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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ssec-relnotes-2.0">
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<title>Release 2.0 (2018-02-22)</title>
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<para>The following incompatible changes have been made:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The manifest-based substituter mechanism
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(<command>download-using-manifests</command>) has been <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/867967265b80946dfe1db72d40324b4f9af988ed">removed</link>. It
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has been superseded by the binary cache substituter mechanism
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since several years. As a result, the following programs have been
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removed:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><command>nix-pull</command></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><command>nix-generate-patches</command></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><command>bsdiff</command></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><command>bspatch</command></para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The “copy from other stores” substituter mechanism
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(<command>copy-from-other-stores</command> and the
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<literal>NIX_OTHER_STORES</literal> environment variable) has been
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removed. It was primarily used by the NixOS installer to copy
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available paths from the installation medium. The replacement is
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to use a chroot store as a substituter
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(e.g. <literal>--substituters /mnt</literal>), or to build into a
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chroot store (e.g. <literal>--store /mnt --substituters /</literal>).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The command <command>nix-push</command> has been removed as
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part of the effort to eliminate Nix's dependency on Perl. You can
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use <command>nix copy</command> instead, e.g. <literal>nix copy
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--to file:///tmp/my-binary-cache <replaceable>paths…</replaceable></literal></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The “nested” log output feature (<option>--log-type
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pretty</option>) has been removed. As a result,
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<command>nix-log2xml</command> was also removed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>OpenSSL-based signing has been <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/f435f8247553656774dd1b2c88e9de5d59cab203">removed</link>. This
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feature was never well-supported. A better alternative is provided
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by the <option>secret-key-files</option> and
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<option>trusted-public-keys</option> options.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Failed build caching has been <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/8cffec84859cec8b610a2a22ab0c4d462a9351ff">removed</link>. This
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feature was introduced to support the Hydra continuous build
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system, but Hydra no longer uses it.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><filename>nix-mode.el</filename> has been removed from
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Nix. It is now <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode">a separate
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repository</link> and can be installed through the MELPA package
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repository.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>This release has the following new features:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>It introduces a new command named <command>nix</command>,
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which is intended to eventually replace all
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<command>nix-*</command> commands with a more consistent and
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better designed user interface. It currently provides replacements
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for some (but not all) of the functionality provided by
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<command>nix-store</command>, <command>nix-build</command>,
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<command>nix-shell -p</command>, <command>nix-env -qa</command>,
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<command>nix-instantiate --eval</command>,
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<command>nix-push</command> and
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<command>nix-copy-closure</command>. It has the following major
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features:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Unlike the legacy commands, it has a consistent way to
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refer to packages and package-like arguments (like store
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paths). For example, the following commands all copy the GNU
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Hello package to a remote machine:
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<screen>nix copy --to ssh://machine nixpkgs.hello</screen>
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<screen>nix copy --to ssh://machine /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10</screen>
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<screen>nix copy --to ssh://machine '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; hello)'</screen>
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By contrast, <command>nix-copy-closure</command> only accepted
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store paths as arguments.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>It is self-documenting: <option>--help</option> shows
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all available command-line arguments. If
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<option>--help</option> is given after a subcommand, it shows
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examples for that subcommand. <command>nix
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--help-config</command> shows all configuration
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options.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>It is much less verbose. By default, it displays a
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single-line progress indicator that shows how many packages
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are left to be built or downloaded, and (if there are running
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builds) the most recent line of builder output. If a build
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fails, it shows the last few lines of builder output. The full
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build log can be retrieved using <command>nix
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log</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>It <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/b8283773bd64d7da6859ed520ee19867742a03ba">provides</link>
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all <filename>nix.conf</filename> configuration options as
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command line flags. For example, instead of <literal>--option
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http-connections 100</literal> you can write
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<literal>--http-connections 100</literal>. Boolean options can
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be written as
