Release 19.09 (“Loris”, 2019/09/??)
Highlights In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: End of support is planned for end of April 2020, handing over to 20.03.
New Services The following new services were added since the last release:
Backward Incompatibilities When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following incompatible changes: Buildbot no longer supports Python 2, as support was dropped upstream in version 2.0.0. Configurations may need to be modified to make them compatible with Python 3. PostgreSQL now uses /run/postgresql as its socket directory instead of /tmp. So if you run an application like eg. Nextcloud, where you need to use the Unix socket path as the database host name, you need to change it accordingly. The options and have been removed because the alertmanager service is now using systemd's DynamicUser mechanism which obviates these options. The NetworkManager systemd unit was renamed back from network-manager.service to NetworkManager.service for better compatibility with other applications expecting this name. The same applies to ModemManager where modem-manager.service is now called ModemManager.service again. The and options were removed as they are managed internally by the nzbget. The option hadn't actually been used by the module for some time and so was removed as cleanup. The module has been removed, see instead for a free software fork of Emby. See the Jellyfin documentation: Migrating from Emby to Jellyfin
Backward Incompatibilities When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following incompatible changes: The limesurvey apache subservice was replaced with a full NixOS module. One can configure it using the and options.
Other Notable Changes The module gained an option named which makes the generated configuration.nix 5 manual page include all options from all NixOS modules included in a given configuration.nix configuration file. Currently, it is set to false by default as enabling it frequently prevents evaluation. But the plan is to eventually have it set to true by default. Please set it to true now in your configuration.nix and fix all the bugs it uncovers. The vlc package gained support for Chromecast streaming, enabled by default. TCP port 8010 must be open for it to work, so something like networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 8010 ]; may be required in your configuration. Also consider enabling Accelerated Video Playback for better transcoding performance. The following changes apply if the stateVersion is changed to 19.09 or higher. For stateVersion = "19.03" or lower the old behavior is preserved. solr.package defaults to pkgs.solr_8.