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Release 24.11 (“Vicuña”, 2024.11/??)
Highlights
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Convenience options for
amdgpu
, open source driver for Radeon cards, is now available underhardware.amdgpu
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AMDVLK, AMD's open source Vulkan driver, is now available to be configured as
hardware.amdgpu.amdvlk
option. This also allows configuring runtime settings of AMDVLK and enabling experimental features. -
The
moonlight-qt
package (Moonlight game streaming) now has HDR support on Linux systems.
New Services
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Open-WebUI, a user-friendly WebUI for LLMs. Available as services.open-webui service.
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Quickwit, sub-second search & analytics engine on cloud storage. Available as services.quickwit.
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Flood, a beautiful WebUI for various torrent clients. Available as services.flood.
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[QGroundControl], a ground station support and configuration manager for the PX4 and APM Flight Stacks. Available as programs.qgroundcontrol.
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Eintopf, community event and calendar web application. Available as services.eintopf.
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Renovate, a dependency updating tool for various git forges and language ecosystems. Available as services.renovate.
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wg-access-server, an all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web ui for connecting devices. Available at services.wg-access-server.
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Envision, a UI for building, configuring and running Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime. Available as programs.envision.
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realm, a simple, high performance relay server written in rust. Available as services.realm.enable.
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Playerctld, a daemon to track media player activity. Available as services.playerctld.
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Glance, a self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place. Available as services.glance.
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Apache Tika, a toolkit that detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types. Available as services.tika.
Backward Incompatibilities
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transmission
package has been aliased with atrace
warning totransmission_3
. Since Transmission 4 has been released last year, and Transmission 3 will eventually go away, it was decided perform this warning alias to make people aware of the new version. Theservices.transmission.package
defaults totransmission_3
as well because the upgrade can cause data loss in certain specific usage patterns (examples: #5153, #6796). Please make sure to back up to your data directory per your usage:transmission-gtk
:~/.config/transmission
transmission-daemon
using NixOS module:${config.services.transmission.home}/.config/transmission-daemon
(defaults to/var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon
)
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androidenv.androidPkgs_9_0
has been removed, and replaced withandroidenv.androidPkgs
for a more complete Android SDK including support for Android 9 and later. -
grafana
has been updated to version 11.1. This version doesn't support settinghttp_addr
to a hostname anymore, an IP address is expected. -
wstunnel
has had a major version upgrade that entailed rewriting the program in Rust. The module was updated to accommodate for breaking changes. Breaking changes to the module API were minimised as much as possible, but some were nonetheless inevitable due to changes in the upstream CLI. Certain options were moved from separate CLI arguments into the forward specifications, and those options were also removed from the module's API, please consult the wstunnel man page for more detail. Also be aware that if you have set additional options inservices.wstunnel.{clients,servers}.<name>.extraArgs
, that those might have been removed or modified upstream. -
clang-tools_<version>
packages have been moved intollvmPackages_<version>
(i.e.clang-tools_18
is nowllvmPackages_18.clang-tools
).- For convenience, the top-level
clang-tools
attribute remains and is now bound tollvmPackages.clang-tools
. - Top-level
clang_tools_<version>
attributes are now aliases; these will be removed in a future release.
