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# Release 20.03 {#sec-release-20.03}
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The 20.03 release branch became the stable branch in April, 2020.
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## Highlights {#sec-release-20.03-highlights}
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This release has the following notable changes:
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- Assigning a list to the [home.file](#opt-home.file),
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[xdg.dataFile](#opt-xdg.dataFile) options is
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now deprecated and will produce a warning message if used.
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Specifically, if your configuration currently contains something
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like
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``` nix
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home.file = [
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{
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target = ".config/foo.txt";
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text = "bar";
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}
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]
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```
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then it should be updated to instead use the equivalent attribute
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set form
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``` nix
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home.file = {
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".config/foo.txt".text = "bar";
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}
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```
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Support for the list form will be removed in Home Manager version
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20.09.
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- The `lib` function attribute given to modules is now enriched with
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an attribute `hm` containing extra library functions specific for
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Home Manager. More specifically, `lib.hm` is now the same as
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`config.lib` and should be the preferred choice since it is more
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robust.
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Therefore, if your configuration makes use of, for example,
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`config.lib.dag` to create activation script blocks, it is
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recommended to change to `lib.hm.dag`.
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Note, in the unlikely case that you are
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- using Home Manager's NixOS or nix-darwin module,
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- have made your own Home Manager module containing an top-level
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option named `config` or `options`, and
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- assign to this option in your system configuration inside a
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plain attribute set, i.e., without a function argument,
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then you must update your configuration to perform the option
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assignment inside a `config` attribute. For example, instead of
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``` nix
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home-manager.users.jane = { config = "foo"; };
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```
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use
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``` nix
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home-manager.users.jane = { config.config = "foo"; };
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```
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- The `services.compton` module has been deprecated and instead the
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new module `services.picom` should be used. This is because Nixpkgs
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no longer packages compton, and instead packages the (mostly)
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compatible fork called picom.
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- The list form of the [programs.ssh.matchBlocks](#opt-programs.ssh.matchBlocks) option has
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been deprecated and configurations requiring match blocks in a
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defined order should switch to using DAG entries instead. For
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example, a configuration
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``` nix
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programs.ssh.matchBlocks = [
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{
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host = "alpha.foo.com";
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user = "jd";
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}
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{
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host = "*.foo.com";
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user = "john.doe";
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}
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];
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```
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can be expressed along the lines of
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``` nix
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programs.ssh.matchBlocks = {
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"*.example.com" = {
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user = "john.doe";
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}
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"alpha.example.com" = lib.hm.dag.entryBefore ["*.example.com"] {
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user = "jd";
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}
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};
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```
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Support for the list form will be removed in Home Manager version
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20.09.
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## State Version Changes {#sec-release-20.03-state-version-changes}
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The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
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changes are only active if the `home.stateVersion` option is set to
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\"20.03\" or later.
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- The [programs.zsh.history.path](#opt-programs.zsh.history.path) option is no longer
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prepended by `$HOME`, which allows specifying absolute paths, for
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example, using the xdg module. Also, the default value is fixed to
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`$HOME/.zsh_history` and `dotDir` path is not prepended to it
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anymore.
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- The newsboat module will now default in displaying `queries` before
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`urls` in its main window. This makes sense in the case when one has
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a lot of URLs and few queries.
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