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# Release 20.03 {#sec-release-20.03}
The 20.03 release branch became the stable branch in April, 2020.
## Highlights {#sec-release-20.03-highlights}
This release has the following notable changes:
- Assigning a list to the [home.file](#opt-home.file),
[xdg.dataFile](#opt-xdg.dataFile) options is
now deprecated and will produce a warning message if used.
Specifically, if your configuration currently contains something
like
``` nix
home.file = [
{
target = ".config/foo.txt";
text = "bar";
}
]
```
then it should be updated to instead use the equivalent attribute
set form
``` nix
home.file = {
".config/foo.txt".text = "bar";
}
```
Support for the list form will be removed in Home Manager version
20.09.
- The `lib` function attribute given to modules is now enriched with
an attribute `hm` containing extra library functions specific for
Home Manager. More specifically, `lib.hm` is now the same as
`config.lib` and should be the preferred choice since it is more
robust.
Therefore, if your configuration makes use of, for example,
`config.lib.dag` to create activation script blocks, it is
recommended to change to `lib.hm.dag`.
Note, in the unlikely case that you are
- using Home Manager's NixOS or nix-darwin module,
- have made your own Home Manager module containing an top-level
option named `config` or `options`, and
- assign to this option in your system configuration inside a
plain attribute set, i.e., without a function argument,
then you must update your configuration to perform the option
assignment inside a `config` attribute. For example, instead of
``` nix
home-manager.users.jane = { config = "foo"; };
```
use
``` nix
home-manager.users.jane = { config.config = "foo"; };
```
- The `services.compton` module has been deprecated and instead the
new module `services.picom` should be used. This is because Nixpkgs
no longer packages compton, and instead packages the (mostly)
compatible fork called picom.
- The list form of the [programs.ssh.matchBlocks](#opt-programs.ssh.matchBlocks) option has
been deprecated and configurations requiring match blocks in a
defined order should switch to using DAG entries instead. For
example, a configuration
``` nix
programs.ssh.matchBlocks = [
{
host = "alpha.foo.com";
user = "jd";
}
{
host = "*.foo.com";
user = "john.doe";
}
];
```
can be expressed along the lines of
``` nix
programs.ssh.matchBlocks = {
"*.example.com" = {
user = "john.doe";
}
"alpha.example.com" = lib.hm.dag.entryBefore ["*.example.com"] {
user = "jd";
}
};
```
Support for the list form will be removed in Home Manager version
20.09.
## State Version Changes {#sec-release-20.03-state-version-changes}
The state version in this release includes the changes below. These
changes are only active if the `home.stateVersion` option is set to
\"20.03\" or later.
- The [programs.zsh.history.path](#opt-programs.zsh.history.path) option is no longer
prepended by `$HOME`, which allows specifying absolute paths, for
example, using the xdg module. Also, the default value is fixed to
`$HOME/.zsh_history` and `dotDir` path is not prepended to it
anymore.
- The newsboat module will now default in displaying `queries` before
`urls` in its main window. This makes sense in the case when one has
a lot of URLs and few queries.