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  <title>Release 22.11 (“Raccoon”, 2022.11/??)</title>
  <para>
    Support is planned until the end of June 2023, handing over to
    23.05.
  </para>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-highlights">
    <title>Highlights</title>
    <para>
      In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
      has the following highlights:
    </para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          During cross-compilation, tests are now executed if the test
          suite can be executed by the build platform. This is the case
          when doing “native” cross-compilation where the build and host
          platforms are largely the same, but the nixpkgs’ cross
          compilation infrastructure is used, e.g.
          <literal>pkgsStatic</literal> and <literal>pkgsLLVM</literal>.
          Another possibility is that the build platform is a superset
          of the host platform, e.g. when cross-compiling from
          <literal>x86_64-unknown-linux</literal> to
          <literal>i686-unknown-linux</literal>. The predicate gating
          test suite execution is the newly added
          <literal>canExecute</literal> predicate: You can e.g. check if
          <literal>stdenv.buildPlatform</literal> can execute binaries
          built for <literal>stdenv.hostPlatform</literal> (i.e.
          produced by <literal>stdenv.cc</literal>) by evaluating
          <literal>stdenv.buildPlatform.canExecute stdenv.hostPlatform</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>nixpkgs.hostPlatform</literal> and
          <literal>nixpkgs.buildPlatform</literal> options have been
          added. These cover and override the
          <literal>nixpkgs.{system,localSystem,crossSystem}</literal>
          options.
        </para>
        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <literal>hostPlatform</literal> is the platform or
              <quote><literal>system</literal></quote> string of the
              NixOS system described by the configuration.
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <literal>buildPlatform</literal> is the platform that is
              responsible for building the NixOS configuration. It
              defaults to the <literal>hostPlatform</literal>, for a
              non-cross build configuration. To cross compile, set
              <literal>buildPlatform</literal> to a different value.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
        <para>
          The new options convey the same information, but with fewer
          options, and following the Nixpkgs terminology.
        </para>
        <para>
          The existing options
          <literal>nixpkgs.{system,localSystem,crossSystem}</literal>
          have not been formally deprecated, to allow for evaluation of
          the change and to allow for a transition period so that in
          time the ecosystem can switch without breaking compatibility
          with any supported NixOS release.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>emacs</literal> enables native compilation which
          means:
        </para>
        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
          <listitem>
            <para>
              emacs packages from nixpkgs, builtin or not, will do
              native compilation ahead of time so you can enjoy the
              benefit of native compilation without compiling them on
              you machine;
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              emacs packages from somewhere else, e.g.
              <literal>package-install</literal>, will do asynchronously
              deferred native compilation. If you do not want this,
              maybe to avoid CPU consumption for compilation, you can
              use
              <literal>(setq native-comp-deferred-compilation nil)</literal>
              to disable it while still enjoy the benefit of native
              compilation for packages from nixpkgs.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>nixos-generate-config</literal> now generates
          configurations that can be built in pure mode. This is
          achieved by setting the new
          <literal>nixpkgs.hostPlatform</literal> option.
        </para>
        <para>
          You may have to unset the <literal>system</literal> parameter
          in <literal>lib.nixosSystem</literal>, or similarly remove
          definitions of the
          <literal>nixpkgs.{system,localSystem,crossSystem}</literal>
          options.
        </para>
        <para>
          Alternatively, you can remove the
          <literal>hostPlatform</literal> line and use NixOS like you
          would in NixOS 22.05 and earlier.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          PHP now defaults to PHP 8.1, updated from 8.0.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Cinnamon has been updated to 5.4. While at it, the cinnamon
          module now defaults to blueman as bluetooth manager and
          slick-greeter as lightdm greeter to match upstream.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>hardware.nvidia</literal> has a new option
          <literal>open</literal> that can be used to opt in the
          opensource version of NVIDIA kernel driver. Note that the
          driver’s support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs is still
          alpha quality, see
          <link xlink:href="https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/">NVIDIA
          Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules</link> for the
          official announcement.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-new-services">
    <title>New Services</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/jollheef/appvm">appvm</link>,
          Nix based app VMs. Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-virtualisation.appvm.enable">virtualisation.appvm</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs">syncstorage-rs</link>,
          a self-hostable sync server for Firefox. Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.firefox-syncserver.enable">services.firefox-syncserver</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://dragonflydb.io/">dragonflydb</link>,
          a modern replacement for Redis and Memcached. Available as
          <link linkend="opt-services.dragonflydb.enable">services.dragonflydb</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://komga.org/">Komga</link>, a free and
          open source comics/mangas media server. Available as
          <link linkend="opt-services.komga.enable">services.komga</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://hbase.apache.org/">HBase
          cluster</link>, a distributed, scalable, big data store.
          Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.hadoop.hbase.enable">services.hadoop.hbase</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/leetronics/infnoise">infnoise</link>,
          a hardware True Random Number Generator dongle. Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.infnoise.enable">services.infnoise</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/jtroo/kanata">kanata</link>,
          a tool to improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced
          customization. Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.kanata.enable">services.kanata</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/aiberia/persistent-evdev">persistent-evdev</link>,
          a daemon to add virtual proxy devices that mirror a physical
          input device but persist even if the underlying hardware is
          hot-plugged. Available as
          <link linkend="opt-services.persistent-evdev.enable">services.persistent-evdev</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://schleuder.org/">schleuder</link>, a
          mailing list manager with PGP support. Enable using
          <link linkend="opt-services.schleuder.enable">services.schleuder</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://www.expressvpn.com">expressvpn</link>,
          the CLI client for ExpressVPN. Available as
          <link linkend="opt-services.expressvpn.enable">services.expressvpn</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://www.grafana.com/oss/tempo/">Grafana
          Tempo</link>, a distributed tracing store. Available as
          <link linkend="opt-services.tempo.enable">services.tempo</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/zalando/patroni">Patroni</link>,
          a template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper, etcd or Consul.
          Available as
          <link xlink:href="options.html#opt-services.patroni.enable">services.patroni</link>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-incompatibilities">
    <title>Backward Incompatibilities</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>isCompatible</literal> predicate checking CPU
          compatibility is no longer exposed by the platform sets
          generated using <literal>lib.systems.elaborate</literal>. In
          most cases you will want to use the new
          <literal>canExecute</literal> predicate instead which also
          considers the kernel / syscall interface. It is briefly
          described in the release’s
          <link linkend="sec-release-22.11-highlights">highlights
          section</link>.
          <literal>lib.systems.parse.isCompatible</literal> still
          exists, but has changed semantically: Architectures with
          differing endianness modes are <emphasis>no longer considered
          compatible</emphasis>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>ngrok</literal> has been upgraded from 2.3.40 to
          3.0.4. Please see
          <link xlink:href="https://ngrok.com/docs/guides/upgrade-v2-v3">the
          upgrade guide</link> and
          <link xlink:href="https://ngrok.com/docs/ngrok-agent/changelog">changelog</link>.
          Notably, breaking changes are that the config file format has
          changed and support for single hypen arguments was dropped.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>i18n.supportedLocales</literal> is now by default
          only generated with the locales set in
          <literal>i18n.defaultLocale</literal> and
          <literal>i18n.extraLocaleSettings</literal>. This got
          partially copied over from the minimal profile and reduces the
          final system size by up to 200MB. If you require all locales
          installed set the option to
          <literal>[ &quot;all&quot; ]</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>isPowerPC</literal> predicate, found on
          <literal>platform</literal> attrsets
          (<literal>hostPlatform</literal>,
          <literal>buildPlatform</literal>,
          <literal>targetPlatform</literal>, etc) has been removed in
          order to reduce confusion. The predicate was was defined such
          that it matches only the 32-bit big-endian members of the
          POWER/PowerPC family, despite having a name which would imply
          a broader set of systems. If you were using this predicate,
          you can replace <literal>foo.isPowerPC</literal> with
          <literal>(with foo; isPower &amp;&amp; is32bit &amp;&amp; isBigEndian)</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>fetchgit</literal> fetcher now uses
          <link xlink:href="https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout/2.37.0#_internalscone_mode_handling">cone
          mode</link> by default for sparse checkouts.
          <link xlink:href="https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout/2.37.0#_internalsnon_cone_problems">Non-cone
          mode</link> can be enabled by passing
          <literal>nonConeMode = true</literal>, but note that non-cone
          mode is deprecated and this option may be removed alongside a
          future Git update without notice.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>bsp-layout</literal> no longer uses the command
          <literal>cycle</literal> to switch to other window layouts, as
          it got replaced by the commands <literal>previous</literal>
          and <literal>next</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The Barco ClickShare driver/client package
          <literal>pkgs.clickshare-csc1</literal> and the option
          <literal>programs.clickshare-csc1.enable</literal> have been
          removed, as it requires <literal>qt4</literal>, which reached
          its end-of-life 2015 and will no longer be supported by
          nixpkgs.
