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| 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-17.03">
<title>Release 17.03 (<quote>Gorilla</quote>, 2017/03/31)</title>
<section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-highlights">
<title>Highlights</title>
<para>
In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
has the following highlights:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Nixpkgs is now extensible through overlays. See the
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install">Nixpkgs
manual</link> for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
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.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The default desktop environment now is KDE's Plasma 5. KDE 4
has been removed
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The setuid wrapper functionality now supports setting
capabilities.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
X.org server uses branch 1.19. Due to ABI incompatibilities,
<literal>ati_unfree</literal> keeps forcing 1.17 and
<literal>amdgpu-pro</literal> starts forcing 1.18.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Cross compilation has been rewritten. See the nixpkgs manual
for details. The most obvious breaking change is that in
derivations there is no <literal>.nativeDrv</literal> nor
<literal>.crossDrv</literal> are now cross by default, not
native.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>overridePackages</literal> function has been
rewritten to be replaced by
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install">
overlays</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Packages in nixpkgs can be marked as insecure through listed
vulnerabilities. See the
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-allow-insecure">Nixpkgs
manual</link> for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
PHP now defaults to PHP 7.1
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-new-services">
<title>New Services</title>
<para>
The following new services were added since the last release:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>hardware/ckb.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>hardware/mcelog.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>hardware/usb-wwan.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>hardware/video/capture/mwprocapture.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/adb.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/chromium.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/gphoto2.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/java.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/mtr.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/oblogout.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/vim.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>programs/wireshark.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>security/dhparams.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/audio/ympd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/computing/boinc/client.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/continuous-integration/buildbot/master.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/continuous-integration/buildbot/worker.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/continuous-integration/gitlab-runner.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/databases/riak-cs.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/databases/stanchion.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/desktops/gnome3/gnome-terminal-server.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/editors/infinoted.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/hardware/illum.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/hardware/trezord.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/logging/journalbeat.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/mail/offlineimap.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/mail/postgrey.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/couchpotato.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/docker-registry.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/errbot.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/geoip-updater.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/gogs.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/leaps.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/nix-optimise.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/ssm-agent.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/misc/sssd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/arbtt.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/netdata.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/default.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/blackbox-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/json-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/nginx-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/node-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/snmp-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/unifi-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/prometheus/varnish-exporter.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/sysstat.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/telegraf.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/monitoring/vnstat.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/network-filesystems/cachefilesd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/network-filesystems/glusterfs.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/network-filesystems/ipfs.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/dante.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/dnscrypt-wrapper.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/fakeroute.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/flannel.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/htpdate.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/miredo.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/nftables.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/powerdns.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/pdns-recursor.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/quagga.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/redsocks.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/networking/wireguard.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/system/cgmanager.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/torrent/opentracker.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/atlassian/confluence.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/atlassian/crowd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/atlassian/jira.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/frab.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/nixbot.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/selfoss.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/web-apps/quassel-webserver.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/x11/unclutter-xfixes.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>services/x11/urxvtd.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>system/boot/systemd-nspawn.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>virtualisation/ecs-agent.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>virtualisation/lxcfs.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>virtualisation/openstack/keystone.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>virtualisation/openstack/glance.nix</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-incompatibilities">
<title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
<para>
When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Derivations have no <literal>.nativeDrv</literal> nor
<literal>.crossDrv</literal> and are now cross by default, not
native.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>stdenv.overrides</literal> is now expected to take
<literal>self</literal> and <literal>super</literal>
arguments. See <literal>lib.trivial.extends</literal> for what
those parameters represent.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>ansible</literal> now defaults to ansible version 2
as version 1 has been removed due to a serious
<link xlink:href="https://www.computest.nl/advisories/CT-2017-0109_Ansible.txt">
vulnerability</link> unpatched by upstream.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gnome</literal> alias has been removed along with
<literal>gtk</literal>, <literal>gtkmm</literal> and several
others. Now you need to use versioned attributes, like
<literal>gnome3</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The attribute name of the Radicale daemon has been changed
from <literal>pythonPackages.radicale</literal> to
<literal>radicale</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>stripHash</literal> bash function in
<literal>stdenv</literal> changed according to its
documentation; it now outputs the stripped name to
<literal>stdout</literal> instead of putting it in the
variable <literal>strippedName</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
PHP now scans for extra configuration .ini files in /etc/php.d
instead of /etc. This prevents accidentally loading non-PHP
.ini files that may be in /etc.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Two lone top-level dict dbs moved into
<literal>dictdDBs</literal>. This affects:
<literal>dictdWordnet</literal> which is now at
<literal>dictdDBs.wordnet</literal> and
<literal>dictdWiktionary</literal> which is now at
<literal>dictdDBs.wiktionary</literal>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Parsoid service now uses YAML configuration format.
