Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/??)
-
- In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:
-
-
-
- Systemd has been updated to version 217, which has numerous
- improvements
- .
-
-
- Nix has been updated to 1.8.
-
- NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.20.
-
- KDE has been updated to 4.14.
-
- The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.14.
-
- set to true now respect any changes
- made after initial creation of a user or a group.
-
-
-
-
- Following new services were added since the last release:
-
-
- parallels-guest
- docker
- lxc
- openvswitch
- fluxbox
- bspwm
- gdm
- fcgiwrap
- peerflix
- fail2ban
- chronos
- znc
- unifi
- teamspeak3
- strongswan
- seeks
- radicale
- prosody
- polipo
- openntpd
- nsd
- mailpile
- i2pd
- dnscrypt-proxy
- consul
- atftpd
- scollector
- collectd
- bosun
- riemann
- zookeeper
- uhub
- siproxd
- redmine
- phd
- mesos
- gitlab
- gitolite
- etcd
- docker-registry
- cpuminer-cryptonight
- thermald
- mlmmj
- tcsd
- gnome3.seahorse
- gnome3.gvfs
- gnome3.gnome-online-miners
- gnome3.gnome-documents
- geoclue2
- opentsdb
- neo4j
- monetdb
- influxdb
- hbase
- torque/mrom
- torque/server
- kubernetes
- fleet
- crashplan
- mopidy
- liquidsoap
-
-
-
- Following renames of options have taken in effect (old names are obsolete):
-
-
- to
- to
- to
- to
- to
-
-
-
- When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
- following incompatible changes:
-
-
+Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/??)
- The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If
- you use the option to pass literal
- Apache configuration text, you may need to update it — see Apache’s
- documentation for details. If you wish to continue to use
- httpd 2.2, add the following line to your NixOS configuration:
+In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:
-
-services.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
-
+
-
+Systemd has been updated to version 217, which has numerous
+improvements
+.
- PHP 5.3 has been removed because it is no longer
- supported by the PHP project. A migration guide is
- available.
+
+Nix has been updated to 1.8.
- The host side of a container virtual Ethernet pair
- is now called ve-container-name
- rather than c-container-name.
+NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.20.
- GNOME 3.10 support has been dropped. The default GNOME version is now 3.12.
-
- VirtualBox has been upgraded to 4.3.20 release. Users may be required to run
- rm -rf /tmp.vbox*. imports = [ <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix> ]
- is no longer necessary, use services.virtualboxHost.enable = true instead.
-
-
- Chromium has been updated to 39.0.2171.65. is now enabled by default.
- chromium*Wrapper packages no longer exist, because upstream removed NSAPI support.
- chromium-stable has been renamed to chromium.
-
-
- Python packaging documentation is now part of nixpkgs manual. To override
- the python packages available to a custom python you now use pkgs.pythonFull.buildEnv.override
- instead of pkgs.pythonFull.override.
-
+KDE has been updated to 4.14.
- boot.resumeDevice = "8:6" 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.
-
-
- The system-wide default timezone for NixOS installations
- changed from CET to UTC. To choose
- a different timezone for your system, configure
- time.timeZone in
- configuration.nix. A fairly complete list of possible
- values for that setting is available at .
+The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.14.
- GNU screen has been updated to 4.2.1, which breaks
- the ability to connect to sessions created by older versions of
- screen.
+ set to true now respect any changes
+made after initial creation of a user or a group.
+
+
+
+
+Following new services were added since the last release:
+
+
+parallels-guest
+docker
+lxc
+openvswitch
+fluxbox
+bspwm
+gdm
+fcgiwrap
+peerflix
+fail2ban
+chronos
+znc
+unifi
+teamspeak3
+strongswan
+seeks
+radicale
+prosody
+polipo
+openntpd
+nsd
+mailpile
+i2pd
+dnscrypt-proxy
+consul
+atftpd
+scollector
+collectd
+bosun
+riemann
+zookeeper
+uhub
+siproxd
+redmine
+phd
+mesos
+gitlab
+gitolite
+etcd
+docker-registry
+cpuminer-cryptonight
+thermald
+mlmmj
+tcsd
+gnome3.seahorse
+gnome3.gvfs
+gnome3.gnome-online-miners
+gnome3.gnome-documents
+geoclue2
+opentsdb
+neo4j
+monetdb
+influxdb
+hbase
+torque/mrom
+torque/server
+kubernetes
+fleet
+crashplan
+mopidy
+liquidsoap
+
+
+
+When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
+following incompatible changes:
+
+
+
+The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If
+you use the option to pass literal
+Apache configuration text, you may need to update it — see Apache’s
+documentation for details. If you wish to continue to use
+httpd 2.2, add the following line to your NixOS configuration:
+
+rogramlisting>
+rvices.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
+programlisting>
+
+
+
+PHP 5.3 has been removed because it is no longer
+supported by the PHP project. A migration guide is
+available.
+
+The host side of a container virtual Ethernet pair
+is now called ve-container-name
+rather than c-container-name.
+
+GNOME 3.10 support has been dropped. The default GNOME version is now 3.12.
+
+VirtualBox has been upgraded to 4.3.20 release. Users may be required to run
+rm -rf /tmp.vbox*. imports = [ <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix> ]
+is no longer necessary, use services.virtualboxHost.enable = true instead.
+
+
+Chromium has been updated to 39.0.2171.65. is now enabled by default.
+chromium*Wrapper packages no longer exist, because upstream removed NSAPI support.
+chromium-stable has been renamed to chromium.
+
+
+Python packaging documentation is now part of nixpkgs manual. To override
+the python packages available to a custom python you now use pkgs.pythonFull.buildEnv.override
+instead of pkgs.pythonFull.override.
+
+
+boot.resumeDevice = "8:6" 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.
+
+
+The system-wide default timezone for NixOS installations
+changed from CET to UTC. To choose
+a different timezone for your system, configure
+time.timeZone in
+configuration.nix. A fairly complete list of possible
+values for that setting is available at .
+
+GNU screen has been updated to 4.2.1, which breaks
+the ability to connect to sessions created by older versions of
+screen.