Dear community, I'm proud to announce the 6th NixOS stable release 16.09 named "Flounder".
With a slight delay due to broken KDE5 test and time needed for getting that through channel updates. With over 13283 commits from 554 contributors the release brings two major changes: 1) Multiple outputs reducing closure size. For example, the closure size of a minimal NixOS container went down from ~424 MiB in 16.03 to ~212 MiB in 16.09, while the closure size of Firefox went from ~651 MiB to ~259 MiB. Big thanks to Vladimír Čunát for leading this work! 2) Hardening compiler flags for improved security. See https://blog.mayflower.de/5800-Hardening-Compiler-Flags-for-NixOS.html for more information. Big thanks to Franz Pletz and Robin Gloster for leading this work! There's one issue with X libraries yielding "libEGL.so.1: undefined reference to `wl_proxy_*`", please see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16779 See release notes for more information about major changes and updates at http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-16.09 ISO images, VirtualBox images, Azure BLOBs and EC2 AMIs can be downloaded from: http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html NixOS manual is at http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/ Fresh installation can be done by following "Installation chapter" in the manual: http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installation Upgrading existing NixOS installations: $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.09 nixos $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade Report any issues to the bug tracker on https://github.com/NixOS/ni xpkgs/issues <https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/issues> PS: note that according to our policy, 16.03 is now unmaintained (we'll still backport *only critical* security updates) Domen
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