- For convenience, the top-level
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buildbot
was updated to 4.0, the AngularJS frontend has been replaced by a React frontend, see the upstream release notes. -
nginx
package no longer includesgd
andgeoip
dependencies. For enabling it, overridenginx
package with the optionalswithImageFilter
andwithGeoIP
. -
openssh
andopenssh_hpn
are now compiled without Kerberos 5 / GSSAPI support in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the components for the majority of users. Users needing this support can use the newopensshWithKerberos
andopenssh_hpnWithKerberos
flavors (e.g.programs.ssh.package = pkgs.openssh_gssapi
). -
security.ipa.ipaHostname
now defaults to the value ofnetworking.fqdn
if it is set, instead of the previous hardcoded default of${networking.hostName}.${security.ipa.domain}
. -
The fcgiwrap module now allows multiple instances running as distinct users. The option
services.fgciwrap
now takes an attribute set of the configuration of each individual instance. This requires migrating any previous configuration keys fromservices.fcgiwrap.*
toservices.fcgiwrap.some-instance.*
. The ownership and mode of the UNIX sockets created by this service are now configurable and private by default. Processes also now run as a dynamically allocated user by default instead of root. -
services.cgit
now runs as the cgit user by default instead of root. This change requires granting access to the repositories to this user or setting the appropriate one throughservices.cgit.some-instance.user
. -
nvimpager
was updated to version 0.13.0, which changes the order of user and nvimpager settings: user commands in-c
and--cmd
now override the respective default settings because they are executed later. -
pkgs.nextcloud27
has been removed since it's EOL. -
services.forgejo.mailerPasswordFile
has been deprecated by the drop-in replacementservices.forgejo.secrets.mailer.PASSWD
, which is part of the new free-formservices.forgejo.secrets
option.services.forgejo.secrets
is a small wrapper over systemd'sLoadCredential=
. It has the same structure (sections/keys) asservices.forgejo.settings
but takes file paths that will be read before service startup instead of some plaintext value. -
services.ddclient.use
has been deprecated:ddclient
now supports separate IPv4 and IPv6 configuration. Useservices.ddclient.usev4
andservices.ddclient.usev6
instead. -
teleport
has been upgraded from major version 15 to major version 16. Refer to upstream upgrade instructions and release notes for v16. -
vaultwarden
lost the capability to bind to privileged ports. If you rely on this behavior, override the systemd unit to allowCAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
in your local configuration. -
The Invoiceplane module now only accepts the structured
settings
option.extraConfig
is now removed. -
Legacy package
stalwart-mail_0_6
was dropped, please note the manual upgrade process before changing the package topkgs.stalwart-mail
inservices.stalwart-mail.package
. -
androidndkPkgs
has been updated toandroidndkPkgs_26
. -
Android NDK version 26 and SDK version 33 are now the default versions used for cross compilation to android.
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nodePackages.vscode-css-languageserver-bin
,nodePackages.vscode-html-languageserver-bin
, andnodePackages.vscode-json-languageserver-bin
were dropped due to an unmaintained upstream. Thevscode-langservers-extracted
package is a maintained drop-in replacement. -
haskell.lib.compose.justStaticExecutables
now disallows references to GHC in the output by default, to alert users to closure size issues caused by #164630. See "Packaging Helpers" in the Haskell section of the Nixpkgs manual for information on working aroundoutput '...' is not allowed to refer to the following paths
errors caused by this change. -
The
stalwart-mail
service now runs under thestalwart-mail
system user instead of a dynamically created one viaDynamicUser
, to avoid automatic ownership changes on its large file store each time the service was started. This change requires to manually move the state directory from/var/lib/private/stalwart-mail
to/var/lib/stalwart-mail
and to change the ownership of the directory and its content tostalwart-mail
. -
The
stalwart-mail
module now uses RocksDB as the default storage backend forstateVersion
≥ 24.11. (It was previously using SQLite for structured data and the filesystem for blobs). -
The
shiori
service now requires an HTTP secret valueSHIORI_HTTP_SECRET_KEY
to be provided via environment variable. The nixos module therefore, now provides an environmentFile option:# This is how a environment file can be generated: # $ printf "SHIORI_HTTP_SECRET_KEY=%s\n" "$(openssl rand -hex 16)" > /path/to/env-file services.shiori.environmentFile = "/path/to/env-file";
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/share/nano
is now only linked whenprograms.nano.enable
is enabled. -