          <link xlink:href="https://www.barco.com/de/support/knowledge-base/4380-can-i-use-linux-os-with-clickshare-base-units">According
          to Barco</link> many of their base unit models can be used
          with Google Chrome and the Google Cast extension.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>services.hbase</literal> has been renamed to
          <literal>services.hbase-standalone</literal>. For production
          HBase clusters, use <literal>services.hadoop.hbase</literal>
          instead.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          PHP 7.4 is no longer supported due to upstream not supporting
          this version for the entire lifecycle of the 22.11 release.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>pkgs.cosign</literal> does not provide the
          <literal>cosigned</literal> binary anymore.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          riak package removed along with
          <literal>services.riak</literal> module, due to lack of
          maintainer to update the package.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          xow package removed along with the
          <literal>hardware.xow</literal> module, due to the project
          being deprecated in favor of <literal>xone</literal>, which is
          available via the <literal>hardware.xone</literal> module.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          virtlyst package and <literal>services.virtlyst</literal>
          module removed, due to lack of maintainers.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>services.graphite.api</literal> and
          <literal>services.graphite.beacon</literal> NixOS options, and
          the <literal>python3.pkgs.graphite_api</literal>,
          <literal>python3.pkgs.graphite_beacon</literal> and
          <literal>python3.pkgs.influxgraph</literal> packages, have
          been removed due to lack of upstream maintenance.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>meta.mainProgram</literal> attribute of packages
          in <literal>wineWowPackages</literal> now defaults to
          <literal>&quot;wine64&quot;</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          (Neo)Vim can not be configured with
          <literal>configure.pathogen</literal> anymore to reduce
          maintainance burden. Use <literal>configure.packages</literal>
          instead.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>k3s</literal> no longer supports docker as runtime
          due to upstream dropping support.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section xml:id="sec-release-22.11-notable-changes">
    <title>Other Notable Changes</title>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>xplr</literal> package has been updated from
          0.18.0 to 0.19.0, which brings some breaking changes. See the
          <link xlink:href="https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr/releases/tag/v0.19.0">upstream
          release notes</link> for more details.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>github-runner</literal> gained support for ephemeral
          runners and registrations using a personal access token (PAT)
          instead of a registration token. See
          <literal>services.github-runner.ephemeral</literal> and
          <literal>services.github-runner.tokenFile</literal> for
          details.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          A new module was added for the Saleae Logic device family,
          providing the options
          <literal>hardware.saleae-logic.enable</literal> and
          <literal>hardware.saleae-logic.package</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The Redis module now disables RDB persistence when
          <literal>services.redis.servers.&lt;name&gt;.save = []</literal>
          instead of using the Redis default.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Neo4j was updated from version 3 to version 4. See this
          <link xlink:href="https://neo4j.com/docs/upgrade-migration-guide/current/">migration
          guide</link> on how to migrate your Neo4j instance.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Matrix Synapse now requires entries in the
          <literal>state_group_edges</literal> table to be unique, in
          order to prevent accidentally introducing duplicate
          information (for example, because a database backup was
          restored multiple times). If your Synapse database already has
          duplicate rows in this table, this could fail with an error
          and require manual remediation.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          <literal>dockerTools.buildImage</literal> deprecates the
          misunderstood <literal>contents</literal> parameter, in favor
          of <literal>copyToRoot</literal>. Use
          <literal>copyToRoot = buildEnv { ... };</literal> or similar
          if you intend to add packages to <literal>/bin</literal>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          memtest86+ was updated from 5.00-coreboot-002 to 6.00-beta2.
          It is now the upstream version from https://www.memtest.org/,
          as coreboot’s fork is no longer available.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The udisks2 service, available at
          <literal>services.udisks2.enable</literal>, is now disabled by
          default. It will automatically be enabled through services and
          desktop environments as needed. This also means that polkit
          will now actually be disabled by default. The default for
          <literal>security.polkit.enable</literal> was already flipped
          in the previous release, but udisks2 being enabled by default
          re-enabled it.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Add udev rules for the Teensy family of microcontrollers.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>pass-secret-service</literal> package now
          includes systemd units from upstream, so adding it to the
          NixOS <literal>services.dbus.packages</literal> option will
          make it start automatically as a systemd user service when an
          application tries to talk to the libsecret D-Bus API.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          There is a new module for AMD SEV CPU functionality, which
          grants access to the hardware.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          There is a new module for the <literal>thunar</literal>
          program (the Xfce file manager), which depends on the
          <literal>xfconf</literal> dbus service, and also has a dbus
          service and a systemd unit. The option
          <literal>services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.thunarPlugins</literal>
          has been renamed to
          <literal>programs.thunar.plugins</literal>, and in a future
          release it may be removed.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          There is a new module for the <literal>xfconf</literal>
          program (the Xfce configuration storage system), which has a
          dbus service.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The <literal>nomad</literal> package now defaults to 1.3,
          which no longer has a downgrade path to releases 1.2 or older.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
</section>
