nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-1603.section.xml

<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-release-16.03">
  <title>Release 16.03 (<quote>Emu</quote>, 2016/03/31)</title>
  <para>
    In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has
    the following highlights:
  </para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Systemd 229, bringing
        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v229/NEWS">numerous
        improvements</link> over 217.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Linux 4.4 (was 3.18).
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        GCC 5.3 (was 4.9). Note that GCC 5
        <link xlink:href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html">changes
        the C++ ABI in an incompatible way</link>; this may cause
        problems if you try to link objects compiled with different
        versions of GCC.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Glibc 2.23 (was 2.21).
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Binutils 2.26 (was 2.23.1). See #909
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Improved support for ensuring
        <link xlink:href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">bitwise
        reproducible builds</link>. For example,
        <literal>stdenv</literal> now sets the environment variable
        <literal>SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</literal> to a deterministic value,
        and Nix has
        <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.11">gained
        an option</link> to repeat a build a number of times to test
        determinism. An ongoing project, the goal of exact
        reproducibility is to allow binaries to be verified
        independently (e.g., a user might only trust binaries that
        appear in three independent binary caches).
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Perl 5.22.
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  <para>
    The following new services were added since the last release:
  </para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/monitoring/longview.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>hardware/video/webcam/facetimehd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>i18n/input-method/default.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>i18n/input-method/fcitx.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>i18n/input-method/ibus.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>i18n/input-method/nabi.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>i18n/input-method/uim.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>programs/fish.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>security/acme.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>security/audit.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>security/oath.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/hardware/irqbalance.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/mail/dspam.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/mail/opendkim.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/mail/postsrsd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/mail/rspamd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/mail/rmilter.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/autofs.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/bepasty.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/calibre-server.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/cfdyndns.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/gammu-smsd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/mathics.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/matrix-synapse.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/misc/octoprint.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/monitoring/hdaps.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/monitoring/heapster.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/monitoring/longview.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/network-filesystems/netatalk.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/network-filesystems/xtreemfs.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/autossh.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/dnschain.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/gale.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/miniupnpd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/namecoind.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/ostinato.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/pdnsd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/shairport-sync.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/networking/supplicant.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/search/kibana.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/security/haka.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/security/physlock.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/web-apps/pump.io.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/x11/hardware/libinput.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services/x11/window-managers/windowlab.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>system/boot/initrd-network.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>system/boot/initrd-ssh.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>system/boot/loader/loader.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>system/boot/networkd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>system/boot/resolved.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>virtualisation/lxd.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>virtualisation/rkt.nix</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  <para>
    When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
    following incompatible changes:
  </para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        We no longer produce graphical ISO images and VirtualBox images
        for <literal>i686-linux</literal>. A minimal ISO image is still
        provided.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Firefox and similar browsers are now <emphasis>wrapped by
        default</emphasis>. The package and attribute names are plain
        <literal>firefox</literal> or <literal>midori</literal>, etc.
        Backward-compatibility attributes were set up, but note that
        <literal>nix-env -u</literal> will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
        update your current <literal>firefox-with-plugins</literal>; you
        have to uninstall it and install <literal>firefox</literal>
        instead.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>wmiiSnap</literal> has been replaced with
        <literal>wmii_hg</literal>, but
        <literal>services.xserver.windowManager.wmii.enable</literal>
        has been updated respectively so this only affects you if you
        have explicitly installed <literal>wmiiSnap</literal>.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>jobs</literal> NixOS option has been removed. It served
        as compatibility layer between Upstart jobs and SystemD
        services. All services have been rewritten to use
        <literal>systemd.services</literal>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>wmiimenu</literal> is removed, as it has been removed
        by the developers upstream. Use <literal>wimenu</literal> from
        the <literal>wmii-hg</literal> package.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Gitit is no longer automatically added to the module list in
        NixOS and as such there will not be any manual entries for it.
        You will need to add an import statement to your NixOS
        configuration in order to use it, e.g.
      </para>
      <programlisting language="bash">
{
  imports = [ &lt;nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/gitit.nix&gt; ];
}
</programlisting>
      <para>
        will include the Gitit service configuration options.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>nginx</literal> does not accept flags for enabling and
        disabling modules anymore. Instead it accepts
        <literal>modules</literal> argument, which is a list of modules
        to be built in. All modules now reside in
        <literal>nginxModules</literal> set. Example configuration:
      </para>
      <programlisting language="bash">
nginx.override {
  modules = [ nginxModules.rtmp nginxModules.dav nginxModules.moreheaders ];
}
</programlisting>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>s3sync</literal> is removed, as it hasn't been
        developed by upstream for 4 years and only runs with ruby 1.8.