libe57format
has been updated to>= 3.0.0
, which contains some backward-incompatible API changes. See the release note for more details. -
gitlab
deprecated support for runner registration tokens in GitLab 16.0, disabled their support in GitLab 17.0 and will ultimately remove it in GitLab 18.0, as outlined in the documentation. After upgrading to GitLab >= 17.0, it is possible to re-enable support for registration tokens in the UI until GitLab 18.0. Refer to the manual on using registration tokens after GitLab 17.0. GitLab administrators should migrate to the new runner registration workflow with runner authentication tokens until the release of GitLab 18.0. -
gitlab
has been updated from 16.x to 17.x and requires at leastpostgresql
14.9, as stated in the documentation. Check the upgrade guide in the NixOS manual on how to upgrade your PostgreSQL installation. -
zx
was updated to v8, which introduces several breaking changes. See the v8 changelog for more information. -
The
portunus
package and service do not support weak password hashes anymore. If you installed Portunus on NixOS 23.11 or earlier, upgrade to NixOS 24.05 first to get support for strong password hashing. Then, follow the instructions on the upstream release notes to upgrade all existing user accounts to strong password hashes. If you need to upgrade to 24.11 without having completed the migration, consider the security implications of weak password hashes on your user accounts, and add the following to your configuration:services.portunus.package = pkgs.portunus.override { libxcrypt = pkgs.libxcrypt-legacy; }; services.portunus.ldap.package = pkgs.openldap.override { libxcrypt = pkgs.libxcrypt-legacy; };
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The default value of
services.kubernetes.kubelet.hostname
is now lowercased. Explicitly setkubelet.hostname
tonetworking.fqdnOrHostName
to get back the old default behavior. -
keycloak
was updated to version 25, which introduces new hostname related options. See Upgrading Guide for instructions. -
programs.vim.defaultEditor
now only works ifprograms.vim.enable
is enabled. -
/share/vim-plugins
now only gets linked ifprograms.vim.enable
is enabled -
The
tracy
package no longer works on X11, since it's moved to Wayland support, which is the intended default behavior by Tracy maintainers. X11 users have to switch to the new packagetracy-x11
. -
The
services.prometheus.exporters.minio
option has been removed, as it's upstream implementation was broken and unmaintained. Minio now has built-in Prometheus metrics exposure, which can be used instead. -
The
services.patroni.raft
option has been removed, as Raft has been deprecated by upstream since 3.0.0 -
services.roundcube.maxAttachmentSize
will multiply the value set with1.37
to offset overhead introduced by the base64 encoding applied to attachments.
Other Notable Changes
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The
zerocallusedregs
hardening flag is enabled by default on compilers that support it. -
The
stackclashprotection
hardening flag has been added, though disabled by default. -
hareHook
has been added as the language framework for Hare. From now on, it, not thehare
package, should be added tonativeBuildInputs
when building Hare programs. -
lib.options.mkPackageOptionMD
is now obsolete; use the identicallib.options.mkPackageOption
instead. -
To facilitate dependency injection, the
imgui
package now builds a static archive using vcpkg' CMake rules. The derivation now installs "impl" headers selectively instead of by a wildcard. Useimgui.src
if you just want to access the unpacked sources. -
security.pam.u2f
now follows RFC42. All module options are now settable through the freeform.settings
. -
The hooks
yarnConfigHook
andyarnBuildHook
were added. These should replaceyarn2nix.mkYarnPackage
and otheryarn2nix
related tools. The motivation to get rid ofyarn2nix
tools is the fact that they are too complex and hard to maintain, and they rely upon too much Nix evaluation which is problematic if import-from-derivation is not allowed (see more details at #296856. The transition frommkYarnPackage
toyarn{Config,Build}Hook
is tracked at #324246. -
Cinnamon has been updated to 6.2.
- Following Mint 22 defaults, the Cinnamon module no longer ships geary and hexchat by default.
- Nemo is now built with gtk-layer-shell support, note that for now it will be expected to see nemo-desktop listed as a regular entry in Cinnamon Wayland session's window list applet.
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Support for runner registration tokens has been deprecated in
gitlab-runner
15.6 and is expected to be removed ingitlab-runner
18.0. Configuration of existing runners should be changed to using runner authentication tokens by configuring {option}services.gitlab-runner.services.<name>.authenticationTokenConfigFile
instead of the former {option}services.gitlab-runner.services.<name>.registrationConfigFile
option.