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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1404.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1404.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 56dbb74a71d..00000000000 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1404.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,179 +0,0 @@ -<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" - xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" - xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" - version="5.0" - xml:id="sec-release-14.04"> - <title>Release 14.04 (“Baboon”, 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: - <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 - <option>systemd.unit.*</option> 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 <option>users.mutableUsers</option> to <literal>false</literal>, - then the contents of <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and - <filename>/etc/group</filename> 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 - <option>users.extraUsers</option> and run - <command>nixos-rebuild</command>, the user account will cease to exist. - Also, imperative commands for managing users and groups, such as - <command>useradd</command>, are no longer available. If - <option>users.mutableUsers</option> 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: -<programlisting> -systemd.packages = [ pkgs.foo ]; -</programlisting> - to enable those units. You can then set or override unit options in the - usual way, e.g. -<programlisting> -systemd.services.foo.wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; -systemd.services.foo.serviceConfig.MemoryLimit = "512M"; -</programlisting> - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - - <para> - When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following - incompatible changes: - <itemizedlist> - <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: -<programlisting> -nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; -</programlisting> - Otherwise, you get an error message such as: -<screen> -error: package ‘nvidia-x11-331.49-3.12.17’ in ‘…/nvidia-x11/default.nix:56’ - has an unfree license, refusing to evaluate -</screen> - </para> - </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: -<programlisting> -nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; -nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableAdobeFlash = true; # for Firefox -nixpkgs.config.chromium.enableAdobeFlash = true; # for Chromium -</programlisting> - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - The firewall is now enabled by default. If you don’t want this, you need - to disable it explicitly: -<programlisting> -networking.firewall.enable = false; -</programlisting> - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - The option <option>boot.loader.grub.memtest86</option> has been renamed to - <option>boot.loader.grub.memtest86.enable</option>. - </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 <option>services.mysql.package</option>. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Package variants are now differentiated by suffixing the name, rather than - the version. For instance, <filename>sqlite-3.8.4.3-interactive</filename> - is now called <filename>sqlite-interactive-3.8.4.3</filename>. This - ensures that <literal>nix-env -i sqlite</literal> is unambiguous, and that - <literal>nix-env -u</literal> won’t “upgrade” - <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 <command>nix-env</command>, 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 <filename>/etc/ca-bundle.crt</filename> is gone. Programs - should instead use the environment variable - <envar>OPENSSL_X509_CERT_FILE</envar> (which points to - <filename>/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt</filename>). - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> -</section> |