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   --multiline \
   --multiline-dotall \
   '<programlisting>[^</programlisting>]+' \
| rg linkend
```

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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-20.03">
<title>Release 20.03 (<quote>Markhor</quote>, 2020.04/20)</title>
<section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-highlights">
<title>Highlights</title>
<para>
In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
has the following highlights:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Support is planned until the end of October 2020, handing over
to 20.09.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Core version changes:
</para>
<para>
gcc: 8.3.0 -&gt; 9.2.0
</para>
<para>
glibc: 2.27 -&gt; 2.30
</para>
<para>
linux: 4.19 -&gt; 5.4
</para>
<para>
mesa: 19.1.5 -&gt; 19.3.3
</para>
<para>
openssl: 1.0.2u -&gt; 1.1.1d
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Desktop version changes:
</para>
<para>
plasma5: 5.16.5 -&gt; 5.17.5
</para>
<para>
kdeApplications: 19.08.2 -&gt; 19.12.3
</para>
<para>
gnome3: 3.32 -&gt; 3.34
</para>
<para>
pantheon: 5.0 -&gt; 5.1.3
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Linux kernel is updated to branch 5.4 by default (from 4.19).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Grub is updated to 2.04, adding support for booting from F2FS
filesystems and Btrfs volumes using zstd compression. Note
that some users have been unable to boot after upgrading to
2.04 - for more information, please see
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/61718#issuecomment-617618503">this
discussion</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Postgresql for NixOS service now defaults to v11.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The graphical installer image starts the graphical session
automatically. Before you'd be greeted by a tty and asked to
enter <literal>systemctl start display-manager</literal>. It
is now possible to disable the display-manager from running by
selecting the <literal>Disable display-manager</literal> quirk
in the boot menu.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
GNOME 3 has been upgraded to 3.34. Please take a look at their
<link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.34">Release
Notes</link> for details.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you enable the Pantheon Desktop Manager via
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable">services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable</link>,
we now default to also use
<link xlink:href="https://blog.elementary.io/say-hello-to-the-new-greeter/">
Pantheon's newly designed greeter </link>. Contrary to NixOS's
usual update policy, Pantheon will receive updates during the
cycle of NixOS 20.03 when backwards compatible.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
By default zfs pools will now be trimmed on a weekly basis.
Trimming is only done on supported devices (i.e. NVME or SSDs)
and should improve throughput and lifetime of these devices.
It is controlled by the
<literal>services.zfs.trim.enable</literal> varname. The zfs
scrub service
(<literal>services.zfs.autoScrub.enable</literal>) and the zfs
autosnapshot service
(<literal>services.zfs.autoSnapshot.enable</literal>) are now
only enabled if zfs is set in
<literal>config.boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems</literal> or
<literal>config.boot.supportedFilesystems</literal>. These
lists will automatically contain zfs as soon as any zfs
mountpoint is configured in <literal>fileSystems</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>nixos-option</literal> has been rewritten in C++,
speeding it up, improving correctness, and adding a
<literal>-r</literal> option which prints all options and
their values recursively.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.default</literal> and
<literal>services.xserver.windowManager.default</literal>
options were replaced by a single
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession">services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession</link>
option to improve support for upstream session files. If you
used something like:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
services.xserver.desktopManager.default = &quot;xfce&quot;;
services.xserver.windowManager.default = &quot;icewm&quot;;
}
</programlisting>
<para>
you should change it to:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession = &quot;xfce+icewm&quot;;
}
</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The testing driver implementation in NixOS is now in Python
<literal>make-test-python.nix</literal>. This was done by
Jacek Galowicz
(<link xlink:href="https://github.com/tfc">@tfc</link>), and
with the collaboration of Julian Stecklina
(<link xlink:href="https://github.com/blitz">@blitz</link>)
and Jana Traue
(<link xlink:href="https://github.com/jtraue">@jtraue</link>).