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<literal>--<replaceable>foo</replaceable></literal> or
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<literal>--no-<replaceable>foo</replaceable></literal>
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(e.g. <option>--no-auto-optimise-store</option>).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Many subcommands have a <option>--json</option> flag to
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write results to stdout in JSON format.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<warning><para>Please note that the <command>nix</command> command
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is a work in progress and the interface is subject to
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change.</para></warning>
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<para>It provides the following high-level (“porcelain”)
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subcommands:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix build</command> is a replacement for
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<command>nix-build</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix run</command> executes a command in an
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environment in which the specified packages are available. It
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is (roughly) a replacement for <command>nix-shell
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-p</command>. Unlike that command, it does not execute the
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command in a shell, and has a flag (<command>-c</command>)
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that specifies the unquoted command line to be
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executed.</para>
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<para>It is particularly useful in conjunction with chroot
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stores, allowing Linux users who do not have permission to
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install Nix in <command>/nix/store</command> to still use
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binary substitutes that assume
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<command>/nix/store</command>. For example,
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<screen>nix run --store ~/my-nix nixpkgs.hello -c hello --greeting 'Hi everybody!'</screen>
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downloads (or if not substitutes are available, builds) the
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GNU Hello package into
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<filename>~/my-nix/nix/store</filename>, then runs
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<command>hello</command> in a mount namespace where
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<filename>~/my-nix/nix/store</filename> is mounted onto
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<command>/nix/store</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix search</command> replaces <command>nix-env
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-qa</command>. It searches the available packages for
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occurrences of a search string in the attribute name, package
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name or description. Unlike <command>nix-env -qa</command>, it
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has a cache to speed up subsequent searches.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix copy</command> copies paths between
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arbitrary Nix stores, generalising
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<command>nix-copy-closure</command> and
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<command>nix-push</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix repl</command> replaces the external
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program <command>nix-repl</command>. It provides an
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interactive environment for evaluating and building Nix
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expressions. Note that it uses <literal>linenoise-ng</literal>
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instead of GNU Readline.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix upgrade-nix</command> upgrades Nix to the
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latest stable version. This requires that Nix is installed in
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a profile. (Thus it won’t work on NixOS, or if it’s installed
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outside of the Nix store.)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix verify</command> checks whether store paths
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are unmodified and/or “trusted” (see below). It replaces
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<command>nix-store --verify</command> and <command>nix-store
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--verify-path</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix log</command> shows the build log of a
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package or path. If the build log is not available locally, it
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will try to obtain it from the configured substituters (such
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as <uri>cache.nixos.org</uri>, which now provides build
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logs).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix edit</command> opens the source code of a
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package in your editor.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix eval</command> replaces
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<command>nix-instantiate --eval</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/d41c5eb13f4f3a37d80dbc6d3888644170c3b44a">nix
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why-depends</command> shows why one store path has another in
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its closure. This is primarily useful to finding the causes of
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closure bloat. For example,
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<screen>nix why-depends nixpkgs.vlc nixpkgs.libdrm.dev</screen>
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shows a chain of files and fragments of file contents that
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cause the VLC package to have the “dev” output of
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<literal>libdrm</literal> in its closure — an undesirable
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situation.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix path-info</command> shows information about
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store paths, replacing <command>nix-store -q</command>. A
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useful feature is the option <option>--closure-size</option>
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(<option>-S</option>). For example, the following command show
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the closure sizes of every path in the current NixOS system
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closure, sorted by size:
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<screen>nix path-info -rS /run/current-system | sort -nk2</screen>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix optimise-store</command> replaces
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<command>nix-store --optimise</command>. The main difference
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is that it has a progress indicator.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>A number of low-level (“plumbing”) commands are also
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available:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix ls-store</command> and <command>nix
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ls-nar</command> list the contents of a store path or NAR
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file. The former is primarily useful in conjunction with
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remote stores, e.g.
