NixOS News

Nix 1.11 has been released.

NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release branch.

Nix 1.10 has been released.

We're happy to announce that NixCon 2015, the first Nix Conference, will take place on November 14—15th 2015 in Berlin.

The NixOS Foundation was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure used by the Nix related projects.

Nix 1.9 has been released.

NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable release branch.

Nix 1.8 has been released.

We’re having a NixOS sprint at the Kiberpipa hackerspace in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August 23—27.

NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable release branch.

NixOps 1.2 has been released.

Nix 1.7 has been released.

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL.

Domen Kožar gave a talk at FOSDEM about NixOS (video).

The stdenv-updates branch has been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs.

We have released NixOS 13.10, the first stable branch of NixOS.

Nix 1.6.1 has been released.

The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in order to simplify development.

NixOps 1.1.1 has been released.

Nix 1.6 has been released.

NixOps 1.1 has been released.

A sprint focused on NixOS and Kotti will be held 22-26 July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia.

NixOps 1.0.1 has been released, a minor bug fix release.

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

NixOps 1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS cloud deployment tool.

Nix 1.5.3 has been released.

Today Sander van der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment!

Nix 1.5.2 has been released.

Nix 1.5.1 has been released.

Nix 1.4 has been released.

NixOS has switched from Upstart to systemd!

Nix 1.3 has been released.

Nix 1.2 has been released.

Nix 1.1 has been released.

Our continuous build system, Hydra, now produces binary tarball distributions of Nix for Mac OS X (Darwin), FreeBSD and Linux.

After almost two years of development, Nix 1.0 has been released.

PatchELF 0.6 has been released.

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”.

The NixOS project is (slowly) migrating from Subversion to Git!

The nix-dev mailing list has moved.

Sander van der Burg gave a talk about NixOS at the CrossDistro track of FOSDEM (video, slides).

The paper “Automating System Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).

NixOS now supports Xfce, a modern, light-weight desktop environment.

Nix 0.16 has been released, featuring a much faster evaluator and support for configurable parallelism inside builders.

Ludovic Courtès gave a talk about Nix and NixOS at the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux, entitled “NixOS: The Only Functional GNU/Linux Distribution” (slides).

Nix 0.15 has been released.

Nix 0.14 has been released.

Long overdue, the Nix project finally has a logo!

Nix 0.13 has been released.

LWN.net has an article about NixOS written by Koen Vervloesem.