All documentation has been updated to use this testing driver,
and a vast majority of the 286 tests in NixOS were ported to
python driver. In 20.09 the Perl driver implementation,
<literal>make-test.nix</literal>, is slated for removal. This
should give users of the NixOS integration framework a
transitory period to rewrite their tests to use the Python
implementation. Users of the Perl driver will see this warning
everytime they use it:
</para>
<programlisting>
$ warning: Perl VM tests are deprecated and will be removed for 20.09.
Please update your tests to use the python test driver.
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71684 for details.
</programlisting>
<para>
API compatibility is planned to be kept for at least the next
release with the perl driver.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-new-services">
<title>New Services</title>
<para>
The following new services were added since the last release:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The kubernetes kube-proxy now supports a new hostname
configuration
<literal>services.kubernetes.proxy.hostname</literal> which
has to be set if the hostname of the node should be non
default.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
UPower's configuration is now managed by NixOS and can be
customized via <literal>services.upower</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
To use Geary you should enable
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-programs.geary.enable">programs.geary.enable</link>
instead of just adding it to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.systemPackages">environment.systemPackages</link>.
It was created so Geary could function properly outside of
GNOME.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./config/console.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./hardware/brillo.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./hardware/tuxedo-keyboard.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./programs/bandwhich.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./programs/bash-my-aws.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./programs/liboping.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./programs/traceroute.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/backup/sanoid.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/backup/syncoid.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/backup/zfs-replication.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/continuous-integration/buildkite-agents.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/databases/victoriametrics.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/desktops/gnome3/gnome-initial-setup.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/desktops/neard.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/games/openarena.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/hardware/fancontrol.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/mail/sympa.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/misc/freeswitch.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/misc/mame.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/monitoring/do-agent.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/monitoring/prometheus/xmpp-alerts.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/network-filesystems/orangefs/server.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/network-filesystems/orangefs/client.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/3proxy.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/corerad.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/go-shadowsocks2.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/ntp/openntpd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/shorewall.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/shorewall6.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/spacecookie.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/trickster.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/v2ray.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/xandikos.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/networking/yggdrasil.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/dokuwiki.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/gotify-server.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/grocy.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/ihatemoney</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/moinmoin.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/trac.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/trilium.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-apps/shiori.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/web-servers/ttyd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/x11/picom.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/x11/hardware/digimend.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./services/x11/imwheel.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>./virtualisation/cri-o.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-incompatibilities">
<title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
<para>
When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The dhcpcd package
<link xlink:href="https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0002621.html">
does not request IPv4 addresses for tap and bridge interfaces
anymore by default</link>. In order to still get an address on
a bridge interface, one has to disable
<literal>networking.useDHCP</literal> and explicitly enable
<literal>networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.useDHCP</literal>
on every interface, that should get an address via DHCP. This
way, dhcpcd is configured in an explicit way about which
interface to run on.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
GnuPG is now built without support for a graphical passphrase
entry by default. Please enable the
<literal>gpg-agent</literal> user service via the NixOS option
<literal>programs.gnupg.agent.enable</literal>. Note that
upstream recommends using <literal>gpg-agent</literal> and
will spawn a <literal>gpg-agent</literal> on the first
invocation of GnuPG anyway.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>dynamicHosts</literal> option has been removed
from the
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.networkmanager.enable">NetworkManager</link>
module. Allowing (multiple) regular users to override host
entries affecting the whole system opens up a huge attack
vector. There seem to be very rare cases where this might be
useful. Consider setting system-wide host entries using
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.hosts">networking.hosts</link>,
provide them via the DNS server in your network, or use
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.etc">environment.etc</link>
to add a file into
<literal>/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d</literal> reconfiguring
<literal>hostsdir</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>99-main.network</literal> file was removed.
Matching all network interfaces caused many breakages, see
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18962">#18962</link>
and
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71106">#71106</link>.