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<screen>nix ls-store --store https://cache.nixos.org/ -lR /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10</screen>
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lists the contents of path in a binary cache.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix cat-store</command> and <command>nix
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cat-nar</command> allow extracting a file from a store path or
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NAR file.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix dump-path</command> writes the contents of
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a store path to stdout in NAR format. This replaces
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<command>nix-store --dump</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/e8d6ee7c1b90a2fe6d824f1a875acc56799ae6e2">nix
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show-derivation</command> displays a store derivation in JSON
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format. This is an alternative to
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<command>pp-aterm</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/970366266b8df712f5f9cedb45af183ef5a8357f">nix
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add-to-store</command> replaces <command>nix-store
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--add</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix sign-paths</command> signs store
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paths.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix copy-sigs</command> copies signatures from
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one store to another.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><command>nix show-config</command> shows all
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configuration options and their current values.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The store abstraction that Nix has had for a long time to
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support store access via the Nix daemon has been extended
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significantly. In particular, substituters (which used to be
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external programs such as
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<command>download-from-binary-cache</command>) are now subclasses
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of the abstract <classname>Store</classname> class. This allows
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many Nix commands to operate on such store types. For example,
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<command>nix path-info</command> shows information about paths in
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your local Nix store, while <command>nix path-info --store
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https://cache.nixos.org/</command> shows information about paths
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in the specified binary cache. Similarly,
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<command>nix-copy-closure</command>, <command>nix-push</command>
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and substitution are all instances of the general notion of
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copying paths between different kinds of Nix stores.</para>
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<para>Stores are specified using an URI-like syntax,
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e.g. <uri>https://cache.nixos.org/</uri> or
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<uri>ssh://machine</uri>. The following store types are supported:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>LocalStore</classname> (stori URI
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<literal>local</literal> or an absolute path) and the misnamed
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<classname>RemoteStore</classname> (<literal>daemon</literal>)
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provide access to a local Nix store, the latter via the Nix
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daemon. You can use <literal>auto</literal> or the empty
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string to auto-select a local or daemon store depending on
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whether you have write permission to the Nix store. It is no
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longer necessary to set the <literal>NIX_REMOTE</literal>
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environment variable to use the Nix daemon.</para>
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<para>As noted above, <classname>LocalStore</classname> now
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supports chroot builds, allowing the “physical” location of
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the Nix store
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(e.g. <filename>/home/alice/nix/store</filename>) to differ
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from its “logical” location (typically
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<filename>/nix/store</filename>). This allows non-root users
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to use Nix while still getting the benefits from prebuilt
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binaries from <uri>cache.nixos.org</uri>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>BinaryCacheStore</classname> is the abstract
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superclass of all binary cache stores. It supports writing
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build logs and NAR content listings in JSON format.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>HttpBinaryCacheStore</classname>
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(<literal>http://</literal>, <literal>https://</literal>)
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supports binary caches via HTTP or HTTPS. If the server
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supports <literal>PUT</literal> requests, it supports
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uploading store paths via commands such as <command>nix
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copy</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>LocalBinaryCacheStore</classname>
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(<literal>file://</literal>) supports binary caches in the
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local filesystem.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>S3BinaryCacheStore</classname>
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(<literal>s3://</literal>) supports binary caches stored in
