NixOS News

tl;dr: There is a renewed effort to improve documentation, head to https://opencollective.com/nixos/projects/nix-documentation or contact foundation@nixos.org to chip in with funding!

Hey everyone, we are yayayayaka and jopejoe1, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS.

Official Partnership between NixOS Foundation and Framework TL;DR: Since April 2025, The NixOS Foundation and Framework are officially partnering to improve NixOS support on Framework devices.

Hey everyone, we are jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS.

Hey everyone, we are Leona Maroni and Tristan Ross, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS.

History The NixOS logo was originally designed by Simon Frankau for Haskell as part of the 2009 Haskell logo contest.

A New Chapter for the NixOS Foundation On March 4th, 2025, we welcomed a new NixOS Foundation Board — marking the first-ever board rotation under our newly established constitution.

Hello everyone, we are Tristan Ross and Weijia Wang, the release managers for the newest release of NixOS known as NixOS 24.11 Vicuña.

After successfully using CIVS to tally the 450 ballots cast (56% turnout) on OpaVote, We are hereby concluding this election!

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We're happy to announce that NixCon 2024, will take place October 25-27 2024 in Berlin For more information, see the NixCon 2024 website.

Hey everyone, we are Weijia Wang and Jörg Thalheim, the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 24.05 “Uakari”.

Hey everyone, we are figsoda and Ryan Lahfa, the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 23.11 “Tapir”.

Hey everyone, we are Ryan Lahfa and Martin Weinelt, the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 23.05 “Stoat”.

This is the first in a new series of posts called "Tales from Nixpkgs" where we examine Nixpkgs commits to understand how this ecosystem works and provide a bit of visibility into the process.

Hey everyone, we are Martin Weinelt and Janne Heß, the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”.

72 hours out.

Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic, video conferencing turned out to be an invaluable tool for online collaboration.

Hey everyone, I'm Janne Heß, the release manager for 22.05.

We're pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0.

Summer of Nix 2022 will happen from July 18th to September 30th!

We're pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.7.0.

The NixOS Marketing Team is pleased to announce the first official NixOS Community Survey.

Happy to announce that the Summer of Nix 2021 report is out.

We're pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.6.0.

Hey everyone, we're Timothy DeHerrera and Tom Bereknyei, the release managers for 21.11.

Introduction This is a record of my time in the Summer of Nix holding my breath and diving into the depths of Nix to gain some Perls of wisdom.

News Announcements Makes A DevSecOps framework powered by Nix and the NixOS module system.

Rumor was already out but now we announce it officially: we are organizing a big hiring event on October 27th where Summer of Nix participants and applicants can meet companies that use it.

News Announcements NixOS 21.05 released!

Thanks a lot for your interest in the Summer of Nix program!

Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan Ringer, the release manager for 21.05.

News Announcements RFC 0085 FCP NixOS Release Stabilization: ZHF on master, new timeline RFC 0085 has been accepted!

News Announcements Introducing flox - Nix for simplicity and scale flox makes it easy to build software or manage development environments with Nix at any scale.

News Announcements RFC 0080 Change NixOS releases to YY.05,YY.11 accepted The next NixOS stable release will be 21.05. agenix - manage NixOS secrets - public beta Agenix is a command-line tool for managing secrets encrypted with your existing SSH keys.

News deadnix Finds and removes unused code in .nix files.

News Announcements Announcing Nixpkgs Database A database and search engine for the entire history of each package at Nixpkgs.

Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan Ringer, one of the release managers for 20.09.

News Announcements NixCon 2020 Call-for-Participation is open!

News Announcements NixOS | Installation and First Impressions Why IHP is Using The Nix Package Manager Cachix Blog: Documentation and More Documentation Cachix Blog: Upstream caches: avoiding pushing paths in cache.nixos.org Redox added to Nixpkgs Nixpkgs…

News Announcements Nix error messages proposal: phase 2, PR 1 merged!

News Announcements Nix 2.3.5 release Long awaited support for macOS Catalina, see the manual A bunch of options to invoke installer (pass --help to see what's there) Various bugfixes to the installer MacOS sandboxing improvements Nix for GitHub Actions v9…

News Announcements NixOS 20.03 was released NixOS 20.03 “Markhor” had 1014 people contribute 21597 contributions.

Hey everyone, I am worldofpeace, one of the release managers for 20.03.

News Introducing nixbuild.net nixbuild.net is nix build as a service, allowing you to easily run distributed builds without having to setup, scale and maintain build servers.

News nix-simple-deploy A Rust rewrite of unmaintained nix-deploy.

News Nix Notes The Nix Notes is a collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image.

News Launching Hercules CI Announcing general availability of continuous integration specialized for Nix projects.

News NixOS 19.09 released ociTools in NixOS Katharina explains her recently merged Open Container Initiative support in NixOS.