Robin, thank you for your work on this release! 2017-03-31 15:29 GMT+01:00 Robin Gloster <ro...@loc-com.de>:
> Dear community, > > I'm proud to announce the 7th NixOS stable release 17.03 named > "Gorilla". > > With over 12479 (last release: 13283) commits from 625 (last release > 554) contributors the release brings a few highlights: > > * Nixpkgs is now extensible through overlays. See the Nixpkgs manual for > more information. > > * This release is based on Glibc 2.25, GCC 5.4.0 and systemd 232. The > default Linux kernel is 4.9 and Nix is at 1.11.8. > > * The default desktop environment now is KDE's Plasma 5. KDE 4 has been > removed > > * The setuid wrapper functionality now supports setting capabilities. > > * X.org server uses branch 1.19. Due to ABI incompatibilities, > ati_unfree keeps forcing 1.17 and amdgpu-pro starts forcing 1.18. > > * Cross compilation has been rewritten. See the nixpkgs manual for > details. The most obvious breaking change is that in derivations there > is no .nativeDrv nor .crossDrv and are now cross by default, not > native. > > * The overridePackages function has been rewritten to be replaced by > overlays > > * Packages in nixpkgs can be marked as insecure through listed > vulnerabilities. See the Nixpkgs manual for more information. > > There are two open issues currently: > * gdm crashes on some hardware, using slim to start gnome works, see > the github issue for more information: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/24172 > * Firefox e10s tabs crash, see the github issue for more information: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/24295 > > See release notes for more information about major changes and updates > at http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/release-notes.html#sec-release-17.03 > > ISO and VirtualBox images can be downloaded from: > http://nixos.org/nixos/download.html > (Azure BLOBs and EC2 AMIs will follow) > > The NixOS manual is at http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/ > > A 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-17.03 nixos > $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade > > Please report issues to our bug tracker: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues > > The most active contributors for this release were: > 621 commits: Frederik Rietdijk > 498 commits: Franz Pletz > 379 commits: Vladimír Čunát > 377 commits: Thomas Tuegel > 324 commits: Joachim Fasting > > And of course the regular thank you to Eelco Dolstra for his tireless > work on NixOS, Nix and all the projects around that. I'd like to thank > Domen Kožar for his help on getting this release out smoothly and his > regular work on NixOS, the security team for taking a lot of workload > off the release manager by always making sure to keep our systems and > packages secure and also Mayflower for allowing me to work on NixOS a > lot in working hours. > > Also I'd like to start a discussion if we want to start rotating the > release manager for every release or maybe have two release managers > each rotating after two releases, so you always have one who has > managed one release. Any opinions? I'm not opposed to doing it again > but it needs quite some time I could also spend on other work. > > PS: Note that according to our new policy, 16.09 is still supported one > month by our security team until the end of April. > > Cheers, > Robin > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Tomasz Czyż
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