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Amazon S3, if enabled at compile time.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>LegacySSHStore</classname> (<literal>ssh://</literal>)
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is used to implement remote builds and
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<command>nix-copy-closure</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><classname>SSHStore</classname>
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(<literal>ssh-ng://</literal>) supports arbitrary Nix
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operations on a remote machine via the same protocol used by
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<command>nix-daemon</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Security has been improved in various ways:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Nix now stores signatures for local store
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paths. When paths are copied between stores (e.g., copied from
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a binary cache to a local store), signatures are
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propagated.</para>
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<para>Locally-built paths are signed automatically using the
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secret keys specified by the <option>secret-key-files</option>
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store option. Secret/public key pairs can be generated using
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<command>nix-store
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--generate-binary-cache-key</command>.</para>
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<para>In addition, locally-built store paths are marked as
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“ultimately trusted”, but this bit is not propagated when
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paths are copied between stores.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Content-addressable store paths no longer require
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signatures — they can be imported into a store by unprivileged
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users even if they lack signatures.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The command <command>nix verify</command> checks whether
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the specified paths are trusted, i.e., have a certain number
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of trusted signatures, are ultimately trusted, or are
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content-addressed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Substitutions from binary caches <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/ecbc3fedd3d5bdc5a0e1a0a51b29062f2874ac8b">now</link>
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require signatures by default. This was already the case on
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NixOS.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
|
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<para>In Linux sandbox builds, we <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/eba840c8a13b465ace90172ff76a0db2899ab11b">now</link>
|
||
use <filename>/build</filename> instead of
|
||
<filename>/tmp</filename> as the temporary build
|
||
directory. This fixes potential security problems when a build
|
||
accidentally stores its <literal>TMPDIR</literal> in some
|
||
security-sensitive place, such as an RPATH.</para>
|
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</listitem>
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|
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</itemizedlist>
|
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|
||
</para>
|
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|
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</listitem>
|
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|
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<listitem>
|
||
<para><emphasis>Pure evaluation mode</emphasis>. With the
|
||
<literal>--pure-eval</literal> flag, Nix enables a variant of the existing
|
||
restricted evaluation mode that forbids access to anything that could cause
|
||
different evaluations of the same command line arguments to produce a
|
||
different result. This includes builtin functions such as
|
||
<function>builtins.getEnv</function>, but more importantly,
|
||
<emphasis>all</emphasis> filesystem or network access unless a content hash
|
||
or commit hash is specified. For example, calls to
|
||
<function>builtins.fetchGit</function> are only allowed if a
|
||
<varname>rev</varname> attribute is specified.</para>
|
||
|
||
<para>The goal of this feature is to enable true reproducibility
|
||
and traceability of builds (including NixOS system configurations)
|
||
at the evaluation level. For example, in the future,
|
||
<command>nixos-rebuild</command> might build configurations from a
|
||
Nix expression in a Git repository in pure mode. That expression
|
||
might fetch other repositories such as Nixpkgs via
|
||
<function>builtins.fetchGit</function>. The commit hash of the
|
||
top-level repository then uniquely identifies a running system,
|
||
and, in conjunction with that repository, allows it to be
|
||
reproduced or modified.</para>
|
||
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
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<listitem>
|
||
<para>There are several new features to support binary
|
||
reproducibility (i.e. to help ensure that multiple builds of the
|
||
same derivation produce exactly the same output). When
|
||
<option>enforce-determinism</option> is set to
|
||
<literal>false</literal>, it’s <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/8bdf83f936adae6f2c907a6d2541e80d4120f051">no
|
||
longer</link> a fatal error if build rounds produce different
|
||
output. Also, a hook named <option>diff-hook</option> is <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/9a313469a4bdea2d1e8df24d16289dc2a172a169">provided</link>
|
||
to allow you to run tools such as <command>diffoscope</command>
|
||
when build rounds produce different output.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
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<listitem>
|
||
<para>Configuring remote builds is a lot easier now. Provided you
|
||
are not using the Nix daemon, you can now just specify a remote
|
||
build machine on the command line, e.g. <literal>--option builders
|
||
'ssh://my-mac x86_64-darwin'</literal>. The environment variable
|
||
<literal>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</literal> has been removed and is no longer
|
||
needed. The environment variable <literal>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</literal>
|
||
is still supported for compatibility, but it is also possible to
