failed during the stop-phase) have
+          been removed as systemd will take care of those for us.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>preStart</literal> script is now only required if
+          we enabled the trust anchor updates (which are still enabled
+          by default).
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Another benefit of the refactoring is that we can now issue
+          reloads via either <literal>pkill -HUP unbound</literal> and
+          <literal>systemctl reload unbound</literal> to reload the
+          running configuration without taking the daemon offline. A
+          prerequisite of this was that unbound configuration is
+          available on a well known path on the file system. We are
+          using the path <literal>/etc/unbound/unbound.conf</literal> as
+          that is the default in the CLI tooling which in turn enables
+          us to use <literal>unbound-control</literal> without passing a
+          custom configuration location.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The module has also been reworked to be
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
+          0042</link> compliant. As such,
+          <literal>sevices.unbound.extraConfig</literal> has been
+          removed and replaced by
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.unbound.settings">services.unbound.settings</link>.
+          <literal>services.unbound.interfaces</literal> has been
+          renamed to
+          <literal>services.unbound.settings.server.interface</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.unbound.forwardAddresses</literal> and
+          <literal>services.unbound.allowedAccess</literal> have also
+          been changed to use the new settings interface. You can follow
+          the instructions when executing
+          <literal>nixos-rebuild</literal> to upgrade your configuration
+          to use the new interface.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.dnscrypt-proxy2</literal> module now
+          takes the upstream's example configuration and updates it with
+          the user's settings. An option has been added to restore the
+          old behaviour if you prefer to declare the configuration from
+          scratch.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS now defaults to the unified cgroup hierarchy
+          (cgroupsv2). See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/fedora-31-control-group-v2">Fedora
+          Article for 31</link> for details on why this is desirable,
+          and how it impacts containers.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          If you want to run containers with a runtime that does not yet
+          support cgroupsv2, you can switch back to the old behaviour by
+          setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.enableUnifiedCgroupHierarchy">systemd.enableUnifiedCgroupHierarchy</link>
+          = <literal>false</literal>; and rebooting.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PulseAudio was upgraded to 14.0, with changes to the handling
+          of default sinks. See its
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/">release
+          notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GNOME users may wish to delete their
+          <literal>~/.config/pulse</literal> due to the changes to
+          stream routing logic. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/832">PulseAudio
+          bug 832</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The zookeeper package does not provide
+          <literal>zooInspector.sh</literal> anymore, as that
+          &quot;contrib&quot; has been dropped from upstream releases.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In the ACME module, the data used to build the hash for the
+          account directory has changed to accomodate new features to
+          reduce account rate limit issues. This will trigger new
+          account creation on the first rebuild following this update.
+          No issues are expected to arise from this, thanks to the new
+          account creation handling.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.createHome">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.createHome</link>
+          now always ensures home directory permissions to be
+          <literal>0700</literal>. Permissions had previously been
+          ignored for already existing home directories, possibly
+          leaving them readable by others. The option's description was
+          incorrect regarding ownership management and has been
+          simplified greatly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When defining a new user, one of
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.isNormalUser">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.isNormalUser</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.isSystemUser">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.isSystemUser</link>
+          is now required. This is to prevent accidentally giving a UID
+          above 1000 to system users, which could have unexpected
+          consequences, like running user activation scripts for system
+          users. Note that users defined with an explicit UID below 500
+          are exempted from this check, as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.isSystemUser">users.users.<emphasis>name</emphasis>.isSystemUser</link>
+          has no effect for those.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.apparmor</literal> module, for the
+          <link xlink:href="https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/Documentation">AppArmor</link>
+          Mandatory Access Control system, has been substantialy
+          improved along with related tools, so that module maintainers
+          can now more easily write AppArmor profiles for NixOS. The
+          most notable change on the user-side is the new option
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.apparmor.policies">security.apparmor.policies</link>,
+          replacing the previous <literal>profiles</literal> option to
+          provide a way to disable a profile and to select whether to
+          confine in enforce mode (default) or in complain mode (see
+          <literal>journalctl -b --grep apparmor</literal>).
+          Security-minded users may also want to enable
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.apparmor.killUnconfinedConfinables">security.apparmor.killUnconfinedConfinables</link>,
+          at the cost of having some of their processes killed when
+          updating to a NixOS version introducing new AppArmor profiles.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GNOME desktop manager once again installs gnome.epiphany
+          by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          NixOS now generates empty <literal>/etc/netgroup</literal>.
+          <literal>/etc/netgroup</literal> defines network-wide groups
+          and may affect to setups using NIS.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Platforms, like <literal>stdenv.hostPlatform</literal>, no
+          longer have a <literal>platform</literal> attribute. It has
+          been (mostly) flattened away:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>platform.gcc</literal> is now
+              <literal>gcc</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>platform.kernel*</literal> is now
+              <literal>linux-kernel.*</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          Additionally, <literal>platform.kernelArch</literal> moved to
+          the top level as <literal>linuxArch</literal> to match the
+          other <literal>*Arch</literal> variables.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>platform</literal> grouping of these things never
+          meant anything, and was just a historial/implementation
+          artifact that was overdue removal.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.restic</literal> now uses a dedicated cache
+          directory for every backup defined in
+          <literal>services.restic.backups</literal>. The old global
+          cache directory, <literal>/root/.cache/restic</literal>, is
+          now unused and can be removed to free up disk space.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>isync</literal>: The <literal>isync</literal>
+          compatibility wrapper was removed and the Master/Slave
+          terminology has been deprecated and should be replaced with
+          Far/Near in the configuration file.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The nix-gc service now accepts randomizedDelaySec (default: 0)
+          and persistent (default: true) parameters. By default nix-gc
+          will now run immediately if it would have been triggered at
+          least once during the time when the timer was inactive.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>rustPlatform.buildRustPackage</literal> function
+          is split into several hooks: cargoSetupHook to set up
+          vendoring for Cargo-based projects, cargoBuildHook to build a
+          project using Cargo, cargoInstallHook to install a project
+          using Cargo, and cargoCheckHook to run tests in Cargo-based
+          projects. With this change, mixed-language projects can use
+          the relevant hooks within builders other than
+          <literal>buildRustPackage</literal>. However, these changes
+          also required several API changes to
+          <literal>buildRustPackage</literal> itself:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>target</literal> argument was removed.
+              Instead, <literal>buildRustPackage</literal> will always
+              use the same target as the C/C++ compiler that is used.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>cargoParallelTestThreads</literal> argument
+              was removed. Parallel tests are now disabled through
+              <literal>dontUseCargoParallelTests</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>rustPlatform.maturinBuildHook</literal> hook was
+          added. This hook can be used with
+          <literal>buildPythonPackage</literal> to build Python packages
+          that are written in Rust and use Maturin as their build tool.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Kubernetes has
+          <link xlink:href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/">deprecated
+          docker</link> as container runtime. As a consequence, the
+          Kubernetes module now has support for configuration of custom
+          remote container runtimes and enables containerd by default.
+          Note that containerd is more strict regarding container image
+          OCI-compliance. As an example, images with CMD or ENTRYPOINT
+          defined as strings (not lists) will fail on containerd, while
+          working fine on docker. Please test your setup and container
+          images with containerd prior to upgrading.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The GitLab module now has support for automatic backups. A
+          schedule can be set with the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.gitlab.backup.startAt">services.gitlab.backup.startAt</link>
+          option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Prior to this release, systemd would also read system units
+          from an undocumented
+          <literal>/etc/systemd-mutable/system</literal> path. This path
+          has been dropped from the defaults. That path (or others) can
+          be re-enabled by adding it to the
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-boot.extraSystemdUnitPaths">boot.extraSystemdUnitPaths</link>
+          list.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PostgreSQL 9.5 is scheduled EOL during the 21.05 life cycle
+          and has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.xfce.org/">Xfce4</link> relies
+          on GIO/GVfs for userspace virtual filesystem access in
+          applications like
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/">thunar</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/">gigolo</link>.
+          For that to work, the gvfs nixos service is enabled by
+          default, and it can be configured with the specific package
+          that provides GVfs. Until now Xfce4 was setting it to use a
+          lighter version of GVfs (without support for samba). To avoid
+          conflicts with other desktop environments this setting has
+          been dropped. Users that still want it should add the
+          following to their system configuration:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.gvfs.package = pkgs.gvfs.override { samba = null; };
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The newly enabled <literal>systemd-pstore.service</literal>
+          now automatically evacuates crashdumps and panic logs from the
+          persistent storage to
+          <literal>/var/lib/systemd/pstore</literal>. This prevents
+          NVRAM from filling up, which ensures the latest diagnostic
+          data is always stored and alleviates problems with writing new
+          boot configurations.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nixpkgs now contains
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/118232">automatically
+          packaged GNOME Shell extensions</link> from the
+          <link xlink:href="https://extensions.gnome.org/">GNOME
+          Extensions</link> portal. You can find them, filed by their
+          UUID, under <literal>gnome38Extensions</literal> attribute for
+          GNOME 3.38 and under <literal>gnome40Extensions</literal> for
+          GNOME 40. Finally, the <literal>gnomeExtensions</literal>
+          attribute contains extensions for the latest GNOME Shell
+          version in Nixpkgs, listed under a more human-friendly name.
+          The unqualified attribute scope also contains manually
+          packaged extensions. Note that the automatically packaged
+          extensions are provided for convenience and are not checked or
+          guaranteed to work.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Erlang/OTP versions older than R21 got dropped. We also
+          dropped the cuter package, as it was purely an example of how
+          to build a package. We also dropped <literal>lfe_1_2</literal>
+          as it could not build with R21+. Moving forward, we expect to
+          only support 3 yearly releases of OTP.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-21.11">
+  <title>Release 21.11 (“Porcupine”, 2021/11/30)</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Support is planned until the end of June 2022, handing over to
+        22.05.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <para>
+      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
+      has the following highlights:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nix has been updated to version 2.4, reference its
+          <link xlink:href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-4-released/15822">release
+          notes</link> for more information on what has changed. The
+          previous version of Nix, 2.3.16, remains available for the
+          time being in the <literal>nix_2_3</literal> package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>iptables</literal> is now using
+          <literal>nf_tables</literal> under the hood, by using
+          <literal>iptables-nft</literal>, similar to
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.debian.org/nftables#Current_status">Debian</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/iptables-nft-default">Fedora</link>.
