[Nix-dev] 16.09 beta released

[Tomasz Czyż]

Domen,

so far, everything is working for me.

Would be nice to add news on nixos.org page (last news is about nixops 1.4
release, and previous about nixos 16.03)

2016-09-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:

> This release is pretty quiet so far.
>
> I wonder if that means most of things work or do we need a more broader
> call of more testing?
>
> Please report back your findings - thanks!
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:51 PM, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for coordinating the release Domen!
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, 21:17 Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> 2016-09-06 21:02 GMT+01:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to announce NixOS 16.09 beta in the name of community.
>>>>
>>>> This release will bring two major changes:
>>>>
>>>> - multiple outputs, reducing runtime closure size (sometimes even by
>>>> half)
>>>> - security hardening flags
>>>>
>>>> Please upgrade channels as usual and test:
>>>>
>>>>     $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.09 nixos
>>>>     $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to point out two serious bugs that you might hit:
>>>>
>>>> - dbus will fail to reload, see https://github.com/NixOS/n
>>>> ixpkgs/issues/18358
>>>> - make sure /var/empty doesn't have write permissions set otherwise
>>>> sshd won't start, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18365
>>>>
>>>> If you'd like to help out, test and check the github bug tracker under
>>>> 16.09 milestone.
>>>>
>>>> As usual, we're working on getting build failures down:
>>>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18209
>>>>
>>>> Final is set to be release on 29th September.
>>>>
>>>> I've also finally put together a PR that documents the release process,
>>>> any feeback is welcome (it's still far from perfect):
>>>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18062
>>>>
>>>> PS: 16.09-small channel will be also created once container tests are
>>>> fixed
>>>>
>>>> Domen
>>>>
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>>>
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