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Eelco Dolstra eaa52c34b4
Set release date 2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default
The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.

Issue #179.
2018-02-22 12:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e44025ac5
Release notes: Add contributors 2018-02-20 15:20:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 70eb64147e
Update release notes
Also add some examples to nix --help.
2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Shea Levy 88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.
All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 84722d67d2
Remove nix-build --hash
Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.

It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.
2018-02-03 10:08:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c287d73121
Rename 1.12 -> 2.0
Following discussion with Shea and Graham. It's a big enough change
from the last release. Also, from a semver perspective, 2.0 makes more
sense because we did remove some interfaces (like nix-pull/nix-push).
2018-01-31 18:58:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6cf7c6a6b0
Remove git:// support in NIX_PATH
This didn't support specifying a revision/branch, and was restricted
to git:// URIs (since https:// or ssh:// would be ambiguous).
2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
This allows network access in restricted eval mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f1c555cef8
fetchurl/fetchTarball are *not* allowed in restricted mode
Accidentally committed this change as part of
f9686885be.

Restricted mode != pure mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit
Almost all other primops are camelCase so no reason not to use that
here.
2017-10-30 10:25:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 38dcd0c4b8
Release note updates 2017-10-23 20:50:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5324bb9399
Update release notes 2017-09-18 11:07:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0b606aad46
Add automatic garbage collection
Nix can now automatically run the garbage collector during builds or
while adding paths to the store. The option "min-free = <bytes>"
specifies that Nix should run the garbage collector whenever free
space in the Nix store drops below <bytes>. It will then delete
garbage until "max-free" bytes are available.

Garbage collection during builds is asynchronous; running builds are
not paused and new builds are not blocked. However, there also is a
synchronous GC run prior to the first build/substitution.

Currently, no old GC roots are deleted (as in "nix-collect-garbage
-d").
2017-09-05 20:43:42 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 2c75945de5
Remove nix-mode.el from Nix.
This removes the file nix-mode.el from Nix. The file is now available within the
repository https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode.

Fixes #662
Fixes #1040
Fixes #1054
Fixes #1055
Closes #1119
Fixes #1419

NOTE: all of the above should be fixed within NixOS/nix-mode. If one of those
hasn’t please reopen within NixOS/nix-mode and not within NixOS/nix.
2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra e2f9a61dc9 Update release notes 2017-08-16 21:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f76e85d8f5
Start of 1.12 release notes 2017-08-10 18:44:45 +02:00
Graham Christensen da2ad30054 Update the mailing list. 2017-07-18 08:02:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a10951de08
OS X -> macOS
(cherry picked from commit c20641ce569dc1fdeaeaa147b0292f258667f53b)
2017-06-14 23:28:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1dcadadf74
Add 1.11.10 release notes
(cherry picked from commit 0fb60e4e0f66cc42c7c274acfcf00b51f6c829c4)
2017-06-14 23:27:52 +02:00
Benjamin Staffin d267db0d75
Move note about float support out of the wrong release notes
Looks like this snuck into the 1.11 release notes post-release, but
float support isn't actually present until 1.12.
2017-04-12 18:01:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4f3fb34844
Fix 1.8 release note about build-max-jobs
We set build-cores automatically, not build-max-jobs. (The commit
message for de4cdd0d47 also got this
wrong.)
2017-02-27 15:58:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b3e8d72770 Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
Implement floats
2016-02-12 12:49:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e7c1a4bbd Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix database 2016-01-31 10:28:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b4577ac9d Grmbl 2016-01-19 12:35:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d704abc0f3 Update release notes 2016-01-18 15:59:28 +01:00
Christian Theune b4bda4765a Update documentation for floats. 2016-01-06 08:41:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9be037448c Use sensible date format 2016-01-04 14:38:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f476535265 Update release notes 2016-01-04 14:29:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0ab4d905e7 Merge branch 'p/sandbox-rename-minimal' of https://github.com/vcunat/nix 2015-11-25 14:53:42 +01:00
Rommel M. Martinez cf141abfe9 Fixed typo. 2015-11-23 15:59:57 +08:00
Vladimír Čunát b39622a487 rename chroot to sandbox (fixes #656, close #682)
- rename options but leav old names as lower-priority aliases,
  also "-dirs" -> "-paths" to get closer to the meaning
- update docs to reflect the new names (old aliases are not documented),
  including a new file with release notes
- tests need an update after corresponding changes to nixpkgs
- __noChroot is left as it is (after discussion on the PR)
2015-11-10 22:32:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e06a18d1b Release notes 2015-09-03 11:57:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 896428c818 Fix example 2015-08-05 17:36:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39b3d9698e Typos 2015-06-12 11:02:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d1e4b76a3a Update release notes 2015-06-12 01:11:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 99c2c14f50 Typo 2015-06-01 13:04:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d68941d89d Nix 1.9 release notes 2015-06-01 12:57:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f16b8786a2 Belatedly add contributors 2014-12-16 18:58:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c2384052e3 Grmbl 2014-12-14 03:38:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e5891f2ea8 Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1683fffd09 Update release notes 2014-10-29 16:18:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 104e55bb7f nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
So you can now do things like:

  $ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
  $ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
2014-10-03 21:29:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a68b4e4d3 Release notes: Use a section per version 2014-09-16 14:29:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9ed49c1da0 Nicer file names for the release notes 2014-09-16 14:18:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f0ef6b74b9 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:thatdocslady/nix
Conflicts:
	doc/manual/release-notes.xml
	doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
2014-09-16 14:13:36 +02:00
Mikey Ariel 8901acc976 Restructuring the Nix manual 2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00