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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-18.09">
<title>Release 18.09 (“Jellyfish”, 2018/09/??)</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-18.09-highlights">
<title>Highlights</title>
<para>
In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the
following highlights:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
User channels are now in the default <literal>NIX_PATH</literal>, allowing
users to use their personal <command>nix-channel</command> defined
channels in <command>nix-build</command> and <command>nix-shell</command>
commands, as well as in imports like <code>import
&lt;mychannel&gt;</code>.
</para>
<para>
For example
</para>
<programlisting>
$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgsunstable
$ nix-channel --update
$ nix-build '&lt;nixpkgsunstable&gt;' -A gitFull
$ nix run -f '&lt;nixpkgsunstable&gt;' gitFull
$ nix-instantiate -E '(import &lt;nixpkgsunstable&gt; {}).gitFull'
</programlisting>
</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-18.09-new-services">
<title>New Services</title>
<para>
The following new services were added since the last release:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
When enabled the <literal>iproute2</literal> will copy the files expected
by ip route (e.g., <filename>rt_tables</filename>) in
<filename>/run/iproute2</filename>. This allows to write aliases for
routing tables for instance.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-18.09-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>lib.strict</literal> is removed. Use
<literal>builtins.seq</literal> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>clementine</literal> package points now to the free
derivation. <literal>clementineFree</literal> is removed now and
<literal>clementineUnfree</literal> points to the package which is bundled
with the unfree <literal>libspotify</literal> package.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>netcat</literal> package is now taken directly from OpenBSD's
<literal>libressl</literal>, instead of relying on Debian's fork. The new
version should be very close to the old version, but there are some minor
differences. Importantly, flags like -b, -q, -C, and -Z are no longer
accepted by the nc command.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <varname>services.docker-registry.extraConfig</varname> object doesn't
contain environment variables anymore. Instead it needs to provide an
object structure that can be mapped onto the YAML configuration defined in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/v2.6.2/docs/configuration.md">the
<varname>docker/distribution</varname> docs</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>gnucash</literal> has changed from version 2.4 to 3.x. If you've
been using <literal>gnucash</literal> (version 2.4) instead of
<literal>gnucash26</literal> (version 2.6) you must open your Gnucash data
file(s) with <literal>gnucash26</literal> and then save them to upgrade
the file format. Then you may use your data file(s) with Gnucash 3.x. See
the upgrade
<link xlink:href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Using_Different_Versions.2C_Up_And_Downgrade">documentation</link>.
Gnucash 2.4 is still available under the attribute
<literal>gnucash24</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<varname>services.munge</varname> now runs as user (and group) <literal>munge</literal> instead of root.
Make sure the key file is accessible to the daemon.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-18.09-notable-changes">
<title>Other Notable Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>dockerTools.pullImage</literal> relies on image digest instead of
image tag to download the image. The <literal>sha256</literal> of a pulled
image has to be updated.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.attrNamesToStr</literal> has been deprecated. Use more
specific concatenation (<literal>lib.concat(Map)StringsSep</literal>)
instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.addErrorContextToAttrs</literal> has been deprecated. Use
<literal>builtins.addErrorContext</literal> directly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.showVal</literal> has been deprecated. Use
<literal>lib.traceSeqN</literal> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.traceXMLVal</literal> has been deprecated. Use
<literal>lib.traceValFn builtins.toXml</literal> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.traceXMLValMarked</literal> has been deprecated. Use
<literal>lib.traceValFn (x: str + builtins.toXML x)</literal> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <literal>pkgs</literal> argument to NixOS modules can now be set directly using <literal>nixpkgs.pkgs</literal>. Previously, only the <literal>system</literal>, <literal>config</literal> and <literal>overlays</literal> arguments could be used to influence <literal>pkgs</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A NixOS system can now be constructed more easily based on a preexisting invocation of Nixpkgs. For example:
<programlisting>
inherit (pkgs.nixos {
boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
fileSystems."/".device = "/dev/xvda1";
}) toplevel kernel initialRamdisk manual;
</programlisting>
This benefits evaluation performance, lets you write Nixpkgs packages that depend on NixOS images and is consistent with a deployment architecture that would be centered around Nixpkgs overlays.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.traceValIfNot</literal> has been deprecated. Use
<literal>if/then/else</literal> and <literal>lib.traceValSeq</literal> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>lib.traceCallXml</literal> has been deprecated. Please complain
if you use the function regularly.
</para>
<para>
The attribute <literal>lib.nixpkgsVersion</literal> has been deprecated in
favor of <literal>lib.version</literal>. Please refer to the discussion in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/39416#discussion_r183845745">NixOS/nixpkgs#39416</link>
for further reference.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The module for <option>security.dhparams</option> has two new options now:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>security.dhparams.stateless</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Puts the generated Diffie-Hellman parameters into the Nix store instead
of managing them in a stateful manner in
<filename class="directory">/var/lib/dhparams</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<option>security.dhparams.defaultBitSize</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The default bit size to use for the generated Diffie-Hellman
parameters.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<note>
<para>
The path to the actual generated parameter files should now be queried
using
<literal>config.security.dhparams.params.<replaceable>name</replaceable>.path</literal>
because it might be either in the Nix store or in a directory configured
by <option>security.dhparams.path</option>.
</para>
</note>
<note>
<title>For developers:</title>
<para>
Module implementers should not set a specific bit size in order to let
users configure it by themselves if they want to have a different bit
size than the default (2048).
</para>
<para>
An example usage of this would be:
<programlisting>
{ config, ... }:
{
security.dhparams.params.myservice = {};
environment.etc."myservice.conf".text = ''
dhparams = ${config.security.dhparams.params.myservice.path}
'';
}
</programlisting>
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>networking.networkmanager.useDnsmasq</literal> has been
deprecated. Use <literal>networking.networkmanager.dns</literal> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The option
<varname>services.kubernetes.apiserver.admissionControl</varname> was
renamed to
<varname>services.kubernetes.apiserver.enableAdmissionPlugins</varname>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Recommented way to access the Kubernetes Dashboard is with HTTPS (TLS)
Therefore; public service port for the dashboard has changed to 443
(container port 8443) and scheme to https.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>