NixOS 25.05 released
59 points by friendlysock
59 points by friendlysock
Great to see. I got a lot of commits in here, but forgot to add to the changelog đ.
CMD+F âflakesâ, no matches.
Lots of matches in the release notes, why would you assume the announcement to mention flakes in any way?
Also, if you want to hear about the development of flakes itself, youâd have to check the Nix release notes, not NixOS.
It is a common misunderstanding that there is any sort of significant overlap in personnel or even vision between the people driving NixOS/nixpkgs and the nix package manager implementation, which is what provides flakes.
For example, NixOS is generally stuck on old versions of nix due to outstanding bugs and unfixed regressions and last I checked even used an alternative implementation (lix) for package builds, the maintainers of which seem to me mostly against flakes.
last I checked even used an alternative implementation (lix) for package builds
Theyâre back to regular Nix now, fyi
Wait, does that mean they actually were on Lix for a while? Is there any writeup or even just pull request for this somewhere?
even used an alternative implementation (lix) for package builds
Iâve missed the switch (I donât use nix-anything anymore) but it seems kind of non-surprising, with how unfinished the features from upstream nixcpp are released.
For example, NixOS is generally stuck on old versions of nix due to outstanding bugs and unfixed regressions
Not currently - 25.05 is using nix 2.28.3, nix 2.29 was only tagged a couple of days ago, presumably well past the appropriate freeze point for the 25.05 release.