</para>
<para>
We already don't support the global
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.useDHCP">networking.useDHCP</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.defaultGateway">networking.defaultGateway</link>
and
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.defaultGateway6">networking.defaultGateway6</link>
options if
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.useNetworkd">networking.useNetworkd</link>
is enabled, but direct users to configure the per-device
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-networking.interfaces">networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;….</link>
options.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The stdenv now runs all bash with <literal>set -u</literal>,
to catch the use of undefined variables. Before, it itself
used <literal>set -u</literal> but was careful to unset it so
other packages' code ran as before. Now, all bash code is held
to the same high standard, and the rather complex stateful
manipulation of the options can be discarded.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The SLIM Display Manager has been removed, as it has been
unmaintained since 2013. Consider migrating to a different
display manager such as LightDM (current default in NixOS),
SDDM, GDM, or using the startx module which uses Xinitrc.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Way Cooler wayland compositor has been removed, as the
project has been officially canceled. There are no more
<literal>way-cooler</literal> attribute and
<literal>programs.way-cooler</literal> options.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The BEAM package set has been deleted. You will only find
there the different interpreters. You should now use the
different build tools coming with the languages with sandbox
mode disabled.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
There is now only one Xfce package-set and module. This means
that attributes <literal>xfce4-14</literal> and
<literal>xfceUnstable</literal> all now point to the latest
Xfce 4.14 packages. And in the future NixOS releases will be
the latest released version of Xfce available at the time of
the release's development (if viable).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.phpfpm.pools">phpfpm</link>
module now sets <literal>PrivateTmp=true</literal> in its
systemd units for better process isolation. If you rely on
<literal>/tmp</literal> being shared with other services,
explicitly override this by setting
<literal>serviceConfig.PrivateTmp</literal> to
<literal>false</literal> for each phpfpm unit.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
KDEs old multimedia framework Phonon no longer supports Qt 4.
For that reason, Plasma desktop also does not have
<literal>enableQt4Support</literal> option any more.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The BeeGFS module has been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The osquery module has been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Going forward, <literal>~/bin</literal> in the users home
directory will no longer be in <literal>PATH</literal> by
default. If you depend on this you should set the option
<literal>environment.homeBinInPath</literal> to
<literal>true</literal>. The aforementioned option was added
this release.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>buildRustCrate</literal> infrastructure now
produces <literal>lib</literal> outputs in addition to the
<literal>out</literal> output. This has led to drastically
reduced closure sizes for some rust crates since development
dependencies are now in the <literal>lib</literal> output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Pango was upgraded to 1.44, which no longer uses freetype for
font loading. This means that type1 and bitmap fonts are no
longer supported in applications relying on Pango for font
rendering (notably, GTK application). See
<link xlink:href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386">
upstream issue</link> for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>roundcube</literal> module has been hardened.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The password of the database is not written world readable
in the store any more. If <literal>database.host</literal>
is set to <literal>localhost</literal>, then a unix user
of the same name as the database will be created and
PostreSQL peer authentication will be used, removing the
need for a password. Otherwise, a password is still needed
and can be provided with the new option
<literal>database.passwordFile</literal>, which should be
set to the path of a file containing the password and
readable by the user <literal>nginx</literal> only. The
<literal>database.password</literal> option is insecure
and deprecated. Usage of this option will print a warning.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A random <literal>des_key</literal> is set by default in
the configuration of roundcube, instead of using the
hardcoded and insecure default. To ensure a clean
migration, all users will be logged out when you upgrade
to this release.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The packages <literal>openobex</literal> and
<literal>obexftp</literal> are no longer installed when
enabling Bluetooth via
<literal>hardware.bluetooth.enable</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>dump1090</literal> derivation has been changed to
use FlightAware's dump1090 as its upstream. However, this
version does not have an internal webserver anymore. The
assets in the <literal>share/dump1090</literal> directory of
the derivation can be used in conjunction with an external
webserver to replace this functionality.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The fourStore and fourStoreEndpoint modules have been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Polkit no longer has the user of uid 0 (root) as an admin
identity. We now follow the upstream default of only having
every member of the wheel group admin privileged. Before it
was root and members of wheel. The positive outcome of this is
pkexec GUI popups or terminal prompts will no longer require
the user to choose between two essentially equivalent choices
(whether to perform the action as themselves with wheel
