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<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xml:id="ch-release-notes">
<title>Release notes</title>
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<section xml:id="sec-release-14.04">
<title>Release 14.04 (“Baboon”, 2014/04/??)</title>
<para>This is the second stable release branch of NixOS. The main
enhancements are the following:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Installation on UEFI systems is now supported. See
<xref linkend="sec-uefi-installation"/> for
details.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.19 and GCC
4.8.</para></listitem>
</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>
<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>
<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>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
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<section xml:id="sec-release-13.10">
<title>Release 13.10 (“Aardvark”, 2013/10/31)</title>
<para>This is the first stable release branch of NixOS.</para>
</section>
</appendix>