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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-21.03">
<title>Release 21.03 (“Okapi”, 2021.03/??)</title>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-21.03-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 2021, handing over to 21.09.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 3.38, see its <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">release notes</link>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-21.03-new-services">
<title>New Services</title>
<para>
The following new services were added since the last release:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/">Keycloak</link>,
an open source identity and access management server with
support for <link
xlink:href="https://openid.net/connect/">OpenID Connect</link>,
<link xlink:href="https://oauth.net/2/">OAUTH 2.0</link> and
<link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0">SAML
2.0</link>.
</para>
<para>
See the <link linkend="module-services-keycloak">Keycloak
section of the NixOS manual</link> for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<xref linkend="opt-services.samba-wsdd.enable" /> Web Services Dynamic Discovery host daemon
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-21.03-incompatibilities">
<title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
<para>
When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following
incompatible changes:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>systemd-journal2gelf</literal> no longer parses json and expects the receiving system to handle it. How to achieve this with Graylog is described in this <link xlink:href="https://github.com/parse-nl/SystemdJournal2Gelf/issues/10">GitHub issue</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If the <varname>services.dbus</varname> module is enabled, then
the user D-Bus session is now always socket activated. The
associated options <varname>services.dbus.socketActivated</varname>
and <varname>services.xserver.startDbusSession</varname> have
therefore been removed and you will receive a warning if
they are present in your configuration. This change makes the
user D-Bus session available also for non-graphical logins.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>rubyMinimal</literal> was removed due to being unused and
unusable. The default ruby interpreter includes JIT support, which makes
it reference it's compiler. Since JIT support is probably needed by some
Gems, it was decided to enable this feature with all cc references by
default, and allow to build a Ruby derivation without references to cc,
by setting <literal>jitSupport = false;</literal> in an overlay. See
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/90151">#90151</link>
for more info.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Setting <option>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</option> now also affects which keys <option>security.pam.enableSSHAgentAuth</option> will use.
WARNING: If you are using these options in combination do make sure that any key paths you use are present in <option>services.openssh.authorizedKeysFiles</option>!
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The option <option>fonts.enableFontDir</option> has been renamed to
<xref linkend="opt-fonts.fontDir.enable"/>. The path of font directory
has also been changed to <literal>/run/current-system/sw/share/X11/fonts</literal>,
for consistency with other X11 resources.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A number of options have been renamed in the kicad interface. <literal>oceSupport</literal>
has been renamed to <literal>withOCE</literal>, <literal>withOCCT</literal> has been renamed
to <literal>withOCC</literal>, <literal>ngspiceSupport</literal> has been renamed to
<literal>withNgspice</literal>, and <literal>scriptingSupport</literal> has been renamed to
<literal>withScripting</literal>. Additionally, <literal>kicad/base.nix</literal> no longer
provides default argument values since these are provided by
<literal>kicad/default.nix</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The socket for the <literal>pdns-recursor</literal> module was moved from <literal>/var/lib/pdns-recursor</literal>
to <literal>/run/pdns-recursor</literal> to match upstream.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Paperwork was updated to version 2. The on-disk format slightly changed,
and it is not possible to downgrade from Paperwork 2 back to Paperwork
1.3. Back your documents up before upgrading. See <link xlink:href="https://forum.openpaper.work/t/paperwork-2-0/112/5">this thread</link> for more details.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
PowerDNS has been updated from <literal>4.2.x</literal> to <literal>4.3.x</literal>. Please
be sure to review the <link xlink:href="https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/upgrading.html#x-to-4-3-0">Upgrade Notes</link>
provided by upstream before upgrading. Worth specifically noting is that the service now runs
entirely as a dedicated <literal>pdns</literal> user, instead of starting as <literal>root</literal>
and dropping privileges, as well as the default <literal>socket-dir</literal> location changing from
<literal>/var/lib/powerdns</literal> to <literal>/run/pdns</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>btc1</package> has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>cpp_ethereum</package> (aleth) has been abandoned upstream, and removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>riak-cs</package> package removed along with <varname>services.riak-cs</varname> module.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>stanchion</package> package removed along with <varname>services.stanchion</varname> module.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>mutt</package> has been updated to a new major version (2.x), which comes with
some backward incompatible changes that are described in the
<link xlink:href="http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/">release notes for Mutt 2.0</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>vim</literal> switched to Python 3, dropping all Python 2 support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link linkend="opt-boot.zfs.forceImportAll">boot.zfs.forceImportAll</link>
previously did nothing, but has been fixed. However its default has been
changed to <literal>false</literal> to preserve the existing default
behaviour. If you have this explicitly set to <literal>true</literal>,
please note that your non-root pools will now be forcibly imported.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<package>openafs</package> now points to <package>openafs_1_8</package>,
which is the new stable release. OpenAFS 1.6 was removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>openldap</literal> module now has support for OLC-style
configuration, users of the <literal>configDir</literal> option may wish
to migrate. If you continue to use <literal>configDir</literal>, ensure that
<literal>olcPidFile</literal> is set to <literal>/run/slapd/slapd.pid</literal>.