+          This means, <literal>ip[6]tables</literal>,
+          <literal>arptables</literal> and <literal>ebtables</literal>
+          commands will actually show rules from some specific tables in
+          the <literal>nf_tables</literal> kernel subsystem. In case
+          you’re migrating from an older release without rebooting,
+          there might be cases where you end up with iptable rules
+          configured both in the legacy <literal>iptables</literal>
+          kernel backend, as well as in the <literal>nf_tables</literal>
+          backend. This can lead to confusing firewall behaviour. An
+          <literal>iptables-save</literal> after switching will complain
+          about <quote>iptables-legacy tables present</quote>. It’s
+          probably best to reboot after the upgrade, or manually
+          removing all legacy iptables rules (via the
+          <literal>iptables-legacy</literal> package).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          systemd got an <literal>nftables</literal> backend, and
+          configures (networkd) rules in their own
+          <literal>io.systemd.*</literal> tables. Check
+          <literal>nft list ruleset</literal> to see these rules, not
+          <literal>iptables-save</literal> (which only shows
+          <literal>iptables</literal>-created rules.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP now defaults to PHP 8.0, updated from 7.4.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          kops now defaults to 1.21.1, which uses containerd as the
+          default runtime.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>python3</literal> now defaults to Python 3.9, updated
+          from Python 3.8.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PostgreSQL now defaults to major version 13.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          spark now defaults to spark 3, updated from 2. A
+          <link xlink:href="https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/core-migration-guide.html#upgrading-from-core-24-to-30">migration
+          guide</link> is available.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Improvements have been made to the Hadoop module and package:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              HDFS and YARN now support production-ready highly
+              available deployments with automatic failover.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Hadoop now defaults to Hadoop 3, updated from 2.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              JournalNode, ZKFS and HTTPFS services have been added.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Activation scripts can now, optionally, be run during a
+          <literal>nixos-rebuild dry-activate</literal> and can detect
+          the dry activation by reading
+          <literal>$NIXOS_ACTION</literal>. This allows activation
+          scripts to output what they would change if the activation was
+          really run. The users/modules activation script supports this
+          and outputs some of is actions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          KDE Plasma now finally works on Wayland.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          bash now defaults to major version 5.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Systemd was updated to version 249 (from 247).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Pantheon desktop has been updated to version 6. Due to changes
+          of screen locker, if locking doesn’t work for you, please try
+          <literal>gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>kubernetes-helm</literal> now defaults to 3.7.0,
+          which introduced some breaking changes to the experimental OCI
+          manifest format. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/helm/community/blob/main/hips/hip-0006.md">HIP
+          6</link> for more details. <literal>helmfile</literal> also
+          defaults to 0.141.0, which is the minimum compatible version.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GNOME has been upgraded to 41. Please take a look at their
+          <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/41.0/">Release
+          Notes</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          LXD support was greatly improved:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              building LXD images from configurations is now directly
+              possible with just nixpkgs
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              hydra is now building nixOS LXD images that can be used
+              standalone with full nixos-rebuild support
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          OpenSSH was updated to version 8.8p1
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              This breaks connections to old SSH daemons as ssh-rsa host
+              keys and ssh-rsa public keys that were signed with SHA-1
+              are disabled by default now
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              These can be re-enabled, see the
+              <link xlink:href="https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.8">OpenSSH
+              changelog</link> for details
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ORY Kratos was updated to version 0.8.0-alpha.3
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              This release requires you to run SQL migrations. Please,
+              as always, create a backup of your database first!
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The SDKs are now generated with tag v0alpha2 to reflect
+              that some signatures have changed in a breaking fashion.
+              Please update your imports from v0alpha1 to v0alpha2.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The SMTPS scheme used in courier config URL with
+              cleartext/StartTLS/TLS SMTP connection types is now only
+              supporting implicit TLS. For StartTLS and cleartext SMTP,
+              please use the SMTP scheme instead.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              for more details, see
+              <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ory/kratos/releases/tag/v0.8.0-alpha.1">Release
+              Notes</link>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://digint.ch/btrbk/index.html">btrbk</link>,
+          a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes, taking advantage of btrfs
+          specific capabilities to create atomic snapshots and transfer
+          them incrementally to your backup locations. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.brtbk.instances">services.btrbk</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/xrelkd/clipcat/">clipcat</link>,
+          an X11 clipboard manager written in Rust. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.clipcat.enable">services.clipcat</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/dexidp/dex">dex</link>,
+          an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider.
+          Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dex.enable">services.dex</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate">geoipupdate</link>,
+          a GeoIP database updater from MaxMind. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.geoipupdate.enable">services.geoipupdate</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/jitsi/jibri">Jibri</link>,
+          a service for recording or streaming a Jitsi Meet conference.
+          Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.jibri.enable">services.jibri</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.isc.org/kea/">Kea</link>, ISCs
+          2nd generation DHCP and DDNS server suite. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.kea.dhcp4">services.kea</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://owncast.online/">owncast</link>,
+          self-hosted video live streaming solution. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.owncast.enable">services.owncast</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://joinpeertube.org/">PeerTube</link>,
+          developed by Framasoft, is the free and decentralized
+          alternative to video platforms. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.peertube.enable">services.peertube</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://sr.ht">sourcehut</link>, a
+          collection of tools useful for software development. Available
+          as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.sourcehut.enable">services.sourcehut</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://download.pureftpd.org/pub/ucarp/README">ucarp</link>,
+          an userspace implementation of the Common Address Redundancy
+          Protocol (CARP). Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.ucarp.enable">networking.ucarp</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Users of flashrom should migrate to
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.flashrom.enable">programs.flashrom.enable</link>
+          and add themselves to the <literal>flashrom</literal> group to
+          be able to access programmers supported by flashrom.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://vikunja.io">vikunja</link>, a to-do
+          list app. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.vikunja.enable">services.vikunja</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch">opensnitch</link>,
+          an application firewall. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.opensnitch.enable">services.opensnitch</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.snapraid.it/">snapraid</link>, a
+          backup program for disk arrays. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-snapraid.enable">snapraid</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/hockeypuck/hockeypuck">Hockeypuck</link>,
+          a OpenPGP Key Server. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.hockeypuck.enable">services.hockeypuck</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-agent-metrics">buildkite-agent-metrics</link>,
+          a command-line tool for collecting Buildkite agent metrics,
+          now has a Prometheus exporter available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.prometheus.exporters.buildkite-agent.enable">services.prometheus.exporters.buildkite-agent</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/prometheus/influxdb_exporter">influxdb-exporter</link>
+          a Prometheus exporter that exports metrics received on an
+          InfluxDB compatible endpoint is now available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.prometheus.exporters.influxdb.enable">services.prometheus.exporters.influxdb</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-discord/mx-puppet-discord">mx-puppet-discord</link>,
+          a discord puppeting bridge for matrix. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.mx-puppet-discord.enable">services.mx-puppet-discord</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcentral2/overview">MeshCentral</link>,
+          a remote administration service (<quote>TeamViewer but
+          self-hosted and with more features</quote>) is now available
+          with a package and a module:
+          <link linkend="opt-services.meshcentral.enable">services.meshcentral.enable</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/Arksine/moonraker">moonraker</link>,
+          an API web server for Klipper. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.moonraker.enable">moonraker</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb">influxdb2</link>,
+          a Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time
+          analytics. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.influxdb2.enable">services.influxdb2</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://posativ.org/isso/">isso</link>, a
+          commenting server similar to Disqus. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.isso.enable">isso</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.navidrome.org/">navidrome</link>,
+          a personal music streaming server with subsonic-compatible
+          api. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.navidrome.enable">navidrome</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.fluidd.xyz/">fluidd</link>, a
+          Klipper web interface for managing 3d printers using
+          moonraker. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.fluidd.enable">fluidd</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/earnestly/sx">sx</link>,
+          a simple alternative to both xinit and startx for starting a
+          Xorg server. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.xserver.displayManager.sx.enable">services.xserver.displayManager.sx</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://postfixadmin.sourceforge.io/">postfixadmin</link>,
+          a web based virtual user administration interface for Postfix
+          mail servers. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.postfixadmin.enable">postfixadmin</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://wiki.servarr.com/prowlarr">prowlarr</link>,
+          an indexer manager/proxy built on the popular arr .net/reactjs
+          base stack
+          <link linkend="opt-services.prowlarr.enable">services.prowlarr</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://sr.ht/~emersion/soju">soju</link>, a
+          user-friendly IRC bouncer. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.soju.enable">services.soju</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://nats.io/">nats</link>, a high
+          performance cloud and edge messaging system. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.nats.enable">services.nats</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://git-scm.com">git</link>, a
+          distributed version control system. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.git.enable">programs.git</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://domainaware.github.io/parsedmarc/">parsedmarc</link>,
+          a service which parses incoming
+          <link xlink:href="https://dmarc.org/">DMARC</link> reports and
+          stores or sends them to a downstream service for further
+          analysis. Documented in
+          <link linkend="module-services-parsedmarc">its manual
+          entry</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://spark.apache.org/">spark</link>, a
+          unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg">touchegg</link>,
+          a multi-touch gesture recognizer. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.touchegg.enable">services.touchegg</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/pantheon-tweaks/pantheon-tweaks">pantheon-tweaks</link>,
+          an unofficial system settings panel for Pantheon. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-programs.pantheon-tweaks.enable">programs.pantheon-tweaks</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/DanielOgorchock/joycond">joycond</link>,
+          a service that uses <literal>hid-nintendo</literal> to provide
+          nintendo joycond pairing and better nintendo switch pro
+          controller support.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/opensvc/multipath-tools">multipath</link>,
+          the device mapper multipath (DM-MP) daemon. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.multipath.enable">services.multipath</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.seafile.com/en/home/">seafile</link>,
+          an open source file syncing &amp; sharing software. Available
+          as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.seafile.enable">services.seafile</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/mchehab/rasdaemon">rasdaemon</link>,
+          a hardware error logging daemon. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-hardware.rasdaemon.enable">hardware.rasdaemon</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>code-server</literal>-module now available
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig">xmrig</link>,
+          a high performance, open source, cross platform RandomX,
+          KawPow, CryptoNight and AstroBWT unified CPU/GPU miner and
+          RandomX benchmark.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Auto nice daemons
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy">ananicy</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://gitlab.com/ananicy-cpp/ananicy-cpp/">ananicy-cpp</link>.
+          Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.ananicy.enable">services.ananicy</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/prometheus-community/smartctl_exporter">smartctl_exporter</link>,
+          a Prometheus exporter for
+          <link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.">S.M.A.R.T.</link>
+          data. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.prometheus.exporters.smartctl.enable">services.prometheus.exporters.smartctl</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The NixOS VM test framework,
+          <literal>pkgs.nixosTest</literal>/<literal>make-test-python.nix</literal>,
+          now requires detaching commands such as
+          <literal>succeed(&quot;foo &amp;&quot;)</literal> and
+          <literal>succeed(&quot;foo | xclip -i&quot;)</literal> to
+          close stdout. This can be done with a redirect such as
+          <literal>succeed(&quot;foo &gt;&amp;2 &amp;&quot;)</literal>.
+          This breaking change was necessitated by a race condition
+          causing tests to fail or hang. It applies to all methods that
+          invoke commands on the nodes, including
+          <literal>execute</literal>, <literal>succeed</literal>,
+          <literal>fail</literal>,
+          <literal>wait_until_succeeds</literal>,
+          <literal>wait_until_fails</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.wakeonlan</literal> option was removed,
+          and replaced with
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.wakeOnLan</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>security.wrappers</literal> option now requires
+          to always specify an owner, group and whether the
+          setuid/setgid bit should be set. This is motivated by the fact
+          that before NixOS 21.11, specifying either setuid or setgid
+          but not owner/group resulted in wrappers owned by
+          nobody/nogroup, which is unsafe.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Since <literal>iptables</literal> now uses
+          <literal>nf_tables</literal> backend and
+          <literal>ipset</literal> doesn’t support it, some applications
+          (ferm, shorewall, firehol) may have limited functionality.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>paperless</literal> module and package have been
+          removed. All users should migrate to the successor
+          <literal>paperless-ng</literal> instead. The Paperless project
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless/commit/9b0063c9731f7c5f65b1852cb8caff97f5e40ba4">has
+          been archived</link> and advises all users to use
+          <literal>paperless-ng</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Users can use the <literal>services.paperless-ng</literal>
+          module as a replacement while noting the following
+          incompatibilities:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>services.paperless.ocrLanguages</literal> has no
+              replacement. Users should migrate to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.paperless-ng.extraConfig"><literal>services.paperless-ng.extraConfig</literal></link>
+              instead:
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.paperless-ng.extraConfig = {
+    # Provide languages as ISO 639-2 codes
+    # separated by a plus (+) sign.
+    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes
+    PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE = &quot;deu+eng+jpn&quot;; # German &amp; English &amp; Japanse
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If you previously specified
+              <literal>PAPERLESS_CONSUME_MAIL_*</literal> settings in
+              <literal>services.paperless.extraConfig</literal> you
+              should remove those options now. You now
+              <emphasis>must</emphasis> define those settings in the
+              admin interface of paperless-ng.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Option <literal>services.paperless.manage</literal> no
+              longer exists. Use the script at
+              <literal>${services.paperless-ng.dataDir}/paperless-ng-manage</literal>
+              instead. Note that this script only exists after the
+              <literal>paperless-ng</literal> service has been started
+              at least once.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              After switching to the new system configuration you should
+              run the Django management command to reindex your
+              documents and optionally create a user, if you don’t have
+              one already.