permissions, or as the root user).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
NixOS containers no longer build NixOS manual by default. This
saves evaluation time, especially if there are many
declarative containers defined. Note that this is already done
when
<literal>&lt;nixos/modules/profiles/minimal.nix&gt;</literal>
module is included in container config.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>kresd</literal> services deprecates the
<literal>interfaces</literal> option in favor of the
<literal>listenPlain</literal> option which requires full
<link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.socket.html#ListenStream=">systemd.socket
compatible</link> declaration which always include a port.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Virtual console options have been reorganized and can be found
under a single top-level attribute:
<literal>console</literal>. The full set of changes is as
follows:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>i18n.consoleFont</literal> renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.font">console.font</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>i18n.consoleKeyMap</literal> renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.keyMap">console.keyMap</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>i18n.consoleColors</literal> renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.colors">console.colors</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>i18n.consolePackages</literal> renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.packages">console.packages</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>i18n.consoleUseXkbConfig</literal> renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.useXkbConfig">console.useXkbConfig</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>boot.earlyVconsoleSetup</literal> renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-console.earlySetup">console.earlySetup</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>boot.extraTTYs</literal> renamed to
<literal>console.extraTTYs</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.awstats.enable">awstats</link>
module has been rewritten to serve stats via static html
pages, updated on a timer, over
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts">nginx</link>,
instead of dynamic cgi pages over
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.enable">apache</link>.
</para>
<para>
Minor changes will be required to migrate existing
configurations. Details of the required changes can seen by
looking through the
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.awstats.enable">awstats</link>
module.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The httpd module no longer provides options to support serving
web content without defining a virtual host. As a result of
this the
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.logPerVirtualHost">services.httpd.logPerVirtualHost</link>
option now defaults to <literal>true</literal> instead of
<literal>false</literal>. Please update your configuration to
make use of
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts</link>.
</para>
<para>
The
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;</link>
option has changed type from a list of submodules to an
attribute set of submodules, better matching
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts">services.nginx.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;</link>.
</para>
<para>
This change comes with the addition of the following options
which mimic the functionality of their
<literal>nginx</literal> counterparts:
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.addSSL</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.forceSSL</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.onlySSL</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.enableACME</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.acmeRoot</link>,
and
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.httpd.virtualHosts">services.httpd.virtualHosts.&lt;name&gt;.useACMEHost</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
For NixOS configuration options, the <literal>loaOf</literal>
type has been deprecated and will be removed in a future
release. In nixpkgs, options of this type will be changed to
<literal>attrsOf</literal> instead. If you were using one of
these in your configuration, you will see a warning suggesting
what changes will be required.
</para>
<para>
For example,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-users.users">users.users</link>
is a <literal>loaOf</literal> option that is commonly used as
follows:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
users.users =
[ { name = &quot;me&quot;;
description = &quot;My personal user.&quot;;
isNormalUser = true;
}
];
}
</programlisting>
<para>
This should be rewritten by removing the list and using the
value of <literal>name</literal> as the name of the attribute
set:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
users.users.me =
{ description = &quot;My personal user.&quot;;
isNormalUser = true;
};
}
</programlisting>
<para>
For more information on this change have look at these links:
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1800">issue
#1800</link>,
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/63103">PR
#63103</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
For NixOS modules, the types
<literal>types.submodule</literal> and
<literal>types.submoduleWith</literal> now support paths as
allowed values, similar to how <literal>imports</literal>
supports paths. Because of this, if you have a module that
defines an option of type
<literal>either (submodule ...) path</literal>, it will break
since a path is now treated as the first type instead of the
second. To fix this, change the type to
<literal>either path (submodule ...)</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">Buildkite
Agent</link> module and corresponding packages have been
updated to 3.x, and to support multiple instances of the agent
running at the same time. This means you will have to rename
<literal>services.buildkite-agent</literal> to
<literal>services.buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;</literal>.