|
||
specify builders in <command>nix.conf</command> by setting the
|
||
option <literal>builders =
|
||
@<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal>.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>If a fixed-output derivation produces a result with an
|
||
incorrect hash, the output path is moved to the location
|
||
corresponding to the actual hash and registered as valid. Thus, a
|
||
subsequent build of the fixed-output derivation with the correct
|
||
hash is unnecessary.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><command>nix-shell</command> <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/ea59f39326c8e9dc42dfed4bcbf597fbce58797c">now</link>
|
||
sets the <varname>IN_NIX_SHELL</varname> environment variable
|
||
during evaluation and in the shell itself. This can be used to
|
||
perform different actions depending on whether you’re in a Nix
|
||
shell or in a regular build. Nixpkgs provides
|
||
<varname>lib.inNixShell</varname> to check this variable during
|
||
evaluation.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><literal>NIX_PATH</literal> is now lazy, so URIs in the path are
|
||
only downloaded if they are needed for evaluation.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>You can now use
|
||
<uri>channel:<replaceable>channel-name</replaceable></uri> as a
|
||
short-hand for
|
||
<uri>https://nixos.org/channels/<replaceable>channel-name</replaceable>/nixexprs.tar.xz</uri>. For
|
||
example, <literal>nix-build channel:nixos-15.09 -A hello</literal>
|
||
will build the GNU Hello package from the
|
||
<literal>nixos-15.09</literal> channel. In the future, this may
|
||
use Git to fetch updates more efficiently.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>When <option>--no-build-output</option> is given, the last
|
||
10 lines of the build log will be shown if a build
|
||
fails.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Networking has been improved:
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>HTTP/2 is now supported. This makes binary cache lookups
|
||
<link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/90ad02bf626b885a5dd8967894e2eafc953bdf92">much
|
||
more efficient</link>.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>We now retry downloads on many HTTP errors, making
|
||
binary caches substituters more resilient to temporary
|
||
failures.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>HTTP credentials can now be configured via the standard
|
||
<filename>netrc</filename> mechanism.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>If S3 support is enabled at compile time,
|
||
<uri>s3://</uri> URIs are <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/9ff9c3f2f80ba4108e9c945bbfda2c64735f987b">supported</link>
|
||
in all places where Nix allows URIs.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Brotli compression is now supported. In particular,
|
||
<uri>cache.nixos.org</uri> build logs are now compressed using
|
||
Brotli.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><command>nix-env</command> <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/b0cb11722626e906a73f10dd9a0c9eea29faf43a">now</link>
|
||
ignores packages with bad derivation names (in particular those
|
||
starting with a digit or containing a dot).</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Many configuration options have been renamed, either because
|
||
they were unnecessarily verbose
|
||
(e.g. <option>build-use-sandbox</option> is now just
|
||
<option>sandbox</option>) or to reflect generalised behaviour
|
||
(e.g. <option>binary-caches</option> is now
|
||
<option>substituters</option> because it allows arbitrary store
|
||
URIs). The old names are still supported for compatibility.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>The <option>max-jobs</option> option can <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/7251d048fa812d2551b7003bc9f13a8f5d4c95a5">now</link>
|
||
be set to <literal>auto</literal> to use the number of CPUs in the
|
||
system.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Hashes can <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/c0015e87af70f539f24d2aa2bc224a9d8b84276b">now</link>
|
||
be specified in base-64 format, in addition to base-16 and the
|
||
non-standard base-32.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><command>nix-shell</command> now uses
|
||
<varname>bashInteractive</varname> from Nixpkgs, rather than the
|
||
<command>bash</command> command that happens to be in the caller’s
|
||
<literal>PATH</literal>. This is especially important on macOS where
|
||
the <command>bash</command> provided by the system is seriously
|
||
outdated and cannot execute <literal>stdenv</literal>’s setup
|
||
script.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Nix can now automatically trigger a garbage collection if
|
||
free disk space drops below a certain level during a build. This
|
||
is configured using the <option>min-free</option> and
|
||
<option>max-free</option> options.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><command>nix-store -q --roots</command> and
|
||
<command>nix-store --gc --print-roots</command> now show temporary
|
||
and in-memory roots.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>
|
||
Nix can now be extended with plugins. See the documentation of
|
||
the <option>plugin-files</option> option for more details.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<para>The Nix language has the following new features:
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>It supports floating point numbers. They are based on the
|
||
C++ <literal>float</literal> type and are supported by the
|
||
existing numerical operators. Export and import to and from JSON
|
||
and XML works, too.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Derivation attributes can now reference the outputs of the
|
||
derivation using the <function>placeholder</function> builtin
|
||
function. For example, the attribute
|
||
|
||
<programlisting>
|
||
configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"}";
|
||
</programlisting>
|
||
|
||
will cause the <literal>configureFlags</literal> environment variable
|
||
to contain the actual store paths corresponding to the
|
||
<literal>out</literal> and <literal>dev</literal> outputs.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<para>The following builtin functions are new or extended:
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><function
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/38539b943a060d9cdfc24d6e5d997c0885b8aa2f">builtins.fetchGit</function>
|
||
allows Git repositories to be fetched at evaluation time. Thus it
|
||
differs from the <function>fetchgit</function> function in
|
||
Nixpkgs, which fetches at build time and cannot be used to fetch
|
||
Nix expressions during evaluation. A typical use case is to import
|
||
external NixOS modules from your configuration, e.g.
|
||
|
||
<programlisting>imports = [ (builtins.fetchGit https://github.com/edolstra/dwarffs + "/module.nix") ];</programlisting>
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Similarly, <function>builtins.fetchMercurial</function>
|
||
allows you to fetch Mercurial repositories.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><function>builtins.path</function> generalises
|
||
<function>builtins.filterSource</function> and path literals
|
||
(e.g. <literal>./foo</literal>). It allows specifying a store path
|
||
name that differs from the source path name
|
||
(e.g. <literal>builtins.path { path = ./foo; name = "bar";
|
||
}</literal>) and also supports filtering out unwanted
|
||
files.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><function>builtins.fetchurl</function> and
|
||
<function>builtins.fetchTarball</function> now support
|
||
<varname>sha256</varname> and <varname>name</varname>
|
||
attributes.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><function
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/b8867a0239b1930a16f9ef3f7f3e864b01416dff">builtins.split</function>
|
||
splits a string using a POSIX extended regular expression as the
|
||
separator.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><function
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/26d92017d3b36cff940dcb7d1611c42232edb81a">builtins.partition</function>
|
||
partitions the elements of a list into two lists, depending on a
|
||
Boolean predicate.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para><literal><nix/fetchurl.nix></literal> now uses the
|
||
content-addressable tarball cache at
|
||
<uri>http://tarballs.nixos.org/</uri>, just like
|
||
<function>fetchurl</function> in
|
||
Nixpkgs. (f2682e6e18a76ecbfb8a12c17e3a0ca15c084197)</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>In restricted and pure evaluation mode, builtin functions
|
||
that download from the network (such as
|
||
<function>fetchGit</function>) are permitted to fetch underneath a
|
||
list of URI prefixes specified in the option
|
||
<option>allowed-uris</option>.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<para>The Nix build environment has the following changes:
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Values such as Booleans, integers, (nested) lists and
|
||
attribute sets can <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/6de33a9c675b187437a2e1abbcb290981a89ecb1">now</link>
|
||
be passed to builders in a non-lossy way. If the special attribute
|
||
<varname>__structuredAttrs</varname> is set to
|
||
<literal>true</literal>, the other derivation attributes are
|
||
serialised in JSON format and made available to the builder via
|
||
the file <literal>.attrs.json</literal> in the builder’s temporary
|
||
directory. This obviates the need for
|
||
<varname>passAsFile</varname> since JSON files have no size
|
||
restrictions, unlike process environments.</para>
|
||
|
||
<para><link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/2d5b1b24bf70a498e4c0b378704cfdb6471cc699">As
|
||
a convenience to Bash builders</link>, Nix writes a script named
|
||
<literal>.attrs.sh</literal> to the builder’s directory that
|
||
initialises shell variables corresponding to all attributes that
|
||
are representable in Bash. This includes non-nested (associative)
|
||
arrays. For example, the attribute <literal>hardening.format =
|
||
true</literal> ends up as the Bash associative array element
|
||
<literal>${hardening[format]}</literal>.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Builders can <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/88e6bb76de5564b3217be9688677d1c89101b2a3">now</link>
|
||
communicate what build phase they are in by writing messages to
|
||
the file descriptor specified in <literal>NIX_LOG_FD</literal>. The
|
||
current phase is shown by the <command>nix</command> progress
|
||
indicator.
|
||
</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>In Linux sandbox builds, we <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/a2d92bb20e82a0957067ede60e91fab256948b41">now</link>
|
||
provide a default <filename>/bin/sh</filename> (namely
|
||
<filename>ash</filename> from BusyBox).</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>In structured attribute mode,
|
||
<varname>exportReferencesGraph</varname> <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/c2b0d8749f7e77afc1c4b3e8dd36b7ee9720af4a">exports</link>
|
||
extended information about closures in JSON format. In particular,
|
||
it includes the sizes and hashes of paths. This is primarily
|
||
useful for NixOS image builders.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Builds are <link
|
||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/21948deed99a3295e4d5666e027a6ca42dc00b40">now</link>
|
||
killed as soon as Nix receives EOF on the builder’s stdout or
|
||
stderr. This fixes a bug that allowed builds to hang Nix
|
||
indefinitely, regardless of
|
||
timeouts.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>The <option>sandbox-paths</option> configuration
|
||
option can now specify optional paths by appending a
|
||
<literal>?</literal>, e.g. <literal>/dev/nvidiactl?</literal> will
|
||
bind-mount <varname>/dev/nvidiactl</varname> only if it
|
||
exists.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>On Linux, builds are now executed in a user
|
||
namespace with UID 1000 and GID 100.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<para>A number of significant internal changes were made:
|
||
|
||
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>Nix no longer depends on Perl and all Perl components have
|
||
been rewritten in C++ or removed. The Perl bindings that used to
|
||
be part of Nix have been moved to a separate package,
|
||
<literal>nix-perl</literal>.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
<listitem>
|
||
<para>All <classname>Store</classname> classes are now
|
||
thread-safe. <classname>RemoteStore</classname> supports multiple
|
||
concurrent connections to the daemon. This is primarily useful in
|
||
multi-threaded programs such as
|
||
<command>hydra-queue-runner</command>.</para>
|
||
</listitem>
|
||
|
||
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
||
</para>
|
||
|
||
<para>This release has contributions from
|
||
|
||
Adrien Devresse,
|
||
Alexander Ried,
|
||
Alex Cruice,
|
||
Alexey Shmalko,
|
||
AmineChikhaoui,
|
||
Andy Wingo,
|
||
Aneesh Agrawal,
|
||
Anthony Cowley,
|
||
Armijn Hemel,
|
||
aszlig,
|
||
Ben Gamari,
|
||
Benjamin Hipple,
|
||
Benjamin Staffin,
|
||
Benno Fünfstück,
|
||
Bjørn Forsman,
|
||
Brian McKenna,
|
||
Charles Strahan,
|
||
Chase Adams,
|
||
Chris Martin,
|
||
Christian Theune,
|
||
Chris Warburton,
|
||
Daiderd Jordan,
|
||
Dan Connolly,
|
||
Daniel Peebles,
|
||
Dan Peebles,
|
||
davidak,
|
||
David McFarland,
|
||
Dmitry Kalinkin,
|
||
Domen Kožar,
|
||
Eelco Dolstra,
|
||
Emery Hemingway,
|
||
Eric Litak,
|
||
Eric Wolf,
|
||
Fabian Schmitthenner,
|
||
Frederik Rietdijk,
|
||
Gabriel Gonzalez,
|
||
Giorgio Gallo,
|
||
Graham Christensen,
|
||
Guillaume Maudoux,
|
||
Harmen,
|
||
Iavael,
|
||
James Broadhead,
|
||
James Earl Douglas,
|
||
Janus Troelsen,
|
||
Jeremy Shaw,
|
||
Joachim Schiele,
|
||
Joe Hermaszewski,
|
||
Joel Moberg,
|
||
Johannes 'fish' Ziemke,
|
||
Jörg Thalheim,
|
||
Jude Taylor,
|
||
kballou,
|
||
Keshav Kini,
|
||
Kjetil Orbekk,
|
||
Langston Barrett,
|
||
Linus Heckemann,
|
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Ludovic Courtès,
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Manav Rathi,
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Marc Scholten,
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Markus Hauck,
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Matt Audesse,
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Matthew Bauer,
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Matthias Beyer,
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Matthieu Coudron,
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N1X,
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Nathan Zadoks,
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Neil Mayhew,
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Nicolas B. Pierron,
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Niklas Hambüchen,
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Nikolay Amiantov,
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Ole Jørgen Brønner,
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Orivej Desh,
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Peter Simons,
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Peter Stuart,
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Pyry Jahkola,
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regnat,
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Renzo Carbonara,
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Rhys,
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Robert Vollmert,
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Scott Olson,
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Scott R. Parish,
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Sergei Trofimovich,
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Shea Levy,
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Sheena Artrip,
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Spencer Baugh,
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Stefan Junker,
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Susan Potter,
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Thomas Tuegel,
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Timothy Allen,
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Tristan Hume,
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Tuomas Tynkkynen,
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tv,
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Tyson Whitehead,
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Vladimír Čunát,
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Will Dietz,
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wmertens,
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Wout Mertens,
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zimbatm and
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Zoran Plesivčak.
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</para>
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</section>
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