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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index 7995497708e..bacd97e0dc4 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ <appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="ch-release-notes"> <title>Release notes</title> @@ -9,8 +10,9 @@ <title>Release 14.04 (“Baboon”, 2014/04/??)</title> -<para>This is the second stable release branch of NixOS. The main -enhancements are the following: +<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> @@ -18,9 +20,63 @@ enhancements are the following: <xref linkend="sec-uefi-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>Nix has been updated to 1.7 (<link + xlink:href="http://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> @@ -47,6 +103,18 @@ error: package ‘nvidia-x11-331.49-3.12.17’ in ‘…/nvidia-x11/default.nix: </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: @@ -65,6 +133,28 @@ networking.firewall.enable = false; 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> |