</para>
<para>
As a result, <literal>extraConfig</literal> and <literal>extraDatabaseConfig</literal>
are removed. To help with migration, you can convert your <literal>slapd.conf</literal>
file to OLC configuration with the following script (find the location of this
configuration file by running <literal>systemctl status openldap</literal>, it is the
<literal>-f</literal> option.
</para>
<programlisting>
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
slaptest -f /path/to/slapd.conf $TMPDIR
slapcat -F $TMPDIR -n0 -H 'ldap:///???(!(objectClass=olcSchemaConfig))'
</programlisting>
<para>
This will dump your current configuration in LDIF format, which should be
straightforward to convert into Nix settings. This does not show your schema
configuration, as this is unnecessarily verbose for users of the default schemas
and <literal>slaptest</literal> is buggy with schemas directly in the config file.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Amazon EC2 and OpenStack Compute (nova) images now re-fetch instance meta data and user data from the instance
metadata service (IMDS) on each boot. For example: stopping an EC2 instance, changing its user data, and
restarting the instance will now cause it to fetch and apply the new user data.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
Specifically, <literal>/etc/ec2-metadata</literal> is re-populated on each boot. Some NixOS scripts that read
from this directory are guarded to only run if the files they want to manipulate do not already exist, and so
will not re-apply their changes if the IMDS response changes. Examples: <literal>root</literal>'s SSH key is
only added if <literal>/root/.ssh/authorized_keys</literal> does not exist, and SSH host keys are only set from
user data if they do not exist in <literal>/etc/ssh</literal>.
</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-21.03-notable-changes">
<title>Other Notable Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The default-version of <literal>nextcloud</literal> is <package>nextcloud20</package>.
Please note that it's <emphasis>not</emphasis> possible to upgrade <literal>nextcloud</literal>
across multiple major versions! This means that it's e.g. not possible to upgrade
from <package>nextcloud18</package> to <package>nextcloud20</package> in a single deploy.
</para>
<para>
The package can be manually upgraded by setting <xref linkend="opt-services.nextcloud.package" />
to <package>nextcloud20</package>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The setting <xref linkend="opt-services.redis.bind" /> defaults to <literal>127.0.0.1</literal> now, making Redis listen on the loopback interface only, and not all public network interfaces.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
NixOS now emits a deprecation warning if systemd's <literal>StartLimitInterval</literal> setting is used in a <literal>serviceConfig</literal> section instead of in a <literal>unitConfig</literal>; that setting is deprecated and now undocumented for the service section by systemd upstream, but still effective and somewhat buggy there, which can be confusing. See <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45785">#45785</link> for details.
</para>
<para>
All services should use <xref linkend="opt-systemd.services._name_.startLimitIntervalSec" /> or <literal>StartLimitIntervalSec</literal> in <xref linkend="opt-systemd.services._name_.unitConfig" /> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Unbound DNS resolver service (<literal>services.unbound</literal>) has been refactored to allow reloading, control sockets and to fix startup ordering issues.
</para>
<para>
It is now possible to enable a local UNIX control socket for unbound by setting the <xref linkend="opt-services.unbound.localControlSocketPath" />
option.
</para>
<para>
Previously we just applied a very minimal set of restrictions and
trusted unbound to properly drop root privs and capabilities.
</para>
<para>
As of this we are (for the most part) just using the upstream
example unit file for unbound. The main difference is that we start
unbound as <literal>unbound</literal> user with the required capabilities instead of
letting unbound do the chroot &amp; uid/gid changes.
</para>
<para>
The upstream unit configuration this is based on is a lot stricter with
all kinds of permissions then our previous variant. It also came with
the default of having the <literal>Type</literal> set to <literal>notify</literal>, therefore we are now also
using the <literal>unbound-with-systemd</literal> package here. Unbound will start up,
read the configuration files and start listening on the configured ports
before systemd will declare the unit <literal>active (running)</literal>.
This will likely help with startup order and the occasional race condition during system
activation where the DNS service is started but not yet ready to answer
queries. Services depending on <literal>nss-lookup.target</literal> or <literal>unbound.service</literal>
are now be able to use unbound when those targets have been reached.
</para>
<para>
Aditionally to the much stricter runtime environmet the
<literal>/dev/urandom</literal> mount lines we previously had in the code (that would
randomly failed during the stop-phase) have been removed as systemd will take care of those for us.
</para>
<para>
The <literal>preStart</literal> script is now only required if we enabled the trust
anchor updates (which are still enabled by default).
</para>
<para>
Another benefit of the refactoring is that we can now issue reloads via
either <literal>pkill -HUP unbound</literal> and <literal>systemctl reload unbound</literal> to reload the
running configuration without taking the daemon offline. A prerequisite
of this was that unbound configuration is available on a well known path
on the file system. We are using the path <literal>/etc/unbound/unbound.conf</literal> as that is the
default in the CLI tooling which in turn enables us to use
<literal>unbound-control</literal> without passing a custom configuration location.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>