+            </para>
+            <para>
+              To do so, enter the data directory (the value of
+              <literal>services.paperless-ng.dataDir</literal>,
+              <literal>/var/lib/paperless</literal> by default), switch
+              to the paperless user and execute the management command
+              like below:
+            </para>
+            <programlisting>
+$ cd /var/lib/paperless
+$ su paperless -s /bin/sh
+$ ./paperless-ng-manage document_index reindex
+# if not already done create a user account, paperless-ng requires a login
+$ ./paperless-ng-manage createsuperuser
+Username (leave blank to use 'paperless'): my-user-name
+Email address: me@example.com
+Password: **********
+Password (again): **********
+Superuser created successfully.
+</programlisting>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>staticjinja</literal> package has been upgraded
+          from 1.0.4 to 4.1.1
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Firefox v91 does not support addons with invalid signature
+          anymore. Firefox ESR needs to be used for nix addon support.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>erigon</literal> ethereum node has moved to a new
+          database format in <literal>2021-05-04</literal>, and requires
+          a full resync
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>erigon</literal> ethereum node has moved it’s
+          database location in <literal>2021-08-03</literal>, users
+          upgrading must manually move their chaindata (see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/releases/tag/v2021.08.03">release
+          notes</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users._name_.group">users.users.&lt;name&gt;.group</link>
+          no longer defaults to <literal>nogroup</literal>, which was
+          insecure. Out-of-tree modules are likely to require
+          adaptation: instead of
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  users.users.foo = {
+    isSystemUser = true;
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          also create a group for your user:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  users.users.foo = {
+    isSystemUser = true;
+    group = &quot;foo&quot;;
+  };
+  users.groups.foo = {};
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.geoip-updater</literal> was broken and has
+          been replaced by
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.geoipupdate.enable">services.geoipupdate</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>ihatemoney</literal> has been updated to version
+          5.1.1
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/spiral-project/ihatemoney/blob/5.1.1/CHANGELOG.rst">release
+          notes</link>). If you serve ihatemoney by HTTP rather than
+          HTTPS, you must set
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.ihatemoney.secureCookie">services.ihatemoney.secureCookie</link>
+          to <literal>false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP 7.3 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting
+          this version for the entire lifecycle of the 21.11 release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Those making use of <literal>buildBazelPackage</literal> will
+          need to regenerate the fetch hashes (preferred), or set
+          <literal>fetchConfigured = false;</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>consul</literal> was upgraded to a new major release
+          with breaking changes, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/releases/tag/v1.10.0">upstream
+          changelog</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          fsharp41 has been removed in preference to use the latest
+          dotnet-sdk
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The following F#-related packages have been removed for being
+          unmaintaned. Please use <literal>fetchNuGet</literal> for
+          specific packages.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              ExtCore
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Fake
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Fantomas
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsCheck
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsCheck262
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsCheckNunit
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpAutoComplete
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCompilerCodeDom
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCompilerService
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCompilerTools
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCore302
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCore3125
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCore4001
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpCore4117
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpData
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpData225
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpDataSQLProvider
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FSharpFormatting
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsLexYacc
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsLexYacc706
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsLexYaccRuntime
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsPickler
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              FsUnit
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Projekt
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Suave
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              UnionArgParser
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              ExcelDnaRegistration
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              MathNetNumerics
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs.x2goserver</literal> is now
+          <literal>services.x2goserver</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The following dotnet-related packages have been removed for
+          being unmaintaned. Please use <literal>fetchNuGet</literal>
+          for specific packages.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Autofac
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              SystemValueTuple
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              MicrosoftDiaSymReader
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              MicrosoftDiaSymReaderPortablePdb
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              SystemCollectionsImmutable
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              SystemCollectionsImmutable131
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              SystemReflectionMetadata
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              NUnit350
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Deedle
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              ExcelDna
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              GitVersionTree
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              NDeskOptions
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>antlr</literal> package now defaults to the 4.x
+          release instead of the old 2.7.7 version.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>pulseeffects</literal> package updated to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/releases/tag/v6.0.0">version
+          4.x</link> and renamed to <literal>easyeffects</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>libwnck</literal> package now defaults to the 3.x
+          release instead of the old 2.31.0 version.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>bitwarden_rs</literal> packages and modules were
+          renamed to <literal>vaultwarden</literal>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1642">following
+          upstream</link>. More specifically,
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>pkgs.bitwarden_rs</literal>,
+              <literal>pkgs.bitwarden_rs-sqlite</literal>,
+              <literal>pkgs.bitwarden_rs-mysql</literal> and
+              <literal>pkgs.bitwarden_rs-postgresql</literal> were
+              renamed to <literal>pkgs.vaultwarden</literal>,
+              <literal>pkgs.vaultwarden-sqlite</literal>,
+              <literal>pkgs.vaultwarden-mysql</literal> and
+              <literal>pkgs.vaultwarden-postgresql</literal>,
+              respectively.
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  Old names are preserved as aliases for backwards
+                  compatibility, but may be removed in the future.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  The <literal>bitwarden_rs</literal> executable was
+                  also renamed to <literal>vaultwarden</literal> in all
+                  packages.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>pkgs.bitwarden_rs-vault</literal> was renamed to
+              <literal>pkgs.vaultwarden-vault</literal>.
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <literal>pkgs.bitwarden_rs-vault</literal> is
+                  preserved as an alias for backwards compatibility, but
+                  may be removed in the future.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  The static files were moved from
+                  <literal>/usr/share/bitwarden_rs</literal> to
+                  <literal>/usr/share/vaultwarden</literal>.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>services.bitwarden_rs</literal> config module
+              was renamed to <literal>services.vaultwarden</literal>.
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <literal>services.bitwarden_rs</literal> is preserved
+                  as an alias for backwards compatibility, but may be
+                  removed in the future.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>systemd.services.bitwarden_rs</literal>,
+              <literal>systemd.services.backup-bitwarden_rs</literal>
+              and <literal>systemd.timers.backup-bitwarden_rs</literal>
+              were renamed to
+              <literal>systemd.services.vaultwarden</literal>,
+              <literal>systemd.services.backup-vaultwarden</literal> and
+              <literal>systemd.timers.backup-vaultwarden</literal>,
+              respectively.
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  Old names are preserved as aliases for backwards
+                  compatibility, but may be removed in the future.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>users.users.bitwarden_rs</literal> and
+              <literal>users.groups.bitwarden_rs</literal> were renamed
+              to <literal>users.users.vaultwarden</literal> and
+              <literal>users.groups.vaultwarden</literal>, respectively.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The data directory remains located at
+              <literal>/var/lib/bitwarden_rs</literal>, for backwards
+              compatibility.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>yggdrasil</literal> was upgraded to a new major
+          release with breaking changes, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/releases/tag/v0.4.0">upstream
+          changelog</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>icingaweb2</literal> was upgraded to a new release
+          which requires a manual database upgrade, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/releases/tag/v2.9.0">upstream
+          changelog</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>isabelle</literal> package has been upgraded from
+          2020 to 2021
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          the <literal>mingw-64</literal> package has been upgraded from
+          6.0.0 to 9.0.0
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>tt-rss</literal> was upgraded to the commit on
+          2021-06-21, which has breaking changes. If you use
+          <literal>services.tt-rss.extraConfig</literal> you should
+          migrate to the <literal>putenv</literal>-style configuration.
+          See
+          <link xlink:href="https://community.tt-rss.org/t/rip-config-php-hello-classes-config-php/4337">this
+          Discourse post</link> in the tt-rss forums for more details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The following Visual Studio Code extensions were renamed to
+          keep the naming convention uniform.
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>bbenoist.Nix</literal> -&gt;
+              <literal>bbenoist.nix</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer</literal> -&gt;
+              <literal>coenraads.bracket-pair-colorizer</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>golang.Go</literal> -&gt;
+              <literal>golang.go</literal>
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.uptimed</literal> now uses
+          <literal>/var/lib/uptimed</literal> as its stateDirectory
+          instead of <literal>/var/spool/uptimed</literal>. Make sure to
+          move all files to the new directory.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Deprecated package aliases in <literal>emacs.pkgs.*</literal>
+          have been removed. These aliases were remnants of the old
+          Emacs package infrastructure. We now use exact upstream names
+          wherever possible.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs.neovim.runtime</literal> switched to a
+          <literal>linkFarm</literal> internally, making it impossible
+          to use wildcards in the <literal>source</literal> argument.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>openrazer</literal> and
+          <literal>openrazer-daemon</literal> packages as well as the
+          <literal>hardware.openrazer</literal> module now require users
+          to be members of the <literal>openrazer</literal> group
+          instead of <literal>plugdev</literal>. With this change, users
+          no longer need be granted the entire set of
+          <literal>plugdev</literal> group permissions, which can
+          include permissions other than those required by
+          <literal>openrazer</literal>. This is desirable from a
+          security point of view. The setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.hardware.openrazer.users"><literal>harware.openrazer.users</literal></link>
+          can be used to add users to the <literal>openrazer</literal>
+          group.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The fontconfig service’s dpi option has been removed.
+          Fontconfig should use Xft settings by default so there’s no
+          need to override one value in multiple places. The user can
+          set DPI via ~/.Xresources properly, or at the system level per
+          monitor, or as a last resort at the system level with
+          <literal>services.xserver.dpi</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>yambar</literal> package has been split into
+          <literal>yambar</literal> and
+          <literal>yambar-wayland</literal>, corresponding to the xorg
+          and wayland backend respectively. Please switch to
+          <literal>yambar-wayland</literal> if you are on wayland.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.minio</literal> module gained an
+          additional option <literal>consoleAddress</literal>, that
+          configures the address and port the web UI is listening, it
+          defaults to <literal>:9001</literal>. To be able to access the
+          web UI this port needs to be opened in the firewall.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>varnish</literal> package was upgraded from 6.3.x
+          to 7.x. <literal>varnish60</literal> for the last LTS release
+          is also still available.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>kubernetes</literal> package was upgraded to
+          1.22. The <literal>kubernetes.apiserver.kubeletHttps</literal>
+          option was removed and HTTPS is always used.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The attribute <literal>linuxPackages_latest_hardened</literal>
+          was dropped because the hardened patches lag behind the
+          upstream kernel which made version bumps harder. If you want
+          to use a hardened kernel, please pin it explicitly with a
+          versioned attribute such as
+          <literal>linuxPackages_5_10_hardened</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>nomad</literal> package now defaults to a 1.1.x
+          release instead of 1.0.x
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If <literal>exfat</literal> is included in
+          <literal>boot.supportedFilesystems</literal> and when using
+          kernel 5.7 or later, the <literal>exfatprogs</literal>
+          user-space utilities are used instead of
+          <literal>exfat</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>todoman</literal> package was upgraded from 3.9.0
+          to 4.0.0. This introduces breaking changes in the
+          <link xlink:href="https://todoman.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configure.html#configuration-file">configuration
+          file</link> format.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>datadog-agent</literal>,
+          <literal>datadog-integrations-core</literal> and
+          <literal>datadog-process-agent</literal> packages were
+          upgraded from 6.11.2 to 7.30.2, git-2018-09-18 to 7.30.1 and
+          6.11.1 to 7.30.2, respectively. As a result
+          <literal>services.datadog-agent</literal> has had breaking
+          changes to the configuration file. For details, see the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst">upstream
+          changelog</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>opencv2</literal> no longer includes the non-free
+          libraries by default, and consequently
+          <literal>pfstools</literal> no longer includes OpenCV support
+          by default. Both packages now support an
+          <literal>enableUnfree</literal> option to re-enable this
+          functionality.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession = &quot;plasma5&quot;</literal>
+          does not work anymore, instead use either
+          <literal>&quot;plasma&quot;</literal> for the Plasma X11
+          session or <literal>&quot;plasmawayland&quot;</literal> for
+          the Plasma Wayland sesison.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>boot.kernelParams</literal> now only accepts one
+          command line parameter per string. This change is aimed to
+          reduce common mistakes like <quote>param = 12</quote>, which
+          would be parsed as 3 parameters.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>nix.daemonNiceLevel</literal> and
+          <literal>nix.daemonIONiceLevel</literal> have been removed in
+          favour of the new options
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix.daemonCPUSchedPolicy"><literal>nix.daemonCPUSchedPolicy</literal></link>,
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix.daemonIOSchedClass"><literal>nix.daemonIOSchedClass</literal></link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix.daemonIOSchedPriority"><literal>nix.daemonIOSchedPriority</literal></link>.
