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home-manager/doc/release-notes/rl-2003.adoc
Robert Helgesson 6e4b9af080
Switch to extended Nixpkg's lib
This change makes use of the `extend` function inside `lib` to inject
a new `hm` field containing the Home Manager library functions. This
simplifies use of the Home Manager library in the modules and reduces
the risk of accidental infinite recursion.

PR #994
2020-01-21 20:47:04 +01:00

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[[sec-release-20.03]]
== Release 20.03 (unreleased)
This is the current unstable branch and the information in this
section is therefore not final.
[[sec-release-20.03-highlights]]
=== Highlights
This release has the following notable changes:
* Assigning a list to the <<opt-home.file>>, <<opt-xdg.configFile>>,
and <<opt-xdg.dataFile>> options is now deprecated and will produce a
warning message if used. Specifically, if your configuration currently
contains something like
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[source,nix]
----
home.file = [
{
target = ".config/foo.txt";
text = "bar";
}
]
----
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then it should be updated to instead use the equivalent attribute set form
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[source,nix]
----
home.file = {
".config/foo.txt".text = "bar";
}
----
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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.
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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`.
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Note, in the unlikely case that you are
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** 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,
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then you must update your configuration to perform the option
assignment inside a `config` attribute. For example, instead of
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[source,nix]
----
home-manager.users.jane = { config = "foo"; };
----
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use
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[source,nix]
----
home-manager.users.jane = { config.config = "foo"; };
----
[[sec-release-20.03-state-version-changes]]
=== 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 <<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.