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Software-update: NixOS 23.11

NixOS is een Linux-distributie met een packagemanager die het mogelijk maakt om de configuratie declaratief te maken, in plaats van die op te bouwen uit een sequentie van commando's en configuratiebestanden. Onder de motorkap gebruikt Nix een functionele programmeertaal waarmee het systeem of de configuratie kan worden gedefinieerd. Nix is bedacht door Eelco Dolstra, een Nederlandse informaticus die aan de Universiteit van Utrecht op NixOS is gepromoveerd. Meer informatie over NixOS kan op ons eigen forum worden gevonden. Woensdag is versie 23.11 van NixOS uitgekomen en de belangrijkste veranderingen die daarin zijn aangebracht zijn hieronder voor je op een rijtje gezet.

Release 23.11 (“Tapir) Highlights
  • FoundationDB now defaults to major version 7.
  • PostgreSQL now defaults to major version 15.
  • GNOME has been updated to version 45, see the release notes for details. Notably, Loupe has replaced Eye of GNOME as the default image viewer, Snapshot has replaced Cheese as the default camera application, and Photos will no longer be installed.
  • Support for WiFi6 (IEEE 802.11ax) and WPA3-SAE-PK was enabled in the hostapd package, along with a significant rework of the hostapd module.
  • LXD now supports virtual machine instances to complement the existing container support
  • The nixos-rebuild command has been given a list-generations subcommand. See man nixos-rebuild for more details.
  • systemd has been updated from v253 to v254, see the release notes for more information on the changes.boot.resumeDevice must be specified when hibernating if not in EFI mode.systemd may warn your system about the permissions of your ESP partition (often /boot), this warning can be ignored for now, we are looking into a satisfying solution regarding this problem.Updating with nixos-rebuild boot and rebooting is recommended, since in some rare cases the nixos-rebuild switch into the new generation on a live system might fail due to missing mount units.
  • boot.resumeDevice must be specified when hibernating if not in EFI mode.
  • systemd may warn your system about the permissions of your ESP partition (often /boot), this warning can be ignored for now, we are looking into a satisfying solution regarding this problem.
  • Updating with nixos-rebuild boot and rebooting is recommended, since in some rare cases the nixos-rebuild switch into the new generation on a live system might fail due to missing mount units.
  • sudo-rs, a reimplementation of sudo in Rust, is now supported. An experimental new module security.sudo-rs was added. Switching to it (via security.sudo-rs.enable = true;) introduces slight changes in sudo behaviour, due to sudo-rs’ current limitations:terminfo-related environment variables aren’t preserved for root and wheel;root and wheel are not given the ability to set (or preserve) arbitrary environment variables.Note: The sudo-rs module only takes configuration through security.sudo-rs, and in particular does not automatically use previously-set rules; this could be achieved with security.sudo-rs.extraRules = security.sudo.extraRules; for instance.
  • terminfo-related environment variables aren’t preserved for root and wheel;
  • root and wheel are not given the ability to set (or preserve) arbitrary environment variables.

    • Note: The sudo-rs module only takes configuration through security.sudo-rs, and in particular does not automatically use previously-set rules; this could be achieved with security.sudo-rs.extraRules = security.sudo.extraRules; for instance.

  • glibc has been updated from version 2.37 to 2.38, see the release notes for what was changed.
  • linuxPackages_testing_bcachefs is now soft-deprecated by linuxPackages_testing.Please consider changing your NixOS configuration’s boot.kernelPackages to linuxPackages_testing until a stable kernel with bcachefs support is released.
  • Please consider changing your NixOS configuration’s boot.kernelPackages to linuxPackages_testing until a stable kernel with bcachefs support is released.
  • All ROCm packages have been updated to 5.7.0.ROCm package attribute sets are versioned: rocmPackages -> rocmPackages_5.
  • ROCm package attribute sets are versioned: rocmPackages -> rocmPackages_5.
  • yarn-berry has been updated to 4.0.1. This means that NodeJS versions less than 18.12 are no longer supported by it. More details at the upstream changelog.
  • If the user has a custom shell enabled via users.users.${USERNAME}.shell = ${CUSTOMSHELL}, the assertion will require them to also set programs.${CUSTOMSHELL}.enable = true. This is generally safe behavior, but for anyone needing to opt out from the check users.users.${USERNAME}.ignoreShellProgramCheck = true will do the job.
  • Cassandra now defaults to 4.x, updated from 3.11.x.

    • Source: Tweakers.net

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