+          Please refer to the options documentation and the
+          <literal>sched(7)</literal> and
+          <literal>ioprio_set(2)</literal> man pages for guidance on how
+          to use them.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>coursier</literal> package’s binary was renamed
+          from <literal>coursier</literal> to <literal>cs</literal>.
+          Completions which haven’t worked for a while should now work
+          with the renamed binary. To keep using
+          <literal>coursier</literal>, you can create a shell alias.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.mosquitto</literal> module has been
+          rewritten to support multiple listeners and per-listener
+          configuration. Module configurations from previous releases
+          will no longer work and must be updated.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>fluidsynth_1</literal> attribute has been
+          removed, as this legacy version is no longer needed in
+          nixpkgs. The actively maintained 2.x series is available as
+          <literal>fluidsynth</literal> unchanged.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nextcloud 20 (<literal>pkgs.nextcloud20</literal>) has been
+          dropped because it was EOLed by upstream in 2021-10.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>virtualisation.pathsInNixDB</literal> option was
+          renamed
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.additionalPaths"><literal>virtualisation.additionalPaths</literal></link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.ddclient.password</literal> option was
+          removed, and replaced with
+          <literal>services.ddclient.passwordFile</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default GNAT version has been changed: The
+          <literal>gnat</literal> attribute now points to
+          <literal>gnat11</literal> instead of <literal>gnat9</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>retroArchCores</literal> has been removed. This means
+          that using <literal>nixpkgs.config.retroarch</literal> to
+          customize RetroArch cores is not supported anymore. Instead,
+          use package overrides, for example:
+          <literal>retroarch.override { cores = with libretro; [ citra snes9x ]; };</literal>.
+          Also, <literal>retroarchFull</literal> derivation is available
+          for those who want to have all RetroArch cores available.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Linux kernel for security reasons now restricts access to
+          BPF syscalls via <literal>BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF=y</literal>.
+          Unprivileged access can be reenabled via the
+          <literal>kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled</literal> sysctl
+          knob.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>/usr</literal> will always be included in the initial
+          ramdisk. See the
+          <literal>fileSystems.&lt;name&gt;.neededForBoot</literal>
+          option. If any files exist under <literal>/usr</literal>
+          (which is not typical for NixOS), they will be included in the
+          initial ramdisk, increasing its size to a possibly problematic
+          extent.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-21.11-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The linux kernel package infrastructure was moved out of
+          <literal>all-packages.nix</literal>, and restructured. Linux
+          related functions and attributes now live under the
+          <literal>pkgs.linuxKernel</literal> attribute set. In
+          particular the versioned <literal>linuxPackages_*</literal>
+          package sets (such as <literal>linuxPackages_5_4</literal>)
+          and kernels from <literal>pkgs</literal> were moved there and
+          now live under <literal>pkgs.linuxKernel.packages.*</literal>.
+          The unversioned ones (such as
+          <literal>linuxPackages_latest</literal>) remain untouched.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          In NixOS virtual machines (QEMU), the
+          <literal>virtualisation</literal> module has been updated with
+          new options:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.forwardPorts"><literal>forwardPorts</literal></link>
+              to configure IPv4 port forwarding,
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.sharedDirectories"><literal>sharedDirectories</literal></link>
+              to set up shared host directories,
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.resolution"><literal>resolution</literal></link>
+              to set the screen resolution,
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.useNixStoreImage"><literal>useNixStoreImage</literal></link>
+              to use a disk image for the Nix store instead of 9P.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          In addition, the default
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.msize"><literal>msize</literal></link>
+          parameter in 9P filesystems (including /nix/store and all
+          shared directories) has been increased to 16K for improved
+          performance.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The setting
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.openssh.logLevel"><literal>services.openssh.logLevel</literal></link>
+          <literal>&quot;VERBOSE&quot;</literal>
+          <literal>&quot;INFO&quot;</literal>. This brings NixOS in line
+          with upstream and other Linux distributions, and reduces log
+          spam on servers due to bruteforcing botnets.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          However, if
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.fail2ban.enable"><literal>services.fail2ban.enable</literal></link>
+          is <literal>true</literal>, the <literal>fail2ban</literal>
+          will override the verbosity to
+          <literal>&quot;VERBOSE&quot;</literal>, so that
+          <literal>fail2ban</literal> can observe the failed login
+          attempts from the SSH logs.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.extraLayouts"><literal>services.xserver.extraLayouts</literal></link>
+          no longer cause additional rebuilds when a layout is added or
+          modified.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Sway: The terminal emulator <literal>rxvt-unicode</literal> is
+          no longer installed by default via
+          <literal>programs.sway.extraPackages</literal>. The current
+          default configuration uses <literal>alacritty</literal> (and
+          soon <literal>foot</literal>) so this is only an issue when
+          using a customized configuration and not installing
+          <literal>rxvt-unicode</literal> explicitly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>python3</literal> now defaults to Python 3.9. Python
+          3.9 introduces many deprecation warnings, please look at the
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.9.html">What’s
+          New In Python 3.9 post</link> for more information.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>qtile</literal> hase been updated from
+          <quote>0.16.0</quote> to <quote>0.18.0</quote>, please check
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/CHANGELOG">qtile
+          changelog</link> for changes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>claws-mail</literal> package now references the
+          new GTK+ 3 release branch, major version 4. To use the GTK+ 2
+          releases, one can install the
+          <literal>claws-mail-gtk2</literal> package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The wordpress module provides a new interface which allows to
+          use different webservers with the new option
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.wordpress.webserver"><literal>services.wordpress.webserver</literal></link>.
+          Currently <literal>httpd</literal>, <literal>caddy</literal>
+          and <literal>nginx</literal> are supported. The definitions of
+          wordpress sites should now be set in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.wordpress.sites"><literal>services.wordpress.sites</literal></link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Sites definitions that use the old interface are automatically
+          migrated in the new option. This backward compatibility will
+          be removed in 22.05.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The dokuwiki module provides a new interface which allows to
+          use different webservers with the new option
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dokuwiki.webserver"><literal>services.dokuwiki.webserver</literal></link>.
+          Currently <literal>caddy</literal> and
+          <literal>nginx</literal> are supported. The definitions of
+          dokuwiki sites should now be set in
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dokuwiki.sites"><literal>services.dokuwiki.sites</literal></link>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Sites definitions that use the old interface are automatically
+          migrated in the new option. This backward compatibility will
+          be removed in 22.05.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The order of NSS (host) modules has been brought in line with
+          upstream recommendations:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>myhostname</literal> module is placed before
+              the <literal>resolve</literal> (optional) and
+              <literal>dns</literal> entries, but after
+              <literal>file</literal> (to allow overriding via
+              <literal>/etc/hosts</literal> /
+              <literal>networking.extraHosts</literal>, and prevent ISPs
+              with catchall-DNS resolvers from hijacking
+              <literal>.localhost</literal> domains)
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>mymachines</literal> module, which provides
+              hostname resolution for local containers (registered with
+              <literal>systemd-machined</literal>) is placed to the
+              front, to make sure its mappings are preferred over other
+              resolvers.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If systemd-networkd is enabled, the
+              <literal>resolve</literal> module is placed before
+              <literal>files</literal> and
+              <literal>myhostname</literal>, as it provides the same
+              logic internally, with caching.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>mdns(_minimal)</literal> module has been
+              updated to the new priorities.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          If you use your own NSS host modules, make sure to update your
+          priorities according to these rules:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              NSS modules which should be queried before
+              <literal>resolved</literal> DNS resolution should use
+              mkBefore.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              NSS modules which should be queried after
+              <literal>resolved</literal>, <literal>files</literal> and
+              <literal>myhostname</literal>, but before
+              <literal>dns</literal> should use the default priority
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              NSS modules which should come after <literal>dns</literal>
+              should use mkAfter.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.enable">networking.wireless</link>
+          module (based on wpa_supplicant) has been heavily reworked,
+          solving a number of issues and adding useful features:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The automatic discovery of wireless interfaces at boot has
+              been made reliable again (issues
+              <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101963">#101963</link>,
+              <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23196">#23196</link>).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              WPA3 and Fast BSS Transition (802.11r) are now enabled by
+              default for all networks.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Secrets like pre-shared keys and passwords can now be
+              handled safely, meaning without including them in a
+              world-readable file
+              (<literal>wpa_supplicant.conf</literal> under /nix/store).
+              This is achieved by storing the secrets in a secured
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.environmentFile">environmentFile</link>
+              and referring to them though environment variables that
+              are expanded inside the configuration.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              With multiple interfaces declared, independent
+              wpa_supplicant daemons are started, one for each interface
+              (the services are named
+              <literal>wpa_supplicant-wlan0</literal>,
+              <literal>wpa_supplicant-wlan1</literal>, etc.).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The generated <literal>wpa_supplicant.conf</literal> file
+              is now formatted for easier reading.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              A new
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.scanOnLowSignal">scanOnLowSignal</link>
+              option has been added to facilitate fast roaming between
+              access points (enabled by default).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              A new
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.networks._name_.authProtocols">networks.&lt;name&gt;.authProtocols</link>
+              option has been added to change the authentication
+              protocols used when connecting to a network.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.iwd.enable">networking.wireless.iwd</link>
+          module has a new
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.wireless.iwd.settings">networking.wireless.iwd.settings</link>
+          option.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.smokeping.host">services.smokeping.host</link>
+          option was added and defaulted to
+          <literal>localhost</literal>. Before,
+          <literal>smokeping</literal> listened to all interfaces by
+          default. NixOS defaults generally aim to provide
+          non-Internet-exposed defaults for databases and internal
+          monitoring tools, see e.g.
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/100192">#100192</link>.
+          Further, the systemd service for <literal>smokeping</literal>
+          got reworked defaults for increased operational stability, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/144127">PR
+          #144127</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.syncoid.enable">services.syncoid.enable</link>
+          module now properly drops ZFS permissions after usage. Before
+          it delegated permissions to whole pools instead of datasets
+          and didn’t clean up after execution. You can manually look
+          this up for your pools by running
+          <literal>zfs allow your-pool-name</literal> and use
+          <literal>zfs unallow syncoid your-pool-name</literal> to clean
+          this up.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Zfs: <literal>latestCompatibleLinuxPackages</literal> is now
+          exported on the zfs package. One can use
+          <literal>boot.kernelPackages = config.boot.zfs.package.latestCompatibleLinuxPackages;</literal>
+          to always track the latest compatible kernel with a given
+          version of zfs.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Nginx will use the value of
+          <literal>sslTrustedCertificate</literal> if provided for a
+          virtual host, even if <literal>enableACME</literal> is set.
