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<title>Release 14.04 (“Baboon”, 2014/04/30)</title>
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<para>This is the second stable release branch of NixOS. In addition
to numerous new and upgraded packages and modules, this release has
the following highlights:
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Installation on UEFI systems is now supported. See
<xref linkend="sec-uefi-installation"/> for
details.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Systemd has been updated to version 212, which has
<link xlink:href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/NEWS?id=v212">numerous
improvements</link>. NixOS now automatically starts systemd user
instances when you log in. You can define global user units through
the <option>systemd.unit.*</option> options.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.19 and GCC
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4.8.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The default Linux kernel has been updated to
3.12.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KDE has been updated to 4.12.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>GNOME 3.10 experimental support has been added.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Nix has been updated to 1.7 (<link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-relnotes-1.7">details</link>).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>NixOS now supports fully declarative management of
users and groups. If you set <option>users.mutableUsers</option> to
<literal>false</literal>, then the contents of
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename>
will be <link
xlink:href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa02/tech/full_papers/traugott/traugott_html/">congruent</link>
to your NixOS configuration. For instance, if you remove a user from
<option>users.extraUsers</option> and run
<command>nixos-rebuild</command>, the user account will cease to
exist. Also, imperative commands for managing users and groups, such
as <command>useradd</command>, are no longer available. If
<option>users.mutableUsers</option> is <literal>true</literal> (the
default), then behaviour is unchanged from NixOS
13.10.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>NixOS now has basic container support, meaning you
can easily run a NixOS instance as a container in a NixOS host
system. These containers are suitable for testing and
experimentation but not production use, since theyre not fully
isolated from the host. See <xref linkend="ch-containers"/> for
details.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Systemd units provided by packages can now be
overridden from the NixOS configuration. For instance, if a package
<literal>foo</literal> provides systemd units, you can say:
<programlisting>
systemd.packages = [ pkgs.foo ];
</programlisting>
to enable those units. You can then set or override unit options in
the usual way, e.g.
<programlisting>
systemd.services.foo.wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
systemd.services.foo.serviceConfig.MemoryLimit = "512M";
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Nixpkgs no longer exposes unfree packages by
default. If your NixOS configuration requires unfree packages from
Nixpkgs, you need to enable support for them explicitly by setting:
<programlisting>
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
</programlisting>
Otherwise, you get an error message such as:
<screen>
error: package nvidia-x11-331.49-3.12.17 in ‘…/nvidia-x11/default.nix:56
has an unfree license, refusing to evaluate
</screen>
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The Adobe Flash player is no longer enabled by
default in the Firefox and Chromium wrappers. To enable it, you must
set:
<programlisting>
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableAdobeFlash = true; # for Firefox
nixpkgs.config.chromium.enableAdobeFlash = true; # for Chromium
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The firewall is now enabled by default. If you dont
want this, you need to disable it explicitly:
<programlisting>
networking.firewall.enable = false;
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The option
<option>boot.loader.grub.memtest86</option> has been renamed to
<option>boot.loader.grub.memtest86.enable</option>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <literal>mysql55</literal> service has been
merged into the <literal>mysql</literal> service, which no longer
sets a default for the option
<option>services.mysql.package</option>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Package variants are now differentiated by suffixing
the name, rather than the version. For instance,
<filename>sqlite-3.8.4.3-interactive</filename> is now called
<filename>sqlite-interactive-3.8.4.3</filename>. This ensures that
<literal>nix-env -i sqlite</literal> is unambiguous, and that
<literal>nix-env -u</literal> wont “upgrade”
<literal>sqlite</literal> to <literal>sqlite-interactive</literal>
or vice versa. Notably, this change affects the Firefox wrapper
(which provides plugins), as it is now called
<literal>firefox-wrapper</literal>. So when using
<command>nix-env</command>, you should do <literal>nix-env -e
firefox; nix-env -i firefox-wrapper</literal> if you want to keep
using the wrapper. This change does not affect declarative package
management, since attribute names like
<literal>pkgs.firefoxWrapper</literal> were already
unambiguous.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The symlink <filename>/etc/ca-bundle.crt</filename>
is gone. Programs should instead use the environment variable
<envar>OPENSSL_X509_CERT_FILE</envar> (which points to
<filename>/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt</filename>).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>