        For an actively-developer alternative look at
        <literal>tarsnap</literal> and others.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>ruby_1_8</literal> has been removed as it's not
        supported from upstream anymore and probably contains security
        issues.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>tidy-html5</literal> package is removed. Upstream only
        provided <literal>(lib)tidy5</literal> during development, and
        now they went back to <literal>(lib)tidy</literal> to work as a
        drop-in replacement of the original package that has been
        unmaintained for years. You can (still) use the
        <literal>html-tidy</literal> package, which got updated to a
        stable release from this new upstream.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>extraDeviceOptions</literal> argument is removed from
        <literal>bumblebee</literal> package. Instead there are now two
        separate arguments: <literal>extraNvidiaDeviceOptions</literal>
        and <literal>extraNouveauDeviceOptions</literal> for setting
        extra X11 options for nvidia and nouveau drivers, respectively.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        The <literal>Ctrl+Alt+Backspace</literal> key combination no
        longer kills the X server by default. There's a new option
        <literal>services.xserver.enableCtrlAltBackspace</literal>
        allowing to enable the combination again.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>emacsPackagesNg</literal> now contains all packages
        from the ELPA, MELPA, and MELPA Stable repositories.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Data directory for Postfix MTA server is moved from
        <literal>/var/postfix</literal> to
        <literal>/var/lib/postfix</literal>. Old configurations are
        migrated automatically. <literal>service.postfix</literal>
        module has also received many improvements, such as correct
        directories' access rights, new <literal>aliasFiles</literal>
        and <literal>mapFiles</literal> options and more.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Filesystem options should now be configured as a list of
        strings, not a comma-separated string. The old style will
        continue to work, but print a warning, until the 16.09 release.
        An example of the new style:
      </para>
      <programlisting language="bash">
{
  fileSystems.&quot;/example&quot; = {
    device = &quot;/dev/sdc&quot;;
    fsType = &quot;btrfs&quot;;
    options = [ &quot;noatime&quot; &quot;compress=lzo&quot; &quot;space_cache&quot; &quot;autodefrag&quot; ];
  };
}
</programlisting>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        CUPS, installed by <literal>services.printing</literal> module,
        now has its data directory in <literal>/var/lib/cups</literal>.
        Old configurations from <literal>/etc/cups</literal> are moved
        there automatically, but there might be problems. Also
        configuration options
        <literal>services.printing.cupsdConf</literal> and
        <literal>services.printing.cupsdFilesConf</literal> were removed
        because they had been allowing one to override configuration
        variables required for CUPS to work at all on NixOS. For most
        use cases, <literal>services.printing.extraConf</literal> and
        new option <literal>services.printing.extraFilesConf</literal>
        should be enough; if you encounter a situation when they are
        not, please file a bug.
      </para>
      <para>
        There are also Gutenprint improvements; in particular, a new
        option <literal>services.printing.gutenprint</literal> is added
        to enable automatic updating of Gutenprint PPMs; it's greatly
        recommended to enable it instead of adding
        <literal>gutenprint</literal> to the <literal>drivers</literal>
        list.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services.xserver.vaapiDrivers</literal> has been
        removed. Use
        <literal>hardware.opengl.extraPackages{,32}</literal> instead.
        You can also specify VDPAU drivers there.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>programs.ibus</literal> moved to
        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.ibus</literal>. The option
        <literal>programs.ibus.plugins</literal> changed to
        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.ibus.engines</literal> and the option
        to enable ibus changed from
        <literal>programs.ibus.enable</literal> to
        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.enabled</literal>.
