7.4 KiB
Release 23.11 (“Tapir”, 2023.11/??)
Highlights
- FoundationDB now defaults to major version 7.
New Services
-
Create the first release note entry in this section!
-
acme-dns, a limited DNS server to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely. Available as services.acme-dns.
-
river, A dynamic tiling wayland compositor. Available as programs.river.
-
GoToSocial, an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. Available as services.gotosocial.
-
sitespeed-io, a tool that can generate metrics (timings, diagnostics) for websites. Available as services.sitespeed-io.
Backward Incompatibilities
-
writeTextFile
now requiresexecutable
to be boolean, values likenull
or""
will now fail to evaluate. -
The latest version of
clonehero
now stores custom content in~/.clonehero
. See the migration instructions. Typically, these content files would exist along side the binary, but the previous build used a wrapper script that would store them in~/.config/unity3d/srylain Inc_/Clone Hero
. -
python3.pkgs.fetchPypi
(andpython3Packages.fetchPypi
) has been deprecated in favor of top-levelfetchPypi
. -
mariadb
now defaults tomariadb_1011
instead ofmariadb_106
, meaning the default version was upgraded from 10.6.x to 10.11.x. See the upgrade notes for potential issues. -
etcd
has been updated to 3.5, you will want to read the 3.3 to 3.4 and 3.4 to 3.5 upgrade guides -
himalaya
has been updated to0.8.0
, which drops the native TLS support (in favor of Rustls) and add OAuth 2.0 support. See the release note for more details. -
The services.caddy.acmeCA option now defaults to
null
instead of"https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory"
, to use all of Caddy's default ACME CAs and enable Caddy's automatic issuer fallback feature by default, as recommended by upstream. -
php80
is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting this version anymore. -
util-linux
is now supported on Darwin and is no longer an alias tounixtools
. Use theunixtools.util-linux
package for access to the Apple variants of the utilities. -
The
vlock
program from thekbd
package has been moved into its own package output and should now be referenced explicitly askbd.vlock
or replaced with an alternative such as the standalonevlock
package orphyslock
. -
fileSystems.<name>.autoFormat
now usessystemd-makefs
, which does not accept formatting options. Therefore,fileSystems.<name>.formatOptions
has been removed. -
fileSystems.<name>.autoResize
now usessystemd-growfs
to resize the file system online in stage 2. This means thatf2fs
andext2
can no longer be auto resized, whilexfs
andbtrfs
now can be. -
services.lemmy.settings.federation
was removed in 0.17.0 and no longer has any effect. To enable federation, the hostname must be set in the configuration file and then federation must be enabled in the admin web UI. See the release notes for more details. -
The following packages in
haskellPackages
have now a separate bin output:cabal-fmt
,calligraphy
,eventlog2html
,ghc-debug-brick
,hindent
,nixfmt
,releaser
. This means you need to replace e.g."${pkgs.haskellPackages.nixfmt}/bin/nixfmt"
with"${lib.getBin pkgs.haskellPackages.nixfmt}/bin/nixfmt"
or"${lib.getExe pkgs.haskellPackages.nixfmt}"
. The binaries also won’t be in scope if you rely on them being installed e.g. viaghcWithPackages
.environment.packages
picks thebin
output automatically, so for normal installation no intervention is required. Also, toplevel attributes likepkgs.nixfmt
are not impacted negatively by this change.
Other Notable Changes
-
The Cinnamon module now enables XDG desktop integration by default. If you are experiencing collisions related to xdg-desktop-portal-gtk you can safely remove
xdg.portal.extraPortals = [ pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal-gtk ];
from your NixOS configuration. -
fontconfig
now defaults to using greyscale antialiasing instead of subpixel antialiasing because of a recommendation from one of the downstreams. You can change this value by configuring accordingly. -
The latest available version of Nextcloud is v27 (available as
pkgs.nextcloud27
). The installation logic is as follows:- If
services.nextcloud.package
is specified explicitly, this package will be installed (recommended) - If
system.stateVersion
is >=23.11,pkgs.nextcloud27
will be installed by default. - If
system.stateVersion
is >=23.05,pkgs.nextcloud26
will be installed by default. - Please note that an upgrade from v25 (or older) to v27 directly is not possible. Please upgrade to
nextcloud26
(or earlier) first. Nextcloud prohibits skipping major versions while upgrading. You can upgrade by declaringservices.nextcloud.package = pkgs.nextcloud26;
.
- If
-
A new option was added to the virtualisation module that enables specifying explicitly named network interfaces in QEMU VMs. The existing
virtualisation.vlans
is still supported for cases where the name of the network interface is irrelevant. -
DocBook option documentation is no longer supported, all module documentation now uses markdown.
-
services.nginx
gained adefaultListen
option at server-level with support for PROXY protocol listeners, alsoproxyProtocol
is now exposed inservices.nginx.virtualHosts.<name>.listen
option. It is now possible to run PROXY listeners and non-PROXY listeners at a server-level, see #213510 for more details.
Nixpkgs internals
- The
qemu-vm.nix
module by default now identifies block devices via persistent names available in/dev/disk/by-*
. Because the rootDevice is identfied by its filesystem label, it needs to be formatted before the VM is started. The functionality of automatically formatting the rootDevice in the initrd is removed from the QEMU module. However, for tests that depend on this functionality, a test utility for the scripted initrd is added (nixos/tests/common/auto-format-root-device.nix
). To use this in a NixOS test, import the module, e.g.imports = [ ./common/auto-format-root-device.nix ];
When you use the systemd initrd, you can automatically format the root device by settingvirtualisation.fileSystems."/".autoFormat = true;
.