+          This is useful for providers not using the same certificate to
+          sign OCSP responses and server certificates.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.formats.yaml</literal>’s
+          <literal>generate</literal> will not generate JSON anymore,
+          but instead use more of the YAML-specific syntax.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MariaDB was upgraded from 10.5.x to 10.6.x. Please read the
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-106/">upstream
+          release notes</link> for changes and upgrade instructions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The MariaDB C client library, also known as libmysqlclient or
+          mariadb-connector-c, was upgraded from 3.1.x to 3.2.x. While
+          this should hopefully not have any impact, this upgrade comes
+          with some changes to default behavior, so you might want to
+          review the
+          <link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/changes-and-improvements-in-mariadb-connector-c-32/">upstream
+          release notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          GNOME desktop environment now enables
+          <literal>QGnomePlatform</literal> as the Qt platform theme,
+          which should avoid crashes when opening file chooser dialogs
+          in Qt apps by using XDG desktop portal. Additionally, it will
+          make the apps fit better visually.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>rofi</literal> has been updated from
+          <quote>1.6.1</quote> to <quote>1.7.0</quote>, one important
+          thing is the removal of the old xresources based configuration
+          setup. Read more
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/blob/cb12e6fc058f4a0f4f/Changelog#L1">in
+          rofi’s changelog</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ipfs now defaults to not listening on you local network. This
+          setting was change as server providers won’t accept port
+          scanning on their private network. If you have several ipfs
+          instances running on a network you own, feel free to change
+          the setting <literal>ipfs.localDiscovery = true;</literal>.
+          localDiscovery enables different instances to discover each
+          other and share data.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lua</literal> and <literal>luajit</literal>
+          interpreters have been patched to avoid looking into /usr/lib
+          directories, thus increasing the purity of the build.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Three new options,
+          <link linkend="opt-xdg.mime.addedAssociations">xdg.mime.addedAssociations</link>,
+          <link linkend="opt-xdg.mime.defaultApplications">xdg.mime.defaultApplications</link>,
+          and
+          <link linkend="opt-xdg.mime.removedAssociations">xdg.mime.removedAssociations</link>
+          have been added to the
+          <link linkend="opt-xdg.mime.enable">xdg.mime</link> module to
+          allow the configuration of
+          <literal>/etc/xdg/mimeapps.list</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Kopia was upgraded from 0.8.x to 0.9.x. Please read the
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/tag/v0.9.0">upstream
+          release notes</link> for changes and upgrade instructions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>systemd.network</literal> module has gained
+          support for the FooOverUDP link type.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>networking</literal> module has a new
+          <literal>networking.fooOverUDP</literal> option to configure
+          Foo-over-UDP encapsulations.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>networking.sits</literal> now supports Foo-over-UDP
+          encapsulation.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>virtualisation.libvirtd</literal> module has been
+          refactored and updated with new options:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu*</literal> options
+              (e.g.:
+              <literal>virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuRunAsRoot</literal>)
+              were moved to
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu"><literal>virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu</literal></link>
+              submodule,
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              software TPM1/TPM2 support (e.g.: Windows 11 guests)
+              (<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu.swtpm"><literal>virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu.swtpm</literal></link>),
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              custom OVMF package (e.g.:
+              <literal>pkgs.OVMFFull</literal> with HTTP, CSM and Secure
+              Boot support)
+              (<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu.ovmf.package"><literal>virtualisation.libvirtd.qemu.ovmf.package</literal></link>).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>cawbird</literal> Twitter client now uses its own
+          API keys to count as different application than upstream
+          builds. This is done to evade application-level rate limiting.
+          While existing accounts continue to work, users may want to
+          remove and re-register their account in the client to enjoy a
+          better user experience and benefit from this change.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A new option
+          <literal>services.prometheus.enableReload</literal> has been
+          added which can be enabled to reload the prometheus service
+          when its config file changes instead of restarting.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.prometheus.environmentFile</literal> has
+          been removed since it was causing
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126083">issues</link>
+          and Prometheus now has native support for secret files, i.e.
+          <literal>basic_auth.password_file</literal> and
+          <literal>authorization.credentials_file</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Dokuwiki now supports caddy! However
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              the nginx option has been removed, in the new
+              configuration, please use the
+              <literal>dokuwiki.webserver = &quot;nginx&quot;</literal>
+              instead.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <quote>${hostname}</quote> option has been deprecated,
+              please use
+              <literal>dokuwiki.sites = [ &quot;${hostname}&quot; ]</literal>
+              instead
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.unifi.enable">services.unifi</link>
+          module has been reworked, solving a number of issues. This
+          leads to several user facing changes:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>services.unifi.dataDir</literal> option is
+              removed and the data is now always located under
+              <literal>/var/lib/unifi/data</literal>. This is done to
+              make better use of systemd state direcotiry and thus
+              making the service restart more reliable.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The unifi logs can now be found under:
+              <literal>/var/log/unifi</literal> instead of
+              <literal>/var/lib/unifi/logs</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The unifi run directory can now be found under:
+              <literal>/run/unifi</literal> instead of
+              <literal>/var/lib/unifi/run</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security.pam.services.&lt;name&gt;.makeHomeDir</literal>
+          now uses <literal>umask=0077</literal> instead of
+          <literal>umask=0022</literal> when creating the home
+          directory.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Loki has had another release. Some default values have been
+          changed for the configuration and some configuration options
+          have been renamed. For more details, please check
+          <link xlink:href="https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/upgrading/#240">the
+          upgrade guide</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>julia</literal> now refers to
+          <literal>julia-stable</literal> instead of
+          <literal>julia-lts</literal>. In practice this means it has
+          been upgraded from <literal>1.0.4</literal> to
+          <literal>1.5.4</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          RetroArch has been upgraded from version
+          <literal>1.8.5</literal> to <literal>1.9.13.2</literal>. Since
+          the previous release was quite old, if you’re having issues
+          after the upgrade, please delete your
+          <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/retroarch/retroarch.cfg</literal>
+          file.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          hydrus has been upgraded from version <literal>438</literal>
+          to <literal>463</literal>. Since upgrading between releases
+          this old is advised against, be sure to have a backup of your
+          data before upgrading. For details, see
+          <link xlink:href="https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/getting_started_installing.html#big_updates">the
+          hydrus manual</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          More jdk and jre versions are now exposed via
+          <literal>java-packages.compiler</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>
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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-22.05">
+  <title>Release 22.05 (“Quokka”, 2022.05/??)</title>
+  <para>
+    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
+    the following highlights:
+  </para>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Support is planned until the end of December 2022, handing over
+        to 22.11.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.05-highlights">
+    <title>Highlights</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security.acme.defaults</literal> has been added to
+          simplify configuring settings for many certificates at once.
+          This also opens up the the option to use DNS-01 validation
+          when using <literal>enableACME</literal> on web server virtual
+          hosts (e.g.
+          <literal>services.nginx.virtualHosts.*.enableACME</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          PHP 8.1 is now available
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Mattermost has been updated to extended support release 6.3,
+          as the previously packaged extended support release 5.37 is
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.mattermost.com/upgrade/extended-support-release.html">reaching
+          its end of life</link>. Migrations may take a while, see the
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.mattermost.com/install/self-managed-changelog.html#release-v6-3-extended-support-release">changelog</link>
+          and
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.mattermost.com/upgrade/important-upgrade-notes.html">important
+          upgrade notes</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          systemd services can now set
+          <link linkend="opt-systemd.services">systemd.services.&lt;name&gt;.reloadTriggers</link>
+          instead of <literal>reloadIfChanged</literal> for a more
+          granular distinction between reloads and restarts.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://kops.sigs.k8s.io"><literal>kops</literal></link>
+          defaults to 1.22.4, which will enable
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service.html">Instance
+          Metadata Service Version 2</link> and require tokens on new
+          clusters with Kubernetes 1.22. This will increase security by
+          default, but may break some types of workloads. See the
+          <link xlink:href="https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/releases/1.22-notes/">release
+          notes</link> for details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.05-new-services">
+    <title>New Services</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/intel/linux-sgx#install-the-intelr-sgx-psw">aesmd</link>,
+          the Intel SGX Architectural Enclave Service Manager. Available
+          as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.aesmd.enable">services.aesmd</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/">rootless
+          Docker</link>, a <literal>systemd --user</literal> Docker
+          service which runs without root permissions. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.docker.rootless.enable">virtualisation.docker.rootless.enable</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://conduit.rs/">matrix-conduit</link>,
+          a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by matrix.
+          Available as
+          <link xlink:href="option.html#opt-services.matrix-conduit.enable">services.matrix-conduit</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-overview.html">filebeat</link>,
+          a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log
+          data. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.filebeat.enable">services.filebeat</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/linux-apfs/linux-apfs-rw">apfs</link>,
+          a kernel module for mounting the Apple File System (APFS).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://frrouting.org/">FRRouting</link>, a
+          popular suite of Internet routing protocol daemons (BGP, BFD,
+          OSPF, IS-IS, VVRP and others). Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.frr.babel.enable">services.frr</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/hifi/heisenbridge">heisenbridge</link>,
+          a bouncer-style Matrix IRC bridge. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.heisenbridge.enable">services.heisenbridge</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://snowflake.torproject.org/">snowflake-proxy</link>,
+          a system to defeat internet censorship. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.snowflake-proxy.enable">services.snowflake-proxy</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://ergo.chat">ergochat</link>, a modern
+          IRC with IRCv3 features. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.ergochat.enable">services.ergochat</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ngoduykhanh/PowerDNS-Admin">PowerDNS-Admin</link>,
+          a web interface for the PowerDNS server. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.powerdns-admin.enable">services.powerdns-admin</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/postgres/pgadmin4">pgadmin4</link>,
+          an admin interface for the PostgreSQL database. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.pgadmin.enable">services.pgadmin</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper">input-remapper</link>,
+          an easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device
+          buttons. Available at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.input-remapper.enable">services.input-remapper</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://invoiceplane.com">InvoicePlane</link>,
+          web application for managing and creating invoices. Available
+          at
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.invoiceplane.enable">services.invoiceplane</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://maddy.email">maddy</link>, a
+          composable all-in-one mail server. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.maddy.enable">services.maddy</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.scorchworks.com/K40whisperer/k40whisperer.html">K40-Whisperer</link>,
+          a program to control cheap Chinese laser cutters. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.k4-whisperer.enable">programs.k40-whisperer.enable</link>.
+          Users must add themselves to the <literal>k40</literal> group
+          to be able to access the device.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/mgumz/mtr-exporter">mtr-exporter</link>,
+          a Prometheus exporter for mtr metrics. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mtr-exporter.enable">services.mtr-exporter</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/prometheus-pve/prometheus-pve-exporter">prometheus-pve-exporter</link>,
+          a tool that exposes information from the Proxmox VE API for
+          use by Prometheus. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.prometheus.exporters.pve">services.prometheus.exporters.pve</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://tetrd.app">tetrd</link>, share your
+          internet connection from your device to your PC and vice versa
+          through a USB cable. Available at
+          <link linkend="opt-services.tetrd.enable">services.tetrd</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/mbrubeck/agate">agate</link>,
+          a very simple server for the Gemini hypertext protocol.
+          Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.agate.enable">services.agate</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm">ArchiSteamFarm</link>,
+          a C# application with primary purpose of idling Steam cards
+          from multiple accounts simultaneously. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.archisteamfarm.enable">services.archisteamfarm</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://goteleport.com">teleport</link>,
+          allows engineers and security professionals to unify access
+          for SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and
+          databases across all environments. Available at
+          <link linkend="opt-services.teleport.enable">services.teleport</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://loic-sharma.github.io/BaGet/">BaGet</link>,
+          a lightweight NuGet and symbol server. Available at
+          <link linkend="opt-services.baget.enable">services.baget</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://moosefs.com">moosefs</link>, fault
+          tolerant petabyte distributed file system. Available as
+          <link linkend="opt-services.moosefs.client.enable">moosefs</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ThomasLeister/prosody-filer">prosody-filer</link>,
+          a server for handling XMPP HTTP Upload requests. Available at
+          <link linkend="opt-services.prosody-filer.enable">services.prosody-filer</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/rfjakob/systembus-notify">systembus-notify</link>,
+          allow system level notifications to reach the users. Available
+          as
+          <link xlink:href="opt-services.systembus-notify.enable">services.systembus-notify</link>.
