1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
|
<chapter 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-14.12">
<title>Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/30)</title>
<para>In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:
<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="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/15165">
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 <option>users.mutableUsers</option> is enabled (the
default), changes made to the declaration of a user or group will be
correctly realised when running <command>nixos-rebuild</command>. For
instance, removing a user specification from
<filename>configuration.nix</filename> will cause the actual user
account to be deleted. If <option>users.mutableUsers</option> is
disabled, it is no longer necessary to specify UIDs or GIDs; if
omitted, they are allocated dynamically.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<para>Following new services were added since the last release:
<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>
<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If
you use the <option>extraConfig</option> 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:
rogramlisting>
rvices.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
programlisting>
</para></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-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal>
rather than <literal>c-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></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 <command>rm -rf /tmp.vbox*</command>. The line
<literal>imports = [ <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix> ]</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. <option>enablePepperPDF</option> 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 = "8:6"</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"/>.</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>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</chapter>
|