        <literal>i18n.inputMethod.enabled</literal> should be set to the
        used input method name, <literal>&quot;ibus&quot;</literal> for
        ibus. An example of the new style:
      </para>
      <programlisting language="bash">
{
  i18n.inputMethod.enabled = &quot;ibus&quot;;
  i18n.inputMethod.ibus.engines = with pkgs.ibus-engines; [ anthy mozc ];
}
</programlisting>
      <para>
        That is equivalent to the old version:
      </para>
      <programlisting language="bash">
{
  programs.ibus.enable = true;
  programs.ibus.plugins = with pkgs; [ ibus-anthy mozc ];
}
</programlisting>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>services.udev.extraRules</literal> option now writes
        rules to <literal>99-local.rules</literal> instead of
        <literal>10-local.rules</literal>. This makes all the user rules
        apply after others, so their results wouldn't be overriden by
        anything else.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Large parts of the <literal>services.gitlab</literal> module has
        been been rewritten. There are new configuration options
        available. The <literal>stateDir</literal> option was renamned
        to <literal>statePath</literal> and the
        <literal>satellitesDir</literal> option was removed. Please
        review the currently available options.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        The option
        <literal>services.nsd.zones.&lt;name&gt;.data</literal> no
        longer interpret the dollar sign ($) as a shell variable, as
        such it should not be escaped anymore. Thus the following zone
        data:
      </para>
      <programlisting>
$ORIGIN example.com.
$TTL 1800
@       IN      SOA     ns1.vpn.nbp.name.      admin.example.com. (
</programlisting>
      <para>
        Should modified to look like the actual file expected by nsd:
      </para>
      <programlisting>
$ORIGIN example.com.
$TTL 1800
@       IN      SOA     ns1.vpn.nbp.name.      admin.example.com. (
</programlisting>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>service.syncthing.dataDir</literal> options now has to
        point to exact folder where syncthing is writing to. Example
        configuration should look something like:
      </para>
      <programlisting language="bash">
{
  services.syncthing = {
      enable = true;
      dataDir = &quot;/home/somebody/.syncthing&quot;;
      user = &quot;somebody&quot;;
  };
}
</programlisting>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>networking.firewall.allowPing</literal> is now enabled
        by default. Users are encouraged to configure an appropriate
        rate limit for their machines using the Kernel interface at
        <literal>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit</literal> and
        <literal>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit</literal> or using
        the firewall itself, i.e. by setting the NixOS option
        <literal>networking.firewall.pingLimit</literal>.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Systems with some broadcom cards used to result into a generated
        config that is no longer accepted. If you get errors like
      </para>
      <programlisting>
error: path ‘/nix/store/*-broadcom-sta-*’ does not exist and cannot be created
</programlisting>
      <para>
        you should either re-run
        <literal>nixos-generate-config</literal> or manually replace
        <literal>&quot;${config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta}&quot;</literal>
        by <literal>config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta</literal> in
        your <literal>/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix</literal>.
        More discussion is on
        <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12595">
        the github issue</link>.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        The <literal>services.xserver.startGnuPGAgent</literal> option
        has been removed. GnuPG 2.1.x changed the way the gpg-agent
        works, and that new approach no longer requires (or even
        supports) the &quot;start everything as a child of the
        agent&quot; scheme we've implemented in NixOS for older
        versions. To configure the gpg-agent for your X session, add the
        following code to <literal>~/.bashrc</literal> or some file
        that’s sourced when your shell is started:
      </para>
      <programlisting>
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY
</programlisting>
      <para>
        If you want to use gpg-agent for SSH, too, add the following to
        your session initialization (e.g.
        <literal>displayManager.sessionCommands</literal>)
      </para>
      <programlisting>
    gpg-connect-agent /bye
    unset SSH_AGENT_PID
    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=&quot;''${HOME}/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh&quot;
</programlisting>
      <para>
        and make sure that
      </para>
      <programlisting>
    enable-ssh-support
</programlisting>
      <para>
        is included in your <literal>~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf</literal>.
        You will need to use <literal>ssh-add</literal> to re-add your
        ssh keys. If gpg’s automatic transformation of the private keys
        to the new format fails, you will need to re-import your private
        keyring as well:
      </para>
      <programlisting>
    gpg --import ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
</programlisting>
      <para>
        The <literal>gpg-agent(1)</literal> man page has more details
        about this subject, i.e. in the &quot;EXAMPLES&quot; section.
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  <para>
    Other notable improvements:
  </para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <literal>ejabberd</literal> module is brought back and now works
        on NixOS.
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Input method support was improved. New NixOS modules (fcitx,
        nabi and uim), fcitx engines (chewing, hangul, m17n, mozc and
        table-other) and ibus engines (hangul and m17n) have been added.
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
</section>