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 19.09
The 19.09 release branch became the stable branch in October, 2019.
Highlights
This release has the following notable changes:
-
The
programs.firefox.enableGoogleTalk
andprograms.firefox.enableIcedTea
options are now deprecated and will only work if Firefox ESR 52.x is used. -
The
home-manager
tool now provides anuninstall
sub-command that can be used to uninstall Home Manager, if used in the standalone mode. That is, not as a NixOS module.
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
"19.09" or later.
-
The opt-programs.firefox.package option now expects a wrapped Firefox package and defaults to
pkgs.firefox
. -
The options opt-home.keyboard.layout and opt-home.keyboard.variant now default to
null
, which indicates that the system value should be used.