diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1412.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1412.xml
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@@ -4,12 +4,113 @@
         version="5.0"
         xml:id="sec-release-14.12">
 
-<title>Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/??)</title>
-
-<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
-following incompatible changes:
-
-<itemizedlist>
+  <title>Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/??)</title>
+  
+  <para>In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:
+  
+  <itemizedlist>
+  
+  <listitem><para>Systemd has been updated to version 217, which has numerous
+  <link xlink:href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024662.html">improvements
+  .</link></para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para><link xlink:href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/15165">
+  Nix has been updated to 1.8.</link></para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para>NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.20.</para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para>KDE has been updated to 4.14.</para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para>The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.14.</para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para><option>users.mutableUsers</option> set to <literal>true</literal> now respect any changes
+  made after initial creation of a user or a group.
+  </para></listitem>
+  
+  </itemizedlist></para>
+  
+  <para>Following new services were added since the last release:
+  
+  <itemizedlist>
+  <listitem><para>parallels-guest</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>docker</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>lxc</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>openvswitch</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>fluxbox</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>bspwm</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gdm</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>fcgiwrap</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>peerflix</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>fail2ban</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>chronos</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>znc</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>unifi</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>teamspeak3</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>strongswan</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>seeks</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>radicale</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>prosody</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>polipo</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>openntpd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>nsd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>mailpile</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>i2pd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>dnscrypt-proxy</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>consul</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>atftpd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>scollector</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>collectd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>bosun</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>riemann</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>zookeeper</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>uhub</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>siproxd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>redmine</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>phd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>mesos</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gitlab</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gitolite</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>etcd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>docker-registry</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>cpuminer-cryptonight</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>thermald</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>mlmmj</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>tcsd</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gnome3.seahorse</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gnome3.gvfs</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gnome3.gnome-online-miners</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>gnome3.gnome-documents</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>geoclue2</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>opentsdb</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>neo4j</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>monetdb</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>influxdb</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>hbase</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>torque/mrom</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>torque/server</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>kubernetes</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>fleet</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>crashplan</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>mopidy</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>liquidsoap</para></listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+  
+  <para>Following renames of options have taken in effect (old names are obsolete):
+  
+  <itemizedlist>
+  <listitem><para><option>fonts.enableFontConfig</option> to <option>fonts.fontconfig.enable</option></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><option>fonts.extraFonts</option> to <option>fonts.fonts</option></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><option>services.virtualbox.enable</option> to <option>services.virtualboxGuest.enable</option></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><option>nix.proxy</option> to <option>networking.proxy.default</option></para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para><option>hardware.opengl.videoDrivers</option> to <option>services.xserver.videoDrivers</option></para></listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+  
+  <para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+  following incompatible changes:
+  
+  <itemizedlist>
 
   <listitem><para>The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If
   you use the <option>extraConfig</option> option to pass literal
@@ -34,7 +135,27 @@ services.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
   rather than <literal>c-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal>.</para></listitem>
 
   <listitem><para>GNOME 3.10 support has been dropped. The default GNOME version is now 3.12.</para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para>VirtualBox has been upgraded to 4.3.20 release. Users may be required to run
+  <command>rm -rf /tmp.vbox*</command>. <literal>imports = [ &lt;nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix&gt; ]</literal>
+  is no longer necessary, use <literal>services.virtualboxHost.enable = true</literal> instead.
+  </para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para>Chromium has been updated to 39.0.2171.65. <option>enablePepperPDF</option> is now enabled by default.
+  <literal>chromium*Wrapper</literal> packages no longer exist, because upstream removed NSAPI support.
+  <literal>chromium-stable</literal> has been renamed to <literal>chromium</literal>.
+  </para></listitem>
+  
+  <listitem><para>Python packaging documentation is now part of nixpkgs manual. To override
+  the python packages available to a custom python you now use <literal>pkgs.pythonFull.buildEnv.override</literal>
+  instead of <literal>pkgs.pythonFull.override</literal>.
+  </para></listitem>
 
+  <listitem><para><literal>boot.resumeDevice = "8:6"</literal> is no longer supported. Most users will
+  want to leave it undefined, which takes the swap partitions automatically. There is an evaluation
+  assertion to ensure that the string starts with a slash.
+  </para></listitem>
+ 
   <listitem><para>The system-wide default timezone for NixOS installations
   changed from <literal>CET</literal> to <literal>UTC</literal>. To choose
   a different timezone for your system, configure