Awesome. I remember the discussion about the release at sprint, feels like yesterday.
Keep it up! On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]>wrote: > Congratulations on another great milestone :) > It will be interesting to see how this stable experiment goes. > But together with the new nixos-rebuild profiles, I think this will be > very smooth. > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Eelco Dolstra > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first stable branch of > NixOS, > > namely 13.10 (a.k.a "Aardvark")! The purpose of this branch is to > receive only > > conservative changes, such as bug fixes, "safe" minor package upgrades > and new > > packages [1]. This is important for people who want to use NixOS in a > > production environment: you do want to get (security) fixes, but you > don't want > > to be afraid of the system changing in fundamental ways, as may be the > case on > > the master branch. > > > > Note that NixOS 13.10 is a branch, not a "release" in the sense of a > static > > revision. Just like the NixOS master branch, it receives updates, just > safer > > ones. The idea is to maintain this branch at least until the next > stable branch > > (14.04?) is created. > > > > The 13.10 branch lives here in GitHub: > > > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/release-13.10 > > > > It also has an associated channel: > > > > http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-13.10 > > > > (Notice that versions of releases in the 13.10 channel have no "pre" > string, > > indicating they're stable versions, such as 13.10.35427.6fda96b.) > > > > If you want to switch an existing machine from the nixos-unstable > channel over > > to the 13.10 channel, just do: > > > > $ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-13.10 nixos > > > > After this, subsequent calls to "nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade" will > fetch from > > the nixos-13.10 channel. See here for details on switching between > NixOS channels: > > > > http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-upgrading > > > > Like the nixos-unstable channel (which gets build from the master > branch), the > > 13.10 channel is updated only after Hydra has built all packages and all > > release-critical tests have succeeded. The Hydra jobset is: > > > > http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-13.10 > > > > and the status of the release-critical jobs can be seen here: > > > > > http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-13.10/tested#tabs-constituents > > > > The plan for maintaining the branch is that it will primarily receive > > cherry-picked commits from master. Other than that, doing a stable > branch is an > > experiment, and we'll have to see what the best way to do it is. Any > > feedback/suggestions are welcome. > > > > On that topic, now is probably a good time to start thinking about what > the next > > release should look like, in terms of features. If you have any features > > (especially potentially high-impact ones like upgrading GCC) that you > would like > > to see, please create GitHub issues for them, and add them to the 14.0x > milestone: > > > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?milestone=4&state=open > > > > [1] New major versions of existing packages are also fine as long as > they are > > marked as "lowPrio" in all-packages.nix. That is, "nix-env -i package" > should > > continue to install the old version. > > > > -- > > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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