Furthermore, the following options have been changed:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services.buildkite-agent.meta-data</literal> has
been renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">services.buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;.tags</link>,
to match upstreams naming for 3.x. Its type has also
changed - it now accepts an attrset of strings.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The<literal>services.buildkite-agent.openssh.publicKeyPath</literal>
option has been removed, as it's not necessary to deploy
public keys to clone private repositories.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services.buildkite-agent.openssh.privateKeyPath</literal>
has been renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;.privateSshKeyPath</link>,
as the whole <literal>openssh</literal> now only contained
that single option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.buildkite-agents">services.buildkite-agents.&lt;name&gt;.shell</link>
has been introduced, allowing to specify a custom shell to
be used.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>citrix_workspace_19_3_0</literal> package has
been removed as it will be EOLed within the lifespan of 20.03.
For further information, please refer to the
<link xlink:href="https://www.citrix.com/de-de/support/product-lifecycle/milestones/receiver.html">support
and maintenance information</link> from upstream.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>gcc5</literal> and <literal>gfortran5</literal>
packages have been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>services.xserver.displayManager.auto</literal>
module has been removed. It was only intended for use in
internal NixOS tests, and gave the false impression of it
being a special display manager when it's actually LightDM.
Please use the
<literal>services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.autoLogin</literal>
options instead, or any other display manager in NixOS as they
all support auto-login. If you used this module specifically
because it permitted root auto-login you can override the
lightdm-autologin pam module like:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
security.pam.services.lightdm-autologin.text = lib.mkForce ''
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_succeed_if.so quiet
auth required pam_permit.so
account include lightdm
password include lightdm
session include lightdm
'';
}
</programlisting>
<para>
The difference is the:
</para>
<programlisting>
auth required pam_succeed_if.so quiet
</programlisting>
<para>
line, where default it's:
</para>
<programlisting>
auth required pam_succeed_if.so uid &gt;= 1000 quiet
</programlisting>
<para>
not permitting users with uid's below 1000 (like root). All
other display managers in NixOS are configured like this.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
There have been lots of improvements to the Mailman module. As
a result,
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>services.mailman.hyperkittyBaseUrl</literal>
option has been renamed to
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mailman.hyperkitty.baseUrl">services.mailman.hyperkitty.baseUrl</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>services.mailman.hyperkittyApiKey</literal>
option has been removed. This is because having an option
for the Hyperkitty API key meant that the API key would be
stored in the world-readable Nix store, which was a
security vulnerability. A new Hyperkitty API key will be
generated the first time the new Hyperkitty service is
run, and it will then be persisted outside of the Nix
store. To continue using Hyperkitty, you must set
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.mailman.hyperkitty.enable">services.mailman.hyperkitty.enable</link>
to <literal>true</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Additionally, some Postfix configuration must now be set
manually instead of automatically by the Mailman module:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
services.postfix.relayDomains = [ &quot;hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/postfix_domains&quot; ];
services.postfix.config.transport_maps = [ &quot;hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/postfix_lmtp&quot; ];
services.postfix.config.local_recipient_maps = [ &quot;hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/postfix_lmtp&quot; ];
}
</programlisting>
<para>
This is because some users may want to include other
values in these lists as well, and this was not possible
if they were set automatically by the Mailman module. It
would not have been possible to just concatenate values
from multiple modules each setting the values they needed,
because the order of elements in the list is significant.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The LLVM versions 3.5, 3.9 and 4 (including the corresponding
CLang versions) have been dropped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The
<literal>networking.interfaces.*.preferTempAddress</literal>
option has been replaced by
<literal>networking.interfaces.*.tempAddress</literal>. The
new option allows better control of the IPv6 temporary
addresses, including completely disabling them for interfaces
where they are not needed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Rspamd was updated to version 2.2. Read
<link xlink:href="https://rspamd.com/doc/migration.html#migration-to-rspamd-20">
the upstream migration notes</link> carefully. Please be
especially aware that some modules were removed and the
default Bayes backend is now Redis.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>*psu</literal> versions of oraclejdk8 have been
removed as they aren't provided by upstream anymore.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>services.dnscrypt-proxy</literal> module has been
removed as it used the deprecated version of dnscrypt-proxy.