+          Please keep in mind that this service should only be enabled
+          on machines with fully trusted users, as any local user is
+          able to DoS user sessions by spamming notifications.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc">ethercalc</link>,
+          an online collaborative spreadsheet. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.ethercalc.enable">services.ethercalc</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://nbd.sourceforge.io/">nbd</link>, a
+          Network Block Device server. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nbd.server.enable">services.nbd</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://timetagger.app">timetagger</link>,
+          an open source time-tracker with an intuitive user experience
+          and powerful reporting.
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.timetagger.enable">services.timetagger</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/#rstudio-server">rstudio-server</link>,
+          a browser-based version of the RStudio IDE for the R
+          programming language. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.rstudio-server.enable">services.rstudio-server</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/juanfont/headscale">headscale</link>,
+          an Open Source implementation of the
+          <link xlink:href="https://tailscale.io">Tailscale</link>
+          Control Server. Available as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.headscale.enable">services.headscale</link>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/">blocky</link>,
+          fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network
+          with many features.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link xlink:href="https://clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/">pacemaker</link>
+          cluster resource manager
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.05-incompatibilities">
+    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.ghc</literal> now refers to
+          <literal>pkgs.targetPackages.haskellPackages.ghc</literal>.
+          This <emphasis>only</emphasis> makes a difference if you are
+          cross-compiling and will ensure that
+          <literal>pkgs.ghc</literal> always runs on the host platform
+          and compiles for the target platform (similar to
+          <literal>pkgs.gcc</literal> for example).
+          <literal>haskellPackages.ghc</literal> still behaves as
+          before, running on the build platform and compiling for the
+          host platform (similar to <literal>stdenv.cc</literal>). This
+          means you don’t have to adjust your derivations if you use
+          <literal>haskellPackages.callPackage</literal>, but when using
+          <literal>pkgs.callPackage</literal> and taking
+          <literal>ghc</literal> as an input, you should now use
+          <literal>buildPackages.ghc</literal> instead to ensure cross
+          compilation keeps working (or switch to
+          <literal>haskellPackages.callPackage</literal>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.ghc.withPackages</literal> as well as
+          <literal>haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages</literal> etc. now
+          needs be overridden directly, as opposed to overriding the
+          result of calling it. Additionally, the
+          <literal>withLLVM</literal> parameter has been renamed to
+          <literal>useLLVM</literal>. So instead of
+          <literal>(ghc.withPackages (p: [])).override { withLLVM = true; }</literal>,
+          one needs to use
+          <literal>(ghc.withPackages.override { useLLVM = true; }) (p: [])</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>home-assistant</literal> module now requires
+          users that don’t want their configuration to be managed
+          declaratively to set
+          <literal>services.home-assistant.config = null;</literal>.
+          This is required due to the way default settings are handled
+          with the new settings style.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Additionally the default list of
+          <literal>extraComponents</literal> now includes the minimal
+          dependencies to successfully complete the
+          <link xlink:href="https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/onboarding/">onboarding</link>
+          procedure.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.emacsPackages.orgPackages</literal> is removed
+          because org elpa is deprecated. The packages in the top level
+          of <literal>pkgs.emacsPackages</literal>, such as org and
+          org-contrib, refer to the ones in
+          <literal>pkgs.emacsPackages.elpaPackages</literal> and
+          <literal>pkgs.emacsPackages.nongnuPackages</literal> where the
+          new versions will release.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.addons.dashboard</literal> was
+          removed due to it being an outdated version.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.kubernetes.scheduler.{port,address}</literal>
+          now set <literal>--secure-port</literal> and
+          <literal>--bind-address</literal> instead of
+          <literal>--port</literal> and <literal>--address</literal>,
+          since the former have been deprecated and are no longer
+          functional in kubernetes&gt;=1.23. Ensure that you are not
+          relying on the insecure behaviour before upgrading.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.k3s.enable</literal> no longer implies
+          <literal>systemd.enableUnifiedCgroupHierarchy = false</literal>,
+          and will default to the <quote>systemd</quote> cgroup driver
+          when using <literal>services.k3s.docker = true</literal>. This
+          change may require a reboot to take effect, and k3s may not be
+          able to run if the boot cgroup hierarchy does not match its
+          configuration. The previous behavior may be retained by
+          explicitly setting
+          <literal>systemd.enableUnifiedCgroupHierarchy = false</literal>
+          in your configuration.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>fonts.fonts</literal> no longer includes ancient
+          bitmap fonts when both
+          <literal>config.services.xserver.enable</literal> and
+          <literal>config.nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree</literal> are
+          enabled. If you still want these fonts, use:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  fonts.fonts = [
+    pkgs.xorg.fontbhlucidatypewriter100dpi
+    pkgs.xorg.fontbhlucidatypewriter75dpi
+    pkgs.xorg.fontbh100dpi
+  ];
+}
+</programlisting>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The DHCP server (<literal>services.dhcpd4</literal>,
+          <literal>services.dhcpd6</literal>) has been hardened. The
+          service is now using the systemd’s
+          <literal>DynamicUser</literal> mechanism to run as an
+          unprivileged dynamically-allocated user with limited
+          capabilities. The dhcpd state files are now always stored in
+          <literal>/var/lib/dhcpd{4,6}</literal> and the
+          <literal>services.dhcpd4.stateDir</literal> and
+          <literal>service.dhcpd6.stateDir</literal> options have been
+          removed. If you were depending on root privileges or
+          set{uid,gid,cap} binaries in dhcpd shell hooks, you may give
+          dhcpd more capabilities with e.g.
+          <literal>systemd.services.dhcpd6.serviceConfig.AmbientCapabilities</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>mailpile</literal> email webclient
+          (<literal>services.mailpile</literal>) has been removed due to
+          its reliance on python2.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>matrix-synapse</literal> service
+          (<literal>services.matrix-synapse</literal>) has been
+          converted to use the <literal>settings</literal> option
+          defined in RFC42. This means that options that are part of
+          your <literal>homeserver.yaml</literal> configuration, and
+          that were specified at the top-level of the module
+          (<literal>services.matrix-synapse</literal>) now need to be
+          moved into
+          <literal>services.matrix-synapse.settings</literal>. And while
+          not all options you may use are defined in there, they are
+          still supported, because you can set arbitrary values in this
+          freeform type.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>listeners.*.bind_address</literal> option was
+          renamed to <literal>bind_addresses</literal> in order to match
+          the upstream <literal>homeserver.yaml</literal> option name.
+          It is now also a list of strings instead of a string.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          An example to make the required migration clearer:
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Before:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.matrix-synapse = {
+    enable = true;
+
+    server_name = &quot;example.com&quot;;
+    public_baseurl = &quot;https://example.com:8448&quot;;
+
+    enable_registration = false;
+    registration_shared_secret = &quot;xohshaeyui8jic7uutuDogahkee3aehuaf6ei3Xouz4iicie5thie6nohNahceut&quot;;
+    macaroon_secret_key = &quot;xoo8eder9seivukaiPh1cheikohquuw8Yooreid0The4aifahth3Ou0aiShaiz4l&quot;;
+
+    tls_certificate_path = &quot;/var/lib/acme/example.com/fullchain.pem&quot;;
+    tls_certificate_path = &quot;/var/lib/acme/example.com/fullchain.pem&quot;;
+
+    listeners = [ {
+      port = 8448;
+      bind_address = &quot;&quot;;
+      type = &quot;http&quot;;
+      tls = true;
+      resources = [ {
+        names = [ &quot;client&quot; ];
+        compress = true;
+      } {
+        names = [ &quot;federation&quot; ];
+        compress = false;
+      } ];
+    } ];
+
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          After:
+        </para>
+        <programlisting language="bash">
+{
+  services.matrix-synapse = {
+    enable = true;
+
+    # this attribute set holds all values that go into your homeserver.yaml configuration
+    # See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/sample_config.yaml for
+    # possible values.
+    settings = {
+      server_name = &quot;example.com&quot;;
+      public_baseurl = &quot;https://example.com:8448&quot;;
+
+      enable_registration = false;
+      # pass `registration_shared_secret` and `macaroon_secret_key` via `extraConfigFiles` instead
+
+      tls_certificate_path = &quot;/var/lib/acme/example.com/fullchain.pem&quot;;
+      tls_certificate_path = &quot;/var/lib/acme/example.com/fullchain.pem&quot;;
+
+      listeners = [ {
+        port = 8448;
+        bind_addresses = [
+          &quot;::&quot;
+          &quot;0.0.0.0&quot;
+        ];
+        type = &quot;http&quot;;
+        tls = true;
+        resources = [ {
+          names = [ &quot;client&quot; ];
+          compress = true;
+        } {
+          names = [ &quot;federation&quot; ];
+          compress = false;
+        } ];
+      } ];
+    };
+
+    extraConfigFiles = [
+      /run/keys/matrix-synapse/secrets.yaml
+    ];
+  };
+}
+</programlisting>
+        <para>
+          The secrets in your original config should be migrated into a
+          YAML file that is included via
+          <literal>extraConfigFiles</literal>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Additionally a few option defaults have been synced up with
+          upstream default values, for example the
+          <literal>max_upload_size</literal> grew from
+          <literal>10M</literal> to <literal>50M</literal>. For the same
+          reason, the default <literal>media_store_path</literal> was
+          changed from <literal>${dataDir}/media</literal> to
+          <literal>${dataDir}/media_store</literal> if
+          <literal>system.stateVersion</literal> is at least
+          <literal>22.05</literal>. Files will need to be manually moved
+          to the new location if the <literal>stateVersion</literal> is
+          updated.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The MoinMoin wiki engine
+          (<literal>services.moinmoin</literal>) has been removed,
+          because Python 2 is being retired from nixpkgs.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Services in the <literal>hadoop</literal> module previously
+          set <literal>openFirewall</literal> to true by default. This
+          has now been changed to false. Node definitions for multi-node
+          clusters would need <literal>openFirewall = true;</literal> to
+          be added to to hadoop services when upgrading from NixOS
+          21.11.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.hadoop.yarn.nodemanager</literal> now uses
+          cgroup-based CPU limit enforcement by default. Additionally,
+          the option <literal>useCGroups</literal> was added to
+          nodemanagers as an easy way to switch back to the old
+          behavior.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>wafHook</literal> hook now honors
+          <literal>NIX_BUILD_CORES</literal> when
+          <literal>enableParallelBuilding</literal> is not set
+          explicitly. Packages can restore the old behaviour by setting
+          <literal>enableParallelBuilding=false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.claws-mail-gtk2</literal>, representing Claws
+          Mail’s older release version three, was removed in order to
+          get rid of Python 2. Please switch to
+          <literal>claws-mail</literal>, which is Claws Mail’s latest
+          release based on GTK+3 and Python 3.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>writers.writePython2</literal> and corresponding
+          <literal>writers.writePython2Bin</literal> convenience
+          functions to create executable Python 2 scripts in the store
+          were removed in preparation of removal of the Python 2
+          interpreter. Scripts have to be converted to Python 3 for use
