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RFC 0080 Change NixOS releases to YY.05,YY.11 accepted The next NixOS stable release will be 21.05. agenix - manage NixOS secrets - public beta Agenix is a command-line tool for managing secrets encrypted with your existing SSH keys. It includes a NixOS module, age, for adding encrypted secrets into the Nix store and decrypting them. Cachix: Postmortem of outage on 20th December Deploying with GitHub Actions and more Nix Scrive Nix Workshop specialized for Haskell developers Installing NixOS on…

Introducing flox - Nix for simplicity and scale flox makes it easy to build software or manage development environments with Nix at any scale. Trustix Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches. Recurring funding for making macOS a first-class citizen in Nix ecosystem A call for companies/developers to contribute financially towards addressing major macOS issues in the ecosystem. Offloading NixOS builds to a faster machine Build your NixOS Raspberry Pi Image using Github…

RFC 0085 FCP NixOS Release Stabilization: ZHF on master, new timeline RFC 0085 has been accepted! Nix Portable Nix - Static, Permissionless, Install-free, Pre-configured The Summer of Nix A two month train and work program from August 2nd to October 15th 2021 - great for anyone who wants to rapidly increase their Nix skills while doing useful work. Nix 🖤 macOS Monthly Update Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit nix-script: nix-shell shebangs for speed and flexibility Building container images…

NixOS 21.05 released! Jonathan Ringer, release manager, announces NixOS 21.05 release with 1745 contributors in 33474 commits. How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them Replit replaces Docker with Nix and drastically improves support for languages. Peter Simons has retired from Haskell maintenance in Nixpkgs Please thank him for all his hard work! The Changelog #437 Domen Kožar introduces the Nix ecosystem. Compositional podcast Nix in Production with Domen Kožar NixNG, a late…

Makes A DevSecOps framework powered by Nix and the NixOS module system. Our goal is to help people setup a powerful CI/CD system in just a few steps, in any provider, while lowering the barrier to entry for the community. Mobile NixOS: July 2021 round-up Nix 🖤 macOS: June/July 2021 update The Ongoing effort at bumping LLVM and macOS SDK. terraform-provider-hydra A Terraform provider for declaratively managing Hydra projects and jobsets, Determinate Systems' first open source release. Modded…

deadnix Finds and removes unused code in .nix files. Nix 💙 Deployments fund call for contributors A fund on OpenCollective for the maintenance and development of Nix-based deployment technologies, starting with funding the NixOps 2 release. NixOS is available on GandiCloud VPS A NixOS server can be started in a single command or by few clicks on GandiCloud VPS. This work would not be possible without the many contributions of the community. You can help too! Create or comment on the pull…