[Nix-dev] NixOS 13.10

[Domen Kožar]

Awesome. I remember the discussion about the release at sprint, feels like
yesterday.

Keep it up!



On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>wrote:

> Congratulations on another great milestone :)
> It will be interesting to see how this stable experiment goes.
> But together with the new nixos-rebuild profiles, I think this will be
> very smooth.
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Eelco Dolstra
> <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first stable branch of
> NixOS,
> > namely 13.10 (a.k.a "Aardvark")!  The purpose of this branch is to
> receive only
> > conservative changes, such as bug fixes, "safe" minor package upgrades
> and new
> > packages [1].  This is important for people who want to use NixOS in a
> > production environment: you do want to get (security) fixes, but you
> don't want
> > to be afraid of the system changing in fundamental ways, as may be the
> case on
> > the master branch.
> >
> > Note that NixOS 13.10 is a branch, not a "release" in the sense of a
> static
> > revision.  Just like the NixOS master branch, it receives updates, just
> safer
> > ones.  The idea is to maintain this branch at least until the next
> stable branch
> > (14.04?) is created.
> >
> > The 13.10 branch lives here in GitHub:
> >
> >   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/release-13.10
> >
> > It also has an associated channel:
> >
> >   http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-13.10
> >
> > (Notice that versions of releases in the 13.10 channel have no "pre"
> string,
> > indicating they're stable versions, such as 13.10.35427.6fda96b.)
> >
> > If you want to switch an existing machine from the nixos-unstable
> channel over
> > to the 13.10 channel, just do:
> >
> >   $ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-13.10 nixos
> >
> > After this, subsequent calls to "nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade" will
> fetch from
> > the nixos-13.10 channel.  See here for details on switching between
> NixOS channels:
> >
> >   http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-upgrading
> >
> > Like the nixos-unstable channel (which gets build from the master
> branch), the
> > 13.10 channel is updated only after Hydra has built all packages and all
> > release-critical tests have succeeded.  The Hydra jobset is:
> >
> >   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-13.10
> >
> > and the status of the release-critical jobs can be seen here:
> >
> >
> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-13.10/tested#tabs-constituents
> >
> > The plan for maintaining the branch is that it will primarily receive
> > cherry-picked commits from master.  Other than that, doing a stable
> branch is an
> > experiment, and we'll have to see what the best way to do it is.  Any
> > feedback/suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > On that topic, now is probably a good time to start thinking about what
> the next
> > release should look like, in terms of features.  If you have any features
> > (especially potentially high-impact ones like upgrading GCC) that you
> would like
> > to see, please create GitHub issues for them, and add them to the 14.0x
> milestone:
> >
> >   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?milestone=4&state=open
> >
> > [1] New major versions of existing packages are also fine as long as
> they are
> > marked as "lowPrio" in all-packages.nix.  That is, "nix-env -i package"
> should
> > continue to install the old version.
> >
> > --
> > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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