We've added
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dnscrypt-proxy2.enable">services.dnscrypt-proxy2.enable</link>
to use the supported version. This module supports
configuration via the Nix attribute set
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dnscrypt-proxy2.settings">services.dnscrypt-proxy2.settings</link>,
or by passing a TOML configuration file via
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.dnscrypt-proxy2.configFile">services.dnscrypt-proxy2.configFile</link>.
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
# Example configuration:
services.dnscrypt-proxy2.enable = true;
services.dnscrypt-proxy2.settings = {
listen_addresses = [ &quot;127.0.0.1:43&quot; ];
sources.public-resolvers = {
urls = [ &quot;https://download.dnscrypt.info/resolvers-list/v2/public-resolvers.md&quot; ];
cache_file = &quot;public-resolvers.md&quot;;
minisign_key = &quot;RWQf6LRCGA9i53mlYecO4IzT51TGPpvWucNSCh1CBM0QTaLn73Y7GFO3&quot;;
refresh_delay = 72;
};
};
services.dnsmasq.enable = true;
services.dnsmasq.servers = [ &quot;127.0.0.1#43&quot; ];
}
</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>qesteidutil</literal> has been deprecated in favor of
<literal>qdigidoc</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
sqldeveloper_18 has been removed as it's not maintained
anymore, sqldeveloper has been updated to version
<literal>19.4</literal>. Please note that this means that this
means that the oraclejdk is now required. For further
information please read the
<link xlink:href="https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/sqldev-relnotes-194-5908846.html">release
notes</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Haskell <literal>env</literal> and <literal>shellFor</literal>
dev shell environments now organize dependencies the same way
as regular builds. In particular, rather than receiving all
the different lists of dependencies mashed together as one big
list, and then partitioning into Haskell and non-Hakell
dependencies, they work from the original many different
dependency parameters and don't need to algorithmically
partition anything.
</para>
<para>
This means that if you incorrectly categorize a dependency,
e.g. non-Haskell library dependency as a
<literal>buildDepends</literal> or run-time Haskell dependency
as a <literal>setupDepends</literal>, whereas things would
have worked before they may not work now.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The gcc-snapshot-package has been removed. It's marked as
broken for &gt;2 years and used to point to a fairly old
snapshot from the gcc7-branch.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The nixos-build-vms8 -script now uses the python test-driver.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The riot-web package now accepts configuration overrides as an
attribute set instead of a string. A formerly used JSON
configuration can be converted to an attribute set with
<literal>builtins.fromJSON</literal>.
</para>
<para>
The new default configuration also disables automatic guest
account registration and analytics to improve privacy. The
previous behavior can be restored by setting
<literal>config.riot-web.conf = { disable_guests = false; piwik = true; }</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Stand-alone usage of <literal>Upower</literal> now requires
<literal>services.upower.enable</literal> instead of just
installing into
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-environment.systemPackages">environment.systemPackages</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
nextcloud has been updated to <literal>v18.0.2</literal>. This
means that users from NixOS 19.09 can't upgrade directly since
you can only move one version forward and 19.09 uses
<literal>v16.0.8</literal>.
