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home-manager/docs/release-notes/rl-1903.md
Viktor Kronvall 052d8a681f
docs: add release-notes as appendix 
The release notes used to be an appendix in the manual. After
converting to markdown that appendix got lost. This commit
reintroduces the release notes into the manual.

(cherry picked from commit 6fc71dc563)
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Release 19.03

The 19.03 release branch became the stable branch in April, 2019.

Highlights

This release has the following notable changes:

  • The opt-home.file.name.source option now allows source files to be hidden, that is, having a name starting with the . character. It also allows the source file name to contain characters not typically allowed for Nix store paths. For example, your configuration can now contain things such as

    home.file."my file".source = ./. + "/file with spaces!";

  • The type used for the systemd unit options under opt-systemd.user.sockets, etc. has been changed to offer more robust merging of configurations. If you don't override values within systemd units then you are not affected by this change. Unfortunately, if you do override unit values you may encounter errors.

    In particular, if you get an error saying that a "unique option" is "defined multiple times" then you need to use the mkForce function. For example,

    systemd.user.services.foo.Service.ExecStart = "/foo/bar";

    becomes

    systemd.user.services.foo.Service.ExecStart = lib.mkForce "/foo/bar";

    We had to make this change because the old merging was causing too many confusing situations for people.

State Version Changes

The state version in this release includes the changes below. These changes are only active if the opt-home.stateVersion option is set to "19.03" or later.