Idea for #33c3: Place an access point inside the TARDIS that announces the 34C3 wifi

NixOS 16.09 released
NixOS 16.09 “Flounder” has been released, the sixth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.4 released
NixOps\
 1.4 has been released. This release contains contains many
nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

<news announcer voice> sensory feed addicts, a spam riot in the city forum, glitch whores, kids in low-res neighborhoods huffing memes

NixOS 16.03 released
NixOS 16.03 “Emu” has been released, the fifth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

I’m contemplating a announce_following option, disabled by default, to to anounce follow and unfollow commands in your twtfile.

Nix 1.11 released
Nix 1.11
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

China’s two child policy
This one is worth documenting, as it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, it hasn’t happened for over three decades.

“It is the latest twist in the most ambitious and ruthless social-engineering program ever undertaken by a modern state: Beijing announced Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party will officially abandon it … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.10 released
Nix 1.10
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixCon 2015

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NixOS Foundation
The NixOS Foundation
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
here and donate some money! ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.9 released
Nix 1.9
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
 on\
 upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more

TypeScrpt 1.4 announced http://t.co/413tcvxqWk

Nix 1.8 released
Nix 1.8
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

iCloud Drive on standby
When Apple announced the iCloud Drive integration in Yosemite, I got really excited. As I was already part of the “Apple ecosystem” (iPhone, iPad, iMac), the iCloud Drive availability in all, specially on the desktop, seemed like the culmination of all my dreams: a Cloud to rule them all. I ordered the 200 GB for $4 a month right away.

As it turns out with products in infancy, the iCloud Drive is no yet mature. My single complain, but a very important one, is the lack of selec … ⌘ Read more

#js13kgames winners announced http://t.co/sbks3L6iUN

NixOS sprint in Ljubljana
We’re having a NixOS sprint at the Kiberpipa hackerspace
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August
23—27. Joining is free! For more information and to
register, please go to the sprint\
 page. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
 notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
 section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.2 released
NixOps\
 1.2 has been released. This release contains contains many nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.7 released
Nix 1.7
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of new features. ⌘ Read more

Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL
A serious security\
 vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL. All stable
NixOS releases prior to version
13.10.35708.15a465c are vulnerable. (You can
see your current version by running nixos-version.) To
upgrade to the latest NixOS version, run nixos-rebuild
switch –upgrade. You can verify whether you are safe by
running

$ nix-store -qR /run/current-system | grep openssl

If this shows any OpenSSL ve … ⌘ Read more

FOSDEM talks
Domen Kožar gave a\
 talk at FOSDEM about NixOS ( video).
Also, Ludovic Courtès gave a talk\
 on\
 Guix, the Nix- … ⌘ Read more

Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\
 been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 13.10 released
We have released NixOS 13.10, the first stable branch of NixOS.
Its goal is to provide a safe branch for production environments
that need bug fixes and security updates, but not the
potentially destabilising changes that sometimes occur on the
unstable branch. You can get NixOS 13.10 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. See the announcement
for … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.6.1 released
Nix\
 1.6.1 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix
release but has some minor new features. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\
 subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.1.1 released
NixOps\
 1.1.1 has been released. This release consists mostly of minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.6 released
Nix 1.6
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.1 released
NixOps\
 1.1 has been released. This release brings a backend for Hetzner,
a German data center provider, support for EC2 spot instances and some
minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sprint in Slovenia
A sprint focused on NixOS and Kotti will be held 22-26\
 July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia. It is organised by Termitnjak and
sponsored
by LogicBlox. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.0.1 released
NixOps\
 1.0.1 has been released, a minor bug fix release. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

NixOS presentation at EuroPython
Domen Kožar gave a presentation at EuroPython\
 2013: “NixOS\
 Operating System: Declarative Configuration Distribution”. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
 1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.3 released
Nix 1.5.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
 der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
 Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
 Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.2 released
Nix 1.5.2
has been released. This is a bug fix release. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.5.1 released
Nix 1.5.1
has been released. It fixes a regression introduced in Nix 1.4. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.4 released
Nix 1.4
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that
addresses a security problem in multi-user mode. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

NixOS switched to systemd
NixOS has switched from Upstart to systemd!
Systemd brings many advantages such as better dependency
management, socket-based activation of services, per-service
logging, cgroup-based process management, and much more. (Read
the announcement.) ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.3 released
Nix 1.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See
the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.2 released
Nix 1.2
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.1 released
Nix 1.1
has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

Binary Nix tarballs available
Our continuous build system, Hydra, now produces binary\
 tarball distributions of Nix for Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD
and Linux. The tarballs contain all dependencies of Nix, making
it a lot easier to install Nix on those platforms. To install,
download a binary tarball, unpack it in the root directory, then
run nix-finish-install. See the [manual](https://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest/tarball/download-by-t … ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.0 released
After almost two years of development, Nix 1.0
has been released. See the release\
 notes for an overview of the most important improvements.
For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more

PatchELF 0.6 released
PatchELF\
 0.6 has been released. Apart from some bug fixes, it adds
support for executables produced by the Gold linker. See the README
for details. ⌘ Read more

Hydra talk at Inria
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk on Hydra at Inria (which has
its own Hydra instance for building Inria software) entitled “Hydra:\
 continuous integration for demanding people”. ⌘ Read more

Moving to GitHub
The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!
The master repositories will be hosted in the NixOS organization on GitHub. For the moment, just a
few subprojects have been migrated, such as Hydra and Charon. Thanks to
Tianyi Cui for donating the NixOS GitHub organization. ⌘ Read more

Nix-dev mailing list moved
The nix-dev mailing list has moved. The address is now
nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl ( web\
 interface). ⌘ Read more