Congratulations on another great milestone :) It will be interesting to see how this stable experiment goes. But together with the new nixos-rebuild profiles, I think this will be very smooth.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first stable branch of NixOS, > namely 13.10 (a.k.a "Aardvark")! The purpose of this branch is to receive > only > conservative changes, such as bug fixes, "safe" minor package upgrades and new > packages [1]. This is important for people who want to use NixOS in a > production environment: you do want to get (security) fixes, but you don't > want > to be afraid of the system changing in fundamental ways, as may be the case on > the master branch. > > Note that NixOS 13.10 is a branch, not a "release" in the sense of a static > revision. Just like the NixOS master branch, it receives updates, just safer > ones. The idea is to maintain this branch at least until the next stable > branch > (14.04?) is created. > > The 13.10 branch lives here in GitHub: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/release-13.10 > > It also has an associated channel: > > http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-13.10 > > (Notice that versions of releases in the 13.10 channel have no "pre" string, > indicating they're stable versions, such as 13.10.35427.6fda96b.) > > If you want to switch an existing machine from the nixos-unstable channel over > to the 13.10 channel, just do: > > $ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-13.10 nixos > > After this, subsequent calls to "nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade" will fetch > from > the nixos-13.10 channel. See here for details on switching between NixOS > channels: > > http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-upgrading > > Like the nixos-unstable channel (which gets build from the master branch), the > 13.10 channel is updated only after Hydra has built all packages and all > release-critical tests have succeeded. The Hydra jobset is: > > http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-13.10 > > and the status of the release-critical jobs can be seen here: > > http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-13.10/tested#tabs-constituents > > The plan for maintaining the branch is that it will primarily receive > cherry-picked commits from master. Other than that, doing a stable branch is > an > experiment, and we'll have to see what the best way to do it is. Any > feedback/suggestions are welcome. > > On that topic, now is probably a good time to start thinking about what the > next > release should look like, in terms of features. If you have any features > (especially potentially high-impact ones like upgrading GCC) that you would > like > to see, please create GitHub issues for them, and add them to the 14.0x > milestone: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?milestone=4&state=open > > [1] New major versions of existing packages are also fine as long as they are > marked as "lowPrio" in all-packages.nix. That is, "nix-env -i package" should > continue to install the old version. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev