From 6bf873651740b1552dea6f30c7778dff11bc52ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Th=C3=A9ophane=20Hufschmitt?= Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:03:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add release-notes for the context-restriction in readFile --- doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md index 68f7d1a9d..2069e4578 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md @@ -5,3 +5,8 @@ arguments will be ignored and the resulting derivation will have `__impure` set to `true`, making it an impure derivation. +* If `builtins.readFile` is called on a file with context, then only the parts + of that context that appear in the content of the file are retained. + This avoids a lot of spurious errors where some benign strings end-up having + a context just because they are read from a store path + ([#7260](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7260)).