<literal>service.parsoid.interwikis</literal> is now called
<literal>service.parsoid.wikis</literal> and is a list of
either API URLs or attribute sets as specified in parsoid's
documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>Ntpd</literal> was replaced by
<literal>systemd-timesyncd</literal> as the default service to
synchronize system time with a remote NTP server. The old
behavior can be restored by setting
<literal>services.ntp.enable</literal> to
<literal>true</literal>. Upstream time servers for all NTP
implementations are now configured using
<literal>networking.timeServers</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>service.nylon</literal> is now declared using named
instances. As an example:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
services.nylon = {
enable = true;
acceptInterface = &quot;br0&quot;;
bindInterface = &quot;tun1&quot;;
port = 5912;
};
}
</programlisting>
<para>
should be replaced with:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
{
services.nylon.myvpn = {
enable = true;
acceptInterface = &quot;br0&quot;;
bindInterface = &quot;tun1&quot;;
port = 5912;
};
}
</programlisting>
<para>
this enables you to declare a SOCKS proxy for each uplink.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>overridePackages</literal> function no longer exists.
It is replaced by
<link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install">
overlays</link>. For example, the following code:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
let
pkgs = import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {};
in
pkgs.overridePackages (self: super: ...)
</programlisting>
<para>
should be replaced by:
</para>
<programlisting language="bash">
let
pkgs = import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {};
in
import pkgs.path { overlays = [(self: super: ...)]; }
</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Autoloading connection tracking helpers is now disabled by
default. This default was also changed in the Linux kernel and
is considered insecure if not configured properly in your
firewall. If you need connection tracking helpers (i.e. for
active FTP) please enable
<literal>networking.firewall.autoLoadConntrackHelpers</literal>
and tune
<literal>networking.firewall.connectionTrackingModules</literal>
to suit your needs.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>local_recipient_maps</literal> is not set to empty
value by Postfix service. It's an insecure default as stated
by Postfix documentation. Those who want to retain this
setting need to set it via
<literal>services.postfix.extraConfig</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Iputils no longer provide ping6 and traceroute6. The
functionality of these tools has been integrated into ping and
traceroute respectively. To enforce an address family the new
flags <literal>-4</literal> and <literal>-6</literal> have
been added. One notable incompatibility is that specifying an
interface (for link-local IPv6 for instance) is no longer done
with the <literal>-I</literal> flag, but by encoding the
interface into the address
(<literal>ping fe80::1%eth0</literal>).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The socket handling of the <literal>services.rmilter</literal>
module has been fixed and refactored. As rmilter doesn't
support binding to more than one socket, the options
<literal>bindUnixSockets</literal> and
<literal>bindInetSockets</literal> have been replaced by
<literal>services.rmilter.bindSocket.*</literal>. The default
is still a unix socket in
<literal>/run/rmilter/rmilter.sock</literal>. Refer to the
options documentation for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>fetch*</literal> functions no longer support md5,
please use sha256 instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The dnscrypt-proxy module interface has been streamlined
around the <literal>extraArgs</literal> option. Where
possible, legacy option declarations are mapped to
<literal>extraArgs</literal> but will emit warnings. The
<literal>resolverList</literal> has been outright removed: to
use an unlisted resolver, use the
<literal>customResolver</literal> option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
torbrowser now stores local state under
<literal>~/.local/share/tor-browser</literal> by default. Any
browser profile data from the old location,
<literal>~/.torbrowser4</literal>, must be migrated manually.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The ihaskell, monetdb, offlineimap and sitecopy services have
been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-release-17.03-notable-changes">
<title>Other Notable Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Module type system have a new extensible option types feature
that allow to extend certain types, such as enum, through
multiple option declarations of the same option across
multiple modules.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>jre</literal> now defaults to GTK UI by default. This
improves visual consistency and makes Java follow system font
style, improving the situation on HighDPI displays. This has a
cost of increased closure size; for server and other headless
workloads it's recommended to use
<literal>jre_headless</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Python 2.6 interpreter and package set have been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Python 2.7 interpreter does not use modules anymore.
Instead, all CPython interpreters now include the whole
standard library except for `tkinter`, which is available in
the Python package set.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 are now built deterministically and
3.4 mostly. Minor modifications had to be made to the
interpreters in order to generate deterministic bytecode. This
has security implications and is relevant for those using
Python in a <literal>nix-shell</literal>. See the Nixpkgs
manual for details.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Python package sets now use a fixed-point combinator and
the sets are available as attributes of the interpreters.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Python function <literal>buildPythonPackage</literal> has
been improved and can be used to build from Setuptools source,
Flit source, and precompiled Wheels.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When adding new or updating current Python libraries, the
expressions should be put in separate files in
<literal>pkgs/development/python-modules</literal> and called
from <literal>python-packages.nix</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The dnscrypt-proxy service supports synchronizing the list of
public resolvers without working DNS resolution. This fixes
issues caused by the resolver list becoming outdated. It also
improves the viability of DNSCrypt only configurations.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Containers using bridged networking no longer lose their
connection after changes to the host networking.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
ZFS supports pool auto scrubbing.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The bind DNS utilities (e.g. dig) have been split into their
own output and are now also available in
<literal>pkgs.dnsutils</literal> and it is no longer necessary
to pull in all of <literal>bind</literal> to use them.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Per-user configuration was moved from
<literal>~/.nixpkgs</literal> to
<literal>~/.config/nixpkgs</literal>. The former is still
valid for <literal>config.nix</literal> for backwards
compatibility.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>