From d400dcaa48858c729d2b46249d09eae056e4a23f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvan Mosberger <contact@infinisil.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:06:48 +0200
Subject: release-notes: Mention freeform modules

As introduced by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82743
---
 nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'nixos')

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml
index 4695175638d..908fc3b1a1d 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml
@@ -190,6 +190,11 @@ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mysql'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
 </programlisting>
     </para>
    </listitem>
+   <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>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>
 
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