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85 lines
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<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xml:id="ch-release-notes">
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<title>Release notes</title>
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<!--==================================================================-->
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<section xml:id="sec-release-14.02">
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<title>Release 14.04 (“Baboon”, 2014/04/??)</title>
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<para>This is the second stable release branch of NixOS. The main
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enhancements are the following:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Installation on UEFI systems is now supported. See
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<xref linkend="sec-uefi-installation"/> for
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details.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.19 and GCC
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4.8.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
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following incompatible changes:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Nixpkgs no longer exposes unfree packages by
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default. If your NixOS configuration requires unfree packages from
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Nixpkgs, you need to enable support for them explicitly by setting:
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<programlisting>
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nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
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</programlisting>
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Otherwise, you get an error message such as:
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<screen>
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error: package ‘nvidia-x11-331.49-3.12.17’ in ‘…/nvidia-x11/default.nix:56’
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has an unfree license, refusing to evaluate
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</screen>
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The firewall is now enabled by default. If you don’t
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want this, you need to disable it explicitly:
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<programlisting>
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networking.firewall.enable = false;
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</programlisting>
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The option
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<option>boot.loader.grub.memtest86</option> has been renamed to
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<option>boot.loader.grub.memtest86.enable</option>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <literal>mysql55</literal> service has been
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merged into the <literal>mysql</literal> service, which no longer
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sets a default for the option
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<option>services.mysql.package</option>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</section>
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<!--==================================================================-->
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<section xml:id="sec-release-13.10">
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<title>Release 13.10 (“Aardvark”, 2013/10/31)</title>
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<para>This is the first stable release branch of NixOS.</para>
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</section>
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</appendix>
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