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Nix Release Notes
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+
+Release 1.6.1 (TBA)
+
+This is primarily a bug fix release. Changes of interest
+are:
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+
+ Nix 1.6 accidentally changed the semantics of antiquoted
+ paths in strings, such as "${/foo}/bar". This
+ release reverts to the Nix 1.5.3 behaviour.
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+
+
+ Previously, Nix optimised expressions such as
+ "${expr}" to
+ expr. Thus it neither checked whether
+ expr could be coerced to a string, nor
+ applied such coercions. This meant that
+ "${123}" evaluatued to 123,
+ and "${./foo}" evaluated to
+ ./foo (even though
+ "${./foo} " evaluates to
+ "/nix/store/hash-foo ").
+ Nix now checks the type of antiquoted expressions and
+ applies coercions.
+
+
+
+ Nix now shows the exact position of undefined variables. In
+ particular, undefined variable errors in a with
+ previously didn't show any position
+ information, so this makes it a lot easier to fix such
+ errors.
+
+
+
+ Undefined variables are now treated consistently.
+ Previously, the tryEval function would catch
+ undefined variables inside a with but not
+ outside. Now tryEval never catches undefined
+ variables.
+
+
+
+ Bash completion in nix-shell now works
+ correctly.
+
+
+
+ In order to be less verbose, stack traces no longer show
+ calls to builtin functions.
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+