From 9ab4e70d179796485de1d77ed7ae12ea7200f645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Vojt=C4=9Bch=20K=C3=A1n=C4=9B?= Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:40:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] readme: add notes on release policy PR #1046 --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5171ff657..6ab13f65a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -303,6 +303,17 @@ in your system configuration and in your Home Manager configuration. +Releases +-------- + +Home Manager is developed against `nixpkgs-unstable` branch, which +often causes it to contain tweaks for changes/packages not yet +released in stable NixOS. To avoid breaking users' configurations, +Home Manager is released in branches corresponding to NixOS releases +(e.g. `release-19.09`). These branches get fixes, but usually not new +modules. If you need a module to be backported, then feel free to open +an issue. + [Bash]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ [Nix]: https://nixos.org/nix/ [NixOS]: https://nixos.org/