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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
-
Akkoma, an ActivityPub microblogging server. Available as services.akkoma.
-
blesh, a line editor written in pure bash. Available as programs.bash.blesh.
-
webhook, a lightweight webhook server. Available as services.webhook.
-
cups-pdf-to-pdf, a pdf-generating cups backend based on cups-pdf. Available as services.printing.cups-pdf.
-
fzf, a command line fuzzyfinder. Available as programs.fzf.
-
stevenblack-blocklist, A unified hosts file with base extensions for blocking unwanted websites. Available as networking.stevenblack.
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atuin, a sync server for shell history. Available as services.atuin.
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mmsd, a lower level daemon that transmits and recieves MMSes. Available as services.mmsd.
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v2rayA, a Linux web GUI client of Project V which supports V2Ray, Xray, SS, SSR, Trojan and Pingtunnel. Available as services.v2raya.
-
ulogd, a userspace logging daemon for netfilter/iptables related logging. Available as services.ulogd.
Backward Incompatibilities
-
carnix
andcratesIO
has been removed due to being unmaintained, use alternatives such as naersk and crate2nix instead. -
borgbackup
module now has an option for inhibiting system sleep while backups are running, defaulting to off (not inhibiting sleep), available asservices.borgbackup.jobs.<name>.inhibitsSleep
. -
podman
now uses thenetavark
network stack. Users will need to delete all of their local containers, images, volumes, etc, by runningpodman system reset --force
once before upgrading their systems. -
git-bug
has been updated to at least version 0.8.0, which includes backwards incompatible changes. Thegit-bug-migration
package can be used to upgrade existing repositories. -
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
-
minio
removed support for its legacy filesystem backend in RELEASE.2022-10-29T06-21-33Z. This means if your storage was created with the old format, minio will no longer start. Unfortunately minio doesn't provide a an automatic migration, they only provide instructions how to manually convert the node. To facilitate this migration we keep around the last version that still supports the old filesystem backend asminio_legacy_fs
. Use it viaservices.minio.package = minio_legacy_fs;
to export your data before switching to the new version. See the corresponding issue for more details. -
services.sourcehut.dispatch
and the corresponding package (sourcehut.dispatchsrht
) have been removed due to upstream deprecation. -
The services.snapserver.openFirewall module option default value has been changed from
true
tofalse
. You will need to explicitly set this option totrue
, or configure your firewall. -
The services.tmate-ssh-server.openFirewall module option default value has been changed from
true
tofalse
. You will need to explicitly set this option totrue
, or configure your firewall. -
The services.unifi-video.openFirewall module option default value has been changed from
true
tofalse
. You will need to explicitly set this option totrue
, or configure your firewall. -
The Nginx module now validates the syntax of config files at build time. For more complex configurations (using
include
with out-of-store files notably) you may need to disable this check by setting services.nginx.validateConfig tofalse
. -
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.
-
Qt 5.12 and 5.14 have been removed, as the corresponding branches have been EOL upstream for a long time. This affected under 10 packages in nixpkgs, largely unmaintained upstream as well, however, out-of-tree package expressions may need to be updated manually.
-
In
mastodon
it is now necessary to specify location of file withPostgreSQL
database password. Inservices.mastodon.database.passwordFile
parameter default value/var/lib/mastodon/secrets/db-password
has been changed tonull
. -
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
-
vim_configurable
has been renamed tovim-full
to avoid confusion:vim-full
's build-time features are configurable, but bothvim
andvim-full
are customizable (in the sense of user configuration, like vimrc). -
The module for the application firewall
opensnitch
got the ability to configure rules. Available as services.opensnitch.rules -
The module
usbmuxd
now has the ability to change the package used by the daemon. In case you're experiencing issues withusbmuxd
you can try an alternative program likeusbmuxd2
. Available as services.usbmuxd.package -
services.mastodon
gained a tootctl wrapped namedmastodon-tootctl
similar tonextcloud-occ
which can be executed from any user and switches to the configured mastodon user with sudo and sources the environment variables. -
The
dnsmasq
service now takes configuration via theservices.dnsmasq.settings
attribute set. The optionservices.dnsmasq.extraConfig
will be deprecated when NixOS 22.11 reaches end of life. -
The
dokuwiki
service now takes configuration via theservices.dokuwiki.sites.<name>.settings
attribute set,extraConfig
is deprecated and will be removed. The{aclUse,superUser,disableActions}
attributes have been renamed,pluginsConfig
now also accepts an attribute set of booleans, passing plain PHP is deprecated. Same applies toacl
which now also accepts structured settings. -
To reduce closure size in
nixos/modules/profiles/minimal.nix
profile disabled installation documentations and manuals. Also disabledlogrotate
andudisks2
services. -
The minimal ISO image now uses the
nixos/modules/profiles/minimal.nix
profile. -
mastodon
now supports connection to a remotePostgreSQL
database. -
services.peertube
now requires you to specify the secret filesecrets.secretsFile
. It can be generated by runningopenssl rand -hex 32
. Before upgrading, read the release notes for PeerTube:And backup your data.
-
services.chronyd
is now started with additional systemd sandbox/hardening options for better security. -
The module
services.headscale
was refactored to be compliant with RFC 0042. To be precise, this means that the following things have changed:- Most settings has been migrated under services.headscale.settings which is an attribute-set that will be converted into headscale's YAML config format. This means that the configuration from headscale's example configuration can be directly written as attribute-set in Nix within this option.
-
nixos/lib/make-disk-image.nix
can now mutate EFI variables, run user-provided EFI firmware or variable templates. This is now extensively documented in the NixOS manual. -
services.grafana
listens only on localhost by default again. This was changed to upstreams default of0.0.0.0
by accident in the freeform setting conversion. -
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. -
The new option
users.motdFile
allows configuring a Message Of The Day that can be updated dynamically. -
Enabling global redirect in
services.nginx.virtualHosts
now allows one to add exceptions with thelocations
option. -
A new option
recommendedBrotliSettings
has been added toservices.nginx
. Learn more about compression in Brotli format here. -
Garage version is based on system.stateVersion, existing installations will keep using version 0.7. New installations will use version 0.8. In order to upgrade a Garage cluster, please follow upstream instructions and force services.garage.package or upgrade accordingly system.stateVersion.
-
Resilio sync secret keys can now be provided using a secrets file at runtime, preventing these secrets from ending up in the Nix store.
-
The
firewall
andnat
module now has a nftables based implementation. Enablenetworking.nftables
to use it. -
The
services.fwupd
module now allows arbitrary daemon settings to be configured in a structured manner (services.fwupd.daemonSettings
). -
The
unifi-poller
package and corresponding NixOS module have been renamed tounpoller
to match upstream. -
The new option
services.tailscale.useRoutingFeatures
controls various settings for using Tailscale features like exit nodes and subnet routers. If you wish to use your machine as an exit node, you can set this setting toserver
, otherwise if you wish to use an exit node you can set this setting toclient
. The strict RPF warning has been removed as the RPF will be loosened automatically based on the value of this setting. -
Xastir can now access AX.25 interfaces via the
libax25
package. -
nixos-version
now accepts--configuration-revision
to display more information about the current generation revision