+          with <literal>writers.writePython3</literal> or
+          <literal>writers.writePyPy2</literal> needs to be used.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>buildGoModule</literal> was updated to use
+          <literal>go_1_17</literal>, third party derivations that
+          specify &gt;= go 1.17 in the main <literal>go.mod</literal>
+          will need to regenerate their <literal>vendorSha256</literal>
+          hash.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>gnome-passwordsafe</literal> package updated to
+          <link xlink:href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/secrets/-/tags/6.0">version
+          6.x</link> and renamed to <literal>gnome-secrets</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you previously used
+          <literal>/etc/docker/daemon.json</literal>, you need to
+          incorporate the changes into the new option
+          <literal>virtualisation.docker.daemon.settings</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Ntopng (<literal>services.ntopng</literal>) is updated to
+          5.2.1 and uses a separate Redis instance if
+          <literal>system.stateVersion</literal> is at least
+          <literal>22.05</literal>. Existing setups shouldn’t be
+          affected.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The backward compatibility in
+          <literal>services.wordpress</literal> to configure sites with
+          the old interface has been removed. Please use
+          <literal>services.wordpress.sites</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The backward compatibility in
+          <literal>services.dokuwiki</literal> to configure sites with
+          the old interface has been removed. Please use
+          <literal>services.dokuwiki.sites</literal> instead.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          opensmtpd-extras is no longer build with python2 scripting
+          support due to python2 deprecation in nixpkgs
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.miniflux.adminCredentialFiles</literal> is
+          now required, instead of defaulting to
+          <literal>admin</literal> and <literal>password</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>autorestic</literal> package has been upgraded
+          from 1.3.0 to 1.5.0 which introduces breaking changes in
+          config file, check
+          <link xlink:href="https://autorestic.vercel.app/migration/1.4_1.5">their
+          migration guide</link> for more details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          For <literal>pkgs.python3.pkgs.ipython</literal>, its direct
+          dependency
+          <literal>pkgs.python3.pkgs.matplotlib-inline</literal> (which
+          is really an adapter to integrate matplotlib in ipython if it
+          is installed) does not depend on
+          <literal>pkgs.python3.pkgs.matplotlib</literal> anymore. This
+          is closer to a non-Nix install of ipython. This has the added
+          benefit to reduce the closure size of
+          <literal>ipython</literal> from ~400MB to ~160MB (including
+          ~100MB for python itself).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>documentation.man</literal> has been refactored to
+          support choosing a man implementation other than GNU’s
+          <literal>man-db</literal>. For this,
+          <literal>documentation.man.manualPages</literal> has been
+          renamed to
+          <literal>documentation.man.man-db.manualPages</literal>. If
+          you want to use the new alternative man implementation
+          <literal>mandoc</literal>, add
+          <literal>documentation.man = { enable = true; man-db.enable = false; mandoc.enable = true; }</literal>
+          to your configuration.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Normal users (with <literal>isNormalUser = true</literal>)
+          which have non-empty <literal>subUidRanges</literal> or
+          <literal>subGidRanges</literal> set no longer have additional
+          implicit ranges allocated. To enable automatic allocation back
+          set <literal>autoSubUidGidRange = true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>idris2</literal> now requires
+          <literal>--package</literal> when using packages
+          <literal>contrib</literal> and <literal>network</literal>,
+          while previously these idris2 packages were automatically
+          loaded.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The iputils package, which is installed by default, no longer
+          provides the legacy tools <literal>tftpd</literal> and
+          <literal>traceroute6</literal>. More tools
+          (<literal>ninfod</literal>, <literal>rarpd</literal>, and
+          <literal>rdisc</literal>) are going to be removed in the next
+          release. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/iputils/iputils/releases/tag/20211215">upstream’s
+          release notes</link> for more details and available
+          replacements.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.thelounge.private</literal> was removed in
+          favor of <literal>services.thelounge.public</literal>, to
+          follow with upstream changes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.docbookrx</literal> was removed since it’s
+          unmaintained
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs._7zz</literal> is now correctly licensed as
+          LGPL3+ and BSD3 with optional unfree unRAR licensed code
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>tilp2</literal> was removed together with its module
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The F-PROT antivirus (<literal>fprot</literal> package) and
+          its service module were removed because it reached
+          <link xlink:href="https://kb.cyren.com/av-support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/434/0/end-of-sale--end-of-life-for-f-prot-and-csam">end-of-life</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>bird1</literal> and its modules
+          <literal>services.bird</literal> as well as
+          <literal>services.bird6</literal> have been removed. Upgrade
+          to <literal>services.bird2</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The options
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.ipv4.routes</literal>
+          and
+          <literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.ipv6.routes</literal>
+          are no longer ignored when using networkd instead of the
+          default scripted network backend by setting
+          <literal>networking.useNetworkd</literal> to
+          <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MultiMC has been replaced with the fork PolyMC due to upstream
+          developers being hostile to 3rd party package maintainers.
+          PolyMC removes all MultiMC branding and is aimed at providing
+          proper 3rd party packages like the one contained in Nixpkgs.
+          This change affects the data folder where game instances and
+          other save and configuration files are stored. Users with
+          existing installations should rename
+          <literal>~/.local/share/multimc</literal> to
+          <literal>~/.local/share/polymc</literal>. The main config
+          file’s path has also moved from
+          <literal>~/.local/share/multimc/multimc.cfg</literal> to
+          <literal>~/.local/share/polymc/polymc.cfg</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>systemd-nspawn@.service</literal> settings have been
+          reverted to the default systemd behaviour. User namespaces are
+          now activated by default. If you want to keep running nspawn
+          containers without user namespaces you need to set
+          <literal>systemd.nspawn.&lt;name&gt;.execConfig.PrivateUsers = false</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The Tor SOCKS proxy is now actually disabled if
+          <literal>services.tor.client.enable</literal> is set to
+          <literal>false</literal> (the default). If you are using this
+          functionality but didn’t change the setting or set it to
+          <literal>false</literal>, you now need to set it to
+          <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The terraform 0.12 compatibility has been removed and the
+          <literal>terraform.withPlugins</literal> and
+          <literal>terraform-providers.mkProvider</literal>
+          implementations simplified. Providers now need to be stored
+          under
+          <literal>$out/libexec/terraform-providers/&lt;registry&gt;/&lt;owner&gt;/&lt;name&gt;/&lt;version&gt;/&lt;os&gt;_&lt;arch&gt;/terraform-provider-&lt;name&gt;_v&lt;version&gt;</literal>
+          (which mkProvider does).
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          This breaks back-compat so it’s not possible to mix-and-match
+          with previous versions of nixpkgs. In exchange, it now becomes
+          possible to use the providers from
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/numtide/nixpkgs-terraform-providers-bin">nixpkgs-terraform-providers-bin</link>
+          directly.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>dendrite</literal> package has been upgraded from
+          0.5.1 to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases/tag/v0.6.5">0.6.5</link>.
+          Instances configured with split sqlite databases, which has
+          been the default in NixOS, require merging of the federation
+          sender and signing key databases. See upstream
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases/tag/v0.6.0">release
+          notes</link> on version 0.6.0 for details on database changes.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The existing <literal>pkgs.opentelemetry-collector</literal>
+          has been moved to
+          <literal>pkgs.opentelemetry-collector-contrib</literal> to
+          match the actual source being the <quote>contrib</quote>
+          edition. <literal>pkgs.opentelemetry-collector</literal> is
+          now the actual core release of opentelemetry-collector. If you
+          use the community contributions you should change the package
+          you refer to. If you don’t need them update your commands from
+          <literal>otelcontribcol</literal> to
+          <literal>otelcorecol</literal> and enjoy a 7x smaller binary.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.pgadmin</literal> now refers to
+          <literal>pkgs.pgadmin4</literal>. If you still need pgadmin3,
+          use <literal>pkgs.pgadmin3</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.noto-fonts-cjk</literal> is now deprecated in
+          favor of <literal>pkgs.noto-fonts-cjk-sans</literal> and
+          <literal>pkgs.noto-fonts-cjk-serif</literal> because they each
+          have different release schedules. To maintain compatibility
+          with prior releases of Nixpkgs,
+          <literal>pkgs.noto-fonts-cjk</literal> is currently an alias
+          of <literal>pkgs.noto-fonts-cjk-sans</literal> and doesn’t
+          include serif fonts.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.epgstation</literal> has been upgraded from v1
+          to v2, resulting in incompatible changes in the database
+          scheme and configuration format.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Some top-level settings under
+          <link linkend="opt-services.epgstation.enable">services.epgstation</link>
+          is now deprecated because it was redudant due to the same
+          options being present in
+          <link linkend="opt-services.epgstation.settings">services.epgstation.settings</link>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>services.epgstation.basicAuth</literal>
+          was removed because basic authentication support was dropped
+          by upstream.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <link linkend="opt-services.epgstation.database.passwordFile">services.epgstation.database.passwordFile</link>
+          no longer has a default value. Make sure to set this option
+          explicitly before upgrading. Change the database password if
+          necessary.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <link linkend="opt-services.epgstation.settings">services.epgstation.settings</link>
+          option now expects options for <literal>config.yml</literal>
+          in EPGStation v2.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Existing data for the
+          <link linkend="opt-services.epgstation.enable">services.epgstation</link>
+          module would have to be backed up prior to the upgrade. To
+          back up exising data to
+          <literal>/tmp/epgstation.bak</literal>, run
+          <literal>sudo -u epgstation epgstation run backup /tmp/epgstation.bak</literal>.
+          To import that data after to the upgrade, run
+          <literal>sudo -u epgstation epgstation run v1migrate /tmp/epgstation.bak</literal>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>switch-to-configuration</literal> (the script that is
+          run when running <literal>nixos-rebuild switch</literal> for
+          example) has been reworked
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The interface that allows activation scripts to restart
+              units has been streamlined. Restarting and reloading is
+              now done by a single file
+              <literal>/run/nixos/activation-restart-list</literal> that
+              honors <literal>restartIfChanged</literal> and
+              <literal>reloadIfChanged</literal> of the units.
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  Preferring to reload instead of restarting can still
+                  be achieved using
+                  <literal>/run/nixos/activation-reload-list</literal>.
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The script now uses a proper ini-file parser to parse
+              systemd units. Some values are now only searched in one
+              section instead of in the entire unit. This is only
+              relevant for units that don’t use the NixOS systemd moule.