</para>
<para>
To provide a safe upgrade-path and to circumvent similar
issues in the future, the following measures were taken:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The pkgs.nextcloud-attribute has been removed and replaced
with versioned attributes (currently pkgs.nextcloud17 and
pkgs.nextcloud18). With this change major-releases can be
backported without breaking stuff and to make
upgrade-paths easier.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Existing setups will be detected using
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">system.stateVersion</link>:
by default, nextcloud17 will be used, but will raise a
warning which notes that after that deploy it's
recommended to update to the latest stable version
(nextcloud18) by declaring the newly introduced setting
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">services.nextcloud.package</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Users with an overlay (e.g. to use nextcloud at version
<literal>v18</literal> on <literal>19.09</literal>) will
get an evaluation error by default. This is done to ensure
that our
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">package</link>-option
doesn't select an older version by accident. It's
recommended to use pkgs.nextcloud18 or to set
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.nextcloud.package">package</link>
to pkgs.nextcloud explicitly.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<warning>
<para>
Please note that if you're coming from
<literal>19.03</literal> or older, you have to manually
upgrade to <literal>19.09</literal> first to upgrade your
server to Nextcloud v16.
</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Hydra has gained a massive performance improvement due to
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/710">some
database schema changes</link> by adding several IDs and
better indexing. However, it's necessary to upgrade Hydra in
multiple steps:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
At first, an older version of Hydra needs to be deployed
which adds those (nullable) columns. When having set
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">stateVersion
</link> to a value older than <literal>20.03</literal>,
this package will be selected by default from the module
when upgrading. Otherwise, the package can be deployed
using the following config:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{ pkgs, ... }: {
services.hydra.package = pkgs.hydra-migration;
}
</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Automatically fill the newly added ID columns on the server by
running the following command:
</para>
<programlisting>
$ hydra-backfill-ids
</programlisting>
<warning>
<para>
Please note that this process can take a while depending on
your database-size!
</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Deploy a newer version of Hydra to activate the DB
optimizations. This can be done by using hydra-unstable. This
package already includes
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/pull/49">flake-support</link>
and is therefore compiled against pkgs.nixFlakes.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
If your
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-system.stateVersion">stateVersion</link>
is set to <literal>20.03</literal> or greater,
hydra-unstable will be used automatically! This will break
your setup if you didn't run the migration.
</para>
</warning>
<para>
Please note that Hydra is currently not available with
nixStable as this doesn't compile anymore.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
pkgs.hydra has been removed to ensure a graceful
database-migration using the dedicated package-attributes.
If you still have pkgs.hydra defined in e.g. an overlay, an
assertion error will be thrown. To circumvent this, you need
to set
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.hydra.package">services.hydra.package</link>
to pkgs.hydra explicitly and make sure you know what you're
doing!
</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The TokuDB storage engine will be disabled in mariadb 10.5. It
is recommended to switch to RocksDB. See also
<link xlink:href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/tokudb/">TokuDB</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-20.03-notable-changes">
<title>Other Notable Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
SD images are now compressed by default using
<literal>bzip2</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The nginx web server previously started its master process as
root privileged, then ran worker processes as a less
privileged identity user (the <literal>nginx</literal> user).
This was changed to start all of nginx as a less privileged
user (defined by <literal>services.nginx.user</literal> and
<literal>services.nginx.group</literal>). As a consequence,
all files that are needed for nginx to run (included
configuration fragments, SSL certificates and keys, etc.) must
now be readable by this less privileged user/group.
</para>
<para>
To continue to use the old approach, you can configure:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
services.nginx.appendConfig = let cfg = config.services.nginx; in ''user ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group};'';
systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.User = lib.mkForce &quot;root&quot;;
}
</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
OpenSSH has been upgraded from 7.9 to 8.1, improving security
and adding features but with potential incompatibilities.
