- Published on Wed Jan 26 2022

We're pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.6.0. Instructions how to install Nix on different platforms can be found on the download page. Here are the release notes: New builtin function builtins.zipAttrsWith with the same functionality as lib.zipAttrsWith from Nixpkgs, but much more efficient. The Nix CLI now searches for a flake.nix up until the root of the current Git repository or a filesystem boundary rather than just in the current directory. The TOML parser used by builtins.fromTOML has been replaced by a more compliant one. Added :st/:show-trace commands to nix repl, which are used to set or toggle display of error traces....

- Published on Tue Mar 01 2022

The NixOS Marketing Team is pleased to announce the first offical NixOS Community Survey. Please take 5-10 minutes to complete it. Since the Nix community has been growing faster and larger every month, it's gotten harder to understand who makes up the community and what everyone cares about. So we're conducting this survey to improve our understanding of those questions. We hope to use your responses to develop Nix, NixOS, and Nixpkgs to match your needs and come up with new ideas for growing and serving the community. And we'll publish major findings on Discourse and nixos.org. All the questions are optional, and all responses are automatically anonymized. We will NOT collect your name, phone number, GitHub handle, IP address, or any other identifying information. The questions in the survey cover: Your background (e.g. What region of the world are you from?) The projects you use in the ecosystem (e.g. Are you using NixOS?) How you use the projects (e.g. Do you use Nix in production servers?)...

- Published on Mon Mar 14 2022

We're pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.7.0. It will be available from NixOS - Getting Nix / NixOS. Here are the release notes: Nix will now make some helpful suggestions when you mistype something on the command line. For instance, if you type nix build nixpkgs#thunderbrd, it will suggest thunderbird. A number of “default” flake output attributes have been renamed. These are:...

- Published on Thu Apr 21 2022

We're pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0. It will be available from NixOS - Getting Nix / NixOS. Here are the release notes: New experimental command: nix fmt, which applies a formatter defined by the formatter.<system> flake output to the Nix expressions in a flake. Various Nix commands can now read expressions from standard input using --file -....

- Published on Mon May 30 2022

Hey everyone, I'm Janne Heß, the release manager for 22.05. As promised, the latest stable release is here: NixOS 22.05 “Quokka”. Release manual Highlights New Services Backward Incompatibilities...

- Published on Thu Dec 01 2022

Hey everyone, we are Martin Weinelt and Janne Heß, the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”. This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2023-06-30). Release manual Highlights Internal changes...