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <literal>RefuseManualStop</literal>,
+                  <literal>X-OnlyManualStart</literal>,
+                  <literal>X-StopOnRemoval</literal>,
+                  <literal>X-StopOnReconfiguration</literal> are only
+                  searched in the <literal>[Unit]</literal> section
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <literal>X-ReloadIfChanged</literal>,
+                  <literal>X-RestartIfChanged</literal>,
+                  <literal>X-StopIfChanged</literal> are only searched
+                  in the <literal>[Service]</literal> section
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.bookstack.cacheDir</literal> option has
+          been removed, since the cache directory is now handled by
+          systemd.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.bookstack.extraConfig</literal> option
+          has been replaced by
+          <literal>services.bookstack.config</literal> which implements
+          a
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">settings-style</link>
+          configuration.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>lib.assertMsg</literal> and
+          <literal>lib.assertOneOf</literal> no longer return
+          <literal>false</literal> if the passed condition is
+          <literal>false</literal>, <literal>throw</literal>ing the
+          given error message instead (which makes the resulting error
+          message less cluttered). This will not impact the behaviour of
+          code using these functions as intended, namely as top-level
+          wrapper for <literal>assert</literal> conditions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>vpnc</literal> package has been changed to use
+          GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL by default for licensing reasons.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.vimPlugins.onedark-nvim</literal> now refers to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/navarasu/onedark.nvim">navarasu/onedark.nvim</link>
+          (formerly refers to
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/olimorris/onedarkpro.nvim">olimorris/onedarkpro.nvim</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.pipewire.enable</literal> will default to
+          enabling the WirePlumber session manager instead of
+          pipewire-media-session. pipewire-media-session is deprecated
+          by upstream and not recommended, but can still be manually
+          enabled by setting
+          <literal>services.pipewire.media-session.enable</literal> to
+          <literal>true</literal> and
+          <literal>services.pipewire.wireplumber.enable</literal> to
+          <literal>false</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>pkgs.makeDesktopItem</literal> has been refactored to
+          provide a more idiomatic API. Specifically:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              All valid options as of FDO Desktop Entry specification
+              version 1.4 can now be passed in as explicit arguments
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>exec</literal> can now be null, for entries that
+              are not of type Application
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>mimeType</literal> argument is renamed to
+              <literal>mimeTypes</literal> for consistency
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>mimeTypes</literal>,
+              <literal>categories</literal>,
+              <literal>implements</literal>,
+              <literal>keywords</literal>, <literal>onlyShowIn</literal>
+              and <literal>notShowIn</literal> take lists of strings
+              instead of one string with semicolon separators
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>extraDesktopEntries</literal> renamed to
+              <literal>extraConfig</literal> for consistency
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Actions should now be provided as an attrset
+              <literal>actions</literal>, the <literal>Actions</literal>
+              line will be autogenerated.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <literal>extraEntries</literal> is removed.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Additional validation is added both at eval time and at
+              build time.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          See the <literal>vscode</literal> package for a more detailed
+          example.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.05-notable-changes">
+    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <link linkend="opt-services.redis.servers">services.redis.servers</link>
+          was added to support per-application
+          <literal>redis-server</literal> which is more secure since
+          Redis databases are only mere key prefixes without any
+          configuration or ACL of their own. Backward-compatibility is
+          preserved by mapping old
+          <literal>services.redis.settings</literal> to
+          <literal>services.redis.servers.&quot;&quot;.settings</literal>,
+          but you are strongly encouraged to name each
+          <literal>redis-server</literal> instance after the application
+          using it, instead of keeping that nameless one. Except for the
+          nameless
+          <literal>services.redis.servers.&quot;&quot;</literal> still
+          accessible at <literal>127.0.0.1:6379</literal>, and to the
+          members of the Unix group <literal>redis</literal> through the
+          Unix socket <literal>/run/redis/redis.sock</literal>, all
+          other <literal>services.redis.servers.${serverName}</literal>
+          are only accessible by default to the members of the Unix
+          group <literal>redis-${serverName}</literal> through the Unix
+          socket <literal>/run/redis-${serverName}/redis.sock</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <link linkend="opt-virtualisation.vmVariant">virtualisation.vmVariant</link>
+          was added to allow users to make changes to the
+          <literal>nixos-rebuild build-vm</literal> configuration that
+          do not apply to their normal system.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>config.system.build.vm</literal> attribute now
+          always exists and defaults to the value from
+          <literal>vmVariant</literal>. Configurations that import the
+          <literal>virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix</literal> module
+          themselves will override this value, such that
+          <literal>vmVariant</literal> is not used.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          Similarly
+          <link linkend="opt-virtualisation.vmVariantWithBootLoader">virtualisation.vmVariantWithBootloader</link>
+          was added.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The configuration portion of the <literal>nix-daemon</literal>
+          module has been reworked and exposed as
+          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix-settings">nix.settings</link>:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Legacy options have been mapped to the corresponding
+              options under under
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix.settings">nix.settings</link>
+              but may be deprecated in the future.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-nix.buildMachines.publicHostKey">nix.buildMachines.publicHostKey</link>
+              has been added.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The
+          <literal>writers.writePyPy2</literal>/<literal>writers.writePyPy3</literal>
+          and corresponding
+          <literal>writers.writePyPy2Bin</literal>/<literal>writers.writePyPy3Bin</literal>
+          convenience functions to create executable Python 2/3 scripts
+          using the PyPy interpreter were added.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Some improvements have been made to the
+          <literal>hadoop</literal> module:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              A <literal>gatewayRole</literal> option has been added,
+              for deploying hadoop cluster configuration files to a node
+              that does not have any active services
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Support for older versions of hadoop have been added to
+              the module
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Overriding and extending site XML files has been made
+              easier
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          If you are using Wayland you can choose to use the Ozone
+          Wayland support in Chrome and several Electron apps by setting
+          the environment variable <literal>NIXOS_OZONE_WL=1</literal>
+          (for example via
+          <literal>environment.sessionVariables.NIXOS_OZONE_WL = &quot;1&quot;</literal>).
+          This is not enabled by default because Ozone Wayland is still
+          under heavy development and behavior is not always flawless.
+          Furthermore, not all Electron apps use the latest Electron
+          versions.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>influxdb2</literal> package was split into
+          <literal>influxdb2-server</literal> and
+          <literal>influxdb2-cli</literal>, matching the split that took
+          place upstream. A combined <literal>influxdb2</literal>
+          package is still provided in this release for backwards
+          compatibilty, but will be removed at a later date.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>unifi</literal> package was switched from
+          <literal>unifi6</literal> to <literal>unifi7</literal>. Direct
+          downgrades from Unifi 7 to Unifi 6 are not possible and
+          require restoring from a backup made by Unifi 6.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs.zsh.autosuggestions.strategy</literal> now
+          takes a list of strings instead of a string.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.unifi.openPorts</literal> option default
+          value of <literal>true</literal> is now deprecated and will be
+          changed to <literal>false</literal> in 22.11. Configurations
+          using this default will print a warning when rebuilt.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>security.acme</literal> certificates will now
+          correctly check for CA revokation before reaching their
+          minimum age.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Removing domains from
+          <literal>security.acme.certs._name_.extraDomainNames</literal>
+          will now correctly remove those domains during rebuild/renew.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          MariaDB is now offered in several versions, not just the
+          newest one. So if you have a need for running MariaDB 10.4 for
+          example, you can now just set
+          <literal>services.mysql.package = pkgs.mariadb_104;</literal>.
+          In general, it is recommended to run the newest version, to
+          get the newest features, while sticking with an LTS version
+          will most likely provide a more stable experience. Sometimes
+          software is also incompatible with the newest version of
+          MariaDB.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <link linkend="opt-programs.ssh.enableAskPassword">programs.ssh.enableAskPassword</link>
+          was added, decoupling the setting of
+          <literal>SSH_ASKPASS</literal> from
+          <literal>services.xserver.enable</literal>. This allows easy
+          usage in non-X11 environments, e.g. Wayland.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <link linkend="opt-programs.ssh.knownHosts">programs.ssh.knownHosts</link>
+          has gained an <literal>extraHostNames</literal> option to
+          replace <literal>hostNames</literal>.
+          <literal>hostNames</literal> is deprecated, but still
+          available for now.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.stubby</literal> module was converted to
+          a
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">settings-style</link>
+          configuration.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>services.duplicati.dataDir</literal> has
+          been added to allow changing the location of duplicati’s
+          files.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The options <literal>boot.extraModprobeConfig</literal> and
+          <literal>boot.blacklistedKernelModules</literal> now also take
+          effect in the initrd by copying the file
+          <literal>/etc/modprobe.d/nixos.conf</literal> into the initrd.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>nixos-generate-config</literal> now puts the dhcp
+          configuration in <literal>hardware-configuration.nix</literal>
+          instead of <literal>configuration.nix</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          ORY Kratos was updated to version 0.8.3-alpha.1.pre.0, which
+          introduces some breaking changes:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              If you are relying on the SQLite images, update your
+              Docker Pull commands as follows:
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <literal>docker pull oryd/kratos:{version}</literal>
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Additionally, all passwords now have to be at least 8
+              characters long.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For more details, see:
+            </para>
+            <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ory/kratos/releases/tag/v0.8.1-alpha.1">Release
+                  Notes for v0.8.1-alpha-1</link>
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+              <listitem>
+                <para>
+                  <link xlink:href="https://github.com/ory/kratos/releases/tag/v0.8.2-alpha.1">Release
+                  Notes for v0.8.2-alpha-1</link>
+                </para>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>fetchFromSourcehut</literal> now allows fetching
+          repositories recursively using <literal>fetchgit</literal> or
+          <literal>fetchhg</literal> if the argument
+          <literal>fetchSubmodules</literal> is set to
+          <literal>true</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>element-desktop</literal> package now has an
+          <literal>useKeytar</literal> option (defaults to
+          <literal>true</literal>), which allows disabling
+          <literal>keytar</literal> and in turn
+          <literal>libsecret</literal> usage (which binds to native
+          credential managers / keychain libraries).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option <literal>services.thelounge.plugins</literal> has
+          been added to allow installing plugins for The Lounge. Plugins
+          can be found in
+          <literal>pkgs.theLoungePlugins.plugins</literal> and
+          <literal>pkgs.theLoungePlugins.themes</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <literal>services.xserver.videoDriver = [ &quot;nvidia&quot; ];</literal>
+          will now also install
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver">nvidia
+          VA-API drivers</link> by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>firmwareLinuxNonfree</literal> package has been
+          renamed to <literal>linux-firmware</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          It is now possible to specify wordlists to include as handy to
+          access environment variables using the
+          <literal>config.environment.wordlist</literal> configuration
+          options.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>services.mbpfan</literal> module was converted to
+          a
+          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md">RFC
+          0042</link> configuration.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The default value for
+          <literal>programs.spacefm.settings.graphical_su</literal> got
+          unset. It previously pointed to <literal>gksu</literal> which
+          has been removed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A new module was added for the
+          <link xlink:href="https://starship.rs/">Starship</link> shell
+          prompt, providing the options
+          <literal>programs.starship.enable</literal> and
+          <literal>programs.starship.settings</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <link xlink:href="https://dino.im">Dino</link> XMPP client
+          was updated to 0.3, adding support for audio and video calls.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.mattermost.plugins</literal> has been added
+          to allow the declarative installation of Mattermost plugins.
+          Plugins are automatically repackaged using autoPatchelf.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>services.logrotate.enable</literal> now defaults to
+          true if any rotate path has been defined, and some paths have
+          been added by default.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>zrepl</literal> package has been updated from
+          0.4.0 to 0.5:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The RPC protocol version was bumped; all zrepl daemons in
+              a setup must be updated and restarted before replication
+              can resume.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              A bug involving encrypt-on-receive has been fixed. Read
+              the
+              <link xlink:href="https://zrepl.github.io/configuration/sendrecvoptions.html#job-recv-options-placeholder">zrepl
+              documentation</link> and check the output of
+              <literal>zfs get -r encryption,zrepl:placeholder PATH_TO_ROOTFS</literal>
+              on the receiver.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Renamed option
+          <literal>services.openssh.challengeResponseAuthentication</literal>
+          to
+          <literal>services.openssh.kbdInteractiveAuthentication</literal>.
+          Reason is that the old name has been deprecated upstream.
+          Using the old option name will still work, but produce a
+          warning.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>pomerium-cli</literal> command has been moved out
+          of the <literal>pomerium</literal> package into the
+          <literal>pomerium-cli</literal> package, following upstream’s
+          repository split. If you are using the
+          <literal>pomerium-cli</literal> command, you should now
+          install the <literal>pomerium-cli</literal> package.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The option
+          <link linkend="opt-networking.networkmanager.enableFccUnlock">services.networking.networkmanager.enableFccUnlock</link>
+          was added to support FCC unlock procedures. Since release
+          1.18.4, the ModemManager daemon no longer automatically
+          performs the FCC unlock procedure by default. See
+          <link xlink:href="https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/fcc-unlock/">the
+          docs</link> for more details.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>programs.tmux</literal> has a new option
+          <literal>plugins</literal> that accepts a list of packages
+          from the <literal>tmuxPlugins</literal> group. The specified
+          packages are added to the system and loaded by
+          <literal>tmux</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The polkit service, available at
+          <literal>security.polkit.enable</literal>, is now disabled by
+          default. It will automatically be enabled through services and
+          desktop environments as needed.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>hadoop</literal> package has added support for
+          <literal>aarch64-linux</literal> and
+          <literal>aarch64-darwin</literal> as of 3.3.1
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158613">#158613</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>R</literal> package now builds again on
+          <literal>aarch64-darwin</literal>
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158992">#158992</link>).
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The <literal>spark3</literal> package has been updated from
+          3.1.2 to 3.2.1
+          (<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/160075">#160075</link>):
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Testing has been enabled for
+              <literal>aarch64-linux</literal> in addition to
+              <literal>x86_64-linux</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <literal>spark3</literal> package is now usable on
+              <literal>aarch64-darwin</literal> as a result of
+              <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158613">#158613</link>
+              and
+              <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158992">#158992</link>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+</section>