Consult the
<link xlink:href="https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.1">
release announcement</link> for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>PRETTY_NAME</literal> in
<literal>/etc/os-release</literal> now uses the short rather
than full version string.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The ACME module has switched from simp-le to
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/go-acme/lego">lego</link>
which allows us to support DNS-01 challenges and wildcard
certificates. The following options have been added:
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.acceptTerms">security.acme.acceptTerms</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.dnsProvider</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.credentialsFile</link>,
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.dnsPropagationCheck</link>.
As well as this, the options
<literal>security.acme.acceptTerms</literal> and either
<literal>security.acme.email</literal> or
<literal>security.acme.certs.&lt;name&gt;.email</literal> must
be set in order to use the ACME module. Certificates will be
regenerated on activation, no account or certificate will be
migrated from simp-le. In particular private keys will not be
preserved. However, the credentials for simp-le are preserved
and thus it is possible to roll back to previous versions
without breaking certificate generation. Note also that in
contrary to simp-le a new private key is recreated at each
renewal by default, which can have consequences if you embed
your public key in apps.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
It is now possible to unlock LUKS-Encrypted file systems using
a FIDO2 token via
<literal>boot.initrd.luks.fido2Support</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Predictably named network interfaces get renamed in stage-1.
This means that it is possible to use the proper interface
name for e.g. Dropbear setups.
</para>
<para>
For further reference, please read
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/68953">#68953</link>
or the corresponding
<link xlink:href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/predictable-network-interface-names-in-initrd/4055">discourse
thread</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The matrix-synapse-package has been updated to
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.11.1">v1.11.1</link>.
Due to
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.10.0rc1">stricter
requirements</link> for database configuration when using
postgresql, the automated database setup of the module has
been removed to avoid any further edge-cases.
</para>
<para>
matrix-synapse expects <literal>postgresql</literal>-databases
to have the options <literal>LC_COLLATE</literal> and
<literal>LC_CTYPE</literal> set to
<link xlink:href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/locale.html"><literal>'C'</literal></link>
which basically instructs <literal>postgresql</literal> to
ignore any locale-based preferences.
</para>
<para>
Depending on your setup, you need to incorporate one of the
following changes in your setup to upgrade to 20.03:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
If you use <literal>sqlite3</literal> you don't need to do
anything.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you use <literal>postgresql</literal> on a different
server, you don't need to change anything as well since
this module was never designed to configure remote
databases.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you use <literal>postgresql</literal> and configured
your synapse initially on <literal>19.09</literal> or
older, you simply need to enable postgresql-support
explicitly:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{ ... }: {
services.matrix-synapse = {
enable = true;
/* and all the other config you've defined here */
};
services.postgresql.enable = true;
}
</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you deploy a fresh matrix-synapse, you need to configure
the database yourself (e.g. by using the
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.postgresql.initialScript">services.postgresql.initialScript</link>
option). An example for this can be found in the
<link linkend="module-services-matrix">documentation of the
Matrix module</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you initially deployed your matrix-synapse on
<literal>nixos-unstable</literal> <emphasis>after</emphasis>
the <literal>19.09</literal>-release, your database is
misconfigured due to a regression in NixOS. For now,
matrix-synapse will startup with a warning, but it's
recommended to reconfigure the database to set the values
<literal>LC_COLLATE</literal> and <literal>LC_CTYPE</literal>
to
<link xlink:href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/locale.html"><literal>'C'</literal></link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.network.links">systemd.network.links</link>
option is now respected even when
<link xlink:href="options.html#opt-systemd.network.enable">systemd-networkd</link>
is disabled. This mirrors the behaviour of systemd - It's udev
that parses <literal>.link</literal> files, not
<literal>systemd-networkd</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
mongodb has been updated to version <literal>3.4.24</literal>.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
Please note that mongodb has been relicensed under their own
<link xlink:href="https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license/faq"><literal> sspl</literal></link>-license.
Since it's not entirely free and not OSI-approved, it's
listed as non-free. This means that Hydra doesn't provide
prebuilt mongodb-packages and needs to be built locally.
</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>