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Release 23.05 (“Stoat”, 2023.05/??)
Support is planned until the end of December 2023, handing over to 23.11.
Highlights
In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:
- Cinnamon has been updated to 5.6, see the pull request for what is changed.
New Services
- Create the first release note entry in this section!
Backward Incompatibilities
-
carnix
andcratesIO
has been removed due to being unmaintained, use alternatives such as naersk and crate2nix instead. -
The EC2 image module no longer fetches instance metadata in stage-1. This results in a significantly smaller initramfs, since network drivers no longer need to be included, and faster boots, since metadata fetching can happen in parallel with startup of other services. This breaks services which rely on metadata being present by the time stage-2 is entered. Anything which reads EC2 metadata from
/etc/ec2-metadata
should now have anafter
dependency onfetch-ec2-metadata.service
-
services.sourcehut.dispatch
and the corresponding package (sourcehut.dispatchsrht
) have been removed due to upstream deprecation. -
The EC2 image module previously detected and automatically mounted ext3-formatted instance store devices and partitions in stage-1 (initramfs), storing
/tmp
on the first discovered device. This behaviour, which only catered to very specific use cases and could not be disabled, has been removed. Users relying on this should provide their own implementation, and probably use ext4 and perform the mount in stage-2. -
The EC2 image module previously detected and activated swap-formatted instance store devices and partitions in stage-1 (initramfs). This behaviour has been removed. Users relying on this should provide their own implementation.
-
The
nix.readOnlyStore
option has been renamed toboot.readOnlyNixStore
to clarify that it configures the NixOS boot process, not the Nix daemon.
Other Notable Changes
-
The module for the application firewall
opensnitch
got the ability to configure rules. Available as services.opensnitch.rules -
A new
virtualisation.rosetta
module was added to allow runningx86_64
binaries through Rosetta inside virtualised NixOS guests on Apple silicon. This feature works by default with the UTM virtualisation package.