home-manager/docs/release-notes/rl-2105.md

Release 21.05

The 21.05 release branch became the stable branch in May, 2021.

Highlights

This release has the following notable changes:

• The 'opt-programs.broot.verbs` option is now a list rather than an attribute set. To migrate, move the keys of the attrset into the list items' invocation keys. For example,

  programs.broot.verbs = {
    "p" = { execution = ":parent"; };
  };
  

  becomes

  programs.broot.verbs = [
    {
      invocation = "p";
      execution = ":parent";
    }
  ];
  

• The opt-programs.mpv.package option has been changed to allow custom derivations. The following configuration is now possible:

  programs.mpv.package = (pkgs.wrapMpv (pkgs.mpv-unwrapped.override {
    vapoursynthSupport = true;
  }) {
    extraMakeWrapperArgs = [
      "--prefix" "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ":" "${pkgs.vapoursynth-mvtools}/lib/vapoursynth"
    ];
  });
  

  As a result of this change, opt-programs.mpv.package is no longer the resulting derivation. Use the newly introduced programs.mpv.finalPackage instead.

• The opt-programs.rofi.extraConfig option is now an attribute set rather than a string. To migrate, move each line into the attribute set, removing the rofi. prefix from the keys. For example,

  programs.rofi.extraConfig = ''
    rofi.show-icons: true
    rofi.modi: drun,emoji,ssh
  '';
  

  becomes

  programs.rofi.extraConfig = {
    show-icons = true;
    modi = "drun,emoji,ssh";
  };
  

• The opt-programs.rofi.theme option now supports defining a theme using an attribute set, the following configuration is now possible:

  programs.rofi.theme = let
    # Necessary to avoid quoting non-string values
    inherit (config.lib.formats.rasi) mkLiteral;
  in {
     "@import" = "~/.config/rofi/theme.rasi";
  
    "*" = {
      background-color = mkLiteral "#000000";
      foreground-color = mkLiteral "rgba ( 250, 251, 252, 100 % )";
      border-color = mkLiteral "#FFFFFF";
      width = 512;
    };
  
    "#textbox-prompt-colon" = {
      expand = false;
      str = ":";
      margin = mkLiteral "0px 0.3em 0em 0em";
      text-color = mkLiteral "@foreground-color";
    };
  };
  

• The services.redshift.extraOptions and services.gammastep.extraOptions options were removed in favor of opt-services.redshift.settings and services.gammastep.settings, that are now an attribute set rather than a string. They also support new features not available before, for example:

  services.redshift = {
    dawnTime = "6:00-7:45";
    duskTime = "18:35-20:15";
    settings = {
      redshift = {
        gamma = 0.8;
        adjustment-method = "randr";
      };
  
      randr = {
        screen = 0;
      };
    };
  };
  

  It is recommended to check either redshift.conf.sample or gammastep.conf.sample for the available additional options in each program.

• Specifying programs.neomutt.binds.map or programs.neomutt.macros.map as a single string is now deprecated in favor of specfiying it as a list of strings.

• The programs.neovim.configure is deprecated in favor of other programs.neovim options; please use the other options at your disposal:

  configure.packages.*.opt  -> programs.neovim.plugins = [ { plugin = ...; optional = true; }]
  configure.packages.*.start  -> programs.neovim.plugins = [ { plugin = ...; }]
  configure.customRC -> programs.neovim.extraConfig
  

• Home Manager now respects the NO_COLOR environment variable as per https://no-color.org/.

• Qt module now supports opt-qt.style.name to specify a theme name and opt-qt.style.package to specify a theme package. If you have set opt-qt.platformTheme to gnome, a opt-qt.style.package compatible with both Qt and Gtk is now required to be set. For instance:

  qt = {
    platformTheme = "gnome";
    style = {
      name = "adwaita-dark";
      package = pkgs.adwaita-qt;
    };
  };
  

• The library type fontType now has a size attribute in addition to name. For example:

  font = {
    name = "DejaVu Sans";
    size = 8;
  };
  

• The opt-programs.htop.settings option is introduced to replace individual options in programs.htop. To migrate, set the htop options directly in opt-programs.htop.settings. For example:

  programs.htop = {
    enabled = true;
    settings = {
       color_scheme = 5;
       delay = 15;
       highlight_base_name = 1;
       highlight_megabytes = 1;
       highlight_threads = 1;
    };
  };
  

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 "21.05" or later.

• The newsboat module now stores generated configuration in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/newsboat.